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Interesting because I did a history download yesteday and the data did not
appear in AB.
my aqh files show 2007-01-18,
10 days ago the data format was 8-Jan-07
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On 20/01/07, Mark Jarvis <mark.jarvis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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