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This doesn't make any sense.
Try a new workspace, apply the 30 min bar data, than apply one of the simple systems that came with TradeStation with the default settings. You should get trades intraday.
In the Backtesting Settings do not check "Strategy testing resolution".
Bob Fulks
At 4:16 PM -0700 8/17/01, Max Pierson wrote:
>OK, I'm a TS2Ki newbie with simple questions, most of
>which I can answer by looking at the manuals or
>EZlanguage signals and indicators that came with. At
>this point I can't get my backtesting to happen with
>other than EOD resolution, my trades are typically
>held one to two days and I need better resloution to
>characterize them. I'm getting data from quote.com in
>30 minute bars, ASCII format, with Qcollector and it
>seems to work really well. I import same into
>GlobalServer and can chart an issue with 30 minute
>bars or daily using the same data file. So far so
>good. When I insert a system, I can select intraday
>resolution, 30 minutes but the backtested buys and
>sells are at the EOD prices. Some of the EZlanguage
>coding is written as "buy at close of this bar" and I
>modified that to just "buy" but I still get EOD
>resolution. I can put a data2 on the chart and have
>both resolutions probably if I want to complicate the
>EZlanguage but it appears that the program is written
>to backtest using daily bars but with intraday
>resolution. Anybody can help with this?
>
>Max
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