soulfire Posted March 10, 2018 Report Share Posted March 10, 2018 Forgive me if this question has already been answered- I was checking my futures portfolio from last year - and noticed that futures contracts don't show any data except for the Z contract. For example, I'm looking at ES, and H,M, and U contracts are blank charts with no data. With Quotetracker, the data for my past contracts persisted so I could call up historical contracts to review. Does Medved Trader operate differently? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted March 10, 2018 Report Share Posted March 10, 2018 MT can store far more data, and thus has to be more aggressive about clearing out old data or the data file gets huge. Any symbol that doesn't have a quote in the past week I think is cleared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulfire Posted March 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2018 I see. I do definitely appreciate the expanded data viewing MT offers. Thanks! I think it would be a great feature if you added the ability to archive/view historical data - notably futures data, which is hard to come by without subscribing to a data service. One of the things I really liked about Quotetracker was being able to call up contracts/chart data from several years in the past. It makes it easy to visually compare/analyze past and current market behavior. I guess one can still do this with MT in a roundabout way if they save off a data file, then use it as a backup restore at a future time without connecting to a data source so MT won't update- but that would also mean having to do another restore with current backup data when done reviewing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted March 10, 2018 Report Share Posted March 10, 2018 that won't work either actually. If the datafeed you use supports continuous symbols, that would allow you to hold data across multiple contract months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulfire Posted March 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2018 I saw the continuous MT symbols for Ameritrade. Are there symbols for IB as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted March 10, 2018 Report Share Posted March 10, 2018 No. IB implemented the continuous symbols in TWS itself and does not support them via their API. IQFeed and Yahoo also have continuous contract symbols Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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