Intraday and Daily Data and Other Settings
The following screenshot presents download settings tab:
"Data
Output Folder" shows the location on the hard drive where the
data files will be stored. Make sure that you set a valid folder for
"Historical Data Folder" - use "Browse" button next to
it.
"File extensions" box allows to set a custom extensions
for the files. Note that the file name will always be the same as the
symbol. Thus if you want to keep data for the same symbol in different
formats, like 1-min, 5-min and 15 min, you may assign different extensions
for each time-frame, i.e. ".dat5" for 5-min, ".dat20"
for 15-min and so on. This will ensure that the data will not be
overwritten by the subsequent download.
"Date Format", "Date Separator" and "Time
Format" customize output for the date.
"Reset to defaults" will bring all the settings to the
original state just like when the software was initially installed.
"Connection Speed" setting optimizes retry timeout
request delay depending on your internet connection speed.
"Data Range" selection box allows to specify how long
back in time historical quotes should be retrieved
"Time Interval Type" selection box allows specifying
intraday 1,5,10,15,20,30 minute or 1,2,4 hour data format and daily or
weekly format. Note that intraday values only appear when "Data
Range" is set to 20 days or less.
Special formatting options include
"No time export" - time column will be excluded from the
output
"No date export" - date column will be excluded from the
output
"Add symbol" - will add stock ticker column as the first
column of the output
"Intraday->Daily" will replace intraday times by
dates. This option may be useful when your charting software is not
supporting intraday data formats. When this option is selected dates
column will be filled by daily data going back in time. Note that these
dates actually do not correspond to the actual prices. Remember
that this will be only a virtual, not actual date scale.
Checking "Reverse Data" will change chronological order
of the quotes in the output file.
"MetaStock" checkbox is automatically adjusting date,
field and time order and settings so that data can be later converted into
MetaStock format.
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