Ascii Data Conversion for NT6

[alexk]

I have some ascii intraday minute data and would like to import it into NT6 but haven't figured out yet how to do this, i.e., how to convert my ascii to the format acceptable for NT6.

I have:
<YYYYMMDD>,<HHMMSS>,<OPEN>,<H IGH>,<LOW>,<CLOSE>,<VOL>

and NT6 needs:
<YYYYMMDD HHMMSS>;<OPEN>;<HIGH>;<LOW>;& lt;CLOSE>;<VOL>

It is not a problem to replace commas with semicolon, but how then to get a space instead of one semicolon? The only way which I could see now is through Excel but this could be quite time consuming considering several years of 1-min data for different instruments since Excel accepts only 65536 rows.

I tried to find some Ascii to Ascii data convertors that could this procedure, but didn't have any success.

Could anybody recommend what is the best way here to proceed?

Thank you,
Alex

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

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The only way I would see is writing some custom conversation program or script (would be just a few lines, though).

You could contact a NT consultant like http://fin-alg.com/index.html who could help you out.

[alexk]

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Thank you. I will try.

P.S. By the way, I think it could be useful for many if NinjaTrader could be a little bit more flexible in accepting ascii formats.

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

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Thanks for your suggestion. We will consider it for futrue development.

[MGDavid]

Hi all,

I have the same problem , i am trying to import txt files of another software but i can not do it for the same thing.

There is some another way of doing it?

Thanks for your help.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

You would need to format the data according to the format published in the following link.

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/Import.html

If you are unfamiliar with formatting data you can solicit the help of a consultant from Post #2.

[MGDavid]

Thank your for your reply Ryan. I will try it.

Regards