MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

ilt000

hello, I'm using MC on a VPS with win server 2008 64bit, everything is fine but when I tried to install the RTD server 64 in order to have real time data on excel I have the following issue: a visual basic error on excel, it seems a library (there is not written which one) is missing. I have Excel 2...

ilt000

hi,
yes i did it

ilt000

Hi, I'm trying to plot XT future on Multicharts but I received this error on the quote manager:" TWS warning message: Id= 500001; code= 2121; description= Warning: XT products are trading on the basis other than currency price " and the chart is blank, no prices are visible. Any idea? Many Thanks Re...

ilt000

Thank you Henry. I've set up in the Quotemanager the user and password (under Tools->DataSource->Zen Fire) of the Zen Fire Simulated data feed forwarded to me by the Zen Fire support. Then I've also added under "Broker Profiles" the Zen-Fire/Rithmic Server Sim, putting also here user and password. T...

ilt000

Does somebody know how to subscribe to the Zen-Fire data feed? From their web site I don't find any link.

ilt000

Dear Support, I'm using MC 8.5 with IB and also an own application that comunicate always with that same account of IB. I would like to know if I may setup the broker profile of IB on MC with a client ID different from 0. May I use 1 or 2? Does it make some difference for MC in order to work properl...

ilt000

Hello, I was trying to use the optimization tool in the portfolio backtester, but every time that i open the optimization table i see all the input numbers in a wrong format: the decimal, that is "." became "," and if i try to substitute the "commas" with "points" the Optimization process start but ...

ilt000

Hello Dave, Support,

IB has lunched the 920 IB TWS, http://institutions.interactivebrokers. ... es_920.php

Do you know if the bug in the ib advisor has been fixed?

Thank You
Best Regards
ilt000

ilt000

Thank you very much Henry, now it works.

Have a good day
ilt000

ilt000

Dear Support, Today Im' receiving from the TWS (918.9b version) on Multicharts charts (7.0 beta4 build 4344) bad ticks on the symbol FESX DEC 11 (Estx50 future). Sometimes it happens that the Quote Manager receives bad highs and lows, as you can see on the attached files. Of course on a TWS chart th...

ilt000

Hello Dave,

Thank you for the update!

Best Regards
ilt000

ilt000

Thank You!
Regards
ilt000

ilt000

Dear Dave,

Thank you very much for your reply.
I'll contact IB too, hope to hear you soon about this issue.

Have a good day
Regards
ilt000

ilt000

Dear Support,

I would like to know if is it possible to link Multicharts to "N" accounts. The Broker uses PatSystem.

I know that this is possible with the InteractiveBrokers Financial Advisor, is it possible also with the PatSystem trading platform?

Thank You
Best Regards
ilt000

ilt000

Dear Support, i'm referring to a old topic: https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8936&start=0 Are there any news regarding the fixing of the MC issue related to the IB Advisor Accounts and the TWS issue? I have to switch to a IB Advisor Accounts and i need to know if Multichart...

ilt000

No problems also on my side.
Yesterday I had some disconnections of MC with IB, every hour for 20/30 seconds but today I verified that the problems was on the adsl.

ilt000

Dear Support,

Where can I find the latest updaters of the MC processes in order to make Multicharts works properly with the latest release of the IB TWS (918.9b)?

Many Thanks
ilt000

ilt000

Dear Support,

are there any news regarding this issue?
Does IB and MC fix the problem?

Thank You
BR

ilt000

I'm using the same version of MC (but it happens also with the previous ones) and IB as data feed and I have the same exact problem, as well with CL and some times with HG. It seems that during fast market same ticks are lost. KKhorse try with this workaround: Open the Quote manager, select CLV1, th...

ilt000

Dear Support, I've noticed a possible problem to the correct behavior of MC after upgrading the .NET Framework 4 with these microsoft patches: KB2468871 and KB2533523. After installing these patches MC (last release 7.45 version) crasches when I try to connect to IB TWS. Then, I downgraded the Win7 ...

ilt000

I confirm that there are problems between TWS 918 version and MC. Some orders aren't sent: from the log there are many kind of errors like: - "Order being modified does not match original order" - "Can't modify a filled order" - "Duplicate order ID" So, I tried to downgrade the TWS to the 917 versio...

ilt000

Hello, It's the second time that it happens on the IB TWS (918.6): at the change of the bar MC (version7 beta4) put the new orders but doesn't cancel the previous ones... From the Log of the trackin position I saw that I had a disconnection between MC and IB of 2 minutes, it can be this the reason? ...

ilt000

Thank you very much,
I was actually able to rank and buy items based upon a tech analysis.
How can I manage to compare price of Stock X with price of Stock Y in the same portfolio?

Best Regards

ilt000

Dear Support, I have a 20 symbols bouquet, I need to select 2 of these 20 symbols to buy, based upon a specific tech analysis that I put over each one of them, then I compare the results, I rank them and I proceed with the purchase on a hourly base. What I need to do is to translate this approach in...

ilt000

I have just installed the beta4 version.

MC seems to work properly with IB, but after a couple of hour of trading the strategy on MC that was in position start to send the same orders for 6,7,8 times until i put the strategy in offline mode.

