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Jim Dean

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Subject : Seemingly-ridiculous file sizes
Posted : 1/12/2010 10:23 AM
Post #19237

Just spoke with Ryan ... he told me Cose must answer this ... I'm still waiting on an answer to another post (and phone call last week to the other Ryan) from Cose ... so hopefully this will be dealt with at the same time, when Cose gets 5-10min free to help out.

That other post (different topic, but same project I am working on): http://www.omnitrader.com/omnitrader/support/OT2004/forum/thread-view.asp?threadid=4729&posts=2#0


Best way to explain it is to ask you to try this:

1. create a new RT profile
2. import Russell 1000 symbol list
3. turn off all patterns
4. turn off all strategies
5. specify data periods of 1m, 10m, 30m, 195m, and Daily ... 1000 bars each
6. do not include any special columns in the FL

This profile, on my machine, is 99,556KB.
I do NOT understand what is being stored ... nearly 100MB to hold 1000 symbol-names, and some flags and criteria re timeframes and screen settings?????

For similar profiles that contain just the SP500 symbols, all else the same ... 2,316KB ... MUCH smaller, but even there ... why in the world does it require 2Meg to store 500 symbol names and a few screen-settings.

The fact that support personnel cannot explain this says that someone needs to outline more clearly what the Profile file has IN it.

This is very relevant to the tasks I am now, and have been working on for the past week. I'd appreciate a reply ASAP to this queston as well as the one about gathering past intraday data in the Symdata.otd file.

Thanks.

P.S. if somehow these profiles have been "corrupted" ... what would have caused such HUGE "bloat"??? I would understand it if a simple profile like these was about 5-20K in size, but anything even approaching 1Meg is utterly confusing ... obviously something is being stored there that support (and I) are not aware of. Please help!

[Edited by Jim Dean on 1/12/2010 10:27 AM]

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