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Graphing economic time series

Last post 09-10-2006, 0:02 by jjstein. 1 replies.


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09-06-2006, 20:08 20693

QuantumX
Joined on 09-07-2006
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Graphing economic time series

Hi Everyone,

I am currently reading "The All Season Investor" by Martin Pring.
In the book Mr. Pring shows many TA methods applied to economic
data to help indicate where the business cycle is. Its a great book. My
favorite part is that most of the relevant data is free through the Federal
Reserve Bank of St. Louis (google FRED to find it). Anyhow I thought
it would be great to graph some of this stuff out and apply ROCs and
smoothed MAs as Mr. Pring did. The data is available in Excel format
and with a little coaxing it imports into MetaStock just fine. However,
when I drag and drop the ROC of, say, the S&P 500 into the same
chart as a ROC of say, the Industrial Production Index, the line graph
becomes a series of dots. I think this has to do with how Metastock
lines up data on a chart and I'd *really* love to know if there is a
way around it. If you are interested in viewing the markets in relation
to economic indicators as I am by all means please go to the FRED
database, download the Industrial Production Index and see what I
mean. Its really cool stuff.

Amiably,

-QX

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09-10-2006, 0:02 20777 in reply to 20693

jjstein
Joined on 05-13-2005
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Re: Graphing economic time series

Try this: Right-click the series, and switch it to "Line" graph.

FYI: Keep in mind that you may be mixing DAILY with MONTHLY data.

--Johnathan

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