Thanks anyway Barry. I also have not found a way of doing this. But, if I end the database at 1539 (which will have all prices till 4pm closing bell), I don't get the real closing price (when compared to eod data) as there are many trades in the last few seconds that trickle in over the next minute. So my choice is take that -or- change db intraday settings end to 1600 (to get all trades until 4:01) and have 1 extra bar in each chart- no matter what intraday time interval. -or- change starting time to 931 and have 5&15 min bars start 1 min later. I wonder what little trick tradestation used to get those late values into the last bar.
--- In [email protected], "Barry Scarborough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stop and think about what time frame expand is doing. If you are > expanding a 5 min bar on a 1 min chart then the 5 min bar will not > change until the bar has closed. What you will see is the value of the > current bar flat for 5 minutes on the 1 min chart and only when that 5 > min bar ends and the next one starts will you see a changed value, if > there is one. The one minute bar will tell you what the condition of > the new 5 min bar will be when the new 5 min bar begins. > > If you add one more minute to the day all you do is start a new bar. If > you want to go beyond normal hours use 24 hour days, View>Intraday>Show > 24 hours trading. > > Barry > > > --- In [email protected], "monitorit" <monitorit@> wrote: > > > > I can't find a way to expand the time period of the last bar of day. > > Example: database 1 min bars, mkt hours 9:30 - 15:59... thats 390 > 1min > > bars covering 9:30am - 4:00pm. But trades coming in the next minute > > are truncated. If I change mkt close to 16:00, then I have 391 1min > > bars - but worse, a 5 min chart will have 79 bars and 15 min chart 27 > > bars with the last bar of these longer intervals having 1 minute of > > data in that bar. > > > > Is there a way of having AB stuff an extra minute of data into that > > last bar (without adding a bar)? TS would give the user a preference > > re adding those trades that came in shortly after the closing bell. > > > > Thanks for any ideas > > Dan > > >
