rollover failed for contract (IB)

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rollover failed for contract (IB)

Postby ts2mc » 14 Apr 2009

hello,
just tried to make a rollover for YI.
YI MAR -> YI MAY

first, i have added NYSELIFE to Ex-ECN list.
(copied from NYSE, changed ABBR)

in quotemanager
- changed MAR to MAY and set the correct expiry.
- change exchange to NYSELIFE
- connected

qm (IB) reports no security found...

please,
- what are the correct steps to rollover a future contract in order
to collect all data in 1 symbol ?
- how to send the logfile with a few clicks. found no feature here.

thank you

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Postby Andrew Kirillov » 14 Apr 2009

Please change Description. It should have MAY instead of MAR.

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Postby ts2mc » 14 Apr 2009

Hello Andrew,
i already did so. description:

USD MAY09 YI Futures YI MAY 09


i don't know if this could make a difference, but it seems
(according TWS) that the exchange has been changed from
from
NYSE
to
NYSELIFE

i have added this new exchange to quotemanager and selected it
for YI.

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Postby Andrew Kirillov » 15 Apr 2009

It is possible that you made a mistake in the number of spaces in USD MAY09 YI Futures YI MAY 09
It must have 3 spaces.
Please add a new symbol from Data source and compare that it looks the same.

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Postby ts2mc » 15 Apr 2009

Hello Andrew,
this

USD MAY09 YI Futures YI MAY 09

is copied from description field. so 3 spaces.
before if changed NYSE to NYSELIFE and MAR to MAY,
i got data.

Attention: the correct exchange is NYSELIFFE not NYSELIFE
please try to add this exchange to list of exchange
(MC5 beta 2)

something is happen also here, what i recently wrote to your support.
if i now change an attribute (like exchange or expiry), quotemanger
does noting when connecting again. i mean, there is no try to make
a new request. i am willing to send my logfiles, but i can't find the
features where to do this.

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Postby ts2mc » 15 Apr 2009

i mean NYSELIFFE can't be saved as exchange abbreviation as it
has more than 8 characters...

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Postby Andrew Kirillov » 16 Apr 2009

8 characters fix will be available in the next beta, but you will have delete the old databases and use new ones. The old databases have not been designed to handle more than 8 characters field length.

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Postby ts2mc » 16 Apr 2009

hello Andrew,
thank you. delete database is no problem for me, except how to do this ?
i mean, i want to keep my Forex,Stock,etc. Data (they go back many years)..

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Postby Andrew Kirillov » 17 Apr 2009

You can export your data in ASCII and then import it back in the new database.

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Postby ts2mc » 24 Apr 2009

Hello Andrew,
export to ascii and reimport. well this costs many time many time
as you may know.
to keep database compatible for the next years version should be
a priority as people need data to test theirs systems back.

what's about tool that can convert data from old to new format ?

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Postby Marina Pashkova » 24 Apr 2009

Hi ts2mc,

If you have a lot of data to export and import, e-mails us the FBPORTFOLIO.GDB file from your database and we will patch it for you. The file can be found in "%allusersprofile%\Application Data\TS Support\MultiCharts\Databases\" (on XP) or "%allusersprofile%\AppData\Local\TS Support\MultiChars\DataBases"(on Vista).

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Postby zukkaweb » 30 Apr 2009

Automatic Rollover Please

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Postby Marina Pashkova » 01 May 2009

Hi zukkaweb,

Are you referring to the problem of manually rolling over to the new contract that is now traded on NYSELIFFE (long exchange abbreviations are supported in MC 5.0 beta 6; to have long abbreviations work the old database needs to be removed)

OR

are you re-iterating the request for continuous contracts to be synthetically created in MC?


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