I have recently noticed that IB is listing expired futures contracts. Just type in ZG in a line and hit enter. Expired contracts is listed below the active ones. I tried putting an expired contract into AB, but I am sure AB is asking for recent data by default. Perhaps there is a way to request the data for an expired contract. If one of you geniuses could figure out how to get that data and how to combine the contracts into a continuous contract, we would have historical 1-min data. I would certainly be a buyer as I'm sure others would be also.
James ----- Original Message ---- From: loveyourenemynow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 12:14:14 PM Subject: [amibroker] Re: Downloaded 1 year IB backfill I am not sure what you mean by Ges x, but I am simply using the TWS provided eclient c++ example, adding 2 lines of code to save the data in a file. I think you may be right about the stall, all you have to do is to wait i guess, but i am sure you can get data up to 1 year back for example for 1 week of data from 1 year ago put as end date 1 year ago + 1 week and as duration 1 week --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps.com, Wes Smith <wes_zoltran@ ...> wrote: > > I know Sierra Charts can go back 120 days or more for IntraDay backfill. > But even though SC can do it, ... IB more than often will choke and stall .. IB problem, not Sierra. > Seems best if you ask for this data in widely spaced 'chunks' with a lengthy pauses between the chunks. > > What tool were you using to do this? Ges-X? > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited
