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Dave,
You are confusing many things.
First of all:
Number of bars to load is settable in
File->Database Settings
(NOT in preferences!)
See User's Guide: Tutorial:
Tutorial: How to use AmiBroker with external data source (Quotes Plus, TC2000/TCNet, FastTrack, Metastock)
Second thing:
100 EOD bars is not 3 years !!!
- one year of EOD data is 260 bars
so three years is 780 bars.
Third thing:
AmiBroker does NOT load data for symbols that you are NOT looking at.
It loads only the data for symbols that are being displayed (scanned/backtested/etc)
so you should not worry about loading data that are not used.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Merrill" <dmerrill@xxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 5:55 PM
Subject: RE: [amibroker] loading all quotes, more than bars set in prefs
> thanks for your reply john, but that'ts not what I meant. I'm not talking
> about downloading more data than I have already, but about *loading* more
> bars into AB than than are set up in prefs.
>
> for example, I just got a trial of QuotesPlus, and there's data going back
> to, I think '92. AB's default prefs are to load 100 bars, roughly 3 years,
> which is probably enough to make most kinds of current decisions. when I
> bring up a stock, I only see the 3 years that are loaded, like you'd think.
>
> but say I'm working on a timing system, and want access to all the data I
> can get my hands on for the one stock I'm looking at. it's already here, but
> AB's not loading it, because I told it not to in prefs. the only way I can
> see to get all the available data is to change my prefs to load, say, 3500
> bars, and when I do that, I see all the data there is.
>
> the downside of that is that AB will now load all those years of data for
> anything I look at, when all I really wanted was extended data for the one
> stock I was looking at.
>
> make sense? anyone know a way to do this? no biggie if it's not possible,
> just trying to make sure I'm not missing something.
>
> dave
>
>
> > hopefully there is an easier way than this, but the steps for me, using
> > End-of-day Amibroker and Yahoo as a free data source, are:
> >
> > -create a text file, with a TLS extension, containing the symbol of
> > interest followed by a carriage return; eg ibm.tls
> >
> > -save this text file in the ..\Amibroker\Amiquote subdirectory
> >
> > -open Amiquote and then this text file
> >
> > -in the From date field, put in the appropriate desired beginning date
> > for my data; eg 01/01/1991
> >
> > -choose File | Start Download
> >
> > -john
> >
> > > say I've got AB set up to load the standard 1000 bars, but right now, I
> > want
> > > to load all data available for the current symbol, only. is
> > there any way
> > to
> > > do this?
> > >
> > > if not, I'd like to suggest it for a future release.
> > >
> > > Dave Merrill
>
>
>
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