Bars.Request property data is always empty

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Bars.Request property data is always empty

Postby radekj » 12 Aug 2012

Bars.Request property data is always empty ?

Doesn not reflect instrument settings.

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Re: Bars.Request property data is always empty

Postby JoshM » 13 Aug 2012

Bars.Request property data is always empty ?

Doesn not reflect instrument settings.
I thought the Bars.Request property was dependent on a InstrumentDataRequest (search in help for 'request property').

For the instrument settings such as Name, PointValue, PriceScale, Expiration, Category, etc, see

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Bars.Info.

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Re: Bars.Request property data is always empty

Postby radekj » 13 Aug 2012

Bars.Request must return info for the base-instrument (data stream 0, or in TS "data(0)"),
but it does not.

Or how to get Request-information of base-instrument ?

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Re: Bars.Request property data is always empty

Postby Dru » 14 Aug 2012

Bars.Request must return info for the base-instrument (data stream 0, or in TS "data(0)"), but it does not. Or how to get Request-information of base-instrument ?
It seems this property was planned as alternative of such code:

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var _request = new InstrumentDataRequest(Bars.Info.DataFeed, Bars.Info.ASymbolInfo2, new Resolution(), DateTime.Now, DateTime.Now);
But the implementation is not ideal.
I use it in the following way:

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var _request = Bars.Request;
_request.Resolution = new Resolution(EResolution.Tick, 1);
_request.From = DateTime.Now;
_request.To = DateTime.Now;
DataLoader.BeginLoadData(_request, ...


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