updating currencies and stocks is failing

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Re: updating currencies and stocks is failing

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It is disappointing that no one from the MMEX team wants to comment on this Problem.

I'd be satisfied if I could record the prices of stock prices by hand, but I'm not allowed to do that by the deactivated grey buttons.
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Re: updating currencies and stocks is failing

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Renato wrote:It is disappointing that no one from the MMEX team wants to comment on this Problem.

I'd be satisfied if I could record the prices of stock prices by hand, but I'm not allowed to do that by the deactivated grey buttons.
Even better than modifying stock prices by hand would be to modify the code to enable manual input of API services. I listed many such services in my recent posts here and most of the free ones have limitations on daily usage. But each user could sign up for such an API service and enter their personal API code in the options and then no one would exceed the daily limits. I cannot imagine that such a small modification of the code would require much work.
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what worries me much more is the fact that the developers of MMEX apparently don't visit the forum anymore.
This presumably indicates that the development of MMEX is currently at a standstill.
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Renato wrote:what worries me much more is the fact that the developers of MMEX apparently don't visit the forum anymore.
This presumably indicates that the development of MMEX is currently at a standstill.
Someone else asked a question if this is The END.

I already started to look for some other software but definitely MMEX is BEST. But if they don't fix these currencies and stock prices I'll have to switch to the other one that is being maintained and developed. They have the same issue now but the developer is working on it.
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Since the MMEX team cannot offer us a solution, I have searched for other solutions and found them.

For Google Chrome there is an extension JADE (JAvacript based Database Editor) = SQLite Editor, so that the MMEX database (. mmb) can be edited.

You can enter the current exchange rate in table STOCK_V1 under CURRENTPRICE.

You can adjust the exchange rates in table CURRENCYHISTORY_V1 in CURRVALUE.

Important: make a backup copy of the. mmb file and close MMEX.
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Re: updating currencies and stocks is failing

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Is there still no solution for this problem? I love mmex but to have currencies up to date is pretty important for me.
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Is there still no solution for this problem? I love mmex but to have currencies up to date is very important for me.
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So, I peaked at the source code/documentation. The use of Yahoo to fetch stock quotes is specified in the Tools->Options menu.

Click on the bottom icon and at the top there is a URL for Yahoo:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%s

I changed mine to

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=%s

to fetch quotes from Google. This allows me to view stocks on the Edit Stock Investment dialog box when I click on the little house icon by the notes.
It does not fix the automatic update of stock prices. That must be somewhere else in the source code.

The source code module stockspanel.cpp fetches data from yahoo using the URL like:

http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s ... c4n&e=.csv

this is an example from the code. I think is the URL that Yahoo disabled which downloaded the stock quotes as a CSV file.
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Is there still no solution from the mmex development team?
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aker54 wrote:Is there still no solution for this problem? I love mmex but to have currencies up to date is very important for me.
Try Renato's suggestion, just above on this thread.
Or install the Android app that is updating the currencies and stocks and after the update either upload the database to the dropbox and download to your computer for use with the Windows version or copy directly from your mobile to the computer.
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