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Spreadsheet quotes

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[2013-06-20 15:52:00]
Trader10239 - Posts: 4
Hi,

I notice the FXCM forex quotes in spreadsheet has more than 5 digits (eg. 1.2349592392 instead of 1.23495). Am I missing something? Please advise. Thanks.

[2013-06-20 16:04:20]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
You can set the format. This is documented here:
http://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=doc/doc_GettingQuotes.html#NumberFormat
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[2013-06-20 16:07:22]
Trader10239 - Posts: 4
Thanks for the link. I think my question is why quotes from FXCM has more than 5 digits. Shouldn't all forex quotes be 4-5 digits for most pairs?
[2013-06-20 16:09:33]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
We cannot say for sure why this is the case but one reason just has to do with how floating-point numbers are represented in computers.
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[2013-06-20 16:27:39]
Sawtooth - Posts: 4118
If you are comparing price levels in formulas, you may want to round price values to a rounded tick size, to remove floating point errors. Here's one way:

http://www.sawtoothtrade.com/example-3.html
Date Time Of Last Edit: 2015-08-14 01:38:06
[2013-06-20 16:37:18]
Trader10239 - Posts: 4
Thanks again. Great advice from tomglib :)

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