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[amibroker] Re: Amibroker --> Excel?



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thanks, but any pointer to get started? I am not too familiar with the interface and structure though I can code a bit. You would not know of any sample code that accomplishes something similar to what I try to achieve?

Thanks
Brian


--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Yofa" <jtoth100@xxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> or you can do this from Excel directly using AB's automation interface.
> 
> Be carefeul to use late binding!
> The other catch is that if you use multiple instances of AB then only the 
> one that was first started can be accessed!
> 
> Y
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Mike" <sfclimbers@xxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 8:24 PM
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Amibroker --> Excel?
> 
> > If you are comfortable writing VB script for your macro, you can very 
> > likely do what you want by coding against the AmiBroker automation object.
> >
> > http://www.amibroker.com/guide/objects.html
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "BBMAT" <bbmat@> wrote:
> >>
> >> I took the time to screen old messages for posts about ODBC and Excel but 
> >> I could not find what I was looking for. Basically all proposed solutions 
> >> deal with how to extract data from other databases into AmiB. However, I 
> >> look for the opposite. Having Amibroker running, I basically want to 
> >> extract a time series for a specified ticker and start time - end time 
> >> from the Amibroker Database into Excel or VBA (as array). I dont want to 
> >> have to run an AFL or so. I simply want to run a macro in VBA which then 
> >> communicates with Amibroker to extract the data and loads them directly 
> >> into a specified array.
> >>
> >> Is this at all doable or am I asking for something that has not been done 
> >> yet?
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot for all your help and ideas!!!
> >>
> >>
> >> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "ozzyapeman" <zoopfree@> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Amibroker supports ODBC so you can apparently write directly to Excel.
> >> >
> >> > I'm not familiar with ODBC myself, but others on this forum, and the 
> >> > automated trading forum, have done exactly what you want to do.
> >> >
> >> > Try a search for ODBC and excel on this forum (if Yahoo decides to 
> >> > cooperate this morning!).
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "droskill" <droskill@> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > Haven't looked at this myself but might be worth looking at:
> >> > >
> >> > > http://www.icc-az.com/
> >> > >
> >> > > Under links - goto Amibroker - there is an Excel program for getting 
> >> > > data from AB.
> >> > >
> >> > > Don't know if it will do what you want but I thought I'd mention it.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "BBMAT" <bbmat@> wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Hello,
> >> > > >
> >> > > > I am wondering whether anybody has got experience with sending data 
> >> > > > out of Amibroker directly to Excel? Here is what I try to achieve: 
> >> > > > I like to specify a ticker and barsize as well as number bars and 
> >> > > > dump those from Amibroker directly into Excel, no manual saving of 
> >> > > > data into text files and then re-opening those files in Excel. Why 
> >> > > > Excel? I use those timeseries to perform computations, calculations 
> >> > > > of custom indexes and I like to the flexibility in Excel to display 
> >> > > > the results and numbers in a speadsheet-like way for my trading. 
> >> > > > So, I basically look for a way to get historical intra-day data 
> >> > > > directly into Excel. I use IB as broker but dont like the ActiveX 
> >> > > > and DDE solutions they provide. I figured because AMIBROKER already 
> >> > > > has got the data in an efficient database that it should not be a 
> >> > > > problem to simply specify a subset and dump it into Excel (can 
> >> > > > Amibroker use OLE, meanin control Excel, such as opening a sheet, 
> >> > > > and then writing some data from the database into the sheet?).
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Thanks
> >> > > > Thomas
> >> > > >
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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