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Dear Multicharts Team, the Real-Time Market Scanner is a powerful feature within MC and in my opinion with only a couple of cosmetic changes this beast could really be unleashed. With this in mind I created this topic, so other Scanner users might chime in with their suggestions for improvements. Co...

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Change this line: if close < ma then sell Tradeunits contracts next bar at lowest(low, lowbar) stop; to this: if close < ma then sellshort Tradeunits contracts next bar at lowest(low, lowbar) stop; In TS2000i sell was the reserved word to execute a short, now it's used to exit a long position. Regar...

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When I open a plain Kagi chart, MC is pulling in bid and ask data from IQFeed besides just the trade data. I made sure that Volume Profile or Delta studies are not active. Is this intended to work this way, as if I recall correctly this is new behavior? Thank you, ABC Hello ABC, This issue has been...

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When I open a plain Kagi chart, MC is pulling in bid and ask data from IQFeed besides just the trade data. I made sure that Volume Profile or Delta studies are not active. Is this intended to work this way, as if I recall correctly this is new behavior?

Thank you,
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As I could see Dax trading Volume per day as below
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EGDAX ... cal+Prices
I guess I might see DAX price chart with Volume information.

What does this volume represent for the DAX? Is it the combined volume of the 30 shares building the index?

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Hi there, I open 1 day kBar of DAX index, and insert "Volume" indicator, however, I can not see any volume data. I met the same problem for other index. May I know how could I see Volume information for specific index? Thanks in advance for help! Charles Isn't that something to be expected for ever...

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Nick, 1. Could you specify software that works identical with real-time and historical data? 2. Take a look at the picture attached. That is the native IQfeed client. You can see that the trade price doesn't match either bid or ask. Ideas? Andrew, that is an interesting example, thank you for shari...

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We used the information from this link . Please let me know if we interpreted it incorrectly. Andrew, from what I understand, if you split the sessions during the trading day, you are missing the second session on Monday. It should be like on the other days, too i.e. Sunday 17:00 to Monday 15:15, M...

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Do you mean File > New > PowerLanguage Editor?

That's strange, I'm able to open it fine.

Exactly. It might just be something on my end then.

Thank you.

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In the 32 bit version I can't open PL Editor from within MC via File -> Power Language Editor. This used to work fine in the previous version. Did anyone else notice that?
It opens fine when I directly open it via it's own shortcut on the desktop.

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- With MC 64, could I still use Global variable and EleXcel.dll to communicate with Excel

Hi Martin,

you'd need a 64bit version of the Elexcel.dll, otherwise it wouldn't work I am afraid.
According to this post, the 64bit Global variable should be included in the installer.

Regards,

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Hi Simon, you're welcome. You can reference future bars with the symbol_ keywords, too. Of course future bar meaning a bar that is present on the chart already and is only in the future of the bar you are currently looking at. In case you find a DLL that is able to know tomorrow's high and low alrea...

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Hi Simon, I have never heard of this DLL before, but after searching the net, this is what I found: Apparently it was posted on traders2traders, which no longer exists, so the documentation is very slim. It was designed as a DLL for TS 2000i, so chances are it will work with MC, too. I found some co...

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Good day sir I did try with Intrabarpersist and problem do persist. Never tried RecalcPersist. When you mention a flag, what do you mean? Have a good day Christoph Martin I mean a variable you use to make sure that the clickevent will only be executed once (or how often you want it). It would look ...

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use intrabarpersist

Same problem
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Martin,

a flag with intrabarpersist or recalcpersist will work fine, I am using it together with Mouseclickevents and it will only trigger once.

Regards,

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Hello ABC, The option "Select dependent function(s)" is avaialble only during study export. When you are importing a pla file you can see all of the functions that are in this file. If the export was done with "Select dependent function(s)" checked then you will see them in the list and will be abl...

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During the import of indicators and systems the option, to "Select dependend function(s)" is always greyed out since some releases. If I recall correctly this used to work and is quite an important feature in case you want to import only some indicators from a file containing several indicators. It ...

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Here are the two functions you will need. They have been coded by Pierre Orphelin and been published in the Sirtrade International Trading Systems Newsletter, Volume 1-1. You need to create the two functions and can call them from an indicator or system then. RWI of Highs [Function code]: Inputs :le...

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aczk,

as TJ has mentioned, you need to define what you are looking for.
From the code it appears to me that neither of those indicators is calculating the VPOC (like I would define it!) correctly on intraday charts.

Regards,

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Martin,

you can use "MouseClickBarNumber" and get the bar values using the Barnumber, but there is nothing that will return all bar values with one click. Only for the date and time of the bar "MouseClickDateTime" offers a direct way.

Regards,
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Hello By any chance, is there a way to have an indicator be run or stopped using only a mouse click. That would be great. Actually, I need to right click, select indicator, select the appropriate one, set the status on / off. Once in a while, I need to reset an indicator because this one is used in...

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Mohi, usually it works as easy as export the ELD from TS and import it directly into PL Editor. Unless you have used OOEL (the object oriented easy language addition that was introduced some time around TS 9) in your ELDs chances are that you have to do only minor or no changes at all in the code. R...

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ABC , what sort of communication you are looking for? I assume you are intereted in this R software to perform calculations or even optimization of your script and place orders to your broker through MultiCharts, i am correct? Andrew, I only answered your question "What is "R"?" and personally am n...

