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[2014-01-14 19:22:26] #1 [Go To First Post]
bekitz - Posts: 26
Currently testing out a demo of transact and it required an installation of ATCharts which was described to me as a white label version of Sierra Charts. My question involves how would one copy over settings & chartbooks from a previous installation of Sierra to this version of ATCharts? I looked at help topic #15 but couldn't find a folder where ATCharts was installed to begin comparing/copying data files, etc.

[2014-01-14 19:24:07] #2 [Go To First Post]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
AT Charts is installed to: [drive]:/SierraChart/SierraChartTransActMA You can also change the Data Files Folder through Global Settings >> General Settings. Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, change to the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

[2014-02-07 19:56:13] #3 [Go To First Post]
bekitz - Posts: 26
Is this AT Charts different in how it deals with historical charts? Example (charting the Russell 2000): With AT Charts it seems that I can only look at historicals with a timeframe of 1 day or greater. If I choose historical for this symbol, the symbol field under Chart Settings changes to RJH14 which then only provides a limited amount of history (and creates "RJH14.dly" file). I'm aware of your new continuous futures contract functionality so I suppose I could activate that, but does forcing the symbol field to RJ# basically do the same thing? Is RJ# back adjusted? With my Sierra direct subscription, I was able to take RJ# and look at increments that were intraday (creating "RJ#.scid"). This doesn't seem to be available with AT Charts. So is intraday history then only available thru whatever history the TransAct servers provide using their symbols? Also, TransAct seems to limit the amount of real-time symbols available for smaller account sizes. How does one then obtain intraday data on additional non-real-time symbols (delayed, historical, etc). Thx.

[2014-02-07 20:10:46] #4 [Go To First Post]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
Is this AT Charts different in how it deals with historical charts? No. So is intraday history then only available thru whatever history the TransAct servers provide using their symbols? Yes. How does one then obtain intraday data on additional non-real-time symbols (delayed, historical, etc). You just open charts for them but they will not update in real time if there is a real time limit. Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, change to the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

[2014-02-07 20:24:36] #5 [Go To First Post]
bekitz - Posts: 26
Is the continuous symbol (RJ# in this example) automatically back adjusted? So to get an update of the non-real-time symbols you would have to close each chartbook containing these symbols and re-open to provide an up to date snapshot of the data? Date Time Of Last Edit: 2014-02-07 20:32:16

[2014-02-07 21:06:12] #6 [Go To First Post]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
No. It is not back adjusted. You need to use the new Continuous Futures Contract feature which supports back adjustment: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=doc/doc_ContinuousFuturesContractCharts.html So to get an update of the non-real-time symbols you would have to close each chartbook containing these symbols and re-open to provide an up to date snapshot of the data? Are you referring to Historical or to Intraday charts? Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, change to the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing Date Time Of Last Edit: 2014-02-07 21:06:26

[2014-02-07 21:19:30] #7 [Go To First Post]
bekitz - Posts: 26
Are you referring to Historical or to Intraday charts? Both I guess? Is the historical data provided by Sierra via AT Charts and dependent on the Daily download time? Whereas intraday would be thru TransAct and updated manually thru the open & close of chartbooks as described in previous question?

[2014-02-07 21:32:14] #8 [Go To First Post]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
To update a Historical chart select Edit >> Download Data-Historical Chart. To bring the Intraday charts up-to-date, select File >> Disconnect and File >> Connect to Data Feed. There is no longer a Historical Daily Data Download Time. That is now automatically managed. Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, change to the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

[2014-02-18 20:39:59] #9 [Go To First Post]
bekitz - Posts: 26
Re: the fact that ATCharts is installed nested inside the Sierra folder, does updating Sierra to the most recent release overwrite the ATCharts folder or is it left intact?

[2014-02-18 22:18:51] #10 [Go To First Post]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
No. It is completely isolated. Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, change to the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

[2014-02-18 23:55:05] #11 [Go To First Post]
bekitz - Posts: 26
Ok, so do I update ATCharts the same way as Sierra or is this something Transact manages?

[2014-02-19 00:21:52] #12 [Go To First Post]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
Refer to: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=doc/download.php#FastUpdate Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, change to the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

[2014-02-19 20:38:17] #13 [Go To First Post]
bekitz - Posts: 26
Is it necessary to update both Sierra & ATCharts each as new releases come out? The reason I ask is because I have a chartbook I created in Sierra (when I had a direct subscription) that had several charts and an associated trading dom in it. When I started using ATCharts in the trial, they do not have the ability to open a trading dom, but when I opened my previous chartbook within ATCharts, the dom was available and functional....it just has a "SC" at the start on the title bar instead of the "ATCharts" at the start on the title bar for the chartbook. So this made me wonder if the dom is associated with Sierra?

[2014-02-19 20:50:36] #14 [Go To First Post]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
No it is not necessary. Although it depends upon what version you are running now? It makes sense that an existing Trade DOM in a Chartbook created with the full Sierra Chart version would show up and be usable in AT Charts. It does not matter to us. This is a limitation required by TransAct. Not us. Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, change to the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing Date Time Of Last Edit: 2014-02-19 20:51:02

[2014-02-21 20:06:16] #15 [Go To First Post]
bekitz - Posts: 26
Well I was using ATCharts v1074 and Sierra was v1062. I updated both to v1094. Was just curious going forward if I needed to keep both up to speed (this is assuming the dom characteristics rely upon the version of Sierra which may or may not be true)? So I guess technically a person could create a chartbook just using a free trial of Sierra and then at a later time use this chartbook in ATCharts and achieve this dom funtionality?

[2014-02-21 22:45:09] #16 [Go To First Post]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
So I guess technically a person could create a chartbook just using a free trial of Sierra and then at a later time use this chartbook in ATCharts and achieve this dom funtionality? Yes this is true and it is not really something that we would keep a secret. Generally all the copies of Sierra Chart in your system should be the same version but we do not see a problem if they are not. Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, change to the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

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