Re: Mixing tick and minute charts

[Bob Fulks <bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:49 AM 7/5/2004, Alex Matulich wrote:

>>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.

This solution works if you are referring to the same symbol.

If you are referring to different symbols, the only way I have found is to use two tick-based charts and to use global variables to communicate between them.

TradeStation 8 has a good global variable option that uses Named global variables which is very useful for this.

Bob Fulks