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Re: Constructing tick/time bars in ASCII files



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> Here is a snippet from a file I exported out of TS. You may
> need to change the date format to MM/DD/YY also to get it to
> work in addition to the up/ down tick info that Dennis H
> mentioned.

Supposedly the time format I used (YYMMDD) *is* accepted, according 
to the online help and the manual.  (And changing it to MM/DD/YY 
doesn't help any.)  

And unfortunately Dennis's U/D suggestion didn't help either.  :-(

This shouldn't be this hard.  The data I'm generating looks virtually 
identical to 10min data exported by TS!  Here are the first few lines 
of my file:

"Date","Time","O","H","L","C","U","D"
01/11/99,0940,189.00000,189.00000,188.56250,188.56250,33,44
01/11/99,0950,188.62500,189.25000,188.31250,188.75000,33,44
01/11/99,1000,188.68750,189.00000,188.56250,188.81250,33,44
01/11/99,1010,188.75000,189.12500,188.50000,189.12500,33,44
01/11/99,1020,189.06250,189.06250,188.56250,189.00000,33,44

(U/D values are artificial)

...and here are a few lines exported from TS:

"Date","Time","O","H","L","C","U","D"
01/22/99,0940,1226.50,1230.00,1224.00,1224.50,38,44
01/22/99,0950,1224.00,1229.50,1223.50,1228.50,46,41
01/22/99,1000,1229.00,1232.80,1227.50,1232.00,41,30
01/22/99,1010,1231.50,1233.80,1230.50,1232.00,46,42
01/22/99,1020,1231.80,1235.50,1229.50,1233.50,49,40

Other than a few different price/U/D values, I can't see ANY 
difference!!  Hell, in desperation I've even tried stripping off the 
excess trailing 0's, but naturally that didn't affect anything...

Gary