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Re: Fwd: Big Point value



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Gary,

	One thing to try - A chart will use the setting existent when the chart
was created until changed by some other action.

	Try changing the symbol to something else, anything else, and then change
it back...  Let me know what you find...

Samuel

At 02:33 PM 04/28/99 , you wrote:
>
>I posted this question a few weeks ago and got a couple of 
>suggestions, but nothing worked.  I'd really like to get this fixed 
>so I'm going to post it once more and see if anyone has any ideas.  
>If not, I guess I'll have to go back to my old symbol universe.
>
>Thanks,
>Gary
>
>=========================
>
>Omega's website has a Symbol Universe update for TS4 at 
>ftp://ftp.omegaresearch.com/pub/NEW4uni/universe.mdb .  It's pretty 
>recent (12/16/98) so I figured it would be a good idea to update.  I 
>was still running with my original universe that had old trading 
>times and other out-of-date info.  So I installed it.   
>
>I'd made some changes to my universe, like changing the big point 
>value of SPX to $250 and NDX to $100, so I could run systems on those 
>symbols and have them simulate SP and ND futures.  I made the same 
>changes to SPX and NDX in the new universe.  
>
>Now if I run a system on SPX, it uses a value of $250/bp just like it 
>should.  If I change the SPX point value, the new value shows up the 
>next time I run a system on it.  But systems on NDX still use $1/bp, 
>even though I've set the Big Point value to $100.  As far as I can 
>tell the SPX and NDX symbol settings are identical, except for the 
>$250/$100 difference.  
>
>Any guesses why I can't get NDX to accept a new big point value?
>
>Thanks,
>Gary
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