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... But it's not possible to load any historical data prior to the last hour when MC was Online. This happens for ES/NQ/RTY/MES/MNQ/M2K According to the error-message MC expects a date format in the data from IB with format: YYYYMMDD{SPACE}hh:mm:ss ... But the format MC is receiving from IB is 2022...

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Hello, I could change GLOBEX to CME everywhere and MC is able to show all expired contracts with data, that seems to be fine. But it's not possible to load any historical data prior to the last hour when MC was Online. This happens for ES/NQ/RTY/MES/MNQ/M2K According to the error-message MC expects ...

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Hello Kate, thx but honestly, there are countless configs with session settings. I remember catching up with the sessions a few years ago but dropping it after seeing that there were different ways and something wasn't possible to adjust bc different configs were in conflict. I can't recall it in de...

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Hello, for futures (here ESU2) I try to have correct OHCL-values on daily TF and I compared these with daily OHCL from Tradingview, CME and TWS from IB I was assuming it's better to have "Build from Minutes" turned off when using daily timeframe in MC. In the image the chart shows the example day wi...

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PK1, Most likely, you have the back adjustment enabled in your custom futures settings. After each rollover all the previous contracts’ prices are modified according to the adjustment settings. You could try disabling them: double-click your custom futures in QuoteManager -> Custom Futures tab -> s...

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Hello PK1, Please describe the issue in more detail. What steps do you take, which instruments do you compare, how do you compare the values? Please attach some screenshots to illustrate. Thx Kate. Comparing different exports it looks like it's exactly 3 Points with ES# (like 4150 -> 4153) after I ...

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Hello, via indicator I export data for different futures and stocks regularly into CSV-Files. For a while I found out that the exported data from exports for my custom future ES# already days later differs in many cases. OHLC is different, only Volume stays the same. The MC data exporter isn't expor...

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Hello PK1, Please try the following steps: 1. Close all the charts for the problematic symbols. 2. Re-add the symbols from the data source (both for your data feed and broker). 3. Go to File -> Broker Profiles -> Symbol Mapping -> IB -> Remove all the Symbol Mapping lines for problematic symbols. 4...

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Hello, I have the same issue with 3 of my custom futures, came out of nowhere. Since then at open of the workspace the notification shows up and on /ES even a few days data gap on the daily chart, which I never had and impossible to correct (I can only reload but MC is leaving out some days). I've c...

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Ok, for me I have a work around for this obvious bug.

I just wanted to communicate the information because I'm not the only one with IB as Dataprovider and fetching more data than necessary (what MC does) can be a real pain with MC.

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How many indicators/strategies you are running? How much back data do they need? eg. a 20 period moving average requires a minimum of 20 bars of data to do the first calculation. I'm aware of that, used only one vol-indicator here (checked right now) which is not using data beyond current candle. A...

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Hello, now I came back to Delta-Charts and had only one instrument ES# (custom future from /ES with datafeed IB) M5 Timeframe. I checked "Show Delta", "built from ticks" and the "breakdown by" option I tried both variants. Now trying to load only 3 days back from today but MC is fetching data back t...

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there are quite a few ways for MC and MC.Net to communicate with other applications. Imho FX1 is using memory mapped files as I do. When I was researching this years back I came to the conclusion to write my own communication middleware instead of relying on FX1 or alike, even though it seems to be ...

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Thx, seems to work now. I've never seen that "Unblock"-Checkbox before.

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Hello PK1, To resolve it, please refer to this forum post. Thank You, but it doesn't work for me. Tried also 2nd time after reboot to install it. Both times no error in the update-log and QuoteManager doesn't know the DataSource "Binance". Manually adding symbols from Binance is possible, connectin...

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Hello, setting up Binance as Datasource runs into Object reference not set of an object -Error. I do have a Binance-Account and have just created an API-Key with the default-settings on Binance. In QuoteManager I wanted to set up Binance-Datasource, so I added the new API-Key into the "API key"-Fiel...

