I'm trying to understand if I'm doing something less than ideal, if I have a problem, or if it's just the way it is.
Using the Download tab in the Historical Data Manager, I'm downloading 120 days of tick and minute data for various instruments (connected to IQ Feed).
If I download each of the Dow 30 stocks, one at a time, for 120 days tick and minute, each instrument takes maybe 2 or 3 minutes to complete the download and saving. So, if I sit and babysit this process takes between 60 and 90 minutes.
If instead, I download all the data for the list, the download and save takes much longer. I'm running it now, been close to 3 hours, and it appears to have been stuck on a symbol for better than an hour.
I'm not doing anything else with Ninja during this time. Just letting the computer sit to do it's thing.
I'd appreciate hearing how long it takes others downloading significant amounts of tick data, what's the best way to do it, and if there is some known issue with downloading entire instrument lists at once.
EDIT: I tried to abort the process, clicked abort over 30 minutes ago, and status bar still showing aborting. This has been typical of my experience.
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