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[amibroker] Re: Amiquote Import does not import a few symbols



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Looks like they changed it and changed it back once again...i
downloaded this aqh file around 1am EST sunday monday morning

$NAME AACC
2007-01-19,15.51,15.66,15.33,15.63,78000,15.63
2007-01-18,15.73,15.86,15.54,15.60,67500,15.60
2007-01-17,15.57,16.13,15.56,15.72,68500,15.72
2007-01-16,16.39,16.68,15.60,15.67,125700,15.67

and about half an hour later downloaded this aqh file:

$NAME AACC
19-Jan-07,15.51,15.66,15.33,15.63,78000,15.63
18-Jan-07,15.73,15.86,15.54,15.60,67500,15.60
17-Jan-07,15.57,16.13,15.56,15.72,68500,15.72
16-Jan-07,16.39,16.68,15.60,15.67,125700,15.67



--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@xxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> 
> See previous response ... they apparently changed it and reversed
the change quickly today.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> amibroker.com
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Graham 
>   To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:44 PM
>   Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Amiquote Import does not import a few
symbols
> 
> 
>   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
> 
>   -- 
>   Cheers
>   Graham
>   AB-Write >< Professional AFL Writing Service 
>   Yes, I write AFL code to your requirements
>   http://www.aflwriting.com 
> 
> 
> 
>   On 20/01/07, Mark Jarvis <mark.jarvis@xxx> 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@xxx> 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, "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@> 
> 
> 
>       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 
>       > 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@> 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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