TJ --
I was just writing my last response before receiving your one below.
Thank you again.
-- Keith
Tomasz Janeczko wrote:
Hello,
Create new database AND copy entire Layouts sub-folder from old
database dir to new one.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Keith McCombs <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:23 PM
*Subject:* Re: [amibroker] Mixed up Quotes Plus, Sectors and
Industries
That was a quick response.
However, I said in my first posting, "I tried to fix the problem
with: File>Data Base Settings>Flush cache -- Configure>Retrieve,
without success."
I also said, "Is there a safe, relatively easy way to fix this?
By safe I mean that I do not want to loose any of my existing
Layouts."
>From your response, it seems to me that I "should create new
database File->New->Database". So, how do I do this without
loosing any of my *existing* layouts?
Again, thanks for any help you can provide.
-- Keith
Tomasz Janeczko wrote:
Hello,
Go to File->Database Settings
press "Configure".
And then press "Retrieve". Make sure that "sector/industry
assignments" checbox is checked.
If symbol description do not match it means that QP2 re-assigned
names of !ID-xxxx after you have created database.
In that case you should create new database File->New->Database
following the manual
http://www.amibroker.com/guide/h_extsources.html
<http://www.amibroker.com/guide/h_extsources.html>
and video:
http://www.amibroker.com/video/QP2.html
<http://www.amibroker.com/video/QP2.html>
broker.industries/broker.sectors files DO NOT MATTER at all. They
are not used by QP2 databases and not used by any
already created database. These are just defaults for EMPTY, new
databases used at creation time for DBs that do not
use plugins or do not deliver categorisation. QP2 does NOT use
them, as it has its own sector info.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Keith McCombs <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, December 10, 2008 9:12 AM
*Subject:* [amibroker] Mixed up Quotes Plus, Sectors and
Industries
Using AB 5.20 with QP EOD data, the Sectors, Industries, and
!IDxxx charts are all mixed up. For example:
1. For AB shows 13 Sectors, including two Utilities and one
Transportation. The brokers.sectors file contains only 11
items, only one Utilities and no Transportation. The first
Utilities contains 17 industries, only 4 of which are utility
related -- the other 13 are retail. The second Utilities
contains the same 4 utility related industries as the first,
but with different companies, all of which have NO data. The
Transportation Sector contains 9 industries with a total of
23 companies, only 4 of which have any data.
2. AB shows 182 industries, many of which show up in more
than one sector. Broker.industries has a total of 151,
including Undefined.
3. AB shows !ID001 through !ID198, however !ID154 through
!ID198 have no data. QP3.1 shows only !ID001 through
!ID153. (I would expect there to be a one-to-one match of
!IDxxx symbols to industries (just a guess).
4. AB and QP3.1 appear to display the same values for any
given !IDxxx. However, they assign different names to many
of them. For example: for !ID050, AB's name is
(Leisure-Gaming-LEISURE), while QP's is (Media-Radio/TV
MERADIO). In fact, the names for more than half these
symbols disagree.
Note, I have only recently even looked at sectors and
industries in AB. This May have been happening for years
without my knowledge. I have been using AB since at least
version 4.2 and QP is at least the fourth data base I have
installed (it is the only one I am presently using).
I tried to fix the problem with: File>Data Base
Settings>Flush cache -- Configure>Retrieve, without success.
(I am suspicious that there may be something wrong with
broker.sectors and/or broker.industries.)
Is there a safe, relatively easy way to fix this? By safe I
mean that I do not want to loose any of my existing Layouts.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
-- Keith
