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Hello,
I wrote already that I will revisit the IQFeed plugin because they released
new version of API that they say fixes a lot of old problems and I will need to work on it anyway. Then I will
take a look at the other problems you have reported.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "global_investor" <independent_opinion@xxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 3:45 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: Help with latest IQFeed Client
> TJ,
> first of all I want to thank you - wholeheartedly - for your answer. I
> apologize if my wording was too offensive for you, but English is not
> my native language, so it's often difficult for me to express myself
> really well. Please note that regarding the mentioned bug, I was
> never the type of customer who complains repeatedly if some feature is
> not fixed immediately. In fact, given that you are often bombarded
> with support questions here on this high-traffic forum, I have
> remained very patient after reporting the bug in January and I will
> continue to do so, as I know very well that you are working hard on a
> lot of things. Which I appreciate a lot!
>
> Also please note, that no one, I repeat no one, is blaming you for
> shortcomings of the IQFeed API. You are not the one who is expected
> to fix the problems DTN/IQFeed is actually responsible for!
>
> On the other hand, this data mixup bug does clearly not look like a
> bug of the IQFeed API. It looks as if access to one of your
> container data structures which associates ticker symbols with time
> series gets corrupted when there is access not only from
> Amibroker's normal charting but in addition to that also concurrent
> access from the auto analysis feature (in daily timeframe mode).
>
> Yes, of course, it cannot be ruled out that this (mis-)behavior is
> eventually caused by the IQFeed API, but it clearly looks as if the
> access to a container datastructure within Amibroker's IQFeed plugin
> has a bug. So the question whether you have ever tested it and looked
> at your code is absolutely justified.
>
> If you cannot take such kind of question or take it as accusation, you
> have a strange understanding of software quality. (Yes, this is now an
> accusation, but friendly accusation, and I suppose that you have a
> strong personality and are an excellent programmer, so I believe
> that you can take it, but maybe I'm absolutely wrong here).
>
> Beyond that, as far as your IQFeed plugin is concerned, you are the
> only person who is able to build a debug version which writes detailed
> information to a logfile. Anyone else can just to do black box
> instead of white box testing.
>
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@xxx> wrote:
>>
>> > yes, a lot of users are generally interested in alternatives to pricey
>> > eSignal. Unfortunately it appears that TJ himself is not interested
>> > much in alternatives. Otherwise I simply do not understand why he
>> > always stayed suspiciously quiet when the bug was mentioned here on
>> > this list and does not fix it.
>>
>> I am getting sick of such accusations. If I were not interested in
> alternatives
>> how come that there are so many of them implemented
> http://www.amibroker.com/guide/h_quotes.html ?
>> How come that I deliver all plugins for free (except for QCharts but
> that's different story)
>> - hiding you from huge costs involved in developing such plugins.
>>
>> Go login onto IQFeed message board and see how many critical bugs
> were reported
>> by VARIOUS developers.
>>
>> I have spent months trying to make sense out of IQFeed buggy feed.
>> I have spent less than a 1/4 of that time to implement eSignal.
>>
>> This speaks for itself.
>> It is not my fault or my "lack of interest". It is IQFeed fault that
> their feed is buggy and incomplete
>> (how many years we have asked for seconds resolution in the feed and
> pre/afterhours backfill).
>>
>> Yes their released new version recently and again they promise that
> they fixed problems
>> now. I will check that, but I heard this promise lots of times
> already and in previous
>> years they simply failed to deliver.
>>
>> AmiBroker has OPEN AND FREE API (opposite to most data vendors APIs)
>> DTN/IQFeed is free to write their own plugin for AmiBroker if they
> think their feed is
>> next best thing since sliced bread.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tomasz Janeczko
>> amibroker.com
>>
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