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Re: [amibroker] Downloaded 1 year IB backfill



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Sounds excellent -- I'm gonna try it myself.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "loveyourenemynow" <loveyourenemynow@xxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:01 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Downloaded 1 year IB backfill


>I am dowonloading the IB 1 year data with the TWS c++ client, you just
> have to make multiple requests changing the end date every time to
> cover all the range , and merge together all the data.
> I guess this is the same the present IB plugin is doing, since in 1
> minute barsize  I cannot get more that 5 days per request, so you need
> 4 requests to get 30 days as the present AB-IB plugin is doing.
> I just tried with eur.usd so far
> I can send you a file in which i download 1 year in 1 minute
> resolution or even 1 sec (would take longer..)
> At the moment I am doing it manually with the TWS client (modified to
> save the data in a file ) because I am testing the method but it is
> easy to automatize, just a matter of  choosing well
> s_dlg.m_backfillEndDateTime, the end date you give to the function
> 
> reqHistoricalData( s_dlg.m_id, contract, s_dlg.m_backfillEndDateTime,
> s_dlg.m_backfillDuration, s_dlg.m_barSizeSetting,
>                         s_dlg.m_whatToShow, s_dlg.m_useRTH,
> s_dlg.m_formatDate);
> 
> 
> Sounds useful or unreal?
> 
> Ly
> 
> 
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