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Radical
09-08-2009, 12:44 PM
I just came into possession of roughly 4 months of tick data as one file in CSV format. I would like to import this to Ninja, but I've come across the following problem:

As of now, the data looks like this in excel, and I have no idea how to get it into the correct format:
05/15/09 09:45:01 AM 16600 16600 16600 16600 1
05/15/09 09:45:01 AM 16600 16600 16600 16600 1
05/15/09 09:45:01 AM 16600 16600 16600 16600 1
05/15/09 09:45:01 AM 16600 16600 16600 16600 2
05/15/09 09:45:01 AM 16600 16600 16600 16600 1

Does anyone have any ideas on how I'd be able to change the format to the correct one?

NinjaTrader_Bertrand
09-08-2009, 01:04 PM
Radical, you would need to use Excel's data manipulation options and then save the result to a semicolon delimited file.

Radical
09-08-2009, 04:15 PM
Do you know by any chance how I would go about doing that? I don't have much experience with Excel.

NinjaTrader_Bertrand
09-09-2009, 04:04 AM
Unfortunately I can't give you a step by step walkthrough, but for a start I suggest to check into this blog and the solutions / ideas offered there - http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2007/11/12/manipulating-and-massaging-data-in-excel.aspx

Radical
09-09-2009, 02:24 PM
Thanks, I'll give that a look through.