When a market tick arrives, the background thread parses the price data and pushes it into an internal circular queue.
The official resource for AmiBroker data plugin source code is the . While the source code for proprietary plugins like Interactive Brokers is not publicly available, the ADK provides full example codes for various data plugins to help you build your own. Top Official & Community Resources
This example demonstrates a simple CSV plugin that reads data from a CSV file and provides it to Amibroker. amibroker data plugin source code top
: Broadcasts application events like database loading, unloading, or configuration metric updates.
As this is a port of the official ADK, reading the is strongly recommended to understand the underlying data flow and callbacks. Also, due to performance constraints, you cannot use slow operations (like complex reflection or expensive database queries) inside the GetQuotesEx callback—it is called every time AmiBroker needs data. When a market tick arrives, the background thread
virtual int GetData( AmiBroker::Symbol * symbol, AmiBroker::Data * data ); virtual int GetSymbol( const char * symbol, AmiBroker::Symbol * symbolInfo ); ;
Compile and build your plugin using your preferred IDE. Make sure to link against the Amibroker SDK libraries. Top Official & Community Resources This example demonstrates
, which provides the necessary C/C++ headers and sample source code to link external data feeds into the AmiBroker engine. Core Architecture
This is a simplified boilerplate for a "Top" performance plugin. It demonstrates the essential exported functions required by Broker.exe .
// In GetQuotesEx, for ACTION_REFRESH (real-time) async_http_get("https://api.exchange.com/ticker?symbol=" + symbol, [&](json data) pQuotes[0].fLast = data["price"]; pQuotes[0].nVolume = data["vol"]; pQuotes[0].fOpen = prevOpen; // Carry over );
// Implement GetBar function