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Re: TS2ki: ES Z2=2 causes excessive flicker/redraw?



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Maybe I'm just slow, but it's taken me 30 minutes to locate this 
document...!

In case anyone else is interested, here's the link:

http://www.tradestation2000i.com/training/search_results_full.asp?Docume
ntID=685

(watch the wrap)

Cheers,
Ian


> Thanks for the tip!  That was enough encouragement for me to spent 15
> minutes trying to find the TS2k knowledge base (it seems every time 
> Omega
> Research does a website redesign, the TS2k support area gets harder 
> and
> harder to find).
> 
> Document 685 talks about excessive redraws due to volume info 
> w/Esignal
> E-mini contracts.  Following instructions in the article, using ES 
> Z2=2
> works well again, although I have no idea why I didn't have the same
> redraw/processor usage problem with ES Z2 even after I removed the 
> night
> session from the symbol.
> 
> I've been runing TS6 as well, but I figure I might as well keep both 
> TS's
> running since TS6 seems to have lots of hiccups (last night TS6 
> refused to
> give me more than 5 bars of daily data on any indices!)
> 
> -Ken
> 
> --- P elison <paulelison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Yes. I have found that problem too. Tradestation support has a fix 
> > for
> > that which works sometimes (I forget what it was and now use
> > Tradestation 6). 
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> > At 11:04 AM 10/7/02 -0700, Kenneth Lu wrote:
> > >I finally got my TS2ki system cleaned up datawise and was trying to
> > >following the live markets today and run into an incredibly 
> > annoying
> > >flicker problem.
> > >
> > >Whenever I plot the ES Z2=2 contract, TS2k redraws the entire 
> > chart a
> > few
> > >times every second.  The weird thing is that it does not happen 
> > with ES
> > >Z2.  When plotting two charts of ES Z2=2, my CPU usage goes up to 
> > 35%
> > as
> > >compared to under 10% when plotting ES Z2.
> > >
> > >Computer stats:
> > >Dual P3-800, 768mb of memory (plenty available)
> > >Appian Hurricane dual screen display
> > >
> > >Datafeed is Esignal 7.1.
> > >I manually added ES Z2=2 to the OmegaServer symbol list to collect 
> > only
> > >the day session, and changed the existing ES Z2 to collect the 
> > globex
> > >night session as well.
> > >
> > >I've also checked anything else that might cause redraws like 
> > improper
> > >scaling of studies, but the flicker happens even on a simple 5 min 
> > bar
> > >chart with no studies applied and the last price in the middle of 
> > the
> > >range.  I've also turned off titlebar and the status line displays 
> > in
> > each
> > >chart with no effect.
> > >
> > >Anyone run into anything like this before?  Wondering if this is 
> > caused
> > by
> > >having two symbols with similar roots or if excessive symbol name
> > causes
> > >TS to thrash or if the equal sign is causing problems?
> > >
> > >Thanks.
> > >
> > >-Ken
> > 
> 
> 
>