Dear users,
We are currently looking into adding new values provided by your broker into the Accounts tab of Order&Position tracker window that will help you to better track your account/trading performance.
Please specify the broker you are using and the values that are available through broker API or in his terminal that you would like to have added to MultiCharts OPT Accounts tab.
Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position tracker
- Henry MultiСharts
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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track
Hi..
I am glad you guys are working on improving the Order and Position Tracker window
Several months ago I made that suggestion via the Project Management section
What I was and still looking, is a way to see he PL for all the complete trades
Right now the position history is so confusing is basically useless IMO.
Would like to see the actual result for each complete trade and and a running P/L for the day
At the time I even attached a sample of a screen shot.
I believe brokers like Dorman Trading and Advantage Futures do provide all in that real time.
Thanks Henry
I am glad you guys are working on improving the Order and Position Tracker window
Several months ago I made that suggestion via the Project Management section
What I was and still looking, is a way to see he PL for all the complete trades
Right now the position history is so confusing is basically useless IMO.
Would like to see the actual result for each complete trade and and a running P/L for the day
At the time I even attached a sample of a screen shot.
I believe brokers like Dorman Trading and Advantage Futures do provide all in that real time.
Thanks Henry
Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track
MT should be the benchmark as far as OPT (''terminal'' in MT) goes. It is clean and easy to read. I am missing ''margin'' and ''free margin'' in MC.
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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track
Henry
I thought something like this is sorely missed.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... ZWmc#gid=0
Thanks
I thought something like this is sorely missed.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... ZWmc#gid=0
Thanks
Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track
You guys have some great suggestions. Thank you Henry for asking for our input!
Under the Accounts tab:
-Add the ability to assign a name to each account
-Remove the 'Equity' column. This is an odd name for the Open Balance and I see no reason to have it. The Balance should update with the open trades.
-Add End of Day P/L
-Add Margin Available
Positions History tab:
-Improve the organization of these trades. As it is, they're not very useful.
Under the Accounts tab:
-Add the ability to assign a name to each account
-Remove the 'Equity' column. This is an odd name for the Open Balance and I see no reason to have it. The Balance should update with the open trades.
-Add End of Day P/L
-Add Margin Available
Positions History tab:
-Improve the organization of these trades. As it is, they're not very useful.
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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track
I believe Interactive Brokers API now lets you access the account information for the entire FA account without having to deal with the sub accounts. Multicharts still tries to access each sub accounts individually calculate the account information for the FA. It makes the order and position tracker next to useful for those trading with FA accounts. Please fix this.
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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track
We are currently working on it and going to implement that is one of the future versions of MultiCharts.I believe Interactive Brokers API now lets you access the account information for the entire FA account without having to deal with the sub accounts. Multicharts still tries to access each sub accounts individually calculate the account information for the FA. It makes the order and position tracker next to useful for those trading with FA accounts. Please fix this.
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Hello,
this is funny because today I was looking for the trading report for manual trading. So I guess it is not available.
Why not re use what MC provides for backtesting ?
Anyway, here is what I would like to see added :
- Time in trade
- Maximum favorable excursion
- Maximum adverse excussion
- Best scale out
on a trade basis
Some statistics, on a given instrument and over a period of time (user defined) would be also much appreciated :
please see attache workbook
this is important for any manual trader to analyse and improve performance over time.
Many thanks in advance.
this is funny because today I was looking for the trading report for manual trading. So I guess it is not available.
Why not re use what MC provides for backtesting ?
Anyway, here is what I would like to see added :
- Time in trade
- Maximum favorable excursion
- Maximum adverse excussion
- Best scale out
on a trade basis
Some statistics, on a given instrument and over a period of time (user defined) would be also much appreciated :
please see attache workbook
this is important for any manual trader to analyse and improve performance over time.
Many thanks in advance.
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Right click the chart trade tab and select Trading Performance Report
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I'd suggest to add an Account Balance history. As of now, in order to get a time series of the account balance, I have to refer to my broker statements. I assume that most broker API only provide the current balance, so the balance for each day (or alternatively, each time a position is opened/closed) would have to be saved locally.
Further, specifically for Interactive Brokers, I would like to have an option do display the Real FX Balance in the Accounts tab, in case this is supported by IB API.
Further, specifically for Interactive Brokers, I would like to have an option do display the Real FX Balance in the Accounts tab, in case this is supported by IB API.
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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track
It would be really useful if every info from the Order&Position Tracker could be pulled via PowerLanguage. The information that can already be accessed is quite helpful in automated trading.
Thanks,
ABC
Thanks,
ABC
Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track
I've been thinking about this.. The O&P Tracker window could be useful in so many ways. Here are a couple that would be nice:
and this would open up a new way of using this really nice window at the bottom of our charts:
Wouldn't it be nice to have our back-tests at the bottom of our charts? Less clutter, less windows, and it completely makes sense when we're fine-tuning our strats which force us to constantly look at updated changes of our performance.
This bottom window could be used for several useful tasks.
and this would open up a new way of using this really nice window at the bottom of our charts:
Wouldn't it be nice to have our back-tests at the bottom of our charts? Less clutter, less windows, and it completely makes sense when we're fine-tuning our strats which force us to constantly look at updated changes of our performance.
This bottom window could be used for several useful tasks.
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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track
Thank you for all your suggestions. All feature requests were forwarded to the management of the company and were evaluated. Please note that even though we value your opinion not all requests can be implemented due to the fact that some features do not fit into our current roadmap or there is no technical possibility presented by the broker API. This thread will be later updated with the design decision we'll come to.
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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track
As a result of this conversation the following fields have been added to Order and Position Tracker Accounts tab for Interactive Brokers (based on the available API functionality) in MultiCharts 9.0 Beta:
- Free Margin (LookAheadAvailableFunds)
- FxCashBalance (FxCashBalance)
- Margin (LookAheadInitMarginReq)
- Net Liquidation (NetLiquidationByCurrency)
- Realized PnL (RealizedPnL)