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Also try checking out the Appendix E: Working with ASCII price data
files, in the manual.
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Bob Hunt wrote:
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> This ASCII import issue comes up frequently. Below is a response that
> I posted last year on it. It works!
>
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> I use Ascii data with TS very frequently and have run into the
> described problem many times. It can be EXTREMELY frustrating!!!
>
> I have found the cleanest fix to be the following.
> 1. Using server data, set up a chart using the same time frame as the
> desired ASCII data.
> 2. Go to View/Data Window and do a "Send to File" command", naming it
> the same name that you want to use for the ASCII data.
> 3. Open a chart up and import that ASCII file as
> "Date/Time/O/H/L/C/V/OI"
> 4. Save and close the workspace.
> 5. Replace the data in that ASCII file with the data that you really
> want to use (your original ASCII data). Make sure to close the file
> after doing so.
> 6. Open the workspace that you originally saved the imported chart in.
> Wah-La! You should have a chart with the data that you originally
> wanted.
>
> Don't ask me why it works. IT JUST DOES! My best guess would be that
> there is some sort of formatting that needs to be read on the FIRST
> opening of the ASCII file. If it isn't there, TS screws up the reading
> of the data. But then, that's just a guess.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Bob Hunt
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>
> Massimo Ciarafoni wrote:
> >
> > I'm having an unexplainable problem with ascii files, I have two
> > intraday (1 min) ascii files , one is about 3 months of 1 minute data
> > and the other one is last 2 days of the previous file.
> > When I chart last 2 days (1 min bars) of these files in my TS 4 build
> > 21, the first file's chart is screwed (it shows just one price for ohlc
> > for each minute) and the second file's chart is ok (it shows the right
> > ohlc data as stored in the file).
> > I can't figure out this different behavior considered the files have the
> > same identical data for the days plotted.
> > Can anyone help me to understand this strangeness?
> > I can email these two data files if anyone wants to help me and repeat
> > this test.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards.
> >
> > Massimo.
> >
> > "You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who
> > will never be able to repay you."
> > - John Wooden
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