Historical hour stock data?

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SiliconTiger
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Historical hour stock data?

Postby SiliconTiger » 26 Feb 2010

I currently use TS for my data source, and it appears they only provide ~3 months of hour data (about 430 hour bars it seems). Does anyone know if this is just a TS policy that they don't have more historical hour data? Any recommendations on data providers which have substantially more (5-10 years) of hour data available for stocks?

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Postby Bruce DeVault » 27 Feb 2010

For what symbol? Many symbols go back years.

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Postby SiliconTiger » 27 Feb 2010

For NVDA.

Actually I found the hour data does seem to exist, although I'm not sure how far back it goes. In a chart window, I found if I format the Signal to be hour timescale and then to be 1000 bars from 2/27/2010 (today, for example) then only ~430 bars are pulled (roughly 3 months back). Increasing the number beyond 1000 still only gets 430 hour bars.

However, if I set up the Signal for a date range, for example, 1/1/2009 - 2/27/2010 then it seems to work. So maybe using the "N Bars from Data" functionality has a bug in MC when using hour data (I've used it with daily data just fine).

I haven't gone back much further than 1/1/2009 though because it's super slow to pull the hour data from 1/1/2009 - 2/27/2010. It probably takes 5 minutes just to graph it. Any clues why it's so painfully slow?

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Postby Bruce DeVault » 27 Feb 2010

Minute bar data for NVDA begins 2/12/1999.
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Postby SiliconTiger » 27 Feb 2010

Cool, thanks.

Now any idea why it's so painfully slow to pull the hour data from TS? I've got a modern 4-core desktop, fast internet access (~10 Mbps), etc so can't understand why pulling and graphing the hour data is so darn slow...

What data service are you using? I wonder if it's a TS problem?

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Postby Bruce DeVault » 27 Feb 2010

The screenshot is from TS itself. The same chart can be loaded in MultiCharts, it just takes a lot longer (the data for TS itself took less than one minute). Only TS Support can answer for why it takes so much longer.

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Postby SiliconTiger » 27 Feb 2010

Ok, thanks Bruce.

TS Support, please let me know why pulling hour data is so slow from TS.


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