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Re: Warning: all historybank.com data seems stamped 1 minute late.



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>The first 1 minute
bar should be 9:30, not 9:31.<

Jack:

Well, these kind of different time stamps between
vendors have been around since I first looked at
1 minute charts about 15 years ago: good luck!

And good luck with your 12,000% a year system too,
although you shouldn't need it.

BW


>From: Jack Griffin <jack_2231@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: DH <catapult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Omega List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Warning: all historybank.com data seems stamped 1 minute late.
>Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:48:59 -0700 (PDT)
>
>--- DH <catapult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Their 09:31am bars, for
> > > instance, seem to reveal what happened between
> > > 09:30:00 and 09:30:59.
> >
> > TS (and many other programs) has always been that
> > way. It's working
> > exactly like it's supposed to. There isn't any
> > "correct" way to note bar
> > times and the only "fault" is yours for not
> > realizing it sooner.
> >
> > RTFM..... :-)
>
>But it should be consistent at least.  Consider daily
>bars ... pull up your daily chart on the s&p.  Notice
>that huge blip on January 4th 2000?  No?  You thought
>'reamspan cut rates on January 3rd 2000?  Well he did,
>but with their method it should show up on the 4th.
>See my point?  If the market crashes on a Friday I
>don't want it showing up on Monday's bar.  Moving back
>to faster time scales ... if you want to be consistent
>you should use the start time.  .  The first 1 minute
>bar should be 9:30, not 9:31.  That is how qcharts and
>the rest of the world does it and that is the right
>way imo.  The last bar should be 15:59.  I think TS
>got it wrong.  And I think we need to get them to fix
>it before sp6 (the final sp) is frozen.  Until then,
>what happened to me could happen to anyone testing
>fast systems.
>
>Jack
>
>