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Following IB "tradition" new version 860.9 of TWS breaks compatiblity with existing 3rd party software.
It gives "invalid symbol" error in many cases.

The only TWS recommended version to use is 858.6 or earlier.

If you already upgraded to 860.9 you need to revert back to 858.6
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/download/tws40_install_prev.exe

General rule is NEVER upgrade TWS until we give OK that new version of TWS is OK,
as in the past there were many cases where TWS just broke compatiblity with their previous APIs
and things just stopped working without any warning.

Again: never update TWS until we say that new version is OK.

UPDATE July 5th, 2006:

Apparently there is no problem at all with TWS 860.9 but there is a problem with *SOME* IB accounts,
that behave strangly. A couple of users reported it and I have seen strange things happening on my own account (”invalid symbol” problem) but … it all fixed itself (or rather IB has changed something to fix that) and all TWS versions (including 860.9) work OK now. No changes in software but things stop and re-start to work. The only reason that comes to my mind is that IB is doing some changes on their servers and this is causing problems on *some* accounts.

UPDATE July 6th, 2006: THE PROBLEM IS NOW FIXED WITH UPDATED VERSION 1.6.6 OF IB PLUGIN

Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 3:45 pm under News,Plugins
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A fix to watch list problem that appeared in 4.81.0 is available for download now from
http://www.amibroker.com/members/bin/ab4811beta.exe

For more details on this new release check AmiBroker 4.81.0 announcement

Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 2:06 pm under Beta,Releases
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New AmiQuote 1.91 has been just released. It is available for download from http://www.amibroker.com/bin/aq1910.exe

With new version the registration fee for AmiQuote is now set to $49 (for lifetime license).

Highlight of this version is ability to download free fundamental data from Yahoo Finance.
This is implemented using 2 different Yahoo pages:

1. Yahoo Fundamental - Basic data source (free basic fundamental data, 200 symbols in one request).
   Data are retrieved from the following URL: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s={Ticker} (Download data link).

   That page provides the following data:

   EPS (ttm)
   EPS Est Current Year
   EPS Est Next Year
   EPS Est Next Quarter
   PEG Ratio
   Book Value
   EBITDA
   Sales Revenue
   Dividend Pay date
   Ex Dividend date
   Dividend Per Share
   1yr Target Price
   Shares Float
   Shares Outstanding

   Explanation of values: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/fin/quote/quote-03.html

   You have to use AmiBroker 4.81 or higher to use automatic import feature of fundamental data.

2. Yahoo Fundamental - Extra data source (extended fundamental data, 1 symbol in one request, more data - available in registered version only).
   Data are retrieved from the following URL: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s={Ticker} (Key Statistics page)

   That page provides following data:

   Forward P/E
   PEG Ratio
   Profit Margin
   Operating Margin
   Return on Assets
   Return on Equity
   Revenue (ttm)
   Qtrly Revenue Growth
   Gross Profit
   EBITDA
   (Diluted) EPS
   Qtrly Earnings Growth
   Book Value Per Share
   Operating Cash Flow
   Levered Free Cash Flow
   Beta
   Shares Outstanding
   Float
   % Held by Insiders
   % Held by Institutions
   Shares Short (prior month)
   Shares Short
   Forward Annual Dividend Rate
   Trailing Annual Dividend Rate
   Dividend Date
   Ex-Dividend Date
   Last Split Factor
   Last Split Date

   Explanation of values: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/fin/research/research-12.html

   You have to use AmiBroker 4.81 or higher to use automatic import feature of fundamental data.

   IMPORTANT NOTE: Unregistered version of AmiQuote allows you to download fundamental-ex data for first 20 tickers in the list. To download data for more symbols you need to register AmiQuote ($49 one time fee)

Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 12:34 pm under Releases
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A new beta version (4.81.0) of AmiBroker has just been released.

It is available for registered users only from the members area at:
http://www.amibroker.com/members/bin/ab4810beta.exe

(File size: 1 224 176 bytes, 1.2 MB)

The installer includes also the newest AmiQuote 1.90.

If you forgot your user name / password to the members area you can use automatic reminder service at: http://www.amibroker.com/login.html

The highlight of this version is the addition of 30+ fundamental data fields accessible from the User Interface (View->Symbol Information), AFL, ASCII importer and OLE interface that allows to perform scans that combine technical signals with fundamental data. The best thing about it is that new version comes together with new AmiQuote 1.90 that allows to automatically download and import all those fundamentals from good old Yahoo Finance.

Supported fundamental fields are:

1. EPS
2. EPSEstCurrentYear
3. EPSEstNextYear
4. EPSEstNextQuarter
5. PEGRatio
6. SharesFloat
7. SharesOut
8. DividendPayDate
9. ExDividendDate
10. BookValuePerShare
11. DividendPerShare
12. ProfitMargin
13. OperatingMargin
14. OneYearTargetPrice
15. ReturnOnAssets
16. ReturnOnEquity
17. QtrlyRevenueGrowth
18. GrossProfitPerShare
19. SalesPerShare
20. EBITDAPerShare
21. QtrlyEarningsGrowth
22. InsiderHoldPercent
23. InstitutionHoldPercent
24. SharesShort
25. SharesShortPrevMonth
26. ForwardDividendPerShare
27. ForwardEPS
28. OperatingCashFlow
29. LeveredFreeCashFlow
30. Beta
31. LastSplitRatio
32. LastSplitDate

The instructions are available in the
AmiBroker 4.81.0 BETA Read Me and
AmiQuote 1.90 Read Me

IMPORTANT NOTES:

If you are using Firewall you may need to check if it did not block Broker.EXE file after upgrade. (It happened to some users that firewall blocked AmiBroker after upgrade and they could not connect to RT data sources due to that)

Filed by Tomasz Janeczko at 12:08 pm under Beta,Releases
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