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Re: [amibroker] Using RT and AmiQuote



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Is Jose's script in the files section?

-- John

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Walid Atia wrote:

> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 03:43:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Walid Atia <walid_atia@xxxx>
> Reply-To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] Using RT and AmiQuote
> 
> John,
> 
> I struggled with the same dilema you did--it was
> me who posted that QuoteTracker script! If you
> are familiar with AMIBroker, it is really easy
> to setup and if you have a high bandwidth connection,
> you get fairly fast updates (I download over 3000
> quotes in about 2 minutes). For much few quotes,
> you can get extremely fast downloads.
> 
> Also, Jose Gallardo wrote a nicer version that
> includes
> a timer and doesn't cause a window to flash across
> the screen, so you can just watch the AMIBRoker
> chart as it gets updated in real time. 
> 
> One thing that would be nice is for AMIBroker to also 
> allow plotting the bid/ask (like QuoteTracker does)--I
> assume this is probably an issue with ESignal as well.
> Is historical bid/ask data even available?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Walid
> 
> 
> --- John Nelson <trader@xxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > Which brings us to the issue of real-time quotes. I
> > was rolling along 
> > fine with AMIQuote and www.quote.com delayed quotes
> > until I discovered 
> > how easy it was to max out my daily allotment of
> > quotes. Not a good 
> > solution, and I'm not ready to sign up for
> > eSignal... not yet anyway. 
> > Maybe I can use that script someone posted a while
> > back which extracts 
> > quotes from QuoteTracker.
> > 
> > Or wait for a QuoteTracker plugin (although Tomasz
> > said that wouldn't be 
> > soon in coming).
> > 
> > Or (shudder) actually pay money for real-time daily
> > quotes. :-(
> > 
> > Seems that there's no free lunch in science or in
> > trading.
> > 
> > -- John
> > 
> > Tomasz Janeczko wrote:
> > 
> > >Dennis,
> > >
> > >You can not do this for the following reason:
> > >
> > >For RT Quote window you need a real-time streaming
> > data source plugin (like eSignal plugin) AmiQuote is
> > a stand alone application that provides snapshot, 20
> > min delayed data fed by regular ASCII importer.
> > >
> > >Best regards,
> > >Tomasz Janeczko
> > >amibroker.com
> > > 
> > >
> > 
> > -- 
> >
> _____________________________________________________
> > 
> > John T. Nelson
> > Trader | Dreams Of Empire
> > mail: | trader@xxxx
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