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Re: [amibroker] US stocks database using Yahoo free quotes



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Yuki,

The template indeed is a bit old and there were some symbol changes
in the meantime.

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yuki Taga" <yukitaga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 6:10 AM
Subject: [amibroker] US stocks database using Yahoo free quotes


> Since E-Trade Japan is now offering electronic trading of US issues
> in real time (providing one wants to stay up all bloody night), I'm
> setting up a US database per
> http://www.amibroker.com/docs/ab305.html.
> 
> But on running the download, I notice somewhere in the neighborhood
> of 8 to 10 percent of the issues come back with "no data for this
> symbol" in the status line.
> 
> Is this simply a function of Yahoo having bad service, or is this
> simply that the template is that old, and there have been than many
> symbol changes over time?  It seems like a very high percentage of
> bad returns.  Maybe it's a combination of the two?
> 
> Yuki
> 
> 
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