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Joe, same here, and I asked QP3 people, its the limit
to which they support data.
Do you use the commodity data? Im trying to get
started with developing and backtesting commodity
strategies. Just looking for anyones thoughts about
data, and backtesting of contracts using amibroker.
Thanks,
Eric
--- Joe Landry <jelandry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Eric - Just switched to my Quotes Plus database and
> I get the same
> results. Limited to 1990 even when I increase the
> number
> of bars to 10000.
>
> JOE
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joe Landry
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 6:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] QuotesPlus
>
>
> Eric
> Check your database settings and make it longer
> than 5000 bars.
> 5000 bars is 15 years or 1990.
>
> If you increase it to say 10,000 bars then a
> screening of say
> a Russell 2000 component list will be impacted the
> first time
> you load all of those bars in memory. The second
> time around
> all the data is loaded in memory and your
> screening will be much
> faster.
> One way to verify how much data you have in memory
> is to use
> a chart or the Quote Editor that lays out every
> bar. Ticker/Date/OHLCV/OI.
>
> Hope this helps.
> JOE
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: eric paradis
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 5:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] QuotesPlus
>
>
> Thanks Duke,
>
> Ill try it out. One more question. It seems on
> the
> backtest I did, that I cant get any dates past
> 1990.
> Is there a way to get it to download before
> 1990?
>
> Eric
>
> --- "Duke Jones, CMT" <Lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Eric,
> >
> > There are quite a few of us who use the QP
> database.
> > As for using the
> > S&P 500 just create a watch list and screen
> against
> > that. I have
> > included the symbols but they can be
> downloaded as
> > well as the other S&P
> > indices at this site.
> >
>
>
http://www2.standardandpoors.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=sp/Page/IndicesIndexPg&r=1&l=EN&b=4&s=6&ig=51&i=56&xcd=500
> >
> >
> >
> > Since this is the S&P's site it is always
> current
> > versus QP's symbol
> > lists. Import the attached text file into a
> watch
> > list. The symbols have
> > already been converted from S&P's style to
> QP's
> > symbol style.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Duke Jones, CMT
> >
> > eric paradis wrote:
> > > Does anyone use this? I just got the sample
> disk
> > and
> > > am trying to utilize their database. Does
> anyone
> > know
> > > if it is possible to sort say, the SP500
> stocks
> > and
> > > backtest them? I cant understand how to make
> this
> > > happen.
> > >
> > >
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