ftsinfo (Financial Time Series Toolbox)

Financial time series object information

Syntax

ftsinfo(tsobj)
infofts = ftsinfo(tsobj)

Arguments

tsobj
Financial time series object

`tsobj`	Financial time series object

Description

ftsinfo(tsobj) displays information about the financial time series object tsobj.

infofts = ftsinfo(tsobj) stores information about the financial time series object tsobj in the structure infofts.

infofts has these fields.

Field
Contents

version
Financial time series object version

desc
Description of the time series object (tsobj.desc)

freq
Numeric representation of the time series data frequency (tsobj.freq). See freqstr for list of numeric frequencies and what they represent.

startdate
Earliest date in the time series

enddate
Latest date in the time series

seriesnames
Cell array containing the time series data column names

ndata
Number of data points in the time series

nseries
Number of columns of time series data

Field	Contents
version	Financial time series object version
`desc`	Description of the time series object (`tsobj.desc`)
`freq`	Numeric representation of the time series data frequency (`tsobj.freq`). See `freqstr` for list of numeric frequencies and what they represent.
`startdate`	Earliest date in the time series
`enddate`	Latest date in the time series
seriesnames	Cell array containing the time series data column names
`ndata`	Number of data points in the time series
`nseries`	Number of columns of time series data

Examples

Convert the supplied file disney.dat into a financial time series object named dis:

```
dis = ascii2fts('disney.dat', 1, 3); 
```

Now use ftsinfo to obtain information about dis:

ftsinfo(dis)

 FINTS version:   2.0
   Description:  Walt Disney Company (DIS)
     Frequency:  Unknown
    Start date:  29-Mar-1996
      End date:  29-Mar-1999
  Series names:  OPEN
                 HIGH
                 LOW
                 CLOSE
                 VOLUME
     # of data:  782
   # of series:  5

Then, executing

```
infodis = ftsinfo(dis) 
```

creates the structure infodis containing the values

infodis = 

            ver: '2.0'
           desc: 'Walt Disney Company (DIS)'
           freq: 0
      startdate: '29-Mar-1996'
        enddate: '29-Mar-1999'
    seriesnames: {5x1 cell}
          ndata: 782
        nseries: 5

See Also

fints, freqnum, freqstr, ftsbound

ftsgui ftsnew2old