Re: [amibroker] Importing from ASX data

["Geoff Mulhall" <gmulhall@xxxx>]

Ian,
 
I have set up a prn.format in the \formats 
directory for <A 
href="">www.australian-stockmarket.com 
files 
as follows - 
 
$FORMAT 
Ticker,Date_Int,Open,High,Low,Close,Volume$SKIPLINES 0$SEPARATOR 
,$DEBUG 1$BREAKONERR 0$AUTOADD 0$OVERWRITE 1 
 
And my import.format file looks like - 

 
Default ASCII (*.*)|*.*|default.formatGlodat 
prn (*.prn)|*.prn|prn.formatYahoo's CSV 
(*.csv)|*.csv|yahoo.formatAmiQuote Historical 
(*.aqh)|*.aqh|aqh.formatAmiQuote Daily (*.aqd)|*.aqd|aqd.formatMetastock 
ASCII (*.txt)|*.txt|metastock.formatOmega SC ASCII 
(*.txt)|*.txt|omega.formatS-Files (s*.*)|s*.*|sfile.formatC-Files 
(c*.*)|c*.*|cfile.formatSharenet DN (*.dn)|*.dn|sharenet.formatSpace 
separated Ticker,Date,OHLC (*.txt)|*.txt|ssv.formatPRN Format w/Ticker 
(*.prn)|*.prn|prnn.formatShort Daily CSV (*.csv)|*.csv|daily.formatMST 
Format w/Ticker (*.mst)|*.mst|mst.format
 
ie I've added the line 
 
Glodat prn 
(*.prn)|*.prn|prn.format
into the V3.1.4 import.format file following the 
install.
 
I have not changed default.format
 
Note <A 
href="">www.glodat.com is the same as  <A 
href="">www.australian-stockmarket.com
 
I keep a copy of my prn.format file in a private 
directory so it can be restored if it was ever overwritten. The date format 
I found works is Date_Int which is different to Date_YMD 
in the format.prnn 
 
Tomasz - I trust I'm not causing confusion. Initially I had not realised 
the message was going to the entire group. I don't want to cause you (or anyone 
else) additional work. 
 
Regards,
 
Geoff
 
 
 
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----- Original Message ----- 
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>From: 
Ian 
MacPherson 
To: <A 
href="" 
title=amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxx>amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 11:45 
PM
Subject: [amibroker] Importing from ASX 
data
Hello TomaszI have been very interested in 
Amibroker for some time (as one of the few real alternatives to Metastock) 
and have been trying to download and import the historical data from the 
Australian stockmarket.com site.  While many of the stocks import 
cleanly there seems to be alot of rubbish data amongst it and I get very 
long lists of errors.  Does anyone know if this is normal for this 
data and how to deal with the problem?  The errors are many and 
varied but looking in the files it is obvious that the data is, in most 
cases, incomplete generating errors referring to invalid closing prices or 
similar (because they are missing).  Is it possible to screen out the 
errant files on import?Kind RegardsIan 
MacPherson