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Thanks Tomasz,
I don't know how I missed watching that video on your website.
Anyway I tried it out and it worked fine. I used MGAM and RRGB as
my tickers to test. I knew that RRGB was a fairly recent IPO and
wouldn't have too much price data at Yahoo. I set Amiquote to
download back to 1995 for my list. It grabbed all of MGAM and RRGB
price history, no problem. That's what I was after. I will
probably download the last 5-10 years of history for all the Nasdaq
stocks.
Now, a further question. Let's say I build a list of all the Nasdaq
companies. I then download the price histories for the past 10
years for each symbol. A few months go by and I want to update my
list with new tickers (IPOs, symbol changes, etc.). So I would
build a new watch list of all the tickers on the Nasdaq at this
point in the future. Would I have to download the price histories
from the tickers that were in my previous list (still on Nasdaq)?
Or would Amibroker "know" that it already has that history in
storage somewhere? Or would the histories be deleted when I removed
the old watch list? Just wondering because I'm guessing this data
file will run into the Gigabytes of information.
Jim
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--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <amibroker@xxxx>
wrote:
> Jim,
>
> 1. Notepad is the best because it works with plain text file,
> but you can export to plain ASCII from Excel
> and you can also use copy-paste
>
> 3. Of course. Just change FROM date as shown in the video:
> http://www.amibroker.net/video/amiquote2.html
>
> 4. It depends on data source you are using. If you are using
> FREE data source like Yahoo or MSN then that's correct for new
listings/symbol changes.
> If you are using Quotes Plus or TC2000 new listings/symbol changes
will be added
> automatically ('retrieve' button in 'configure' dialog)
>
> As for delistings - it is enough to run Cleanup script
> and it will detect automatically delisted stocks and will give you
an
> option to remove them.
>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> amibroker.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim" <bankedout@xxxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 10:36 PM
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Ticker Lists and Price Histories
>
>
> > For 1) Can I copy and paste from Excel to make a ticker list
like
> > that? Otherwise, how is it done? What extension do I save it
as?
> > Would Microsoft Word work for this? Otherwise I have Notepad
and
> > Wordpad.
> >
> > For 3) Will Yahoo or MSN through Amiquote have a feature to get
all
> > of the price/volume history rather than just getting the last
two
> > years worth? Will it matter that XYZW has been trading for 1.5
> > years and ABCD has been trading for 7 years?
> >
> > For 4) it sounds like you are saying that Amibroker will not
> > automatically deal with ticker symbol changes, new listings, and
> > delistings. I should do this on my own. Is that correct?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Jim
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
----
> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "ed2000nl" <pablito@xxxx>
wrote:
> > > what you could do:
> > >
> > > 1) make a list of tickers you want to follow and put it in a
file
> > looking
> > > for example like:
> > >
> > > CSCO
> > > MSFT
> > > AMAT
> > > APOL
> > >
> > > 2) then you put these tickers inside a watchlist. Go to Symbol
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> > Watch list
> > > | Import
> > > and put the symbols in one of the lists that is free.
> > >
> > > 3) Now, if you need historical data for this list you can use
this
> > same file
> > > (with all the symbols) and feed it to Amiquote and use either
> > Yahoo, or MSN
> > > to get the free historical quotes.
> > >
> > > 4) If you need to update this watchlist regularly you could
just
> > delete it
> > > and import the updated version.
> > >
> > > Ed
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jim" <bankedout@xxxx>
> > > To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 8:00 PM
> > > Subject: [amibroker] Ticker Lists and Price Histories
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I have a couple of questions about ticker symbol lists and
price
> > > > histories.
> > > >
> > > > With the ticker symbol lists, I want to have my database
cover
> > the
> > > > Nasdaq National Market and Nasdaq Small Cap Market. I don't
> > want to
> > > > include the OTCBB's or NYSE or AMEX at this time. Can I do
that?
> > > > If so, how? I can get the ticker symbols I want in to Excel
no
> > > > problem. They are available at the Nasdaq site or with the
> > Multex
> > > > screener.
> > > >
> > > > Does Amibroker update itself for ticker symbol changes, new
> > > > listings, delistings, etc? Nasdaq posts changes like that
here:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.nasdaq.com/asp/symbolchangehistory.asp
> > > >
> > > > Or
> > > >
> > > > http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/ipos.stm
> > > >
> > > > In building the initial historical databases for my list of
> > > > securities, the example given in the User's Guide showed
> > downloading
> > > > 2 years of OHLCV from Yahoo. I want to download the entire
price
> > > > histories. Is that possible? If so, how? Also, how much
space
> > > > should I expect to use on my computer to store all of the
data
> > that
> > > > Amibroker uses?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > >
> > > > Jim
> > > >
> > > >
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