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Ian, we feel your pain. :)
On Dec 20, 10:02pm, Ian MacAuslan wrote:
> Subject: Adding a large number of Symbols to Server Portfolio
> I trade stocks, intra-day, but have so far traded only NYSE and AMEX
> stocks. BMI Cable is my data provider. I'm still using TS 4.
>
> Now, however, I have compiled an alphabetically sorted list of about 500
> symbols (stocks) that trade on NASDAQ. It's just a plain ASCII file,
> with one symbol on each line.
>
> Is there a relatively easy way to add these to my portfolio in Server --
> or will I have to manually add each of these 500 symbols (uggh) ??
> (There are about 8,000 stocks that trade on NASDAQ; I had considered
> just adding all of them. But that's overkill-- and more importantly I
> would probably run up against the 2 GB limit for TS 4's .DAT file, since
> I maintain several months of tick data.)
>
I think the answer to this is "No, there is no automated way in TS to add
symbols that are listed in an ASCII data file." I almost got something
working using winbatch (www.winbatch.com), but eventually abandoned
the effort entirely. The problem was that the winbatch compiler is
expensive ($495) and I had little other need for it. By the way,
I should confirm that Omega Research confirmed my conclusion there
was no way to drive symbol input from an ASCII file, and they
warned me that they discouraged the use of keystroke capture or
simulation programs.
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