Re: Displaying ASCII data on weekends in 2000i

["prs" <omega@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is esentially what I ended up doing.  I wrote a VB program to go
through the data files and push back the dates each week so that no
date fell on a saturday or sunday.  I preserved the last date in the
file, but dates at the beginning are pretty far off. 

The systems and indicators work now, I just have to remember to think
in terms of bars and not dates. 

thanks

Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "C" <camacazi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "prs" <omega@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Omega List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 8:46 PM
Subject: RE: Displaying ASCII data on weekends in 2000i


>
> Hi all/prs
>
> What I would do is export the data into excel , then make a macro to change
> the dates to monday to friday , for example...
> Friday data changed to Friday data
> Saturday data changed to Monday data
> Sunday data changed to Tuesday data
> Monday data changed to Monday data
> Tuesday data changed to Tuesday data
>
> Then when it charts youd get 5 days per week then 2 per week
> then 5 days per week and then 2 days per week. Then you could visually see
> the differences and code stuff like ummmmmmm
> if last wednesday and thurs and friday close is 'null' then this bar is a
> saturday [this is not easy code incase somebody was thinkin of coding this
> as is]... that is if you need to know what day is really a monday or a
> saturday etc.
>
> You would have no correlation to real dates but the system would be
> 'Historically Testable' [or maybe in volume part of the ascci file you could
> put the date in there somehow as a easylanguage julian date number ....or
> have volume as 1 for monday , 2 for tuesday , 6 for saturday ,7 for sunday
> etc]
>
> Can anyone see why this wouldnt work?
>
> Cheers
> Cameron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: prs [mailto:omega@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, 8 November 2004 11:25 PM
> To: Omega List
> Subject: Re: Displaying ASCII data on weekends in 2000i
>
>
> Yes, TS 8 allows you to set up custom sessions where you can include the
> weekend.  It doesn't work on
> ascii data as you point out and it also only works on intra-day data so
you
> have to set up something like
> a 405 minute bar for the S&P's to get this display feature to work.
>
> The big problem is it only displays the weekend periods.  I need to be
able
> to use the data on saturday
> and sunday in strategies and indicators.  For example:  on monday I want
> C[1] to refer to the sunday
> bar, not friday.  So this is why I went back to 2000i.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Cheatham" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "prs" <omega@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Omega List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 9:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Displaying ASCII data on weekends in 2000i
>
>
> > with ts7/8 there is a custom session feature that permits you to trick
it
> > into plotting intraday data (or no data just time) on weekends. Only
can't
> > yet read ascii files. :-(
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "prs" <omega@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 8:43 PM
> > Subject: Displaying ASCII data on weekends in 2000i
> >
> >
> > > I have ASCII files with data on saturdays and sundays.  When I chart
it
> in
> > > 2000i the weekend days are removed.
> > >
> > > Any ideas on how to get this data displayed?  I've tried adding
sessions
> > in
> > > the global server, but I must be missing something.