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Title

    cntrade --          Downloads historic prices for a list of stock codes
                          from Net Ease (a web site serving financial
                          information in China, www.163.com) using Net Ease's
                          application programming interface


Syntax

        cntrade codelist, [options]

    options                               Description
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      path(foldername)                    output folder
      start(date)                         starting date for the prices
      end(date)                           ending date for the prices

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    codelist is a list of stock codes to be downloaded from Net Ease's
    application programming interface. stock codes are separated by spaces.
    For each valid stock code, there will be one output stata format data
    file containing all the trading information for that stock. the stock
    code will be part of the file name, with .dta as the extension.  In
    China, stocks are identified by a six digit number, not tickers as in
    NYSE.  Examples of Stock Codes and the name of the list firms are as
    following:
    000001 Pingan Bank
    000002 Vank Real Estate Co. Ltd.
    600000 Pudong Development Bank
    600005 Wuhan Steel Co. Ltd.
    900901 INESA Electron Co.,Ltd.

    The leading zeros in each stock code can be omitted.

    path specifies the folder where stata formatted tradding data for each
    stock are saved
    The folders can be either existing folders or new folders
    If the folder specified does not exist, . cntrade will create it
    automatically

    start and end specifies the start and ending date to download the trading
    data
    We recommand the user not to specify this option and download all the
    data available
    if specify, the format of the date is CYND, such as 20010123

Examples

    . cntrade 600000 000001 600810, path(d:\temp\) start(19990101)
        end(20121231)
    . cntrade 600000 000001 600810, path(d:\temp\) start(19990101)
        end(20121231)
    . cntrade 600000 000001 600810
    . cntrade 000002, start(19990101)
    . cntrade 000002, end(19990101)
    . cntrade 2 16

Authors

    Xuan Zhang
    Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
    Wuhan, China
    zhangx@znufe.edu.cn


    Chuntao Li
    Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
    Wuhan, China
    chtl@znufe.edu.cn