Xdata limitations
May I take this opportunity to also highlight the fact that Xdata uploads are limited to data from 1928 onwards, and not before. This is a HUGE problem because our long-term-data analysis requires a much earlier starting point – any serious analyst must begin from the early 1900’s...in fact, CQQ-IC does have Dow Jones real-time/historical data from 1900 onwards so why should X-data be limited to 1928?...it should be possible to even extend this pre-1900
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The problem with the Xdata feature is that there is currently no support for 4 digit years. This leads to the situations where “27” = 2027 and “28” = 1928. The developers have told us that this is definitely going to be fixed in the 21.xxxx software version (ticket number 1385919305). When it’s released, that version will add additional choices for 4-digit years which means that all xdata source files will work properly regardless of how many years are included in the file. Note that this will entail that all source files will first need to be converted to 4 digit year format.