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Henry, in one case it was a brand new workspace and 5 minute @ES# chart and I just manually added a text drawing stating "Hello". That was enough to reproduce the issue on a different computer and I didn't keep the workspace. Regards, ABC ABC, I was unable to reproduce it. The problem can be caused...

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Both the 32bit and 64bit version don't seem to print text that is drawn on a chart either manually or by a study. Write a text to a chart and click on "Print Preview" and the text is not shown in the preview anymore. Trendlines work fine though. I didn't actually try to print the chart using a prin...

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Both the 32bit and 64bit version don't seem to print text that is drawn on a chart either manually or by a study. Write a text to a chart and click on "Print Preview" and the text is not shown in the preview anymore. Trendlines work fine though. I didn't actually try to print the chart using a print...

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What is "R"?

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
http://www.r-project.org/

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Did you set the Bar Magnifier resolution to 1 tick?

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I just went over it with the MC help desk and there seems to be a bug that MC won't load minute data with IQFeed that is older than six years. The data is present on the IQ servers and can be accessed during market hours, but MC won't load it. I thought others might run into the same issue, so I pos...

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Hi evdl, it's hard to tell from your code, but Text_SetBGColor will work with conditions. You can check with this simple piece of code: Inputs: TestValue (0); Variables: TextID1 (-1), TextID2 (-1); once begin TextID1 = Text_New_S(Date, Time_S, High, "Test"); TextID2 = Text_New_S(Date, Time_S, Low, "...

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Questions 1) does iqfeed offer historic upvol and downvol? 2) if not, how do I save the data realtime? 3) which feeds offer historical upvol and downvol for stocks on minute and hourly timeframes? 1) No, but trade price, trade volume and bid/ask price at the time of the trade. So it could be calcul...

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IQFeed does not have a data field for up volume or down volume. IQFeed has only Incremental Volume and Total Volume. As far as I know IQFeed provides the bid and ask price at the time of the trade (both for historical tick data as well as realtime data), so it would be possible for MC to provide th...

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123LMC,

you could store the strategy netprofit at the time of entry and compare it to the netprofit at of the previous trade entry time. Or use the PosTradeProfit reserved word.

Regards,

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KhaosTrader, I am not sure what you mean with "save optimization paramaters to the chart", but in case you are looking for a way to apply a parameter set of a certain optimization result to the strategy on the chart: Double clicking with the left mouse button on the line in the optimization report w...

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In the MC main window under "File".
Or "Ctrl + Shift + C" for copy and "Ctrl + Shift + V" for paste.

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KhaosTrader,

with "Copy Window" and "Paste Window" you can at least copy the chart to the second workspace and delete it in the first workspace. I am not sure if there is anything to simply move it. But copy and paste works fine.

Regards,
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Does the implementation of the MD tools in MC8.1 also mean that a) DOMs can be made on non-broker feeds, b) that market depth information can be accessed for non-broker feeds? Josh, at the moment we do not plan to add such functionality. Henry, can you please tell us why you don't plan to add this ...

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@ABC thx for your help, pls see the last sentence of my first posting. [/i]" PK1, I am sorry, but I still don't get it. You need a date and time for a specific price, otherwise you get a line spanning around all date and time values for your price. Can you give an example on what you exactly are tr...

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PK1, it's a bit hard for me to understand what you are trying to do. If you have created your text IDs with text_new_s and want to change the location, you should use text_setlocation_s and for that you will need date, time and price information of the new location. In case you only want to change t...

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** YES, IQfeed, I tried it on CL and ES.. different time frames, tick charts etc. As far as I know, it only works on broker feeds. It would be really great, if MC would be able to access the book of all datafeeds. The datafeeds carry this information, so in my opinion it doesn't make sense to only ...

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Thanks for the illustration ABC. Nice work. A couple of questions: First, is your indicator available for the public? Second, I have seen Volume Profile in MD where they use it as a drawing tool set within a rectangle from a selected bar to another one. Like just three bars if one would like. Would...

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Just stumpled upon something that doesn't make sense to me. Using a very simple strategy with this code: Variables: ii (0); once begin for ii = 0 to 4 begin Print("ii: ", ii, "; PosTradeIsOpen(0, ii): ", PosTradeIsOpen(0, ii)); Print("ii: ", ii, "; PosTradeIsLong(0, ii): ", PosTradeIsLong(0, ii)); e...

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Again, what can I say, ABC rocks as a programmer!! ;) Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it. Can you zoom it a bit more for better comparison? I'd like to compare yesterday ES profile with the one SC generated. It seems that the tick volume is identical to the one from SC. I tried to make it look a ...

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Arnie, I totally agree that as soon as go lower than a daily profile, the inaccuracies will probably make the information useless. The second study I ran was for the daily profiles (one case using volume information out of 1 minute charts and the latter using it from 1 tick charts) and at least rega...

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As Nick has mentioned, in MC you can only access the volume for a total bar. This raises the question about how to best build volume profiles out of this. You can either go down to a 1 tick chart, where by design you get the volume traded at each price or you take other bars and divide the total vol...

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Martin, the problem seems to be that you are trying to reference a reserved word back, this usually doesn't work and should be avoided. Create a variable to store the boolean value for SessionLastBar into and use this variable to reference back to the previous bar. This will give the result you are ...

