MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

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Using 6.0 build 3553. Help -> Check for updates says I am currently using the latest version of MultiCharts.

6.01 is available for download on the site.

Mike

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can I take cash instead? I already have MultiCharts.

No. The rules including substitutions and etc are posted.

Mike

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Hi guys. I wanted to let you guys know that my site is giving away a free lifetime license of MultiCharts to celebrate our 1-year anniversary in June. :shock: We're giving away a bunch of other stuff too. :D Thanks again to Dennis and the entire MultiCharts team for a great product!! If you want to ...

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MC Version 6.0 Beta 3 (Build 3276) I am still getting zero ticks from zenfire happens on FDAX havent checked other instruments. Should have been fixed in beta 3...not for me :) • Ticks with the zero price on historical data from Zen-Fire are not filtered out. My FDAX working fine, here are my setti...

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Dave,

I just wanted to pause a moment and say "THANK YOU" for your attention to this thread, I find it quite comforting and a welcome improvement from the relative silence in recent weeks from MC staff

THANKS DAVE!

Mike

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im also trying to connect to zenfire and pulling data for ES, so far no luck. see screenshots.... http://screencast.com/t/YTMyNDRjZj http://screencast.com/t/MDU2YWI0N im using windows 7 64 bit any ideas? Check your Zen Fire credentials in the QuoteManager - Tools - Data Sources - Zen Fire - Setting...

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Henrik,

I just do something like this in my strats:

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inputs: 

  target1 (20); 

  stoploss (20); 

vars: 

  TickSize (MinMove/PriceScale); 



SetStopContract; 

SetStopLoss((stoploss * TickSize) * BigPointValue); 

SetProfitTarget((target1 * TickSize) * BigPointValue);

Mike

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Dave, email sent. We can keep working on it in there.

Mike

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After a couple minutes I realized my side was in error. What was wrong is the chart itself (actually, about 4 charts, all charts open in MC at that time) were all DELAYED. Dear ctrlbrk and arnie, Could you please send us your log files so we can investigate the issues? You can find log files here "...

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I've got a Core i7 920 overclocked to 4ghz, 12GB, MC runs at about 2% load, I keep a widget open at all times to monitor cpu and memory load. It was nothing at all like that. It wasn't during the 1,000 point drop in the afternoon, it was "business as usual" during mid-morning, after the open. It was...

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Just experienced an extremely odd and scary problem. My trading buddy (via Skype) and I were chatting like usual. We were talking about some setups, calling out our buy or sell stop entries. Then we realized something, our prices were not matching at all (from data feed). I exclaimed to him "it's ab...

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Beta 3 fixed an issue using ASCII Mapping on a Renko chart, however it seems to not have fixed it entirely. With beta 2, nothing would load at all for an ASCII Map using a renko chart. With beta 3, some data loads but not all. I have tried several different sizes and lookback date settings, it seems...

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duration,

Here is Zen Fire Symbology:
http://forums.zen-fire.com/wiki/Symbology

I've also attached an example for the ES using QuoteManager.

Mike

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Mine are working, too. So I don't think this is a beta 3 issue... I'm using IQfeed, Zen Fire, and trading CL for comparison.

Mike

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Is there a way to see the live-performance (trades) of a strategy? I can't find such thing...?

View - Performance Report I think is what you are looking for.

There is also File - New - Order and Position Tracker to see live trades to your broker.

Mike

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How about something even simpler. Shortcuts for the drawing tools! That seems like a super easy thing to do.

Mike

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And another one. So, I exited QuoteManager and was going to try re-loading everything again to try to get MC to load (see prior post). When I exited, I saw a small window and a bar graph showing something like "saving instrument data" and it would name each instrument and show a % progress as it sav...

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Well, I just exited MC and tried to reload to see if it would solve my above error. Instead, now I am getting a new error and MC won't even launch!

I have work that needs to be done... so this is not cool.

(attached)

Mike

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I just tried to open a new chart: File - New Chart, and the attachment is what occurs. The data sources are all empty, even though QuoteManager is running and there are no errors anywhere to be found. Market is closed now, but all charts were running fine all day.

Mike

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I have set up quotemanager to receive data from MB Trading (CME), and it seems I am also having data corruption problems... I'm still a bit of a novice with MC, learning quickly though... but have you double checked the properties of the instrument in QM to make sure the price scale and min movemen...

