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[amibroker] Re: intraday settings



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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 amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "J. Biran" <jbiran@xxx> 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
> ____________________________________________
> 


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