tsx quotes

Keith Bellairs keith at bellairs.org
Sat Aug 4 12:55:39 EDT 2012


Thanks, John. You are right: using CDZ.TO with the yahoo USA service works.
thanks for the pointer.

Keith


On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:19 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> On Aug 3, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Keith Bellairs <keith at bellairs.org> wrote:
>
> > I have a couple of TSX listed funds like CDZ and ZDV. When I use the
> price
> > tool it says "unable to retrieve quotes". Anyone have a configuration
> that
> > works to get these prices?
>
> You can try sticking ".to" on the end, e.g. cdz.to.
>
> In general, FQ works either by screen-scraping or for services that
> support it (Yahoo! does) querying the formatted-output version of the
> webpage. To figure out if and how a particular quote service reports a
> stock symbol, go to that service with your browser and search for the
> company. When you find it, the page will almost always display the symbol
> the way the service wants it, and you can use that in the security editor.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls


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