New Symbology

[arold_ite]

I was told yesterday that the new continuous futures contract symbology (i.e. SP 1!) will ONLY work in an ADVANCED chart and not a basic chart.

Try and enter SP 1! into a basic chart and you'll see that you get no data. Now, using the desktop API, try a RequestHistory on SP 1! and you'll also see that you get no data.

My assumption now is that I can't use the desktop API to get continous contracts using the new symbology.

Could anybody confirm or deny this for me?

Thanks

[AChan]

Continous future contracts symbology (SP 1!; ES 1!) should be supported by the Desktop API. I tried the following call:

requestHistoryHandle = esignal.RequestHistory("SP 1!", "D", btDAYS, 365, -1, -1)

and data returned as expected. Make sure that you are not releasing the history handle until all data arrived for this request.

Anthony
eSignal Developer Support