Ken, I think you are asking whether you can add information to the Amibroker
database that is not related to O,H,L,C,V, OI from a source that is different
from Amiquote, right?
If so, I'm afraid that ASCII import is probably your best bet. The way I've
done that is to create a dummy ticker like QQQQa and then put information into
the O array of QQQQa that relates to, say, bids and information into the H
array of QQQQa for, say, asks.
Then, in order to operate on this information, one relatively straightforward
way is to use the Foreign command, like Foreign ("QQQQa","O") when you need to
retrieve bids. Or you could have amibroker retrieve these fields on demand (in
your code) using fopen commands from a .csv format. or you could retrieve from
.csv and put into static variables. Or you could use the sql retrieval process
made available by Amibroker.
Personally, I've done all four of these with success. Each has their place.
But, before I go any further, perhaps you could confirm that this is what you
are trying to accomplish....
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Close
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 9:19 AM
Subject: RE: [amibroker] Adding data to field in existing symbol database.
Well, thanks, but I need to add many symbols read automatically from a
spreadsheet file into the database. The Quote Editor will not do it
automatically as far as I know.
Ken
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Jindrich Kostalek
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 11:04 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [amibroker] Adding data to field in existing symbol database.
Have a look at Symbol > Quote Editor .
Henry
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken
Close
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 4:37 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [amibroker] Adding data to field in existing symbol database.
Amiquote and Import from ASQII are both aimed towards helping people import
quotes from services like Yahoo.
No where that I can find does the Help file (or the Knowledgebase, or the
Users Knowledgebase, nor past archived messages) talk about how to ADD a value
to an existing field (say an empty volume or OI field) in an existing database.
Experimenting with the above mentioned tools does not produce the result I
need.
I have nowhere else to turn as all of the above resources are silent.
As someone else said: "can someone toss me a bone" on this subject.
Thanks for any help.
Ken
