I would say Trade copier is a must have feature if you are trading with a prop firm.

Greetings ABC,

Thank you for your reply. I suppose I could also achieve the result I am looking for with a custom entry and/or exit strategy.
Perhaps I will experiment with that idea.

Best regards,
Kevin

Greetings,

I am trying to draw an arrow next to the current bar that points to the right on my chart.
I see they are included with my buy and sell entry and exit signals however I cannot locate them in my draw objects list.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Kevin

Cypress is right...the real problem is the expired contracts. We can add the expired contracts in QuoteManager as Kate suggests and then import the data for old to new which is not difficult however it could be time consuming depending on how much data you plan to import/export.

Thank-you Kate!

I was looking at my data feed from IB and I noticed that ESZ2-GLOBEX-FUT is now ESZ2-CME-FUT.
I am wondering if this will cause my continuous Custom Futures charts to stop working.
I will assume it will so maybe someone knows of a work-around?

Thanks for the reply.
When I show OPT window the only problem I can see is Log files is blank.
No Trade Summary either (blank).

Greetings,

I'm not sure what caused this error message.
Any help will be appreciated.

Best Regards

Greetings,

Can someone tell me if it is possible to abbreviate currency units with Multicharts.
I'm coding a trade script for EURUSD at IB and I would like to use the expression buy 1M shares next bar at open rather than 1000000 shares.

TIA

Got it, Thanks Anna!

Full page photo.pdf I am not sure what is causing this issue. I drag and drop a few limit orders on the chart window and the I canceled them by clicking the x button on the chart window a few minutes later. The orders are still showing active on the chart window and in the position tracker as pre-c...

Hi TJ,

Back adjustment mode = No Adjustment.
I guess my question is has anyone ever successfully set-up a continuous Gold futures contract using IB data or any data source for that matter, and if so what settings did they use?

Thanks,

Every day now for the past 2 weeks has been roll over day on my GCxx custom futures contract using Interactive broker data. Message I get is: Real-time data has stopped, I need to re-open my work-space to roll over. I am using 1 day higher volume as the roll-over condition event. Chart setting is se...

Hello Henry,

Thank-you for the quick reply.
JPY is not in the symbol root list either.
Look like I will have to add it.

I have added symbols to my database in order to create a continuation chart for the Globex Japanese Yen. Problem is when I click Add Custom Future and look for the root 6J I don't see it. In fact I don't see any of the Globex currency future symbol roots which seems odd. I am not sure what I am doin...

Henry, Thank-you for the quick reply. I am using the 64 bit version of Multicharts and I inadvertently downloaded the 32 bit version. I didn't realize it was the 32 bit until installation was complete. After I realized what had happened I uninstalled the 32 bit, and got the 64 bit version from the d...

Is it possible to update Multicharts to the latest version from inside the program?

Thank you Henrik. It seems to me that TWS is not very MC user friendly.
I will try using 2 computers as you suggested and see what happens.

I would not recommend running IB live and simulated trading on the same computer, although it is possible to do if you change the port settings and the ClientID settings as described earlier in this thread. I had a simulated trade trigger on my live account even though the port setting was different...

Thanks Henrik, worked like a charm...now I can forward test on my paper account and my real account simultaneously. I changed the port setting on the Automated Order Execution tab. By the way I am using MC 5.5 Build 2723. I am not very familiar with the TWS API yet. What happens when you change the ...

moment.... when you activate a strategy, go to "settings: interactive brokers" now you can change the client ID an the port FOR THIS strategy. I think you can start 2 IB instances (paper and live) and give paper: port 7496, client-ID 0 live: port 7596, client-ID 1 This looks like it will work...I w...

I think a key issue with multiple TWS + multiple MC on the same computer would be that the MC instances share the same settings, and thus would be talking to the same TWS port (and therefore, the same TWS).

Okay...that is what I was afraid of.

Thanks,
Kevin

Thanks TJ, I opened 1st instance of Multicharts and interfaced with the simulated trading platform of TWS. I then opened the regular trading platform of TWS and I started a second instance of Multicharts. The second Multichart instance interfaced with the simulated platform and I don't see any way o...

Is it possible to run 2 instances of Multicharts and 2 instances of TWS on the same computer? I would like to run the simulated platform with auto trading, and the regular platform with auto trading at the same time.

TIA

Kevin