Internet Quotes Assistant
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'Internet Quotes Assistant' fetches the most actual financial quotes 
from any server in the internet. This application displays 
quote charts on your desktop, making it easy to follow the evolution
of your portfolio and compare different investments.


Features:
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 * Automatically keeps track of your portfolio through the internet 
   (quotations of stocks, mutual funds, options, futures, currencies, etc.)
 * Import of historical quotations directly from the internet
 * Quotation charts
 * Many preconfigured servers (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Madrid, Lisbon, Sao Paulo, etc.)
 * Quotation extraction configuration wizard
 * Flexible quotation extraction rules (standard + regular expressions)
 * Simultaneous downloads for maximum download speed
 * Exports data as text or Excel file, so that it can be imported by most spredsheet programs
 * Install/Unistall program


Special requirements:
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Microsoft Windows Me/2000/XP/Vista


Instalation:
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To Install 'Internet Quotes Assistant' you should run setup.exe.


Shareware:
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'Internet Quotes Assistant' is a shareware program and is provided 
for evaluation purposes at no charge to the user for a period of 
30 days.  If you use the software after the 30-day evaluation period 
you must pay a registration fee.


Distribution:
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Individuals and organizations may freely distribute unaltered copies of
the archive containing the software and all associated files for evaluation. 


Open Source / External Libraries:
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- Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package,
which is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and copyright 
by the University of Cambridge, England. PCRE library package is
available for download from ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/.
- Setup software provided by Inno Setup  - http://www.jrsoftware.org/ 
Copyright (C) 1997-2003 Jordan Russell. All rights reserved.


How to contact the author:
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If you have questions or problems you may contact the author by e-mail:
Marcos Rocha <IQA@gmx.net>
http://www.marcos-rocha.com/
