No CBOT Dow Futures Data in QCharts6 - QCharts5 is Fine

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Can anyone help me out with why QCharts5 shows real time CBOT Dow futures data just fine, but when using QCharts6 it just "hangs" and never gets past a message on the quote sheet saying it is looking up the data?

[Larry Marchman]

Hey Dan,

The Exchange changed from CBOT: to ECBT:
You probably have a MktHours.UNF in yer 6.0 directory that's back level.

LAM

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Larry,

My QCharts6 and QCharts5 directories both contain MktHours.inf files dated 1/28/2008 @ 7:32 AM and they show exactly the same file size of 125,572 bytes. The QCharts6 directory contains a second file called MktHoursESignal.inf with a date/time of 12/15/2007 @ 11:22 PM. Its file size in 91,882 bytes. Neither of the two directories has a MktHours.unf file in it.

[Larry Marchman]

Okeydokie.
Try this...
Type YM #F into symbol box. See If that gets you a chart. The title bar should say ECBT:YM #F

It's possible the YM in the quotesheet is old. That is, it's still carrying the CBOT: exchange. If that's the case, delete(or edit) the quotesheet entry and reenter.

LAM

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Larry,

When I enter YM #F in a single quote sheet in QCharts6 I get "YM #F (Looking up...)" in the Title field and "YM #F" in the Exchange field. If I use YM 8H I get the same message. In QCharts5 if I enter YM08H I immediately get the quote up and the Exchange field says "CBOT"

-Dan

[Larry Marchman]

Try...
CL #F

If you get the same result, the Looking-up thingy, then you're not subscribed for "Delayed Futures".

YM recently went "delayed" in QC6, but not 5.1.

btw...
It's YM H8, not YM 8H.

LAM

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Same result obtained with CL #F. Thanks for the assistance.