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Re: [amibroker] DOWNLOADING DAILY EOD DATA



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I don't use Yahoo data, but find paying $30/ mo.  for Quotes Plus saves me a 
lot of hassles.

Data is ready by 4:30 PM PST. Have the system download and pre-process data 
automatically, so that when I am ready to look at data it is all prepared 
for me.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vinay Gakkhar." <vgakkhar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 5:46 PM
Subject: [amibroker] DOWNLOADING DAILY EOD DATA


> Dear Bill,
>
> Thanks for your advise.
>
> But this does not cover my need. I prepare my daily strategy on the basis
> of data uptil last working day, so I can run my daily exploration only
> after last working day's data has been downloaded.
>
> Is there any similarly faster method for downloading daily EOD data?
>
> Thanks,
>
> gakkhar
>
> On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:23:19 +0530, wavemechanic <fimdot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The difference you see is due to the fact that current and historical
>> data use different servers and the different way that they interact with
>> data requests.  You should consider downloading current daily and
>> historical once a week on weekends.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Vinay Gakkhar." <vgakkhar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Amibroker" <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 6:33 PM
>> Subject: [amibroker] DOWNLOADING DAILY EOD DATA - AMENDED POST
>>
>>
>>> I use Tools > Auto Update Quotes (Amiquote) > Yahoo Historical to
>>> download
>>> EOD data on daily basis. I have about 1,000 stocks in my list, it
>>> downloads data for one stock at a time, and takes roughly 2 hours to
>>> download the data. Whether data to be downloaded is for one day or 10
>>> days
>>> or 100 days, there is not much of a difference in time taken.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, Yahoo Current downloads data for 200 stocks in one
>>> pass, and data for 1,000 (sorry I wrote 100 in my last post) stocks in 5
>>> passes, in a total of less than 2
>>> minutes.
>>>
>>> Is there any similarly faster method for downloading daily EOD data?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> gakkhar
>>>
>>>
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