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>So i have a few questions:
>1) HOw clean is their data?
Pinnacle advertises that it's clean. I haven't seen anything wrong with
it yet.
>2) Is there a way to download this data into GS
>XPO on a nightly basis automatically?
Why would you want to? As an EOD researcher I never used GS for
anything, nor do I see why it's necessary. I need it for intraday
stuff, that's all. I understand TS never had anything like GS
before the internet became popular, either.
> OR do we just let the pinnacle datamanager
>manage an ASCII database (ie. to download the
>ascii data, let the datamanager incorporate the
>data into our existing ASCII database and have
>TS2000i read from the ASCII data directly
>bypassing GS). In other words, we'll have 2
>databases - one managed by GS in XPO, the other
>managed by Pinnacle in ASCII
Setting up a workspace to use an ASCII data file is no different
from using data from GS. I have a scheduled task to start the
Pinnacle update every weekday afternoon, and it works completely
transparently to me. Even if you skip some days, it fills in
everything nicely. I especially like that you can also maintain
two sets of data, one ratio-adjusted and one back-adjusted.
The back-adjusted data should be used for trading, while the
ratio-adjusted data works best for analysis over long histories
(especially on weekly or monthly compression) because it never goes
negative. I find it makes a good substitute for a cash index too.
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