[R-SIG-Finance] Volume stats and 5 minute bars

[Brian G. Peterson]

On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 12:08 -0700, Noah Silverman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some raw tick data. (Individual trades with 1 second resolution.)

1 second trade data is not raw tick data.  Just to be clear on
terminology.

> I'd like to convert them to 5 minute bars - that is easy enough with the xts package.  

yes, to.period()

> However, I'd also like to generate some other summary statistics for each 5 minute bar.  total volume, tick count, up ticks, down ticks, etc.

use aggregate() or one of the apply functions on endpoints() using your
five minute endpoints, cbind that aggregation to your 5 minute bars.

then use align.time on the resulting object to line it up to the next
even minute.

> Any suggestions on an easy way to do this?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
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