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To come up with the Williams %R use the %R and substract 100.

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WilliamsR = PercentR(Length) - 100;

Take an existing indicator, turn it upside down and give it your name

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Would it be possible to make the DOM reserved words available not only for broker data, but for other data providers as well at the same time? That would be great as the quality of data might be better and via symbol mapping you can trade on the broker symbol then.

Thanks,
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I didn't upgrade to MC 8.0 5620, because I'll probably run into the virtual allocation problem again. Are there fix files already?
Can you confirm the volume problem I showed in post # 6 in this thread?

Regards,

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Something that has been very useful for me in some studies is creating the Text-IDs needed at the end of the first bar and place them "out of sight". Then I can "grab" an existing text and only change it's locations and string when I need it, but don't suffer from the text vanishing with new ticks a...

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Hi Pablo, not sure if I understand your request correctly, but the reserved word DoubleQuote might work for you. DoubleQuote Displays the double-quote (") character in a string. Example This example demonstrates how the word Hello in double quotes can be displayed on the last bar above High: Variabl...

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janus, from what I know you only need to install this, if you suffer from the virtual allocation problem. This manifests itself in all studies, even empty ones, not compiling, but returning the ------ Compiled with error(s): ------ Compile error errLine 0, errColumn 0, errLineEnd 0, errColumnEnd 0 c...

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Hi wajodi,

isn't Kinetick just a white label of IQFeed, which is only licensed to NT Trader? Which would mean you get the same quality with IQFeed and they also offer the CME Waiver program.

Regards,

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New version, old problem. ------ Compiled with error(s): ------ Compile error errLine 0, errColumn 0, errLineEnd 0, errColumnEnd 0 causal study: (Function) It would be nice if you could post the files to fix the virtual allocation problem together with releasing a new MC version. I don't know why th...

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I am getting the ------ Compiled with error(s): ------ Compile error errLine 0, errColumn 0, errLineEnd 0, errColumnEnd 0 causal study: (Function) error message again. It's happening with old studies that compiled fine in 7.4, with newly created studies in 8 RC (even empty ones). I am running the 32...

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I was thinking I would get more accurate minute bars if I did this? To my understanding this does only make sense if you are using a certain delta study. But if you check this option, you limit your amount of minute bars to the amount of tick data you have, besides needing additional ressources to ...

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I did not notice any difference between Backtesting > Bar Magnifier > Tick Enabled(once it worked)/Disabled. Have I missed something? mefTrader, this could be caused by the system, as depending on it's logic it might not make a difference. For example a simple stop and reverse system executed at th...

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When will it be possible to have playback within the DOM?

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And the ability to use the datafeed's level2 data and not only broker's data would be great, too.

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I just checked your code examples and they work fine here. If there is anything wrong with the syncronization, it should raise an error right away. The fact that it doesn't makes it hard to track the problem down.

Do you see the sender plotting?

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What do you mean with run the code?
You loaded the sender on a daily chart and it didn't plot anything?

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Faraz, if I tell you that ELCollections and ADE work fine for me and expect that this information should get you going, it wouldn't be very helpful for you. The same applies for "I am unable to make it work", there are so many things that could cause problems, that in my opinion you won't get much h...

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ofthomas,

that should be doable with ELCollections and the DLLs ability to read the data into the memory to access it from there and execute the trades. The ELCollections manual contains examples on how to read text files into maps and lists and how to work your way from there.

Regards,

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Yes, that's how it currently is. That's why I asked if this can be changed or if you are not willing to change it. As to my understanding running the two instances on the same computer at the same time is no exploitation, wouldn't you agree?

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Currently MC 32bit version would get disconnected, when you try opening MC 64bit on the same computer. In my understanding when DRM was introduced it was not intended (nor possible) to run two different versions of MC on the same computer. As it is now, would it be possible to change this or is it i...

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I do not think that it would work though since the daily bars come from the data feed supplier. IE, in daily time frame, mc/qm wouldn't download 1 min or 5 min bars and then construct the daily bar from those but instead just download the daily bars directly. Now, I could be wrong, of course, and q...

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Mats, I am not sure if this would work in your case, but it might be worth trying: Dublicate the symbol you are using for Data2 in QM. You will probably have to change the exchange name, as otherwise QM will raise an error as the symbol is already present. Other than that set it up exactly like the ...

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KJ, like sptrader pointed out, plotting the inverted value probably is the only chance you have at the moment. If you create four plots inverting Open, High, Low and Close and formating the plots accordingly i.e. Open as Left Tick, High as Bar High, Low as Bar Low and Close as Right Tick, you will g...

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I just saw that beta 2 will have this a feature for manually added drawing objects: http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue ... e_no=MC-63, so hopefully this can be done via PowerLanguage soon, too.

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Hi DibsTrader,

the compiler will point you towards the error, it doesn't recognize the word "DateTime". You need to create a variable first with this name and then convert the date and time to datetime to store it within this variable.

Regards,
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When working with studies that create text and trendlines I usually find myself moving one by mistake when browsing through a chart. Bringing them back in their original space can be annoying, which usually means switching the study off and pack on. So I figured it might be a good idea to have the a...

