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I'm not trying to translate anything--just want to assign sector and
industry to eSignal tickers.
That is, eSignal provides the fullname but puts everything in
Markets/Undefined, Groups/Undefined, and Sectors/Services/Advertising.
Haven't searched eSig BBds yet.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: elee67 [mailto:elee67@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:53 AM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [amibroker] Re: Revised Symbols.zip in files section
Sector and Industy has nothing to do with translations... It is only
used if you use amiquote to update ticker price data from yahoo or msn.
You need to create the tickers or update the tickers using the csv
files which will assign tickers to the appropriate sector/industry.
The only caveat is that the ticker symbols must match what esignal
provides... otherwise it won't get data. I.E. DJI is the symbol for
the dow industrials average.. with yahoo, you need to translate it to
^DJI in order to get the data. wiht MSN you need to translate it to
$INDU. With ESignal, you would probably need to input an alias to the
symbol in order to retrieve quotes for it.
Symbol management is not a fun task to do...for most basic stock
symbols, its fine.. but once you get into indexes, otc bb stocks, you
get different ticker symbols from the different services. Also
preferred stock is a problem. i.e. AA+ is AA-P on yahoo and AA- on
MSN( I think).. not sure what that is on esignal.
I will be looking at esignal in the next week or so and will try to
figure out how best to map symbols over to what esignal has. I will
then try to create an ALIAS column so that when you import the
symbols, there will be an alias to the symbol such that it will use
the alias to get data from esignal. I would assume that might work,
but not sure if AmiBroker will use alias to get data from esignal or
not... if it doesn't. then you'd have to create a list of esignal
ticker symbols separate..
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Bob Jagow" <bjagow@xxxx> wrote:
> Do I have to go the amiquotes route in order to assign sector and
industry
> to eSignal tickers?
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elee67 [mailto:elee67@x...]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:32 PM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Revised Symbols.zip in files section
>
>
>
>
> I am still sourcing info to determine the best places on the net to
> get symbols and symbol updates.. there are a few errors in the
> files..but will be posting an update in the next week or two to fix
it...
>
> As for importing the csv files :
>
> Before you do anything...
>
> Under your Amibroker installation directory.. you will need to go into
> the Formats Folder.. There will be a file called import.types. You
> need to edit that file and add the following line to end of the file :
>
> Symbol (*.*)|*.*|symbolonly.format
>
> Create a new file called symbolonly.format and put the following lines
> in it :
>
> $FORMAT Fullname,Ticker,Market,Skip,Industry
> $SKIPLINES 0
> $SEPARATOR ,
> $DEBUG 1
> $BREAKONERR 0
> $AUTOADD 1
> $NOQUOTES 1
> $OVERWRITE 0
>
> Then take the brokers.sectors and brokers.industries and copy to your
> Amibroker install directory(i.e. C:\AmiBroker\).
>
> After that.. Open up AmiBroker. Best to create a new database in order
> to get the approprioate sector and industries....Then under Files
> there is Import Ascii.. Choose that and then choose the amisymbls.csv
> and it should import the symbols in.
>
>
> The mapping files need to be copied and pasted into amiquote in order
> to d/l the quotes from yahoo or msn via AmiQuote.
>
> Hope that helps to get you started...
>
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tinus Rautenbach" <tr@xxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> > Can anyone tell me where / how I can import the amisymbols.csv and
> > index.csv files into amibroker. I am only seeing manual ways to
do this
> > but was hoping that there is an easier way :)
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Tinus Rautenbach
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: elee67 [mailto:elee67@x...]
> > Sent: 14 February 2005 12:17
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [amibroker] Re: Revised Symbols.zip in files section
> >
> >
> >
> > The file is located in the Files section of this group. Filename is
> > Symbols.zip
> >
> > These files are CSV files - comma separated values...
> >
> > brokers.sectors and brokers.industries should be copied to your
> > Amibroker install directory. Create a new database. then you have to
> > import amisymbols.csv. You also have to modify index.csv to determine
> > which symbol set you wish to use.. symbol or fixsymbol then import
> > that into index.csv.
> >
> > the mapping files need to be copied and pasted into amiquote in order
> > to d/l the quotes from yahoo or msn....NOTE - u also need to modify
> > the index mappings depending on the symbol set you use.... just open
> > the csv in Excel, delete a column and save it again...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Check AmiBroker web page at:
> > http://www.amibroker.com/
> >
> > Check group FAQ at:
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amibroker/files/groupfaq.html
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Check AmiBroker web page at:
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>
> Check group FAQ at:
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