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Recommended:
Place a short-cut to "Windows Task Scheduler" on your desktop
(you will find this very convenient for many purposes in the future).
Do this by clicking on "Start", then "Accessories", then "System Tools".
In the final menu that appears, right click on "Scheduled Tasks".
In the new menu that appears, click on "Send to" and, finally, "Desktop
(create short cut)".
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Open "Windows Task Scheduler" by clicking
on your new desktop short cut.
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At the top of the "Scheduled Tasks" window, click
on "Add Scheduled Task". The "Scheduled Task Wizard" dialog
will open.
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Click on the "Next" button. |
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In the next dialog window that appears, click on the
"Browse" button. |
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Browse to the "C:\MasterDATA\MDataLink\" directory
(assuming you installed to the default paths). |
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In addition to numerous other files, you will see seven
programs as follows: |
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Runs List Named |
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When to Run |
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Primary Download Purpose |
| RunListNum1.exe |
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List 1 |
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U.S. market hours |
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Update |
| RunListNum2.exe |
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List 2 |
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U.S. market hours |
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Update |
| RunListNum3.exe |
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List 3 |
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U.S. market hours |
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Update |
| RunListNum4.exe |
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List 4 |
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U.S. market hours |
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Update |
| RunListNum5.exe |
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List 5 |
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U.S. market hours |
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Update |
| RunListAllDaily.exe |
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All Daily |
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before or several hours after U.S. market hours |
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Full download |
| RunListAllPeriods.exe |
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All Periods |
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before or several hours after U.S. market hours |
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Full download |
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These seven executables correspond to the seven download
lists under the "Download File Settings" tab in the MasterDATAlink program.
Running any one of these seven programs initiates a download using the
corresponding MasterDATAlink download list.
For now, let's set up the "All Periods" list. You can change or
add additional schedules later if you wish.
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Click on "RunListAllPeriods.exe" and then
the "Open" button.
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A new "Scheduled Task Wizard" dialog window
appears with the name "RunListAllPeriods" in the top text box.
You can name this new task whatever you wish, but the name that is there,
in this case, is descriptive for our purposes.
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Select "Daily" in the section below and then
click the "Next" button. |
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In the next "Scheduled Task Wizard" dialog
window that appears enter a time a few hours or so prior to the U.S.
markets opening time of 9:30 AM EST. RunListAllPeriods runs the
full download for all index and ETF composite datafiles for all time
periods (561 total files). Depending on your internet connection
speed, this download can take anywhere from a few minutes or less to
30 minutes or more. This is the long download. If you allow
this download to run nightly, your intraday updates will only require
a minute or two at most to update when U.S. markets are open.
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Select "Everyday". We recommend "Everyday"
because we do data maintenance on the historical composite breadth
datafiles every day, but if you don't work on weekends, "Weekdays" is
fine. For now, please select "Everyday". You can change
this later if you wish.
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Click on the "Next" button. |
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Enter the username and password you use for
your computer (not for the MasterDATA web sites). Click
on the "Next" button.
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In this final "Scheduled Task Wizard" dialog window,
click on the "Finished" button.
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You're done with this schedule. Your computer
is now configured to download the entire MasterDATACSV datafile for
each MasterDATA index and ETF for all data periods every day of the
week ("All Periods").
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If you wish, try running the schedule now by right
clicking on the new schedule you just created and then clicking on "Run"
in the menu that appears. Remember, when run from a schedule,
MasterDATAlink runs invisibly in the background. If you wish to
follow the download progress, open the "C:\MasterDATA\CSVFiles\Daily"
directory and watch the files as they download (you may have to occasionally
press the "F5" key to refresh the display.
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As you set up other download lists, you can add them
to Windows Task Scheduler also. Lists 1 through 5 are updates
and require less than a few seconds to a minute or two depending on
your internet connection speed. Use these downloads during the
trading day to keep your composite breadth datafiles current.
The "All Daily" and "All Periods" Lists are full historical file downloads
retrieving the entire, start date to current date, datafile. These
two downloads require significantly more time than Lists 1 through 5
and should generally be used outside of U.S. market hours.
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