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TWS 860.9 breaks compatiblity? Or… rather internal IB problem???

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

AmiBroker 4.81.1 BETA fix released

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

AmiQuote 1.91 released

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)

AmiBroker 4.81.0 BETA released (‘Fundamental data edition’)

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)