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It is easy to create data files for Market Master. You can use Market Master to practice trading and get familiar with any market, be it Futures, Shares, Currencies or Cash Indices. You just need to ensure that the data is stored as a comma delineated text file with a .CSV extension. There are two ways of getting data for market master: You can use your own data and convert it into the appropriate format for market master. You can import data from IRD RealTick directly into Excel with the DDE Link Upgrade. This cost an extra EUR35 and allows you to do many weird and wonderful thinks with your data. Contact support@ird.com for more information. Tip: Source for historical tick data: http://www.tickdata.com. If you want to convert your existing data, or data from another source, follow the following instructions. Below is the first few lines of a Market Master data file for the E-Mini Nasdaq on August 8th, 2002: Symbol:,/NQP2,,,,, Date, Time,Volume, Open, High, Low, Close 09/08/02,3:30 PM,3693,935,936,931.5,933 09/08/02,3:35 PM,3564,933.5,933.5,928.5,932.5 09/08/02,3:40 PM,3490,932.5,933.5,928.5,929.5 09/08/02,3:45 PM,3900,930,934,929,931 09/08/02,3:50 PM,3016,930.5,933,928.5,930.5 09/08/02,3:55 PM,4003,930.5,931,925,927 09/08/02,4:00 PM,2300,927.5,929.5,926.5,926.5 09/08/02,4:05 PM,3401,926.5,935,926.5,932 09/08/02,4:10 PM,2449,932.5,934.5,931.5,931.5 Market Master ignores the first two lines, so it does not matter what is there, it is from line three down that is important. These lines must be in the order of: Date, Time ,Volume, Open, High, Low, Close With the commas separating each bit of data. You also need to make sure that the format for the time is the same as in the example above i.e. h:mm AM/PM. Market Master does not use the date, so the format is not important. |
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