[amibroker] Need help understanding ATC/Foreign subtleties

[Dennis Brown <see3d@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello AFL experts,

I am having a hard time understanding a few things about ATC/Foreign  
relating to time stamps on bars and I am hoping someone can clear up  
a few things for me.

For instance:
I am running a 5 second database, and I created an ATC ticker with  
one bar ("X" field) marked as "1" (True),  all other bars are marked  
as "0" (False).
I then read the ATC ticker in with foreign and plotted a marker for  
any "1" bar and it worked as expected.

However:
If I change the chart (not the database) to displaying 1 minute bars,  
foreign no longer reads in a "1" bar anywhere.
If I change to volume bars, foreign no longer reads in a "1" bar  
anywhere.
If I change to range bars, foreign reads a "1" bar everywhere up to  
the time stamp of the actual "1" bar, then "0" for bars after that.

What I am trying to accomplish, is to have ATC "flags" that are time  
stamped to a 5 second database, that are then read into any other  
chart timeframe and will show up as a flag on the bar that contains  
that original time stamp.  (It is for marking manual trade signals  
among other things)

Please enlighten me.

Thanks,
Dennis


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