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FXtrade.transactions: Series of FX trade transactions

Description

USD/euro FX (foreign exchange) trade: number of worldwide transactions recorded per 5-minute intervals in July 2010. The data set contains four full weekly cycles (plus three days at the beginning of July 2010), a weekly cycle lasting from Sunday, 21:00, to Friday, 20:55. The number of transactions between Friday, 21:00, and Sunday, 20:55, is 0 or close to 0. For these intervals, variable 'active' is FALSE, otherwise TRUE.

Derived from data delivered by Morning Star.

Usage

data("FXtrade.transactions")

Arguments

Format

A data frame of two columns:
date :
date and GMT time (resolution: 5 minutes),
format: "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" (equivalently, "%F %T")
transactions : number of transactions in the 5-minute interval starting with the time indicated

Source

Morning Star, http://www.morningstar.com/

Examples

Run this code
data(FXtrade.transactions)
plot(as.POSIXct(FXtrade.transactions$date, format = "%F %T"),
     FXtrade.transactions$transactions, type = "l",
     xlab = "day", ylab = "transactions in 5-minute intervals")

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