MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

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Thanks, Dave.

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I run an MC scanner that includes multiple instruments (in fact the eighteen major pairs). I attached to this scanner a house-made study that analyses price action on these 18 pairs and indicates trading opportunities. A particular strat (same for all) is attached to each of the 18 instruments. Any ...

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TJ, Actually the 'data window' displays only the data of the bar your mouse is currently on, not the 'LastBarOnChart' data. So I finally managed differently : I used your 'plot' hint and now I have the PL & Win/Loss (of the LastBarOnChart) showing in the indicator's status line. That's way enough fo...

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TJ, That's a great idea (putting it in the data window), I had never thought about that ... really ! Now, how to do that ? I am not familiar with the 'data window' usage ... Here's the code pertaining to my 'floating text' : Once ( BarStatus(1) = 2 ) begin Floating_Text= Text_New( Date, Time, 0, "ne...

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TJ, Actually, what I meant by 'float' was 'any determined position', but this is not the real problem here. My problem is to make sure to have SOME text (at any 'determined' position in the current window) to appear EVEN when I scroll the time bar left or right. I want to "follow" visually the price...

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TJ, Thanks for the advice : I have DL the TL's indics. Actually, those two indics remain static and do not 'FLOAT' as I was expecting. What I want is text to appear on the chart at the same position (be it on top, bottom, right or left, no matter) EVEN WHEN I MOVE THE HORIZONTAL SCROLL BAR . I know ...

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TJ,
I don't have a login to access those two 'traderslaboratory' links.
Would you mind to make me a copy of the pertaining code ?
(you also may PM it to me, if you prefer)
Thanks.

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janus,
reading back your post dated july-09 :

What may be required is a function like text_new_fixed(x, y, text)

that's exactly the kind of function that I need nowadays for an indic I am currently working on.
since your last post, could you figure out how to code such a function ?

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Anastassia,

Thanks again to you and all guys in Rostov-on-Don for being so concerned and reactive to customers bug reports.

That's one point that makes me feel satisfied in using your platform.

Cheerio.

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Bowles, Will you get some interesting info from the following ? code : [intrabarOrderGeneration=false] vars: txt(0), OffsetY(1); if currentbar=1 then cleardebug; value1=MinutesToTime(TimeToMinutes(Time) -1); txt=text_new(date , value1, high + minmove/pricescale*15*Offsety, ""); //if date=1100628 and...

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maxbarsback set to 200 ... same old song !!! ... **** Warning : time not in sequence (look below) !!! **** Text_GetTime is: 2314 - Time is: 2315 - so, I display: 2315 above previous bar which is: 2314 Text_GetTime is: 2315 - Time is: 2316 - so, I display: 2316 above previous bar which is: 2315 Text_...

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bowles, I think that we REALLY have a bug here ... what do you think ? vars: txt(0), OffsetY(1); if currentbar=1 then cleardebug; value1=MinutesToTime(TimeToMinutes(Time) -1); txt=text_new(date , value1, high + minmove/pricescale*15*Offsety, ""); If time <> 0000 then begin if time <> MinutesToTime(T...

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bowles,
can you read the attachment now ?
if not, I'll PM it to you.

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Bowles, See here-attached pic, the bug appears more clearly now with an added 'Text_GetTime' ... vars: txt(0), OffsetY(1); if currentbar=1 then cleardebug; value1=MinutesToTime(TimeToMinutes(Time) -1); txt=text_new(date , value1, high + minmove/pricescale*15*Offsety, ""); if date=1100802 and time <1...

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Bowles, Answers to your questions : 1- Nope, the other fields are 'remnants' but not used in the code I sent. The code I sent can be used 'as is'. 2- The problem occurs on history bars (as shown in the .jpg) Actions taken : 1- I have changed the text_setstyle(1,2,2) to text_setstyle(txt,2,2) 2- I ha...

