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Re: bad INTC opening tick



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In a message dated 98-01-08 08:05:41 EST, IUhrik@xxxxxxx writes:

> Unfortunately, this is only half correct. What the guy at Omega did not 
>  tell you was that the second part of the problem is caused by the way 
>  TS stores the tick data which is based on the net change relative to the 
>  first tick. If the first tick is off, TS will allter the value of all
>  subsequents 
>  ticks during the whole session. This method was apparently chosen to 
>  save space on the HD but it leads to messed up -- and unusable -- data 
>  if the first tick happens to be a bad one. 

Is this also true for futures.  I've had bad first ticks on the S&P and the
rest are fine

                    Pete