AmiQuote Read Me

AmiQuote 1.10 Read Me (July 12, 2000)

INTRODUCTION

> AmiQuote is a companion program to AmiBroker stock charting/analysis software. The main purpose of AmiQuote is to simplify and automate downloading daily and historical quotation data from free Yahoo! Finance sites (USA, UK, France, Italy, Germany and Australia). AmiQuote perform downloads using multiple threads allowing you to fully utilise your connection bandwidth.

WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.1?

- Support for daily downloads (current 15-20 minutes delayed quotes)
- Support for multiple countries (USA, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Australia)
- New format for exporting daily data (includes full stock name)
- Ability to stop running download
- Auto-refresh feature
- New example ticker lists and format definitions for AmiBroker imporer

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

1. Launch AmiQuote
2. Open supplied example file DJIA.TLS in the directory DJIA
   This will load example ticker list (components of Dow Jones Industrial Average)
3. Choose between downloading current or historical quotes
4. Click on green arrow toolbar button (Start download)
   now for a couple of minutes you can watch the download operation progress
5. When all downloads are complete you can close the program and find appropriate .AQD (daily quotes) or .AQH (historical) files stored in the DJIA subdirectory.
6. Now you can lanuch AmiBroker and import these files using ASCII importer and aqd.format or aqh.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, mode (current quotes or historical), country and From/To date. Then, when you start the download process, it requests the data from Yahoo and stores downloaded data in the separate .AQD (daily) or .AQH (historical) files for each ticker. After download, these files can be easily imported into AmiBroker.

> IMPORTANT NOTE: AmiQuote does not save .CSV files any longer. Instead files with extenstions .AQD (AmiQuote Daily) and .AQH (AmiQuote Historical) are generated. These files remain plain text files with comma separated values but I decided to change the extensions to avoid mistakes when importing the files. AQD and AQH files have different fields so separate aqd.format and aqh.format ASCII import definitions should be used (they are included in the AmiQuote archive, also new import.types file is included)

LIMITATIONS

> Because Yahoo! does not provide historical quotes for exchanges other than NYSE and Nasdaq, support for non-US markets are limited to daily quotes download.

SUPPLIED EXAMPLE FILES

> AmiQuote 1.1with the following example ticker lists:

- NYSE.tls - all stocks from New York Stock Exchange (USA)
- Nasdaq.tls - all stocks from NASDAQ (USA)
- DJIA.tls - components of Dow Jones Industrial Average (USA)
- DJTA.tls - components of Dow Jones Transportation Average (USA)
- DJUA.tls - components of Dow Jones Utilities Average (USA)
- Nasdaq100.tls - components of Nasdaq-100 composite Index (USA)
- FTSE100.tls - components of FTSE100 index (UK)
- FTSE250.tls - components of FTSE250 index (UK)
- dax30.tls - components of DAX30 index (Germany)
- xetra.tls - components of XETRA index (Germany)
- mdax.tls - components of MDAX index (Germany)
- cac50.tls - components of CAC-50 index (France)
- cac40.tls - components of CAC-40 index (France)
- italy.tls - all stocks from Milan stock exchange (Italy)
- aus-volumelead.tls - volume leaders from ASX (Australia)

  Moreover AmiQuote comes with the updated import.types and aqd.format and aqh.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 1.1. Copyright (C)2000 by Tomasz Janeczko. All rights reserved.
> All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.