> I realised the 8000 yahoo symbols have either date format in YMD or DMY ...
Well, it just tells you something about Yahoo data quality. Probably some other symbols have Open mixed up with Close, Volume with High, and so on. I have looked a few times at charts from Yahoo and it completely eludes why so many users of excellent software like AmiBroker insist on using this garbage data for trading with real money. Lester --- In [email protected], "jlami11" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > thanks for the help. I realised the 8000 yahoo symbols have either > Date format in YMD or DMY, so i created two definition files identical > except for date format, and loaded all symbols with one then the > other, in order to load all symbols properly. > > But for some reason the YMD definition file is able to read symbols > with DMY format too (erroneously). So I get some incorrect and really > weird quotes. e.g. some years go to 2019 (probably from reading the > Day as Year). It also updates any properly loaded DMY symbols to the > incorrect version (since it reads year as 2019 > 2007). > > Is there a way to get date format to read only what its suppose to read? > > or another way to load all 8000 symbols properly (there are 2 date > formats). > > any help is mmuch appreciated. > > Thankyou >
