Hmm, been a while - I guess we never configured Stockwatch for historical data because we always had good alternatives. We will configure...
I:$INDU is a StockWatch symbol so it would only work if you change the Historical Backfill to Stockwatch
Q:$@CCO is I believe a Stockwatch symbol. As far as Yahoo, it seems that the data download URL no longer returns data for it. ^DJI and INDU are...
^DJI is the symbol http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^DJI
There is a limit to the number of symbols you can stream via IB. Are you sure you are not just hitting the limit? Normally it is 100
@JSwaft, don't know of anything that can be done to resolve that other than changing the QT news window to 2 pane. Jerry
@Jinzhou - We have not publicly released Medved Trader yet. We have a number of people beta testing it but I don't want to do a public release...
QT always required the default port. Not sure how you had it work otherwise. MT has an option to change the port. I cannot make any patches...
@Jason Wu, you are confusing Backfill with QT just storing the quotes and showing you that quote history. That is why 1 and 2 questions came...
that is the PACE indicator. You can right click on it to change parameters for it. right click on chart, VIEW sub-menu has Show/Hide Pace...
@Appleseed, You can open a historical chart chart and link it with the same color pin to the portfolio. Click on the first symbol in the...
I guess that depends on what you mean by "scan only my historical chart list". How exactly do you scan a chart list?
There is no patch for BigCharts. The service that QT was using was shut down. The data that their flash charts use is in completely different...
assuming you have the patch, both IB and TDA should work.
Ninja either gets the data from another source or if from IB, then they are either not getting 1 minute data (5 minute data could be retrieved for...
whenever you open a chart that you do not have data for already, QT sends 1 request to the IB servers to get the data to show on the chart....
IB only lets you get 5 days of 1 minute data per request. You can make 12 requests to get 60 days. However, IB also limits you to 60 historical...
BIG CHARTS, which is the DEFAULT backfill source in QT, is no longer working. Go to OPTIONS/Data sources menu, HIST BACKFILL tab and change...
switch your HIST BACKFILL source to either TDA (if you have it) or Yahoo
you can also just do a small VBA script to do 100 or so Yahoo finance requests for their CSV formatted data.
Separate names with a comma.