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Well I am sure you are w/o such a DLL. My system is like this. I buy today at the open and sell tomorrow if there is a profit. How might this be coded in Multicharts. For backtesting you can either store all daily opens once into a text file and access this with your system or use the new "symbol_"...

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Emmanuel, in my opinion one problem with the tick data is dealing with the datafeed timestamps. They are only accurate down do the second, for realtime data MC is receiving, it can add a sequence number knowing which tick arrived first (in case they have the same second as timestamp), but for histor...

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A slight modification of the link I gave you should do it then: Variables: PIVOTPOINT(0); PIVOTPOINT = (HIGH[1] + LOW[1] + CLOSE[1] + OPEN[1]) / 4; Plot1(PIVOTPOINT, "PIVOTPOINT"); Format the plot as line, dot, cross - whatever you prefer. The only thing you might need to add is any support and resi...

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A search in the Multicharts Knowledgebase brought up something that would probably do what you have in mind on an hourly chart. Pivot Study
Besides that I am almost sure that you can find a study that does what you have in mind via google, too.

Regards,
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bowlesj3, according to Microsoft, these are the upper RAM limits for the different editions of Windows 7 on x64: Starter: N/A Home Basic: 8GB Home Premium: 16GB Professional: 192GB Enterprise: 192GB Ultimate: 192GB The x86 limit is 4GB for all editions, except for the Starter, where it's 2 GB. http:...

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Henry, it would be great and useful if this can be switched off for indicators by default in PL Editor, like it's possible with "Update on every tick" or "Same as symbol" as for some indicators every tick is needed. Currently it seems that if you uncheck this box in Format Study on a chart and check...

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furytrader,

maybe "Snap Mode" is on by mistake? You can check on the chart under -> View.
At least it sounds like this could be causing the jumps.

Regards,
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Henry,

this might be something you want to consider for further revisions. Since OOEL you can issue orders from indicators within TS - also if they are running in Radarscreen.

This would be a boost for the MC scanner and make it even more useful.

Regards,
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In my opinion this would be a very useful feature, if for example you can do things with it you can do in TS with the Commentary option.
This means it would be useful for debugging and from a trader's point of view you can use it to start stops and targets from a specific bar for example.

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If you leave the search box empty, and click on the spyglass next to it, you will be led to the advanced search page. https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/search.php Some of the advanced search page content doesn't come up when using Firefox - the search field is missing. If this could be fixed, ...

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vsatrader,

I am not sure if MCFX basic allows that, as you would need the PL Editor to import and compile code that works on your platform then. This is something that comes with MCFX Pro.

Hope that helps,
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Hi, currently Text and TL objects that are created intrabar are deleted on the next tick. I don't want to change this behaviour, as it can make sense if you want this. However it would be great if the user could decide if a particular text/tl object created intrabar should stay or not. Think about a...

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Hi Misha04,

if you right click on a Trendline and go to "Format Trend Line", you can check Extend to the right or left, change colors and style of the trendline.
You can also change the start and endpoint values there, as well as set alerts when the trendline is broken.

Regards,
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Hi tradersheldon, the reserved word "DayOfWeek" can help you in identifying what you are looking for. You would check with "if DayOfWeek(Date)" if the particular day matches your conditions for trading or not. DayOfWeek Returns a numerical value, indicating the day of the week corresponding to the s...

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Either I am the only one using trendlines in systems or I my explanations didn't come across clear enough. For demonstration purposes I have created a very basic signal, which produces trades and I am attaching it as well as two screenshots demonstrating the behaviour. Optimizing this system in MC s...

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Currently we can use Trendlines in systems, but when you run an optimization with such a system, the trendlines are not created during optimization in MultiCharts. Thus the performance report will come up with showing only 0.00 in every column, when the Trendlines are used in the trading process. I ...

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John, out of curiosity, did you test it with the code posted in this thread? I stumbled upon this problem with a study that uses a multiple of trendlines and within this study maybe one or two of the trendlines were affected by this issue. With the demo code it happens all the time, so my guess is t...

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Tresor, your three pictures in this thread show exactly how serious the problem is. When you decrease the bar spacing, of course the visual appearance of two trendlines would change, but the cross still needs to be found at the same date, time and price . This needs to be the case, as the slope of t...

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Thanks TJ. I was just trying to bring this to TS Supports attention and it's seems to be just a visual problem. But for someone relying on Support and Resistance trendlines this might be a huge issue in visual trading. Anastassia, please follow the steps TJ describes with your code, this should repr...

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ABC, I am not sure what you meant by the following, Then please explain why does the angle change when I decrease the changing and change back to normal when I decrease the spacing any further? Thank you Anastassia, please take a look at the four pictures I posted in the seventh post of this topic....

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Anastassia,
there is everything outlined in this thread so you can exactly reproduce the issue, you just have to follow the simple steps described. I don't know how I could show it any clearer, even in the live chat.

Thank you,
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Hi Anastassia, so you are saying everything is working as it should? Then please explain why does the angle change when I decrease the changing and change back to normal when I decrease the spacing any further? With your explanation - which I agree to, this is the way it should be and it should work...

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bowlesj3, I noticed the problem with trendlines created on the first bar and moved into position later. So I came up with this simple example to demonstrate the problem. The positioning works fine and the trendlines are correct, unless you decrease the bar spacing to a certain point. This is how it ...

