--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "jrswindle2001" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If anyone is interested, I have posted a new AB blank database (stocks) > on my website. Data is effective as of 04/05/2007 Jim, Thanks. Your contribution fills a gap in the AB platform and is a good example of what the combined efforts of the community can do. Yahoo + your classification provide an excellent free *starting* database for new users. I understand that some long term traders also use Yahoo with success so I am sure they are happy with your efforts also. I used your setup again yesterday. For the benefit of others: I followed the simple instructions exactly and had no problems; I used the setup as at March2007; 8647 symbols were installed in my US-Stocks database; 559 contained no data e.g. ^MSCISC index; symbol searches at Yahoo indicate that the *no data problem* is at their end i.e ^MSCISC does indeed exist in their listings but if entered at YahooFinance as a symbol their site reports *historical data does not exist for this symbol*; I believe the sector/industry classifications are Hemscotts's; I downloaded 10 years history in approx 8 hours using DSL; and I backed up the database by copy/pasting to an external drive using WindowsExplorer. The backup opened correctly from with AB>open database. I used tools>database purify in AB with all symbols, n == 1 quotes>show missing quotes to find the stock with no data. A column sort in database purify gave me the list of no quotes stock and I shift/selected all of these and sent them to a watchlist for deletion if required. Brian_Z
