NetDania ChartStation - Forex, Gold, Silver & Indices Charting - How to backup/save your NetDania Setup
Wed, 15/07/2009 - 02:02
The NetDania Chartstation is a very useful free facility.
The latest version now allows much more customisation:
Your setup is stored in cookies. If you lose the cookies you lose everything you've set up.
Here is what I've found out:
1. Firefox 3 no longer stores cookies in simple files. Backup/editing is possible with an extension, but every time Firefox is upgraded the extensions can be unusable, so this is not ideal.
2. Google Chrome stores all the cookies in one unreadable file. So that's not easy either.
3. The regrettable conclusion is that Internet Explorer, with its plain text file individual cookies is the easiest solution.
This is how I did it:
1. Go to NetDania Chartstaion using IE:
http://www.netdania.com/Products/live-streaming-currency-exchange-rates/...
2. Start by going to Settings -> Settings, and set the default for new windows eg colour, timescale etc.
3. Create all the 10 minutes windows in the right order, and then change the colours of those I don't want the default colour.
4. Select Window -> Tile Vertically.
5. Save the workspace as "10mins".
6. Change the timescale for all the windows and then save as another workspace (don't save the current one). Repeat.
7. Now there are a variety of timescales to look at all with the same coloured charts.
8. Close the browser and go to: C:\Documents and Settings\Steve\Cookies
9. Copy all the Steve@*netdania*.txt files
10. If you want the same setup on another computer, copy the files, run the browser to netdania, then close it again. Then edit the new cookie file and put the old userid into it.
The file to edit is the one that starts like this:
Quote:
userid
EGxxxxxxxxxxxxxx28
www.netdania.com/Products/live-streaming-currency-exchange-rates/real-time-forex-charts/
You can get the current userid from Help -> About in chartstation.
With this method you can:
1. Backup your netdania cookies.
2. Copy the setup to other computers.
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Wed, 02/09/2009 - 04:32
#2
If your NetDania setup is lost
This has happened to me since writing the initial article.
It appears that the setup is stored by Netdania, and not in the cookies.
I once lost the setup which just reappeared a few hours later.
Another time I lost it and when I checked the cookies there was a new one with a different userid.
I cured this simple by copying the old userid into the new cookie.
By the way the overlay feature has disappeared from the add instrument dialogue and is now in the right click on the chart dialogue 
Thu, 10/06/2010 - 05:54
#3
Other NetDania Charts: All free
NetDania is the company that provides the software for charting. Data is sourced for those charts from elsewhere.
Other than the actual NetDania website, which has the chart that I use, other websites use the NetDania charting system, and offer different "Instruments".
An example list is:
GoldUS$, SilverUS$ and major crosses - The one I use
http://www.netdania.com/Products/ChartStation/ChartStation.aspx
Gold & Silver versus many main currencies, major currency crosses
http://goldprice.org/live-gold-price.html
GoldUS$, SilverUS$ and major crosses
http://www.usagold.com/live.html
Main Currencies, S&P500, UK100, Other major Indices, USOil
http://www.dailyfx.com/charts/netdaniachart/
Major currency crosses
http://www.fxstreet.com/rates-charts/chart-station/
Major currency crosses, GoldUS$, SilverUS$
http://www.gcitrading.com/gcifin_fxcharts.htm
The DailyFX chart is notable for the extra indices it offers. This allows charts like these to be created:
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Fri, 23/07/2010 - 00:05
#4
Lost NetDania Setup and Future Changes
I lost my NetDania setup on both computer yesterday, and could not get it back. I contacted NetDania, and will quote just part of the reply for your information:
Quote:
Regarding the cookies, we didn’t make any changes on ChartStation during the last months. I have also noticed a strange behaviour of IE8 that sometimes saves the cookies in a different folder. However we are in a final stage with the implementation of a new release that, beside some new features, is based on login. With that release the workspaces will be saved based on the username used for login and therefore the cookies won’t be used anymore.
A login system would be great IMO
Thu, 29/07/2010 - 00:30
#5
Where are the cookies?!
I've failed to find the new cookies, which must exist because my new setup is working.
So I'm forced to just use a new setup and know that if it is lost, I can't reset it.
Waiting eagerly for the new login system
I know from the number of visits to this page that many others have had this problem.
It sounds a lot more involved than the .txt file route, but may be useful for other Firefox issues:
http://www.ghidinelli.com/2009/04/15/recover-corrupted-firefox-cookies-s...
http://www.sqlite.org/download.html
Also:
http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/07/increase-firefox-3-perormance-by.html
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