Collecting and logging data

[lihtaes]

Hello.. My friend and I are writing a program for an honors project that is going to analyze stock quotes and detect trends/patterns..


The problem is we cannot figure out how to retrieve stock quotes. This is a fairly extensive process here, and I understand this may not be the place to ask this particular question, but the program will be written in C++, and I figured I'd start here..

Essentially what I need is to know how to get this data into my program.. (how to get C++ to interact with some online source of this data) Once I have it, then I am confident we will figure out how to organize it, store it into a database according to our needs, and then interact with that database and implement the algorithm...

Perhaps you cannot answer the question completely, but maybe you can make suggestions, offer some leads, etc..

Thank you.

Lihtaes

[kbw]

That's the sort of thing you need to pay for. Is the problem with getting a free feed?

Also, some exchanges sell historic data which may be good enough for you.