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Anastassia, thank you, but this is just meant as a workaround until the issue is fixed, correct? Besides that your suggestion creates another issue, instead of flipping the direction, now the study can change the Trendline angle when you decrease the bar spacing. Which is also crucial. Thank you, ABC

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Thanks Tresor, I appreciate that.

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I stumbled across some weird Trendline behavior in Multicharts current release, where the changing of the Bar Spacing changes the direction of a Trendline. I could reproduce it with a simple demonstration code, which I'll attach to the post. This could be a huge problem if you rely on Trendlines in ...

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So is there a help kicking around for MC that I am not aware of that has the "break" statement (and other goodies I am not aware of)? I tried the list of unsupported reserve words and it is not there. bowlesj3, not that I am aware of. As far as I remember TS introduced "break" into EasyLanguage one...

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duration,

either that or you use the "break" statement.

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	for Value1 = 0 to 1000 begin

		Print("Value1: ", Value1);

		

		if Value1 = 100 then break;

	end;

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tradinghumble, what should help you is leaving the scaling to "Same as Symbol" for the indicator, but uncheck "Expand Scale to Indicators" under "Format Instrument" and in the "Scaling" tab: http://forum.tssupport.com/files/screenshot_-_19.04.2010___17_29_24_116.png I forgot when this was introduced...

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If you have an IB account, you get an additional Simulation Account, which works perfect for testing such things. In case you don't have it, it might even work with their free demo account with delayed data.

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John, this is a very useful suggestion, I'd like to see this, too. Maybe the forum software already supports such a feature and it can be turned on? In the meantime TJs suggestion would work, but in the long run this would only spam the forum and make threads way too hard to read - just imagine 10 o...

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I second that, it's very useful to have direct access to each entryprice/exitprice of a scaling position.

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Hi nuno-online, it's doable with EL Collections and as ADE uses the ELC framework, it should be, too. I don't use ADE, only EL Collections, so my comment might not 100% apply for you: Make sure the indicator values from the daily are stored in the maps each tick and not only at the end of the bar (s...

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jek, you can do rectangles quite nicely with: TxtID = Text_New_S(Date, Time_S, Open, " "); Text_SetBorder(TxtID, true); if you want a colored rectangle you can use: Text_SetBGColor(TxtID, blue) for example. The size of the rectangle can be changed via the string containing just spaces and Text_SetSi...

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Very impressive. Thank you and keep up the good work.

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I have a suggestion for autonaming the images, when you save them in Multicharts: - give the option to add the Date automatically as prefix of the filename (could be turned off) - then the program automatically adds a number to the date, where the number would be the number of images you created tha...

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Spaceant,

in general you could do that. However as the code only gets executed when a tick comes in, I would make sure that you allow for the same time or later, just to be sure the exit is done when a tick comes in at 16:44:44 and the next at 16:44:46 only.

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I agree, it's a good idea. I guess I'd prefer an option that write protects the study, without a password. You could just check it when you want the studies to be write protected or leave it unchecked. Also this function might already be in the program, as the build in studies come write protected. ...

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Andrew,

this looks great and for sure is a very useful feature. Thanks for the great work the TS Support team is doing.

Regards,
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Hi Phil,

I have found the bar magnifier working with yesterdays Beta so far. I tried 30 minute charts and 100 Tick charts and a bar magnifier of 1 tick in both cases. Sometimes it took a bit to calculate, but it's showing results.

Regards,

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Hi John,

the subject line is always "MultiCharts" (without quotes). The sender adress is support@tssupport.com, maybe your ISP can even whitelist this adress, so it will be excluded from spam testing.

Regards,

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2haerim,

from what I see you'll have to use intrabarpersist flags, to ensure that they will be activated on the very first tick and not on bar close. So with little modifications the code provided by janus should do the trick.

Regards,
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Marina, many traders I know use MB Trading and I'd assume that they would definitely take a closer look at MC if you allow them to feed the MBT feed into a sophisticated charting platform. Form what I know MBT is going to offer their feed for MT some time soon, so you should consider being quicker. ...

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Hi TS Support,

can we upgrade to the newest IQFeed version or will there be problems with MC?

Thanks,
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Hi ts2mc,

take a look at the PLKit.DLL in the MC program folder.

Best regards,

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Hi John,

Camtasia http://www.techsmith.com/ might work for the screen caption. As far as I remember it's able to record more than one monitor.

Best regards,

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2haerim, what exactly do you mean? Isn't it: if EndTime>= StartTime: then the Endtime is obviously higher and else: then the StartTime is higher. The only special case would be if you go through midnight i.e. StartTime is one day before EndTime, in this case midnight (or 23:59) would be the highest ...

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Marina,

will this also fix the bar spacing problems one encounters when working with multiple volume data streams?

Best regards,

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RobotMan,

it should have an option to either switch it on and off per chart.

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I second this, it's a really useful tool to help seeing things visually.
And it should definitely raise the value of the product.

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Januson, depending on your bar spacing (if too little it might look clumsy), you can work with the vertical text location. Use: Text_SetStyle (ObjectID, HorizPl, VertPl) Parameters ObjectID - a numerical expression specifying the object ID number HorizPl - a numerical expression specifying the horiz...