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Hello, It seems that the beta 3 (and maybe also the previous ones) has troubles exporting to .xls using MS Office 2010 x64 beta. It displays [object error] while exporting, and it seems to relate to the graphs. Furthermore, nothing urgent but it would be nice if MC could save in xlsx or other open ...

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Thx kindly!

Mike

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Can someone please share with me the correct QuoteManager settings for FESX and FDAX on EUREX?

Scale
Daily Limit
Min Movement
Big Point Value

I think I have FDAX working, 1/100, 10000, 50, 25 -- but FESX for sure I have wrong and need help.

Mike

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Hi, small bug it seems. When using File -> Save Image As File, there is some unknown garbage text on the bottom right where the date stamp is. http://www.bmcharts.com/v/waffhb.png I just saved this image for instance, and it says: Printed at15 4/29/2010 1:50:15 AM The "at15" being the problem [the 1...

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link color disappeared

To be honest I never used this, so I don't know if it has changed, but here is what mine looks like for reference. MC 6 beta 3, Windows 7 x64. Hope it helps confirm/deny a problem.

Mike

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** I hope you're using "select all", then "connect symbol". Only takes a few seconds. I occasionally had to do it with other versions, when using MC offline and needed to access the QM. The next time I went RT, they stayed off. (so I had to manually connect them) Actually, no I am not doing select ...

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Hi Mike, You said Thx MC team -- lots of new stuff in this beta it seems! Except when I first install beta3, I don't see any file in the program dir showing "what's new" in this release. Is there a "readme" somewhere that shows this? As an intraday discretionary trader, I see nothing new for me in ...

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Thx MC team -- lots of new stuff in this beta it seems!

Mike

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After upgrading from 6.0 beta 2 to beta 3, all my instruments in QuoteManager had to be manually set to "Connect Symbol". In other words, prior to beta 3 they were set to "Connect" and would automatically record historical data as soon as QuoteManager was launched, which I do in my Startup folder. B...

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My mistake in the incautious way that was phrased. In EasyLanguage, CurrentAsk and CurrentBid are defined separately from Close only in real-time (and I was speaking of historical testing above), so if you want to analyze historical bid/ask you would need to make them their own data series and choo...

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...volume@bid vs. volume@ask... Well, and you may not realize yet that there's no historical storage of bid or ask prices either, but you would need that if you want to conduct historical testing of this. In QuoteManager "Fields to Collect" there are bid/ask/last, what is the bid/ask for if it isn'...

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Andrew, Using MC 6.0 beta 2. I've added the Custom Fitness code in the Format Signals - Optimize box, Algorithm-specific, custom criteria - Edit. When I exit MultiCharts and reload, the custom fitness code is gone. This has happened to me twice, I'm sorry I can't be more specific. Does this C code e...

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I just want to make sure this bug is well known by TSS: After defining a custom fitness, the code is lost at some time in the future. Steps to reproduce: Edit custom fitness Create code Use MultiCharts on a daily basis At some point, the custom fitness code is gone. I haven't been able to narrow dow...

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Thx Bruce, I missed that one too

Mike

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Hmm. Thx for the discussion. To me, I look at "invisible" as what you described. Invisible means I don't want to see the bars, but I want to have spacing in tact. Perhaps we just need a third option from "invisible", "hidden", and finally "third-option" to accomplish what I am wanting. I am not sure...

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Thx. Is there any possible scenario why the charting engine would need to do it the way it currently does? Is it useful like this somehow that I am not seeing? Because, to me, "hide" should mean it is hidden from the chart in all ways. This also causes problems with more than just trying to plot Glo...

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What I want: data1 = RTH data2 = 24/5 I don't want to see data2. I tried both "Hide" and "invisible bars". In both cases, I "see" it because it dramatically changes the spacing/scaling of data1. Why does "hide" not actually hide the data series? I only want the dataseries to be available to indicato...

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I agree on the data2 trading. There are probably two camps here -- camp 1 are algo traders who don't care about a DOM and discretionary trading, and who would really like to see the ability to submit traders to a data2 timeframe. Then there are camp 2, who are discretionary traders using two platfor...

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Some things on my short list excluding the "elephant in the room" of a DOM+Chart Trading: a) Add a Transparent color option for plots. Invisible plots are not sufficient, see this post . b) Allow more than one custom fitness to exist simultaneously, like a drop-down list. c) Improve chart scrolling....

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Thx janus. Using TL would require quite a bit of code changes, I guess to test when the condition of a netural (flat) plot exists, and then stops existing, to draw the TL and then update that TL each bar to extend it one bar further to the right. The simple course of action is for MC to add a Color ...

