Price movement discretization methods in Python
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Every trading system developer sooner or later faces a fundamental question: how to properly slice and dice market data for analysis? The conventional fixed-interval approach is like trying to measure an athlete's heart rate every 5 minutes, whether they are sprinting or resting. During periods of high activity, critical information is lost within a single bar, while during quiet hours we get dozens of empty bars, creating information noise.
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