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The AmiBroker program is published by AmiBroker

The Dakota program is published by BioComp Systems

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Data Providers

Quotes Plus — End of Day and Real-Time data for stocks, funds, commodities

Interactive Brokers — Real Time data for stocks, futures, forex


Historical Data, some with daily updates
  • MSN Money – Historical End of Day Stock data — Integrated with AmiQuote
  • Yahoo Finance – Historical End of Day Stock data — Integrated with AmiQuote


  • AN Futures – Historical 1 minute data for ES, NQ, ER, ME, EC, JY
  • CSI Data – End of Day US, Canada, London Stock and Futures data in CSI format
  • Download Quotes.com – End of Day World data
  • EOD Data – End of Day World data
  • Futures Guide – Historical Futures Data
  • Historical Option Data – Historical options data with daily updates
  • Investor's FastTrack – EOD US Mutual Fund and Stock (Close-only) Data, and proprietary program
  • Just Data – EOD World Stock and Futures, from Australia
  • Norgate Premium Data – EOD World Stock, Futures and Forex data, with AmiBroker data maintenance utilities
  • Pi Trading – Free Historical EOD Index, Forex, Commodities data
  • Pinnacle Data – EOD Futures, Indices, Market Breadth
  • Price-Data.com – End of Day and IntraDay US Stock and Futures data in ASCII files
  • Turtle Trader – Free Historical Futures Data
  • Worden TeleChart 2007 – EOD and Intraday US Stock data, and proprietary analysis program

  • Real Time and Delayed Market Snapshot
  • Bloomberg – Broad Market Information
  • CBOE – Market Data, including VIX and VXN
  • CNN Market Summary – Broad Market Information, including pre-market
  • CNN – commodities
  • Download Quotes – World Indices
  • DTN IQ – Real Time data for stocks, futures, options – most world markets
  • eSignal — Real Time data for stocks, futures, forex (Also End of Day) — MarketCenter is no longer available
  • Fidelity – Delayed and Real Time Quotes
  • Fund Estimate – intraday estimate of fund closing price
  • Google Finance – Broad Market Information
  • Integrity Data – Real time data for the Indonesian markets
  • Market Watch – Dow Jones – Broad Market Information
  • MSN Money – Broad Market Information
  • NASDAQ – Real Time Market Data
  • Quote.com – World Stocks and Futures
  • Reuters – Broad Market Information
  • Smart Money – Streaming Real Time Quotes
  • Tick Data – Real Time Market Data and Historical Quotes
  • Yahoo Finance – Broad Market Information


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    Lists of tickers and index components
  • Index Arb – S&P 500 Components by Weight
  • NASDAQ – Component stocks of the NASDAQ 100 index
  • Price-Data.com – Ticker Lists for major indicies
  • Russell – Indices Fact Sheets
  • Standard & Poor's – S&P Index Information
  • Standard & Poor's – S&P 500 Components
  • Standard & Poor's – S&P 100 Components
  • XAU Gold Index – Components and quotes for the stocks in the XAU


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    Exchange Traded Funds
  • CBOE – Options on ETFs
  • ETF Screen.com – Performance comparison of Exchange Traded Funds
  • ETF Trends – Commentary and Links
  • Inverse Funds – a list
  • iShares – Information about iShares ETFs, including components
  • Master Data – List of All ETFs; Intraday ETF Data
  • Morningstar – Exchange Traded Funds; List by trading volume; Shows holdings
  • Nuveen – ETF Connect
  • PowerShares – Information about PowerShare ETFs, including components
  • Price-Data.com – Lists of Exchange Traded Funds
  • ProShares – Information about ProShare ETFs
  • S&P Sectors – Information about S&P Sector ETFs, including components
  • Securities and Exchange Commission (US) – on ETFs
  • Seeking Alpha – ETC and CEF Commentary and Links
  • Smart Money – ETF Tracker
  • XTF – Informative ETF site
  • Yahoo – Exchange Traded Funds Center

  • Mutual Funds
    Links to fund companies that offer funds that are in one of these categories:
    • Available for short term trading
    • Sector funds – even if not tradable short-term, they may be useful for modeling
    • Both positive and negative beta
    • Leveraged
    Fund Companies
    • Direxion – Tradable short term – Leveraged positive and negative
    • Fidelity Select – Not Tradable short term – Sector Funds – Useful for modeling
    • ProFunds – Tradable short term – Sector Funds – Leveraged positive and negative
    • Rydex Funds – Tradable short term – Sector Funds – Leveraged positive and negative – Some have multiple daily price points
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    The Major Exchanges
  • American Stock Exchange
  • NASDAQ site
  • New York Stock Exchange


