Automating Adding Symbols

[michael]

Hi Stu ,

Well I have not done this yet but it is something i was thinking about for a portfolio of stocks, 35-50 stocks.

Have the historical downloader installed,

In your C DRIVE add C:\NeuroShell Trader 6\DailyQuotes

” this allows you if you want to use yahoo finance , if you want to ,BUT it gives you access to the folder to update your data into. I don´t know where you are getting your data.”

You can setup a sub folder to save your data BUT and this is a big but,

In your work spaces change the symbol list to not as a 3 alphanumeric but as a number 1 to 50 or how ever many stocks you have .

You said you are already splitting the name etc . so change the 3 letter code to 1-50

keep the name part . so SYMBOL will be a number and name = name.

Put them in the sub folder .

Then each time you restart NSDT it will read the Data file and as long as NSDT does not come up with the box asking to retrain  the data , it should retrain .

As the NDST is reading the symbol list and not the name , so when you update the sub folder with new data , ie over write the old data it will read it on opening.

As your work spaces now have symbol number and then the name for the stock .

EG

in current work space you have

JPM   JP Morgan

IBM   International Business Machine

GS   Goldman sachs

Change to

1   JP Morgan

2 International Business Machine

3   Goldman sachs

Now your scanner comes up with 3 different stocks , you call them

1   Cisco

2   Boeing

3    Apple

Save the new data in your sub folder and over write existing data .

Theory as data is different NSDT should read this on opening.

Open all your work spaces

so now

it should read as above

1   Cisco

2   Boeing

3   Apple.

and retrain on opening.

I am guessing and i could be very wrong you are add / remove chart pages each week.

Print out the list of 50 stocks and the order they are in in case you want to change things.

You can always add more sub folders to historical data

First time round you will have to do it manually , that is change symbol to a number .

and then select in your charts and save all the work spaces with the new chart designations.

Hope this helps

Michael.

 

[StuC]

Thanks Michael 🙂

I’ll look to see what parts of your suggestions I can add to my automation script to improve it, appreciate the response.

 

S

[michael]

Oops , on the historical downloader ,

Marge has informed me that there is a new version that defaults to version 7 .

So that part is redundant , sorry .