Re: [amibroker] Importing Canadian stocks

[Al Venosa <advenosa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Prashanth:

I started doing this today, but each time I increment to the next 6-month time period, the previous file appears (in Windows Explorer in the Amiquote/Download folder) to be overwritten by the new one, i.e., the data files are not getting bigger. How do you APPEND to the last file?

Al V.

Prashanth wrote:

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

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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