Ed, Care to throw the rest of us a bone and tell us what you did? I take it your "fix" will only work from now on? What do you do about the past? Anyone have an idea on keeping past delisted symbols in our database?
Thanks, John --- In [email protected], "Edward Pottasch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dale, > > yes I think I found a solution within Amibroker that I can use. >From now I will have to save dead symbols from getting erased myself, manually. So I hope this will work, > > rgds, Ed > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: optiontrader3290 > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 5:04 PM > Subject: [quotes-plus] Re: changes in the database > > > Ed: > I am sorry that you are displeased with Gary's efforts to clean up > the dead symbols in the database. In my case I am very pleased that > this is finally happening. I and many others have had to program > workarounds for quite a while. It would appear that now you will have > to do the same. > Dale > > --- In [email protected], "Edward Pottasch" > <empottasch@> wrote: > > > > have to say it is getting horrible. I did a download of the data > saturday on 2 computers. This morning I do a download on 1 of the > computers not sure if I already did a download. Calculating the > signals on both computers I get a different backtest result. Now a do > a dowload on the other computer again and now the backtest is the > same again. > > > > Obviously again this weekend a bunch of dead symbols have > disappeared or who knows what but something changed. Just horrible, > > > > Ed >
