Re: lack of reliability in chartscanner

[Adam Hardy <adam.ts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually today it is so bad that TS4 just now only printed 2 out of the 24 lines 
that it should have printed to the file.

This is such a hardcore bug, but I checked the tradestationsecurities.com forum 
and couldn't see any mention of such a problem. I guess I'm 8 years too late 
with TS4.

Adam Hardy on 01/08/08 20:58, wrote:
> Chartscanner in TS4 is causing me problems.
>
> I use FileAppend() in my system to output the results from each run into 
> a file, which I then import into Excel and generate some further stats 
> with.
>
> When I run ChartScanner, it loops over my 24 selected markets, and that 
> should produce a file with 24 lines in it, one for each market.
>
> This works much of the time, for instance all morning and half the 
> afternoon today, no problem.
>
> But then it started going wrong. Sometimes I will get only 23 lines, 
> sometimes 19 etc. TS4 randomly fails to write a line to the file. It's 
> as though FileAppend() doesn't manage to write out its buffer to the 
> file before TS moves onto the next market.
>
> My only solution so far is to delete the file and re-run the 
> ChartScanner. If that doesn't work, I close TS4. If that doesn't work, I 
> close the server too, and then perhaps reboot the whole PC.
>
> Is anyone else familiar with this bug?
>
> Thanks
> Adam