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Ok ill try to make my point clearer. Due to the fact that most stocks tend to reverse their trends at the same time, we can say that this price action occurs for the exact same reason in each stock. Whatever is happening in the market to cause traders to sell in stock A, is also affecting stock...

The market in general moves as a whole, down to the minute level. What this means is that any technical analysis that applies only to an individual stock has no value. If you overlay the intraday charts of any two S&P500 stocks, you will see that they are highly positively correlated. Any...

Yesssssssssss that works perfectly@@@@ thanks so much, I was just about to get in way over my head. Wow.

I have absolutely no idea what you mean lol, but here's what im trying to do. I'm going to buy a huge set of market data and use this for statistical analysis and backtesting purposes. This would be simple enough but Ninjatrader requires it in a different format for charting. This means that I...

It's going to be something like 1200 txt files, each of them a different stock symbol. I don't even know what a database package is, but is it something that I can quickly learn to do this?

I was hoping I could do this on my own but luckily I have a friend who's capable of this stuff.

Thanks, i'll definitely look into Excel for this. Along with the date, I have to add two zeroes to every line to indicate seconds, and change every comma between prices into a colon. :X

Right but i'm going to have about 10 years of 1-minute data on like 1500 symbols. It's just impossible.

Hiya. Posting this in the trading forum because the software forum is too illiquid lol. If i have tons and tons of historical data in this format 06/05/2006,0931,79.10,79.11,79.07,79.08,102300 06/05/2006,0932,79.06,79.08,79.06,79.07,14900 06/05/2006,0933,79.06,79.07,79.01,79.05,43700...

Heh that's pretty much all I needed to hear. Thanks a lot, i'm gonna go ahead and buy the data.

Oh thats really cool. Is there a way to put text data into excel and analyze it? As in, backtest through excel.

Also I can pay for it but I don't want to sign up for a brokerage account, send them 5 grand, and also have to pay for all the bells and whistles.

Sup 1337trader, i'd post this in the software section but it would take like 2 hours for a reply. I'm looking for a source of historical intraday data. US equities would be preferred, but i'll take a look at any market really. Ideally this would be in chart form rather than text form, in...