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Here is the indicator in question:

http://www.bigmiketrading.com/tradestat ... cator.html

Mike

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what is the plot style? line? dot? here are some of the things I do: 1. if the plot is a dot, I would set the plot value to zero. Then the plot would disappear from the chart. 2. set the plot color to getbackgroundcolor 3. if the plot is on another plot, then set the color to getplotcolor. HTH Thx....

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I need to be able to set a transparent plot. This is easy in NT but so far seems impossible in MultiCharts. It is not sufficient to use NoPlot() because the plot will be connected from bar x to bar y, I need the plot to be invisible (transparent) under certain conditions. I cannot use the context me...

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Duh. Found it

TL_New_self

Mike

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I can't figure out how to draw a trendline (TL_New) in a panel other than price. I have an indicator that displays in panel 2. All is well, works as expected when plotting values. I now want to draw trendlines (marking divergence) but the TL_New's keep showing up in panel 1 [price] and I can't figur...

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My function submits the order within 1 second.

C2, on the other hand, has about a 6-8 second delay.

The shorter the trade duration the more likely you will have slippage that negatively impacts your performance.

Mike

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Can't run MC and NT simultaneously, don't know why. Can anyone help?

When you say don't know why, did you not get an error message?

Mike

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BTW, I failed to mention my method does support setting profit targets and stop loss limits (OCO), and I tested it and it works well. I have a C2 strategy running with it.

Mike

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I've written an EasyLanguage interface for Collective2. It isn't the best, and wont be until you add external C++ DLL module for doing a HttpWebRequest. But it gets the job done. The quick and dirty: I decided the easiest thing to do would be to write a Collective2 function, that I can call from my ...

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The way I do this is setup different entry triggers within the strategy, and then assign a weight to each signal that you can optimize against. This will basically tell the strategy to optimize the significance/profitability of each trigger within my strategy. You could then easily multiply that wei...

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Hmm oops, here is a better version -- it seems I needed to do extra checking for division by zero. // Expectancy if ( StrategyPerformance.TotalTrades.Count == 0 || StrategyPerformance.LosingTrades.Count== 0 || StrategyPerformance.PercentProfitable == 0 || StrategyPerformance.PercentProfitable == 100...

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Here is the custom fitness for Expectancy. I really hope MC will add this to the built-in drop down box so it doesn't take up my one and only custom slot :) // Expectancy if ( StrategyPerformance.TotalTrades.Count == 0 || StrategyPerformance.LosingTrades.Count== 0 ) { return 0; } return ((StrategyPe...

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This is a confirmed bug. We will fix it in MC6. Thank you!

Thx Andrew, and welcome back!

Mike

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It seems your options menu is very, very different than mine (I am using Zen Fire, you are using IB). Is there an example of how to do continuous contracts with Zen Fire?

Thx,
Mike

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I'm learning to do this, too. Using Zen Fire, I'm looking for how to construct continuous contracts for ES and CL.

(subscribed to thread)

Mike

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Thanks. I think you can reproduce it easily, I can reproduce it every time and have tried everything possible to NOT reproduce it, not once has it worked right.

So can perhaps another trader or two confirm this so MC can develop a fix?

Mike

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I'm using MC 6.0 beta 2. I have QuoteManager setup with an ASCII data import of over 1 year of tick data and 1 year of minute data. I confirm this by opening a chart and can select tick, minute, contract, point, kagi, or line break and everything will load file for the entire (>1 year) back historic...

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Gotcha. Still trying to understand the order of things a bit. ;) I agree, a discretionary/DOM is far more important. I assume that it is technically possible to use a Global variable as a workaround for the issue of buying data1 and data2, but it would require multiple charts to power the data1 data...

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Thanks Bruce.

Does TS have to implement it first, like in TS 9? Then MultiCharts can? Or can MultiCharts implement it on their own, possibly in MC7 for instance?

Mike

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I am new to EasyLanguage and am hoping one of you can give me the simplest example of how to buy two instruments at the same time in a strategy. For instance, I want to buy 'data1' and 'data2' (say ES and NQ) at the same time, what is the syntax to do this?

Mike

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Thanks TJ. So you're saying with 'demo', I can still place real-time trades? I don't care about delayed data, but it will work with MC real-time? In other words, Zen Fire or IQfeed will be powering my chart, and I just need to track strategy performance in sim mode... is this 'demo' account enough t...

