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RE: [amibroker] Re: JimSwindle> US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE



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I haven't investigated any thing other than Yahoo.  If there is a weg site
that lists the tickers, etc without having a subscription, etc. then I could
prolly scrape it.

As designed the program scrapes the data and presents it to you in a grid
organized by sector/industry or index or etf then you can select those that
you want to delete and THEN it will create the database.

d 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of marketmonk777
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:35 PM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: JimSwindle> US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE
> 
> I would be interested in this program.  But all I am looking for is a
> program that creates a list of symbols.  What would be nice is for it
> to "compare" a current download to a previous download and have a
> report generated showing what was added and what is missing.
> 
> That way I can decide which stocks to add to my own database.
> 
> The benefit to me is that I don't have to strip out symbols from the
> pink sheets or OTC BB. 
> 
> Amiquote does a great job of downloading the data and don't see a need
> to replace that functionality.
> 
> As for the price .. that would depend on the functionality that you
> decide to put into it.  Will it work with just Yahoo? 
> 
> Regards,
> MM
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "dingo" <dingo@xxx> wrote:
> >
> > There is not a separate list of added / deleted stocks - Yahoo just
> updates
> > their site on the fly. You would need to build a new list 
> and compare it
> > with those in the database. There is a trail of Yahoo pages that
> contains
> > what they consider to be the stocks avail in the US - grouped by
> sector /
> > industry.  These pages have to be scraped to get the tickers and
> names. Then
> > a problem arises when you go to down load quotes for the entire list
> that
> > you've built by scraping - Yahoo doesn't have quotes for 
> all of them and
> > some have even had their tickers changed but the pages haven't been
> updated
> > yet.  Plus, you also get pink sheet stocks and other "stuff".  The
> indexes,
> > etfs, mutual funds, etc are all on their own pages and 
> would have to be
> > scraped also.
> >  
> > I've done some of this in a program I wrote several years 
> ago - it even
> > updates the quotes and can be scheduled via the scheduler.  It will
> retireve
> > historical, current and fundamental data.  What it doesn't do at
> present is
> > detect those stocks that have no quotes or that have ceased trading
> - those
> > that give an error msg when you try to use Amiquote.  It 
> also does NOT
> > update the database - it just builds them and updates the quotes. I
> stopped
> > working on it because I thought TJ was going to address this and
> decided not
> > put any more of my time into it.
> >  
> > I can be talked into finishing it but I won't do it for free - I
> done quite
> > a few free programs for AB and won't do that any more.
> >  
> > Soooo - what's a price that people are willing to pay and and how
> many would
> > be interested.  If theres not that much interest then I 
> won't bother.
> >  
> > d
> > 
> > 
> >   _____  
> > 
> > From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf
> > Of cstrader
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 6:20 PM
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [amibroker] JimSwindle> US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Ronald,
> >  
> > You say:
> >  
> > ... DOWNLOAD ALL OF THE SYMBOLS THAT "YAHOO" has ADDED  in 
> their "YAHOO"
> > database of STOCK SYMBOLS AND PRICES, VOL ,etc.   
> >  
> > DO YOU KNOW WHERE THAT "ADDED" LIST IS LOCATED?
> >  
> > If YAHOO discontinues carrying  a symbol, then their NEW 
> CURRENT list of
> > symbols will...NOT...
> >  
> > DO YOU KNOW WHERE THAT "NEW CURRENT" LIST IS LOCATED?  AND WHAT IS
> THE "NEW
> > CURRENT" LIST.
> >  
> > I'M CURIOUS IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO DOWNLOAD THE ENTIRE LIST OF 
> YAHOO STOCKS
> > SOMEHOW.
> >  
> > Thanks
> >  
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: Ronald Davis <mailto:xokie7@...>  
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:27 PM
> > Subject: Re: [amibroker] JimSwindle> US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE
> > 
> > Cs, he HAS been doing it for free.  
> >  
> > AB does NOT KNOW which symbols are current.   
> >  
> > That is why there exists a need DOWNLOAD ALL OF THE SYMBOLS THAT
> "YAHOO" has
> > ADDED  in their "YAHOO" database of STOCK SYMBOLS AND PRICES, VOL
> ,etc.   
> >  
> > If YAHOO discontinues carrying  a symbol, then their NEW 
> CURRENT list of
> > symbols will , NOT have it anymore, and it will have been purged
> from your
> > AB database of SYMBOLS in the AB US STOCKS FOLDER.   Ron D
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: cstrader <mailto:cstrader232@...>  
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:03 PM
> > Subject: Re: [amibroker] JimSwindle> US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE
> > 
> > Aha, I thought Jim was doing this for free.  But in any case, how
> does AB
> > determine which stocks are current and should be on the 
> list?  Yahoo has
> > almost 40,000 tickers; who determines which ones go into the US
> STOCK SYMBOL
> > list?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks
> >   
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: Ronald  <mailto:xokie7@...> Davis 
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:17 PM
> > Subject: Re: [amibroker] JimSwindle> US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE
> > 
> > This origional post was an inquiry asking when Jim Swindle 
> would place a
> > LATER than >JAN/4/2008 UPDATED LIST OF US STOCK SYMBOLS on 
> his UPDATE
> > website. 
> >  
> > Jim was paid to create this updating UPDATING software, so 
> he is not at
> > liberty to simply give it away to Amibroker users.
> >  
> > Yes, I would love to help JIM, but I can't think of 
> anything I can do to
> > assist writing code FOR a NEW version of this updating software.  
> > I do recall that Dingo and Jim discussed the possibility of a Joint
> effort
> > once, BUT I DON'T THINK IT WENT ANYWHERE.
> >  
> >  
> > HERE IS MORE INFORMATION>>Jim Swindle's  US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE
> SITE  is
> > simply an updated  list of the 
> > most recent SYMBOLS  in the US STOCKS FOLDER within Amibroker.
> > When you run a download from this site, it installs the MORE RECENT
> list of
> > the symbols over the OLDER  list of symbols.   
> > This process of UPDATING  the symbols must be followed by a 
> HISTORICAL
> > download of all of the TICKER data for as far back as you want to
> have in
> > your database. 
> >  
> >
> ==============================================================
> ==============
> > ===========
> >  
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: cstrader <mailto:cstrader232@...>  
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 1:46 PM
> > Subject: Re: [amibroker] JimSwindle> US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE
> > 
> > Perhaps we should try to help Jim out a bit.  What features would we
> want to
> > see in such a stocks database?
> >  
> > Thanks
> >  
> >  
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: Ronald  <mailto:xokie7@...> Davis 
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:21 AM
> > Subject: [amibroker] JimSwindle> US STOCKS DATABASE UPDATE
> > 
> > Has anyone heard from Jim regarding when a later update will be
> available?
> >  
> > This link to Jim Swindle's US STOCKS DATABASE  site shows that it
> was last
> > udated on Jan 4, 2008.
> >  
> > I also recall that Jim was planning to create a method so that each
> of us
> > could run a LATEST TICKER symbol update an any time. 
> >  
> > We all are grateful  to Jim for having done this.   Ron D
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