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Hello, If you are using a virtual machine, please make sure that the host is not occupied by anything else and disable your antivirus/firewall software or add all the MultiCharts processes and TraderWorkstation processes to the exceptions. If the issue is still reproduced, please open the Task Mana...

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Some posting - problem. Can be deleted.

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Hello bszabo825, Please do the following: 1. Make sure that the Fast Trace is enabled. To enable Fast Tracing: 1. Close MultiCharts and make sure no processes are running in Task Manager -> Details Tab -> Description column -> click on the column name to sort all processes by Description -> no Mult...

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I was hoping to get a solid answer or a hint towards where the problem could be. Really not helpful the one short 'answer' above. " /ES has an entire wrong daily L on daily chart. " <--- Extactly this is marked with an green arrow on the chart I posted. But I take as a result that daily charts on MC...

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So I'm assuming daily candles can use different parts of data than Timeframes like M5, M15, ... which is misleading when using them throughout the day by looking for the next recent low as support. In my example I was looking for the Low of current multiday Down-Wave which D1 is not able to show whe...

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I've seen that /ES has an entire wrong daily L on daily chart. M15 shows correctly. On the Daily-Chart you see only bars and one triangle pointing at the wrong low. On the M15-Chart you see only bars and a horizontal line pointing at the low. Actually it's quite obvious that the daily lows shown do...

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Hallo, there were quite a few times I posted the problem of incorrect daily candles on /ES long ago but never really worked for me. So I gave up asking for this. Today with /ES busy to the downside I've seen that /ES has an entire wrong daily L on daily chart. M15 shows correctly. This is for ESZ0, ...

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Have you tried rebooting your PC? No. But now and the orders are finally gone. Thanks for pointing that out. Is there any way to prevent that orders get stuck in advance? 13 orders is not that much and killing them in IB shouldn't cause any problem. As long as the orders are not newly created in MC...

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Hello, I've done some testing with orders in MC with a connection to IB and unfortunately I cancelled the orders in IB. Now I can't get rid of the orders in MC. They show up in MC-Charts and MC-DOM whatever I do. All done on paper-trade-account, so that is no problem. Reconnecting to IB or restartin...

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Hello, PK1! We’d be able to analyze this case if you could provide us the testing environment. Do you still have a backup of that workspace with the old arc? If you open it now will the issue be reproduced? If it is easily reproduced on this workspace, please come to demonstrate the issue to our Li...

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Hello, PK1! We’d be able to analyze this case if you could provide us the testing environment. Do you still have a backup of that workspace with the old arc? If you open it now will the issue be reproduced? If it is easily reproduced on this workspace, please come to demonstrate the issue to our Li...

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Hello, since a few months my two MC-Workspaces I use mainly have become slowly and almost impossible to do something with the charts like scrolling, selecting something, opening propery windows or alike. Everything I do inside MC is juddering, not going smoothly as it used to be. Even trying to draw...

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Hello, since Version 11 Multicharts offers Combos/Composites and the info tells me that this only focuses on charting and not trading. That's fine for me. Since a while I started trading spreads of the CL-Future but with my own indicator. With Version 12 I started to check MC-Functionality I didn't ...

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about 100 times.

sorry to say but this has nothing to do with the software you are trying to install. You should try to check whether your windows can be repaired if the installer service can't be used.

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i am running ultimate - different os - so you dont know or understand my problem. the .net update that henry included was 6.1 which is wrong. i tried direct download and zillions of other solutions. whatever, just wanted to point out that it's not a drawback to change from such an old and rusty Fra...

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... because windows 7 ultimate 64 bit will not load the .net 4.xx environment. what was wrong with .net 3.5 ? .Net3.5 is from 2007 and since then the .Net-Framework has undergone huge improvements, also on the performance side. I'm not sure what kind problem you have on Ultimate but I'm running thi...

