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Thanks Jimmy. I was just displaying the ASCII data by specifying the
file directly in TS. Forgot you could import the data into GS. GS
takes the 1min data and stores only 1-day bars, but that's OK for my
purposes for now. And it's a whole lot nicer to pull symbols out of GS
than to specify ASCII properties every time! I'm not quite sure how GS
is parsing the 1min data into 1day bars, since the close value doesn't
match the logical close values in the ASCII files, but it's close enough
for what I need.
No suggestions for portfolio testing, other than pitching TS2000i and
getting Multicharts?
Gary
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Subject: Re: TS2000i questions
From: Jimmy Snowden <jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Gary Fritz <fritz@xxxxxxxx>, Omega-List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/24/2009 10:59 AM
Charting must see symbol.
Best I remember is Open GS. Use Add New for adding symbol. Choose
the Cat. Forex or ? SYM anything you want EURUSD.
Name and exchange if it is correct or suits you. if not the STOP.
Quit Start over and copy your Folder called Universe or the file
Universe.dba to some safe location. They edit an exchange that suits
your symbol or symbols. Edit it to suit you.
insert symbol again. Use the exchange you like. Set the setings, Set
the session times with the choice you want like Local time, Exchange
or GMT. If you start with GMT then remember your data is always in
the GS in GMT time so it will come at you in charting as GMT if you
set your offset to ZERO. Take it from their later. All settings are
easy to change. When you get back to the first page "Insert Symbols
in Portfolio" then choose the Forex Template in the drop down box.
Important to do it now now earlier. In GS import data now. I use
SCAN to find the location but you don't have to. Import the data.
Check it is in there. Then go to charting.
New chart in charting. Be sure data feed is correct. Load up symbol.
May need to set to not show gaps in data. Depends on if data is
current.
This is a little rough. It has been many years since I did this.
Jimmy
Hi all,
I'm dusting off my old TS2000i to experiment with a few forex ideas, and
it's been so long since I've used it that I seem to have forgotten a few
things!!
I'm just feeding it ASCII data -- 1min bars running from 0000 to 2359.
(The ASCII-file support is even flakier than I remember. I've crashed
it 6 times in the last 2 hours...)
Before I set up GS, I just ran TS and pointed it at the ASCII file. I
tried to set the session times to 00:00am - 11:59pm, but TS keeps
setting the session-start time to 1:00pm! (Or sometimes 1:00am, but I
don't know why it changes??) Does it think the data is in GMT or
something? I tried setting the "Offset to Datafeed Time" in Desktop
Options but that didn't change anything.
Then I remembered I could set up symbols in GS and I wouldn't have to
enter the tick size &etc every time. So I set up GS and created a
EURUSD symbol in the FOREX exchange. But I can't get TS to see it. If
I enter the symbol & exchange in the symbol "Settings" dialog, it
doesn't recognize the EURUSD symbol. If I set the exchange to FOREX and
search for *, it doesn't return any symbols. What am I doing wrong?
On another subject: has anyone cobbled together a hack to do decent
portfolio testing in TS2000i? I could dump out the equity curve for
each symbol and just add them together, but that doesn't account for
profits from other symbols, so the position sizing is wrong. Any
suggestions?
Thanks,
Gary
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