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I'm trying to look at some FutureSource data. A helpful fellow sent
me some 5min data in ASCII format. I fixed up a few minor FS
oddities in the file, and now it looks like this:
Date,Time,Open,High,Low,Close
1999-03-01, 8:30,192597,192597,191816,191848
1999-03-01, 8:35,191789,191789,191116,191292
1999-03-01, 8:40,191394,191866,191227,191511
1999-03-01, 8:45,191958,192078,191663,192000
1999-03-01, 8:50,192048,192048,191622,191647
TS *seems* to accept this format just fine: it charts the data at
the right time & date, and the Close is right. But it's ignoring the
Open, High, and Low! If I plot a 5min chart, I just see dots at the
Close values.
I tried changing it to a more "standard" TS format:
"Date","Time","O","H","L","C","U","D"
03/01/1999, 830,192597,192597,191816,191848,1,1
03/01/1999, 835,191789,191789,191116,191292,1,1
03/01/1999, 840,191394,191866,191227,191511,1,1
03/01/1999, 845,191958,192078,191663,192000,1,1
03/01/1999, 850,192048,192048,191622,191647,1,1
..but that didn't help any.
If I set it up in a Custom Data List, the "Period" for this data is
"Tick" instead of "Intraday," but I don't know why. I tried adding
"U" and "D" fields (upticks and downticks, as above) to match the
format that TS writes out, but that didn't help either.
Any guesses what I'm doing wrong?
Also, while I'm at it: is there any way to get TS to scale ASCII
data like this, so it interprets these values as e.g. 1918.48 instead
of 191848? I can always scale it in Excel or vi, but I would think
TS would have a way to handle these different data formats.
Thanks,
Gary
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