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Bill, I think, Yahoo offers historical data for download only for US
Stocks and indices. Albeit, the daily data could work - maybe Yuri
knows better what these signs mean : http://quote.yahoo.co.jp/
regards
--- In amibroker@xxxx, "wavemechanic" <wd78@xxxx> wrote:
> Yuki:
>
> You can update your MS files from Yahoo with appropriate software.
There are a number available, including dCenter which will pickup the
historical CSI data, or daily Reuters data, if the historical is not
yet available. This particular program operates through DownLoader
so it maintains whatever groupings you currently use for your MS data
folders.
>
> Bill
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Yuki Taga
> To: Tomasz Janeczko
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 9:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Importing from MS
>
>
> Hi Tomasz,
>
> Tuesday, October 23, 2001, 9:46:52 PM, you wrote:
>
> TJ> I will consider adding the feature suggested by you.
>
> Thank you very much. And to answer tradeshark about *why* I'd
like
> this, I'll explain.
>
> I do it all by hand. There is no service I know of in Japan that
> supports updating MS files, or AB files. And I've asked MS about
it,
> too, and spent more time in search of a service like this than I
care
> to remember.
>
> So, I have a universe of stocks that I update each day by hand.
> However, I don't actively trade but a subset of this universe.
That
> subset can change composition, of course.
>
> Now, you might be interested to know that we have a lunch break
of 90
> minutes here in Tokyo. During that time, I update the subset, but
> not the entire universe. I also update the subset 15 min prior to
> the close. After the close I update the entire universe. Been
doing
> it this way for a long, long time. (^_^)
>
> So, I'd like to import only the updated subset from MS at lunch
and
> prior to the close. Then after the close import the entire
universe
> after I've updated it.
>
> One solution would be to make a separate folder in MS for the
subset.
> However, if you then copy updated data files into that folder
(after
> updating the entire universe) you get "Last Date" errors in MS.
If
> you copy both the master and emaster in there too, you don't have
the
> last date problem of course, but now you have an entire universe
> instead of a subset. If you don't copy anything into the subset
> folder, you have simply added to your workload, needing to update
> both the universe and the subset. See the problem?
>
> Again, it's not a huge deal, but if Tomasz can add the ability to
> make my life easier without making his too difficult, that would
be
> great.
>
> Thanks all,
>
> Yuki
>
> P.S. tradestation, what I mean by running scripts is actually
using
> .cmd (.bat in 9x) files to execute copy commands.
>
> For example, putting something like this in a .cmd file and then
> executing it via a shortcut:
>
> copy m:\metast~1\master\*.* m:\metast~1\cyclot~1\
> copy m:\metast~1\master\*.* m:\metast~1\plain\
> copy m:\metast~1\master\*.* m:\metast~1\japan\
> copy m:\metast~1\master\*.* m:\metast~1\weekly\
> copy m:\metast~1\master\*.* m:\metast~1\williams\
> copy m:\metast~1\master\*.* m:\metast~1\weekly~1\
> copy m:\metast~1\master\*.* m:\metast~1\aofast~1\
> copy m:\metast~1\master\*.* m:\metast~1\test\
> copy m:\metast~1\master\*.* m:\metast~1\72\
>
>
>
>
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