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MSN Money Quote Source
Use either of the following source parameters to update quote data using a list of security and currency pair instrument IDs generated automatically from your Money file:
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https://assets.msn.com/service/finance/quotes?apikey=0QfOX3Vn51YCzitbLaRkTTBadtWpgTN8NZLW0C1SEM&wrapodata=false&ids=
The MSN Money quote data API requires the use of instrument IDs to identify securities, rather than the more well known security symbols. Instrument IDs can be supplied to msmquote by including AltSymbol= followed by the instrument ID in the Comment field of the Money file security Details page. For example, for Walmart Inc., the string AltSymbol=a25ya2 would be included in the Comment field. msmquote will use instrument IDs supplied in this way when generating the URL for MSN Money quote data API.
The instrument ID for a particular security can be found in the MSN Money URLs for that security and is denoted by the id parameter. See for example the stock details page for Walmart Inc., where the instrument ID is a25ya2.
To display a list of the security and currency pair instrument IDs generated from your Money file without updating any quote data, simply append a ? to the source parameter as follows:
https://assets.msn.com/service/finance/quotes?apikey=0QfOX3Vn51YCzitbLaRkTTBadtWpgTN8NZLW0C1SEM&wrapodata=false&ids=?
You can define your own list of instrument IDs to update after the ids= statement in the source parameter.
For example, the following source parameter will update quota data for Walmart Inc., Tesco PLC, Carrefour SA, the FTSE-100 index and the Pound Sterling/Euro exchange rate:
https://assets.msn.com/service/finance/quotes?apikey=0QfOX3Vn51YCzitbLaRkTTBadtWpgTN8NZLW0C1SEM&wrapodata=false&ids=ao72u2,a25ya2,avyjhw,c2111,aopnp2,aof9xm
When using a user-generated URL, msmquote will update the security quote data where the symbol in the data returned by the MSN Money quote data API matches the Symbol field in the Money file. The MSN Money symbol for a given security can be found in parentheses after the security name on MSN Money pages, see for example, Walmart Inc., where the symbol is WMT.