Volume for the XAO

saiter said:

I'm trying to get volume for the XAO, but can't find it. I get my data from BellDirect and from Commsec.

Does anyone know where you can get Volume data for the XAO? Preferably free.

Thanks.

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jackson8 said:

http://finance.google.com/finance/historical?q=INDEXASX:.AORD


this link may give you the information that you are after

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saiter said:

Thanks for the help guys, but Amibroker seems to be giving me negative volumes when i use this data I think I will just try to compile the volume for the XAO through amibroker.

EDIT: Hmmm, I still get negative volume with amibroker. I'll move this to the amibroker FAQ.

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Richard Dale said:

It's an AmiBroker limitation due to the storage structure they use for volume - try dividing your volume by 100 instead.

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saiter said:

How can I do this with the "Calculate composites" tool?

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Richard Dale said:

You can't there - but you could write your own code for creating a composite based upon the sum of volumes/100.

The other alternative is to subscribe to a data vendor that does this all for you of course.

Or wait until Tomasz fixes the Volume (it's a known bug/issue and a future version of AB will fix this).

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saiter said:

Lol okay, where can I learn scripting?

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Richard Dale said:

Howard Bandy's Introduction to Amibroker book is fantastic.
http://www.introductiontoamibroker.com/

Note that using composites for calculating the volume for XAO will get rather incorrect in history because the constituents today aren't the same as they were 5 years ago.

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