Data from 5paisa (TTAdvance) to Metastock RT

stokist ,..

I tried it ,.. but its not working properly.. yesterday i was able to convert the existing data in ttadvance folder. but as soon as i started today ,.. i just got one data n that too of sun pharma ,.. may i know why is it happening ?? Stokist ,.. can u plz improve it more??

another bug comes while running it along with ms is ,.. it says acces to "c:........\master " is denied ?? is it becoz metastock is running parallally ?? Please find the solution for it. I really need something which can fetch data from ttadvace to ms,... thanx for ur effort but i want u to put a little more.

Thanx n regards,..
Darsh

And even one more thing ,..!! Time stamps r not favoring ... dont know why but it is giving me any tick anytime ,..!! like today its 11:12 and the time i m getting is 3:20 of 29th april...

Need to work alot with it stokist ,.. a good programmer like u can make it better.
Regards..
Darsh

These are problems with TTAdvance Software, and, Stokist's converter works fine.
1. Data is available from 09:58 only & stops at 3:28.
2. Timestamps get mixed up occasionally, and, today, there are timestamps and trades which are beyond the trading time as Darsh pointed out.
3. There is no data available for backfill. But is available for same day.
4. Data will be available only for the graph selected in TTA.

hmm ,.. seems interesting but ,.. whats the use of a software if it doesnt give u what u want ,..

few of the bugs needs to be fixed ,.. mentioning again ,..

>> Timestamps mixed up at times.
>> No auto refresh to Metastock RT.
>> While running MS , it gives error in writting master file.
>> Yesterday's data not available ,.. then intraday chart is available in TTAD too.
>> the chart ur viewing in TTAD , it wont write that data into MS format as its being used by another application.

So over all ,.. needs a lot of attention of developpers. may be more bugs ,.. the users plz give feedback so stokist can make it more better.

or is there any free handy and reliable tool for PIB to Metastock RT ?? Stokist try to develop a free tool like that which can work better.

Regards,.
Darsh

Thanks for the feedback. Special thanks to THETRADER...its only because of him that this software utility has come this far !
Will check on the bugs reported. Hope to get some time this weekend !
cheers
Stokist

Thanx stokist ,.. waiting for ur new improvised soft...

Regards,.. n best luck ...
darsh

Hello Stokist and everyone !
Congrats Stokist for your commendable effort.
My observations follow:
When MetaStock is run first it locks the Master file and hence error message is generated.
First start TTA2Metastock and after first run of conversion is completed switch on MetaStock.
This sequence of operation is to be adhered to strictly. That is the nature of MetaStock and no fault of TTA2Metastock.
Each time you shut down TTA2Metastock, Metastock too has to be shut down and both restarted in the sequence mentioned.
If a chart is opened in TTAdvance after 1 P.M the timings appear in 12 hour format and not as 24 hour format even if regional settings of the PC are set to 24 hour format. In fact TTAdvance is inconsistent in using the HH format.
Hence in building TTA2Metastock, it would be appropriate to include something like:
if(1<=HH && 4<=HH)
{
HH = 12 + HH;
}
This would correct the time stamp problem to a great extent.
Another important fact:
If a user opens a ONE MINUTE chart (or a higher time frame one) in TTAdv
the previous days data is cleared from TAData<SYMBOL>.dat file which is good. The problem starts when a Tick chart is opened - in this case data is appended to the existing file TAData<SYMBOL>.dat and this is where the time stamp hotch potch begins.
So, I feel it is better to follow this convention: Clear ALL TAData<SYMBOL>.dat files before the trading session commences.

Date Isssue: Instead of using today,s date it would be a better idea to assign
the date on which fileTAData<SYMBOL>.dat was last modified to the SYMBOL. This would show accurate dates.
TTA2Meta has been designed to write 1-Minute MetaStock files. However if a Tick chart is opened in TTAdvance, the data points recorded in TAData<>.dat file are about 5 to 15 seconds apart .
(One quote at 10:01:08,next at 10:01:15 and so on and the Open,High,Low and Close are all equal) .
When these points are converted to MetaStock 1-Minute format the chart
viewed in MS consists of points (and not bars or candles)unless the Intraday time frame in MS is changed to 5 Minutes or higher.
However if the data is converted to Tick Data MS format than this problem will be resolved
This issue needs to be looked into.
As for Auto refresh of Metastock, it would be great if this could be incorporated in TTA2Metastock. Otherwise users may download a freeware -MetastockRefresher from 4shared.
This program activates View->Refresh in MetaStock at assignable periods of time.
Happy Trading.

Regards
Krishna

Krishna,

That was of great help. I believe TTA2MS utility converts times correctly (both 12 hrs and 24hrs formats) provided 12hrs timestamp has AM/PM indicator!

I think ur suggestion to use file date rather than today's date is good. I will incorporate that.

Tick Data MS format : Not sure what this means. In master Intraday duration is in minutes and given that I have no way to find what type of chart is selected in TTA I default the MS data to 1 minute Intraday. Need to be studied further.

<This program activates View->Refresh in MetaStock at assignable periods of time>
Well I don't have MS so not sure what is way to activate View->Refresh in MS thru external programs. (is there any MS documentation on this?)

thanks again
Stokist

Dear Stokist ,..
As i know ur a better programmer to me. Then too i can suggest u one thing which could be helpful to u .. there is one utility by mansoor called as asc2ms.exe ... it converts n refreshes data into ms from ascii mode. ( as much as i know most of the data fetchers r using the same utility for metastock. )

And about refreshing chart i guess tehre is some utility on net called as metarefresh... will search for it and post here if possible. Though right now i m not able to find it anywhere.

Still timestamps r big bug, also plz do include date too so that it can store previous days data too. Plus in today's market ,.. it has fetched data till 11:30 only n that too i m not sure its right or wrong.

Then too ask me for anything if i can help u out. For any technical support in developping a software like this i would love to be a part of it.

Thanx n regards,..
Darsh

Hi Stockist,

Is it possible to use this utility for Ami Broker ?, please make one for Ami Broker as well whenever you have time.

Thank you