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Supercharts4 and Tradestation4 are the same in this area.
The Ascii Settings window that opens is a link to the Data Downloader Symbol
Universe settings.
Often an Ascii file is not named exactly the same as the Symbol Name in the
Symbol Universe so TS and SC bring up the Ascii Settings window so you can
select the correct symbol and adjust any values that need changing.
I have not heard of any way of bypassing this.
If you want to get your Ascii data into the downloader you can copy some
data you have to a new directory, then rename the symbol, delete all the
data from the new symbol, adjust the date, then manually copy and paste your
Ascii data into that symbol in the downloader.
You can't paste too much at a time or the paste will stop responding.
Neville
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Morvay <nmorvay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, March 30, 2001 9:36 PM
Subject: Directory scans of ascii files
>Great TS info on this thread. Perhaps someone could help me with a
>SuperCharts problem.
>
>I'm a SuperCharts V4 Build 10 (latest upgrade) user and satisfied with what
>it has to offer. Mainly EOD charting analysis and system building. I
>day-trade TSE and CDNX stocks using Canada-StockWatch realtime feed and
>charts and also download the CSW EOD data in an ascii format. Because the
>ascii file contains all symbols for the day, I wrote a Visual Basic (Ver.
6)
>program to split the CSW file into individual text files for each symbol
>because that is the requirement by SC. Now I am able to view these symbols
>using SC.
>
>One annoying problem, however. When plotting a chart, SC prompt for the
>Field Order and then the Setting for the ascii file. I have created a DOP
>file but it still prompts for the field order. Even inserting the field
>order as the first line in the ascii data file makes no difference. This is
>not a problem when using non-ascii data files (CD data from DialData etc.)
>Because of this problem, scanning a directory containing all the TSE
symbols
>for indicator and chart patterns is not feasible.
>
>I'm assuming TS uses ascii data the same way. Anybody have experience in
>this or suggestions on how to overcome this limitation.
>
>Regards,
>Nick
>
>
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