wyldegoos Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 Jerry, Am I simply overlooking something or is MT set up at the present time only for daytraders? I looked around and did not find a way to bring up daily charts and weekly charts. I focus primarily on swing trading and short term position trading and like to look at daily charts with six months to two years of data and weekly charts for comparison. QT was the best program out there, in my estimation, for scrolling through the daily charts of the stocks in my watchlists. When I do day trade, I use daily charts in the evening to look for stocks I think are likely to move the next day. Also, in QT when I scrolled through a watchlist the chart window automatically changed to the highlighted stock in the watchlist. Is there a way to do this in MT? Wyldegoos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 MT is setup to work with Historical Charts exactly the same way as QT. Right click on a quote, Level II, Raw Data or an Intraday chart and select Historical Chart from the popup menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyldegoos Posted January 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 Thanks Jerry. Works awesome. Figured out how to scroll through the charts too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyldegoos Posted January 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 Jerry, As I was working on my gold stocks watchlist, using data from TDA, I noticed that of the first thirty-some stocks I added, I had six with bad charts. Five were pink sheets and one was AMEX. When I went to the TDA website they had good charts there. I assume this is most likely a matter of corrupted data received from TDA. If it is, perhaps I will have to get a hold of my favorite low-priced aftermarket data provider and see if they are willing to work with MT. Wyldegoos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 it is a common issue with TDA. The charts on their web sit are misleading because they are not built using the same data. They are provided by a 3rd party. The data however can be messed up, particularly for stuff like Pink sheets.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyldegoos Posted January 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 Thanks. Will look into another data option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyldegoos Posted January 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2014 Jerry, Would it be possible to add eoddata (see eoddata.com) as a data supplier? They offer very reasonable rates for eod data ($19.95 for US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Hong Kong). They offer free eod data for the American exchanges (including the OTC) if you are willing to wait until 9:00 p.m. to download. They claim their data is cleaned. Wyldegoos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted January 23, 2014 Report Share Posted January 23, 2014 have you tried using Google? they support the same ones. Are you referring to intraday data that is available at end of day, or what in MT would be for Historical charts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyldegoos Posted January 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2014 I switched my backfill and historical backfill to Google as you suggested and now all my bad charts are up and running. Thanks. I was referring to daily charts, i.e. each candle is one day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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