[amibroker] Re: Does anyone have a system to import data from AAII into Amibroker?

["mikelaurataylor" <mikelaurataylor@xxxxxxxxx>]

There is not currently (to the best of my knowledge) a place to import
fundemental data from outside parties into the system.   I have
actually placed an update request with AmiBroker to add some fields we
could use to import fundemental data into.

In the interum there are a few ways you can handle this. 

(1) You can export the selected data from the AAII database (I do)
into a CSV and then during your scan you can read the external file. 
 I do this for Float data.   The only problem is that it is slow since
it is accessing the external file for each stock in the scan.

(2) You can first do a selection from the AAII database, for instance
for all stocks w/ a low PE or whatever your criteria, then take that
list of stocks and bring it into a watchlist in AmiBroker and run
technical scans on it from there.    For instance I recently ran a
scan of stocks with very high P/Es and which had future projected P/Es
that were lower and some other criteria to give me a list of
potentially overpriced stocks.   I then took this list and brought it
in as a watchlist and created a scan to see those that were breaking
under their 50 day moving averages to see if I could find some good
overpriced stocks that appeared to be breaking down to short.

Hope this helps.

Mike



--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "christophermuch" <chris.much@xxx>
wrote:
>
> I'm trying to develop a system that updates the fundamental data from 
> AAII in order to run a stock screener in Amibroker.  If anyone has any 
> ideas it would be greatly appreciated.
> Chris
>






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