Importing Intraday IEOD data from Metatrader to Amibroker

Importing Intraday IEOD data from Metatrader to Amibroker is one of the requirement from most of the amibroker software users to import and analyse Nifty,World Indices, US stocks, Commodities and Forex intraday data’s. In this tutorial importing Nifty Intraday data from Metatrader to Amibroker is discussed.

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Requirement

1) Metatrader 4
2) Amibroker Ver 4.8 and above
3) MS Excel

Step Involved in Exporting Intraday data from Metatrader

1) Open Metatrader 4
2) Goto Tools menu and select Historical Center

3)On the left plane select Indices->INDIA50->1 Minute. Double click on the 1 Minute so that the intraday data occur on right plane

4)Now click on the export tab to export the data and select the file type as .csv format
5)Save the India501.csv in your windows local machine

Steps involved in Importing CSV data to Amibroker

1)Open Amibroker
2)Goto File Menu->New->Database and set the database settings as shown

3)Now goto File->Import Wizard and click on the pick files button and select the India501.csv from your windows local machine and Press Next

4)Now set the required field parameters as shown and press next

5)And now press the finish Button.

Finally you could see the 1 min charts imported into your amibroker software and every time you can update the same database using IMPORT ASCII
and can use it your own custom amibroker analysis.