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To: mike@xxxxxxxxxx,ian@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Re: RE: Problem with plotting volume as a symbol in chart
From: "macsmith" <macsmith@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:11:35 -0700 (PDT)

OOPs, got my solution wrong.  It should be:

if vol < 0 then begin
  blockVol = 42949672.96 + vol/100
else
  blockVol = vol/100;

And of course, the limit would then become 4 billion, not 200B.

>On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:50:12 -0700 (PDT) macsmith <macsmith@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote.
>If 2147483647 is the limit then I think your solution of negating the
volume
>gives the wrong answer.  Once the volume goes above 2147483647 then -volume
>will start to count down from 2147483647 as the volume ticks up (two's
>compliment arithmetic).  I can understand that it would be easy to miss
this
>as it probably wouldn't go below 2000000000 and would seem plausible.
>
>I don't know that there is a solution.  If TS is using 32 bit signed
numbers
>then this is a hard limit.  You might consider ploting the volume in blocks
>of 100, ie:
>
>if vol < 0 then begin
>  blockVol = 21474836.47   (-vol/100)
>else
>  blockVol = vol/100;
>
>This should work until volumes reach 200B  !
>
>Ian Smith
>
>>On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 13:33:40 -0500 "Mike Moore" <mmoore04@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote.
>>It could very well be that number.  It has been some time since I looked
>>into the problem.  I remember it was greater than 2 billion but I don't
>>recall narrowing it down to a specific number.
>>
>>Mike Moore
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ian [mailto:ian@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>>Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 1:02 PM
>>To: mike@xxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: Re: Problem with plotting volume as a symbol in chart
>>
>>could the volume limit be 2147483647?  (2**31) -1      two's compliment 32
>>bit
>>number.
>>
>>Ian Smith
>>
>>Mike Moore wrote:
>>
>>> I also had a problem with TS giving incorrect volume when the volume was
>>> above 2 billion.  My solution was to create the following new indicator.
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Inputs: AvgLength(50), BreakoutPcnt(50), UpVolColor(Green),
>>> DownVolColor(Red);
>>> Variables: Vol(0), AvgVol(0), LrgVol(0);
>>>
>>> If Volume < 0 then begin
>>>         LrgVol = -(volume);
>>> end
>>> Else begin
>>> LrgVol = Volume;
>>> end;
>>>
>>> If Volume <> 0 Then Begin
>>>         If DataCompression >= 2 Then Begin
>>>                 Plot1(LrgVol, "Volume");
>>>                 Plot2(Average(LrgVol, AvgLength), "Volume Avg");
>>>         End
>>>         Else Begin
>>>                 Plot1(UpTicks   DownTicks, "Volume");
>>>                 Plot2(Average(UpTicks   DownTicks, AvgLength), "Volume
>>Avg");
>>>         End;
>>>
>>>         If Close >= Close[1] Then
>>>                 SetPlotColor(1, UpVolColor)
>>>         Else
>>>                 SetPlotColor(1, DownVolColor);
>>> End;
>>>
>>> IF Plot1 >= Plot2 * (1   (BreakoutPcnt * .01)) Then
>>>         Alert("Volume is "   NumToStr(BreakoutPcnt, 2)  "bove its
>>average");
>>>
>>> {Volume Expert Commentary}
>>> #BeginCmtry
>>>         Commentary(ExpertVolumeAvg(Plot1, AvgLength, BreakoutPcnt));
>>> #End;
>>>
>>> I am using TS2000 and have charts that plot and use as systems input
>data,
>>> 60 minute bars of total volume as a symbol for both New York and NASD.
>>>
>>> My problem is that when total volume goes over 2 billion, TS plots the
>>close
>>> as 0 rather than the correct number.  The correct number is in the
global
>>> server but won't plot correctly.  I am using e-signal as a data feed.
>>>
>>> Is there a fix available.
>>>
>>> Roger
>>
>