Re: [amibroker] On Fundamental data import

[Michael.S.G.]

If you import your fundamental data into artificial tickers (eg Code-FndData) to create a historical database of Fnd Data, Then it appears as though these new additions have little benefit to us. I do the same thing, And reference with  Foreign.  I find it quite convenient to access historical fundamental data "within" amibroker, As opposed to accessing some external DB.  I mean, AmiBroker itself is a DB. So why make things more complicated by accessing external db's. (Just my thoughts).  Im not sure it would be any quicker using external database as opposed to AB inbuilt Foreign function. The only gripe I have, And I dare say it would be the same if the data was stored in an external DB - Is the inability of the shiftx or ref() functions to access Future Foreign data (As in reference to the Selected ticker). Here is example of charting historical fundamental data accesed via an artificial (foriegn) ticker. dbirru wrote: Is the new fundamental import faster compared to doing it via the old way of the ascii importer? I used to import fundamental data using artifical ticker and the ascii importer (using the 9 or so available fields). In AFL, this requires using the foreign function. I find that this method slows down exploration considerably since for every ticker a corresponding ticker need to be read. The values are also stored in an array. The latest ascii importer contains additional fields to ease improting of fundamental data. Does this new way of improting fundamental data make exploration considerably faster? If the dat astructure is different, then I expect it may be faster. But, I don't know the data structure. Thus, I asked before I try it and 'corrupt' my database if it does not offer an advantage. Thanks. __