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Re: [amibroker] Where do we stand with the CSI data?



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and, if so, is there any reason, assuming the 
pricing is comparable, for me to stay with QuotesPlus?
 
-john
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  Subject: [amibroker] Where do we stand 
  with the CSI data? Was CSI/UA data to AB (2 methods)
  
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  class=437013117-23032004>For those of us timid mice what's the status? Have 
  all of the issues been resolved?
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    From: Gary A. Serkhoshian 
    [mailto:serkhoshian777@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 
    8:41 PMTo: <A 
    href="">amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: 
    RE: [amibroker] CSI/UA data to AB (2 methods)
    
    Thanks Chuck for pointing this out.  To your point in previous 
    posts, you'd mentioned handling this via watchlists.  I've been doing 
    this thanks to b's help, and it's working splendidly.
     
    In terms of a follow-up on CSI's support, Rudi did contact me, and sent 
    me a fix for the EAccess error.  Now that everything is working, it is 
    pretty sweet having the data locally stored in AB.
     
    Kudos to Chuck who has always preached, and validated with stats, the 
    importance of comprehensive historical data.  I'm certain these efforts 
    I'm making are certainly worth it.
     
    Regards,
    Gary
     
    Chuck Rademacher <chuck_rademacher@xxxxxxxxxx> 
    wrote:
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      <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
      size=2>Thanks for taking the time to document how this all 
      works.   I'm glad that someone has the 
      patience!
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      <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
      size=2>One note though....
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      I 
      see a problem with the technique you are using.   You are 
      letting the foreign and preferred stocks into your trading logic.  
      It's all well and good to ignore them, but they are using up position 
      numbers.   Let's say you want to trade ten stocks, but two of 
      them are Canadian stocks.   You will only be trading eight 
      stocks.   It's a minor point, but I prefer to filter them out 
      BEFORE they get into my trading logic rather than ignore them from my 
      "orders list".   It's certainly easy enough to 
      do.
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      <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
      size=2>Just my thoughts on the subject.   I'm sure enjoying the 
      new CSI export to AB.  It saves me about three hours a 
      day!
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        size=2>-----Original Message-----From: b 
        [mailto:b519b@xxxxxxxxx]Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 3:16 
        PMTo: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: 
        [amibroker] CSI/UA data to AB (2 methods)TJ is 
        right. The new "distribution" (ie, export) featurebuilt into CSI's 
        UA 2.7.8 is very fast.Here is a quick outline of how to set it 
        up. I will explain2 methods - I use both.Method One: Create 
        a Trading Database1. Open AB and create a NEW database and call 
        it"csiTRADING". There is no need to specify any plug-in.2. 
        Open CSI's UA (CSI's Unfair Advantage). Click on thePreferences menu 
        and then click on "Distribution 3" (theone for AB). Select the 
        settings you want. For examplecheck the box for - Export all 
        stocks to Amibrokerset the number of days to export. Usually I00 
        days is morethan I need, but the export of 300 days is also fast 
        (lessthan 15 minutes on my computer) so that is what I tend 
        touse.  uncheck the box for - "Include Delisted 
        Stocks..." Thatwill exclude all the inactive stocks. Remember, this 
        fisrtdatabase is just for trading so inactives or delistedstocks 
        are not needed. check the box - "Export history with next 
        download". Besure to check this if this is your first export to the 
        ABdatabase. If you download CSI data daily, this does notneed to 
        be check. However, if you skipped a day, or if youdownloaded the 
        data but did not have AB open at the time,then it would be best to 
        "check" the box. Note: this will export "all" active stocks to 
        AB includingstocks from the the 3 US exchanges (NYSE, AMEX, 
        NASDAQ)plus two Canadian (TORONO and VANCOUVER) and one 
        European(LONDON). Stocks from the foreign exchanges are 
        identifiedby the addition of "-T", "-V", "-L". Also there are 
        somepreferred stocks which are identified by "+A" etc. I do 
        not know of any way to stop CSI's UA from exportingthese foreign and 
        preferred stocks, but it is no bigproblem. I just have use AB's 
        exploration print a list ofstock picks and I ignore the ones with 
        suffixes.Method Two - Creating a Research Database1. 
        Open AB and create a new database called "csiRESEARCH"or whatever 
        name you want.2. Open CSI's UA and set the number of days to 
        2,500 (about10 years worth of data). If you paid CSI for 
        additionaldata (about 20$/year) then add about 250 days for 
        eachadditional year. Exporting 13 years of data for active 
        andinactive stocks takes over a hour on my computer, so I 
        onlycreate a Research database once a month or so.3. Check 
        the box to "Include Delisted Stocks, add Csinum toSymbols". This is 
        very important because this will give youtwice as many stocks and 
        thus more trustworth back testresults.4. Check the box 
        "Export history with next download". Note: You do not have to 
        wait for the next download to dothis export. You can force UA to do 
        the export at any timefrom the Menu: Database/Manual Database 
        Distribute.Note: The foreign and preferred stocks are a bit of 
        aproblem for back testing. My solution is use some 
        watchlistcreation AFL code to put them into a special group 
        orwatchlist and then just exclude that watchlist or groupwhen 
        doing AA 
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