Hi Joseph, Thank you for your suggestions. I trade stocks and was wondering what I needed in terms of bars for a stock to provide a reasonably long chart. I use Esignal as my data provider at the moment. Any and all help is appreciated. Thank you.
Tim --- In [email protected], "J. Biran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you mean you use volume bars, you need to setup your > database to use tick base interval. > Also, you have to rely on RT data you collect yourself by > being continuously connected to IB since you cannot use > backfills (the backfill will destroy the RT data you just > collected) hence you need to uncheck the Automatic backfill > on first data access (in Database settings menu |Configure > Interactive Broker plugin). > Lastly if you are trading future contracts that have 3 month > of lifespan, you need to setup the Number of bars: to > 1,000,000 (YES) otherwise you will not be able to save the > whole contract data history. > > Joseph Biran > ____________________________________________ >
