ASCII Data
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Topic: ASCII Data
Posted By: mcdirt
Subject: ASCII Data
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2006 at 11:53pm
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BullCharts is an excellent product but one reason I don't use it as much as I might is 'cause it won't read ASCII data. Is this something that can be added? rgds McDirt |
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Posted By: Brendon
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2006 at 11:35am
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You can request a key to read Metastock formatted data. Gives you access to data from other markets. ------------- 
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Posted By: mcdirt
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2006 at 1:01pm
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Brendon, I have the key and can read MetaStock data but I get a lot of my intra-day, Futures and Forex data in ACSII (.CSV) format and I'd like to be able to use it in Bullcharts. rgds McDirt |
Posted By: Brendon
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2006 at 3:31pm
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ASCII comes in many formats (I know of 50 different formats) so it is unpredictable what it will be. MS is a world wide format so it is easy to read and support from a programming point of version. -------------
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Posted By: mcdirt
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2006 at 8:37pm
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Brendon, Yes, I know you'd have to incorporate an ASCII dialog for the user to tell Bullcharts how the data is formatted - TradeStation and MTPedictor do exactly this. Considering the elegance with which your programer has written most other aspects of the program, I would have thought it an easy enough task. Of course, I may be the only one interested in such a feature, in which case it wouldn't be important to you. rgds McDirt |
Posted By: Brendon
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2006 at 9:07am
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Shall keep in mind - it does depend on demand - most enquiries are regarding Metastock as their data provider can modify the files for splits etc. -------------
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