Market Profile on Daily Timeframe

[Anson]

I understand that Market Profile is supposed to work on a Daily timeframe?

If so... am I the only one who is having problems getting Market Profile to display on a Daily timeframe?

When I attempt to get Market Profile to display ES on a daily TF, it consumes 100% of my CPU for 10 - 15mins and still doesn't load. I don't think I'll ever be able to since I tried twice and both attempts failed.

My computer gets all sluggish and eSignal window titlebar shows the (Not Responding) message.

My PC is AMD Athlon64-3000 based and has 1 gigabyte of ram.

So is it just me? Or a AMD64 issue potentially?

[ACM]

Anson
By what I am seeing the issue seems to be related to the Tick Factor being incorrectly set to 0 with some #F contracts such as ES, NQ or YM. The corresponding specific or 1! contracts ie ES H6 or ES 1! appear to be working fine (see following image). FWIW other #F contracts such as for example CL #f or SP #F are instead working properly on daily interval



To get the ES #F daily chart to display you need to manually set the Tick Increment. Even then though the price scale appears to have some problems (see image below)
Alex

[JayF]

Unfortunately, there are known issues with AMD 64-bit processors typically seen as missing data on Quote Windows. I haven't heard of that specific issue, but be it that most of the issues seen with this processor type are sporadic, this is likely related.

[Anson]

Alex,

I'm not sure if setting the Tick Increment manually is even possible.

I opened a new MP chart and first used a 30min TF. I then set the Tick Increment manually to 2. I then change the TF to Daily and the next thing you know... my processor is at 100% consumption. It's hard to even get into the Tick Increment setting then because the processor is getting all locked up. Even when I do finally manage to get into the Tick Increment setting, it seems to do nothing to help. Nothing appears on the MP chart still and my processor remains locked at 95-100%!


Someone at eSignal please check it out!

[Anson]

I did more testing.

Alex is right. ESH6 managed to load up on the MP Daily timeframe. However, I checked the tick increment it was first automatically set up with and it showed "-5"?!

Since the Tick Increment setting only allows a minimum of "1" value... there's no way I can adjust the tick increment setting without my processor going nuts. The only way I can do any tick adjustment is by dragging the price scale manually with my mouse. However, it only allows me to set the tick increment to 4 (1 point on ES) this way. If I try to drag the price scale tick increment to 1 (0.25 pts), the MP chart basically goes blank until I drag it back to 4.

I hope this helps.

[ACM]

Anson
As Jay indicated in his reply part of the issue you are seeing could be related to the type of processor.
In fact I am using a Pentium4 and am not getting any increase of CPU to 100% or the application locking up if I change symbol to ES #F. In the enclosed animated gif you can see that ES #F loads but does not display anything. Immediately after I set the Tick Factor to 2 and the chart displays right away
Alex

[Anson]

Thanks Alex for the help testing.

It's pretty likely to be processor related then. I can't get the ES #F daily MP chart up without it running the processor to 100% for even 1 second.

Even when I first load up the ESH6 MP daily chart then switch symbols to ES #F.

I give up! Hope eSignal looks at improving compatibilty with AMD64 bit processors soon. I actually bought an AMD64 in the hopes of speeding up eSignal charting!! The irony!

[ACM]

Anson
You are most welcome.
In the mean time you may want to try using ES 1! if to plot the continuous contract.
Alex