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I don't know how current it is but "USStocksTemplate.exe" at
http://www.amibroker.com/bin/ contains industry and sector codes.
On Tue, 23 May 2006 10:01:17 -0400, jim_trades_stocks <jnk1997@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Thank you all for your comments.
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> 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.
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> I see no reason to fork out $ 3-400 per year when Yahoo EOD works for
> me.
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> 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.
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> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Nick Ali" <nick.ali@xxx> 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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