Hi.

I seem to be getting a lot of bad RT data with IQFeed.  Or more accurately, AB 
seems to be randomly popping in bad data.

The problem is that every now and then, while I'm clicking through symbols in 
my watch list in a "daily view", I'll suddenly see either abnormally high 
volume or abnormally low or high values suddenly appear when they weren't there 
when I last looked at the symbol just a few minutes earlier.  These weird data 
points can be "fixed" if I do a "Force Backfill" but the problem happens quite 
often and makes browsing though symbols a problem.

What's also wierd is that if I switch from "Daily" view to "1-minute interval" 
view and I see the weird data and hover over the data with my mouse and get the 
time stamp of the data, the "bad" data does not appear in the Quotations 
Editor.  So for example, I'll switch to 1-minute view, see the abnormally high 
volume spike, see the time stamp as "3:00:00pm" as well as the bad data 
readings via the hover/pop-up, then I'll switch to the quotations editor only 
to see that the data in the quotations editor is correct.  This leads me to 
believe that the data coming in from IQFeed is fine and that it's AB that's 
doing something weird.

Also, just to note, there can be more then one "weird" data point in a single 
symbol and it's never been the latest tick

The problem seems to have appeared within the last few weeks or so.  I'd been 
using this RT IQFeed and AB combo for a few years now without problem.

I've tried flushing the cache, in "Database Settings" several times as well as 
creating a new database, restarting AB after each flush etc.  My database 
settings are "125000" for "Number of Bars" with a base time interval of "1 
minute" and intraday settings of "Show Day Session Only" and "Allow mixed 
EOD/Intraday Data"

I'm using the latest (non-beta) version of AB and the latest IQfeed client on a 
WinXP Pro with 4 gigs of ram, >500gigs of HD space on an Intel Core i7.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.


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