קריאת נתוני MetaStock ישנים ב-Python

# Loading metastock data into panda data frames


# Loading metastock data into panda data frames












Most paid end-of-day data packages are available in metastock format. For analytics purposes, it will be nice if one can read the metastock data and load them into Python panda data frames. Is it possible to do this today?

The metastock format I am referring to is the legacy (pre-12.0) MetaStock file format. It is a binary file format and originated from the Computrac file format. There are four files associated with the format: MASTER, EMASTER, XMASTER, FDAT, and F.MWD.

## Answer by Rehan (score 1, accepted)

https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/32760

The binary data from MetaStock cannot be directly read into a pandas dataframe, or for the matter of fact, into any python library commonly known. For this you would need to convert it into text and then import, which simply complicates the process.

The easier way to do this, would be to use Quandl - although it costs slightly higher than MetaStock, it ties in very well to Python, and you can import the requisite data in a jiffy.