Re: [amibroker] Importing Dates?

["Steve Dugas" <sjdugas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you D, that's a nice piece of coding...

I copied the signals off the website into Excel last night and started formatting them to fit your code, but as I got the hang of formatting things in Excel, it turned out to be a bit easier than I imagined and now I may not even need to use the code after all. Very nice of you to provide it though, and it is appreciated!

Steve

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: dingo 
  To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 12:09 PM
  Subject: RE: [amibroker] Importing Dates?



  maybe this can help:

  http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/amibroker/message/65181

  d



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    From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Dugas
    Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 11:21 AM
    To: Yahoo - AmiBroker
    Subject: [amibroker] Importing Dates?


    Hello again    8 - )

    I am trying to analyse the history of trading signals for several market timers. They generally provide a list of entries and exits along with the trade dates. I would like to load these signals into AB to create an equity line for each timer's signals, something like this I guess

    Buy = Datenum == 1050102
         or Datenum = 1050304....

    Sell = Datenum == 1050202
         or Datenum = 1050404....

    I would also like to update the lists periodically for a while as new signals are published. I have started by manually typing each date into my code in Datenum() format, but I can see that this is going to take me forever, and will be a pain to keep it current. Can anyone think of a clever way to accomplish this using CSV files or Excel or something to automate or somehow make it easier? Thanks very much!

    Steve