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--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "protraderinc" <protraderinc@xxx>
wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I found a website for free download of ASX stocks data(let me know I'm
> wrong) from http://www.float.com.au/scgi-bin/prod/dl.cgi
>
> I had tried and there are errors. I believe I must have done something
> wrong. Can someone please guide me thru what should I do to get it
> running? Or is there a site recommended for reasonable price paid data
> for ASX and easy to load?
>
> Best regards
> Dave
>
Hello Dave,
It's your lucky day as the Aussies have a very strong contingent in the
forum.
four possible methods:
1) Manual - if you want to do your own thing - the AB help manual
(Database Management) in conjunction with the posts at the UKB >> Data
>> Database Management section covers all (or most) of the basic
principles of DM - Setup A Custom Database includes using Excel to
condition CSV files for use with AB (you need to understand
concatenation - there is a downloadable Excel file there, with example
formulas, that you can use as a template).
http://www.amibroker.org/userkb/category/data/yahoo/database-management/
Applying all of that to your site -
- download the current year as a CSV file (check the CSV box),
- delete all of the data columns and use concatenate to add .ax to the -
symbols (as the Yahoo suffix),
- copy N paste the appended symbol list into a new CSV file
- import the new list into AB using the ASCII Import Wizard.
This method has mainly academic interest (customization is mainly good
for specialist databases that you can't get easily from somewhere else).
Extra work is the cost of custom databases.
Notice that the current year list from your site is a little dirty.
A few of the symbols have a "." (dot) after them so you will need to
clean this up using Excel - this is typical of the challenges faced
when scratching up lists (another typical glitch is that the symbols
can contain extra spaces - I don't know how AB would handle that -
probably without a problem - but I always remove them anyway).
The good coders could do all, or most, of the above stuff from within
AB but the principles are the same.
2) Standard and Poors have a downloadable sectorized list of AllOrd
members - you can download that and import it using the ASCII Import
Wizard (exactly as per the methods used in the UKB posts).
3) Michael, who is a strong programmer and very helpful to fellow users
has provided an auto database setup for ASX users at the AB third party
site http://www.amibroker.org/3rdparty/ASX_Setup/
Michael automatically downloads and uses the S&P list.
4) Premium Data (Norgate Investor Services) and JustData (Bodhi
Freeway) are reasonably priced providers of ASX data (plus more) -
links to them are in the AB help manual >> Tutorials >> Updating Quotes
data list or at the UKB >> Data >> Resources pages.
There are links to other Aussie providers in the AB help manual - I
just haven't researched them.
Cheers,
Brian_Z
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