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Just another issue with Yahoo. The date format DEFINITELY changed as I
opened the *.aqh files and checked. If it's back to d-m-y, I'll change the
format file back.
On 20/01/07, giggollo99 <giggollo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I also don't think its a date issue, Mark, although I am also having
> trouble with yahoo data lately. Yesterday while trying to
> download using Amiquote from Yahoo, I got "Failed" for many symbols
> in my 3000 stock database. It was around 4am so maybe there was some
> kind of maintenance downtime going on..In addition to that and for
> several weeks, i have noticed that some symbols which used to have
> historical data available for them have no data available for them or
> their data disappears and reappears briefly then disappears. Examples:
>
> http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?
> a=00&b=1&c=2006&d=00&e=19&f=2007&g=d&s=vsth
>
> http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?
> a=00&b=1&c=2006&d=00&e=19&f=2007&g=d&s=whit
>
> http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?
> a=00&b=1&c=2006&d=00&e=19&f=2007&g=d&s=qcom
>
> VSTH and WHIT do not work for me, i get the following message:
>
> "Historical quote data is unavailable for the specified date range."
>
> but QCOM works, and its the exact same link. VSTH and WHIT are valid
> US stocks and there are others but i am giving a couple of examples
> only.
>
> I contacted Yahoo about this problem but they referred me to CSI data
> and did not indicate they would be addressing the problem. I
> contacted CSI data but got no response from them. Is anyone else
> noticing this?
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <amibroker%40yahoogroups.com>, "Tomasz
> Janeczko" <groups@xxx>
>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > That's interesting - I just tried to download now and the date
> format is still DD-MMM-YY !
> > You should really double check this because it does not look as
> there was ANY change in the format of Yahoo Historical.
> >
> > Example MSFT:
> > $NAME MSFT
> > 18-Jan-07,31.15,31.37,30.80,31.00,56364300,31.00
> > 17-Jan-07,31.26,31.44,31.01,31.10,58519600,31.10
> > 16-Jan-07,31.26,31.45,31.03,31.16,62379600,31.16
> > 12-Jan-07,30.65,31.39,30.64,31.21,103972496,31.21
> > 11-Jan-07,29.76,30.75,29.65,30.70,99464304,30.70
> > 10-Jan-07,29.80,29.89,29.43,29.66,55017400,29.66
> > 9-Jan-07,30.00,30.18,29.73,29.96,44636600,29.96
> > 8-Jan-07,29.65,30.10,29.53,29.93,50220200,29.93
> > 5-Jan-07,29.63,29.75,29.45,29.64,44607200,29.64
> > 4-Jan-07,29.70,29.97,29.44,29.81,45774500,29.81
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Tomasz Janeczko
> > amibroker.com
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Mark Jarvis
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <amibroker%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 2:16 PM
> > Subject: Re: [amibroker] Amiquote Import does not import a few
> symbols
> >
> >
> > I had a problem with Amiquote tonight. Yahoo have changed the
> date format from dd-mm-yy to yy-mm-dd. Changing the *.AQH format
> file in c:\program files\amibroker\formats fixed the problem..
> >
> >
> > On 19/01/07, giggollo99 <giggollo@xxx> wrote:
> > Using Amiquote 1.92, Amibroker 4.89, i do a historical download
> of 3000
> > symbols with "Automatic Import" unchecked. Then i do "Tools-
> >Import
> > into Amibroker". When I do this I notice that a few symbols are
> not
> > imported, but the vast majority of symbols are imported fine.
> When I
> > redownload the data for those few symbols using Amiquote and
> then
> > do "Tools->Import into Amibroker" for the second time, they are
> > imported correctly. To identify which symbols had not been
> imported, I
> > used filter=1 and "N last days, n=1" in AA settings, did an
> exploration
> > then sorted by date to see which symbols did not have today's
> date.
> > Because only a few symbols are not imported, I guess this is
> something
> > that normally wouldn't be noticed by the user, unless youre
> updating a
> > large database (thousands of symbols) and really analyse the
> data to
> > see what has been imported and what hasnt.
> >
>
>
>
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