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[amibroker] Re: Recommendation for Intraday Data source?


  • Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:40:03 -0000
  • From: "venturerider2" <venturerider2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: [amibroker] Re: Recommendation for Intraday Data source?

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Thanks for the response.  I should have added that I trade U.S. equities and therefore am looking for historical intraday data going back 5 years on NYSE, NASDAQ, and ASE.

Any other recommendations would be appreciated.

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Kevin Ash <ashkevinm@xxx> wrote:
>
> If you're able to maintain the intraday data going forward, you could order
> the historical intraday data from disktrading.com and merge them together.
>  NinjaTrader will do this.  Not sure about AB.  As far as I know,
> disktrading provides just futures or forex, but you would get the ES data
> you're looking for.  Their prices are very reasonable.  I don't know about
> the quality.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Chaitanya <kcityg@xxx> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Want to add that even with IQFeed you cannot have 5years of intraday data;
> > i currently run into limitations where amibroker wont download any more data
> > than 3years even after changing the registry settings to enable it to
> > download and store more data (it can go only upto about 950k bars which on
> > ES will take you about 3years back).
> >
> > Has anyone done it (download more than 3 years worth of intraday data)? if
> > so how?
> >
> > -Chaitanya
> >
> >
> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <amibroker%40yahoogroups.com>, "Potato
> > Soup" <potatosoupz@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Iqfeed from dtn?
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: "venturerider2" <venturerider2@>
> > > Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:46:38
> > > To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <amibroker%40yahoogroups.com>>
> > > Subject: [amibroker] Recommendation for Intraday Data source?
> > >
> > > I currently use eSignal for my intraday data but their standard
> > historical data package only goes back a few months (120 days). If you
> > upgrade to their extended intraday data package, the extended data goes back
> > 10 years but is only accessible through their program. You cannot access the
> > extended data through Amibroker or any other outside package. This is
> > obviously a marketing strategy to "force" people to switch to using eSignal
> > to backtest. Big mistake.
> > >
> > > I want to backtest hourly bars going back 5 years. I also need access to
> > shorter time frames (1 min, 5 min, etc.) Can anyone recommend a good
> > reliable intraday data source?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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>




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