Brief overview of TaiPan
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Connecting
Please follow the instructions in the following video to establish the connection correctly:
TaiPan
Important: reconnect, restart, reload
We recommend to reconnect and restart the Taipan realtime client on a daily basis, as, when being connected continuously and round-the-clock, a full and smooth data supply cannot be guaranteed on the part of Taipan realtime platform. A daily reconnect, restart and reload as well as - on occasion - clearing the "History"-folder will help.
Therefor please open ConfigurationEscort -> directories -> data directory -> History and delete the file containing Taipan-history. Close AgenaTrader and restart it - all Taipan-history will be loaded up-tp-date.
Note: There are four checkboxes in Taipan connection settings:
FrontMonth = actual contract according to the calendar only
Continuous Contract = continuous contract
AutoStart Tai-Pan Realtime: allow to start Tai-Pan Realtime when user establish connection through AgenaTrader
Close Tai-Pan Realtime on Disconnect: automatically close Tai-Pan Realtime after disconnetion in AgenaTrader
Additional Options
AgenaTrader allows you to set a futures rollover alert. More information about futures contracts can be found in the section Futures.
Definition for contracts:
Continuous CC = continuous contract
FrontMonth FM = actual contract according to calendar only
As described in Taipan connection guide, you can choose in account settings, if you want "CC" or "FM". Whatever is chosen there, will be regarded as the default setting afterward. No matter what contract you have in Connection settings, AgenaTrader will use settings from Instrument Escort for the selected instrument.
Cumulative Indices
Only displayed and can be added to the chart if connected to one of the following datafeeds: Teletrader, Taipan, IQFeed or Barchart. They display an oscillator of cumulated data of the specific index.
ATTENTION! To be able to see the Cumulative Indices, you must select "All" or "Index" for your specific datafeed in the Datafeed-Tab in the Account connection set-up.
TaiPan.Net
With the new TeiPan.Net connection it is no longer required to install and run in the background the desktop client TaiPan Realtime. TaiPan.Net It will connect to Taipan API directly.
To create a new connection, please follow these steps:
- Enter a connection name of you choosing
- Choose TaiPan.Net as a provider
- Click "Next"
- Enter your user id and password
- Select how would you like to display your future contracts (Continuous or Front Month).
- Click on "Finish"
- Select what instrument lists you would like to be able to use
- Click on "Import instruments lists"
With TaiPan.Net you can receive DAX30 options data. This is not supported by the regular TaiPan COM connection.