intellcharts
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Topic: intellcharts
Posted By: gilhunt
Subject: intellcharts
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2007 at 5:43pm
Beware using intellicharts, there is some serious memory bloat, which can seriously slow down moving through watchlists.
I use metastock data as my source, US stock only.
I added a 'parallel lines' trend to the stock SPY, then moved to another chart.
A intellichart file was created for SPY with a file size of 2.6 megabytes.
I moved back to the SPY stock, then moved to another chart, WITHOUT
making any changes, and now the Intellichart file went up to 5.192 meg.
I like Intellicharts, but it can really slow down walking through watchlists.
I couldn't figure out at first why my system was so slow (it was taking
me about a minute to move from one stock to the next), but eventually
tracked it down to the size of the Intellicharts. I had several
different line studies for SPY (rectangles, trend lines, nothing
complicated), and the resultant Intellichart file was 97 megabiytes.
Other stocks has smaller file sizes, but were still many megabytes. My
system was spending all its time reading in the next Intellichart file.
I have seen this problem both in 3.3, and the newer 3.4.1. The
supposedly 3.6 doesn't have a link in the download page, so maybe it
doesn't really exist.
If you use metastock for your data source, the Intellicharts are in
c:\MetaStock Data\US Stocks\(sub-directory)\BullCharts IntelliCharts
I still like BullCharts hands down over MetaStock; I've just become very careful about when I add a line study to a chart.
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Posted By: Dingo
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2007 at 4:31pm
look here:
http://www.bullcharts.com.au/Forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=345&a mp;a mp;a mp;KW=dingo&TPN=1
and
http://www.bullcharts.com.au/Forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=275&a mp;a mp;a mp;KW=dingo
I tried to paste a link but it wouldn't take it; copy the above into the address bar.
The multiple IC folders problem (with Metastock data) was supposed to have been fixed but I haven't got the latest version yet to see.
The lack of a link to the V3.6 was raised here:
http://www.bullcharts.com.au/Forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=417&a mp;PN=1&TPN=3
and was going to be fixed supposedly.
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Posted By: Owen
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2007 at 9:29pm
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I already got 3.6 via CD, but maybe Bullcharts can consider releasing it via P2P.
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