calculate the open and close on a minute chart with historical ticks

Discussion in 'Trading' started by maxoup, Jul 19, 2011.

  1. maxoup

    maxoup

    I wanted to calculate the open and close on a minute chart with historical ticks.
    Does the minute chart
    1/ open at 00.00 and closes at 59.999 or
    2/ open at 00.00 and closes at 60.00?

    If 1/ then .001 is missing and can amount to a lot for long term backtesting since the minute chart is not exactly 1 minute?

    Is there an industry-wide convention on the answer or each participant has its own rule?

    thanks

    maxoup