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Collecting and Saving Data to MultiCharts Database

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==Saving Historical Data==
Most of supported data vendors provide historical data that is always stored locally after data is received. All types of data is are stored:
* Ticks, minutes, days (see [[Tick, Minute and Daily Data]]);
* Asks, bids, trades.
:* Minute and daily are recorded or not recorded for each data vendor individually:
:: <div style="background-color: #E3FBE5;">'''Note''': If a data source provides only real-time data (no historical backfill) it is always recorded in MultiCharts database. Only the data vendors, supporting both history and real-time feed are listed in the following table.</div>
 
{| class="wikitable"
|<p align="center">'''Data Vendor'''</p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|-
|<p align="center">'''Interactive Brokers'''</p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|-
|<p align="center">'''LMAX'''</p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|-
|<p align="center">'''Open E Cry'''</p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="green">V</font><font color="red">*!</font></b></p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|-
|<p align="center">'''PFG BEST'''</p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|-
|<p align="center">'''Quik'''</p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|-
|<p align="center">'''TradeStation'''</p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|<p align="center"><b><font color="red">X</font></b></p>
|}
 
<b><font color="green">V</font><font color="red">*!</font></b> - Open E Cry data source provides real-time minute data that is stored in database. It is important to know that if charts only with minute data from Open E Cry are plotted in MultiCharts, tick data is not stored locally.
 
<div style="background-color: #E3FBE5;">'''Note''': Take into account that Download Missing Historical Data checkbox affects the way MultiCharts treats received real-time data for Chart and Market Scanner windows. </div>
 
 
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