setup your backfill period to 5 days and continue updating data daily.
--- In [email protected], "louies88" <louie...@...> wrote:
>
> Hello All
>
> I hooked up the IB w/ Amibroker for real-time quotes. Although the quotes are
> coming in great, the charts aren't. It is EXCRUCIATINGLY long to get the
> chart updated, especially if I have more than 5 charts. I'm trading forex,
> but trying to get equity, futures, and forex quotes all at the same time.
> What normally happens is that the chart (just one) is updating (1-minute time
> frame) for about 10 seconds then stops. A little message pops up telling me
> that it (IB servers ...I suppose) needs to reload or something like that. And
> the time that it takes is roughly 120 seconds. Once that done, I would get
> another 5 to 10 seconds of updating. The cycle begins again. I follow about 5
> forex pairs and never get all the charts update successfully. Another
> thing....If I ever skip a day or two w/o updating the charts, the next time
> that I connect to IB w/ AB all my charts are "broken." That is, they have
> "holes" all over the place, indicating that some of the charts are not
> updating. And this happens regardless of the time frame. Whether that is in
> minute or hourly charts.
>
> My question is this: I wonder if I had it set up correctly? I followed the
> instruction from AB pretty closely. The instructions are straight forward.
> But the charts are not updating quick enough. It seems to me that something
> is holding it back. Maybe a incompatibility issue? Anyway, if any of you here
> have some experience in setting this up and getting decent chart updates,
> please let me know. I surely appreciate that.
>
>
> Thanks
>
