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Setting Data Source
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Setting Data Source
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Sanjiv Bansal Member Posts: 13 Joined: 2/25/2010  User Profile |
"The Set Data Source option changes a symbol from User Data back to Easy Data. You can reset a single symbol or many symbols............Select Set Data Source from the right-click menu. Select the appropriate data source from the menu. OmniTrader will reset these symbols to the data source you select. " I have a real-time profile; and I am seeing commands as explained in the Help-file. However; since Real-time profiles can use EasyData ONLY; what is the use of this feature in Real-time profiles? 1. I think this feature might have relevence in EOD and TEST Profiles only and in Real-time profiles this command might be disabled. Am I right? 2. Please guide about the benefits that we can get from this feature in EOD and TEST Profiles. With Regards Sanjiv Bansal [Edited by Sanjiv Bansal on 5/23/2012 1:44 AM] | ||
| Barry Cohen Idol   Posts: 2309 Joined: 1/1/1900 User Profile |
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| Sanjiv Bansal Member Posts: 13 Joined: 2/25/2010 User Profile |
1. I think this feature might have relevence in EOD and TEST Profiles only and in Real-time profiles "It might be better if this command is disabled; so that there is no confusion". Am I right? With Regards Sanjiv Bansal | ||
| Barry Cohen Idol Posts: 2309 Joined: 1/1/1900 User Profile |
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| Jim Dean Sage   Posts: 3433 Joined: 3/13/2006 Location: L'ville, GA User Profile |
I believe Sanjiv has been trying hard to get some RT data into a Test Profile using a csv file or some other means. As I recall from another thread, he has data for a non-US exchange that he wants to port into an intraday TP for SW use. But as I recall that thread has not been answered. Could you please help? This would be valuable to many other people. The question is: What are the steps necessary to import CSV intraday historical data into a Test Profile? And What specific format must the CSV data be in? Thanks [Edited by Jim Dean on 5/23/2012 12:16 PM] | ||
| Barry Cohen Idol Posts: 2309 Joined: 1/1/1900 User Profile |
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| Jim Dean Sage Posts: 3433 Joined: 3/13/2006 Location: L'ville, GA User Profile |
The Help file does not seem to indicate what the NAME of the file needs to be, in the "Rules for Importing Data Files" ... such that the "Using the Test Profile" instructions will work properly ... ie that it will find and properly associate a given Symbol name with the data in each csv file. It also does not indicate what limitations there might be on symbol names ... can they be anything we want, or must it be a symbol that is listed somewhere in the OT symbol directories? Also ... is it possible to load in SOME data automatically, using the new "ToDo" method ... and then add other symbols by loading them using the CSV method? Finally, is it possible to load some data from one intraday feed source, such as Odata, and in the same Test Profile load in additional data from a different feed source, such as ESig? Thanks for your help. PS please do request that this part of Help get updated with the info you have mentioned. PPS ... and, I still don't have an answer to the question I've asked many times over the past year or two ... HOW MANY BARS can be loaded, max, into the Test Profile. Cose told me there was a limit, set by the database engine, but he never got back to me to tell me what the limit was, in terms of numbers of bars. Also, there used to be some kind hard-coded of "block" that did not allow OT to work with more than a certain number of bars (Data Periods showed error messages) ... that needs to be explained so that we know how to work with it. Please help. Thanks | ||
| Sanjiv Bansal Member Posts: 13 Joined: 2/25/2010 User Profile |
Thanks for following up the CSV import problem in Intraday TEST Profile. I understand I have approached the thing as explained in : Help -> Contents -> Analysis -> Test Profile. However, I am getting error messages as submitted in my post http://www.omnitrader.com/currentclients/proforum/thread-view.asp?threadid=3739 I have tried with making sure that the name of the csv file is such that it exists in OmniTrader Symbol Database. Still no luck. The format of data in the file is same as explained in help file. The same data file imports fine if I import it via: File»Import»Data File. Hence the format of data in the file seems to be right. Further, I have attached a Sample CSV file as well as image of the error message in the relevent thread. It will be nice if you please manage to look into the matter and have some solution provided. With Regards Sanjiv Bansal PS: Answer of Mr. Olson in the relevent thead suggests that Nirvana is working towards improving Test Profiles. Further, your recommendation about using SW with Test profiles if user is going to use intraday timeframes, in the thread http://www.omnitrader.com/currentclients/proforum/thread-view.asp?threadid=3741 gives impression that Nirvana is finding Test profiles useful in mainstream testing also. It is just that CSV files are not being imported as described in the help file. | ||
| Ryan Olson Veteran Posts: 170 Joined: 12/29/2006 Location: Austin, Tx User Profile |
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| Jim Dean Sage Posts: 3433 Joined: 3/13/2006 Location: L'ville, GA User Profile |
Please tell me what to name the CSV file so that OT knows what symbol it is associated with. The help content does not give ANY examples of the file names, nor does it explain how OT knows how to connect them to a symbol name. At least - it did not seem clear to me. Thanks for being patient with my never-ending quest for details! | ||
| Jim Dean Sage Posts: 3433 Joined: 3/13/2006 Location: L'ville, GA User Profile |
This problem re CSV implementation is as yet unresolved and the user is still unable to make OT work. Please continue to work with him. |
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