Since I only use TC2000, I can't speak with authority on the other data providers, but I would suspect that most, if not all, use ANSI floating point for their data format. Some used to encrypt, maybe some still do. But I don't know of any of the popular data providers who don't provide some way to output data in other formats, almost always ASCII is one of them.
I use EXCEL for some of my more esoteric stuff, as it has tools and capabilities that most charting programs are lacking (recursion???). I tend to use EXCEL only for development since it doesn't have bookkeeping facilities, and I'm not terribly motivated to cobble up a bunch of macros and an ACCESS application to do the dirty work. Consequently, I usually either reduce the EXCEL results to a form digestable to WOW, my other charting program, or modify these trading jewels into something similar that will not regurgitate. So far, this technique has worked pretty well.
One other thing, TC2000 will let you convert and export a whole list of stock data at once; you don't have to do one at a time. Others may do likewise, I don't know.
I haven't found this technique to be much of a burden...
Maybe I've missed the point?????
Bill |