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Below is the code from the indicator "Bid & Ask". How can I erase the old plot after the bar is completed and a new bar is formed? I tried noplot[1] but it does not work. variables: var0( 0 ), var1( 0 ) ; if GetAppInfo( aiRealTimeCalc ) = 1 then begin var0 = InsideBid ; var1 = InsideAsk ; Plot1( va...

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TJ I second your request, this would be extremely useful. I would like to see reserved words for the following: Bid/Ask prices and corresponding volume for the next X ticks (depending on the book size). As far as I know the data providers send if a trade was at the Bid or Ask, so it should be possib...

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ocm1,

is it possible that you are missing the contract month, too? Shouldn't it be something like 6EU8. At least this is the way it works for the ES.

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TJ, I am happy if I could help a bit and even more if you can put the code piece to some use for yourself. Switch must not necessarily have continuous values from 0 to X, this would also be okay: Switch(Value1) Begin Case 1 to 5: Value2 = Value2 + 1; Case 10, 20, 30: Value3 = Highest(High,10); Case ...

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TJ, I have done a simple switch/case thing inside an indicator that I run on the very first bar to identify the BarType and Store a name inside a variable for further use: Switch(BarType_ex) begin Case 1: BarTyp = "Ticks"; Case 2: BarTyp = "Minutes"; Case 3: BarTyp = "Hours"; Case 4: BarTyp = "Days"...

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That's something that will happen with indicators, too. However in my opinion it makes sense like it is now. You only need to remember that a change in the code will not change the inputs of already loaded charts. Otherwise it would reset every value of applied strategies to their defaults if you re...

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You can use intrabarpersist and dynamic arrays with Multicharts as well, it's fully supported.

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stockmacd, you can realize this with a counter you have to reset once before your new session begins. In case "MyBarNumber" and "MyBarCounter" are variables, you can do the following: If CurrentBar <> MyBarNumber then begin MyBarNumber = CurrentBar; MyBarCounter = MyBarCounter + 1; end; A second ide...

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Try "cmd" first, this will bring up the DOS window, where you can use "ipconfig", without the window disappearing.

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LRP,

I am not sure, but I guess if you set the closing time to 21:59, then your chart will end at that time, too. So SetExitOnClose will behave the same like before.

Best regards,

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LPR, I'd recommend "Close at End of Day" only for historical simulations. The reason for this, it generates the order on the last tick of the session, which gives you no chance to get filled in realtime (the market is just closed with your trigger). That's probably the reason why you see the trades ...

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RS, if I understand Text strings are passed by address as a default when the LPSTR parameter type is used. Do not change the size of the passed string within your DLL, as this can cause unpredictable results. correctly, this is referring to the actual string expression i.e. the number of characters ...

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zukkaweb,

I have kept an old post from this forum. I don't know who made it, but it should help you.

Best regards,

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I don't have something in my mind, but I am pretty sure that you will find something via google. As you are able to use ELA, ELS or ELD files from TS directly, chances are that you'll find something that suits you.

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Victor,

good question, but I am pretty sure that if this should ever happen, TSSupport will find a way for their customers in advance. You can be very sure of that, because they really care for their customers and this would even continue if they'd switch their business.

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You probably don't have a chance without a password, so here is what the link contains: suri.CandleReader with Audio Alerts: Candlestick Patterns: * Doji * Hammer/Hanging Man * Bullish/Bearish Harami * Bullish/Bearish Engulfing * DarkClouds, Piercing Lines * Morning Star, Evening Star * WR7OD (Wide-...

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The following link has some patterns:

http://www.garrettcasey.com/easylanguage/index.html

As well as this one:
suri.CandleReader with Audio Alerts by Suri Duddella aka. demicron

https://www.TS.com/Discussion ... c_ID=58299

Best regards,

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Zukkaweb, it works correct, but from time to time people have encountered an array bounds error. I have taken a look at the code and I guess I came up with a simple solution for the problem. The code uses the High and Low of the chart and goes through the arrays from High to Low with loops. An array...

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holbrooke, I guess the problem is that most of the add-on are Indicators, that's why you don't see them in the strategy tab. So you'd have to create a strategy on your own, which calls the protected functions (i.e. the same functions the indicator is calling). But to do this, you would need the logi...

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flyingforget,

yes you can. You can combine the different resolutions in one chart and use the datastreams in your system.

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Andrew,

I'd really love to see both, on the one hand a chart trading feature implemented directly into MC and on the other hand the ability to add events, button, clicks and other things on a chart.
That would really give another boost to MC.

Best regards,
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TJ,
TL_New_Self will draw Trendlines in subcharts.

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It seems that there is an issue with "Days Back", if you switch to bars back instead, it should bring up the chart. This is at least a fix for the moment.

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TJ,
it already has this function, but I don't understand why it's not working for you.

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2haerim, from what I understand the status is turned off, because you don't have enough bars on the chart. To overcome this problem, you load the additional day (depending on the study it might need even more days). If Date = CurrentDate Then Begin Will start the calculations once this is true. If y...

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2haerim, if I understand you there are a couple of ways around it. The easiest would probably be to load two days on the chart, but limit the calculations to the current date only. This way your study shouldn't be turned off when you open the workspace and you are still only calculating your study o...

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Traders,

as currently MC is missing a quote window to display a couple of symbols for a quick overview while trading, the idea was to create a simple indicator to show the quotes only. Feel free to modify it to your needs.

