Historic Market Data
Importing into Amibroker

We need to import our newly download/converted historic market data. For more information regarding the setup of import formats other than what is shown here, Please refer to the Amibroker documentation or online user support facilities.

Setup the Market Data Import Format in Amibroker

Locate the import.types.add file in the Mkt Data Archive.

Locate the import.types file in your Amibroker/Formats directory (ie. Amibroker install location).

Copy the line from import.types.add and paste it into the import.types file.

Now copy the MktD_INT_Import.format file to the Amibroker/Formats directory.

Import the data into Amibroker

Load Amibroker.

Select File/Import ASCII from the menubar.

Select Market Data INT from the file types.

Locate/Select your converted Market Data files.

Select Open to import.

Go to menu Symbol/Organise Assignments and push MktD tickers into their appropriate categories.

Errata on Ascii-data to Amibroker format conversion

Ascii-Data → Amibroker Format:

Ticker FORMAT = TICKER-MktD

Eg. BHP-MktD

Date FORMAT = YYYYMMDD

Eg. 20050313

Example:
Code-MktD,Date,Price,DebEq,EPS,NTA,MCap/1k,MCap
AAC-MktD,20050527,1.475,71.9,15.8,2.03,366611,366611851
AAE-MktD,20050527,0.22,29.9,-3.1,0.15,5112,5112020
AAI-MktD,20050527,39.99,102.1,208.64,0,34632093,34632093492
AAM-MktD,20050527,0.23,1.5,-1.1,0,7178,7178455
AAQ-MktD,20050527,0.67,14.4,-2.77,0.09,23579,23579592
AAR-MktD,20050527,0.023,0,-0.42,0,8280,8280000
AAT-MktD,20050527,0.165,117.7,2.7,0.08,114535,114535965
AAU-MktD,20050527,0.74,3.5,7.89,0.19,46269,46269685
ABB-MktD,20050527,5.99,58.9,34.6,3.22,836276,836276347
ABC-MktD,20050527,1.75,0.4,15,0.86,948768,948768742