Updating Prices

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Updating Prices

When you start AutoShare for the first time, the main window appears with out-of-date prices. You can bring your price information completely up to date by clicking the Update button. Prices for all missing days and for all indices ticked on the Indices tab are automatically downloaded from the Internet. If you last downloaded information only yesterday, then only today’s prices are retrieved, but if it has been longer since your last download then all missing days’ prices are downloaded.

To ensure that you are always working with the latest information, you should endeavour to perform this download at the end of every market day. The time at which prices are available for a particular index depends on the closing time of its stock exchange.

If you connect to the internet via a proxy server, you should enter its details by Alt + Clicking the Help button in AutoShare and completing the Proxy Server Settings dialog.

When you click the Update button, the following happens:

  1. If you have a dialup connection to the Internet, and are not currently connected to the Internet, the usual Dialup Connection dialog is displayed. Complete this dialog if necessary, then click the Connect button to connect to the Internet.
  2. All missing price information is automatically downloaded. This will take only a few seconds if just one day needs downloading, but will take a little longer if you have, for example, been away on holiday for a few weeks, or if you have ticked indexes for which data has never been downloaded onto your PC.
  3. If you are using a dialup connection, upon completion of the download you are asked if you want to disconnect from the Internet.

AutoShare will now show up to date information, which you should save by clicking the Save button.

Important: It is recommended that you make frequent backups of any .mkt files in the Autoshare/Data directory. These contain price data for every index for which you have downloaded share prices.

If you are unable to update prices in the way described above, you can:

  • Import a price file by clicking the Import button.
  • Manually enter a day's price by right clicking the Prices Grid and choosing the Insert day option from the pop-up menu. You are prompted to enter the date for the new price, which is then inserted at the correct point on the price grid, after which you can click the new cell and enter the price.