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Post From: Can I feed my own data to SC via DTC server AND received market statistics simultaneously?

[2025-05-30 21:31:45]
Sierra_Chart Engineering - Posts: 19794
Here is an example of how it needs to be done in this file:
CustomSymbolSettings.dtc.xml

  

<settings>
  <is-custom-symbol>true</is-custom-symbol>
<category>Market Stats (Realtime)</category>
<category2>_Free_Trial_Symbols</category2>
<symbol>TICK-NYSE</symbol>
<symbol-srvcode>us_stock_market_statistics.data</symbol-srvcode>
<use-pattern-matching-characters>false</use-pattern-matching-characters>
<description>NYSE TICK</description>
<value-format-code>0</value-format-code>
<tick-size>1</tick-size>
<time-zone>EST-05EDT+01,M3.2.0/02:00,M11.1.0/02:00</time-zone>
<intraday-start-time>09:30:00</intraday-start-time>
<intraday-stop-time>16:04:59</intraday-stop-time>
<intra-evening-start-time>16:05:00</intra-evening-start-time>
<intra-evening-stop-time>09:29:59</intra-evening-stop-time>
<use-evening-session-times>false</use-evening-session-times>
<default-order-quantity>1</default-order-quantity>
<maintain-server-data-service-codes>us_stock_market_statistics.data</maintain-server-data-service-codes>
<use-patch-data>false</use-patch-data>
<patch-data-source>ddf</patch-data-source>
<patch-data-multiplier>1</patch-data-multiplier>
<patch-data-symbol>$TICK</patch-data-symbol>
<allow-zero-values>true</allow-zero-values>
<supports-market-depth>false</supports-market-depth>
<realtime-data-client>SC_Data_Server_Sub_Client_1</realtime-data-client>
<historical-daily-data-source>SC_INTERNAL_SERVERS_STANDARD_ADDRESS</historical-daily-data-source>
<historical-intraday-data-source>SC_INTERNAL_SERVERS_STANDARD_ADDRESS</historical-intraday-data-source>
    <security-type>index</security-type>
</settings>



You need to add:
<is-custom-symbol>true</is-custom-symbol>
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Date Time Of Last Edit: 2025-05-30 21:32:05