Charting - Trendlines and trading halts

[AMR]

Gidday chartists,

What do you do when a trading halt interferes with a chart?

[Phaedrus]

Maybe nothing. A trading halt is just days without sales and that can happen anyway.
Do you have a specific instance in mind?

[Lego_Man]

I imagine he's asking if it can distort your indicators...and if so, what effect this has.

[peat]

yeh I dont let it change anything
hate it when the data feed has errors that cause large (false) spikes and this throws the indicators all out...
both my platforms have this in USD/JPY at the moment and when I send an email to the providers they both go blah blah blah and nothing changes.

[dartMonkey]

Peat you should be able to change the data manually but I suppose it keeps changing it back each day you download your data.
You could always send them a copy of your avatar with an appropriate ominous message ...

[airedale]

Gidday chartists,

What do you do when a trading halt interferes with a chart?

Ahoy AMR,

In sailing ship jargon it means that you are becalmed....waiting for the trade winds to blow again.

[AMR]

Thanks for the responses all,

I was just looking through some charts i.e NXS

[BDL]

Not sure if this has been asked elsewhere but I have noticed that the 52 week highs and lows listed on ASB securities and on the NZX web site are different. I asked ASB why this is and here is their reply :

Hi BDL,

Here is the explanation I have had back from our IT department. I hope
this helps.

Kind regard

Turns out to be a simple explanation.

The NZX, Findata and Iress 52week figures are UNADJUSTED for corporate
actions etc

Iguana2 figures are ADJUSTED.

Adjusting the figures for the 52wk data in our opinion is the CORRECT
thing to do.

RBD has had a number of small share issues during the year, hence our
52week figures are slightly different.

Look at GEL as an example. They had a 1 for 5 consolidation earlier in
the year.

NZX report their figures as
http://www.nzx.com/markets/nzax/GEL
52wk high as 42c
52wk low as 6c

Iguana reports as
http://xml.iguana2.com/stock-quote?E...iveness=LIVE&S
tockDesc=1&StockQuote=1&StockAggregates=ytd
52wk high as 42
52wk low as 25c

Here is an adjusted charts for GEL
http://asb.iguana2.com/chart/asb/his.../1/line/0/0/li
near/vol

And here is an unadjusted

http://asb.iguana2.com/chart/asb/his.../0/line/0/0/li
near/vol

The 52week adjusted figures are far more useful.

Hope this explains things.

I was just wondering if everyone else already new this and I was the only one that did not realise this. Makes charting from incredible charts to ASB numbers not quite match up.