Hi all,

Sorry if this topic has already been covered, but...

I notice that the data format in the market data files is simply:
- Date
- Time
- Balance
- Price

I'm curious why we don't also store the "size" of the book, or the sum
of the ask size and the bid size.

Ultimately, between the balance and the size, you could recreate the
ask and bid sizes and it would seem to me that some indicators could
be written to use that extra information.

In particular, an ASK size of 10050 and a BID size of 10000, which has
a balance of 50, but I think you'll agree is pretty well balanced,
where as an ASK size of 100 and a BID size of 50, which has the same
balance, but isn't so well balanced.

Thanks,
- Martin
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