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I did a search on the forum, and have looked everywhere in MultiCharts 6.0 beta 2, but I can find no way to review or enable sim trading. I understand there is no DOM. I am talking about automated entries, but I don't want to send them to a broker until I sim trade them for a few days. My broker is ...

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Yes I know what you mean. The new window location is controllable by the application. If you center it on the monitor where the mouse is, that is by choice (programmers). I really don't care what monitor it pops up on. What I care about is that it isn't actually there. There is no taskbar item, noth...

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I'm new to MC. I think I know what you are describing but a couple screen shots would be helpful and probably elicit more input from the community as well

Thx for the efforts and details!
Mike

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I'd like to report a bug. On several occasions now I've had a problem with the report generated by Walk Forward. The problem is the report does not generate a taskbar tray item, and the report is not visible anywhere. I have four monitors. I've noticed the report seems to randomly pop up on whatever...

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Bruce, Thanks, so something like this right? if MarketPosition = 1 then begin if CurrentContracts = 1 then Sell 1 Contract Next Bar At EntryPrice(0) + target1profit + target2profit + target3profit Limit; if CurrentContracts = 2 then begin Sell 1 Contract Next bar At EntryPrice(0) + target1profit + t...

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I should probably add that I tried toying with PositionProfit() but was unable to make it work as expected. I am thinking it is evaluated only at Close of bar during backtests. That would be like closing a Stop Loss order only after the bar closed and your loss limit was exceed @ close. I want the s...

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I am having some trouble finding a way to SetProfitTarget uniquely for specific entries. Let's say that I: Buy 3 Contracts Next Bar At Market; I want Contract 1 to have a profit target of 12 ticks, contract 2 to have a profit target of 20 ticks, and contract 3 to have a profit target of 64 ticks. Th...

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MC 6.0 beta 2 I am missing something somewhere. Am new to MC. It seems MC is interpreting a $1.00 move on CL (crude oil) as worth $1.00, instead of worth $1,000.00 USD. It is scaling it like a equity/share instead of futures where the TickSize is 0.01 on this instrument, and the point value is $1,00...

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Sorry. I found it hiding under "costs/capitalization" section... not very intuitive, but found it nonetheless..

Mike

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Sorry to bring this thread back from the grave, but I have the exact same problem on MC 6.0 beta 2. My signal requires 100 bars. I can find no way to increase the "maxbarsback" setting for a signal (only for a study). I am new to EL, so if you could just give me the EL command.. seems like a simple ...

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I'm new to MC so could be very wrong here, but it seems to me MC6 beta 2 already allows you to drag the x-axis (time), and drag back and forth to compress the bars horizontally (more/less bars on screen).

Mike

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Thank you.

Mike

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I am Big Mike (bigmiketrading.com), yes same ctrlbrk as on NT forum. I am just starting with MC, so sorry I can't offer any more help with this.

Mike

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Have you tried ES 03-10?

Mike

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It seems the indicators lag behind the Market Replay. The more data replayed, the further / higher the lag is. This video shows an example: hxxp://screencast.com/t/ZmFkMDBkZDg (change hxxp to ht tp) All indicators are current (matching the latest bar), then as market replay is played, the further an...

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you have to put both data series in the same subchart.

you can make the 2nd data series invisible.

Format Instrument > Style > Invisible Bars

YES! Perfection, thx!

Mike

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Thx for quick reply, but that didn't do it.

Please check to see if I missed something, I am new to MC:
hxxp://screencast.com/t/Y2ExN2IxY [change to htt p]

Mike

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Hi, just getting started with MC6b2, coming from NT. Having an issue which seems really simple, yet I can't figure it out. I have two dataseries, panel 1 is a 5 minute, panel 2 (hidden) is a 15 minute of the same instrument. I want an EMA of the second dataseries (15m) to be overlaid on top of panel...

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Re: Multicharts 6.0 official release feedback

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FESX and FDAX QuoteManager settings

Re: link color disappeared

data1 and data2, two different sessions, one is invisible...

Transparent plot needed

Drawing trendlines in panels other than price

Re: Can't Run MC and NT Simultaneously

Expectancy custom fitness (please add to built-in options!)

ASCII Map / Renko chart type backfill problem

Buy data1 and data2 in strategy

Sim trades?

MC 6.0 beta 2 Walk Forward bug

Multiple entries/targets, SetProfitTarget uniquely

Tick Size / Point value per tick

MC6 beta 2: Market Replay problem with indicators

Scaling issue