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Re: Re: [amibroker] AB and quotetracker



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This is crazy - and frustrating as hell.

I've got all that - I'm sure of it!

But I'm still only getting the first stock on my EOD  being updated from QT 
- the rest of the stock are not getting updated.

The intraday AB that I also have loaded is working fine.

Arthur


 >I'm new to AB, and relatively new to QuoteTracker (QT) and I have QT feeding
 >AB EOD updates during the day with no problems (now).
 >
 >Tomasz helped me understand that the single most important thing to remember
 >is to have my database set back to local (not to QT) when I ASCII update
 >after hours and visa-versa AND it must be set to a timebase of EOD,
 >
 >Excuse me if I am posting the obvious but here goes:
 >
 >1) only symbols that are being fetched by QT (ie, in an open, active
 >portfolio) will be fed back to AB.   I have QT updating ~370 symbols every 3
 >or 4 minutes without a problem; my "focus" symbols get updated every 10sec.
 >If I find another stock I want to track that's not in QT I add it to a
 >protfolio in QT (during the day) and it a few seconds it's updated in AB.
 >
 >2) (my) QT is setup to use the default ASX hours timing of my quote source
 >(Sanfords) and it feeds quotes to AB from 0950-1635 M-F (these are the hours
 >that the QT status shows the AUTO button as green, not AUTO(i) yellow).
 >[actually I'm not 100% sure on what QT feeds back outside hours because I
 >have it turned off, ie, the AB database is set to local]
 >
 >3) QT must have the US East Coast - Local time (AEST for me) difference
 >specified in its preferences (for me this is +14 hours); AB will read this
 >setting from QT as soon as it starts to get quotes from QT (you can check
 >this in AB's database settings under the "conifgure" button (I think) - you
 >should see it has been set to 14 in there also).
 >
 >4) AB and QT MUST be running on the same PC (won't work across a network)
 >and you must either be clicking the minimum qty of ads or have a 
registered QT.
 >
 >Michael, QT did have a few time related problems a couple of months ago
 >where it was stopping quotes at 2pm (AEST).  This bug has been fixed in
 >recent (beta) updates. FWIW I use the betas without any problems (because I
 >wait at least one exchange day for "others" to test the new betas before I
 >update - on very rare occasions the new betas do have bugs that can be
 >annoying but such bugs are rarely a major problem).
 >
 >Enough for now; I hope I've been of some help.
 >
 >Cheers
 >PeterJ
 >
 >>----- Original Message -----
 >>From: "Michael.S.G." <OzFalcon@xxxx>
 >>To: Yahoo: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 >>Sent:  Mon Aug 11, 2003 9:45 pm
 >>Subject: Re: [amibroker] AB and quotetracker
 >>
 >>Some people have got it working. I Havn't.
 >>
 >>Personaly - I think QuoteTrackers Handleing of "Time" Sucks about as Bad
 >>as it can Suck.
 >>
 >>Oneday - I'll Check stocks @ 3pm or so & it says Market Closed.
 >>Next day it seems ok...........
 >>
 >>Fiddling with the Time offsets doesn't seem to do what you would expect.
 >>
 >>Either Im Just Stupid (Highly Likely) or QT's Timeing for NON-US exchanges
 >>is retarded.
 >>
 >>KR
 >>Michael.
 >>
 >>
 >>At 11:12 AM 11/08/2003 +1000, you wrote:
 >>
 >>>I run amibroker in intraday mode using quotetracker and it works fine.
 >>>
 >>>I also have an EOD database that I update from Yahoo each day - but reading
 >>>the docs - if I point the EOD database to QT as the source - it should
 >>>update the EOD data in almost real time.
 >>>
 >>>I changed the default settings for the EOD database from local storage to
 >>>QT pluggin - and got the message that it has connected - but ONLY the first
 >>>stock got updated with todays (I'm in Australia) quote - the rest of the
 >>>stock have no new data for today.
 >>>
 >>>As I type this - the EOD for the first stock just got updated again - but
 >>>still no current day data on the other stock.
 >>>
 >>>Does anyone have any idea of what the problem is?
 >>>
 >>>Arthur
 >
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