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Actually the lack of complete 200k bar history is a known bug in PRT. I’ve raised it a couple of years back with them but it hasn’t been addressed. And also, there is volume history on the Dow going back further than 12mths, in fact it starts on Jul 2016. The reason there is no more data on 200k bars than 100k bars above is because of a weird bug in PRT that only calculates the full 200k bars based on “standard” time units ie those that you get on the drop down menu. At least that’s my theory anyway. See below.

As you see from the first image there is no more data on the 100k chart compared to 200k chart for the 6m TF

On the second image there is twice as much data in 200k units for the 5m period as there is for 100k units – as expected (its the same with 10m tf as well)

Also, I don’t think there is any correlation between the units shown in the drop down menu and the actual time scale on the charts.

Eg. for the 6m tf – 6m x 200,000 = 1.2m / 60/ 24 = 833 days /365 = 2.28 years ie 2yrs and 3mths approx. And as you can see from the history we get only around half that. In fact in reality it should be around 15% more history than even that figure due to the fact that Saturday has no units. I think you just have to accept this limitation in PRT though it’s a shame that if the data is there and is not being made available.

 

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