Anyone using these guys? The website it says it stores data, how many days? Can you display historical data too? And is it safe to use that piece of software in conjunctionwith an IB account? http://www.ibcharts.com/
not that I know of that's why I am asking. I would like to know if that software can display daily data too, assuming you collect data long enough to allow it.
QuoteTracker stores 10 days of data from IB feed. Apparently they are looking to add more. Works great.
If you TWS disconnected (it happens all the time) then you would lose some data. Until IB has historical data, I don't think this software is useful.
I've been using it on and off since around the beginning of the year. It's a very decent application, completely free, and pretty flexible. I tend to use it to collect the more obscure symbols that I get from TWS and I don't want to pay qcharts ( my backup data source ) the added exchage fees. It does not have tick charts, but has a large number of sub- one minute timeframes, if you find that useful; I do. Otherwise, it is a pretty normal charting application that collects data from TWS. There are no potential security issues that I can determine. Since it connects a socket to TWS, and draws data, I believe the connection is one-way only and so there should be no cause for concern. The application does store data, theoretically unlimited time, although there are some settings in the options dialogue that define the maximum database size, to keep it from taking over your HD. I don't recall how large I set my maximum, but my database for several months is about 9MB. One caveat tho, is that I have had a few database blowups, which does not lose anything inside the program setup, but apparently the database becomes corrupted and just flushes. So, I get to start over; not really a huge deal for me, and I have not heard anyone else mention this issue, so maybe it's just me. There is no option for historical data - the data is purely collected from TWS. I have a pretty good connection and TWS drops are rare, so this works pretty well for me. F
frostee, so you mean if you run IBCharts for 3 months everyday then you can get a 3 month real time daily chart? gosh I am so cheap just to think about that huh?! Does this thing convert the intraday data in daily OHLC?
The program captures essentially every tick that TWS produces, and the viewable timeframes span from 1 second to 1 day, with logical choices available. So yes, it will produce 1 hour or 4 hour or 1 day charts from the data it collects. F