Re: TS2k data import problem

[Bob Fulks <bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The rounding should not cause that much of a difference.

With such a long average, you might not be giving the two cases the
same number of bars of data. Make sure the charts start on the same
date/time and that the MaxMarsBack setting are the same.

Also try a much shorter average on each to see if the values are the
same in that case. If they are, it points to some king of
initialization issue.

Also, I have seen cases where the 1-minute bars in TS2000i do not
correspond to the tick data. (Your 45 minute chart will be built from
the 1-minute bars, not the tick data.) To fix that, copy out the tick
data only (NOT the 1-minute bars) then import it back into TS2000i.
Make sure you have checked the option to "Automatically Rebuild All
History Settings...". That will cause it to rebuild the 1-minute bars
to match the tick data.

Bob Fulks


At 11:48 AM -0800 11/13/01, ztrader wrote:

>I run TS2k with data imported from TS4, and noticed a rather large
>difference between an MA value in TS4 & TS2k. It was a modestly long
>one, of length about 1000 bars, on 45 min SPX. I made both charts the
>same, using exactly the same indicator in both, with exactly the same
>data length, but still got different values in TS4 (1131.29) & TS2k
>(1153.22). A check of the data showed that the tick data imported into
>TS2k was rounded off to tenths even though the price scale was set to
>1/100 as it is in TS4. This rounding seems to have a significant
>effect on the value of identical studies on identical charts in both
>TS's.
>
>Any thoughts on why the data is being rounded, and/or a way to prevent
>it?
>
>Thanks,
>
>ztrader