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Re: [amibroker] Locating Industry Ticker Symbol with AmiBroker 5.0 and Telechart Data



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--- "david.weilmuenster" <dweilmuenster95125@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The AmiBroker interface to TeleChart does a good job of importing 
> TeleChart's Industry info, including mapping stocks to Industries, but
> I'm running into one problem.
> 
> With IndustryID(), it's easy to get the consecutive Industry number 
> or Industry Name (not Symbol) for a Stock.
> 
> But how does one retrieve the Industry Ticker Symbol?
> 

Here is one way to get the industry and sub-industry ... it's not
what I use but it should work assuming you have not changed the
broker.{sectors,industries} and of course you should retrieve the
latest sector/industries assignment once in a while to sync
the AB DB to telechart:
http://www.purebytes.com/archives/amibroker/2007/msg08112.html
 
> It doesn't seem to be any variant of IndustryID().
> 
> The code below returns the correct answer in industry_sym, but it 
> seems like far too much churning for a simple lookup.  
> 
> Is there a built-in function that I'm missing?
> 

No, not that I know of.

> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> industry_symlist =	
> CategoryGetSymbols(categoryGroup,
>                    CategoryFind("Industry Group Average",
>                                 categoryGroup
>                                )
>                   );
> 
> stock_industryid = IndustryID(0);
> stop_loop = False;
> 
> for( i = 0; 
>     (NOT stop_loop) AND 
>     ( sym = StrExtract( industry_symlist, i ) ) != ""; i++ 
>    ) 
>    { 
>        SetForeign(sym);
>   	  if(stock_industryid	==	IndustryID(0))	
>              {industry_sym	=	sym;
>               stop_loop		=	True;
>              }
>         RestorePriceArrays();
>    } 
> 
> 
> 



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