Very informative post , i think yeah money control like sites are indeed costly .
I am just tyring to build something that is very light , to do type of stock research and need only the basic features of money contol like
get quote display with basic pe book value etc then display basic data like balance sheet income ... statement etc ....
open source is what i am looking ,cant touch non open source as it is a corporate only thing .
any ideas with google finance ? they have a lot of data but how to extract ? use