[zdo]

https://www.tradestation.com/wiki/di...ge/Timer+Class

[zdo]

Tick charts (vs Minute) were mentioned... in the long run, you will be better off designing and coding all your systems to run off a 1 tick chart and getting setups and signals from 'higher' time frames via ADE/ELC or other Data#

hth

[Tradewinds]

Originally Posted by zdo »

Tick charts (vs Minute) were mentioned... in the long run, you will be better off designing and coding all your systems to run off a 1 tick chart and getting setups and signals from 'higher' time frames via ADE/ELC or other Data#

hth

I tried mixing NYSE $TICK data as tick aggregation time frame, and ES price data as tick aggregation time frame, and it doesn't work. This may not directly relate to this discussion, but I thought I'd mention it. The point in time in which one data source ticks, and the point in time when another data source ticks can be two different points in time. The platform needs a way to sync the data feeds. At least with tradestation, I can't mix two data feeds that are a tick aggregation. I'd be interested to know if there is a platform that can do that though.

[Tams]

Originally Posted by Tradewinds »

I tried mixing NYSE $TICK data as tick aggregation time frame, and ES price data as tick aggregation time frame, and it doesn't work. This may not directly relate to this discussion, but I thought I'd mention it. The point in time in which one data source ticks, and the point in time when another data source ticks can be two different points in time. The platform needs a way to sync the data feeds. At least with tradestation, I can't mix two data feeds that are a tick aggregation. I'd be interested to know if there is a platform that can do that though.

MultiCharts can mix and match any symobls and resolutions in the same chart,
including mixing time-based resolution, sub-minute resolutions, and non-time-based resolutions.

[Tradewinds]

Originally Posted by zdo »

https://www.tradestation.com/wiki/di...ge/Timer+Class

Oh, interesting. It seems like the Timer Class forces the code to update on time intervals rather than whenever the data feed pushes data through. You can set the code to run every "X" seconds. I have a count down timer on my chart, and I'll see if I need to add this to the code.

It looks like the code will even continue to run if the internet connection is lost. Not that it will help you, if you need data from the internet.

This was one of the example codes given:

{
This example uses a Timer component to execute a handler method every 1 second.

 The following items were created or modified:
   Component tray: Timer1 dragged into document from the Toolbox
   Properties editor: Interval property set to 1000 milliseconds (1 second)
   Properites editor: Enable property set to True to start the timer when it is applied to a chart or RadarScreen.
   Properties editor: Update event assigned to the EasyLanguage method below.
   NOTE: AutoReset defaults to True indicating that the countdown automatically repeats after each timeup event.
}

method void Timer1_Elapsed( elsystem.Object sender, elsystem.TimerElapsedEventArgs args ) 
{The Elapsed event handler is called when the timer counts down to zero}
begin
	{ plots the current time as a string }
	Plot1(rightstr(elsystem.datetime.CurrentTime.tostring(),11),"Time");
end;