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Thanks Dingo, that explains how to do it. Now all I need is the Yahoo 
ticker file with the sectors/industries. Do you know where I can find 
such a file, as recent as possible?

Thanks




--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "dingo" <dingo@xxx> wrote:
>
> Start here:
>  
> http://www.amibroker.com/newsletter/07-2000.html
>  
> and down at the bottom is a link:
>  
> http://www.amibroker.com/newsletter/04-2000.html
>  
> Scroll down to: "4 Tip of the week: : How to automate assigning 
stocks to
> sectors/industries ?"
>  
> d
>  
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> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
On Behalf
> Of jim_trades_stocks
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:01 AM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: OT: Data (Was: Need to fix Database -
> recommendations wanted)
> 
> 
> Thank you all for your comments.
> 
> I have been swing trading for about 25 years using EOD data, the 
past 
> 8 years or so, online. I have used paid EOD data in the past with 
> TC2000 and other programs before using Amibroker and my 
profitability 
> has not changed with free EOD from Yahoo into AB.
> 
> I see no reason to fork out $ 3-400 per year when Yahoo EOD works 
for 
> me.
> 
> If anyone can suggest how to easily classify my Yahoo tickers (or 
the 
> whole US stock market)into sectors/industries etc...I would be 
> grateful.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Nick Ali" <nick.ali@> wrote:
> >
> > I am not a fan of esignal either - DTN is worse. In 'brisk' 
markets 
> (not
> > fast)  there data lags IB considerably. I guess esignal are 
> concidered
> > 'cheap' (haha) compared to 'professional' feeds.
> > 
> > Cheers.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> On Behalf
> > Of Yuki Taga
> > Sent: 23 May 2006 07:26
> > To: MailYahoo
> > Subject: [amibroker] OT: Data (Was: Need to fix Database - 
> recommendations
> > wanted)
> > 
> > Hi MailYahoo,
> > 
> > Tuesday, May 23, 2006, 1:23:07 PM, you wrote:
> > 
> > M> You get what you pay for when it comes to data
> > 
> > Not always.
> > 
> > I will be dumping eSignal in six weeks, after giving them a full 
> year to get
> > Tokyo data correct.  Their last trick, this month, was inserting 
> phantom
> > trade dates into the data -- days when the market was locked and 
> closed.
> > This comes amid a consistent inability to get the opening prices 
> correct, in
> > a market that has one and only one opening price.  My eSignal 
> database is
> > riddled with errors.
> > 
> > Their support claimed to have fixed the problem, but a force 
> backfill shows
> > otherwise.  Their support no longer even replies to e-mail.
> > 
> > I don't know what an "allowable fudge factor" would be for data 
> accuracy,
> > but I do know two things:  1) eSignal is *way* over what any 
> reasonable
> > person would consider "allowable", and 2) *much* cheaper data 
> sources seem
> > to have no problems approaching 100 percent correct.  One does 
*not*
> > necessarily get what one pays for.
> > 
> > Yuki
> > 
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