next day?
I download EOD data at night then scan my signals, based on the
closing price. Then, I buy at the open next day.
This makes me free from gap ups and downs overnight.
Of course, if gaps are what you are after, it wouldn't work though.
Regards,
intermilan04
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "soundscribe_studios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have a system where I need to place orders at the close (or very
> near the close) based on the closing price. Obviously, I can't know
> the closing price until it's closed, but I'm thinking a few minutes
> before the close would be fine. For example, if ABC's closing price is
> x% below the lower 10 day Bollinger band, buy.
>
> I'd like to scan all of the stocks in my database (around 1200), check
> each one to see if it meets the criteria (based on the almost closing
> price) and then place the orders. My stock database is an EOD
> database, not real time, but I'll need to get one real-time quote for
> each ticker. I suppose I could write a program to get the realtime
> quote from IB and compare it with the trigger value, but don't know if
> it would be fast enough to scan through 1200 tickers in a few minutes.
> I can't use Yahoo as the delay would be too large.
>
> I'd rather not pay eSignal 50-100/month. Any other alternatives or
> ideas? Yahoo's current day only download would be perfect if it was
> real time and not delayed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
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