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Re: [amibroker] Re: converting amibroker quotes into ascii format



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Uenal,

Please don't get discouraged and keep up your great work.
Your plugin provides quite nice set of features and I belive
that lots of people (silent majority) appreciate your efforts.

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <uenal.mutlu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: converting amibroker quotes into ascii format


> Hi Dimitris,
> as you might know there are many roads to rome :-)
> 
> BTW speaking of simplicity. I myself must admit
> that over 95% of your code presented has been very 
> hard to understand for me. No comments, no indendation etc.
> 
> And: I would like to remind you that ABtool is still in the beta phase.
> I'm sure that there are many other problems which can be
> solved only by the use of ABtool (or another such tool).
> It is of course your own choice and freedom not to use ABtool,
> and I doubt you would understand its power, because it
> is at the moment aimed mainly for programmers only, as
> was also written some msgs before (see my reply to IVA GmbH).
> 
> > Is this the tool you want to certify, as I read somewhere else ?
> > Will you also certify this kind of "logic" to solve a problem like 
> > exporting data in ASCII format ?
> > If positive, I have lost the measure of common understanding.
> 
> Dimitris, I don't think you have the right to critize something 
> you even don't have tried yet. Are you criticizing the code/method
> posted below or the ABtool plugin? As said: don't use it and be happy.
> 
> UM
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "DIMITRIS TSOKAKIS" <TSOKAKIS@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 8:48 AM
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: converting amibroker quotes into ascii format
> 
> 
> > UM,
> > Do you really consider this "simple" way to export data in ASCII 
> > format ?
> > In other words, an average amibroker user needs to
> > a. use a 3rd party plugin
> > b. use a while loop
> > c. move his tickers to a WL
> > d. save somewhere this code you suggest
> > e. read all tickers as "foreign"
> > and all this stuff in order to have an ASCII csv file without dates ?
> > [Perhaps he will need another code to insert dates and if, like 
> > myself, he does not understand your magnificent code ask for help 
> > again and again...]
> > There is no reason to rediscover America, Colombus & co did the job 
> > many years ago.
> > On the other side, amibroker would be quite miserable if it could not 
> > export data before while looping+ABtool+so complicated coding. And it 
> > isnt, as far as I know.
> > Is this the tool you want to certify, as I read somewhere else ?
> > Will you also certify this kind of "logic" to solve a problem like 
> > exporting data in ASCII format ?
> > If positive, I have lost the measure of common understanding.
> > Dimitris Tsokakis
> > PS Impressionism was not always the best trend in arts evolution, IMHO
> > 
> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, uenal.mutlu@xxxx wrote:
> > > The following is for exporting the last quotes
> > > of all tickers in a watchlist using the ABtool plugin.
> > > UM
> > > 
> > > /* export the last quote of all tickers
> > >    in a watchlist using ABtool plugin
> > > 
> > >    Run in AA Explore by first setting 
> > >      AppyTo=current stock, 
> > >      Range=n last quotes, 
> > >      and n=1
> > > */
> > > Filter = 1;
> > > AddColumn(C, "dummy");
> > > 
> > > WL = 60;  // set your watchlist# here
> > > 
> > > filename = "LastQuotes.csv";
> > > fh = xxFileOpen(filename, "wt");
> > > ticker = xxWLtickerFirst(WL);
> > > while (ticker != "")
> > >   {
> > >     tO = foreign(ticker, "O");
> > >     tH = foreign(ticker, "H");
> > >     tL = foreign(ticker, "L");
> > >     tC = foreign(ticker, "C");
> > >     tV = foreign(ticker, "V");
> > >     tI = foreign(ticker, "I");
> > >     line = ticker + "," + tO + "," + tH + "," + tL 
> > >                   + "," + tC + "," + tV + "," + tI + "\n";
> > >     xxFileWriteStr(line, fh);
> > >     ticker = xxWLtickerNext(WL);
> > >   }
> > > xxFileClose(fh);
> > > xxMsgBox("See " + filename, "Finished");
> > > 
> > > 
> > > /* The result will look like this:
> > > 
> > > ^NDX,1109.92,1137.45,1109.66,1136.51,0,0
> > > AAPL,14.46,14.59,14.34,14.45,5.75275e+006,0
> > > ADBE,36.24,38.14,36.15,37.92,5.78614e+006,0
> > > ADCT,2.37,2.52,2.36,2.5,6.16774e+006,0
> > > ALTR,15.79,16.56,15.7,16.51,1.10336e+007,0
> > > AMAT,14.95,15.31,14.79,15.15,2.7393e+007,0
> > > AMGN,62.27,63.62,62.01,63.27,9.42019e+006,0
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > */
> 
> 
> 
> 
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