  • Australian Securities Exchange
  • Bombay Stock Exchange
  • Euronext – FTSE, CAC
  • Frankfurt Stock Exchange
  • Hong Kong Stock Exchange
  • London Stock Exchange
  • Mexican Bolsa
  • Madrid Bolsa
  • New Zealand Stock Exchange
  • Swiss Exchange
  • Tokyo Stock Exchange
  • Toronto Stock Exchange


  • Chicago Board Options Exchange – CBOE
  • Chicago Board of Trade – CBOT/CME
  • Chicago Mercantile Exchange – CBOT/CME
  • Intercontinental Exchange
  • Kansas City Board of Trade
  • New York Board of Trade
  • New York Mercantile Exchange
  • One Chicago


  • List of Stock Exchanges
  • All World Exchanges


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    US Regulatory Agencies
  • CFTC - Commodity Futures Trading Commission – US Regulator
  • FINRA - Financial Industry Regulatory Authority – Formerly NASD - National Association of Securities Dealers
  • NFA - National Futures Association – US Regulator
  • SEC - Securities and Exchange Commission – US Regulator


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    Forums and Discussion Groups

  • AmiBroker Yahoo Group – The main Yahoo group
  • AmiBroker-AFL Yahoo Group – Sharing AFL programming ideas
  • AmiBroker-AT Yahoo Group – Automated Trading
  • AmiBroker-Beta Yahoo Group – Discussing Beta releases
  • AmiBroker-DLL Yahoo Group – Developers of Plug-ins
  • AmiBroker-News Yahoo Group – Notices of new versions of AmiBroker
  • AmiBroker-TS Yahoo Group – Discussing Trading Systems


  • AmiBroker Fan – Good Forum discussions
  • Aussie Stock Forums – Excellent Forum Discussions – Not just for Aussies
  • Elite Trader – Active Discussions
  • Market Thoughts – Active discussions
  • PureBytes – AmiBroker forum archives


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    Educational and Miscellaneous

  • AmiBroker – User's Knowledge Base
  • Autumn Gold – CTA Performance
  • BabyPips – Forex Education
  • Business Week – Company information, mostly fundamental
  • Calyon Financial Barclay Index – CTA Performance
  • Capital Management Partners – CTA Performance
  • Capital Management Partners – Relationship between Commodities and Stocks
  • Chart School – John Murphy's site
  • Daily Reckoning – Newsletter and Forums
  • eSignal Learning – a digest of one-pagers on technical indicators
  • Forex Realm – Technical Indicators
  • HedgeStreet – Online Commodity Futures Trading – including Binary Options
  • Internet Public Library – Investments
  • NO DooDahs – Bill Rempel — Educational and Entertaining
  • Investopedia – Stock information, including splits
  • PIMCO – Bill Gross
  • Quatloos – Frauds of All Kinds
  • Seasonal Charts – Annual seasonality
  • TheStreet.com – Jim Cramer
  • Trending123 – Technical analysis on stocks, indices, and currencies
  • Wikipedia – General information
  • Wilmott – Quantitative Finance


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    Books, journals, and magazines worth reading

  • Active Trader Magazine, (800) 341-9384, www.activetradermag.com
  • Aronson, David, Evidence-Based Technical Analysis, Wiley, 2007
  • Bernstein, Peter, Against the Gods, Wiley, 1996
  • Drobny, Steven, Inside the House of Money, Wiley, 2006
  • Ehlers, John, Rocket Science for Traders, Wiley, 2001
  • Ehlers, John, Cybernetic Analysis of Stocks and Futures, Wiley, 2004
  • Fontanills, George, Getting Started in Commodities, Wiley, 2007
  • Formula Research, Nelson Freeburg, (800) 720-1080, www.formularesearch.com
  • Futures Magazine, (800) 458-1734, www.futuresmag.com
  • Hulbert Financial Digest, (866) 428-6568, www.marketwatch.com
  • Jones, Ryan, The Trading Game, Wiley, 1999
  • Leach, Patrick, Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number?, Probabilistic Publishing, 2006
  • Lowenstein, Roger, When Genius Failed, Random House, 2000
  • Poundstone, William, Fortune's Formula, Hill and Wang, 2005
  • Taleb, Nassim, Fooled by Randomness, Norton, 2001
  • Taleb, Nassim, The Black Swan, Random House, 2007
  • Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, (800) 832-4642, www.traders.com
  • Tharp, Van, Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom, 2nd Ed, McGraw-Hill, 2007
  • Vince, Ralph, Portfolio Management Formulas, Wiley, 1990
  • Vince, Ralph, The Mathematics of Money Management, Wiley, 1992
  • Vince, Ralph, The New Money Management, Wiley, 1995


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