Found the answer. viewtopic.php?t=10811. The entire string of questions and answers is nicely put together and well worth the read and even the study of all the issues TJ explains in topic 10811.

Does "sell all contracts" not work during autotrading? The following snippet does NOT work for me when auto trading is active but works fine when auto trading is off and for back testing. My brain says it has a a dim memory of a discussion on this issue but damned if I can find anything. Can anyone ...

Thanks Polly;

Reloading the symbols did the trick -- You'da thought I'd have thought of that myself. No problems with wicks as historical data is downloaded. I must have missed deleting the database when I reinstalled MC.

Thanks much!

The screenshot below shows wicks that are way out of line with the charts of the same 3m chart of SPY on August 22, 2022. I have looked at the same chart on TV, ToS, IB's TWS, and Tasty -- none of them have these wicks. I see lots of these every day when using MC and they appear regardless of the ex...

Thanks Polly; I'll contact the vendor to send me the strategy in SEF format. As for my old scripts, the answer is in your question -- I did not export them. Not a big deal -- I only need about twenty of the old strategies so I'll cut and past the text into the newest PL editor and compile. Gong forw...

Are you sure ELcollections.dll is needed for GVs? Aren’t GVs already included and compiled on current versions of MC as standard? I'm picking up on an old post here but yes, I believe you are correct to say that GV does not have-to-have ELCollections added to MC for GV 2.2 to work -- I certainly do...

I'm not sure when the problem started but am now attempting to import my two year old strategies and indicators well as a recently purchased ELD indicator. I've done the usual troubleshooting: installed the latest version of MC; installed MC on a clean PC, start apps as "administrator", insure every...

Thanks Kate! Makes sense.

Thanks Kate. The problem was with the setstopposition. If I use "setstopshare" or "setstopcontract" everything works as I would expect. As far as I'm concerned, problem solved. But out of pure curiosity, (no response expected) I'd be interested to know why using, setstopposition gives the following ...

When I started using EL and PL I couldn't get "setstoploss" to work and I simply created my own stop loss code. But now I would like to start using the reserve word "setstoploss" but I cannot get past either of two problems. This is a "me" problem, not an MC problem -- at least I can't believe it is...

If you're still working on this, I've found the all programming languages refuse to work with ambiguity. Seems to me that anything not specifically labeled as to which datastream is to be used is ambiguous (i.e. Value1) . Maybe try pointing everything to the specific datastream it uses -- data1 or d...

It's a Holiday weekend, TJ, so I'm surprised (and very pleased) to have received any response. Nor would I expect you to test something like this for me. So no worries. From your comment, that my use of CloseD in my "...code is not going to give you daily averages, because your calculation is based ...

I have tried several variations of CloseD and Average. Plotting CloseD(1) on the 30min chart using the code from the example (see below) produces the expected stair step graph with the correct closes for the previous days. Here's a table of the results. I did not include AverageFC as they were the s...

Thanks TJ; I see the page from the Easylanguage manual and that is what I expected -- closed to use the daily close. When I use closed on the 30 minute intraday, however, closed used the close from the 30 minutes bars. I figure there is more to getting closed to work but I can't find any info that d...

MC v14.0 (Build 20935) I expected CloseD to return the previous day's close on my intraday charts in order to plot Daily Moving Averages without inserting an invisible daily chart of the same instrument Using just CloseD, however, all time frames plot the 20ema of that particular time frame. I did n...

lol -- Thanks Kate -- Kind of a "Duh!" now that you actually said it out loud. I'll see what I can do.

EDIT: Not yet sure why, but I loaded up some charts and was able to export data to a comma delimited txt file without Microsoft Excel loaded. So... no problems to be solved as far as I am concerned. ***************************************** Original Post The File\Export option is greyed out almost c...

The last entry in this thread was 2012 so I figured I'd bring it up to date. I'm an IT guy with 35 years of planning, designing, implementing, installing, and supporting PC networks and office phone systems in both the physical and virtual environments. SMS (text messages) remain, and most likely wi...

The Optimization Report allows one to click on a row and automagically move all of the parameters from that row to the chart from which the report was generated. How can I apply those parameters to studies as well? E.g., I use %R in my strategies. On the Optimization Report, then, there are paramete...

For future readers of this thread, this MC WIKI page provided much of the information I needed.

https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... syLanguage

This issue is so similar to mine that I'm going to add to the post. I do not auto trade but I do enter trades from the MC chart. IB is my broker. I trade stocks listed on US exchanges. The problem concerns only one instrument, BSIG which is listed on the NYSE and is a London based firm. - Both when ...

Sure, I will get the info to you as soon as I can and no later than by April 8th. The value of var0 (see below) is often outside the limits set when sequentially optimizing several charts using the same six signals and where each of the six signals use the lines shown below. ************************...

I don't see anyone else posting about Optimization errors so I figure that perhaps I'm doing something wrong and I figured I'd pass it by the group here before filing a bug report. I'm using Multicharts v12.0 and the "Help" says it is the latest release. I'm sitting on a reasonable Windows machine a...

OK, I think the following can be done but before I start to beat my head against a bunch of code and debug I figured a reality check is in order. I use optimization and back testing as a final step in screening symbols for compatibility with my trading personality. I wish to optimize multiple symbol...