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tresor,
yes, it looks like 'you can do it' !
(see pic)

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Bowles, The bug is still there (see here-attached pic). The formula is not involved (your is concise and elegant, mine was longer and graceless ;-) but they both work) The proof is that it works perfectly in TS. I think it's a bug with MC which does not correctly set the drawing position one bar out...

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Tresor (build volume on tick count) ,
Yes, that's how my instruments are set in MC.

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This bug does NOT appear in TS as shown in the here-attached pic ...
Anyone's got an idea ?
Thanks

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I think I have a random (non systematic) bug in using the 'text_new' keyword with a time-offset attribute (X axis). It's sometime drawn in the wrong place as shown in the attached pic : tss.jpg Here's the code : vars: txt(0), OffsetY(5); Value2 = GetAppInfo(aiHighestDispValue ) ; Value3 = GetAppInf...

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Thx for the warning, Janus. I read you whole thread with this 'repeated first bar' issue when iog is on.... The real-time features of either MC and WINDOWS are effectively quite questionable ... It reminds me of a currently pending issue that I once raised here : http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic...

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it works fine.
thx

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Assuming IOG is ON, how can I adress the LAST TICK CLOSE in the current tick calculations ? Apparently, if I use close[1] it will address the LAST BAR CLOSE, but this is not what I want ... --- Even if I use an IntrabarPersist variable like in the following example: IntrabarPersist MovAvg(0); MovAvg...

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TJ,
It still does not work ... (see snapshot)
Here's the code :

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vars : textid(0);

value5 = GVGetNamedDouble("sprd",value1); 

TextID = Text_New( Date, Time, 0, "new" ); 

Text_Float(TextID, 0,5); 

Text_SetString(TextID, "Sprd:" + numtostr(value5,1) + "pip");

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I wrote an indicator that is supposed to display some info on the LAST BAR ONLY . The problem is that it works right when the indicator is applied to the strat at first, but as soon as another 1mn tick comes in, the display just DOUBLES and the (lastbaronchart - 1) does NOT erase. How can I have thi...

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up !!!
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is there anyone on the forum to tell me if this is workable or not ?
any workaround ... ?
thx
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I have to find a way to write some piece of code that would mimick the following behavior : if QuoteField(data1)=Bid and QuoteField(data2)=Ask then begin condition_Short=expression of (close of data1); condition_Long=expression of (close of data2); end; if QuoteField(data1)=Ask and QuoteField(data2)...

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bruce,
in my indic, when I use this formula to replace a display of, say, 1,747usd net profit to a pips-net profit, it gives me a 174712467 pips result !!!
since my lot size is 100,000, it should normally give me a 174 pips result ...
there must be something wrong.
yann

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Bruce,
profit_pips=(netprofit/bigpointvalue)/(MinMove/PriceScale) ?
Yann

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is there any way i can retrieve netprofit and openpositionprofit in PIPS rather than in current account currency ?

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Thanks John,
Alright, I'll try that right away in topic #7223
Yann

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Here's a pic that clearly shows an instance where data (here Xaverage of 5-min data2) is not updated correctly during 4 minutes out of 5 !!!! Whereas 1-min data1 updates just right ... only the slower timeframe (5-min data2) is concerned by this problem What would be a practical solution to this iss...

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Apparently, I can not send JPEG attachments with my posts.
Is there any way to be allowed to doing so ?
Thanks.
Yann

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TJ, Thx for your answer. Here's an example of one of the (numerous) conditions that I use to "open" or not a LIMIT order IN my data1(1mn)-strat if certain conditions prevail on data2(5mn) : condition_PBS_UT5= ((close of data2) > (XAverage(close, EMA_Fast_UT5) of data2)) and ((open of data2) > (XAver...

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I am currently writing a strat that uses two timeframes : - one is the 1mn, called data1 - the second is 5mn, called data2 IOG is (of course) 'ON' I want, ON EACH TICK of data1 (1mn), to evaluate the value of data2 (5mn) and hence take the right decision from there ("opening" or not). My problem is ...

