Hello Vlada. Is there any news on automatically detecting the Big Point Value, when Binance changes them? Thanks for the reply.

Hello Anna! Thank you very much for your answer! Just another question: using "entryprice" in the AA auto trading settings, does MC take theoretical entry price (to calculate the stops) or real execution price at the broker? I ask you this because I detected a similar problem with a stop loss linked...

Hello, I have a problem with the reserved word "setstoploss". If I use, in real trading, SA auto trading setting, I have no problem: the stop loss indicated in "setstoploss" is calculated from the theoretical entry price of the strategy (regardless of slippage) and, if the stop conditions occur, it ...

Hi everyone, I am investigating how to reduce slippage while autotrading. I am currently using stop orders (e.g. buy next bar at XXX stop) and I am NOT using intrabar order generation. I am thinking about converting all my entries to limit orders instead (e.g. buy next bar at XXX limit). Would this ...

Hi TJ,

thank you for the very fast reply!

Do you perhaps have a template excel file I can use for this purpose?

Thank you!

Hi, by looking at previous threads on this forum, I found out how to merge multiple futures contracts in a single custom future that is both continuous and back-adjusted. My situation, though, is the following: I have a .txt file containing a continuous (NOT back-adjusted) futures from 2000 to today...

Hey Furytrader, Market System Analyzer is indeed the software I was looking into buying! :-) It seems very powerful and not that expensive. I want to read more about Montecarlo Analysis myself. John Ehlers has a chapter on it in his excellent "Cybernetic Analysis for Stocks and Futures". It's by rea...

Hi furytrader, and thank you for your input. Luckily, my trading system passes all of the tests you mentioned. Do you also run a Montecarlo simulation on your systems? Do you think that it would signal, a part from a clearer picture of the potential max DD, a trading system that is curve-fitted? If ...

Hi everyone, I am currently experimenting with different fitness functions that I found in this forum (see http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8838 ). As I was doing this, I thought: how does the choice of a particular fitness function influence the predictive power of a tradin...

Yesterday I reinstalled my OS (Win 7 Pro 64 Bit) and installed only TS 8.8, Multicharts 7 and Office 2007. No 3rd party Antivirus, Firewall or other software. Unfortunately this bug still happens when I launch an optimization (30-40% of the time) and when I change a strategy parameter (10% of the ti...

I have the same problem.

When I apply a strategy, MC crashes. When I restart it and reapply the same strategy (with same parameters), everything goes OK.

I tried uninstalling, but with no luck. I am using Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit.

Sure, it is an ASUS K52JT-SX388X (laptop). I bought it in Italy, where it was selling for EUR 899,99. I particularly liked it because it was one of the few models on sale that had 6 GB of RAM for an affordable price. I replaced an old Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz with Windows XP 32 bit, so the change in perfo...

Thanks to everyone who helped me with this! I now have all the answers I was looking for!

Hey Stan,

this is very interesting info.

So, ideally, to work on large databases with strategy recalculation, one should have a very powerful single-core processor (e.g. Xeon?).

On the other hand, for optimization purposes a multi-core (e.g. i7?) is better.

Is this correct?

Hey TJ,

yes, I do have a cooling pad.

The problem is that the processor never goes over 13% use for Multicharts during strategy recalculation, even although it has no other consuming task running at that moment.

Thanks.

Hey khalaad, I agree with you 100%. In fact, if I test on the same period (2000-2009) with daily bars (= 2.600 bars), the recalculation is done almost instantly. If I do in on 5 minutes bars (= 436.800 bars), it takes much longer, as it should. I was just wondering if I can cut on waiting times by s...

TJ, khalaad, thank you for your replies. If you don't mind, I have an additional question. Let's say I have a strategy applied on a 5-min chart, which goes from 01/01/2000 till 12/31/2009. Whenever I format the strategy and change a parameter, it takes a while for the strategy to recalculate. During...

Hi, I just bought a laptop with a Core i7 processor, 6gb of RAM and Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. I was wondering what are the most important tweaks in Windows and Multicharts to make the latter go the fastest. I'd like Multicharts to use as much CPU and RAM as possible during optimization, so that it is do...

That's what I was afraid of.

Thanks anyways for your help! Much appreciated.

Hi everyone, is there a way I can export to .eld format from the Power Language Editor? I know it can export to .pla, but that format cannot be imported into TS 8. I would like to start developing exclusively in the Power Language Editor and THEN import my functions/indicators/etc. in TS. Currently,...