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



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--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, John CW <johncw_97@xxx> wrote:
>
> 
> --- "david.weilmuenster" <dweilmuenster95125@xxx> 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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