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thanks Thomas,
I think I'll check out eSignal after IQFeeds trial. For the rest IQFeed
seems to work OK and I am impressed how it is linked to Amibroker.
One other thing noteworthy is all the spikes in the historical data that are
not removed by IQfeed.
rgds, Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tomasz Janeczko" <amibroker@xxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] IQFEED or ESIGNAL
> Hello,
>
> 1. All sources deliver "tick-by-tick" data but this is not the point and
it is not enough.
>
> To display tick/5-sec and 15 second charts ---HISTORICAL--- TICK data
> have to be properly time-stamped (need to contain SECONDS in the time
stamp).
> Unfortunatelly IQFeed does NOT contain seconds in time stamp
> (the time field in IQFeed has only 1-minute resolution). That's why.
>
> IQFeed more than half year ago promised to fix this.
>
> 2. IQFeed also does NOT deliver --HISTORICAL-- PRE and AFTER hours data
> therefore they are not available.
>
> Full featured HISTORICAL intraday data are CRUICIAL for charting.
>
> 3. 120 days advertised by IQFeed are in fact 120 CALENDAR days, not
trading days.
> There are roughly only 85 trading days during 120 CALENDAR days.
>
> But yes you would need to use ~50000 bars to ensure that all available
> data is backfilled.
>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> amibroker.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ed2000nl" <pablito@xxxxxxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 12:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] IQFEED or ESIGNAL
>
>
> > OK thanks.
> >
> > few more questions if you don't mind.
> >
> > What is the reason that eSignal can display this single trade and IQFeed
can
> > not? Because IQFeed delivers tick-by-tick.
> >
> > Further I noticed that I still get after trading hours data with IQFeed
but
> > it does not update the chart. Or the "Last" is not updated for most
stocks I
> > observed while the "bid" and the "ask" show what happens after hours.
Only
> > the QQQ's seem to be an exception. Why is this feature only available
for
> > QQQ's. Is this the same for eSignal?
> >
> > I guess if I really want this 120 days of interval data I have to
increase
> > the "number of bars to load" ? In the manual it was mentioned to put
this at
> > 35000 but I get only about 50 days of interval data with the current
setup
> > from the manual.
> >
> > For the rest it is pretty inpressive.
> >
> > regards, Ed
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tomasz Janeczko" <amibroker@xxxxxx>
> > To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:51 PM
> > Subject: Re: [amibroker] IQFEED or ESIGNAL
> >
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > You get all trades (ticks) regadless of interval you choose.
> > > So 1-minute interval bars are updated as often as every second and
every
> > trade occuring in
> > > given minute is included in that bar.
> > >
> > > The "tick" setting is for the bar interval - > where single bar
represents
> > single trade,
> > > but this mode is available only using eSignal.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Tomasz Janeczko
> > > amibroker.com
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "ed2000nl" <pablito@xxxxxxx>
> > > To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 8:12 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [amibroker] IQFEED or ESIGNAL
> > >
> > >
> > > > hi,
> > > >
> > > > question for IQFeed users.
> > > >
> > > > I just started my trial. According to the manual I have to set the
data
> > base
> > > > using the base time interval of 1 Minute. Am I getting all the RT
ticks
> > this
> > > > way? Or do I need to use "Tick" to get all ticks?
> > > >
> > > > rgds, Ed
> > > >
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