Symbol Limit (5) for formulas

[bullman]

I am doing some market breadth studies on the Dow that involves calculations of the 30 Dow stocks close data. I run up against this limitation:

"The Symbol Limit(5) for a formula has been exceeded."

Is there any way around this?

[jfranta]

any answer to this question?

Is anyone from esignal available to answer this question? I got a similiar error (2years later), except I got the limit to be 7 symbols.

Is there any way to load a bunch of symbols

"the symbol limit (7) for formula has been exceeded"

here is the main chunk of the formula, which gets symbol names from a file and then creates DDE outputs for high and low of that symbol for each of previous 5 days. Right now it stops working after about 4 symbols, although it reports the symbol limit being 7... what does this mean, and is there another way to send a bunch of stats for different symbols through DDE?

I also want to know this because I was hoping to write a single formula that traded many symbols simulatneously via esignal papertrade... is this even possible?

here is the code for my current formula that is causing my present error:

while (!f.eof()) {
var line = new String(f.readln());
var sy1 = line.split(",");
var sy = new String(sy1[0]);
var s = sy.toUpperCase();
var l1 = new DDEOutput("low1"+s);
var l2 = new DDEOutput("low2"+s);
var l3 = new DDEOutput("low3"+s);
var l4 = new DDEOutput("low4"+s);
var l5 = new DDEOutput("low5"+s);
var h1 = new DDEOutput("high1"+s);
var h2 = new DDEOutput("high2"+s);
var h3 = new DDEOutput("high3"+s);
var h4 = new DDEOutput("high4"+s);
var h5 = new DDEOutput("high5"+s);
l1.set(low(-1,sym(s+",D")));
l2.set(low(-2,sym(s+",D")));
l3.set(low(-3,sym(s+",D")));
l4.set(low(-4,sym(s+",D")));
l5.set(low(-5,sym(s+",D")));
h1.set(high(-1,sym(s+",D")));
h2.set(high(-2,sym(s+",D")));
h3.set(high(-3,sym(s+",D")));
h4.set(high(-4,sym(s+",D")));
h5.set(high(-5,sym(s+",D")));
}

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello jfranta,

A single EFS is limited to accessing up to 7 symbols or 7 external chart intervals for a single symbol. This limit is in place to prevent excessive demands on the servers.

Your loop should be successfully processing the first 7 iterations. Once your formula tries to access the 8th symbol, you should receive the symbol limit error. There isn't a work-around for this. To verify that 7 symbols are being processed, you can add the following code to your routine.

var i = 1;

while (!f.eof()) {
var line = new String(f.readln());
var sy1 = line.split(",");
var sy = new String(sy1[0]);
var s = sy.toUpperCase();
var l1 = new DDEOutput("low1"+s);
var l2 = new DDEOutput("low2"+s);
var l3 = new DDEOutput("low3"+s);
var l4 = new DDEOutput("low4"+s);
var l5 = new DDEOutput("low5"+s);
var h1 = new DDEOutput("high1"+s);
var h2 = new DDEOutput("high2"+s);
var h3 = new DDEOutput("high3"+s);
var h4 = new DDEOutput("high4"+s);
var h5 = new DDEOutput("high5"+s);
l1.set(low(-1,sym(s+",D")));
l2.set(low(-2,sym(s+",D")));
l3.set(low(-3,sym(s+",D")));
l4.set(low(-4,sym(s+",D")));
l5.set(low(-5,sym(s+",D"))); 
h1.set(high(-1,sym(s+",D")));
h2.set(high(-2,sym(s+",D"))); 
h3.set(high(-3,sym(s+",D"))); 
h4.set(high(-4,sym(s+",D"))); 
h5.set(high(-5,sym(s+",D"))); 
debugPrintln("symbol " + i + " processed");
i++;
} 

You should see something like below in your formula output window (Tools-->EFS-->Formula Output Window).