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Re: TS2000i questions


  • Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:59:52 -0600
  • From: Jimmy Snowden <jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: TS2000i questions

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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