Hello,
Go to File->Database Settings
press "Configure".
And then press "Retrieve". Make sure that "sector/industry
assignments" checbox is checked.
If symbol description do not match it means
that QP2 re-assigned names of !ID-xxxx after you have created
database.
In that case you should create new database
File->New->Database following the manual
broker.industries/broker.sectors files DO NOT MATTER
at all. They are not used by QP2 databases and not used by any
already created database. These are just defaults for
EMPTY, new databases used at creation time for DBs that do not
use plugins or do not deliver categorisation. QP2 does NOT
use them, as it has its own sector info.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
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Sent:
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 9:12 AM
Subject:
[amibroker] Mixed up Quotes Plus, Sectors and Industries
Using AB 5.20
with QP EOD data, the Sectors, Industries, and !IDxxx charts are all mixed
up. For example:
1. For AB shows 13 Sectors, including two
Utilities and one Transportation. The brokers.sectors file contains
only 11 items, only one Utilities and no Transportation. The first
Utilities contains 17 industries, only 4 of which are utility related --
the other 13 are retail. The second Utilities contains the same 4
utility related industries as the first, but with different companies, all
of which have NO data. The Transportation Sector contains 9
industries with a total of 23 companies, only 4 of which have any
data.
2. AB shows 182 industries, many of which show up in
more than one sector. Broker.industries has a total of 151,
including Undefined.
3. AB shows !ID001 through !ID198,
however !ID154 through !ID198 have no data. QP3.1 shows only !ID001
through !ID153. (I would expect there to be a one-to-one match of
!IDxxx symbols to industries (just a guess).
4. AB and QP3.1
appear to display the same values for any given !IDxxx. However,
they assign different names to many of them. For example: for
!ID050, AB's name is (Leisure-Gaming-LEISURE), while QP's is
(Media-Radio/TV MERADIO). In fact, the names for more than half
these symbols disagree.
Note, I have only recently even looked at
sectors and industries in AB. This May have been happening for years
without my knowledge. I have been using AB since at least version
4.2 and QP is at least the fourth data base I have installed (it is the
only one I am presently using).
I tried to fix the problem with:
File>Data Base Settings>Flush cache -- Configure>Retrieve,
without success. (I am suspicious that there may be something wrong with
broker.sectors and/or broker.industries.)
Is there a safe,
relatively easy way to fix this? By safe I mean that I do not want
to loose any of my existing Layouts.
Thanks for any help you can
provide.
-- Keith