So i did a little experiment just to confirm my understanding of how sierra works with CQG
I didn't open sierra at all yesterday. Today i opened it, and it registered today's trades, but yesterday's trades were missing. This confirmed that sierra pulls data from CQG, but since CQG doesn't hold data for more than a day, data will be lost.
So if you trade with sierra every time and you have CQG data, you will have no issues since everyday it will log in the trades. But if you're like me, when sierra is used sometimes , you will run into issues like this.
The only solution is if you don't trade with sierra but want to use it as a data collection for analysis purposes, you have to open the platform everyday BEFORE the new day starts, in order for it to register the trades into the platform.
This issue is the reason i decided to discontinue with tradervue journal since sometimes i forget to log in trades form the fill download. if you don't do it everyday, you lose it, and have to do it manually
Sierra is still a good platform for streaming at least.
I didn't open sierra at all yesterday. Today i opened it, and it registered today's trades, but yesterday's trades were missing. This confirmed that sierra pulls data from CQG, but since CQG doesn't hold data for more than a day, data will be lost.
So if you trade with sierra every time and you have CQG data, you will have no issues since everyday it will log in the trades. But if you're like me, when sierra is used sometimes , you will run into issues like this.
The only solution is if you don't trade with sierra but want to use it as a data collection for analysis purposes, you have to open the platform everyday BEFORE the new day starts, in order for it to register the trades into the platform.
This issue is the reason i decided to discontinue with tradervue journal since sometimes i forget to log in trades form the fill download. if you don't do it everyday, you lose it, and have to do it manually
Sierra is still a good platform for streaming at least.
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