Phil - You didn't mention running the executable: USStocksTemplate.exe<http://www.amibroker.net/bin/USStocksTemplate.exe>. That may be the source of your problem.
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 6:01 PM, phild3581 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Trilephile, > > thanks for the quick response. > > I did just as you suggested and I believe the file located at the site gave > is the same as the one I downloaded from the AB site. > > In any case, I got the same result. When I do 'file/open database' and > point to the extracted folder it opens fine, but nothing is under the tabs > in the symbol tab. > > Something more fundamental must be wrong. I'll contact AB Support in the > morning. > > Thanks > Phil > > --- In [email protected] <amibroker%40yahoogroups.com>, > "triplephile" <steve.andre...@...> wrote: > > > > Hi Phil > > I have just last week "refreshed" my US database by doing a full > reinstall of it. > > If you go to www.icc-az.com/amibroker.aspx there is a very up to date > file that worked perfectly for me, courtesy of jrswindle > > > > Just download and unzip the stocks.zip file. Full instructions within, > and all your sectors and industries will be just where you want them. > > To get your quotes in Amiquote use "Tools/get tickers from Amibroker" > Don't worry about tls files. Make sure you use Yahoo Historical rather than > "current" for the source. > > > > The easiest way by far for and end of day set of US data. > > cheers > > --- In [email protected] <amibroker%40yahoogroups.com>, > "phild3581" <phild@> wrote: > > > > > > First, I'd like to thank Tomasz for a great product!! > > > > > > Ok, I've been playing with the unregistered version for about a week > and yesterday purchased AMIBroker Professional and AMIQuote. > > > > > > One of the first things i wanted to do was set up the markets and > sectors correctly, filled with their respective stocks. So I went to this > page http://www.amibroker.com/docs/ab305.html "How to set up complete US > stocks...". > > > > > > I downloaded the zip and extracted it into C:\amibroker as instructed. > > > > > > I did file\open database\US-Stocks. At this point (I guess) the symbol > tree should have been filled out to where I could expand the markets/sectors > etc and view the lists of symbols. However, all the items in the symbol tab > were empty. > > > > > > I also downloaded the "nasdaq.tls" file and placed it under AmiQuote > along with the other .tls files. However, this makes no difference and the > file appears not to be seen. > > > > > > Thoughts and ideas? > > > > > > Thanks > > > Phil > > > > > > > >
