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Barry

 

I’m still working on this script.   I have to head to work now.     Essentially the Jscript will open the .csv file and iterate through each line parsing the line.    It will pass the symbol to the Broker.Application object and set the symbol name and Market ID using the calls below. 

 

I’m writing the Jscript code now and don’t have the time to finish it this morning.  But, I thought I’d give you a heads up on what I’m trying to do.

 

Sorry for the delay.

 

Regards,

 

Dan.

 

p.s.  One of the AB “gems” is the ability to add VBScript or Jscript scripts to the Tools menu and then call them.   You can also execute them use the WSH cscript approach from the command line.   This offers massive flexibility.

 

 

 

Barry,

 

Hi.  I don’t know if anybody covered this, but once you get a symbol/name mapping, I believe that the code below should help to assign the names.

 

Regards,

 

Dan.

 

 

  1. Get CSV list of symbols, symbol names and markets that you are interested in.  Strip out the ones in which you are not interested.
  2. Save the file to the
  3. Create a Jscript procedure with the code below.
  4. Add the code to the AB Tools Menu (Tools à Customize à Tools à New)
  5. Execute the code from the tools menu.

 

FileName: “AssignNameAndMarket.js”

 

// Instantiate Broker.Application

AB = CreateStaticObject("Broker.Application");

 

 //Modify Names

cs                = AB.Stocks(Sym)  ;                                                                        

cs.FullName = SymName;

cs.MarketID = iMarketID;

 

 

 


From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barry Scarborough
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 11:37 AM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [amibroker] Re: Extracting symbol name from Yahoo, how?

 

Hi Perry,

Thanks for the reply. Actually I am trying to do just the opposite.
I have a bunch of symbols in my AB database that have no names. I am
looking for a way to get the full names using the symbols off the
Yahoo site. There are so many that it would not be practical to do
this manually. so, I want to do this with a program.

Cheers,
Barry

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Perry Lentine" <lentino@xxxx>
wrote:
>
> Barry,
>
> Not sure what you are attempting to do.  But I have the full name
from yahoo
> in my database.  I can extract it with the following:
>
> Filter=1;
> AddTextColumn(FullName(),"FullName         ", 25);
> AddTextColumn(Name(),"Ticker",1.0);
> SetOption("NoDefaultColumns",1);
>
> Set range to last 1 day and explore.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Perry Lentine
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf
> Of Barry Scarborough
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 8:14 AM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amibroker] Extracting symbol name from Yahoo, how?
>
> Given a symbol list is there a way to extract the full name from
Yahoo using
> a script or Excel function?
>
> I would also like to get other information so I can fill out the
information
> window but full name would do.
>
> Thanks,
> Barry
>
>
>
>
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