When you run FCharts for the first time it will create a blank database.  If you want to try out the charting straight away, you should click 'Single Import' and choose the sample file included with the program: anz.txt

This will give you about 18 months of data for ANZ Bank (Code: ANZ)  To view the chart, just enter ANZ in the code box and click 'Show'

Simon Haynes
simonh@spacejock.com



Recent Changes:

Added support for Metastock/Tradestation style intraday data:

ES5MIN, I, 10918,	08:00, 1039.75, 1039.75, 1038.25, 1038.5,	0
ES5MIN, I, 10918, 08:05, 1039.25, 1039.75, 1038.75, 1039.25, 0
ES5MIN, I, 10918, 08:10, 1038.75, 1039.5, 1038.75, 1039,0	

This will import correctly as an intraday file.  It can be imported along with all EOD files using Single or Bulk import.



1.1.88

I've been working on the import routines to make them smarter.

This is 'normal' data:
ticker, date, open, high, low, close, volume

This is 'tickerless' data:
date, open, high, low, close, volume


The reason a user is forced to import tickerless by going through 'Edit Company' and then clicking 'Import Tickerless' is because that's the only way FC could work out which ticker code the prices in a file _without_ any ticker codes were actually for. (IE you've bought the company up on the screen, si it knows you're importing data for that company).  Now, however, FC will pause when you seem to be importing a tickerless file using 'Bulk' or 'Single' import, and it will ask you whether the filename (the part before the extension) is the ticker symbol.  E.g. if you try and import TLS.TXT with a format of:

date, open, high, low, close, volume
date, open, high, low, close, volume
date, open, high, low, close, volume

etc, FC will give you the option of importing this file as TLS prices.  If you are doing a bulk import it will then ask whether you want to import all other files with tickerless data the same way (e.g. ERG.TXT into ERG, OEC.TXT into OEC and so on)  This SHOULD allow easy importing from Yahoo, which saves CSV files without ticker symbols.  I've also added CSV to the allowed file extensions for Tickerless.

Basically, during a bulk import you should now be able to import a mix of tickerless and normal data with minimal user interaction.  Of course, it's up to you to make sure your tickerless data files have the correct ticker symbol in the filename.  
