The Stocks Quotes Library (libstocks)
(http://libstocks.sourceforge.net)
Version 0.4.0
August 06, 2000

Written by Eric Laeuffer (laeuffer@cybercable.fr)


Libstocks is a C library which can be included in any software to fetch
stocks quotes. 

Features:
- Support of a lot of markets :
	* United States
	* Canada
	* Mexico
	* Brasil
	* Argentina
	* Venezuela
	* Chili
	* Australia
	* and European markets

(At the end of this README file you can find a lot of symbols as exemples)

- Proxy support
- Currency exchange rates

- Historical stocks quotes from http://chart.yahoo.com/d
  Unfortunately this feature just supports US stocks.

- This package includes a small client which can show you how to use libstocks

How to use libstocks_client

> libstocks_client "symbols"

for exemple :

> libstocks_client "RHAT+13000.PA"

this displays the quotes of RedHat and Alcatel (Paris) stocks like this:

"17h36" 
----------------------------------------
| Symbol    | "13000.PA"               |
| Price     | 71.50                    |
| Yesterday | 72.50                    |
| Open      | 70.70                    |
| Min       | 69.40                    |
| Max       | 73.50                    |
| Var       | -1.00  (-1.38 %)         |
| Volume    | 5050319                  |
----------------------------------------

"4:01PM" "6/23/2000"
----------------------------------------
| Symbol    | "RHAT"                   |
| Price     | 31.38                    |
| Yesterday | 34.19                    |
| Open      | 30.56                    |
| Min       | 35.44                    |
| Max       | 35.50                    |
| Var       | -2.81  (-8.23 %)         |
| Volume    | 8312600                  |
----------------------------------------

To access US quotes just use the stocks symbol to grep or with the .US 
extension (RHAT=Red Hat Inc)
and to acces european stocks use the stock symbol with the country extension 
(13000.PA=Alcatel Paris)
(use yahoo symbol lookup to find stocks symbol)

All symbols have to be separated by "+" caracter.

As exemple some symbols

USA : BOBJ.US, ENT.US
CANADA: BMO.TO, IN.M, COT.V
AUSTRALIA: BII.AX, BKL.AX
MEXICO: TELMEXL.MX, TELECOMA1.MX, GFBO.MX
BRASIL: ACES4.SA, TLPP4.SA, FNOR11.SA
ARGENTINA: PCH.BA, IRS.BA, ERC.BA
VENEZUELA: MPA.CR, EDC.CR, HLB.CR
CHILI: END.SN, CIC.SN, LAB.SN
NORWAY: STA.OL, IGE.OL, AVE.OL
DANMARK: ISS.CO, DCO.CO, NBH.CO, TLD.CO
GERMANY: 508900.F, 510440.F, 901599.FX, 542700.FX, 622700.FX
ITALY: PLV.MI, HPI.MI, MB.MI, NM.MI
SPAIN: TEF.MC, TAZ.MC, EUR.MC
SWEDEN: VIKT.ST, TLOG.ST, CONN.ST, SION.ST
UNITED KINGDOM: VOD.L, RTO.L, BPA.L

Here my test command:
libstocks_client "BMO.TO+IN.M+COT.V+BOBJ.US+ENT.US+BII.AX+TELMEXL.MX+ACES4.SA
+PCH.BA+MPA.CR+END.SN+LAB.SN+STA.OL+ISS.CO+508900.F+901599.FX+PLV.MI+TEF.MC
+VIKT.ST+VOD.L+13000.PA"

To get historical quotes :

> libstocks_client BOBJ 2000/01/01 2000/08/01

(the date format is YY/MM/DD)

This exemple displays on the screen the DATE, OPEN, HIGH, LOW, CLOSE, VOLUME
