hey stuart..... i might not be completely following you here, but have you tried to first create a new security, in your case it's a future but really it's same principle, for the corn and wheat but place them in one of your local data folders.... then create a composite from those...

that should place your composite in a folder other than cache....h

ok hayseed tried to save the securities in metastock data in a new folde but it does not update - the only folder tht seems to update is the data on demand cache. is there somewhere else that i can create a folder for these securities that does update?

thanks

Stuart

hey stuart..... my error, was thinking eod.... it appears your wanting to monitor in real time.....

the created composite using local data folders should update once we do our daily download.... then refresh the chart if it's open..... but that's eod.....

couple thoughts for realtime.....

there is a setting for the length of time to keep securities in the cache, under tools.... is that setting greater than 0.... would increasing it help.....

you can create an indicator using the 'security' function , which is the realtime symbol, that will update in realtime..... if you applied that indicator to any chart it would plot the composite, but in line form....

there are other things you can accomplish for realtime using the 'security' function.....

it's quite possible i'm still not understanding exactly what your interested in, i'm not familiar with commodity futures or just what you guys chart ...... i'll look into it more and post back if anything comes to mind......h

Thanks hayseed i am looking for that setting in tols but i dont see it - is it in metastock or the downloader?

Thank again hayseed let me plod along here and see if i come right i created a new folder in metastock data and created the securities in that folder and enabled it for live update of data. I am building the composites in there now so i will see when we have some acion next week if they work. They dont seem to be able to load historical data so i assume they will start building from next week. Thanks for the help if u ever come to South Africa i will buy you a pint of the worlds finest lager. have a good trading new year.

hey stuart.... as pyradius mentioned, along with you, local intraday securities will not load intraday historical data automatically...... we can manually load/download it however, only takes a minute once you've done it a couple times....

those gaps pyradius mentioned are almost enevitable..... once a gap has been discovered we would need to reload or merge all intraday historical data.... it was those gaps that convinced me not to maintain local intraday files..... if i ever need them i just create new ones or reload data into old ones.....

somewhere i've posted the how to's, can't seem to locate it but still lookin..... be expectin to go thru a pint the first couple times you try it..... after that it's downhill......

not sure who's your data vendor, but qc seems to have to most intraday historical data available..... h