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Thanks to those who replied to my message about manually importing a number
of weekly data items from Barrons. Here is what I learned. This is for SC
4.0, build 7, EOD but it probably applies to TS4 as well. It appears that I
was over complicating things by trying to batch import via the DownLoader to
the Omega proprietary data format. I should have read Appendix B "Working
With ASCII Price data Files" in the SC manual. That section of the manual is
detailed and clear.
However, the manual didn't cover the benefit of entering my new symbols (
which are the same names as the ASCII file names) in the symbol universe.
That appears to be the only way to write a description for a symbol. Other
symbol universe parameter entries may be useful as well, but not for the
weekly advances, declines, sentiment percentages, etc. that I am entering.
So far I have experimented with only one symbol but there should be no
reason why multiple symbols (a data file for each) won't work.
So what I will do is to keep a single ASCII flat file for convenience, which
I will update each week via my text editor. After updating that flat file, I
will run a program (that I have to write) which will delete all ASCII data
files in the weekly data directory, and then create new ASCII data files in
that directory which will each have all data for its respective column in the
flat file. File deletion / creation should take less than half a minute.
I called Pinnacle Data. They supply a utility with their historical data
disks, which will convert their ASCII data files to MetaStock format. That
may allow the Omega DownLoader to import a number of symbols with one
operation.
Another source of index historical data is: Eagle Data, (317)-293-2696.
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