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==Understanding Multiplier for Trading Technologies Symbols== | ==Understanding Multiplier for Trading Technologies Symbols== | ||
MultiCharts works with many data vendors and brokers, so it is important that the software is capable to work with different data. In some cases | MultiCharts works with many data vendors and brokers, so it is important that the software is capable to work with different data. In some cases price formats of data on the same symbol provided by 2 separate sources may differ and this can cause some issues: | ||
<div style="background-color: #E5F6FF;">'''Example''': Trading Technologies | <div style="background-color: #E5F6FF;">'''Example''': Trading Technologies doesn't provide historical data into MultiCharts due to the nature of its implementation in the software. In this case if a customer requires historical backfill, he or she may be interested in using '''Merge''' function (see [[Creating Charts|Merging Data Sources into a Single Chart]] ) to have historical date from IQFeed and real-time data from Trading Technologies on ES chart. It may lead to significant price spike on the chart, since the price format of most data sources for ES symbol has 4 digits before the decimal part: '''1234.50'''; when the same symbol from Trading Technologies shows different containg only integer part format: '''123450'''.</div> | ||
<div style="background-color: #E5F6FF;">'''Example 2''': Strategy calculates on your chart that is fed not with Trading Technologies data and the | <div style="background-color: #E5F6FF;">'''Example 2''': Strategy calculates on your chart that is fed not with Trading Technologies data and the price for orders is taken according to chart price format: '''1234.50'''; that is not acceptable for Trading Trechnologies broker on its end that has '''123450''' on ES.</div> | ||
To make possible combining Trading Technologies data feed with another one or trade using Trading Technologies the Multiplier feature has been added. | To make possible combining Trading Technologies data feed with another one or trade using Trading Technologies the Multiplier feature has been added. | ||