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You have a number of different options, with a couple points to keep in
mind:
1. bar by bar replay can be used, where you increment the chart completed
bar by completed bar vs. Tic by Tic replay, where you are able to see the
tics up and down that built each bar. Tic by tic will be the truest
simulation, but you might decide to use bar by bar method to teach yourself
not to watch every single tic when trading.
2. ability to do multiple charts concurrently. This might be important if
you use different timeframe charts, or multiple markets. By having each
chart linked, and incremented synchronously, it will allow you to add
greater realism to the simulation.
Your options are:
1. Load a couple days previous to the simulation date, and simply pan
through the chart bar by bar.
2. Reset your computer clock, and run the Omega offline server.
Apparently, by loading a previous day, it will scroll through the chart
according to the computer clock as if you were trading that day. I have
never used this method, but it would seem that it could be used with
multiple charts concurrently.
3. Purchase Virtualtrader. This is a simulation tool, expressly designed
for Omega Tradestation/Supercharts RT that will pan multiple charts bar by
bar. Also has order entry ability. Very expensive- somewhere around $2,400
if I remember. http://www.titantrading.com
4. Purchase TradeLab, and use the charting module to load data from your
Omega server either tic by tic, or have it pan the chart bar by bar. Full
details are a little sketchy, but the developer has promised it will be
relatively easy to accomplish. Should be released soon.
http://www.sciapp.com
Regards,
Chris Lober
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> This has been discussed before but I never got the answer to it so I'm
> going to ask it again. I have a real need to watch the market just like I
> do during trading times for practice and code writing. To look at
> the whole
> chart after the data is past is great but its deceptive in my
> opinion. What
> looks like a child could do can't in real time because it looks so much
> different with half the puzzle missing. Now the question is there a way to
> use old date from S and have it feed through Left to right to
> simulate real
> trading using past data. If not then somebody that is smart enough to do
> this could make a fortune providing this feature for S. I wonder why Omega
> hasn't done this already would be a very valuable learning, teaching and
> selling feature for them.
> If there is such a thing please tell me where to buy it.
>
> Robert
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