Thanks Brian, just doing my part to help things along! Jim
--- In [email protected], "brian_z321" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --- In [email protected], "jrswindle2001" <jr.ab@> wrote:
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> > If anyone is interested, I have posted a new AB blank database
> (stocks)
> > on my website. Data is effective as of 04/05/2007
>
> Jim,
>
> Thanks.
> Your contribution fills a gap in the AB platform and is a good
> example of what the combined efforts of the community can do.
> Yahoo + your classification provide an excellent free *starting*
> database for new users.
> I understand that some long term traders also use Yahoo with success
> so I am sure they are happy with your efforts also.
>
> I used your setup again yesterday.
>
> For the benefit of others:
>
> I followed the simple instructions exactly and had no problems;
> I used the setup as at March2007;
> 8647 symbols were installed in my US-Stocks database;
> 559 contained no data e.g. ^MSCISC index;
> symbol searches at Yahoo indicate that the *no data problem* is at
> their end i.e ^MSCISC does indeed exist in their listings but if
> entered at YahooFinance as a symbol their site reports *historical
> data does not exist for this symbol*;
> I believe the sector/industry classifications are Hemscotts's;
> I downloaded 10 years history in approx 8 hours using DSL;
> and I backed up the database by copy/pasting to an external drive
> using WindowsExplorer.
> The backup opened correctly from with AB>open database.
>
> I used tools>database purify in AB with all symbols, n == 1
> quotes>show missing quotes to find the stock with no data.
> A column sort in database purify gave me the list of no quotes stock
> and I shift/selected all of these and sent them to a watchlist for
> deletion if required.
>
>
> Brian_Z
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