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AmiQuote 1.00 (beta) Read Me (Mar 28th, 2000)
INTRODUCTION
AmiQuote is a companion program to AmiBroker stock charting/analysis software. The main purpose of AmiQuote is to simplify and automate downloading historical quotation data from free Yahoo! Finance site. AmiQuote performs downloads using multiple threads allowing you to fully utilise your connection bandwidth.
INSTALLATION
If you have installed AmiBroker already, no special installation of AmiQuote is required. Just unzip AmiQuote package to a separate directory. If you haven't installed AmiBroker yet it is recommended to do so, because AmiQuote uses MFC libraries (version 6.0) that are supplied with AmiBroker.
QUICK START
- Launch AmiQuote
- Open supplied example file DJIA.TLS in the directory DJIA
This will load example ticker list (components of Dow Jones Industrial Average)- Click on green arrow toolbar button (Start download)
now for a couple of minutes you can watch the download operation progress- when all downloads are complete you can close the program and find appropriate .CSV files stored in the DJIA subdirectory.
- now you can lanuch AmiBroker and import these files using ASCII importer and yahoo.format definition file.
HOW IT WORKS
AmiQuote loads ticker list file (.TLS) which is simple ASCII file with ticker symbols, then parses it and generates URLs to the Yahoo! finance site based on ticker name and From/To dates. Then, when you start the download process, it requests the data from Yahoo and stores downloaded data in the separate CSV files for each ticker. After download, these files can be easily imported into AmiBroker.
SUPPLIED EXAMPLE FILES
AmiQuote comes with a couple of example .TLS (Ticker list files) for industrial DJIA, tranportation DJTA, utilities averages components stored for clarity in separate directories.
Moreover AmiQuote comes with the updated import.types and yahoo.format files which should be copied to AmiBroker main directory. These files features new commands introduced in AmiBroker 3.24.
DISTRIBUTION
AmiQuote is distributed as freeware.
DISCLAIMER
This software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Any use of the program is at your own risk. The author disclaims any implied warranty of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose.
LEGAL
AmiQuote 1.0. Copyright (C)2000 by Tomasz Janeczko. All rights reserved.
All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.