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Allan:

Yeah, I think I am getting the gist of the problem from a few other posts. This
is a major bug. Has Omega even promised it will go away with TS 5.0? Here I am
just starting my information foray into individual stock scanning and trading
and you guys are doing your best to scare me back into pure commodities.

Best,

Tim Morge

Allan Kaminsky wrote:
> 
> Tim:
> 
> The problem is that ALL of the stored ticks are bad.
> 
> Allan
> _______________________
> 
> At 05:03 PM 7/14/98 -0500, Timothy Morge wrote:
> >Allan:
> >
> >Can't you enter the portfolio in the server and edit the tick prices for
> today
> >and save that?
> >
> >Tim Morge
> >
> >Allan Kaminsky wrote:
> >>
> >> Ron:
> >>
> >> I just tried what you said, hoping it would work. It still leaves all the
> >> remaining ticks as bad. I even tried it again, deleting the new first tick
> >> for the day. Still NG.
> >>
> >> I'm also running TS4B21.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the idea anyway.
> >>
> >> Allan
> >> _____________________________
> >>
> >> At 08:40 AM 7/14/98 -1000, Ron Augustine wrote:
> >> >
> >> >Please tell me if I'm missing something here, but I was able to edit and
> >> >correct the bad MRK tick without problems.  This is the second time this
> >> >issue has come up when I was able to correct the tick in the normal
> way, but
> >> >others claim to not be able to fix it without some tedious procedure.
> >> >
> >> >This is what I did:  Bring up a 1 minute chart, displaying MRK for today
> >> >only.  Right-click to the right of the first bar on the chart and select
> >> >"Edit Price Data" -- navigate to the bad tick, select it, and press the
> >> >"Delete" button and save the changes.
> >> >
> >> >I always fix bad ticks this way and never have had a problem with it.
> >> >Please let me know if this fix doesn't work.  I'm running ver. 4.0,
> build 21.
> >> >_____________________________________
> >> >At 01:14 PM 7/14/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >> >>Allan Kaminsky wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> MRK is one of the issues I collect and it is indeed damaged (until 1332
> >> >>> when it straightens out).
> >> >>
> >> >>I doubt that seriously.  Close the window showing MRK or change
> >> >>it to another symbol.  Then display MRK again, and "amazingly"
> >> >>the data will be bad until the moment you display it, and data
> >> >>moving forward in time will be correct again.  The data in the
> >> >>server's database is being stored incorrectly.  You can see that
> >> >>by bringing up the tick editor in the server.
> >> >>
> >> >>> Is the repair technique something you can
> >> >>> describe easily?
> >> >>
> >> >>No, look in the omega-list archives for messages from Igor Uhrik
> >> >>IUhrik@xxxxxxx on this subject.
> >> >>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> This really messes up my data! It's bizarre that most of a day's data
> >> >>> collection is bad because of one bad tick.
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >>Yes, Bill Cruz, it is indeed bizarre, and it is correctible, easily
> >> >>by Omega, but tediously by users.
> >> >>
> >> >>Rod
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >