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Richard, thanks for your comment. I use to subscribe to the TC2005
data service and have nothing but good things to say about them. For
a number of unimportant reasons I dropped their service and started
using Yahoo. It meets my needs. Although I have noticed more data
related issues now that those tasks and responsibilities fall on my
shoulders - it hasn't been too bad. 20 changes per day is a lot! In
one week or month that would add up to a task that I am not sure I
would want to tackle.
That is another reason why I think that program would be of value.
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Richard Dale" <richard@xxx> wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, there have been around 2328 code changes this year
> already on the US markets. That's about 20 a day. The code changes
can be
> due to a company changing its name (and trading code), or changing its
> primary listed exchange (e.g. a stock going from NASDAQ to NYSE).
>
> This is one of the big reasons that many people decide to use the
services
> of a commercial data vendor rather than spending hours maintaining a
> database of security prices. Would you rather spend time developing
trading
> systems or maintaining your data?
>
> Best regards,
> Richard Dale.
> Norgate Investor Services
> - Premium quality Stock, Futures and Foreign Exchange Data for
> markets in Australia, Asia, Canada, Europe, UK & USA -
> www.premiumdata.net
>
> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf
> Of marketmonk777
> Sent: Wednesday, 4 June 2008 8:35 AM
> 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@> 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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