The difference you see is due to the fact that current and historical data use different servers and the different way that they interact with data requests. You should consider downloading current daily and historical once a week on weekends.
Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vinay Gakkhar." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Amibroker" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 6:33 PM Subject: [amibroker] DOWNLOADING DAILY EOD DATA - AMENDED POST >I use Tools > Auto Update Quotes (Amiquote) > Yahoo Historical to download > EOD data on daily basis. I have about 1,000 stocks in my list, it > downloads data for one stock at a time, and takes roughly 2 hours to > download the data. Whether data to be downloaded is for one day or 10 days > or 100 days, there is not much of a difference in time taken. > > On the other hand, Yahoo Current downloads data for 200 stocks in one > pass, and data for 1,000 (sorry I wrote 100 in my last post) stocks in 5 > passes, in a total of less than 2 > minutes. > > Is there any similarly faster method for downloading daily EOD data? > > Thanks, > > gakkhar > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.0/1046 - Release Date: 10/3/2007 > 10:08 AM > >
