Selecting a Symbol's Data Interval
The frequency at which you choose to display your price data is referred to as the data interval, whether you want a bar drawn for every 10 ticks of data or for every 1000 shares/contracts traded. TradeStation is extremely flexible; you can display your price data using a number of different intervals. Data intervals can be grouped into
- Time-based increments - 5 minutes, 30 minutes, daily, etc.
- Tick-based increments - 1 tick, 10 ticks, etc.
- Volume-based increments - 100 shares/contracts, 10,000 shares/contracts, etc.
- Point & Figure - Filter out time and insignificant changes in price, leaving a chart that only contains price movements that you believe are relevant. For more information, see Point & Figure Chart.
- From the menu, click Data > Edit Symbol, then click Customize. The Customize Symbol [symbol] dialog is displayed.
- Click the Settings tab.
- Select the desired interval type from the Select Interval list.
- For tick charts, enter the number of ticks each bar will represent in the [ ] Tick Bar box.
- For volume charts, enter the number of shares/contracts each bar will represent in the Share Bar box.
- For minute charts, enter the number of minutes each bar will represent in the [ ] Minute Bar box. From the For volume, use drop-down list, select the basis that you want to use for volume calculations and from the For bar building, use drop-down list, select the bar type to plot.
- For second charts, enter the number of seconds each bar will represent in the [ ] Second Bar box. From the For volume, use drop-down list, select the basis that you want to use for volume calculations and from the For bar building, use drop-down list, select the bar type to plot.
- Select the range to use. For more information, see Specifying the Date Range.
- Click OK (in a multi-data chart, click OK and then click Close).
The change takes effect immediately. The chart is redrawn to reflect the new data interval setting.