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John and Bruce,

Thanks for your 'inputs'

Yann

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don't misunderstand me, I also spend 100% of my day-time and 50% of my night-time coding strats ...
I would then requalify my laziness as 'selective' laziness :
"why wasting time on unessential matters wheras important things await you to tackle them !"

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Matter of fact, that was PURE LAZINESS (shame on me) ...
I didn't want to REWRITE my code !!!
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To achieve that goal, I think I'll rather use normal 'in-code' standard variables than GV ...
Guess that'll process a bit faster (maybe a dozen of inputs or so are concerned).

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John,

That's what I wanted to avoid (having to use a 'replica' variable, be it a standard one or a GV) ...

I thought there would be a 'trick' to change directly the input value ...

Sigh

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How may I change an input value from within a strategy ?
Something like that :

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inputs:

MaxRisk$(10);



// code starts here :

if MaxRisk$ < 10 then MaxRisk$ = 10;

etc ... etc ...

// end of code

Thanks for any suggestion.
Yann

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I have got something for you that can't be sent here, nor in a PM.
Send me a PM with your email, if you're ok with that ...

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Good advice

Thanks.
Yann

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John, It works great now ! I am not quite sure if this is related to the market feed being active or not (it's now Monday morning here in Paris and the market is active, whereas it was not yesterday). Anyway now it works, and FYI it works great with the basic MC GV (numeric variables only). So far, ...

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Oops, slight correction ... Here's the code : ======= 1- STRAT ======= // init GV to auto recalc indic Value2=88; Value1 = GVSetNamedDouble("recalc_tag",value2); ====== 2- INDIC ====== inputs: Price( Close ), Displace( 0 ) ; variables: var0( 0 ), var1( 0 ), var2( 0 ); value1=GVGetNamedDouble("EMA_Fa...

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John, It doesn't work, the indic does not auto refresh. Here's my EL code : ======= 1- STRAT ======= // init GV to auto recalc indic Value2=88; Value1 = GVSetNamedDouble("recalc_tag",value2); ====== 2- INDIC ====== inputs: Price( Close ), Displace( 0 ) ; variables: var0( 0 ), var1( 0 ), var2( 0 ); v...

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Bowles,
Okdokey ... I'll try that one and come back to you if any pb.
Thanks++
Yann

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Bowles, I am not quite sure I understood it all well. 1- The code you sent me is to be included in my indicator , is that right ? 2- My strat should manage to set the value to "R", is that right ? 3- What "MySym" is supposed to do in your code ? Let's assume my indic's name is "indic01", what should...

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I saw that you have just made a suggestion to MC on that subject ...
Thanks for your support and replies, Bruce.

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That is correct, the problem is the indicator recalc does not trigger because MC does not know that it should (it doesn't know you're using GV).

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Do you have any suggestion ?
Yann

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I got your point quite well Bruce, but then why modifying manually the inputs of, for example, EMAs produces INSTANT results (despite the huge number of calculations that are involved on a one-month period with 1-min bars) ? It looks that my problem could rather be that GV usage does not TRIGGER the...

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A quite naive question :

How come it is such a big deal to graphically update and refresh an indicator that is fed from GV inputs, whereas it is so straightforward and swift when one enters manually his/her own inputs ???

That puzzles me ...

Yann

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Bruce, Does 'refreshing the chart' imply to "reload" the data"? If so, that's quite a long process (actually, I use multi time frames, including a 1mn, on a ONE-month backtesting period). Normally, when you off/on an indic, it refreshes quite instantly in the chart .... But I can give it a try. I am...

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I have just started to use GV to share infos between my strat's inputs and my indicators. And it works great (how could I live without it ...) ! The problem is that my indic does NOT refresh AUTOMATICALLY when I change an input value in my strat. In fact, I have to switch off/on the indic for it to ...

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