Re: [amibroker] Re: AmiQuote 2.11 - Yahoo Fundamental - Extra, AmiBroker Email List Archive

What should be a good source?

Jean Paul

From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ton Sieverding
Sent: 06/13/2009 12:49 PM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: AmiQuote 2.11 - Yahoo Fundamental - Extra

Even when having the same data in de AmiBroker database as you can see in Yahoo Finance, does not give you the correct data. Our experience with Yahoo Finance is that the fundamental data they provide has a lot of garbage. So perhaps here or there - and I have not seen that already for fundamental data coming from Yahoo - AmiQuote messes up things. But 99% of the errors is in the Yahoo Finance database. I prefer to concentrate on the main problem and start with a good source ...

Regards, Ton.

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From: ta

To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com

Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 7:32 AM

Subject: RE: [amibroker] Re: AmiQuote 2.11 - Yahoo Fundamental - Extra

Ton

What I pointed out was the three days ago, accidentally I discovered that some fundamental data for three symbols(CDB, SBS & WTI) in my database did not match the same fields on Yahoo?s ?key Statistics? page. So I downloaded the data for the three symbols and I noticed that WTI downloaded correctly and amiquote gave me the error message that ?Yahoo finance offers no key statistics for this symbol? and data for SBS continued to be erroneous. It seems to me that something from Yahoo?s ?key Statistics? page , cause amiquote to import the data into AB in incorrect sequence. Now the significance of this issue is that what is it from Yahoo?s ?key Statistics? page that causes this error and which other symbols are affected by this problem. Below is screen shots from Yahoo vs AB. You?ll notice that AB shows 1.57 for shares outstanding (this seems to be the beta on Yahoo). AB shows 911000 for ?Shares Float? and Yahoo shows 438.49K. I have more that 3400 stocks in my database Therefore examining them individually is a tedious effort.

From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com [mailto:amibroker@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ton Sieverding
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 12:01 AM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: AmiQuote 2.11 - Yahoo Fundamental - Extra

Frankly I do not see why there should be a bug in AmiQuote when WTI gives me the correct answer. What about Yahoo Finance and a messed up database ? It's not the first time that I see this. We have left Yahoo as our data provider because of errors ...

Regards, Ton.

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From: tipequity

To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com

Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:01 PM

Subject: [amibroker] Re: AmiQuote 2.11 - Yahoo Fundamental - Extra

Thanks Ton. I tried WTI today and got the correct download. However, I still get wrong Shares Outstanding for SBS. The significant of this issue is to find out if there is bug in certain instances amiquote or not.I get "Yahoo finance offers no key statistics for this symbol" for CDB today. Would you please try to download SBS. TIA

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com, "Ton Sieverding" <ton.sieverding@...> wrote:
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> Not what I see. Everything seems to be fine with me ...
> Here you've WTI ...
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> Regards, Ton.
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> From: tipequity
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:08 PM
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: AmiQuote 2.11 - Yahoo Fundamental - Extra
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> Should I assume that nobody else has the same problem or is it that nobody uses amiquotes to download extra fundamental data from Yahoo?
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> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com, "tipequity" <l3456@> wrote:
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> > Tonight I downloaded Yahoo Fundamental - Extra using Amiquote for stock symbol CDB, SBS and WTI. I noticed that "Shares Out." field shows the value of beta field rather than the actual "Shares Outstanding". It seems like a bug to me. Would someelse please confirm this. TIA
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