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Hi,
This limitation is part of the Yahoo free
lunch specifications for non US markets. But a downloader software could cope
with this. Non-US Yahoo symbols have a market code extension added to the ticker
code (eg ACC.TO is ACC of Toronto market). Amiquote could be less
generic, use a market class download routine instead.
www.trading-tools.com MLDownloader does
that. It will store the quote data in Metastock or ASCII files. It's more
expensive also.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 6:18
AM
Subject: 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.
--
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.
--
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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