QuoteTracker To Be Finished End of 2011

I have the patched version too.

BTW, switching to the static quotes seems to clear up the problem with wrong previous day quotes. Even if I switch back to streaming quotes.

One other thing that I've noticed - if I log on early (around 8:00 AM) and don't touch QuoteTracker, I usually have no problems. Sometimes I think that their servers have a certain number of slots and that getting on early keeps you on.
 
Don't know. I don't see any issue here when using TDA for the datafeed. Could be network issues specific to your ISP or firewall on your computer. If you have not changed anything on your PC, then the ISP would be more likely

The close price is a separate issue and actually not TDA. It seems that the fundamental data servers are returning bad data. QT gets fund data:
* on startup
* when a new symbol is added
* shortly after 9:30
* shortly after 9:50

if you just hit STOP, then START after you see the bad closing prices, that should clear it up
 
No. that limit is there to avoid abusing the servers. The snapshot stuff is not meant to replace streaming quotes.

Quote from Daal:

Jerry is it possible to decrease the refresh rate to less than 5 secs for the snapshot TD feed?
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I have been going crazy trying to update my QT to the 3.9.8a version.

I had QT 3.9.8 version running on Windows7 (64-bit, 8-core machine) when, just like the others, TDA backfill stopped working. I located the patch file by reading this forum, located at http://www65.zippyshare.com/v/77716919/file.html and downloaded the ZIP file.

I unzipped the file, copied all the extracted files into the Quotetracker directory, including overwriting existing files. However, when I start the program back up, it still shows 3.9.8 version (instead of 3.9.8a) and backfill still does not work. I have checked that the stocks.exe does get overwritten.

I have tried this process several times, but no luck. Just to make sure I was doing this right, I took a different computer on which I had never downloaded QT, installed the original version from quotetracker.com and then confirmed it was 3.9.8 version, then installed the patch and viola! it was the 3.9.8a version. But on my main computer, for the life of me I cannot get the same process to work.

Can you please confirm what the patched stocks.exe file size is? I have a stocks.exe file size of 8756KB with a timestamp of 7/18/11. This is exactly the file that I have been able to extract out of the zip file.

Thank you so much for your help!

-SS
 
Yes, that file is correct

you may be seeing Windows security at work :)

Create a temporary directory in your DOCUMENTS folder and extract the files to there. Then copy them from there to the QuoteTracker folder. You should get a security prompt on top of the usual confirmation.

Or as an alternative, move the Quotetracker folder outside of c:\Program Files (x86)

to C:\Quotetracker for example. If you do that, windows won't be playing its funky tricks to protect you :)
 
I'm using version 3.9.8a from Jerry's fix. I use both TDA and MBT for data sources, usually MBT so I can keep a futures chart up.

Recently I am unable to get intraday data for a couple of stocks, notably MAKO and SVU. The data source makes no difference. This is a recent problem as I have traded these in the recent past.

I queried QT support and they referred me to a fix file, but it's the same version I have now (I tried it anyway in case mine was corrupt; no difference).

Deleting the cache file has no effect.

Any help appreciated. TIA.
 
@jfb

Both MAKO and SVU have splits and TDA has not adjusted the historical data for either of them. Your QT most likely has spike filter set to 30, which would result in all data since the split to not show up.

Go to OPTIONS/Edit Preferences menu, MISCELLANEOUS tab. on top right, change the Spike Filter % value to 100. Once you do that, you will at least see the issue.

You can have QT manually adjust for the split. Assuming the symbols are in the portfolio, go to the Portfolio Edit screen, Click on the symbol in question (MAKO for this example) and click on the SPLIT button on bottom center. Enter the split ratio (can just leave the 2:1 default) and check the box for "Adjust Stock Data" and enter 7/10/12 as the split date (for MAKO) and click OK

Do the same for SVU (with 7/12/12 split date)

[EDIT] The above split adjust is of course assuming the stocks split, and didn't just drop. I didn't check. If they did just drop, well, then just ignore the split adjustment instructions
 
Received this email from TDAmeritrade today:

"We want to assure you that as a valued TD Ameritrade client, you will continue to have access to QuoteTracker and to all of its functionality: streaming real-time quotes, live real-time intraday charts, dynamic historical charts, more than 120 technical indicators, and more.

However, we will not be making any new enhancements to the platform in the future"

Then it goes on to recommend trying their thinkorswim platform instead.
 
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