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Today updated to Version 12 and since then evertime after closing MC an exception occurs ... The support was helpful and has a dump, I could reproduce that an indicator as an example forces MC to throw that exception when MC is getting closed and the unchanged copy of the indicator doesn't. Thanks ...

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Today updated to Version 12 and since then evertime after closing MC an exception occurs. I've tried to check which workspaces/charts trigger the problem and found two indicators which use an external DLL while testing only one loaded chart. I could see the prob over and over until these indicators ...

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If there is a will, there is a way. ok, but one has to stick to given signatures which limit the usage. With these I_set/I_get - functionality things get way better but in a limited way. Pls correct me if I don't see some things but someone who wants to draw max drawdown and current profit from a s...

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personally i prefer to use sharevar tools, because with sharevar server you can see yours datas in real time ! very good for debugging ... Indeed! Very helpful, didn't know about that and it looks very promising. Right now I was trying to revive my C# App which is connected via a DLL and MySQL to M...

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Are the strategy and indicator residing in the same chart?

Yes.
Also I opened only one workspace and checked that the strategy is not running on another chart.

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in the quoted code are three variants, with usage of my little converter function and with using the int value directly. It doesn't matter for the outcome, unfortunately. The GV Method always uses the wrong value of hasLongSignal and the Commentary-Method uses the value which was calculated before (...

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Hello, I've got a question regarding the ways of exchanging data between a strategy and an indicator. The indicator is processing things and storing potential signals in a global variable. I've checked the few posts to be found on the net and here as well, also of course the PDF containing little do...

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Hello Svetlana, your solution was good but still I had to set those three params (see topic title) and I couldn't figure out why it didn't work. I rephrased the problem here: https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=51404 and after trying different things I found why the setting was no...

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I've found the answer to the problem. Attached two screen shots, one for my new symbol and another one from another symbol. The workflow is not straight forward with a bug in one case forcing the chart to invalidate. I will explain my conclusions. Chart 00039.jpg Chart 00040.jpg I had assigned my ne...

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No, you suggested me this in the other thread also and I explained that it's not possible. The common workflow is not possible.

See Number 3. and 5. first post pls.

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the three correct values to be set for the custom symbol are shown in the last screen shot above in the window "ES Edit Root Settings". On the same screen shot is the QM shown with the default values which need to be overwritten. --> PriceScale 1/100, MinMove 25, BigPoint 50 But these could be any v...

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Hello, while trying to refine the backtest with Bar Magnifier I came on three problems which I have no solution for so far. Posting the entire process was not a good idea so I split things up and this is regarding using the Symbol Dictionary for a custom symbol. I will explain what I did. System: MC...

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No, there is no problem with finding the correct setting. The problem is MC invalidating the drawn chart as explained several tines and with using a copied symbolroot MC is not using the setting at all. There's no need to contact the exchange or tech support for finding the correct settings. That's...

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sorry TJ, I don't want to blame anyone, I just need a workaround because the common things don't work. And so you blame me because of possible data problems. No, thats not the problem. I'm further with the entire thing and your assumptions are not matching. I can show you the problem with the corrup...

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I can not because then MC is buggy while drawing chart data and the entire chart is corrupt. All this is described above ...

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Hello, the short question is: How do I set BigPointValue/PriceScale/MinMove for a custom symbol. Sounds easy, what I've tried pls see below: In order to use more detailed data for a backtest I came upon a few problems. Bar Magnifier needs to be used which is not possible for custom futures. ==> My s...

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The original topic is solved yes but the point that those trades don't occur during playback while all other trades do, that can't be right.

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The uptrends were pushed by the Order opening at the low, gaining great additional performance. Great way to write a stunning strategy in backtest this way. I remembered about the 'only' OHLC-Check but I was thinking it applies the MinuteData --> calculated down to every 1 Minutebar. Due to the Cont...

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Thx for the answer. It's triggered in the same bar, yes. That part is fine but not as soon as all criteria are met. It does so but not as soon as the trade criteria is met. that is not happening. In the screenshot is a 10sec resolution and the specific 5 Minute Candle from previous pics marked as a ...

