Re: [amibroker] newsletter 4 industries.js

["Tomasz Janeczko" <tj@xxxx>]

Hi Fred and all,

There is some misunderstanding in basic concepts of sector/industry
assignments. As I wrote in the 4th issue of a newsletter:

"The difference between a sector and an industry is that industries "belong" to sectors, for example: "Air Courier", "Airline",
"Railroads", "Trucking" industries belong to "Transportation" sector. So an assignment to an industry implicts assignment to a
sector. If you don't want to have detailed industries you can just assign first 32 industries to 32 sectors on one-by-one basis. "

This means that companies (stocks) are NOT assigned directly to sectors.
The companies ARE assigned to the industries and industries are assigned to sectors.
(using Stock->Categories window). The relationship is shown in the following
scheme

Stock1 --> Industry1 -> Sector1
Stock2 --> Industry1 -> Sector1
Stock3 --> Industry2 -> Sector1

All three stocks "belong" to "Sector1" because Industry1 and Industry2 are assigned
to Sector1.

Hope it helps.

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko

----- Original Message -----
From: "rbf" <rbf@xxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 04:47
Subject: Re: [amibroker] newsletter 4 industries.js


> Hi David and all
>
> You are certainly right about the scripts, the whole newsletter(s) really,
> that Tomasz has been writing for us ... never doubt their usefullness
> Tomasz, and "Thanks".
>
> David, I too have been preparing a few ASX files to try and use the scripts
> that Tomasz has made to help us get <full name> <sector> into
> broker.database. I started out with a full companies <ticker,full
> name,industry activity> listing ( a .htm file ) off the asx site and made a
> .csv file from that ... I sorted it on "industry activity" then added the
> "sector number" corresponding to the the "appropriate sector number" I had
> put into each line of an asx broker.industries file I made. I also editted
> "omega.format" to comment out the line $GROUP 255.
>
> So, what happens is this : The full data base (all the asx companies (plus
> some !) as emailed to us by australianstockmarketdata ) is loaded, then
> tomasz's industries.js is run. Each company's full name and 'industry' get
> correctly associated (alleluia) with the company ticker but the sector
> number does not get altered/up-dated !!
>
> Can you, or Tomasz, suggest what I might do to fix this ?
>
> Regards
>
> Fred
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David " <dtholz@xxxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 10:00
> Subject: [amibroker] newsletter 4
>
>
> > Tomas ,
> > you have done it again that script to add data was great even though
> > i need to spend several hours editing data, almost got the asx in the
> > right format to update ...
> >
> >
> > thanks
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