News history (old news)

[vrtrader64]

I'm not sure about other news providers, but Stockwatch has 1yr worth of past news bulletins for stocks.

 

The URL for that is something like this:

 

http://www.stockwatch.com/News/Search.aspx?wire=0&symbolchanges=Y&region=C&symbol=[symbol]

 

Can you make that accessible from the news pane by right-clicking on a symbol ?

 

It is disconcerting to see "No news for [symbol]" when there are in fact lots of past news releases available.

 

 

Thank you.

 

 

[Jerry Medved]

We really don't want to add a whole separate system for getting news in MT, which is what this would have to be.  

[vrtrader64]

You don't need to add a whole separate system; just add a button or a right-click menu entry to open a browser instance with the correct per-symbol URL if the newsfeed includes Stockwatch.  That's a huge timesaver for Stockwatch users who will not have to manually open up the browser and enter symbols one-by-one.

 

Later on, you may decide to import the contents of that webpage for presentation within MT's news items, but that's not what I am looking for initially.

 

Thanks.

[Jerry Medved]

right click links to web pages - that would be something done in the future if we do custom menus. 

[vrtrader64]

So custom menus would presumably run custom (user) code ?

 

Just  keep in mind some data providers have much richer content than others, and MT can do so much more with it...I will pick up on this elsewhere.

 

Thanks for all the updates & fixes - you guys are amazing.