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Hello,
Make sure that Symbol->Information "Use only local
database" is turned OFF for these symbols.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:29
AM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Quotes Plus
Mutual Funds in AB
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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