Hello, For your specific case.
Use IB plugin http://www.amibroker.com/ib.html and GetRTData http://www.amibroker.com/f?getrtdata GetRTData("Bid") GetRTData("Ask") Also orignal enquiry was not about storing data but about communication. If you want to store any "extra" data it is much better choice to use SQL database and ODBC plugin to read data from SQL database: http://www.amibroker.com/odbc.html Excel is NOT a database management system. For general case: if you pull data from external source to EXCEL via DDE and then from Excel to AmiBroker it makes no sense because you can connect to external source directly. Look: Instead of External Data ->>DDE->> EXCEL ->>DDE (plugin)->> AmiBroker Just take shorter path: External Data ->>DDE (plugin)->>AmiBroker Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "treliff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:03 PM Subject: [amibroker] Re: DDE Excel > --- In [email protected], "Tomasz Janeczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Frankly I see NO reason connecting via excel. > > > TJ, a very bold statement indeed! > > Can you back that up and explain how to store bid/ask data in AB > without using Excel? > > The way I've been doing this for years is to create separate tickers > IBM_bid, IBM_ask etc. and use DDE to: > > - pull provider data into Excel (I'm using IB) > - then pull Excel data into AB > > If there's any way to cut out Excel I'd be very happy to hear. > > Thanks very much for an excel-less solution! > > -treliff > > > > Please note that this group is for discussion between users only. > > To get support from AmiBroker please send an e-mail directly to > SUPPORT {at} amibroker.com > > For NEW RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENTS and other news always check DEVLOG: > http://www.amibroker.com/devlog/ > > For other support material please check also: > http://www.amibroker.com/support.html > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > >
