Re: Hyperserver, MetaTrader, Global Server and Charting

[Lee Goldberg <best-revenge@xxxxxxx>]

Hello Ian,

Maybe these items will help:

1. In GS/EditSymbol/HistoryToSave include Bid Record and Trade Record 
fields for the Resolutions you want to collect.

2. Be sure to include the 1 Minute Resolution.  If I recall correctly, 
MetaTrader historical data does not include Tick even thought a Tick check 
box appears in the History Download dialog box.

3. Do your historical data download while GS is set to Work Offline, and DO 
NOT start TS prior to the download.

4. After the historical download/import is done, start up TS and HSLite.

5. Switch GS to Online AFTER TS is started and the charts have come up.
The charts will show the newly downloaded historical data.  Due to the 
MetaTrader history server, there will often be a gap of the last hour or 
so.  That will be filled the next time you do a history 
download.  Sometimes the latest historical data is current within a few 
minutes.

It's been a long while since I set mine up but I remember hitting a similar 
snag.  If these suggestions don't help, contact me off the list.  Maybe I 
can find notes I made at the time.  The bright side is that once set up 
correctly, the TS2Ki/HistoryPlug-in/HSLite combo works great.

Lee


At 07:53 PM 3/31/2005 +0100, Ian wrote:
> There's probably a simple solution to this. I'll start with the short 
> version and can supply further info if required.
>
> Setting up 2000i with Hypserserver to download MetaTrader forex data. 
> Finally got it working thanks to HS support - thanks guys!
>
> Also using the Hyperserver Historical plug-in to download historical data. 
> This works, too. At least when you go to Edit Symbol>Edit Data, you can 
> see that back data has been downloaded. However, I'm struggling to chart 
> this in TradeStation. The charts generally only show the data the system 
> has physically downloaded which is data from the past couple of days since 
> I got it up and running.
>
> Now, what I've discovered so far is that the title of the charts have the 
> word 'BID' in them like this - EURJPY BID-15 min. This is how they used to 
> display with eSignal data as it used to chart Bid prices.
>
> Through messing with the Exchange settings, session times and so on, I've 
> managed to display one chart with the title USDCHF LAST-5 min. THIS chart 
> displays the back data! But how exactly I got the chart like that, I've no 
> idea and subsequent fiddling has failed to reproduce it on other charts.
>
> Anyone know what's going on?
>
> Ian