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I am trying to get the 0.2 sec IB pseudo tick data , but it still
shows as 5 sec bar even if I choose tick in the view menu.
Is there any other extra setting or a new plugin has been released?
Thk
Ly
I set basetime interval to tick in database setting
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Wes Smith <wes_zoltran@xxx> wrote:
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> Thomasz
> I think they now include the trade/tick count in API 9.0
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http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/apiReleaseNotes/api9.php?ib_entity=llc#9_numberTrades
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Tomasz Janeczko <groups@xxx>
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 3:40:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Settings for Tick data and bar style charts
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> 1. Current IB plugin HAS so called "Tick" mode and these
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> represents IB "ticks" i.e. 0.2 sec snapshots (not 5 second).
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> 2. There is no way to convert 0.2 sec snapshot to true tick
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> - there is simply NO INFORMATION about individual trades
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> in IB feed and there is no way to compare to eSignal or other
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> tick-by-tick feeds. For example 210 tick chart
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> from IB data is simply fake.
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> Traders thinking otherwise I fooling themselves.
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> Discussed to death on IB own boards:
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> http://www.interact ivebrokers. com/cgi-bin/ discus/board-
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> Best regards,
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> Tomasz Janeczko
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> amibroker.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "scourt2000" <stevehite@xxxxxxxx net>
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> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxx ps.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 1:02 AM
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> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Settings for Tick data and bar style charts
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> > Don,
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> > It's because IB does not have tick data. They have 5 second snapshot
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> > data at the finest granularity. If you want tick data, you have
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> > a true tick-by-tick data source like eSignal.
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> > I know, I know. There's other charting packages out there that try
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> > their best to take the concept of a tick and apply it to IB's data
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> > snapshot methodology but that is not what Tomasz's IB plugin will
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> > you.
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> > I know many traders who use these other packages, and use information
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> > from other traders who have tick-by-tick data feeds (like eSignal or
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> > TradeStation) and they find some kind of near-equivalent mapping
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> > IB snapshot data. That modus operandi isn't gonna happen in
Amibroker
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> > for you unless you find a very clever fellow to write an IB plugin for
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> > you that fakes Amibroker out into thinking that it's receiving real
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> > ticks from snapshot data.
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> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxx ps.com, "Don Hallman" <bmwhendrix@ ...>
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> >> I have been trying to set up to use tick data on 42 or 210 tick
charts
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> >> but the data does not feed in or chart correctly. I use IB for data.
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> >> I set my database to tick, but when I try to backfill, no data comes
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> >> in and the backfill length is set to minimum and will not change?
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> >> My second problem is that charts keep defaulting back to candlestick.
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> >> Seem no matter how I close out or save the charts this happens.
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> >> Both problems are probably simple operator error, but I need some
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> >> Thanks,
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> >> Don
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