Which can be the reason?!

BR

ilt000

Dear Support, I'm having problem with Multicharts and the new IB TWS (release of 24/05/2011). Some orders go to the TWs correctly some others not. Until yesterday, with the old version of IB TWS, I have worked properly. Do you know if there is some problem between MC and this new release of TWS? Bes...

ilt000

i was meaning..."I'll do a feature request..."

ilt000

Stan,

you'll do a feature request in the PM, thank you

TJ,

thank you for the suggestion

ilt000

Dear Support, I'm facing this problem: When I try to apply a template on a chart ,clicking on Format Study Template, I have to wait more then 1 minute (1min and few seconds) before I get back the window with all the templates that i had previously saved. In the c:\users\...\appdata\roaming\ts suppor...

ilt000

I've uploaded to Beta2 and i noticed that the custom future I've created doesn't roll in the correct way: - On the chart of the HG custom future I receive the data from the HGN1 instead of the HGK1 data. I've chose like "Rollover condition" 2 trading days prior to Expiration Date (expiration of HGK1...

ilt000

Problem solved, no need help anymore.

Thank You
Regards

ilt000

Dear Support,

I've uploaded to MC7 Beta2 and now I can't see any data coming form the GlobalServer.
If I try to open a chart of a symbol of Global Server, the chart remains without data with "Estabilishing Connection...".
With MC7 Beta1 everything works properly.

Thank you for support
Regards

ilt000

Thank You Stan,

I've solved, in the symbol settings there was an incorrect value for the Min. Movement

Many thanks
Best

ilt000

Dear Support, My datafeed is IB, I have created the custom futures of many symbols that I use to trade and I have plotted on a workspace 2 charts: 1 chart with the custom future of NG (displaying NGK1) and 1 chart with the NGK1 symbol. I've noticed that the custom future chart receive the data with ...

ilt000

Thank You Stan, I've implemented this code that works properly with all the futures that i trade except for the ZB future: " ... buy 1 contract on next bar at buyprice stop buyprice + 4 point limit; " on the IB TWS the limit price is equal to the stop price and not of 4 point higher, as you can see ...

ilt000

Thank You Stan,

Ok I'll try to setup a new WS from zero...

Bye

ilt000

Dear Support, Upgrading from MC6 to MC7 I've found this problem: on MC7 the application "tsServer" is reaching 1.3gb extremely more rapidly then in MC6. I'm always opening the same Workspaces as before and, if with MC6 I could safely auto-trade 50/60 charts without having any problems with the "tsSe...

ilt000

Many thanks SUPER!

bye

ilt000

Dear Support, I've upgraded from MC6 to MC7 and now (with MC6 everything works properly) I've this problem: If I enable the trading automation on a chart data has IB as datafeed everything works properly and I can see the orders on the IB TWS. BUT If I enable the trading automation on a chart that h...

ilt000

Dear Support,

How can i use the stop-limit orders in auto-trading mode?

Thank you
Regards

ilt000

Hi,

try with this price scale: 1/32 and 10th of 32nd

Bye

ilt000

Dear Support, I've got this strange problem with plotting JPY future (i'm using Global Server in real time as data provider): As you can see from the attached picture the Y-scale is completely wrong, showing a number close to 47 when the JPY future is about 0.012050 at this moment BUT the strange th...

ilt000

Hello,

I would like to know if is it possible to open 2 Multicharts simultaneously on two different PC:
On the first Pc I'll use Mc to trade the market (Authorized) and on the second Pc I would backtest in a non-Authorized mode.

Is it possible?

thank you for the support

ilt000

Dear Support, Is it possible to use more than 1 signal per chart? Currently I'm using 7 different signals on 7 chart with the same timeframe (20 minutes), if i merge all the 7 different signals on 1 chart at 20 minutes, do I get the same results of using 7 charts where in each one there is one of th...

ilt000

Ok, so...thank you

ilt000

Thank you Dave

ilt000

Dear Support, I've noticed form the quote manager that CLV0 has 22/09/2010 like expiration day but the correct date is 21/09/2010 (from IB website). I don't konw if it is the cause of my problem, but as you can see from the attachment, the custom future that i created doesn't display in the correct ...

ilt000

Thank you Dave, Yes, I've checked with Process Explorer in order to see the virtual memory consumed by the process and I've got Multicharts.exe always near to 1giga. Do you think is it better to run another Multicharts.exe process or gave more memory to the only one Multicharts.exe process with a la...

ilt000

I don't know if it is possible to allocate 3 giga to a 32bit process, but someone knows if can we lunch 2 copies of MC (2 process of 2 giga ) in order to find a workaround to this virtual memory "limit"?

thx

ilt000

Thank you tcat, very usefull.

ilt000

Dear Support, I've just updated form MC 6.0 to MC 6.1 and now MC gives me this warning :"Your Pc is running out of memory". I'm always using the same workspace as before and form the Task Manager there are no issues that my pc is running out of memory (2.8giga used on a total of 6giga). My workstati...

ilt000

No problems, MC 6 beta 3 and 60 charts

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