Pfscan does NOT include its own data - it would be impossible to supply data at the price charged for the program, and many users will already have a datafeed... why pay for another?

Sharescope - You can export data from Sharescope that Pfscan can read in (see introv2 manual for example)

TC2000, QuotesPlus, Metastock and Fast Track data are read straight in from disk - just browse to the data folder and click to load

Many other programs allow text format data to be exported, Pfscan includes a routine that allows you to 'teach' it to load a wide range of data feeds of this type

Click on the FastTrack box below to visit the FastTrack website:-

'Free Data' - There are a number of programs widely available on the internet, that offer to download 'free' data from Yahoo. I have no link to any of them, one I looked at seemed quite fair - $29.99 for a downloader that could save the downloaded data to Metastock DAT format ... it's worth a look for those who want such a program.

PLEASE note this is just a program discovered whilst scanning the web - Pfscan does not endorse this product in any way, the link is being provided simply in answer to repeated requests for 'free data' suppliers

http://www3.telus.net/public/darrendz/

The following CSV data service is provided as a 'freebie' by Dukascopy, and I would suggest that whilst it is fine for checking a few shares or commodities out etc it is no substitute for a data service like TC2000, Fast Track, Reuters etc when you want to keep data nicely organised by sector, or stock group, etc.

Users experiencing problems loading data should email for help, but please read the manual first!

To convert the downloaded data for Pfscan use, open the downloaded file with Wordpad (it's a Windows accessory) and use the Menu bar Edit dropdown to select the 'Replace' command ... replace all occurrences of 23:59:59; with a , (comma) character. Now use the replace to swap all semi colon characters to commas(; to ,). Save the file, load it using the 'Set my own data fomat' option - choose to use File=Ticker, date format D/M/Y, and set the column selectors to be date in column 1, Volume for col 2, Open for col 3, Close for col 4, low for col 5, high in col 6.

You should now be able to load and chart the datafile.