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Re: BackTesting resolution



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At 5:28 AM -0700 8/18/01, Jack Griffin wrote:

>I think the only way to do that is with omz or xpo
>files (i.e., buy Dynaloader).  Go to the global server
>and verify that your 30-minute bars are not really
>being imported into the global server.  I know with 1
>minute bars it doesn't work, pretty sure same story
>with other time frames.  This is a bug of TS2000i. 

Using ASCII files works fine for me with intraday data, (assuming the
file format is set correctly with the proper delimiters). Max said:

>I'm getting data from quote.com in 30 minute bars, ASCII format, with
>Qcollector and it seems to work really well. I import same into
>GlobalServer and can chart an issue with 30 minute bars or daily
>using the same data file. So far so good.

so I am assuming that is working OK.

He seemed to have the "Backtesting Settings" checked and this
obviously cannot work properly with 30 min bars on 30 min data. I
suspect that has something to do with the problem.

Bob Fulks