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Hey guys,
I think I'm making progress with yahoo actually. The reason I was
getting meaningless data is that you have to add the suffix .AX to the
ticker codes in the TLS file for AmiQuote (e.g. CBA.AX etc.). Otherwise
you presumably get data for American companies that have those ticker
codes on the NYSE. In fairness, it does mention this in the AmiBroker
helpfile somewhere, but it just took a long time to find. Anyway, using
this, it seems to produce yesterday's data OK, i.e. today gets Friday's
quotes. Of course, yahoo doesn't provide any data more than one day old
for the ASX, so that has to come from elsewhere (in my case ComSec on a
stock by stock download-and-import basis).
However...
When the quotes get automatically imported into Amibroker, they all come
in with the .AX suffix. If you also import some historical data from
ComSec, it comes in without the .AX suffix and goes down in the list as
a different stock altogether. Does anybody know a way of getting that
AmiQuote auto-import thing to knock off the .AX when it squirts the data
into AmiBroker?
Secondly, I've spent today trying to work out the whole sectors,
industries and company names thing. In the yahoogroups archive, there
are a lot of messages and files about setting up AmiBroker with
appropriate industries, sectors and also matching company names to the
ticker codes. I can't get any of them to work! I know it's a big ask,
but for the sake of myself and any other newcomers, can anybody post a
concise, up-to-date, idiot-proof summary of how to make AmiBroker speak
Australian? Or, better still, post whatever files need replacing so I
can just copy them into the directory and get going. For myself, I don't
mind loosing all my data at this stage, because I can reimport it from
CSV fairly easily.
I know Tomasz is compiling wishlists for future versions of the
software, so perhaps I could suggest that a useful idea might be some
kind of localisation module for users outside of the US. So we could
download the main software and then download a separate Australia pack,
for example, which would automatically set up the industries, sectors,
TLS files for AmiQuote and whatnot and perhaps also include a brief
text-file containing the latest wisdom on where to get data from.
Anyway, many thanks to everybody for their help.
James.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jon.stankevicius@xxxx [mailto:jon.stankevicius@x...]
> Sent: Sunday, 30 September 2001 4:53 PM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Australian Stock Exchange data for Amibroker
>
>
> James,
>
> I am also in Australia and like yourself have tried yahoo.com. While
> I am just a researcher at this stage and have not analysed this data
> closely, I do note from a manual visit to the yahoo site that Telstra
> is around $5, both on thier chart as well as in their historical data
> spreadsheet.
>
> However, I observe another (serious) problem with Australian data on
> Yahoo.com. The historical data file is usually several days behind!
> For example, today is Sunday 30-Sep-01, but yahoo's historical data
> file only goes to 24-Sep-01, that is 4 trading days behind!!
>
> This does not appear to be the case with US stock data, so I'm not
> sure why this is so.
>
> There are some site that offer free ASX daily data, but not as a
> historical file.
>
> I am just sharing your frustrations re getting a good, timely ASX
> free site. Thanks.
>
> JonS
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