Stock Portfolio project starting

[Dennis Brown]

Thanks Ken, Andre, and Mark.

Sounds like I have the essentials to get going on this now.

Dennis


> No, not at all. You can run your stack in StackRunner and use the  
> DC IDE
> without any interference.
>
>
> Ken Ray


> They won't interfere with each other, but beware of saving them, if  
> both apps are saving to the same stack file name you might end up  
> loosing information as it is possible that one app will overwrite  
> the changes made by the other app...
>
> Cheers
> andre


> Dennis, I have a very rough stack that downloads quotes from  
> yahoo...it's ugly, but it works reasonably well. If it might be  
> helpful, I'd be happy to email it over to you, even though I'm a  
> little embarassed at how rough it is...
>
> Mark


> On 10 Dec 2005, at 16:24, Dennis Brown wrote:
>
>> I have just decided that I need to write a stock portfolio  
>> reporting program in DreamCard.  Every canned program I have  
>> tried, does not show my portfolio in a way that is useful to me  
>> for making certain decisions.  I end up with several spreadsheets  
>> that I am hand updating every day --not the kind of thing a Rev  
>> programmer should have to put up with!
>>
>> This will involve a new area of learning for me --I need to find a  
>> way to download realtime quotes from the internet every 5  
>> minutes.  Does anyone have any experience doing this, and can I  
>> get a few pointers about how to start to tackle it?
>>
>> I also need to be able to run this stack at the same time I am  
>> running the DreamCard IDE.  I know that if I am running DC Player  
>> at the same time as DC IDE, the two interfere in some ways.  I was  
>> wondering if the StackRunner program also interferes with DC IDE  
>> if both are running?
>>
>> I am doing this program for my own use (as opposed to for someone  
>> else).  Therefore, I am open to sharing my results as an example.
>>
>> As always, any help is appreciated.
>> Dennis
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