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Real-Time Datafeed from Yahoo!

30 Jun 2008 (Updated 10 Sep 2008)

Extension of Datafeed Toolbox's Yahoo object, allowing real-time data to be fetched

File Information
Description	YAHOORT Extends the Datafeed Toolbox's YAHOO object, allowing real-time data to be fetched from Yahoo's Premium Finance service. Requirements: - Datafeed Toolbox license - Yahoo account subscribed to Yahoo Premium Finance. 1. To install, simply unzip the contents of 'yahooRT.zip' to a location on the MATLAB path. 2. Try running 'yahooRTdemo.m' during active US trading hours (9:30am-4:00pm ET). You should observe a difference of ~15 minutes between the base YAHOO.FETCH and YAHOORT.FETCH. You will need to set the USERNAME and PASSWORD variables in this file before you run it 3. For more information, type >> help yahooRT Please contact me at eric.johnson@mathworks.com if you have any questions. Thanks for checking out my project! Updates 9/9/08 - Fixed authentication issue on 64-bit MATLAB.
Required Products	Datafeed Toolbox
MATLAB release	MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a)
Other requirements	A Yahoo account with a subscription to Yahoo Premium Finance. A free trial is available (see http://finance.yahoo.com).
Zip File Content
Other Files	@yahooRT/builduniverse.m, @yahooRT/close.m, @yahooRT/Contents.m, @yahooRT/display.m, @yahooRT/fetch.p, @yahooRT/get.m, @yahooRT/isconnection.m, @yahooRT/private/authenticate.p, @yahooRT/private/urlreadc.m, @yahooRT/subsref.m, @yahooRT/trpdata.m, @yahooRT/yahooRT.p, license.txt, readme.txt, yahooRT.m, yahooRTdemo.m

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09 Sep 2008	Scott F	Works great. Gives real-time quotes exactly as advertised.

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Updates
10 Sep 2008	Now works with 64-bit MATLAB.

Tag Activity for this File
Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
finance	Eric Johnson	22 Oct 2008 10:08:01
modeling	Eric Johnson	22 Oct 2008 10:08:01
analysis	Eric Johnson	22 Oct 2008 10:08:01
datafeed	Eric Johnson	22 Oct 2008 10:08:01
yahoo	Eric Johnson	22 Oct 2008 10:08:01
realtime	Eric Johnson	22 Oct 2008 10:08:01

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