Calling lookback of MarketData before realtime run of bot

Created at 06 Mar 2014, 02:15
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Calling lookback of MarketData before realtime run of bot
06 Mar 2014, 02:15

Hi,

I am trying to read the previous n number of days worth of 1 minute bars prior to starting my strategy.

I have discovered that I can only request the last 7 days during realtime running of the bot. Is this unfortunate limitation not able to be altered?

from within onStartU() I am creating a MarketSeries instance. I am then iterating through this collection by index.

I am expecting to see 7 days of minutes from earliest thru to current minute before onTick() is called.

I am unfortunately getting a complete mess that stop well before last historical minute. 

Could you please advise,

Regards

 

 

@abfc123
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Spotware
06 Mar 2014, 10:10

Thank you for your suggestion. We will consider to add (DateTime from) parameter to GetSeries method.

You can also post this idea to vote.spotware.com.

As a workaround you can write cBot which stores market series to a text file and backtest it. As a result you will have market series in text file. Then you will be able to load those market series in another cBot.

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