Today you can use a lot of Historical Stock Quotes Downloaders which download free data from Internet and store the data in a variety of formats : ASCII (textual) , Metastock and other. The most popular downloaders are : Quotelf Center qCenter and HQuote Pro and Quotelf Omega .
They allow the user to easily download free historical stock quotes from Yahoo and other data servers.
The benefits of using these downloaders are :
Historical Quotes Downloader (HQuote) is a software which allows you instantly download intraday or end-of-day historical quotes of stocks, mutual funds, options, indices and commodity futures traded in US or Canada. It produces data output in a custom ASCII format which makes historical stock quotes data compatible with most charting and technical analysis software packages like MetaStock Download , SuperCharts, Elloitt Wave Analyzer, Advanced Get, Omega TradeStation, Microsoft Excel and others.
Supported software includes:
HQuote can download market indexes, mutual funds, stocks US Canadian, commodity futures.
Time frames : Daily, intraday metastock data, tradestation data, supercharts data
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HQuote delivers continually updating stock quotes, interactive charts,
news, research and Nasdaq Level 2 data.
Web-based with no download or software installation.
More features than any other Web-based application in the industry.
Perfect for Investors, Traders, Advisors, Market Watchers and more!