MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

rjelles

I'm having problems accessing data in a dynamic array that is being passed to our extension DLL. The associated array variable can be correctly accessed in the extension function by passing the array name, and the returned dimensions and sizes are correct. All of this is fine. When the calling funct...

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Here is a Volume "Pace of Tape" indicator that provides very useful indications of upcoming market reversals. It works by calculating order volume per second, and changes the indicator colour to yellow when the volume pace exceeds the standard deviation value setting. The average volume pace is show...

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The PaintBar version changes the bar colours on the price series in the main window, whereas the original version creates a new volume indicator on the chart. Otherwise they are identical in how they interpret volume and select colours. I found it was much easier to work with them as two separate in...

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Sure, here is an updated VS2017 project file that includes _BetterVoume and _BetterVolumePB.

Best regards,

Jeff
TraderScience.com

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The pricing for our StrategyXtender product tries to balance the limited market size for C2 trade publishers using MC vs the development and support costs. The benefits of using StrategyXtender allow you to write strategies without any code changes to support reliable networking, order management, a...

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Hello- Attached is a Renko bar chart where the brick size is .5 and bar is 1000 ticks on the NQ futures contract (Show Wick, Show Phatom, and Show real open are also enabled). I often see price extensions such as this one (over $4 vs the expected $1.5) that far exceed the 3X factor that I thought sh...

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This appears to be a bug in the latest release candidate:

When "Jump" is used to step through bar history, the aiRealTimeCalc value returned in a signal switches from 0 (history mode) to 1 (real time) after stepping through the first bar.

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I can map eSignal futures to IB symbols in Beta 2, but I can't get the mapping to work for forex symbols in IB with this version. For example, I start with an empty mapping table, create a new chart, add CADJPY A0-FX. A single symbol mapping is automatically created from CADJPY A0-FX to "CADJPY A0-F...

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In Portfolio Trader, I am no longer able to enter high tick resolution values - the tick resolution is being incorrectly limited to 1440 (number of minutes in day). I didn't test this in the Beta 1, so not sure when this was introduced.

Jeff

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Hi Henry - But the chart type is selected using an entirely different control. When the chart resolution is changed for the main symbol, it doesn't make sense that this would also trigger a change to chart type, in this case from "Cumulative Delta" to "Regular" each time. It's inconsistent with the ...

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Hi Henry, Yes, the existing method works but it places an artificial limit (17) on the number of charts and symbol groups that can be controlled. It's very easy to overrun this limit with several active workspaces and multiple symbols per chart. Also a minor bug with the existing method: when one of...

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Setting and changing bar intervals on charts with multiple symbols in MC64.Net and MC64 can be tedious because the settings for every symbol need to be changed manually. eSignal 11 handles this nicely by including a checkbox "As main interval", which results in all symbols automatically following th...

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Hi Gerard, The data loader triggers an event callback that you provide for each new real time tick received, as shown in the simplified example below. Each time an event is triggered, the Event code can be used to determine how to interpret the associated data value. Each new real time tick will eit...

rjelles

Here is a simple example of a trading strategy that uses the Better Volume function. I've collected the strategy, Better Volume function, and indicator in the attachment to make it easy to import and build, but please pass on any problems or questions and I'll try to get them resolved quickly.

Jeff

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Hi Herbie, Sorry for the delay responding, but I've put together a simple MC.Net strategy that uses the BetterVolume function and a simple trend direction filter to show how the BetterVolume function might be used for your own strategies. I haven't attempted to validate the trading strategy but just...

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Attached is a snapshot of the _tsSectorRotation indicator, plus an example of setting the inputs.

For the Input settings snapshot, several futures instruments on the Globex exchange and the eSignal datafeed were specified.

Jeff

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Working with the DataLoader offers powerful extensions to strategies and indicators, but requires some coding effort to manage the data requests, event handling, and subsequent data calculations and keeping things synchronized with data on the current chart. Attached is a MultiCharts.NET project wit...

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When I access symbol information using ISymbolsStorage.GetSymbols, the PriceScale is inverted compared to when using Bars.Info.PriceScale. All of the other information for the symbol is correct. For example, using the eSignal symbol for ES, "ES #F", Bars.Info.PriceScale returns 100, while using the ...

