Missing candles and wrong day

[inspired]

For some Australian stocks, here in Australia, I have yahoo backfilled candles to Dec 16, then nothing till---tomorrow, the 24th, which presumably should be today.

 

Intraday chart also is spreading itself into tomorrow, Tuesday.

 

Also, any ability to save a snapshot gif or jpeg?

 

 

[Jerry Medved]

what are the exact symbols that you are entering into MT, including exchange

 

Yahoo backfill - are you referring to intraday or historical? Yahoo doesn't do intraday more than a day

 

 

snapshots - that is something we will implement when we do social. For now you can just hit ALT+PrintScreen to copy the image to the clipboard and then paste it wherever you want,

[Jerry Medved]

And, what time frame is set on the chart's View tab?

[inspired]

Symbol: BHP.ASX

exchange  = Australia equities

data source = yahoo

timeframe historic = 1 day

peultimate candle December 16

last December 24

 

symbol: CBA.asx

same as above

candles:

penultimate dec 19,

last december 22

 

NAB.asx

same as for bhp

candles:

penultimate: Dec 16

last  dec 23

 

Intraday for BHP

frequency 1 minute

candles for Friday Dec 20,  then Monday Dec 23 all day

then Tuesday Dec 24 from, 1500 to 1600.

 

 

[Jerry Medved]

I did find one issue with Yahoo HIst Backfill for AU stocks where the data would be shifted one day back.  That doesn't however explain the future date. right click on one of the symbols that shows Dec 24 and select RAW DATA. Does the top row have Dec 24 date?

[Jerry Medved]

Also, you should use BHP:ASX instead of BHP.ASX

That way MT knows that it is ASX exchange.  with a period, it doesn't. 

For gaps, clear the data on the historical chart and backfill again. Does it come in OK?

[inspired]

Hi Jerry,

 

Still having issues with the wrong date candles. This seems to happen randomly, some days the candle shows the correct date,  but on others, like today, December 31, today's candle on any of the stocks shows as tomorrow---January 1, 2014.  (that would be great prescient trading if only it were possible!)

 

I have Australian equities chosen, with Yahoo as the source, and Canberra/Melbourne/Sydney as the time zone.   

 

Clearing the data and backfilling  only brings up the same January 1 date.

 

In raw data,  for say, BHP  (BHP:ASX) the first column, Dt (presumably date) every row is 23.

 

For historical data, each column  is 23 as well.

 

Regards

Inspired

[Jerry Medved]

I see the Jan 1 on Level I quotes. Will check why. As for "23" - what do you mean? is it showing the number 23 or are you just abbreviating something? If just the number, then what do you have set on Options for the date format?

[Jerry Medved]

Hmm, it seems that Yahoo is returning "12/31/2013", 10:10 PM as the time on the quote. MT is expecting the time to be UTC, so that is where the bad data is coming from. I will see if we can get it to return some specific timezone

[inspired]

Thanks for the response.

 

Yes, the number 23 is in the general settings  in dates. I have reset the formats, so in the general settings  for dates there is the letter d, for date/time  the letter g, and short time t.  Is that correct?

 

As a result, historic data is now correct (apart from the January 1 problem) and raw data  is correct at 31/12/13 until 15:59:00. Then it starts at tomorrow's date 01/01/14, from time 13:43:00  until closing time 14:10:00.

 

Default opening hours are 10 am to 4 pm, but today was a shortened day, so may have thrown the rat data times out?

 

Regards

Inspired

[Jerry Medved]

Yes, d is correct (for the default date format)

 

As for the future date, I put in some kludge in MT date processing for Yahoo data to take care of the issue when Yahoo screws up. Will be in the next update