How Does Open E Cry Charting Compare to TradeStation?

[That One Guy]

	Quote:	BlowFish
	Thanks JW.....now you have made me look all lazy I was expecting one of the users just to say yes/no hehe.

Ah sorry, didn't mean to make you look lazy. I really just wanted to supply complete information, so maybe it will gain interest.

[forsearch]

	Quote:	Jwhite198621
	I really just wanted to supply complete information, so maybe it will gain interest.

http://www.openecry.com/traderstoolb...indicators.cfm

[lionelhhn]

Just to share....I signed up for the demo today.

tried to download the codes posted by blu-ray in this forum to test.
Only managed to compile one without errors.

Anyone has any success with easylanguage codes download to OEC ?

Please share . Thanks

Have a great weekend !

[lionelhhn]

Guys,


Don't bother.....oec does not support many easylanguage codes.
Confirm this today.

Wasted my time.

[shreem]

Hello all, I have a question about Open E-Cry charts. Where does volume come from? Is is only from the Open E-Cry itself or is it coming from the interbank market or from the centralize exchange?

Reason I ask is that I may consider using volume informations from their charts for currency future instead of using proxy volume of forex spot broker who do not represent true volume at all.

Put another way, is volume seeing on the Open E-Cry charts does represent true volume of numbers of shares or contracts traded from the true interbank market or is it just another proxy volume as we usually find in spot forex broker chart like MT4 and the like?

Thanks a lot in advance for your answer as this important for me.

Also, is there a possibility to get the VWAP indicator on Open E-Cry charts?

Have a great trading next week to all

Sincerely

Shreem

Edit: Is there a way on the chart to get more than 3 months of data? For 6EU8, on daily chart it only goes until may 08?

[forsearch]

6EU8 is the Sept 08 Euro currency futures trading at the CME via the electronic Globex platform. It trades on a centralized exchange (CME) and thus has actual traded volume of that currency future contract. It is not proxy volume at all.

Good luck trying to get more than 3 or 4 months minute or daily based data of a given front month contract in OEC. You'll note that you only get a week's worth of tick/volume data for any contract as well.

-fs

[shreem]

Hello Forsearch, thanks a lot for your answer. Very much appreciated. Is it standard practice on the globexto have these limited historical data or does it have more to do with some limitations on charting with Open E-Cry software?

Again, thanks a lot for your fast reply Forsearch

Have a great day

Sincerely

Shreem

[forsearch]

	Quote:	shreem
	Is it standard practice on the globexto have these limited historical data or does it have more to do with some limitations on charting with Open E-Cry software?

It's not Globex or the CME that has the "limited historical data", but your data source provider. Remember, the OEC charting is a complementary service offered by OEC to its customers. It is by no means meant to be a comprehensive charting system. Still, for a free charting service it has features that rival those found on paid services, like Tradestation or E-Signal, data notwithstanding.

[brownsfan019]

	Quote:	forsearch
	It's not Globex or the CME that has the "limited historical data", but your data source provider. Remember, the OEC charting is a complementary service offered by OEC to its customers. It is by no means meant to be a comprehensive charting system. Still, for a free charting service it has features that rival those found on paid services, like Tradestation or E-Signal, data notwithstanding.

That's it in a nutshell - for a free platform, you'll have trouble finding anything comparable. If you need more data, you will need to get an external data source and charting software. It would be nice for OEC to open up the historical database, but not sure if/when that will happen. I've put the bug in their ear for awhile now and I believe it's a storage/database issue.

Thanks for the help FS.

[forsearch]

One major change I found in OEC charting in demo ver 3.2.0.3 is the time of each candlestick bar.

In current live ver 3.2.0.1, the timestamp for the bar is when it OPENED.

However, in the new demo, 3.2.0.3, the timestamp for each bar is when it CLOSES, if it indeed has closed. Otherwise, you get a timestamp of the current time when you checked it.

Anyone know why? (Was this a request of yours, Brownsfan?)

Don't know who or why it was changed, but it ain't for the better, that's for sure.

-fs