Why-does-my-strategy-make-no-trades-with-IQFeed-data

Yet another issue from you which is impossible to troubleshoot without providing the code:

https://www.wealth-lab.com/Discussion/Error-populating-equity-curve-5907

How about a theory or two ? You must have some ideas.

Sure, my working theory is that there is an error in your code.

You have to share your Strategy, at least a "cleaned up" version of it, and substituting some generics for key buy/sell decision to get a top view sanity check. Note that the trading logic and/or its interaction with the rest of the Strategy may be related to where the actual problem lies.

Guesswork is unproductive because there can be many reasons. A good problem report should include enough details to help technicians reproduce the issue on their end, such as: strategy code, symbols it runs on, time frame, strategy settings.

This may he helpful: I just received an email from IQ Feed saying I am still on the free trial (I paid for the exchange fees) and that during the trial period "Historical data access is limited during the trial period to 4 days of intraday (tick and minute) and 1 year of daily. "

Is it possible that the IQ Feed extension has trouble with this?

My theory is that something is wrong with your IQFeed provider configuration. But my "theory" is probably wrong, so perhaps someone can provide an alternative theory.

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This may he helpful: I just received an email from IQ Feed saying I am still on the free trial (I paid for the exchange fees) and that during the trial period "Historical data access is limited during the trial period to 4 days of intraday (tick and minute) and 1 year of daily. "

Indeed, if using a longer period indicator like SMA(200) that amount of data might be barely enough to build it. In the case of SMA(200), the next few dozen bars are where your strategy starts looking for trades - they might not have triggered yet. But that's just a speculation.

The longest indicator I have is a 20-bar.

I am not at liberty to provide you the code, but I did some testing for you:

The symbol is only returning 257 bars, but the Wealth Data is returning 8646 bars. The strategy provides many trades within the most recent 257 bars, but only with the Wealth Data feed.

I could probably make changes to the strategy to get the IQ Feed data to work, but I am comfortable with the Wealth Data at this time.

Please refund. You clearly state there is a 14-day free trial.

Hi pepeters, all of our extensions can be downloaded and installed without purchasing them. The 14 day trial automatically starts when you first use the extension in WL7.

Please don’t purchase another extension before trying it out for the 14 day period.

Thanks for that clarification. I read your text literally (see below), and it suggests to me that if you don't have the premium plan, then one purchases the extension AND you get a 14-day free trial. Might be better to state it like this: . . . purchase them individually OR download and get a 14-day free trial.

"If you have a non-Premium Plan, you can purchase them individually, and get a 14 day free trial when you download and install them."

You're right, that isn't stated well. We'll change that. Thanks.

It appears you are not going to refund what I thought was a 14 day trial, so I went ahead and subscribed to the IQ Feed. Their tech support verified that I am now connecting to their historical data, but Wealth-Lab is only picking up 260 daily bars of MSFT, and 136 60-min bars. This is in the historical data loading testbed. I have entered the new username and password that IQ Feed provided into Wealth-Lab. Those data counts are around what I was getting during the "free trial".

We will be happy to refund the IQFeed if you still desire. Apologies that it slipped through the cracks here. Just let me know and I will process the refund as soon as I get the go ahead.

You will be probably need to delete the local IQFeed data using the right click option in the Data Manager, Historical Providers tab. Then try MSFT daily again after doing that and restarting WL7.

Isn't IQFeed getting enabled the next day? AFAIR this was the case before:
https://wl6.wealth-lab.com/Forum/Posts/IQFeed-static-and-streaming-provider-31584

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3) On when you pay for your account. The "Beginning Date" is a bit misleading. For example, beginning 7/27/2020 my account actually started streaming at midnight 7/28/2020 US Central Time.

Right-clicking on the IQ Feed provides three options:

Perform bulk data update
Delete local files
Clear internal request tracking info.

Not sure which one you want me to use.

Delete Local Files