Historical Data:

To store tick data on your MarketDelta that exceeds the download limit of your data provider, please perform the following:

Select: Setup | Preferences | Historical Data

In the example below, I have increased the tick data historical retention setting to 15 days for all symbols.

Notice that you can also increase historical retention settings for specific instruments.

This will build your tick database over time.  For example, a DTN IQFeed customer can do an initial download of 8 days of tick data.  Then, the user can collect tick data each day for the next 50 days.  At this point in time, the user will have 58 days of tick data stored in MarketDelta as long as the user has set the Historical Retention Settings to greater than 58 days.

**** Please note that the more tick data you store, the longer it will take MarketDelta to backup at the end of the day.  We recommend storing less than 75 days of tick data.

Market Profile®

To view longer term profiles, download 1 minute data.  You can generally download 120 days of 1 minute data from data providers.

**** Please keep in mind that when you download 1 minute data, it will overwrite (erase) all tick data that is stored and that you would need to re-download the tick data to get the tick data for the time period overwritten.

Please see this link for a helpful article on building longer term Market Profiles®.

Additionally, you can download about 500 days of 30 minute data.  We also recommend adding the "Profile" indicator to a traditional chart.  It's a great way to see longer term profiles.

To add the Profile indicator to a chart, right click on the chart and select:

Add/Delete/Edit | Add Technical Indicator | Profile

Footprint®

Depending on your data provider, tick data downloads have a limited scope for how much data you will receive.  Generally, you will be able to receive the following amounts of tick data:

ESignal: 10 days
IQ Feed: 120 calendar days
  ** 30 days on nights and weekends (it is only available after 4:30 PM EST to 6:00AM EST Monday through Friday and anytime on Saturday through Sunday until 6:00 AM EST Monday morning).

**** Please contact your data provider to find out their specific download regulations.