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Dans un courrier daté du 20/02/98 17:10:15  , vous avez écrit :

<< 
 Pierre, please apologize, but I may have a language problem as Im 
 german - so I try again and maybe somebody can translate that into 
 real english or into french.
>>

Also my problem... 

<<
 You can NOT collect data for any future (thats a different 
 thing than a STOCK !) contract which expires past 991231 - NOW
>>

You should be able to collect contracts whose symbols are:
ROOTMY
where 
ROOT is the symbol root
M month code
Y =8 or 9
 
<<
 You might have seen comments here that TRADERS (!) (thats 
 people who TRADE with TRADESTATION and not only sell software, 
 codes, whatever) collect data well in front ot the expiration month 
 (thats the time you can NOT trade the contract anymore and LATEST 
 have to go to the next month), like real commodities (thats oil etc) 
 or ED (thats EURODOLLARs). 
 
 That means they NEED to collect that data NOW or in very NEAR future, 
 to build a base for their systems, indicators, whatever - If Im still 
 not clear please explain why the problem only starts 991231 ?
  >>

The problem starts of course before 991231 for collecting contracts name
labelled with a year digit after Y2000.
This is also a symbol name datafeed problem.
I do not know how ED contracts are named by the feed now.
is it EDM0, EDM01 for 2000 and 2001 ?
If the TS name matches the feed name, it shloud work

In this case , I think that loading these symbols in the porfolio ( by
renaming a fake one) could solve the problem until 991231 without Y2000 patch.

But the Y2000 patch will be available far before this period, I think.

Sincerely,

Pierre Orphelin.
www.sirtrrade.com