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Finance-Quote-Grab-11
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NAME

Finance::Quote::MGEX - download Minneapolis Grain Exchange quotes

SYNOPSIS

use Finance::Quote;
my $fq = Finance::Quote->new ('MGEX');
my %quotes = $fq->fetch('mgex', 'MWZ11');

DESCRIPTION

This module downloads commodity futures quotes from the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX),

http://www.mgex.com

Using the futures page

http://www.mgex.com/data_charts.html

which is

http://sites.barchart.com/pl/mgex/aquotes.htx
http://sites.barchart.com/pl/mgex/wquotes_js.js

Symbols

The available symbols are for example

MWZ11      Minneapolis wheat
KEZ11      Kansas wheat
ZWZ11      CBOT wheat

ICU11      national corn index
IHU11      hard red winter wheat index
IPU11      hard red spring wheat index
ISU11      national soybean index
IWU11      soft red spring wheat index

The "Z11" or "U11" is the contract month letter and the year "11" for 2011. The month letters are the usual U.S. futures style

F    January
G    February
H    March
J    April
K    May
M    June
N    July
Q    August
U    September
V    October
X    November
Z    December

Fields

The following standard F-Q fields are returned

name currency
bid ask
open high low last close net
method source success errormsg

Plus the following extras

time                  ISO string "HH:MM"
contract_month_iso    ISO format YYYY-MM-DD contract month

Prices on the web pages are in eighths but are always returned here as decimals so they can be used arithmetically. For instance "195-2" meaning 195 2/8 becomes "195.25".

SEE ALSO

Finance::Quote, LWP

MGEX web site http://www.mgex.com

HOME PAGE

http://user42.tuxfamily.org/finance-quote-grab/index.html

LICENCE

Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Kevin Ryde

Finance-Quote-Grab is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

Finance-Quote-Grab is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Finance-Quote-Grab; see the file COPYING. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/