ahujat Posted November 12 Report Share Posted November 12 I guess the crypto, being tradeable 24/7, produces 5 times as much tick data as a stock(RTH). Can the tick data be dropped, every minute and then just have 1 minute OHLC? I don't think a lot of people care about tick data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jerry Medved Posted November 12 Report Share Posted November 12 cannot do that for performance reasons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ahujat Posted November 12 Author Report Share Posted November 12 How about doing that at night (user specified time), when the user is inactive? Or like TWS, auto restart the app (again at user specified time) with data compressed as part of the startup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jerry Medved Posted November 12 Report Share Posted November 12 that would not get rid of the requirement of changing all the data locking mechanisms and really REALLY don't want to copy TWS restart stuff. Hate it with a passion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ahujat Posted November 12 Author Report Share Posted November 12 But there has to be some better solution. Every couple of days, I have to open the dashboard, click on settings, click on charts->general. Enable 'consolidate data on next startup'. Then exit the application and then restart it. I was doing it once a week or in 10 days but with crypto, I have to do it every 2-3 days. On the surafce, it doesn't look like a big deal but it's just irritating when you have to do it frequently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jerry Medved Posted November 12 Report Share Posted November 12 that's entirely different functionality and you do not need to do that. Just restart MT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ahujat Posted November 12 Author Report Share Posted November 12 Hmm. What does 'consolidate date on next startup' do then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Mike Medved Posted November 12 Report Share Posted November 12 It consolidates the data on next MT startup. Takes a little while to do so sometimes (could be a few minutes even). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jerry Medved Posted November 12 Report Share Posted November 12 that "consolidate" is basically if your data file grew a lot and now has a lot of empty space (like if you cleared data, or large amount of data expired), it creates a new data file and only copies active data to it, thus shrinking the file. Other than this, the data file never shrinks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 stock777 Posted November 22 Report Share Posted November 22 (edited) What I've been doing is doing a manual clear of crypto symbols, you can do the whole port in one shot I assume that gets rid of all the tick data, if not from the database then at least from the data MT has to slog through Edited November 22 by stock777 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jerry Medved Posted November 22 Report Share Posted November 22 actually, I updated the OHLC consolidation - before it was only on startup and only if not done in a while. Changed it to be every 4 hours, but only if idle - idle being no action with menus or MT windows like clicking on them. will be in next beta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ahujat Posted November 22 Author Report Share Posted November 22 44 minutes ago, Jerry Medved said: actually, I updated the OHLC consolidation - before it was only on startup and only if not done in a while. Changed it to be every 4 hours, but only if idle - idle being no action with menus or MT windows like clicking on them. will be in next beta. Perfect. No action for how long to be 'idle'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jerry Medved Posted November 22 Report Share Posted November 22 15 min Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I guess the crypto, being tradeable 24/7, produces 5 times as much tick data as a stock(RTH). Can the tick data be dropped, every minute and then just have 1 minute OHLC? I don't think a lot of people care about tick data.
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