Hi,

I have a question regarding intraday data. I just downloaded the hourly data set from Stooq for the DAX (ASCII TextFile). I put the File into the data folder and wanted to add it to my data sets in wealth lab.

When Wealth lab asks me to chose a bar scale I cant chose the option hourly. Minute and daily are choosable but not hourly. Why is that?

Oh nevermind... 60min = 1 hour

FAIL

But I get the error message in the next step. I attached the image of my settings and an image of the text file. Could you tell me what I did wrong?

Date format: yyyy-MM-dd
Time format: HH:mm:ss (not H:)
Ignore first lines in file: 1

Thx for your answer. Unfortunately I still have some problems (still error). I guess it is because the open interest (which is always 0) is not seperated from the date by comma? I tried to solve this by replacing all ",0" by "," and remove open interest from the list but it stil doesnt work. The error always states that there is a problem with the time :(

Btw. you said the time format should be: HH:mm:ss

But I can only chose hh:mm:ss tt

Does that make any difference?

Best regards

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Unfortunately I still have some problems (still error). I guess it is because the open interest (which is always 0) is not seperated from the date by comma?

No, it's highly unlikely. Rather something with your text editor. As I said, typing in HH:mm:ss will fix it.

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But I can only chose hh:mm:ss tt

You can type in anything. This is a text field that can accept any values (see below) in order to adjust to any format imaginable.

QUOTE:
Does that make any difference?

Yes it does. The time here can not be represented as "H" and therefore will give an error.

For more, check out the User Guide > Data > Data Manager > Create New DataSet > Data Providers > ASCII > note on Date Format. The hyperlink to MSDN will give an idea how flexible is the ASCII provider.