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Hi Jules.
Thanks for your reply.
In the end I decided to not bother with backtesting on tick data and just go straight to forward testing via IB's papertrading account.
Nizar.
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Julian" <juliangoodsell@xxx> wrote:
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> Hi Nizar,
>
> you need to use the "Import ASCII..." menu, not the wizard.
> When imported this way, AB uses the default.format file in the formats folder in your Amibroker folder (Amibroker\formats) to determine the format of the data.
>
> Backup your current default.format file and then replace the contents with this:
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> $FORMAT Date_YMD, Time, Close, Volume
> $SKIPLINES 1
> $SEPARATOR ,
> $CONT 1
> $GROUP 255
> $AUTOADD 1
> $DEBUG 1
> $TICKMODE 1
> $ALLOW99SECONDS 1
>
> You might need to change the $FORMAT line depending on how your tick data is structured. I can't remember what all the settings mean and I always get one error after import but it still imports fine.
>
> To find help for all these settings, go to the Help menu and click on Help Contents. This brings up the Help window. In the "Contents" tab in the treeview on the left, go to
> Amibroker X.XX Users Guide -> Reference Guide -> ASCII importer reference
>
> All the settings are listed here and there's examples on importing tick data. You also need to be importing into a tick database.
>
> Jules.
>
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