Recent content by choppystride

Hi, I've been downloading data from eoddata.com but am missing the data for the following 2 dates: 2005-12-19 2005-12-20 The exchanges in question are: AMEX American Stock Exchange FOREX Foreign Exchange INDEX Global Indices HKSE Hong Kong Stock Exchange LSE London Stock...

early closings, perhaps?

Hi Lefty, Personally I would not be bored with the details. Would you mind pointing to me where these posts are? Being new to this board and somewhat green in trading I probably would have missed the point even if I had read them. Would love to take a look (again?) and explore further...

So I guess a pertinent question may be: Where are the unrealized ones?

Huh? Are you referring to the "lack of main memory" part or the "otherwise" part?

I agree, but I think that applies mostly to a corporate team-oriented environment. (unless of course if you have a personal super duper parallel system that receives multiple price feeds and need to evaluate & execute ultra short term strategies in realtime :D ) If you're just a lone ranger...

...but kx also states: Evaluation software is for non-commercial use only and provides limited workspace and messaging and that kinda scared me off.

I'm currently coding my own backtest engine and, for the time being, am storing all my data in text files. However, I do anticipate problems when I start to work with intraday data and therefore have recently spent some time investigating the storage issues. I came across this page...