help stockquote
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Title

     Get Time Series Stock Quotes from the net

Syntax

        stockquote <ticker symbol>, fm(first month) fd(first day) fy(first
                 year) lm(last month) ld(last day) ly(last year)
                 frequency(d|w|m)

Description
    stockquote currently queries Yahoo's Finance API for ticker symbol
    historical values.  fm, fd, fy stand for first month, first day, first
    year respectively, are numeric and tell stockquote the start date of the
    time series you want. Similarly lm, ld, ly are numeric and stand for last
    month, last day, last year respectively and tell stockquote the end date
    of the time series. frequency may be one of: d, w, m meaning: daily,
    weekly, monthly.



Examples
The command below
    . stockquote ^GDAXI, fm(1) fd(2) fy(2000) lm(03) ld(4) ly(2008)
        frequency(d)
will "use" the DAX index historical values from January 2 2000 to March 4 2008 
> on a daily basis, whereas
    . stockquote AAPL, fm(1) fd(2) fy(2000) lm(03) ld(4) ly(2008)
        frequency(w)
will do the same for Apple on a weekly basis.

 Author
Nikos Askitas, IZA, Bonn, Germany.
Email: nikos@@iza.org