Generally, the standard list of data providers will be sufficient for your needs but there are times when you might want to add an additional ‘MetaStock’ or ‘ASCII’ data provider to look for data in a different folder on your hard drive. This can speed up data access because you can be more specific about what data is contained where.
For instance you might have the S&P 1500 stock data in one folder and the Russell 2000 stock data in another. If these folders were both subfolders of the ‘C:\RootFolder’ location then the data provider with that ‘files location’ set would be able to access both of these sets of data. However if you add a separate data provider configuration for each of these locations then the access will be faster. Note that the speed difference will be negligible for small sets of data.
To add a new data provider configuration, use the + icon.
Manage Data Providers dialog (Yahoo! provider selected)
The Manage Data Providers dialog consists of left hand pane containing a list of existing definitions and a right hand pane showing the settings of any definition that is selected in the list.
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Go to first definition in the list (only enabled if applicable) |
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Go to previous page of definitions (only enabled if applicable) |
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Go to previous definition (only enabled if applicable) |
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Go to next definition (only enabled if applicable) |
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Go to next page of definitions (only enabled if applicable) |
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Go to last definition (only enabled if applicable) |
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Add a new definition |
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Delete the selected definition (only enabled if applicable) |
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Reset |
Restores the entire list of definitions to the application default values. A warning dialog is shown because this action is not reversible. |
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OK |
Saves the modified definitions and closes the dialog. The definitions are saved permanently so that they will be available the next time the application is run. |
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Cancel |
Cancels any changes that have been made since the dialog was opened (cannot cancel the restore operation) and closes the dialog. |
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Apply |
Saves the modified definitions and keeps the dialog open. Use this button if you have done a lot of work and want to make sure that it is saved permanently but still want to continue working on the definitions. |
The settings available in the right hand pane will vary depending on the type of provider chosen.
