[amibroker] Re: Importing commodity contracts *.csv file to different Groups/Watchlists

["Lesmond V" <ebsn247lsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can use ASCii Wizard or better, Import Definition Files:

http://www.amibroker.com/guide/d_ascii.html

With $APPENDNAME command you could append Expiry Date to the Ticker.

Also, your data doesn't have the current date. I assume these are daily files (data for all symbols for one day). In that case you have two choices:

1) Rename the file to let's say 22-02-2006.csv and AB will add the date automatically during the import. I've never tried this so can't confirm how it works with different date formats.

2) Use Excel (or any other spreadsheet program) and add the Date field so that the file looks like this:

Symbol,Expiry Date,Date,Open,High,Low,Close,Quantity
BRENTCRUDE,16/03/2006,22/02/2006,2620,2632,2603,2616.5,44000
BRENTCRUDE,12/04/2006,22/02/2006,2668,2685,2652,2674.5,2300
BRENTCRUDE,16/05/2006,22/02/2006,2705,2705,2658,2670.5,5300


Lesmond

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "vlanschot" <ecbu@xxx> wrote:
>
> Simple suggestion: get rid of the comma between the 1st and 2nd 
> column (easy to do in XL/VB-macro), and then import via Wizard, 
> whereby your Name()'s become
> 
> BRENTCRUDE16/03/2006
> BRENTCRUDE12/04/2006
> BRENTCRUDE16/05/2006
> 
> So different names, therefore different time series.
> 
> PS
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "ar64k" <ar64k@> wrote:
> >
> > I get daily *.csv files from my commodity exchange as given below.
> > This file has same symbol but contracts with different expiry dates.
> > Is there a way to import these files to AB, so as to get charts for
> > each contracts. I'm looking at the possibility of importing these
> > files to different Groups or Watchlists for each month. One group 
> for
> > each month.
> > Any posssibility????
> > 
> > ***************************************************************
> > 
> > Symbol,Expiry Date,Open,High,Low,Close,Quantity
> > BRENTCRUDE ,16/03/2006,2620,2632,2603,2616.5,44000
> > BRENTCRUDE ,12/04/2006,2668,2685,2652,2674.5,2300
> > BRENTCRUDE ,16/05/2006,2705,2705,2658,2670.5,5300
> > CASTORDSA  ,20/02/2006,291.1,292.5,291.1,292,180
> > CASTORDSA  ,20/03/2006,299.1,301.9,299.1,301.2,830
> > CASTORDSA  ,20/04/2006,303.3,306.1,303.3,305.5,1730
> > CASTORDSA  ,19/05/2006,306.9,308.6,306.5,308.1,570
> > CHARJDDEL  ,20/02/2006,1875,1949,1875,1916,211680
> > CHARJDDEL  ,20/03/2006,1721,1766,1716,1741,243550
> > CHARJDDEL  ,20/04/2006,1703,1735,1699,1717,71910
> > CHARJDDEL  ,19/05/2006,1734,1766,1731,1748,37070
> > CHARJDDEL  ,20/06/2006,1772,1795,1772,1780,1070
> > 
> > *****************************************************************
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Manu






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