vhehn, I also have been using Qcharts but have been thinking to go over to Tradestation. My my main use would be for futures. Can you recommend TS over Qcharts, as a charting package? By the way, can one download futures data in ASCII (plain text)format from TS (like i'm now doing with Qcharts)? Richard
Run this as a strategy it will generate an ASCII text file: FileAppend("c:\TSData\" + GetSymbolName + "-" + NumToStr(BarInterval,0) + ".dat", NumToStr(Month(Date),0) + "/" + NumToStr(DayOfMonth(Date), 0) + "/" + NumToStr(1900+Year(Date), 0) + "," + NumToStr(Time, 0) + "," + NumToStr(O,5) + "," + NumToStr(H,5) + "," + NumToStr(L,5) + "," + NumToStr(C,5) + "," + NumToStr(Volume, 0) + NewLine); Note there are faster ways to do it, search their forums for "FastFileAppend" SSB
cant recommend it so far. if you are just talking charts, qcharts has much better looking charts and quote sheets and quote sheet sorting and scanners but i am still exploring ts yet.
No need to use any code. Open any chart, and go to menu View->Data Window. Then you can click on the save button. That will let you to save whatever data in this chart to text file.
I have used ts since its early days and these days its huge. Attached is a picture of a workspace I use for gaps like the monster this morning in the S&P, NAZ, etc. If you want more info, I will explain it further. But I suggest you start with the samples they provide and work from there. rickty....yes you can get ascii data out of Tradestation 8
If you do 'File', 'Open Workspace...' from the TS menu there are some example workspaces provided by TS (can't remember which one's they are). This forum doesn't allow the uploading of TS workspaces. You'd be better off asking on the TS forums.
AFAIK Qchart have not made any major enhancement to the plateform in the last few years. Also Qcharts not known to have any better datafeed than TS