I believe that AB has no way to pick out fundamental news items such as forward earnings dates. This would involve a way to scrape a web earnings page to extract the correct earnings date for a given stock.
--- In [email protected], "ceper...@..." <y...@...> wrote: > > Hi, I'm currently evaluating AB for my needs - playing with limited demo > version for a second day. Seems very promising, but programming model takes > time to grasp... Before I commit to plunging deeper I'd like to know if a > couple of certain things are doable. I'd hugely appreciate if someone > enlightened me as it might save me a great deal of time. > > I'm interested in pair trading stocks. I figured out how to plot 2 overlapped > stock charts as well as their spread and ratio with stdev "bands" in separate > panes. However, I'm having difficulty supplying symbol names. One can be > easily selected from droplist in the toolbar or symbols tab, but other... has > to be hardcoded into AFL? I want to be able to quickly analyse many pairs, > and having to edit formulas each time is a huge drag... Is AFL aware of the > currently selected watchlist - if yes, I could pick up the other symbol name > from there. Any other approaches? What am I missing? > > The other thing - is it possible to plot the stock news (such as earnings, > dividends etc) directly on the chart the way yahoo and google finance do it? > Even the mere fact of the news on a particular day would be of great help - > one can research further from there. > > Many thanks! >
