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Is there any way I can setup my charts to backfill automatically?
   

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From some emails I've been getting recently, I think our new backfill automation may have slipped into the product with many of you being unaware of it. This is a very valuable feature for those of you tracking 10 or 20 symbols on a tick-by-tick basis. Each time you start Investor/RT and startup your data feed, you can setup Investor/RT to automatically backfill tick data (and daily data), back to the time you last stopped the feed. In other words, it should eliminate the need to manually backfill data for many of you. The text below is pasted from the What's New in 8.9.

See "Setup: Preferences: Backfill" to enable automated downloading of historical tick data when connecting to the data feed. Investor/RT now keeps track of the last time real-time data reception ended. This information is then used when reconnecting to the data feed later to determine whether backfill is necessary on a symbol by symbol basis. The software can initiate tick data backfills automatically for all of your intra-day marked symbols, or just those that you have open in chart windows. At present this new feature is being introduced for testing. Your feedback is welcomed; we expect to make further improvements and refinements in future releases. Initially, this feature is available for users of eSignal, DTN IQFEED, DTN IQ, and other realtime feeds supplemented by DTN Market Access historical services.