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Hello Alex,
TS has a long history of not reading ascii data correctly.
Any time TS does not read the date correctly while inserting or
formatting ascii data, have a close look at what it plots, it may not
be plotting the data correctly either, I have had TS chart Sun - Thurs
instead of Mon - Fri, make sure you have the latest build installed.
best regards
nevi
AM> Mike G wrote:
>>Hi Alex, not sure if you have solved your chart loading problem yet.
AM> I just did!
>>Something you said reminded me that I have seen weird behavior when
>>trying to build charts from ascii data where the date and time fields
>>for the ascii data don't agree with the Windows regional settings for
>>datetime. That is something worth checking.
AM> That was more or less it. I had configure my Pinnacle data
AM> software to format the end-of-day data with YYYYMMDD format dates.
AM> Tradestation seemed to understand them (it would show me a display
AM> of data rows with dates formatted as MM/DD/YYYY) but then the chart
AM> would abort.
AM> I got a hint something was wrong with the dates when I tried
AM> redefining the MSFT symbol in the sample workspace chart that comes
AM> with Tradestation. When I gave it a Pinnacle data file, it tried to
AM> plot out to the year 2054, and of course there's no data there.
AM> When I re-installed Pinnacle configured to use MM/DD/YYYY dates,
AM> Tradestation instead showed me the symbol settings display and drew
AM> the chart when I clicked OK. I think last time, on my old computer,
AM> I had the dates formatted as YYYY/MM/DD (with slashes) and it worked
AM> then too. I believe the lack of slashes was the problem.
AM> It turns out the problem wasn't Vista at all. Although... Vista may
AM> present problems when I try some backtesting problems. We shall
AM> see.
AM> I really appreciate all the helpful replies I have received.
AM> -Alex
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