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Hello, while developing a strategy I came upon a strange thing, a wrong opening of the trade. According to my strategy there could be a signal in previous bar but then the order was Next Bar At Market but the order opened at the LOW. That trade shows up in the report but shouldn't with that wrong tr...

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@Mazinguer Thx for the reply. In the meanwhile I've found the solution, but yes with M15 the one condition can't be fulfilled. But thats no big deal either, was just for rough explanation what I wanted to do. Originally I had M5, so I had the condition as stated above. Likely I'll use SessionLastBar...

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Ok, I've found it! For explanation: Using things like this CurrentDate, LastCalcDateTime, LastCalcJDate always references the last actual bar or the last bar when replaying market data. This is not to be used in a backtest because time or date checks reference only the last real bar not the bar seen...

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Hello, I'm programming a strategy which checks on Monday before close of the day if some criteria are fulfilled to open an order. The problem is that I couldn't find a way to get the appropriate date and time. It's never the date of the current bar. One can get HLOC but not the time of the bar? The ...

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@Henry Yes, thx!

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yes, happens often, on weekends sometimes longtime no connection possible, but thats ok and also after session end that before futures start over IB is doing something with their datafarms, so they get disconnected for a short while. That's ok too and there is no new data during that time. Missing g...

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Hello, I've been a few times with this problem in the Support-Chat. I'm using IB with MC64. The problem are missing candles / missing data happening when an IB-Datafarm is losing connection or like today QM stopped signalling the data-import and all charts stay empty even minutes after start of MC. ...

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I've seen one can change the position of the fields in the status-line tabpage. But that's no solution, unfortunately. The position of the fields depends on the Visual Order (to be adjusted via context-menu) and the adjustments to be done in FormatWindow - StatusLine While rewriting the bars with m...

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I've seen one can change the position of the fields in the status-line tabpage.
Well, thank you PK1

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Hello, on the status-line one can show indicators-names + their params and the symbol itself. Choosing as chart type under Format Instrument -> Settings the entry Regular the symbol is shown before indicator information, choosing Renko (maybe other variants also) the indicator informations come firs...

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Obviously! Thank You very much.

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Hello, since 9.0 the pacing violation of IB will be displayed not only in QM, now also in MC as a small red message box. This is extremenly annoying and I have to click it a away a few hundred times a day. Such a pacing violation message has nothing to do in MC, only QM. How can I get rid of that me...

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m_rsi.price = new Lambda<double>(_barsBack => Bars.Close[_barsBack] * factor);

I guess that should do it! Thank You, Henry!

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While evaluating .Net (actually I wanted to change from MC to MC.Net) several times I came upon the problem of the need for different input to an indicator (see example below). Thats a big disadvantage of the .Net-Version over PL-Version. Is there any kind of workaround doing this Indicator over Ind...

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Unfortunately this functionality cannot be technically implemented in MultiCharts .Net. Please specify the default values while constructing the corresponding object. Thank You for Your answer. But that being missing is a big drawback for me. At the moment I'm evaluating whether to migrate from MC ...

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A similar problem in MC.Net 8.8: when using Format Study the tab-pages Inputs and Style don't have the checkbox Use as default anymore. In MC 8.8 this is possible and very helpful when applying one indicator to multiple charts. Now in MC.Net 8.8 there's lot of configuration due to the missing of thi...

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Hello, I've read the PDF regarding the IEasylanguageObject and want to pass the {self} reference via my C++-Interop-DLL (TSLib_Interop.dll) to a C# DLL (TSLib.dll) The C++-Project has CLR-Support enabled with option /clr // ----- C++ Interop-DLL #include "stdafx.h" #include "TSLib_Interop.h" #includ...

