Thinking Stuff's ATM

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Thinking Stuff's ATE

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Video: Loading Text Files And Creating Price Bars

This tutorial starts from a brand new settings file, loads a text file of historical tick prices, creates price bars from those ticks, and charts the price bars. The file in question was obtained from Gain Capital, but the theory is the same for text files from any source.

Note, however, that the file we used in this particular case was an older one. Gain Capital's newer files are slightly different. See the settings to use on the File Loader window.

This tutorial assumes:

  1. You started ATM, created a new settings file, opened it, and ATM is sitting there ready to go.
  2. You downloaded some text files containing historical prices.

This tutorial does these things:

  1. Loads the historical tick prices from the files.
  2. Creates 10-Minute bars from the ticks.
  3. Creates Hourly bars from the 10-Minute.
  4. Charts the 10-Minute bars.

A very similar process is described (in words) in this post.

Click here to watch the video, and use the browser's back button to come back. Or click here to open in a new window.
 

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