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Thanks all for the replies.
Sebastian, what are the symbols you use for Yahoo! Up Vol and Dn Vol?
Run, - I didn't know about the different volume data. Guess I'll have
to explore that when I get things working.
Tomasz - Thank You (as usual) for the tip.
Ed Hoopes
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "sebastiandanconia"
<sebastiandanconia@xxx> wrote:
>
> Ed, I ran into this problem with .csv import, too. I just divide the
> volume by 1,000 before I import it.
>
> My .csv file breaks out up volume from down volume, but if all you want
> is total volume you can import it along with ^NYA historical data
> directly from Yahoo!, without the intermediate step of a .csv file.
> ^NYA, ^GSPC, ^DJI, ^DJT, and ^DJU all have the same volume(s). Here's
> Tomasz's post related to Yahoo! volume importing, hope it helps.
>
> S.
>
>
>
>
> SOLUTION TO NEGATIVE VOLUME REPORTED IN INDICES
>
> Yes it is possible to do that automatically.
> Open aqh.format (inside Formats directory) file with NOTEPAD
> and add the following line
>
> $VOLFACTOR 0.001
>
> And re-import all downloaded data. The volume will be now reported in
> thousands
> of shares
>
> (alternatively you can use $VOLFACTOR 0.01 and then it will report
> volume in
> hundreds)
>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> amibroker.com
>
>
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ed Hoopes" <reefbreak_sd@> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to import Yahoo! data for the symbol ^NYA - the NYSE
> > composite index.
> >
> > The *.csv Volume field has NYSE total volume that currently is running
> > around 2 billion shares/day. When I examine the *.csv file in Excel,
> > the volume is different from day-to-day as expected. BUT when it is
> > imported into AmiBroker, most of the volume numbers are all the same
> > - around 2.147. . . billion.
> >
> > My suspicion is that this is a 32 bit signed INTEGER data type. 2^32
> > / 2. Is this correct?
> >
> > My goal is to use the volume to construct an A/D line for the NYSE.
> > A/D involves adding/subtracting - but if I'm up against an internal
> > limit of AB maybe that is not possible.
> >
> > Any suggestions??
> >
> > Ed Hoopes
> > AKA ReefBreak
> >
>
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