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RE: RE: Re: Re: [amibroker] AB and quotetracker



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When I found data was coming in as YESTERDAYS date - I Gave up on using QT 
for any sort of Link to AB.

If I want to get an update to the picture of the market, I'll just load QT 
and view Indexes/Stocks & Figure it out in my head.

Michael.



At 01:50 PM 12/08/2003 +1000, you wrote:
>At 10:32 AM 12/08/2003 +0800, you wrote:
>:
>  >Why not use an eod data supplier for your eod data. You will get 
> something a
>  >bit better as I find too many errors in QT from live data downloads to use
>  >for any but short term intraday charting
>
>   I use AmiQuote and Yahoo - but running QT through AB EOD data is suppose
>to give you an up-to-date picture - which is what you are after when
>intraday trading.
>
>Arthur
>
>  >Cheers,
>  >Graham
>  >http://groups.msn.com/ASXShareTrading
>  >http://groups.msn.com/FMSAustralia
>  >
>  >
>  >-----Original Message-----
>  >From: peter_carless [mailto:pjcwebpagequery@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>  >Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2003 10:29 AM
>  >To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  >Subject: Re: RE: Re: Re: [amibroker] AB and quotetracker
>  >
>  >
>  >Re. no trades for the day
>  >
>  >I notice that AB shows yesterdays bar but with zero volume if QT responds
>  >with zero trades - perhaps a little querk but something to watch out for.
>  >
>  >PeterJ
>  >
>  >>----- Original Message -----
>  >>From: "Graham" <gkavanagh@xxxx>
>  >>To: Yahoo: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  >>Sent:  Tue Aug 12, 2003 11:47 am
>  >>Subject: RE: Re: Re: [amibroker] AB and quotetracker
>  >>
>  >>Re not updating all quotes
>  >>Could it be the case with updating eod from QT that if there were no
>  >>trades for the day, then there would be no record to import to AB Just
>  >>a shot in the dark
>  >>
>  >>Cheers,
>  >>Graham
>  >>http://groups.msn.com/ASXShareTrading
>  >>http://groups.msn.com/FMSAustralia
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>-----Original Message-----
>  >>From: peter_carless [mailto:pjcwebpagequery@x...]
>  >>Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2003 9:18 AM
>  >>To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  >>Subject: Re: Re: Re: [amibroker] AB and quotetracker
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>Hmmmmmmmm?
>  >>
>  >>You have prompted me to check more thoroughly and I now find that some
>  >>of my symbols are not being updated; seems 95% get updated
>  >>(guesstimate).
>  >>
>  >>Tomasz, how can we debug this? Is there some way to check the to-from
>  >>content to try to track this down?
>  >>
>  >>Ok, this is not consistant because the stock I check a few minutes ago
>  >>is now updating but another still isn't???? I did un-tick "Auto add
>  >>from AB" & "Use optimised routine" to see if that made a difference but
>  >>it didin't seem to.
>  >>
>  >>Yes, I am now confused :-(
>  >>
>  >>PeterJ
>  >>
>  >>>----- Original Message -----
>  >>>From: Arthur Sawilejskij <arthur@xxxx>
>  >>>To: Yahoo: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  >>>Sent: Tue Aug 12, 2003 10:26 am
>  >>>Subject: Re: Re: [amibroker] AB and quotetracker
>  >>>
>  >>>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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