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RE: [GT] Trouble with backtest.pl and beancounter



It is both.

 

The routine is that you start with the current timeframe (or DAY if undefined) and keep running through the defined timeframes until you successfully load data. In the case of beancounter, there is a check that if you have not loaded data at the DAY timeframe, then it bombs out.

 

The whole ritual is a little strange as data is not stored any different depending on timeframes. If I have time, I’ll check through this.

 

But as I said below, usually this just means that you don’t have data for that marked (CODE) in the data base…

 

Th.

 

From: Nicholas Kuechler [mailto:nkuechler AT gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 6:11 PM
To: devel AT geniustrader.org
Subject: Re: [GT] Trouble with backtest.pl and beancounter

 

Thanks for the reply.

Regarding: "The beancounter DB module does not support intraday data."
I did some checking to figure out what the problem with my data, so I added the $code to the message, so I could see what data was in my database for that code.

As it turns out, there was no historical data for the codes returning this error.

It seems this error is misleading.  It's not that beancounter doesn't support intraday data for $code, it is that no data is available for $code.

-Nick

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Nicholas Kuechler

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Weigert, Thomas <weigert AT mst.edu> wrote:

In general, when you see this error this means that the market data was
not successfully loaded. GT will then try to load smaller and smaller
timeframes, until it successfully loads some data, or in the case of
beancounter, dies with the message below.

Th.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert A. Schmied [mailto:ras AT acm.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:35 PM
> To: devel AT geniustrader.org
> Subject: Re: [GT] Trouble with backtest.pl and beancounter
>
> > $ ./backtest_multi.pl --output-
> directory=/opt/GeniusTrader/backtest_multi/
> > --start=2007-04-16 --end=2008-04-28 ../market_file.txt
> ../system_file.txt
> > The beancounter DB module does not support intraday data.
> >
> > I need to investigate why GT keeps throwing this beancounter
intraday
> data
> > error.
>