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st: How to calculate the time elapsed between two trading?


From   "Katia Bobulova" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: How to calculate the time elapsed between two trading?
Date   Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:45:40 +0100

Dear all,

I have to costruct a variable for the time elapsed between two trading
(trading=T)

 I have this situation:

Date               time        control    newvariable
02/01/2007   16:50:55        T         165000
02/01/2007   16:50:56        T         165000
03/01/2007   17:02:30        T         170230
03/01/2007   18:30:20        R            .
03/01/2007   18:32:00        T         183200

Now the result that I would like to reach is to have new variable
which has as observations: 0 and 12970, because the first one is the
result of the diff between the first two newvariable, since they take
place at the same time, the second one should be the difference
between the newvariable at time 17:02:30 and the other one at 18:32:00
(since I am considering just the obs with control=T).

I tried to do this:

gen newvariable= time if control=="T"
by sort date: gen newvariable1=newvariable-newvariable[_n-1]

but I don't have the result that i would like to have, since i am
trying to calculate the time elapsed between two trading(control=T).

Could you please help me to find a way to sort my problem out?

Thank you very much

Katia
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