anattapol / metastock-data-convert

Load metastock data from AWS CDCDL server

Author: mech

Python utility that reads Metastock data files and save the quotations in text files. Full article is available here: http://themech.net/2008/08/reading-metastock-files/

ms2csv.py

This script converts data from metastock format to CSV.

Input directory must contain metastock data EMASTER/XMASTER.

Usage

Listing the symbols in Metastock data:

python ms2csv.py --list

Extracting all quotes:

python ms2csv.py --all -d <path-to-ms-dir> -o <path-to-csv-dir>

More help:

python ms2csv.py --help

rdsupload.py

This script upload all CSV from input directory to MySQL server. Input directory should contains substructure like the following diagram

📁 csv-dir
├── 📁 market1-dir
│   ├── 📃 symbol-1.TXT
│   ├── 📃 symbol-2.TXT
│   ...
│   └── 📃 symbol-n.TXT
...

Require Modules

• pymysql

Usage

Listing the symbols in Metastock data:

python rdsupload.py -d <path-to-csv-dir>