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Re[4]: Can GS make proper daily bar from imported tick data? (ts2000i)



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Wait now, one more thing.  GS WILL import Daily ASCII data.  That is
the only ASCII data it will import directly but it will do daily.  Big
deal.

Jimmy



Monday, July 19, 2004, 3:40:49 PM, you wrote:

L> Yes, absolutely right.
L> ----- Original Message ----- 
L> From: "Gary Fritz" <fritz@xxxxxxxx>
L> To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
L> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 12:32 AM
L> Subject: Re: Re[2]: Can GS make proper daily bar from imported tick data? (ts2000i)


>> > GlobalServer is able to make 1/5 minute data using tick data, but is
>> > not able to make daily data using any importing compression. To
>> > import daily data you must have XPO file with daily. That's the only
>> > possible way unfortunatelly. 
>> 
>> And unless I'm mistaken, GS only makes 1/5 minute bars when you 
>> IMPORT tick data.  I don't know of any way to have it scan existing
>> tick data and build 1/5 min data.  Which is a pain if you end up 
>> with a mixture of tick-only and tick/1/5 data (e.g. imported from 
>> different sources), since if TS sees the 1/5 min data anywhere, it 
>> will ONLY use 1/5 min data, even if that means it has huge holes in
>> your charts where the GS only has tick data.
>> 
>> Only way I know to get around that is to export all the tick data, 
>> delete the data, then re-import it.  Messy -- especially if you have
>> to do it for a lot of symbols.
>> 
>> Gary
>> 
>> 



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