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couple of thoughts:
1. I'd be extremely careful on relying on historybanks's data for use with
backtesting. My personal experience, and i believe the experience of others
on the list, is that the historybank data is often missing bars, has a
significantly higher error rate than other setvices (a comparison article
done by Stocks and Commodities) and in general is fraught with peril.
I'd go with Pinnacle for daily data, and buy their interday data for the
selected commodities you need. They can provide Ascii format data very
inexpensively.
2. If you have some datum already in the Global Server, you can export it by
creating a chart and applying the following showme:
{***************************************
Description: dump date, time, O, H, L, C and V
Note: 1st bar on study is not seen
MAXBarsback = 0 to get all but first bar
****************************************}
Vars: String1(" "), strComma(""), strDate(""), strYear(""), strMonth(""),
strDay("");
String1 = "c:\" + GetSymbolName + ".t2k";
strComma = ",";
strDate = ELDateToString(Date); {mm/dd/yyyy}
strYear = RightStr(strDate, 4);
strmonth = Leftstr(strDate, 2);
strDay = MidStr(strDate, 4, 2);
FileAppend(String1,
StrYear + strMonth + strDay + strComma +
NumToStr(Time, 0) + strComma +
NumToStr(Open, 3) + strComma +
NumToStr(High, 3) + strComma +
NumToStr(Low, 3) + strComma +
NumToStr(Close, 3) + strComma +
NumToStr(V, 0) +
NewLine);
warmest regards,
Kimberly
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Benson [mailto:Robert.Benson@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 12:52 PM
> To: Omega-List@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Historybank data to ASCII
>
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I recently got TS2000i to do backtesting of my system and
> have been reading
> your mail for one month. It's been very helpful. Thanks!
>
> What I need is a ASCII data base of about 50 NYSE and 50
> NASDAQ stocks with
> about 2-3 years of intraday data and daily data as far back
> as possible.
> I need ASCII because I want to use it as input into other
> software that
> requires ASCII data format. I can get almost 3 years of
> intraday data using
> Quote.com and TradeWork's QCollector.
>
> I would like to get the Historybank daily data in ASCII format for my
> symbols. I like the fact that many of the Historybank NYSE
> stocks go back
> more than 30 years. When I export a symbol and get a *.xpo
> file how can I
> get the file converted to a ASCII format or is there a way to
> directly get a
> symbol's high, low, open, close, vol.
> into ASCII format?
>
> Thanks again, Bob B
>
>
>
>
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