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Re: GlobalServer data holes



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You need one step inbetween.  Use a program like Hypertools for XPO to
change the ASCII to XPO.  Then import.

Jimmy


Now that MetaServerRT has a built-in IBDownloader for filling data holes 
using IB's history data server, keeping continuous contracts continuous 
without begging for .XPO files is easy.

However, my GS database has:

1. a tick hole from 16:08:42 on 6/7/2006 to 16:17:50 when the price 
jumps from 704.08 to 711.3   That's a big jump between the M6 and U6 
contract, if that's in fact what it is, related to the expiration.

2. a tick hole from 06:18:25 on 6/8/2006 to 07:29:01

I can't pin down the exact culprit, but it appears related to a history 
download intended to fill a different data hole.  However, I had also 
just changed ER2M6's file to ER2U6 in GS to maintain a continuous contract.

There's a MetaServer behavior needing some fixing that complicates the 
case.  It is related to a nice addition to IBDownloader allowing 1 
second tick history downloads of less than a trading day.  The developer 
has a fix on the to-do list.  But, I've not figured out exactly what the 
bug leaves behind in the GS database.

I'd like to fill the two data holes above.

Question:  Would an ASCII import into GS work for tick data?  In the 
couple of years using TS2ki I've not done an ASCII import, only XPO

Liam