There must have been some change and I´d like to know what changed since I cannot see any change in New & Notworthy. My charts do not load.

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My charts do not load.

What charts? Please be specific.

When I load Equities that are set in teh SI via "Wildcards", as discussed here:
/Forum/Posts/Number-of-decimal-places-30405
The chart does not load and it says:

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Runtime error: "***********"wird analysiert - Quantifizerer {x,y} nach nichts.
bei WealthLabPro.ChartForm.q()
bei WealthLab.BarsLoader.GetData(DataSource ds, String symbol)
...

It's advised to use wildcards very carefully in Symbol Info Manager due to a couple of open issues.

In 6.1, the Symbol Info Manager started generating runtime errors when series of wildcard characters are used e.g. 'D**'. Make sure that no Symbol Info Manager entry contains multiple asterisks e.g '**' in 6.1.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Are you kidding?
How to handle a list of 1000 equities then?

We're trying to get a handle on this. From what I gather, a change was made to move to towards using RegEx in the SIM to solve undesired matches that were occurring with the * wildcard.

If you trade only futures, it doesn't seem like there's a problem to continue using a single wildcard symbol. Just be aware that if you also test stocks, there may be undesired matched. In this case, just disable futures mode when testing stocks.

I am not only testing, I am also trading realtime in futures andequities. I need equities to be 3 decimals. How do I achieve this? it worked fine in 6.0.

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I need equities to be 3 decimals. How do I achieve this?

Preferenes > Advanced Options > Decimal Places > Pricing Decimal Points: enter 3.

@Eugene

Why did you suggest in the above mentioned thread to use Wildcards, when it is working with Advanced Options settings? Was there a change? Will I achieve the same results in WLD6 without Wildcards?

Because you asked how to have equities display 3 decimal points, the suggested option should do the job.

To avoid the runtime error, multiple wildcards should currently be replaced with single asterisk symbol.

2 Robert: would you find downgrade to WLD 6.0 a temporary workaround?

So, if I select three decimals under advanced options, all symbols will have 3 decimals despite those I specify in the SI Manager?

No, the Advanced Option changes the default decimal setting. Futures Symbol decimals should be honored in Futures mode.

(Incidentally, the decimals option was added in 6.0.)

Yes, just like in WL 3/4, but note that matching Symbol Info Manager settings (if present) will override this preference.

Furthermore, due to a bug if there's a trailing asterisk symbol, wildcards may go berserk and match anything. For example, if you set the decimal options to 3 and enter e.g. "A*", ALL symbols not defined in Symbol Info Manager will be treated incorrectly as Futures symbols: decimal places = 3 is ignored, 2 decimal are displayed, and Bars.SymbolInfo == SecurityType.Future. On the other hand, 'A*L' is fine (and will catch AAPL but not AA or CSCO).

Therefore, two suggestions to 6.1 users:

1. No multiple wildcards e.g '**'
2. No trailing asterisks e.g. 'A*'

Okay, working on my side now.
I have set Advanced Options to 3 decimals, so that all my Equities are handled this way, and all Futures are set in SI Manager anyway with their respective number of decimal places.
Thanks for the quick help. However, I am really glad that I am running my realtime scripts on another machine that I did not upgrade.
Thats another point why I think that every change should be announced in the change logs.