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I've been using HB and it appears that it works as follows (though I haven't
confirmed this with Omega): Once you connect, they query out data for ALL
symbols in the exchanges you checked for the dates you listed and you
download all that data to your machine. Then you distribute data only to
the highlighted symbols (assuming you chose this option) and discard the
rest. Obviously, this is a very inefficient method for getting just a few
symbols.
Did you uncheck the other exchanges? (As you are probably aware, this is
separate from selecting only the symbols you want.) I take it you are also
aware that the first time you download from HB it takes much longer than
subsequent times. For my first downloads, I took daily data one exchange at
a time.
For comparison, last night I downloaded two days of tick data for NASDAQ,
NYSE, AMEX, INDICES, and FUTURES, and distributed to all symbols. It took
about 2.5 hours with a V.90 connection running at 49KB.
Let me interject something I consider to be a large problem with
HistoryBank: Some important symbols are there but have no data associated
with them, either at the Website or on the CD. I've talked to Omega about
this and written them emails, and I don't exactly see a groundswell of
reaction. Anybody else consider the following missing items
important?/Chris Slaybaugh
@VSN (NYSE total volume) [NO DOLLAR SIGN BEFORE THIS ONE]
$@NVD (NYSE downside volume)
$@NVA (NYSE upside volume)
$@NVU (NYSE unchanged volume)
$@NA (NYSE advancing issues)
$@ND (NYSE declining issues)
$@NU (NYSE unchanged issues)
$TVOLQ (NASDAQ total volume)
$UVOLQ (NASDAQ up volume)
$DVOLQ (NASDAQ down volume)
$XVOLQ (NASDAQ unchanged volume)
$ADVQ (NASDAQ advancing issues)
$DECLQ (NASDAQ declining issues)
$UCHGQ (NASDAQ unchanged issues)
$@AVA (Amex upside volume)
$@AVD (Amex downside volume)
$@AVU (Amex unchanged volume
$@AVT (Amex total volume)
$@AA (Amex advancing issues)
$@AD (Amex declining issues)
$@AU (Amex unchanged issues)
> I just tried to use history bank to get two weeks of tick data for 1
> stock. After about 4 hours of downloading, the process terminated and I
> had only 5 days of data.
>
> Is there a way to speed this up? I'm pretty sure I selected only the
> symbol I wanted.
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