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[amibroker] Re: What's the symbols for Dow, Nasdaq, SP500 when using IB as datafeed?



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OK, thank you very much!


--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Barry Scarborough" <razzbarry@xxx> 
wrote:
>
> To get index, futures, option and fored data you ahve to specify 
more 
> than just the signal. 
> 
> SPX in AB is SPX-CBOE-IND 
> RUT in AB is RUT-CBOE-IND
> DJI is INDU-NYSE-IND, 
> COMP is COMP-NASDAQ-IND 
> VIX is VIX-CBOE-IND 
> TRINQ is TRIN-NASD-NASDAQ-IND 
> TRIN is TRIN-NYSE-NYSE-IND  
> 
> Options are similarly defined. Just use the same structure IB asks 
> when you add a symbol to their TWS list.
> 
> You will see this defined in the Plug-in installation in the AB 
help.
> 
> Barry
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "archstone2003" <archstone2003@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When using IB as realtime datafeed, I can't get the symbols for 
> Dow, 
> > Nasdaq and sp500.
> > 
> > Inside TWS, they are INDU, COMP and SPX respectively. However, 
when 
> I 
> > tried to download the data from Amibroker, after I entered any of 
> the 
> > above symbols, it will tell me the symbol is not valid.
> > 
> > I contacted IB, they just told me I should use INDU, COMP and 
SPX. 
> Not 
> > very help information.
> > 
> > Anyone here is able to retrieve the indices using IB as the data 
> feed?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> >
>




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