ANAL_CYC module routines

ANAL_CYC.C - ANALyze CYCle

A Q & D program to read a file of ASCII cycles and track where a market is in relation to them. Another goal is to track what Jeff Bower at FNN humbly calls Bower power shifts (cycle confluences). And now cross-ref the market high/low extremes and Fibonacci time projections from a FIB_RPT report in too.

Function	main
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void main( int argc , char *argv[] )
Remarks	Program entry point: expected command line input - ANAL_CYC cycle_definition_file

Function	local_exit
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void local_exit( int exit_code )
Remarks	Master program exit catcher. All fatal library errors will also come here.

Function	final_exit_cleanup
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void final_exit_cleanup( int exit_code )
Remarks	Do final image-rundown cleanup here. Also force debug_flag to TRUE if exit_code != SS_NORMAL.

Function	cntl_c_handler
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void cntl_c_handler( void )
Remarks	Catch Cntl C so we can exit via exit() and get a full file flush and close on any open files as well as any local rundown.

Function	output_a_timestamp_msg
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void output_a_timestamp_msg( char *msg )
Remarks	Output a message with a time stamp to the tube.

Function	allocate_data_structures
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void allocate_data_structures( void )
Remarks	Allocate the program GLOBAL variables.

Function	free_data_structures
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void free_data_structures( void )
Remarks	Deallocate the program GLOBAL variables.

Function	load_cycle_data_file
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void load_cycle_data_file( char *cycle_file )
Remarks	Load and process the cycle definition data file.

Function	process_cycle_data_rec
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void process_cycle_data_rec( char *data_line )
Remarks	Called by ld_ascii_data_file to process each line of the user's cycle definition file. This routine will dispatch to the individual verb process routines.

Function	process_ticker_dt_rec
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void process_ticker_dt_rec( char *ticker_line )
Remarks	Process a ticker string data record from the cycle definition file. The ticker_line will look like - "ticker dow".

Function	process_cycle_dt_rec
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void process_cycle_dt_rec( char *cycle_line )
Remarks	Process a cycle definition data record from the cycle definition file. The cycle_line will look like - "cycle 01/03/95 25 bottom".

Function	save_cycle_rec
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void save_cycle_rec( float base_date , int length , int node_type )
Remarks	Allocate and initialize a CREC to track this individual cycle.

Function	process_blend_dt_rec
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void process_blend_dt_rec( char *blend_line )
Remarks	Process a blend cycle definition data record from the cycle definition file. A blend is the mathematical combination of 2 or more cycles yielding a sigmoidal curve. A blend_line will look like - "blend 10 20 30".

Function	calc_days_needed
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void calc_days_needed( void )
Remarks	Calculate the number of bars of market data we need. The controlling variables are the longest cycle and oldest anchor_date.

Function	calc_all_cycle_positions
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void calc_all_cycle_positions( void )
Remarks	Calculate all of the cycle positions for all the programmed cycle definitions.

Function	calc_one_cycle_position
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void calc_one_cycle_position( CREC *cycle_rec )
Remarks	Calculate all the cycle positions for a single CREC cycle_rec.

Function	find_date_offset
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	static int find_date_offset( float target )
Remarks	Find the target_date in the dates[] array. Return either it's index or -1 as not found.

Function	calc_blended_cycles
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void calc_blended_cycles( int blend_idx , int cycle_idx )
Remarks	Process cycle blend number - blend_idx against the current cycle positions found at cycle_idx.

Function	output_pending_cycles
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void output_pending_cycles( void )
Remarks	Output the cycle position report.

Function	output_blend_structs
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void output_blend_structs( void )
Remarks	Output to the report a description of all cycle blends that were programmed.

Function	output_one_blend_struct
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	static void output_one_blend_struct( int blend_idx )
Remarks	Output a single cycle blend description.

Function	output_data_4_metastock
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void output_data_4_metastock( void )
Remarks	This is a hack to dump some data for importation into Metastock. I have left this in to show how to do it.

Function	do_fibonacci_crossref
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void do_fibonacci_crossref( void )
Remarks	Load the data to cross-reference the Fibonacci time projections and the high / low market extremes generated by FIB_RPT to the cycle positions. What we need to do is read the ASCII text report generated by FIB_RPT, watch for various keywords in the report and process their data when found. Needless to say this code will only work if you buy FIB_RPT (or at-least it's demo). I left this code in also as an example (not a sales pitch). This code is controlled by the /F command line switch so ANAL_CYC will run fine without FIB_RPT.

Function	process_fib_rpt_line
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void process_fib_rpt_line( char *data_line )
Remarks	Called by ld_ascii_data_file to process an individual report line from a FIB_RPT run.

Function	store_a_fib_projection
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void store_a_fib_projection( int type , float date )
Remarks	Store a Fibonacci time projection.

Function	store_a_fib_node
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void store_a_fib_node( int type , float date )
Remarks	Mark a day as a short-term market high/low node.

Function	blank_pad_2_length
Include file	ANAL_CYC.H
Prototype	void blank_pad_2_length( char *str , int length )
Remarks	Pad the caller's string to the request length with spaces.

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