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Thanks for the reply Andy. That would be serious drawback in the viability of the backtesting on esignal. In fact it makes it next to useless for any serious analysis. I spoke with Central today as well, and they have told me that I can not purchase in data from other sources and use the locally held data files instead of your servers for testing. A BIG drawback for any serious user given the limitations of your servers. Having the ability to either choose an instrment on your servers, or access a locally held data file would solve that problem, not least since it is possible to buy in historical data files reasonably cheaply. So, hopefully you won't mind if I suggest that this facility be extended to allow myself (and others) to be able to properly use the backtesting facility and make better use of the software available from ascii tick files held on my machine instead of your servers? If there is a way, then please accept my appology for being grumpy and I would aporeciate info on how? Central say it can't be done... Anyway - in the meantime I guess I will need to be buying in Tradestation to do this. Rgds Natalie
Here are some pictures of my charts. The daily chart seems quite at odds with the 15min chart. Is there some explanation as to why this is. Can anything be done to bring them into agreement?
If I had to quess, I'd say the daily chart is using data for the full 24 hour day, while your 15 minute chart is not.
Porobably as good a guess as any. I wonder why the daily doesn't respond to my setting of only trading hours?
I would think the daily bars are stored on the server as "single" daily bars. Meaning, there is no way for them to give you a specific time portion of those bars as it is an all or nothing deal. With minute bars, they can obviously just not send the minutes you don't want. To do what you want with daily bars they would need to rebuild them using minute data for every one that wanted different time settings. Certainly possible, but a bit less efficient when someone wants the last 3 years of data, etc.
I'm a new esignal user and for the life of me, cannot find any way to look at past data on charts without scrolling slowly back through each day. Is there any way to enter a starting date for a chart rather than scroll back. As I am looking at 1 minute charts it can take a long time even just going back 1 months data.
Ah. Just found a method of getting to data quickly. Reduce the distance between the bars to the minimum, spread the chart window the full length of your workspace (3 monitors in my case) and then drag the chart back using the mouse for the full workspace length. Then you can respace the bars back to normal and reduce the window size back to normal. It's rather cumbersome so if anyone has any other suggestions it would be much appreciated. Thanks
I believe you can also jump back a screen at a time by holding down the control key and hitting the left arrow. That's a bit faster than dragging the screen.