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Several private posts asked HOW to find if you have collected ticks for 12/31/98. My
suggestion is to go to the Server, select File and Portfolio and select an index you
collected in September, for example SPX. Click Edit Tick. If 12/31/98 displays you
have collected Ticks for 12/31/98 - which need to be deleted.
My TIMING numbers are off - apparently the timing is a factor of the number of symbols you
collect, not the size of 40bonn.dat Because I collect futures options and most indices,
I collect around 16,000 daily symbols so my times were longer.
One person asked what would be the implication of NOT deleting the bad ticks for 12/31/98.
I DON'T KNOW, but since Omega recommended deleting the Ticks, I presume it is possible on
12/31/98 there will be a MERGING of Ticks from the bad date in September plus good ticks
for 12/31/98 - which will be meaningless data. Perhaps Omega can answer that question
better.
--- Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Osborn <jimo@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: chrisbak@xxxxxxxxx <chrisbak@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, December 21, 1998 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: REMINDER: BMI bad ticks - 12/31/98
>Thanks for that reminder, Chris. I had assumed you meant "30 seconds
>per Meg" until I read the next sentence. I have about 300 items
>in my portfolio, mostly futures contracts, mostly just daily, except
>for financial things like indices, S+P, bonds, and a few ags, maybe
>25 tick-based items. My bonn.dat file gets up to about 15Meg before
>I crunch it back down at S+P rollover, and I find rebuilding the
>index takes 3-5 minutes on my trusty old 486/DX266 with TS 3.5.
>Is TS 4.0 really that slow, or do you have something in your portfolio
>that'd make the minutes/meg that much different?
>
>Just curious,
>
>Jim
>
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