Jerry Medved Posted September 11, 2017 Report Share Posted September 11, 2017 We got TD Ameritrade Streaming News working. Will be in the next update! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted September 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2017 Just released the beta with the streaming new https://medvedtrader.com/beta 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Mark Posted October 2, 2017 Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 Getting very little on the Ameritrade news feed. Have it set to all news (free) and only seeing headlines once in a blue moon. Compared to the thinkorswim feed which gets news regularly. Does this sound like a problem or am I expecting the wrong thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted October 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 did you select portfolios to get news on the setup page? MT only gets news on the symbols specified - either explicitly, or specific portfolios or open windows... Or "All Portfolios" if that option is selected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Mark Posted October 2, 2017 Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 (edited) I see. I was afraid of that. Any reason you can't retrieve the entire news stream? I thought that's what the last listed option was for "all news (free)" Edited October 2, 2017 by Harry Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted October 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 Harry, I do not know what "all news (free)" refers to. Where are you seeing it? The datafeed does not allow requesting all news. Have to specify symbols. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Mark Posted October 2, 2017 Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 (edited) Its the last option on the portfolio list where you select which ports to monitor. scroll down Actually says All symb (free) Edited October 2, 2017 by Harry Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted October 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 That is not some option that MT is adding. You have a portfolio called "All symb (free)" which is why it is showing there. However, if you select that portfolio and if it does have a lot of symbols, MT will get the news on those symbols Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Mark Posted October 2, 2017 Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 Indeed, you're correct. That explains that, Shame Ameritrade full feed can't be streamed. Not really very active. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Mark Posted October 3, 2017 Report Share Posted October 3, 2017 I don't want to do something that will create a lot of unnecessary overhead, but if I created a ports with 1000's of symbols just to get the news , how does MT get that news? Would it have to poll each symbol? That would be costly in terms of data. ThinkOrSwim simply scrolls the news as it comes in. It's not very busy, so I don't know why Ameritrade wouldn't let you do the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted October 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2017 With yahoo and Google, MT hS to poll for every symbol, so it is very inefficient. TD Ameritrade news is streaming, so MT just sends the symbols and then the server just sends back headlines as they come in, so it is very efficient. The way you did it is good as long as you only use that portfolio for TD Ameritrade news, or maybe for scanning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Mark Posted October 3, 2017 Report Share Posted October 3, 2017 (edited) Sounds good. Thanks You might be amused to know that Ameritrade refuses to display the SYMBOL for the stocks in their news feed on the TOS platform. They were asked to do this simple, obvious fix over a year ago. How dumb is that? Edited October 3, 2017 by Harry Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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