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Cruz tried to sell me Radar Screen but I have no use for it.  So what
are you saying about it becoming unstable?  If you need it and it wont
do it then it is useless.  Correct?

There are many ways to screen stocks.

Jimmy


A million ticks might work in a chart but not RadarScreen. (For IBM a 
million ticks = about 30 days)

> You need a program that can handle the tick bars better.  I use tick
> charts all the time and don't really need more then a few months but
> it is easy to load say AAPL on a 1 tick basis which immediately pops
> up over a million bars before it starts downloading more data.  The
> limit I run into is Windows only works one process up to something
> over 1 gig before windows blows up.  Now I don't use 1 tick charts but
> it looked like a good way to see if there was some limit.  Clearly
> not, but I did get a memory warning as I had several charts open in
> that process already when it got up to about 1.1 million bars.
> 
> Jimmy