Tic Replay Issue

[Chris747]

Hey folks,
Was wondering if anyone would have an idea about the following. I downloaded tic files for the British Pound on two seperate days... one was a 7 day download and the other a 10 day download, both having some days in common If you look at the image and the global cursor - the same candle has two different times !! And to make it even stranger...the third image is from a "live" chart and that candle is yet at a different time altogther than the two tic replays. Specifically...this one candle has a time of 2:00, 4:00 and 5:00 on the "live".

I'm not sure if you'll be able to make out details on the global cursor on each the images.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Chris

[Chris747]

this is 2nd image

[Chris747]

this is the "live" image.
My question is how can the same candle have 3 different times?

[ACM]

Chris
Using live data I am seeing the same 17:00 time stamp you have (see enclosed image).
As to the Tick Replay time stamps do you still have the original data files or did you overwrite them when you modified them for Tick Replay?
Alex

[Chris747]

Hi Alexis,
I sure appreciate the quick reply...this one has me stumped. No, I overwrote the original files when i replaced the "Q"s with "T"s so no longer have the original files. However, i've been using the same process for 2 years without a problem.

Perhaps you can tell me if i'm right on one assumption. The time stamps are imbedded in the Tic file itself and hence it would not matter from what time zone they'd been downloaded in or "played back" in....correct ?

Thanks,

Chris

[ACM]

Chris

The time stamps are imbedded in the Tic file itself and hence it would not matter from what time zone they'd been downloaded in or "played back" in....correct ?

As far as I can tell it does matter in what time zone the data has been downloaded as that will generate the time stamps
The following snapshots were taken with the computer set to EST and running in Tick Replay two data files that were downloaded while the computer was set to different time zones (CST and EST). As you can see the time stamps are different.
Also enclosed below are a few lines from each data file again showing the different time stamps
Alex

IBM Central Time
; Symbol=IBM
; Date=12/18/06-12/18/06
T,061218,070101,95.26,100,THRD
T,061218,071536,95.27,200,PSE
T,061218,075528,95.49,1000,PSE
T,061218,083006,94.95,400,PSE
T,061218,083006,94.85,116000,NYSE
T,061218,083006,95,2500,NYSE
T,061218,083006,95,2200,NYSE
T,061218,083006,94.87,200,PSE
T,061218,083006,94.87,200,PSE
T,061218,083006,95,400,NYSE
T,061218,083006,95,2400,NYSE
T,061218,083006,95,400,NYSE

IBM Eastern Time
; Symbol=IBM
; Date=12/18/06-12/18/06
T,061218,080101,95.26,100,THRD
T,061218,081536,95.27,200,PSE
T,061218,085528,95.49,1000,PSE
T,061218,093006,94.95,400,PSE
T,061218,093006,94.85,116000,NYSE
T,061218,093006,95,2500,NYSE
T,061218,093006,95,2200,NYSE
T,061218,093006,94.87,200,PSE
T,061218,093006,94.87,200,PSE
T,061218,093006,95,400,NYSE
T,061218,093006,95,2400,NYSE
T,061218,093006,95,400,NYSE