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Stewart Taylor wrote:
> Wasn't really planning on throwing it out... although some of the foreign
> indices are so screwed up as to be almost worthless. I guess what I want
> to know is how difficult is the old Dial Data to merge with the CSI data.
> Is it a march of death up till 4:00 AM three nights in a row or is
> relitevely simple?
>
Stewart:
Don't throw it out...But the beauty of the Unfair Advantage program is the way
it stores it's data. It takes about 250 megs or more of data and stores it in a
matrix, undistributed, that is about 60 megs in size. So my database has every
traded commodity avaialable, from their inception of trading, all contract
months, and it's much smaller than my more limited database in Techtools, for
instance.
In terms of converting one to the other...I do not think you will be able to
force your old data into CSI's Unfair Advantage matrix. But, go to their web
page and ask them. You would probably get free about six months of existing
contracts history [If they aren't selling it that way today, watch carefully and
I bet they do every quarter or so, to boost sales...and again, just be frank and
ask them.] and so for contracts that are trading now, you won't care about your
old data. If you want to be able to paste your old data together for back
testing and charting, it's doable. I'll paw through my data programs and see if
I can find one that isn't too cumbersome. But I'm sure there are some out there.
I hope that helps.
Tim
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