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Tim,
take a look at this link. If have not tested it, but there is a good chance that it will work:
http://www.garrettcasey.com/easylanguage/index.html

Best regards,
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Tim,

there are such indicators for TS already and I bet you will find them on the internet.

Best regards,
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You are correct. The MACD on subchart 3 is based on subchart 2 and drawing the trendlines on this subchart, because of TL_New.

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what is that lower indicator in your chart ? the last chart you posted here prior to my/this messege ? can you share it or if it is MACD share the exact inputs ? thanks It's a simple standard MACD based on the second datastream, the only change is a piece of code drawing the trendlines, but this do...

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Exactly like I mentioned above. In the screenshot is the same indicator drawing Trendlines, only with an added MACD based on Data2.

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Just base your study on the second data stream and it works with TL_New.
The example shows Trendlines from the High to the Low drawn on the second data stream.

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Here you go: http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=3995

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marek, are those 5 years already inside MC or do you request them by your provider (if so, who is the data provider?)? Normally this shouldn't be a problem. I for example regularly chart month of 1 tick charts and it's working like a charm. However there is a limit of 1000000 bars, which can be chan...

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momentum, basically you can use something like this for example: Inputs: MyStop(0.25); { 1 Tick in ES as an example, you can specify the tick size directly, but for that you need to ensure you have correct settings in QM, so I'd suggest to go with the decimal input} If my Long Entrycondition is met ...

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This is the outcome of the thread started by O66 http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=4025 about a simpe pivot point study. I thought it would be easier to put it here than to dig through the forums first.

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Jack, protecting the code with a password or exporting as Read-Only from PL Editor will prevent that someone can view or change the code. The first gives you the possibility to take a look at the code in case you are aware of the password where the latter doesn't give you a way to view the code. Bes...

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The following study tracks the High and Low of the current day and calculates the MidPoint ((High/Low)/2) as well as the MidPoint between the High and the MidPoint and the Low and the MidPoint. You have the choice to use Trendlines instead of Plots to overcame the scaling problems. Description of In...

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Rob, you are right, I forgot to turn "Allow up to XX entry orders in the same direction..." on, that's why I had wrong results. With that checked the Performance Report shows Open Position Profit, although you would expect all positions to be closed. I did a test in TS and there it works like you wo...

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Rob and Marina, I am not sure if there is a problem at all, because the screenshot shows the following to me: The strategy trades 1 contract all the time, the field "Contracts" doesn't show the currently open contracts. So you enter with 1 contract, you are closing with 1 contract etc.. Hope that he...

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Rob,

I remember that it didn't work a couple of releases ago and I was happy to see that it does now yesterday. I am sorry, but I don't have an updated list of working reserved words, I am starting out from the TS Support list, too.

Best regards,
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Rob, take a look at the reserved word "avgentryprice", this will give you the average entry price of each open entry in a pyramided position. For every single added contract you can store the entryprice in a variable for example, if the average entry price is not what you are looking for. Best regar...

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Nick,

in case you haven't overcome this already, you can use the following settings for ES:

Price Scale: 1/100
Daily Limit: 3000
Min. Movement: 25
Big Point Value: 50

This way a range bar setting of 100 will reflect one full point. 50 = 2 Ticks and 25 = 1 Tick.

Best regards,
ABC

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TJ, you can round your plot value to the decimal places you want to see. Taken from TS's User Guide: Round(Num, Prec) Num is a numeric expression to be used in the calculation and Prec is a numeric expression representing the number of decimal places to keep. Examples Round(142.3215, 2) returns a va...

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Marina, an option in TS, which is called "Expand Range to include Analysis Techniques" is what TJ is looking for. Currently the range is changed, so that the analysis technique is visible - to be seen with TJ's example of with Floor Pivots for example. If you uncheck this option in TS, you will get ...

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I really fell in love with the MC compiler a couple of month ago. Before I was only using the TS compiler for development, but the speed of compiling and the visible informations (color, showing the correct "end" for every "begin" etc.) are helping a lot in MC, so I switched. A better debugging func...

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Marina, you won't need the code to reproduce the problem 2haerim is referencing to. MC is supporting PaintBars, however the results on Candlesticks are varying between TS and MC. TS automatically changes the PaintBar style to match the candlesticks, where MC seems not to behave this way, but still s...

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Yes, there is a 1000000 bar limit, that's why the start changes whenever you change the resolution. You can easily overcome this limitation:
http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=3995

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TJ,
the problem you will run in is that you can't access the market depth through EL directly, so you will need a different way to get the next five(ten) bid/ask values. In case you have these values, it's not a problem to build the DOM.

Regards,

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What MC version are you using? I had similar problems with MC, but they are all fixed with the latest releases. So one solution for you might be to upgrade. In case you are using the latest version, you can use following work-around until the developers have fixed this: Type [] in wordpad for exampl...

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Allan,
it seems that you are missing the function "_fPushPeriods", that's why you are getting a compiler error. Commenting this out makes the code compile without problems.

Regards,

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2haerim, what you want should be doable with BarStatus already: This reserved word will return one of four possible values: 2 = the closing tick of a bar 1 = a tick within a bar 0 = the opening tick of a bar (relevant only for strategies using Open Next Bar order actions) -1 = an error occurred whil...

