The Programming Guide says Fundamental Items can be accessed regardless of the primary charted symbol using GetExternalSymbol or SetContext. How do you do that using GetExternalSymbol?
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For a symbol other than the one currently being processed by the strategy, fundamental items can be accessed using this overload:
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The Programming Guide says Fundamental Items can be accessed regardless of the primary charted symbol using GetExternalSymbol or SetContext.
Where does it say that exactly?
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Where does it say that exactly?
Fundamental Analysis>Economic Indicator Data
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This guidance appears in the section for the decommissioned Economic Indicator Data, which are not symbol/context dependent.
I admit though, the sentence is confusing. It was meant to say that you can access these Econ items even after having used GetExternalSymbol or SetContext, whereas it could be taken to mean that you can access these items using those calls, which is wrong.
We'll get the clarified in the next update.
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