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Thanks, Graham, I'll do that.:)
Apropos of the extraordinary system results posted here recently,
I've got to share this cautionary anecdote.
Last night, in preparing to enter my Consumer Price Data into AB, I
created a new ticker, "CPI." Obviously the wrong thing to do, since
it could easily be an actual stock symbol. And it is.
This morning, when I did my automatic download, I got "CPI" stock
data. Not knowing what to expect, I opened up the chart. "CPI", a
stock chosen absolutely by a random, off-the-wall mistake, would have
been both a great buy-and-hold stock for the past couple of years, as
well as an excellent long-only swing-trade candidate.
Moral of the story: When our favorite algorithms begin to look like
bullet-proof ATM machines, be careful not to confuse a bull market
for a great system.:)
Luck,
Sebastian
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Graham <kavemanperth@xxxx> wrote:
> Just give it an identifying ticker name, not used elsewhere, not
> likely to be used and import to AB. You just need to set the import
to
> read the data you ahve in the OHLCVI fields
>
>
> On 6/16/05, Brian Fenske <brfenske@xxxx> wrote:
> > Check out AddToComposite. This lets you create "tickers" that
aren't
> > symbols for stocks, but they can be plotted on a chart like a
stock price.
> > You can then refer to their bar values in your code. They will
have a ~ in
> > front of their name.
> >
> > Brian
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: sebastiandanconia
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:18 AM
> > Subject: [amibroker] How to enter non-ticker data?
> >
> > I have SP500 earnings and other economic data going back a few
decades
> > that I would like to be able to refer to in a system test. I
know
> > that I can access it using the FOREIGN function, but how do you
create
> > a datasheet that's not part of a ticker list and get the data in
> > there? What do you name it? I searched the Help files and
couldn't
> > find an answer, but maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place.
TIA
> > for anyone who can point me in the right direction.
> >
> >
> > Luck to all,
> >
> > Sebastian
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> Cheers
> Graham
> http://e-wire.net.au/~eb_kavan/
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