If you look at the three sets of data they don't all match.
The data is much different each trading day on all!

How could you contruct a chart of A/D line with inaccurate data from 
Yahoo? Which of the three would be believe is correct?


http://www.nyse.com/
(The NYSE Exchange Data)

vs.

http://finance.yahoo.com/advances
(Yahoo Data)

vs.

http://askmerrill.ml.com/markets_diaries/
(Merrill Lynch Data)



--- In [email protected], "Ed Hoopes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> I'm trying to import Yahoo! data for the symbol ^NYA - the NYSE
> composite index.  
> 
> The *.csv Volume field has NYSE total volume that currently is 
running
> around 2 billion shares/day.  When I examine the *.csv file in 
Excel,
> the volume is different from day-to-day as expected. BUT when it is
> imported into AmiBroker, most of the volume numbers are all the 
same 
>  - around 2.147. . .  billion.
> 
> My suspicion is that this is a 32 bit signed INTEGER data type.  
2^32
> / 2.  Is this correct?
> 
> My goal is to use the volume to construct an A/D line for the NYSE. 
> A/D involves adding/subtracting  -  but if I'm up against an 
internal
> limit of AB maybe that is not possible.
> 
> Any suggestions??
> 
> Ed Hoopes
> AKA ReefBreak
>


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