Oct 20, 2013, 11:27 AM
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Using perl to automate downloading of stock prices
I was recently laid off work from a large investment bank. I used to have a Bloomberg terminal that I used to retrieve stock prices in Excel and use them for trading with multivariate analysis.
Sadly, I cannot afford a Bloomberg terminal and downloading them from the exchange website is tedious. For example, the site link is below
Is there some programming that can be done that can automate the retrieval of the prices from the website. My friend told me to learn perl. Where do I start from?
The way I see it looks the process of entering the form data can be automated, but I dont know how. My only knowledge of programming is Excel VBA but I am willing to invest time in a language that would help me.