BlueCollarDayTrading Posted October 5, 2020 Report Share Posted October 5, 2020 I spend every morning individually backfilling 300 symbols before the market opens. I have TD Ameritrade as my default backfill source. I have 2 portfolios 1 with 200 symbols and 1 with less than 100 symbols. I have my IB TWS platform running, along with Thinkorswim, and MT. I start at 8am CST 30 minutes before the market opens. I push the button to backfill the portfolio with 100 symbols and I see on my MT Dashboard (Source) I see symbols and beside AMTD I see numbers under BF. I do this also for my 200 symbol portfolio and I see the same thing. I then click on the first symbol (AAPL) and wait and the chart does not show any candles Premarket. I then check the symbol in TOS and IB and of course there is plenty of premarket activity for AAPL. So I right click on AAPL symbol in portfolio and click backfill AAPL and after a few seconds the chart populates. This repeats every morning I spend 30 minutes trying to get my 300 symbols filled by clicking on them individually. I can replicate this every morning for stocks. These are not just any stocks, these are stocks that show up with Premarket volume with a scanner in TOS. I mentioned this before and I sent you a file and you said there was no volume to backfill. So please believe me when I say there is an issue with this and check it as I have told you how I can verify it day after day after day..... I am so exhausted having to do this each morning. I hope every update fixes this but no change yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCollarDayTrading Posted October 13, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2020 Can I please get an acknowledgement if you are working on the issue or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted October 13, 2020 Report Share Posted October 13, 2020 sorry, seems I have missed the post. I will read through it and get back to you. Meanwhile, can you send me the log/settings? I am sure that will answer some of my questions. Go to FILE / HELP => Send Log/Settings to support menu (from Dashboard or Portfolio) And add this Post’s URL in the comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted October 13, 2020 Report Share Posted October 13, 2020 Automatic backfill (backfill all on portfolios or the backfill that occurs when you open a chart or switch symbols on a chart) will only backfill if there are "Gaps" in the data. However, any gaps in ext. hours are NOT counted. So if that is the only data missing, it will skip. Explicitly clicking on the BACKFILL button always does a full backfill, which is why that does fill in the data. There is an really easy way to get around this. Before doing backfill all, just clear the data on previous 2 days. That way, today (which won't count as a gap) and yesterday (which WILL be counted as a gap) will be missing. Then when the backfill is done, it will not skip. Can you try that and let me know if OK? If that does fix your issue, we can see if anything can be tweaked to adjust for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCollarDayTrading Posted October 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2020 (edited) Used your work around of clearing previous days and it worked. Thanks for the help this saved me so much time. Q. How do I know when MT is finished clearing the data and I should hit the backfill button? If I click the backfill button before it finishes clearing the previous days data will this mess up the data? Edited October 17, 2020 by BlueCollarDayTrading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted October 17, 2020 Report Share Posted October 17, 2020 the clearing of the data is Synchronous unlike most other stuff in MT, so keyboard/mouse input on that window will not process till it is done. Save to click the backfill button whenever you want after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado57 Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 It will be nice to have a progress bar to show when backfill will finish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 the most time consuming part is retrieving from servers, which we have no way to tell how long will take Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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