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Larry Wright wrote:
> Rollover time is coming up soon, and I am reminded of how hard it is to do
> data manipulation with TS. I like to have a bit of rollover data when a
> new contract starts - a continuous contract that can be run in *real
> time*. JimO has been kind enough to provide this for the S&P, and it
> would be nice for other contracts as well.
>
> Does anyone know of a workaround that would allow older data to be either
> inserted into the TS server (preferred) or read by EL (from file?) until
> some rollover date? The EL route might be a kluge, but workarounds often
> are :-).
>
> The easy way, of course, would be for TS to have a server capability for
> ASCII out/export and in/import for TICK data as well as daily data. I've
> been asking for this basic capability for many years, but I get, instead,
> more eye candy...
Or Bill Cruz could just define the format of the omz file, and the
users could develop their own tools to do lots of different kinds of
data manipulation. Or Bill Cruz could define the format of the
40bonn.dat file, and users could manipulate the data in the database
directly (when the server was not running).
>
> Am I the only person that finds this useful?
No, you are not alone.
Rod
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