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Re: Question for TJ re: Yahoo EOD data



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Hello,


The difference comes from the fact that current mode downloads
quotes for upto 200 symbols in ONE request (hence "appended..." 
message). Historical server supports only one symbol in one request
so you have to make 200 requests to download 200 symbols.
This is much slower. 

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com 

--- In amibroker@xxxx, "jnk1997" <jnk1997@xxxx> wrote:
> Thomasz,
> 
> I have approx 630 stocks in my database.
> 
> When I update the database using "historical" setting total time to 
> download and import previous days data is about 3-4 minutes.
> 
> When I update intraday using "current day" total time to download 
and 
> import is about 4 seconds for all 630 stocks. 
> 
> Under status column it is marked "downloading" for historical data 
> and "append to request" for current day data.
> 
> Why such a difference in download/import time?