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Free Quotes

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Free Quotes data feed is configured correctly by default and one can plot a chart using a number of prebuilt symbols from Free Quotes. That is free end-of-day historical daily bars coming from Yahoo and GoogleFinance. Only limited number of Stocks and Indexes are available from this data source in MultiCharts.  <div style="background-color: #b8debc;">'''NOTE:''' With FreeQuotes you can get data only for the symbols that on Historical Prices Data webpage have option '''"Download to Spreadsheet"'''. </div> 
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To set up Free Quotes data feed connection
:# In the '''QuoteManager''' main menu select '''Tools''' and then click '''Data Sources''', find '''Free Quotes''' in the list of all supported data vendors and click the '''Settings''' button. The Free Quotes Data Feed Configuration window is opened.
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::* One can check/uncheck '''Yahoo''' Edit the number and '''Google''' servers timeout of attempts to receive request data from.::* One can move '''Yahoo''' and '''Google''' servers by selecting any of them and clicking the editing '''UpRetry''' and '''DownTimeout''' buttons to change the priority of receiving datacolumns.::* One can disable '''Yahoo''' and '''Google''' servers by selecting any of them clicking Set up proxy connection in the '''Disable''' button.Proxy Authentication tab:::* One can edit number and timeout of attempts to request data from : Select '''YahooAuto-detect proxy settings for this network''' and '''Google''' servers by editing '''Retry''to use your system' s proxy settings. Username and Password are required for authentication.::: Select '''TimeoutUse application proxy settings''' columns for corresponding serverto use the proxy settings specified in the [https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/Credentials_Window Credentials Window].
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To add an instrument manually, see [[Data_Sources_Overview#Adding_Symbol.28s.29_to_Symbol_List|Adding Symbol(s) to Symbol List]].
[[Category:Built-in Data Sources]]

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