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Re: Bad INDU Values in TS4 - A Detective Story



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> You have been Cruzed.  The tick data uses 16 bit integer arithmetic as far
> as offsets from the first (and only) reference price of the day.  That
> allows for a maximum change of 32768 and if your INDU is scaled to 0.01
then
> anything in excess of 327.68 will overflow and give errooneous numbers.
> Yesterday the INDU dropped 389 points relative to the open.  My suggestion
> change the PriceScale from 0.01 to 0.1.
>
> ~Bob

Bob

Thank you.  I had read about this but did not pay enough attention.

ndtrader