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fundjunkie, PL Editor is complaining about the variables and inputs being initialized wrong. All Variable or Input have to be comma separated and not with semicolons. If you want to use semicolons for each variable, you'll have to use the reserved word "Variable" before every of your variables. So c...

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Fanus,

you are correct, the example will give you only the highest/lowest Close of the current day. If Deo wants to compare values of N days back, he simply has to store the values in an array (or List, Map etc) on date change to make them available for comparison.

Best regards,

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Deo, a simple way would just be to track the highest/lowest close as the day progresses and store the values inside a variable. Variables: HiClose(-999999), LoClose(+999999); If Date <> Date[1] then begin {reset the variables on date change} HiClose = -999999; LoClose = +999999; end; If BarStatus(1)...

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Sam, if I remember correctly the problem was that the TS reserved word "TotalTrades" is not recognized so far by MC (. Therefore the function shouldn't be verified. One workaround for you would be to either block the TotalTrades reserved out or to write your own routine counting the number of trades...

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Here is the update to show the labels on the right site. For better visibility they are sitting on top of the trend lines.
Set "PlaceTextRight" to false and the labelling will be same as before.

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This would need some small changes in the code, but it's doable and makes sense, too. Will take the time later.

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Nick,
could you share a screenshot, because I tried your code and it does exactly what it should i.e. plotting the text on the first bar to the left of the screen.

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Guilty in this case

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John,

wouldn't it be much easier to write the values of interest to global memory (with Global Variable for example) and access them from there directly with Access?

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Thanks for all the feedback, it's much appreciated. I have updated the Pivot Tool. Where the first version was build to behave similar like the study provided by O66, you are now able to specify the time you want to use for calculations i.e. the time where the High, Low and Close occurs you take for...

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You can use the standard windows text editor for example and save the file as *.bat. taskkill /IM NameOfTheProcessToKill.exe /f You have to make an instance for every .exe MC uses like MultiCharts.exe, MCActiveX.exe and so on. For your convenience you can place a short-cut to this file on your deskt...

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Nick, it's possible in EL/PL: GetAppInfo(aiLeftDispDateTime); aiLeftDispDateTime: Identifies date and time of the first (leftmost) bar displayed on the chart. Returns a DateTime(double) value when called from a chart otherwise returns 0. aiRightDispDateTime: Identifies date and time of the last (rig...

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The problem is the print statement I used at the Bottom of the built in Bollinger Bands function Writes out more lines than I need even though I Included the “LastBarOnChart” statement. It also Keeps increasing the size of the file. The question is how to get it to write out only 1 line Or at least...

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Take a look at it and let me know how it works for you. It's something I created yesterday, so there might come some new features in the future. The input "IgnoreWeekends" should be set to true if you are for example using E-Minis with the Globex session and want to see Monday's pivots calculated wi...

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Regarding the Pivots, using Trendlines instead of the Plots overcomes the scaling problem:

I can share it later, if you think it's useful.

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Nick,

as far as I know the User-Contributed studies part of the forum is re-integrated in the Multicharts section and you should find the old threads somewhere in here.

Regards,

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Marina, that might work in this case, but the ability to create custom fitness functions would give much more advanced possibilities. This is taken from RT Soft GA description: # Usage of any complex optimization criteria (written in Easy Language), for example, considered maximal drawdown, equity l...

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sparkz,

if I understand you correctly, the problem lies inside the function which does divide one value through the Length.

Adding:

Code: Select all

If Length <> 0 then YourParameter/Length

to function should stop the divide by zero error.

Regards,

Chris

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jek, It might be that MC has not stored the TS data in it's database. There is an option to turn this on/off. In Quotemanager -> Datasources -> TS check "Save data to local database". http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8340/screenshot1407200713392fg0.png If this is unchecked, than checking this opti...

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dupl,

it might be that your indicator scaling is not set to "same as symbol" , but to "screen". That's why the close of the price bar is not matching the plot values.

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mojotrader, I guess the readability is affected by the background colour settings - in my opinion it's harder to read the cross hair values with a black background than with a light grey background - but a format option to customize the crosshair background sounds like a good idea. TS Support, what ...

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Philippe,

a TS Show Me is similar to an indicator, only that it's plots come as dots by default. So you can just create a new indicator in MC and configure the plot style to be a dot.

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This might work for you: Inputs: UpColor (blue), DnColor (red), UnCngColor (yellow); Variables: BarColor (0); If Close > Close[1] then BarColor = UpColor else If Close < Close[1] then BarColor = DnColor else BarColor = UnCngColor; Plot1(Open, "Open", BarColor); Plot2(High, "High", BarColor); Plot3(L...

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The study uses a different approach then the build in SwingHigh and SwingLow functions – thus resulting in more significant Pivots and a lot faster calculation than with the functions. You also are free to whatever you want, so you can already emulate any timeframe with the strength setting. I liked...

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This study might be interesting for all using Andrew's Pitchforks in their trading. The indicator will automatically find Swing Highs and Lows based on the Strength input settings and use those Swingpoints to automatically draw Pitchforks – no manual drawing needed . We are planning to release the s...

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Looks great, is there a way to be notified when it is ready? Thanks, iso iso, thanks for your comment. The "problem" that comes with every MarketProfile study is that MarketProfile is a registered trademark of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). That means, as far as I know, that the vendors need to...

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