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Title: Re: [amibroker] Importing Canadian stocks
Al, Prashanth,
I stand corrected. I assumed Yahoo data was consistent in it’s delivery. It is not.
I tried to download ACC.BO and TEK-A.TO using Amiquote. Both only get data back to February 2004. I went to the Yahoo site and it defaults to quite a long history, in the 1980’s for both symbols, but clicking Download CSV only gets data back to February 2004 – same as Amiquote. If you click the LAST button for display on screen you do, indeed, get data back to 198x.
This seems to be a Yahoo problem. I’d try writing them to see what’s up with their CSV files for Canadian stocks.
PS: Tested with INTC and it works as expected (you get all the history).
PPS: TEK-MVA.TO has no data from Amiquote OR on Yahoo. This symbol was posted by HHP.
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Terry
From: "Prashanth" <prash454@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 09:48:21 +0530
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Importing Canadian stocks
Hello Terry,
For Non US stocks,{or atleast for Indian Stocks as I have seen} its not possible. I just tried it out once again and it returned me data for a stock from 24th Feb 2004 whereas I had asked for data from 1-1-1995 (Scrip has been listed for more than 25 years now).
Even on the site, it gives data (when using Download CSV) for a period of 200 days only. You may try out ACC.BO (Scrip code for Associated Cements Limited) or any of the Non-US stocks whose code you may know of (Indices excluded since you can get data for them at a single time).
Cheers
Prashanth
----- Original Message -----
From: Terry <mailto:MagicTH@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Importing Canadian stocks
This is when using the Yahoo website. Using Amiquote, you specify your own dates and you get all the data at once. You can also get all the data from the website by setting to/from data, scroll to the bottom and choose download csv.
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Terry
From: "Prashanth" <prash454@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 08:19:01 +0530
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Importing Canadian stocks
Hello Al,
When Importing data from Yahoo for stocks which are not Indices nor US Listed, Yahoo at a time gives data for 200 days only. Hence you have to change the From and To date settings to Import the data you want. Normally what I do is give From & To date settings for 6 months at a time and keep on changing the same until my required history has been downloaded.
Regards
Prashanth
----- Original Message -----
From: Al Venosa <mailto:advenosa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 7:42 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Importing Canadian stocks
Hi, all:
Having always been a QP3 plugin user, I have never needed to use Amiquote since first owning AB. But recently, I became interested in some Canadian stocks that I cannot get using QP3. So, after creating a .tls file, I tried importing 10 years of historical data for a list of tickers traded on the TSE. However, I only got 11 months of data imported rather than 10 years. I followed the help file exactly, and I know that many of the symbols go back more than 11 months. So, what am I doing wrong? I noticed that the symbols appear in my QP3 database. Is this correct, or should they be stored in the AB local database? Does it matter where they are stored? I'm importing from Yahoo. Thanks for any help anyone can give.
Al Venosa
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