I am suffering with this 'problem' since years ... on one hand side I've got an excellent BLP machine which provides very clean data (at least I think it is), and on the other hand I have one of the best charting software = AB (which I know it is). It's correct that you can get intraday data from BLP into AB with the DDE quite easily, but historical data, which I mainly use, is still a pain. I've adapted one of the BLP VisualBasic example modules to download data from BLP into individual ASCII files which I then import into AB. But it's a tedious process and database maintenance has become a nightmare, especially as my investment universe is hugh as a portfolio manager of globally invested portfolios. Unfortunately I am not smart enough to re-programm one of the C++ API examples available at BLP to do the job and have been thinking of buying some professional programming help - but then again that person would need access to a Bloomberg to get the job done -- aahh, it's all so complicated....
Regards,
André
www.lodh.com
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I used DDE with Bloomberg or Instiquote (can't really remember which one but it was pretty straightforward) about 6 months ago for a few days and I'm pretty sure the reason I stopped was because it didn't have historical data. But, remapping the tickers is fairly straightforward and the codes are pretty similar to those you'd see if you do a lot of spreadsheet calls from the blp API.
Depending on what reason you're using Amibroker,
even though you're shelling out $1,750 plus exchange fees per month, it
might just be better to use 15-min delayed Yahoo data (even have it update
every 5 minutes "automatically" using Amiquote), or use one of
the supported systems like eSignal (which costs you more money but probably
saves you a lot of time).
----- Original Message -----
From: fc6191
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 3:41 PM
Subject: [amibroker] How to use Bloomberg datasource
in Amibroker
Does anyone know whether it is possible to use Bloomberg
as
dataprovider? It seems there is no plug-in for it but perhaps one can
do it with DDE?
Anyone having experience how well this works?
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