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Post From: multiple instances of SC, quoteboard, and links

[2013-12-10 13:21:23]
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jesslinn - Posts: 108
Well that is certainly the worst news that I have heard in my exploration of Sierra Chart.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding your intentions. The glowing description of using multiple services including: "This feature allows you to use the data feed from one service, but trade with another service." indicates that you can configure your trading instance to draw data from other instances. Now it seems that you are saying that QuoteBoards and spreadsheets are not useful tools for trading, since they cannot draw data from other instances. Your suggestion of using QuoteBoards from the remote data instances means no linking. Do people just not consider linking to a chart a useful feature?

I strongly disagree. Since any sort of automated strategy needs to take place in the instance attached to the trade service, that is the one that needs to be configured, watched, and manipulated. QuoteBoards and SpreadSheets are a critical part of this configuration, monitoring, and control. Ideally, you could watch the status of hundreds of instrument/strategy pairs in a table and click on one to bring up a chart and the details of a particular one. With local QuoteBoards not able to link tp charts with remote data and with SpreadSheets and SpreadSheetStudies not being able to link to anything, and no ASCIL way to bring up a chart with remote data, I see no good way to configure the trade instance to control complex trading.

Are there no current plans to allow one to use QuoteBoards for trading because it is difficult or only because you do not see any reason for it? Why is it difficult? You have all the pieces in place and it seems as though seamless data sharing is one of the centerpieces of your architecture. Charts can find and utilize remote data streams. How hard can it be to allow the other trading tools to access them?

Please reconsider your plans. Everyone who uses a separate data and trade instance could benefit by supporting and clearly identifying remote data in all the trading tools, not just charts.