atem -- metastock reverse
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atem converts metastock financial data to CSV text, fast and reliable.

Download source and binary releases:
 https://bitbucket.org/rudimeier/atem/downloads

RPM Packages for Linux distros (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, openSUSE, SLE):
 http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:rudi_m&package=atem

The project homepage, bugtracker, git repo:
 https://github.com/rudimeier/atem


Why use atem?
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 - Very portable, should work on any system.
 - Works for many metastock flavors (Equis, Norgate, stooq.com,
   bbfinance.com, etc.)
 - It's fast, factor 15-20 compared with the well known "ms2asc".
 - Support of EMaster files. Most other tools are just ignoring them which
   may results in wrong dates and loss of symbol descriptions.
 - Simple but powerful command line interface.
 - BSD open source license.


Similar other tools
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 - ms2asc by Mohammed Illyas Mansoor
 - ms2txt by Jacek 'Mech' Woźniak


Installation
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Building from source requires a C++ compiler, like gcc/g++, clang/clang++
or icc/icpc. On Windows you could use cygwin or mingw.

Build from tar tarball works as usually:

 ./configure
 make
 make install

When building from git checkout you also need autoconf and gengetopt and don't
forget to type "autoreconf -vfi" first.


Usage
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By default atem reads metastock data from the current or given directory and
writes complete time series to stdout. Comma separated like this

$ atem -F, /path/to/msdata
ANY.HU,2013-11-18,09:05:00,626.00000,633.00000,626.00000,633.00000,5036,0
ANY.HU,2013-11-18,09:10:00,633.00000,634.00000,633.00000,633.00000,1479,0
ANY.HU,2013-11-18,09:25:00,632.00000,632.00000,632.00000,632.00000,120,0
FHB.HU,2013-11-18,09:05:00,375.00000,375.00000,375.00000,375.00000,1500,0
FHB.HU,2013-11-18,09:20:00,375.00000,375.00000,375.00000,375.00000,300,0
FHB.HU,2013-11-18,09:30:00,379.00000,379.00000,379.00000,379.00000,4407,0

See "atem --help" for more options, how to format the output and select the right
colums, etc. You'll also find some example data in the test directory.


Contact
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  If you have questions, bug reports, patches etc., contact
  Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de> (in English or German).