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Re: [amibroker] Tried All Past Suggestions - Amiquote data not imported



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Ken,

I'm also using the unregistered version of AQ. I selected Edit->Mark All 
and Yahoo Fundamental Basic - and got FullNames for all tickers without 
any problems. Nothing got messed up.

Greetings,

Thomas

> Answering my own question (and for possible benefit of new users).
>
> It seems there should be clearer Help comments on what conditions are
> and are now allowed in the UNREGISTERED version.
>
> But, my problems went away once I REGISTERED AQ, and then started a
> new database.  Symbols and their data imported flawlessly, and even
> more nice, selecting the Yahoo Basic Fundamentals data then imported
> FullName and a bunch of fundamental statistics.   As the Help file
> states that the UNREGISTERED version is limited to 20 symbols for
> importing fundamental data, I believe I "messed up" the database
> having imported more than that number.  It would be nicer if a
> warning message box flashed if you tried to import more than 20
> symbols of fundy data, but admittedly that is a smaller point.
>
> AQ, for those who have never tried it, is a pretty nice tool and
> represents great programming by Tomasz, which is what he is noted
> for.  I am a late convert to the program and am glad I registered it.
>
> Ken
>
>   _____
>
> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Ken Close
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:42 PM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amibroker] Tried All Past Suggestions - Amiquote data not
> imported
>
>
> I searched and found several threads on Amiquote not pushing data to
> AB, or the data not getting into AB.
>
> That is what is happening to me right now.  Here are the things I
> have tried.
>
> Using Version 2.0
> Making sure only 1 instance of broker.exe is running.
> Manually entered one test symbol in AQ.
> Automatic import is checked.
> Click green arrow.  Msg says Imported.
> Close AQ, say no to saving.
> Look in AB.  Run Scan.  Refresh All.
> No data loaded.
> Repeated the above after renaming log file in AB folder.
> Same result.
>
> I previously had downloaded data fine.
> I have run loaded FullNames into database by selecting Yahoo
> Fundamental as source--it seems like my problems began after having
> done this step. I have subsequently run a script from dingo to add
> fullnames, which it does.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions.
> Do I have to delete the Database and start over.
> I read in Howard Bandy's new book that you must (should?) add
> fullnames to a database before adding data, "or the database can be
> messed up".  Is that what happened to me?
> Just found this in the Help files:
>
> IMPORTANT NOTE: Unregistered version of AmiQuote allows you to
> download fundamental-ex data for first 20 tickers in the list. To
> download data for more symbols you need to register AmiQuote.
>
> I did the above on more than 20 tickers in an unregistered version of
> AQ--I guess that is my problem.
>
> I have registered AQ and am awaiting my codes.
>
> Anything to add?
>
> Ken



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