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Below is a good reference on increasing the GDI objects limit. The maximum possible value is 16384, but you may hit the Windows paged pool limit before this (see Mark Russinovich's column here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2010/03/31/3322423.aspx) http://weblogs.asp.net/mikedop...

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I've done some further testing on the TPO indicator, and I have a workaround that fixes the startup problem reported above, but it is just compensating for what appears to be a lower level bug in the MC.Net runtime when starting with a large number of charts to initialize. In this case, the chart do...

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Love this indicator, but just wanted to report a minor bug - often when starting MC.Net some charts with the TPO indicator attached will generate an error (see attachment), and the indicator status will be set to Off. After manually setting the status back to On, the indicator works properly - it's ...

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Thanks Henry - found it - right clicking in the indicator code itself.

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I have also seen this problem - in VS2010 I add a reference in my indicator to System.ServiceModel, and my indicator that uses WCF compiles correctly. However in PowerEditor, the "using System.ServiceModel" generates an error. PowerEditor appears to not allow the additional references.

thanks,

Jeff

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Hi jaikumarm: The StrategyXtender at TraderScience works with MC.Net and the MultiCharts 8, and includes a simple API to integrate C2 with your own strategies. But to make it easier to integrate, I'll be releasing a new indicator called "C2Slave" that can be added to any chart, and it will simply fo...

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Here (finally) is the function version of the BetterVolume indicator. Also, the BetterVolume indicator was rewritten to use the new function. The function returns a new 'VolPattern' type, and the new indicator code shows how this can be easily interpreted for use in indicators or strategies. The cod...

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Hi Eric, Are you running MC.Net? The pln code was for MC.Net, but if you are looking for an EasyLanguage version, here is the link at emini-watch: http://emini-watch.com/free-stuff/volume-indicator/ If you are running MC.Net, then you should be able to just click on the file after downloading and th...

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Further update on my original post - the long start time appears to have something to do with the Java runtime version used by IB by default - when I start TWS using the default settings (which was was pointing to jre6), then MC.Net takes a very long time to initialize (about 10 minutes). When I upd...

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Since installing the Beta 2 version, MC.Net takes 5-10 minutes to start, even when no workspaces are being opend at startup. Is anyone else seeing this?

thanks!

Jeff

rjelles

Can you confirm the setting "Maximum number of bars study will reference" for your study? Try setting to 'User Specified' if it is set to "Auto-detect" - this will avoid the multiple calc scans that takes place on loading your indicator to determine the number of bars being referenced. Hope this hel...

rjelles

Hello, Your strategy is nicely defined so it would be easy to have your ideas coded in an MC.Net strategy. It would probably make sense to copy and re-implement the BetterVolume project code as a new function so it could be called something like this: bvColor = BetterVolColor(x,y,z,...); This functi...

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Here is my MC.Net port for one of my favorite indicators, BetterVolume from emini-watch.com. The MC.Net port largely follows the original EasyLanguage implementation by Barry Taylor of emini-watch.com, but makes a few optimizations to remove repetitive function calls. (Note: This version was built u...

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Hi Dave, We're about to release a new add-on for MultiCharts that links Collective2 with MC 8 Easylanguage based indicators or signals (see attached diagram for overview). It's very easy to use and enables real-time order management with C2. A set of Easylanguage wrapper functions are provided that ...

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Rather than attempting to submit a 0 contract order, your can just have your strategy remember the current market prices at the time you would have otherwise entered and exited the position when you have a 0 share condition based on your profit/loss assessment. Something like this could work: For en...

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Dave, Thanks for the quick reply. There is still a problem with MC retaining the old eSignal username/password information - QuoteManager and other trading apps will use the new eSignal login information ok, but when MC 6 Beta 3 starts then eSignal complains about invalid user/password being used. I...

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I am concernced that my eSignal login and password are being included in the MC 6 Beta3 crash reports for uploading. Can these be removed from the report, as there should be no reason for this information to go to support. I've included an extract below, with my info xxxx'd out: x0000AE30](27.06.201...

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Hi, I'm looking for a way to access variables inside an indicator that I have licensed, but without source code. I believe the only way to do this is through a custom dll, but in going down this path, I discovered that MC's plkit.dll doesn't implement the 'IEasyLanguageServerFields' interface as in ...

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