BlueCollarDayTrading Posted May 22, 2020 Report Share Posted May 22, 2020 I have 2 watchlist each with just under 500 symbols. S&P 500, and another with stocks not in the S&P 500 that I like to watch. Both of these are fed from TD Ameritrade for a total of 948 as it shows on Sources. I have the boxes checked to automatically backfill intraday and historic charts. Each morning when I load up MT I connect it to TDA and IB TWS for futures trading and stock trading. I use TDA as feed and backfill for stocks watchlist. At 8am when I turn load MT I push the backfill button on the SP500 and it goes for about 10 seconds then stops (using TDA as backfill). Then I push the button for backfill on the other watchlist and it goes for about 5 seconds. I see this from watching the Sources window on MY Dashboard window. Also if I send a symbol to trade with Ctrl+T it will not backfill I waited for 1 minute and then I have to right click and Backfill. I was leaving my PC on 24/7 to fix this as I tried to figure out if it was something on my end. Today I have come to the conclusion it is a bug. If not then I have no idea how to get it to backfill work properly anymore. This was not an issue previously with MT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted May 22, 2020 Report Share Posted May 22, 2020 Rusty, send me a log after that happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jerry Medved Posted May 22, 2020 Report Share Posted May 22, 2020 I checked your log - first, FYI - TD Ameritrade backfill of futures works with continuous contracts. However, IB doesn't support them. TDA's backfill for fully qualified futures symbols sucks. Just FYI. Second - you are doing the backfill all in premarket. Fast majority are skipped because there are no gaps - MT auto backfill does not consider anything in premarket as gaps and data on previous days is fine. That works as intended. I guess I don't know what the problem is exactly. Do you have some symbol not backfilling? other than premarket portion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCollarDayTrading Posted May 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2020 (edited) When I start MT around 8am CST I can get TDA to backfill but I must manually do it for each symbol. By the time the market is open it is getting streaming data for all symbols. I understand there are some symbols that do not have premarket data. However when I find a symbol that has 500k volume premarket in my watchlist and I have already backfilled that watchlist and I then click on the symbol it was not backfilled and I have to manually select backfill. Tuesday morning I will have an example for you at 8am or so. I am not worried about the futures because I can do those manually since there are only a few at a time. Edited May 22, 2020 by BlueCollarDayTrading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted May 22, 2020 Report Share Posted May 22, 2020 I can give you a workaround. Before doing a backfill all on the portfolio, click on the CLEAR button and select most current 2 days. Then, MT will be forced to backfill everything and not skip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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