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The EODHD data service is a significant step up from Yahoo in terms of quality and reliability.
EODHD.com offers a free service level with severe usage limitations, or virtually unlimited usage for $20/month.
EODHD includes a broad range of countries among their data offerings.
Whether you use their free or paid service, you must register with them to receive a private API key.
Once you have your API key, you must perform this one-time task:
1.Close RealTest if it is running.
2.Find your RealTest.ini file (it will be in c:\RealTest or wherever you installed RealTest) and open it using a plain text editor such as Notepad.
3.Search for Eodhd to find the line labled EodhdApiKey.
4.Copy and paste your API key after the equals sign.
5.If you'll primarily be importing data from a country other than the US, change EodExchange to the country code (which they call "exchange") of that country.
6.Save RealTest.ini, close Notepad, run RealTest.
You are now able to import from EODHD. Your key will remain preserved in your RealTest.ini file thereafter unless you delete or replace the file or edit it again and delete the key.
Note that regardless of your EodExchage (country code) setting, you can import symbols from any country by writing them with the correct country code as a suffix. For example, MSFT could also be imported as MSFT.us, the Australian stock BHP can be imported as BHP.au, etc. no matter what your EodExchange setting is. The purpose of the setting is to allow you to select one country that will not require an exchange suffix on all of its symbols.
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