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Hi Steve.. Thanks for some
great information. I have another favor to ask.
On 9/22/06 my indexes !ID001,!ID002 to !ID198
stopped being up dated. I wrote to QP but obviously this is going them a while to
respond. Is
your AB database displaying these indexes and up to date?
Regards
JOE
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:28
AM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Quotes Plus
Mutual Funds in AB
Hi Joe,
Unfortunately, QP's database has lots of
problems, and problems of all types. There are still over 3000 dead tickers (
mostly MF's now, I remember Dan Clark working with Gary in the past to
get most of the dead stocks removed ). Tickers are classified incorrectly
with regard to type of issue ( for one example, run an exploration on the
MF group with "Filter = Volume > 0" and you will see some ETF's and stocks
classified as MF's ). Tickers are also classified incorrectly with regard to
trading status, which is what caused Ken's problem. There is no good solution
other than a massive effort on QP's part to clean things up, which I don't
hold out much hope for. TJ has tried several times in the past to patch the
"dead ticker" issue on his end, but it cannot really work properly as long as
so many tickers are classified incorrectly in QP's DB. As things stand now,
there are basically 2 options:
1. You can check either/both boxes at the bottom
of the plugin Configuration box - this will eliminate most of the dead tickers
from AB, but it will also eliminate some valid tickers because they are
misclassified as non-trading, etc. How many? Which ones? I have no idea, but
it always bothered me to know that, when I am exploring for good stocks that
meet some criteria or another, I could very well be missing some of the
better ones because they were misclassified and not retrieved by
AB.
2. So I always choose this 2nd
option instead - uncheck both boxes and just download all tickers
including the dead ones. Then at least you know you have *all* the tickers,
and at that point you can either just live with a bloated DB or you can delete
the dead ones via Database Cleanup.
I can think of a couple of possibilities why you
have ERH with the box checked...
1. Maybe your DB dates back to previous versions
of the plugin, before TJ added the option to skip non-trading
tickers?
2. Maybe, for at least one prior retreive, you
unchecked these boxes?
3. Maybe QP changed the status somewhere along
the way?
Steve
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 8:32
AM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Quotes Plus
Mutual Funds in AB
Steve,Ken -
Now that we have the answer on ERH from
Gary L of QP in the QP forum, that the status code was not zero, what are
the other status codes?
AH! ONCE I KEYED IN THE QUESTION,
I RTFM and there are the status codes. Lots of them. In my
database configuration I've got
retrieve only active symbols (status code =0) BUT I was getting ERH anyway? Another puzzle.
What are options do you have ticked off in your database
configuration?
Regards
JOE
"IssueStatus" - (string) - with default settings all symbols should have
issue status = 0 other possible values: 0 = actively trading; 1, P = trading
on a when issued basis, 5, 6, 7, A, B, C, D, E, M = not trading 4, N = new
symbol, G, K, X, R, Z = changes to symbol, cusip, name, etc. - requires QP
plugin 1.5.1
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006
1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Quotes Plus
Mutual Funds in AB
Hi Ken - I can see it in AB. QP still has a
number of tickers that are "misclassified". To get around this, when
I do a retreive I uncheck both of the bottom boxes in the Configure
dialog so the plugin will retrieve all tickers, then I run Cleanup
Database on the Tools menu to delete all the dead ones.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006
1:38 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Quotes Plus
Mutual Funds in AB
I am a new
user of Quotes Plus to drive data to AB (vs TC2000) and I have been
doing ok with the transition.
I just now
retrieved all of the mutual funds I have been downloading, and can use
them just like any stock symbol.
There is an
interesting closed end fund named ERH (Evergreen) which is in the QP
database (I can plot it using the QP charting program), but Amibroker
can not see it.
Any QP data
users here who could see whether you can see/plot ERH in Amibroker from
the QP database? If you can, can you speculate why the symbol does
not show up on mine.
I have
reloaded AB (but not rebooted the computer), but I wonder why that would
make a difference.
Any
suggestions?
Thanks,
Ken
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