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> Brian what do you think ?
I did quite a bit of homework on the subject, at the time that Tomasz
was 'writing' the fundamental feature into AmiQuote, and shared that
info with Tomasz.
I don't recall if the .au site had Fdata at that time, or not - I
think it did have something along those lines.
Tomasz is certainly well informed on these issues and has considered
them in the past.
As it stands now:
- the US stocks Fdata is supplied by CapitalIQ (or another US
company) and is at e.g. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=IBM
- AQ accesses the US server to import current Fdata for US stocks
(because only US stocks are in that database)
- there have been changes to the .au site recently (franchised to TV7
etc)
- AspectHuntley is a recent addition
- the Fdata info that is there now is quite valueable (the stability
figures cost AUD$100's to access fully from elsewhere)
- the limit on the value is that they are current values only and
don't have any historical depth (useful only for screening) although
I think the stability figures use 5 years of earnings/divs in their
calc
- the .au Fdata is possibly, but not necessarily, on a local server
and is accessed from
http://au.finance.yahoo.com/q/aks?s=WBC.AX
- the fields etc at the .au 'site' are entirely different from the US
Fdata (it is using the underlying database that Huntley started that
has been purchased by other co's over the years and he had his own
thing going - I think he was an accountant, or orientated that way,
and kept a full financial database on all Aus stock - listed and
delisted) e.g. the sectors appear to be non-GIC, possibly ICB
- the historical price data for .AX stocks comes from the same server
as US stocks.
Personally:
I use different strategies at different times, some of them involve
extra data (above and beyond price data).
Yes, I use Yahoo data on occasions, in fact I have been at the Yahoo
sites (USA and AUS) quite a bit this week (I have been thinking about
a new strategy and I can open a few tabs in IE/Yahoo, use the 1 day
or 5 day intraday charts and setup relative performance graphs for a
few stocks then view them easily by going from tab to tab - although
delayed it is good enough for intitial strategic thinking).
I haven't used any Aus Fdata for a while but it I am using it again
in a new strategy e.g. I am interested in Capital filtering. I am
hunting around again for Oz sources - I do find it very frustrating
having to work so hard to find extra data and then work hard again to
get it into AB where I can use it.
Strangely:
you can get price data for .AX from yahoo.au but I have been getting
a lot of server error messages, so I go to the US site and do that
from there,
but!
the US site now uses Java charts and I prefer the old style, that you
can still get at the .au site (you can't arrow back to previous pages
with a Java chart),
and!
the US site has a new symbol search feature which is nice but doesn't
return a good old fashioned database search list so I have to use
the .au symbol search for some things.
The Software/Fdatabase/Pricedatabase combo is rare - I have been
dreaming about one for a few years.
I have carried out extensive searches in the past.
AFAIK there is still not a useable 'off the shelf' combo out there,
not for international OR Aus trading anyway (maybe for those who stay
in the US, which is why I keep my hand in with that market).
Believe it or not, good old Yahoo (some say poor old Yahoo) is still
the easiest place for certain types of research (if you are hopping
from strategy to strategy, country to country, asset to asset etc it
can be very time consuming changing providers all of the time, and
trying to get what you want, whereas with AB/Yahoo you can often
patch something together).
brian_z
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "pacific5_au" <pacific5_au@xxx>
wrote:
>
>
> Alan wrote
> > > >
> > > > I have read the few previous threads on this, however, Yahoo
do
> > > > provide some of this information, eg.
> > > > http://au.finance.yahoo.com/q/aks?s=WBC.AX
> > > >
> > > > Anyway to utilise this in Amibroker for Aussie stocks ??
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ------------------------------------
>
> I tried adding ".AX" as an alias (Symbol > Symbol Information) to
> several leading ASX stocks (eg WBC alias becomes WBC.AX) then added
> the ticker WBC.AX to AmiQuote, but it returns the reply "Yahoo
Finance
> offers no key statistics for this symbol"
>
> Even though, as you point out, some fundamental data IS provided
at :
>
> http://au.finance.yahoo.com/q/aks?s=WBC.AX and also
> http://au.finance.yahoo.com/q/tt?s=WBC.AX
>
> TJ if you see this, is there anyway AQ can download that data which
IS
> provided ??
>
> Brian what do you think ?
>
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