The Internet is filled with all sort of applications and programs that you could use in order to make your job easier. One of the applications is Historical Quotes Downloader.

It allows you to download intraday and end-of-day historical quotes of stocks traded at US and international exchanges. It sports a simple yet intuitive graphical interface with many tools.

The application doesn't take long to install and it doesn't come with a complicated setup that you would need to complete before you can actually use it. It sports a really intuitive graphical interface with many nice tools at hand.

Historical Quotes Downloader allows you to download intraday and end-of-day historical quotes of stocks traded at US and international exchanges.

Historical Quotes Downloader produces data output in a custom ASCII format which makes historical quotes data compatible with most charting and technical analysis software packages like MetaStock, SuperCharts, Elloitt Wave Analyzer, Advanced Get, Omega TradeStation, Microsoft Excel and others.

Stock price history quotes are downloaded from free internet sources. For the most stocks data is 15-20 minutes delayed. Data Range is limited and can be set at "Download Settings" tab. Maximum data range is limited to 20 years back for Yahoo Finance server.

For Google Finance data server end-of-day range is limited to up to 1/1/2000. For MSN Finance data server end-of-day range is limited to 5 years from the current date.

If the data range that is currently set in the program settings exceeds available data range for a selected data server, then Historical Quotes Downloader automatically adjusts data range to maximum available.

Intraday data can downloaded from Google Finance or Yahoo! Finance websites. Please make sure that "Intraday" mode in checked at the "Download Settings" tab prior to downloading data.

The maximum range for intraday quotes is 15 trading days from the current date (Google Finance server). All in all, Historical Quotes Downloader is a very nice application that allows you to download intraday and end-of-day historical quotes of stocks traded at US and international exchanges.