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Subscribe to opra for $1 a month and you can get TYX, TNX etc real time and
you can skin the cat that way. Or if you have SP1, you could create ascii
files from your data and then chart everything ascii. I have not tried ascii
in sp1 yet, but manipulating ascii data to make it do what you want is not
hard.
The daily chart mixing issue is just silly. A number of us have been asking
them to fix it forever.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lance Fisher" <truckietrader@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 5:34 PM
Subject: TS 8.1 Data2 problems
> I just started w/ TS 8.1 about a week ago, and for the
> most part I am happy with the platform.
>
> Iv'e had some problems working with Data2 streams
> though. Specifically, when I create a chart with
> symbol @ES as Data1 (the S&P mini continuous contract)
> and then try to add @US as Data2 (the CBOT 30 yr. T
> Bond continuous contract) it gives me the following
> error message -
>
> "You may not mix symbols with different delays in the
> same window"
>
> I called TS support, and was told the reason for this
> (even though I'm trying to bring up a simple daily
> chart for both symbols) is that I am paying for real
> time CME S&P e-mini data, but I am not paying for real
> time CBOT data (which costs $50 mo.)
>
> Apparantly, working "offline" doesn't solve the issue
> either.
>
> Trying to find a work-around, I loaded sym $TYX.X (30
> yr Bond INDEX) as Data2, and got the same error
> message.
>
> I then tried sym. $DJCBTI as Data2 (Dow Jones CBOT
> Treas. Index) and voila! it loaded into the chart. But
> strange things happened to Data1 (@ES) and the simple
> system I had applied Data1. Specifically, Data1 was
> blank where 2/27/06 should have been, and where other
> trading days should have been, and the simple test
> strategy that I had coded to buy on the open and exit
> on the close of a particular day of the week was now
> showing trades on every day of the week.
>
> Backtesting a simple system that references a Data2
> stream is simple bread and butter type stuff for TS,
> and I'm amazed that I'm running into these issues.
>
> Anyone have an idea that could save me $50 mo. for
> real time CBOT data that I don't really need? If I
> bring in 3rd party data for use as Data2 will I have
> the same issues?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Lance Fisher
>
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