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Re: Mixing tick and minute charts



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Julian,

>Hi, does anyone know how to refer to a tick chart from a minute chart and
>vice versa on TS2000? Tradestation will not let you mix tick and minute
>charts which is really annoying.

The only practical way I know of is to use a tick chart and maintain
minute bars in an array.  Keep track of the time every tick, and when
the time changes to a new multiple of 1 minute or 5 minutes or whatever
you're using, start recording internally a new minute bar.

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