you can use the excel dde interface provided by IB and download expired contracts up to 1 year back, (but not all the data is really in good form), save it as cvs file and import it in ab this can work for daily data, but for intraday it would take a long time to do it manually so you should write a program to automatize it and in any case ib has strict limits on the amount of data you can download before it rejects requests, please see old posts on the topic
ly --- In [email protected], "dbwyatt_1999" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fred, > > IB is not really in the historical quote business and only keeps > about 30 days of historical data online, so the data for older > contracts disappear. For older contracts, you'll need to import data > from another source like SCMagic > (http://www.scmagic.org/English/Index.htm). > > Regards, > > David > > --- In [email protected], "jjj_98" <jjj_98@> wrote: > > > > Anyone know how to load historical futures data into Amibroker from > > IB? Specifically I'm using YM and have no problem with the current > > June contract but cannot get any older data loaded using for example > > > > YM MAR 07-ecbot-fut > > > > as the symbol. > > > > thx, > > > > Fred > > >
