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First, an apology to Jack. I really am sorry you lost much of your net
worth. Perhaps you didn't hear the warnings almost anyone you ask will
offer to only trade with money you can afford to lose.
There still seems to be some confusion about timestamps. This is **NOT**
an issue with tick data. You can download tick data from quote.com or
omega or wherever and it will plot exactly the same in TS. The
downloaded data will plot just the same as the realtime data from any
provider, assuming the various data providers are including all the
ticks (they don't but that's another subject.)
The difference between quote.com and TS is how they display those ticks
on a minute bar chart. Quote.com stamps the bar with the opening time
and TS stamps the bar with the closing time. The bars are the same but
they are labeled with a different time. Where you can get in trouble is
downloading ascii bar data from quote.com and plotting it in TS.
Quote.com's ascii data is timestamped like their charts. You need to
open the ascii file with Excel and correct the times before they will
plot correctly in TS.
Jack, looking at your postings again, it appears you were comparing
omega historical data to reatime dynastore/quote.com data. As long as
you are viewing both in TS, there is **NOT** a 1 minute error. It may
appear that way looking at Qcharts but that's just a display issue. I
would suggest that the problem with your system lies elswhere.
Looks to me like it's back to the drawing board for your system. For
starters, don't use any of the built-in stops. Code your own so it's not
possible to get two fills on the same bar. Then torture test the system.
Assume your slippage is equal to the size of an average bar. Test it on
many years of data. If the system still makes money, maybe you have
something. Good luck.
--
Dennis
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