I have done quite extensive testing with tick data, but I coded a VB utility to convert the data to differerentiatable candles (yeah, I know...it sounds weird, but works fine.) As far as I know there is no WL support for this directly. JB
Sure, when I want to start up, I need to get data tick data on stocks for backtesting and need a way to get that. Is there another way than from a datafeed provider? Cash
Well, it does... lot of datafeed provider, compresses it's data. I've seen this especially backtesting tick data... As for Wealth-Lab... I don't remember the exact message but it won't test massive amount of data. I think it was something about excceding memory capacity... and I had a 1024 MB RAM... I don't think there was much data... like... 1-2 years... maybe less... Wealth-Lab is not meant for intraday use... ask glitch... he'll agree...
It's a pain in the ass. It's freezing all the time in the tick time frame. It's designed for backtesting swingtrading systems not daytrading. I gave up on the program until they'll come up with a version that is reliable enough and useable for real trading. At the moment it's just a nice toy for programmers to play with.
I guess James Altucher would disagree with you. Read the interview http://www.wealth-lab.com/cgi-bin/WealthLab.DLL/getpage?page=Articles/Altucher.htm Yes, WLD is slow. If you want to work with large amount of high frequency data try amibroker.
"Well, it would take me to re-program the whole platform to make it compatible to intraday trading. I'm just trying to work around the program to keep people happy." - glitch