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Joined: 2/18/2008
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Is it possible to obtain intraday data going back 1 full year (including 1 minute and 2 minute bars)?
Also, do you have a list of freelance programmers who can be hired by users to code trading strategies I'd like to test?
Thanks!
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Worden Trainer
Joined: 10/7/2004
Posts: 65,138
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We used to offer a disc with two years of minute data on it for StockFinder 4, but it is not available for or compatible with StockFinder 5. In StockFinder 5, you would need to have had the software installed for almost a full year to have a year's worth of minute data on your hard drive.
Even if the data is installed, the Price History in StockFinder is normally limited by the Number of Bars settings under Settings | Data Manager (which are limited to a maximum of 5000 bars).
If you left-click on Price History to bring up its Edit window and select Block Diagram, there should be Block called Prices. This Block should have an unconnected Output Limit input. If you left-click and Drag on this input, you can select Select Block & Connect | Parameter: Length Limit to add an option for the number of Bars of data used for the Price History Indicator.
This will allow you to exceed the 5000 Bar Limit, but you will generally need to adjust the Block Diagrams of any Indicators with Price or Volume Blocks in them individually.
That said, the 5000 Bar Limit is there for a reason. It should be strongly noted that this can dramatically affect the performance of StockFinder and slow things down significantly because of the additional memory used and calculations required. If things slow down too much, the first thing you should try is to decrease the Length Limit or avoid using this workaround altogether.
Worden Brothers does not offer a programming service. As part of customer training, the answers to questions in the forums may however contain completed solutions for educational purposes only.
-Bruce
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