I use Yahoo! & update 3500+ stocks every day - takes just a few
min.
Here's how:
1. Yahoo has 2 quote servers - Historical and
Current.
2. IF your last update was yesterday AND IF the market has been
closed
for a few hours - you can use the Current quote server to
update
your EOD database. The Current server provides just todays OHLCV
for
several hundred stocks at a time so you can update - say all of
the
stocks in the Russell 1000 & 2000 in a minute or so.
Now I
know that all of you will jump on this in regards to lack of
splits etc.
The way I get around that is that every month or so I go
to the Historical
server and download just the stocks in one of my
lists (I have 7) - so by
slow rotation the entire database is kept
refreshed. Then a couple times a
year I get a new list because each
of the indexes are constantly adding and
dropping stocks.
And of course best of all - the data is
free.
ReefBreak
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com,
"Bob Jagow" <bjagow@xxx> wrote:
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>
>
> Nope.
> That plus data integrity is why many of us use QP3 or
TC-2007 for EOD
>
> -----Original Message-----
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Behalf
>
Of jacklweinberg
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 10:34 AM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com
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Subject: [amibroker] Massive data loading?
>
> Does anyone have
experience at loading up an entirely new database
> with
AmiBroker?
> For example, loading AB with all of Nasdaq with 5 years of
data?
> I used the file import command, and selected a series of .txt
files,
> and it takes around 32 hours of elapsed time per year!!! (On a
fast
> machine, no less!)
> Does anyone know of a quicker
method?
>
>
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