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Chuck,
Are you using the latest beta release?
Dennis
On Aug 10, 2007, at 10:27 AM, Charles J. Dudek wrote:
> Dennis, I tried to use a 5 second database, but then the volume bar
> view is "grayed out." If I set the database to ticks, using IQ Feed,
> I can get volume bars, but I can only get a few days worth of data,
> pretty worthless for backtesting and optimization. Exactly where can
> I get the workaround for this? I don't know what Jerry meant by HQ.
> Volume bars look interesting, but they're pretty worthless if I can
> only get a limited history in the database.
>
> Chuck
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Dennis Brown <see3d@xxx> wrote:
>>
>> Volume bars work quite nicely with a 5 second database.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>> On Aug 9, 2007, at 9:14 PM, Jerry Gress wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Yes if you mean x number ticks (volume of contracts traded) per
>>> bar. I.e.
>>> 89,250 or any number you want per bar. Only takes a full day of
>>> data to get
>>> a non jumping screen, something to do with populating the data.
>>> Also you are
>>> limited to a day and half of data to show on the screen, something
>>> to do
>>> with Cpu load. Also there is a special work round to load more
>>> data, need to
>>> get it from HQ.
>>>
>>> In addition Amibroker does 'range bars' described in the read me
>>> file.
>>> Something like:
>>>
>>> TimeFrameMode( 3 ); // turn on range bars
>>> TimeFrameSet( 1.1 ); // set compression to 1.5$ range bar
>>>
>>>
>>> Jerry Gress
>>> Stockton, Ca.
>
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