chi, at what time do you grab the price? at what time do you "give up" and just default to prior close?
chi, I'm aware that because some stocks open later than others, some idexes must provide Special Opening Quotations (SOQ). SOQs use a methodology...
thanks for the response, chiguy. although it may seem strange, i like the way one of my brokers usually defaults opening prices to the previous...
the index data seem to open at the previous close more consistently with some data providers than others, and I'm wondering why. Here are some...
thanks rickty. turns out i had some additional code disrupting things.
i even tried a boolean...comes out a little bit better...now it trades aqua bars with some non-aquas thrown in.
I would expect the code below to 1) color bars aqua, trade the same aqua-colored bars. this isn't the case. instead, the bars i am looking to...
<b>...and perhaps data from a particular vendor is an indicator in it's own right?<b/>
hi mapi. the system is very simple. it uses opens and closes. what happened to the guy that traded his system with the data vendor that worked best?
wierd thing regarding the csi data...it seems more consistent with yahoo than with fidelity.
Any contract out there track the IRX tit for tat, more or less? ZQ is fed funds, but I don't think that mirrors the IRX short term bond index....
you can select "adjusted prices"...that may be your prob with yahoo. i'm just wondering about the tiny differences.
Ten year data Fidelity vs. Bigcharts vs. Yahoo vs. Yahoo Historical Look at the discrepency amongthe data (below). I don't know who to trust...
and what about more than one market?
kiwi, thanks for the insight. the strategy was based on the cash INDU. i suggest using the ^djx through yahoo if anyone needs cheap historical...
i need humor at this point. thanks for making me laugh.
sorry, but i gotta bump
There seems to be a discrepency for the daily hi and low quotes of the INDU when you compare the day's quote and the historical data quote of...
yes ivan, USD/CAD. for some reason the spread got super illiquid. the MMs left the building. bid and ask size were 1/100 of normal size and,...
looks like oanda is the place to be for the cando at the 6-PM time slot.
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