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



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Thanks.  Will try that.

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "brian_z111" <brian_z111@xxx> wrote:
>
> I seem to recall playing around with something along those lines a 
> long time ago in a land far far away (not certain about it now).
> 
> SetForeign(Fixup) will use prev days OHLC to fill holes.... I believe 
> it uses reference symbol nominated in the AA settings.
> 
> Requires a reference symbol with data on all trading days - if the 
> market was suspended then you need to make an artificial calendar 
> ticker OR manually add data to missing calendar days on the reference 
> symbol.
> 
> There was dicussion on creating calendar day tickers - someone posted 
> some code - it can be done in excel and then imported via ASCII.
> 
> 
> 
> brian_z
> 
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "whitneybroach" <WhitneyBroach@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hmmm, no ideas?
> > 
> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "whitneybroach" <WhitneyBroach@>
> > 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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