Re: [amibroker] Re: Accessing & Converting TradeStation Historical Intraday Data

[Sidney Kaiser]

In TS with the desired data up in a chart open the data window and save the data.  From there you can import into AB as ASCII data.  Siddirk schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:             no answers so far, so i will try my luck again:     is there anyone on this list who knows how TradeStation stores its historical intraday data on a user's PC ?  i am wondering if it is possible to access this data, convert it and then import it into AmiBroker. 
      ----- Original Message -----   From: dirk schreiber   To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com   Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 4:22 PM  Subject: Re: [amibroker] TradeStation Historical Intraday Data      thank you for your suggestion, stephen.  your idea seems to be just what
 i was looking for. so how does the sacrifice (time) look like?  could anyone that has been using TradeStation explain how they handle ticker data?   if they have such a huge database surely the downloaded data will be stored locally on every user's computer?  are there single files for each ticker? how do they look like and will it be possible to convert them to ascii files?  is there anyone that has gone this path before?     thanks for your time,  dirk          ----- Original Message -----   From: Stephen Hite   To: 'dirk schreiber'   Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 3:02 PM  Subject: Re: Sources for historical 1-min Data / Sharing 1-min Database         The cheapest way you’re going to get all of the data you need (for free)  is to open up a TradeStation account and they’ll give you one month of their platform for free.  If you don’t trade but continue the account, they’ll charge you $100/mo.   So drop the account within the first month after you’ve downloaded the 10 years worth of intraday data on all the stocks you want and, voila, free data.   The act of collecting that data into files could be a royal pain.   I don’t know.   I don’t have a TS account.   But the sacrifice is either going to be made with your time or with your $$$.         ----- Original Message -----   From: dirk schreiber   To: amibroker   Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 1:53 PM  Subject: [amibroker] Sources for historical 1-min Data / Sharing 1-min Database      hello all,     does anybody know of a good, not too expensive, source for historical 1-min data for US stocks which goes back for more than one year? 
 searching the internet i have come across sites like tickdata.com or price-data.com which easily charge you hundreds or thousands of $$ to get historical intraday data for just a handful of stocks. professional data vendors like e-signal will only backfill for 6 months.     the reason i ask:  i have been building a 5000+ us stock database on a 1-min timeframe for more than a year now via quote.com. i have coded an intraday system which on average only takes some 50 trades for the last year for each stock. it looks promising but i really would like to test this system on more bars to get more reliable results. 10 years of 1-min data of only 10 stocks would already cost me 1280$ with tickdata.com. that seems a bit much.     maybe there is a  kind soul on this list who would be willing to share data? i know these 1-min files can get huge, but i would be very willing to share my intraday data in return !!     dirk      Love cheap thrills? Enjoy PC-to-Phone calls to 30+ countries for just 2¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.      How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates.





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