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Re: [amibroker] EOD DOWNLOAD



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Hi,

U must be talking about indian securities.okay as me
from india i thought i must contribute what i can.

2 hrs for dnload u must be talking about historical
dnload. okay by default its dnload 1byone but please
check option and select how many securities to dnload
in one go i guess around 10 u can or more.

as i am out will update u when i will be with my PC.

johnny
--- "Vinay Gakkhar." <vgakkhar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear Mr. Tomasz Janeczko,
> 
> Sorry, my last email to you was a blank, I am
> writing my mail again here.
> 
> I need to download EOD data for 1,000 stocks every
> evening.
> 
> At present I use Amiquote > Yahoo Historical, but it
> downloads EOD data
> for one stock at a time, so it takes 2 hours to
> download data for 1,000
> stocks, and to spend 2 hours every day on it is
> neither feasible nor
> justified.
> 
> An alternate is to use Amiquote > Yahoo Current
> which downloads data for
> 200 stocks at a time, but whether I use it during
> exchange hours or an
> hour after close, it does not give me EOD data, it
> only gives end-of-tick
> data, so it is not useful.
> 
> Another alternate is to use external softwares to
> download EOD data in
> ASCII/ csv format, then to import the data into
> Amibroker user its import
> wizard or those software's export wizard. Main
> reason of my not being
> enthusiastic about it is that they have their own
> system of naming a
> stock, for example the company named 'Industrial
> Finance Corporation of
> India' is named as 'IFCI' in some such softwares,
> and as 'IFCIEQ' in some
> others, and as 'IFCI.NS' in Yahoo Finance. I want to
> use the Yahoo tickers
> because during the day I use Yahoo for intra-day
> monitoring so my tickers
> should be named on Yahoo pattern.
> 
> I am sure you must have designed Amiquote or some
> other part of Amibroker
> with my type of users in mind. Those who want to
> select their own source
> of data download and want a quick download. Not
> 1,000 stocks in 2 hours,
> but 1,000 stocks in 2 to 5 minutes.
> 
> Can you please enlighten me?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> vgakkhar



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