Recent content by koolaidluke

@j_medved - Thanks for your reply. You've been nothing but great through all of this.

I hesitate to ask this because it might make me seem ungrateful and/or obstinate. Ok, I may be a little obstinate. But it's a question that's been bothering me for a couple of days and if there's a place to ask it, it's here. What's changing? Is the data stream going to be different? Do they...

Thanks terr. I'm still deciding what to do. I'll look through my scripts and see what specific http calls I make. They tend to just be the ones that do a latest trade only data dump of specific tickers or of a portfolio. There's probably a more intelligent way of doing this, but QT has worked...

Well, poop! This will mess me up a little. Right now I use Ameritrade plus QT's http quoteserver capability to take a simultaneous real time snapshot of each ticker in the S&P 500. The output is parsed to extract the last trade price and current daily volume of each ticker. A separate program...

Hi Jerry - never more than one. I've always assumed more than that wouldn't be allowed and have always been a little skittish about testing it out. Thanks for helping me troubleshoot this. L8r.

Thanks Jerry. It's pretty awesome that you spend some your valuable time helping folks out with QT problems. It's close to certain that I'll eventually switch to MT. I was so sure that switching out the QT directory with one from a working computer would work, I considered it cheating. I'm...

Hi - I'm having a problem with QT. I have several virtually identical QT installations on several different PCs (all running XP). I consider one of the installations as nominal and usually just run that one. Recently, on the nominal installation, the data feed (TDAmeritrade) would stop after...

j_medved, jfb - That's easy. Thanks.

Hi - Doesn't QT have an internal market calendar? Is there something we need to update or edit to compensate for the unscheduled market holidays caused by hurricane Sandy? Thanks

thanks ydfah. patch is working great.

what i mean is i have never installed either one.

all i can say is me, too. no backfill. up untill now, it's been working fine. i've got tdAmeritrade with an unpatched QT.