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Oh boy some of my favorite stuff.
Yes you can do this. It is complicated by the fact that one man's
data is a futures contract setup as a stock type symbol but even so it
can be done. You have to have the hypertools or equivalent.
You add say the ESU7 as a stock to your GS. Then you export the data
from a chart as comma separated. Then you use Hypertools to change
the data from a stock to a future and to XPO. Then you import the
data. I think I remember all that correctly. It is however easier
the second time. Much better to have the data in your recycle bin so
you can get back the lucky way.
One thing I mentioned in the past is really easy. When you backup
your data do it to a different directory each time so you have several
backups from different ending dates. Hard drives are so cheap now you
can backup a lot of data. Plus external drives using USB ports can
just be added and added.
Jimmy
I could send the data..but you couldn't import to a symbol you have already.
you would be forced to build a whole new symbol, precisely as my symbols are
set.
(as i mentioned, my symbols are 'stocks')
jim
*list, please correct me if i am mistaken here
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Maldonado" <mmaldonado@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'jim'" <bigbubber@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 12:42 AM
Subject: RE: Unexpire Symbol?
Hi Jim
I just backed up my entire Omega Research program last weekend.
Unfortunately, the contracts already expired and I deleted the previous back
up which was made before they expired. Bad luck. Since your contracts don't
expire, would you happen to have the unexpired data of ESU7 and ABU7 that
you can export over to me? I'll see if I can import it into my global
server.
Thanks
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: jim [mailto:bigbubber@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 8:45 PM
To: Michael Maldonado; Omega-List
Subject: Re: Unexpire Symbol?
lol
well.. i doubt there's a solution either
possibly a back-up you made of the workspace?
i dunno if a windows restore point would work - jimmy would
i think your method of rolling contracts is the real issue.
when i insert a new symbol, i always use the pattern 81 (i think), which
means
it doesn't expire.
well.. that's not entirely true. actually, my futures symbols are typically
setup as 'stocks'.
(for performance reasons)
but the result is the same - they don't expire
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy Snowden" <jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Michael Maldonado" <mmaldonado@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Omega-List"
<omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: Unexpire Symbol?
> This is where you put a bullet through your head.
>
>
>
> Using 2000i, I have been saving my ES and Russell charts for years. Each
> chart contains hundreds of rectangles, ellipses, trend lines, etc. The
> only
> problem is that when a symbol expires, I end up losing all the drawing
> objects on the charts because the symbol itself gets renamed (ESU7 turns
> to
> ES200709). I have avoided this problem by changing the symbol settings and
> not letting the symbol expire, thus ESU7 never turns into ES200709 because
> I
> change the expiration date to 9/20/2013. Well, I forgot to do this with
> ESU7
> and now my charts are useless. When I reload them with ES200709, the
> drawing
> objects do not come back up. I tried to rename the file back to ESU7
> without
> luck. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Maldonado
>
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