Automatic daily updating for Free Quotes not happening?

Hi all,

I noticed that daily updating for Free Quotes (ie: ^VIX, ^IXIC from yahoo) does not occur automatically after applying it to a chart. For instance, I set up a chart with IXIC on Friday, but as of this morning (more than one full trading day had past) it did not have the data for yesterday.

What's the setting for this so that I do not have to refresh this every day?

Thanks

Hello Talky_Zebra,

Free Quotes is free end-of-day historical daily bars coming from Yahoo Finance. It doesn't provide real-time data so it is expected that the charts will not update automatically.
In order to request historical data anew, you need to reload the charts via View → Reload.

But, is there a way to set it up to refresh each day with "yesterday's" update?

Talky_Zebra,

As a workaround you might try creating a custom study that will automatically reload your chart. You can refer to these keywords:

• RecalcLastBarAfter
• CommandLine
• ComputerDateTime
• RecalcPersist

Thanks Polly, I see what needs to be done.

But wait, are those regular PowerLanguage commands? I don't see them in the .NET docs.

Talky_Zebra,

Yes, these are PL Keywords. In MultiCharts .NET you can refer to these keywords:

• ExecControl.RecalcLastBarAfter()
• ChartCommands.CommandLine()
• DateTime.Now()

Thanks again Polly. I found the following code, which when added to a simple indicator will update most, but not all charts.
This leads to another question. I cannot seem to find a description of the parameters for TimeSpan() in any of the codebase documentation (Programming guide PDF, web docs, or the IDE help docs). Can't find Now() either (via google there are too many false positives.

Maybe Now() is the better choice? Hard to tell without some sort of reference. If you find a link, I'd like to read about how to use these and understand the differences.

Talky_Zebra,

This class is not specific to MultiCharts .NET, so if there is no description of it in MultiCharts guides, you might want to find some additional info on the Internet in third party resources.

Take a look at chatgpt, chatgpt is ideal for such “simple” questions https://chat.openai.com/share/72380861- ... a49884f6bc

Polly and Hellghost thank you.

I am new to C# so did not initially understand that TimeSpan is not part of the PowerLanguage namespace. (I am coming over to MC from MT4/MT5, and I am not really a coder.) I'm very comfortable with C style syntax.... but still naive about many details about both MC and C#. So I am learning both simultaneously.

Hi Polly, to the above, can you direct me to a full list of CommandLine commands and their syntax? I am looking to understand what's in the toolkit.

The best I could find was a few from Josh's tutorials and this page: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... ommandLine

Is that the full list?

Thanks

Talky_Zebra,

You can refer to the list of the supported commands on this page.