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[amibroker] Re: Weekly from missing daily bars: a 9/11/2001 indicator problem (1010911)



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Hmmm, no ideas?

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "whitneybroach" <WhitneyBroach@xxx>
wrote:
>
> Due to the 9/11 markets interruption, daily bars were missing several
> days in a row.  9/10 and then 9/17 appear consecutive in many series.
> 
> Switching a chart from daily to weekly bars causes indicators to fail
> at that part of the chart.  A version of the WilliamsAD, for example,
> goes to zero.  Others drop radically.  I suppose some rise to infinity.
> 
> I have not noticed this when switching to monthly bars.
> 
> Of course 9/11 is not the only possible multi-day market interruption
> that could affect weekly versions of indicators.
> 
> Aside from a change in how AB handles the conversion from daily to
> weekly bars, does anyone have ideas for elegant AFL that can keep
> indicators sane?  A general solution that is simple, does *not* check
> for specific historical dates, and works only when the chart interval
> is set to weekly?
> 
> I apologize if this is already documented elsewhere.  I did not see
> a solution with quick searches of "9/11" or "September 2001" in Yahoo
> or in the code library.  I found this with potentially useful
> functions, but I wonder if its ideas can be made to work when the
> interval is weekly:
<http://www.amibroker.com/library/formula.php?id=223>
> 
> Best regards,
> Whitney
>



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