Quote from Kicking:
Anyone using these guys? The website it says it stores data, how many days? Can you display historical data too?
And is it safe to use that piece of software in conjunctionwith an IB account?
I've been using it on and off since around the beginning
of the year. It's a very decent application, completely
free, and pretty flexible. I tend to use it to collect the
more obscure symbols that I get from TWS and I don't
want to pay qcharts ( my backup data source ) the
added exchage fees. It does not have tick charts, but
has a large number of sub- one minute timeframes, if
you find that useful; I do. Otherwise, it is a pretty
normal charting application that collects data from TWS.
There are no potential security issues that I can
determine. Since it connects a socket to TWS,
and draws data, I believe the connection is one-way
only and so there should be no cause for concern.
The application does store data, theoretically unlimited
time, although there are some settings in the options
dialogue that define the maximum database size, to
keep it from taking over your HD. I don't recall how
large I set my maximum, but my database for several
months is about 9MB. One caveat tho, is that I have
had a few database blowups, which does not lose
anything inside the program setup, but apparently the
database becomes corrupted and just flushes. So, I
get to start over; not really a huge deal for me, and
I have not heard anyone else mention this issue, so
maybe it's just me.
There is no option for historical data - the data is purely
collected from TWS. I have a pretty good connection
and TWS drops are rare, so this works pretty well for
me.
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Does this thing convert the intraday data in daily OHLC?