Ok, this approach will not work. Even though my graphs look right and the OHLC arrays are right, because I have to stay in the 5 second timeframe, studies are useless. All the lines I draw are internally based on the underlying 5 second timeframe and move every 5 seconds relative to the chart prices. Totally useless!
SAD COMMENTARY: I continually try to solve problems related to my real time trading and have ask for help understanding how to apply AFL to the problems I am trying to solve. Most of the replies I get are from myself! I know this board is not shy to help when someone knows the answers, so I am left to draw an unfortunate (for me) conclusion: My selection of AB for my type of real time discretionary trading of one stock at a time was a mistake and I have wasted a year trying to make it work for me (and it is so close!). The majority of users seem to be using the rotational, portfolio, EOD, and swing trading methods (or are too inexperienced to know what they want) and that is where the support and development seems to be headed (I have used those methods before and wrote my own simple programs to do that nine years ago). Things that would make it possible to speed up real time analysis like support for static arrays have been put on the back burner due to lack of interest. Cleaning up the hand drawn study glitches and inconveniences seem to not be a priority because they have not been addressed. It really does hurt me to say it, because I really love the basic architecture of AFL and AB as a tool, and the community here, and I know that TJ is doing his best to satisfy the majority of his customer's needs, but if I am the odd man out and my trading needs are not the direction AB is headed, I have to face up to it and look for an alternative solution. :(( Dennis On Jul 31, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Dennis Brown wrote: > Hello, > > I am totally frustrated with bad ticks getting through on my 1 minute > bars and messing up my indicators. I decided to try cleaning them up > on my own by running a 5 second database (instead of 1 minute) and > cleaning up the bad ticks with a Median(c,2) statement --I would have > used ticks, but I can only get a couple of hours worth of ticks in > 100,000 bars of SPY and I need several days of 24 hour data. > > I filtered the 5 second data, assigned it to OHLC, and then used the > TimeFrameSet(60) to create clean OHLC arrays. > I have to leave the overall timeframe at 5 seconds all the time for > the filter to work, but I want to display and work in 1 minute bars. > > When I plot it out, the bars are 1 minute bars, but the time scale at > the bottom of the chart is set for 5 seconds per bar. > > I want to know how I can also get the time scale to display in 1 > minute bars? > > Or is there a completely different approach that is better? > > Thanks, > Dennis
