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This, of course, is simply yet another implementation idiosyncrasie (I think
I spelled that right) of TS. There is no reason why these two operations
MUST behave differently.
Regards,
Carroll
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Osborn <jimo@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Bear in mind that tick-bar charts load differently from their real-time
> behavior, at least for symbols with both a day and night session like
> the S+P. When loading historical data, the bars will form ignoring
> the start of the day session - they'll keep making bars up to the
> set number of ticks as though trading continued straight through.
> The end of the day session will terminate a bar, as you'd expect.
> When real-time data is added, though, the end of the night session
> will terminate a bar, even if it has less than the set number of ticks.
> This difference can make quite a difference in the appearance of a chart
> depending on when you loaded it and how long you let it run real time.
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