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Paul
Thanks. Unfortuantely I don't think this will work for me--I trade intra-day,
real-time, and so Worden TC2000's data export has only 1 item that's valuable to
me: the symbol name. (Daily OHLC are not useful for my purposes.) Moreover,
I believe I must use Omega Server for real-time. ...Or can I tell TS to look to
the custom security list for the names--and still have it look to Server for the
[real time /tick] data??
thanks
Ian
pcherney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I was terribly frustrated by Omega's refusal to read data in TC2000. I get a
> round it this way:
> In TC2000, I create a watchlist. I then have a directory on my hard disk
> where I export in text (into single files). And then I create a custom
> security list in TS4.
>
> In TC2000:
> -create a watchlist
> -then go to Databank, choose "export to text"
> -Choose "dates ascending" (at the bottom of the page)
> -Choose the yyyymmdd format, then stick in open, high, low, close in that
> order
> -Choose the number of days you want to export.
> -Now here's the real bullshit part, but you only have to do it once:
> in Trade Station, you have to create a custom security list. Reference the
> ascii data you exported from TC2000. For each symbol you will be asked to
> identify the order of data in the fields. I'm not sure whether you'd have to
> go through the whole list again if you added a symbol, but I only have 200
> stocks I look at and this method works.
>
> Once you've created a custom security list in TS, just reference that list
> anytime you create a chart, you can call any of the symbols in the list by
> using their symbol, you can jump around, you can have your technical
> templates run through each chart in a chart scan if you want.
>
> -Let me know if this was any help and if you tried adding a different symbol
> to the watchlist and then if you were asked by TS to identify the fields for
> all of the other tickers you already had in the list. I've never done it
> because I call indexes not individual stocks, but I can tell you. This
> method makes TS work just like the old TS except for the fact that I have to
> physically instruct TC2000 to export to text everyday. -It really doesn't
> take that long, but I don't have a constantly change list of securities that
> I export.
>
> TC2000 overwrites the previous established ascii files so there's no need to
> wipe them out before you export each day.
>
> I just read olosi's response to your predicament, and that is something I'd
> be willing to try too because if you can just reference matafiles then there
> would be no need to go through all the hassle of identifying each ticker.
>
> Please let me know if this was any help and let me know if the metafiles
> export is better. I've got too much work to do right now to take the time to
> check it out.
>
> -PAUL CHERNEY
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian MacAuslan <imacauslan@xxxxxxx>
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, April 28, 2000 6:19 PM
> Subject: Macro: Creating charts from a (changing) ASCII List
>
> >Folks-
> >Every 2 weeks, I use another program (TeleChart 2000) to generate a list
> >of 200 stocks for me to consider trading.
> >
> >I always save out this list, in an ASCII file, one symbol per line.
> >...Then go into TS and create a chart for each one, appling a template
> >with the system I trade.
> >
> >Using TS 4, it's always been an onerous task typing in each one. I am
> >now writing a keyboard macro to do this for me.
> >
> >My question is: Has anyone done this before? Is there a way to have
> >TradeStation read this list, and create 1 chart, for each symbol on that
> >list? (TS 4 or 2000i)
> >
> >Thanks!
> >Ian MacAuslan
> >
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