MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

alex522

Thanks a lot for TJ and Henry's help.
I will try to reinstall the windows and multicharts.

This error happen pretty often, around once every two weeks. If I load more charts, it will happen in two to three days. Log has been sent a few times.

alex522

I don't know why but the cache is not saved even if the computer is restarted. It will do that some time ago. But not at least in recent months' crash. Actually just about two months ago, I have experience a quite disastrous error of the system because of this: An empty chart (with all historical da...

alex522

Multicharts is the most stable trading platform I have used so far. But still there are times that the multicharts will crash. (e.g. loading too many charts) But to me the most head-aching problem is after multicharts is crash, even multicharts is restarted and then close again, the quote collected ...

alex522

Great! Thanks a lot for the effort.

alex522

I am experiencing the same issued when trading HSI futures with eSignal. I suspect it's the problem of eSignal because I have seen similar problem in eSignal in other symbols. But this is the first time that happened in HSI futures. And that persist. Indeed, I have stop trading for half month after ...

alex522

Yes, actually I have used this TWSLink a few years ago when it is still free. But I have just used that for reading stock price without loading the chart and reading Level 2 data. It's a convenient wrapper of the IB API that can do almost anything that IB can do.

alex522

Thanks a lot for your reply. Even though it's is bit disappointing as I am doing HFT, IOG with bar magnifier is very important to give me a more reliable estimate of strategy's profit.

Looking forward the MC development team can consider add this feature in future versions.

alex522

Does anyone know whether MC.NET can support the backtesting of IOG (with bar magnifier) when there are more than one data series? In traditional MC, it only support the 1st data series. If supported, in there any limitation on the series type? ( Just regular or it also support data series chart type...

alex522

Yes!! That's it. I've made a stupid mistake. Thanks a lot!

alex522

The ports number are both set to 7496. Actually, when just doing the auto-trade and receiving streaming data, the IB gateway work correctly. Just when I want to query the symbol then the TWS will pop-up.

alex522

I have been using MC32bit with the IB gateway for quite a long time because of the "gateway"s relatively low overhead and no need to change the auto logout time every 12 hours. But after switching to 64bit MC, I noted the communication between MC and IB gateway is kind of tricky: I have upgrade both...

alex522

It works! Thanks a lot.

alex522

I have tried to run this sample but got the error popup: <<EXCEPTION>> Code: 0xFFFFFFFFC0000005 ( -1073741819 ) Continuable: 0x0000000000000000 ( 0 ) Description: The instruction at 0x ErrorCode: 0xFFFFFFFFC0000005 ( -1073741819 ) ExceptionType: 0x0000000000000000 ( 0 ) Module: {unknown} Process: C:...

alex522

Long-awaited killer trading platform: Stability of MC + Flexibility of .NET = MC.NET !!!

Great work.

alex522

Received the analysis result from Katrin that the error is caused by my corrupted database. But it's really strange that I can actually access the data in the 32bit quote manager. Now I am exporting the data from the 32bit quote manager and imported the into the 64bit one.

alex522

Both are the reduced database. I have just call in the support and Katrin is now helping me at checking my database file. Hopefully the cause can be found soon.

alex522

I have done the database transfer following the guide "How to Migrate from MultiCharts 32 bit to MultiCharts 64 bit". But it was noted that some of the "quote data" is missing in the new 64bit quote manager while I can still see the data in the 32bit quote manager. I have tried repair the installati...

alex522

Thanks a lot for furytrader's hint. That solves all the problems!

alex522

I have an intra-day strategy that use more that one data series from different markets and close all position before the end of the day. In simulation, everything works fine. But in real trade, it fails to close the position before the session ended because some of the market's data (e.g. data2) is ...

alex522

Instead of speed, I think extend the bar magnifier to cover multiple data series is far more important.

alex522

To me, charting, backtesting, optimization of MC are already pretty good. And I expect further optimization won't make too much difference. If there is one single feature I want to optimize. It's the delay from after receiving the quote, to generate the relevant chart and signal to broker. Because t...

alex522

I begin to use MC in my real trade in the last two days. I don't know why but everything is normal again now. It seems the patch is working now.

alex522

There is no new crash in the last three trading days. Hopefully that won't crash anymore.

alex522

Yes. Actually I've connected to the live chat this Monday and Katrin has already dump my logs.

alex522

Unluckily, my TradingServer still crash after the hotfix.

Looking forward for the new patch.

alex522

Thanks for the advice, unluckily in my case the system crash even for the simplest strategy with minimum data.
The MC support has dumped my files after another crash yesterday. Hopefully they can find the problem soon.

alex522

I have removed the IB profile, upgraded to 7.2Beta. And then re-intall the profile. But unluckily, it crash again after starting to trade. And suddenly I remember I still have an ultimate solution that I haven't tried: I have a backup of my machine about 3 months ago and my machine just started to c...

alex522

Thanks, Henry. I will try that.

alex522

The system seems back to normal. But the 7.1Beta solutions is not as smooth as firstly expected: 1. After upgrade to 7.1Beta, when I connect to the IB profile, the MC just hang but without any error popup this time. 2. After reboot, I try again connect to the IB profile. And this time, it work norma...

alex522

Thanks a lot for all you great guy's advice.

I've just checked the TradingServer log. My one is still around 500k at the moment. And unluckily, stop the logging doesn't help. So I'll tried the 7.1 Beta first as that seems a bit simpler than the roll back method.

alex522

Same problem faced, the error pop up almost immediately whenever I try to connect my broker profile to IB. (It has work perfectly for a period of time. And one day the system crash. And I cannot connect to IB after that.) Any method I can fix this before the new release. Now I am forced to stop trad...

alex522

Fully agree. I did a lot of intermarket analysis. But unluckily, the bar magnifier always give me unrealistic result.

alex522

Thanks!

alex522

I think I have found the source of the problem. It is because the trading hour of the instrument has changed. But my symbols is still using the old session setting although I have apply the new trading hour setting in the chart. And I noticed that the simulation result do not have this problem, it w...

alex522

I have used a simple average crossover system to trade for about a month. And I have selected the Intra-bar order generation: Limit this signal to one entry and one exit per bar. But today, a strange behavior happened: there are more than one entry and one exit generated in a bar. And that leads to ...

alex522

Thanks a lot for your reply. Will Multicharts consider this feature in future release as this is essential to spreads or arbitrage trading?

alex522

In IB, you can create Combination order. Is there any way in MC that we can trade this combo order?

Thanks a lot for your help in advance.

alex522

I would also like to flow in one suggestion:

The addition of the signal's input variable setting page in the performance report because some strategies involve quite many inputs and writing trade journal need to record all these variables manually now which is very time consuming.

alex522

I have experienced some strange behavior in loading IB history lately. For some symbols it just can't load the history more than 1 day ago. But from the log, apparently the data has been received. But the data are not saved in the data manager. (The screen captures are attached) I suspect this is a ...

alex522

Thanks Emmanuel and Brian for your reply. Now I know there are others faced with the same symptom and that's not just happen in my setup.

I will try the MarketPosition_at_Broker_for_The_Strategy to see if that solve the problem.

Thanks.

alex522

I noted sometimes when I enable the "automatic order execution". The action will be aborted with the reported reason "setting changed". But actually I have not modified any setting. All I have to do is to press the "automatic order execution" button again. Sometimes I have to press the button 3 to 4...

alex522

Had anybody use the new "MarketPosition_at_broker" function? I found this function return very unreliable. When I have a open position in the broker (I am using IB). most of the time it will return 1 but sometimes it will return 0. That make my signals sometimes generate the wrong quantities of orde...

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