Why candlesticks are being generated ?

[dawadam]

Hello,

I would like to understand why candlesticks are being generated.

For example, if I load 1-hour candlesticks on EUR/USD, I see minute and tick candlesticks in the cache.
Additionally, when I enable the logs, I notice that candlesticks are being generated.

Why does this generation occur?
And is it possible to disable this function?

[Leo4815162342]

@dawadam this is a very good question. This is expected behaviour, especially when you're trying to download recent/new data.

If hourly data cannot be inferred from the hourly binary artifacts (.bi5 files), dukascopy-node will fallback to the lower timeframes

[dawadam]

@Leo4815162342 Alright, thanks for the clarification.

Is there a way to disable this behavior if we don't want any automatic fallback or generation?

[Leo4815162342]

@dawadam can you describe your exact use case?

disabling fallback will cause non-full data to be generated

[dawadam]

Let's imagine that I don't want any data to be generated, to make sure it is created manually.
I might also want to generate it myself using several different timeframes.
These are just a few examples where it would be useful to have a boolean option to disable automatic generation.

Incidentally, would it be possible to use the candle generator separately, for instance if we have candles coming from another data source?