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Maybe it is a matter of taste. Personally, I find it more useful to just
go to the higher resolution chart if I want higher resolution rather than
clutter up my lower resolution chart with a bunch of (to me) confusing
color coding. -uf
At 11:55 PM 6/4/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Ullrich,
>
> >I don't see the point of activity bars. Why not just have another chart
> >with 10 minute bars if you want to see what's going on inside your hourly
> >or daily bars? The color coding just seemed confusing. -uf
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>Thanks for your response. It seems to me that it would be useful to see how
>often the bid/ask respectively was being hit in the last 5 minutes (or
>whatever) , visually, in colored blocks right on the bar, rather than having
>to guage this information from looking at a seperate chart. It seems to me
>that it would be easier to look at a bar and say, "blue outweighs red here",
>rather than having to visually guage how many up/downticks there were by
>looking at a tick chart. Perhaps I have the wrong idea about what these
>bars are about? I am very interested in studies which depict the amount of
>buying/selling going on.
>
>Best,
>
>Dave
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