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Re: weekly charts every day & WISH LIST



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At 07:54 PM 02/25/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Bill,
>Remember I started a wish list? FOR EVERYONE IT MAY CONCERN: I'd prefer to
>maintain it (once a week) in MS-Word ('97), and append it to a/the
>message/s.
>PLEASE WRITE ME IF YOU DO _NOT_ AGREE!
>
>Why the wish-list here? Well, I've got a couple of equities of which I
>only receive the closing price. It follows that the chart can only be a
>line, and a lot of studies are out. OK so far, there's nothing to be done
>about that. However, if one changes to a weekly point of view there _is_
>an Open, High, Low & Close, i.e. of the _week_. Sadly MS doesn't take this
>into account, and only returns the end of week Close. I'd really like that
>to change - at least as an option - or am I overlooking something?
>
>Kind Regards & Happy Trading,
>Jan Willem Roberts
>
>Bill Saxon wrote:
>
>> If it will suit your purposes to use daily data you can compress the
>> data to weekly and this will occur.  If it must be weely data from the
>> Vendor the only way I know is to enter it manually and even then I
>> haven't tried it to see if it works.
>
>
>
>
Jan,
Does your data include open, high, low, and close fields? Even though they
would all contain the same data (close) you need all fields for the weekly
to display high and low for the week.

I have mutual fund data like this and the weekly bar charts do display the
open, high, low and close.

        john