For setting up an analysis - follow this video http://www.amibroker.net/video/exploration.html Also look at their help text to: add a new symbol Amiquote - using manual mode, which has information on creating and importing ticker lists Importing from ASCII file and also search on Alerts. Amibroker also have online message-boards and a Yahoo group Charlton
I did my scanner in python/wxpython. It uses yahoo data though which is delayed. Suits my purposes just fine. ~telengard