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Hi Mike: Thanks for the response. If you do any backtesting of systems
or such, does it not use the "limit" "min move" and "value" from the
universe settings? Look at the difference in these settings between
British Petroleum and British Pound. How can I run any system tests
without the correct "point values"? If there were just some way to have
the symbol recognition default to "futures" rather than "stocks" all
would be well. I have all my "workspaces" set up for each individual
commodity, with all the contract months in this one "workspace" i.e. the
cocoa workspace has all the contract months for cocoa, then I just hit
the fwd/rev icon to switch contract months. Sure wish I would have
stayed with DialData......my head hurts.
Jim
>Jim,
>
>I may have missed something, but why do you go to "Universe"? I have a
>Prophet data disk, start a new chart the same way, but don't use the
>"Universe" button and it works fine. Is there some reason you are
using
>it? Using the format data icon is the way to change it. You don't
need to
>mess with the settings.
>
>I think what you are seeing is on the settings/universe screen under
>securities the program "says" Circuit City. But the data is Cocoa, and
>that is the only screen/window the name appears. I get the same
thing.
>When I use the forward icon I get the next contract month of Cocoa.
And it
>is Cocoa data. The Prophet futures CD doesn't have stocks. When I use
the
>British Pound, in the security box on settings, it says British
Petroleum,
>but it it the BP. My chart says BP. Just a name thing. Ignore it.
>
>The only time the incorrect name came up on my chart is when I mess
with
>something on the universe window then go back to the chart. Then it
will
>show the stock name, but once I scroll to another contract and then
back it
>is fine, and shows the correct contract name.
>
>If there are several particular contracts you want, rather than
searching
>for them each time, make a custom list, then you can scroll using the
>fwd/rvrs icons. That's what I do when there are particular contract
months
>or securities I want to back test.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>Mike
>
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