Sanjiv Bansal Member Posts: 13 Joined: 2/25/2010  User Profile | Thanks for following up on the subject. I am working with OmniTrader with more commitment of time and resources this time to see if it can help in research here. Ease of use of my own delayed intraday data will help me greatly in building confidence in OmniTrader; as the environment/data will be same as the one I am currently using in my present charting/TA software. Please clarify a few things: 1. OmniTrader will only parse the data that you provide. This means that the data isn't stored locally in the OmniTrader symbol databases. There seem to be two files in OmniTrader that might be relevent in the current context: 1. Symbols32.mdb (The file that holds List of all the Symbols, their full names, Shares outstanding, Optionable, etc. etc.) 2. SymDataTest.otd (The file that holds the Datetime_OHLCV data records for various symbols that we have imported into our TEST Profiles). I was having impression from the recent discussion that all the Datetime_OHLCV data records for symbols in TEST profile are stored in the SymDataTest.otd file after the import. Can you please confirm that no data is stored in either of the files. 2. To delete the data you would simply right click on the symbol in the focus list and select remove symbol. I tried the same thing; however filesize of SymDataTest.otd file did not go down after this action even after OmniTrader was restarted. That caused me to wonder will it not result in the SymDataTest.otd filesize keep getting bigger and soon hitting some problem. Please advice as appropriate. 3. If you are using CSV or Txt then you will need to manually update every day. In another post you have written: Any data that is maintained in a flat file or text file will need to manually be updated by removing and re adding. If I am looking forward to maintain 100-500 symbols in the test profile; will it mean that I will need to take 101-501 sets of steps everyday to import the data? Every set of step for importing an individual symbol might involve multiple manual sub-steps to be taken. Does not seem to be viable. I am looking forward to do it in some viable manner. The help file topic "Using the Test Profile" seems to suggest that there is one approach which can be used to do it efficiently. However when I take this approach, I come across the errors as mentioned above. Help file image attached: It will greatly help if you can please provide step-by-step instruction to (1.) Initially populate the Test_Profile with intraday data of 100-500 securities from user's own CSV files (2.) Update it with delayed intraday data from user's own CSV files in the evening everyday. With Regards Sanjiv Bansal [Edited by Sanjiv Bansal on 5/28/2012 1:26 AM]  Attached file : OmniTrader_TestProfile_HelpTopic.png (139KB - 1161 downloads) |