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It looks like that the native spreads from CME (like NOB, TUT, TUB, ...) with combination of MC + IB can not be used. As IB is offering a symbol and an 'external name' for these native spreads and in MC there is a category spread when manually creating a symbol I was hoping that would be possible. A...

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Right now I can load data for UB, real time and history, recent tries gave me no data.
After live chat with IB it seems there is a data prob regarding Z3N.

... IB Prob I think, thread can be closed
Thanx to Roman and Henry!

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@Henry I'm asking here because QM tells me that the query returned no data, as I wrote in the first post. If I had no subscription the return would say something else. I couldn't state this unless I've created the symbol already

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What do you mean by "the symbol root is defined as necessary"?

QuoteManager.SymbolDictionary there are the root definitions for the symbols. For the named symbols the definition was implicitely given and seems to be correct. So I did not change it.

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I didn't look there because of the naming 'Scaling Range', but it works. There are two data series my indicator is using but both have fractional parts (1/32) so that should be ok. Thank You!

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In QM for the futures Z3N and UB the symbol root is defined as necessary but requesting data there's always the response that the query returned no data. The other treasury futures work fine as single contract ad custom (continuous) future.

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Hello, charting a treasury like ZB or the continuous future of it the Price-Scale implicitely is of 1/32 parts as defined in the quotemanager for the symbol. Using such a treasury dataseries in an indicator the scale is set to default 1/100. There is variable 'PriceScale' but read-only. How can I us...

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Hello, IB can define different future spreads such as calendar spreads for example. In MC I need a symbol for charting and according to a thread from 2007 ( http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4575&hilit=spread+combination ) this is possible to implement and likely will be. At ...

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hello, yesterday in the chat I've shown the behavior to Andrew and sent him also the indicator with the special characters. Nethertheless the indicator was not using on any workspace (not possible due to the distracting behavior), the indicator is extremely simple not doing much at all. All happened...

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I'm experiencing a similar memory problem but with PLEditor.exe, fast approuching 11.2GB, shortly after finally the message Out of memory pops up, before the editor is freezing. I did the upgrade from the 8.8 to the recent 8.8 version but from time to time the editor is making trouble. Once today I'...

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Currently I was checking why some days on daily charts were missing (perhaps wrong opening/closing times also). Due to some bugs I had to install MC8 a couple of times, now stumbling again over such wrong chartdata! The reason was the setting for the datasource flag 'regular trading hours' with a ne...

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I've seen that the problem is not only when using such 'arrows' or trendlines, also 'equidistant channels' are lost after restart. The result seems to be the same. After restart the start date of this drawing is changed. This is a very basic thing and I dont understand why this is not working in MC....

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any news regarding this?

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wouldn't work. Happens also on a brand new installation as I wrote.

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What kind of 'Repair'?

Btw. it's not recovering in my case, not even after long time.

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when closing one workspace or MC at all sometimes it happens that MC is freezing. I think it happens not on all workspaces, just some with tickdata. If this is part of the problem or even causing it I'm not sure. The problem happens on a 64 Bit machine with Win7 64 Bit, 16 GB RAM: with MC 8.0 32 Bit...

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ok, after the demonstration one note:

the start date of the trendlines and the date of the arrows will also change when closing and reopening the workspace. Means: Closing and restarting of MC is not needed to reproduce the problem.

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Applying two trendlines on a daily chart (Custom future for GC) and some arrow up / down icons on the chart. After restart of MC all of them are positionedto the second last bar. Not sure whether this happens with every restart but I put the trendlines and arrows a dozen times back but MC doesn't li...

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@Josh Thanks for this information. Looks like this is explaining the behavior. But pls. read my summary in #13, where this behavior is different depending on one indicator setting. I did quite a lot of investigation what MC is doing until #13 then I was told it's known and likely solved in 8.1. Now ...

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why do you need this? intrabarpersist _txtId (-1), intrabarpersist for persisting until next indicator processing. The -1 was a try but will be overwritten by MC with next bar. Hence this check can be used within a bar but not later. Following the code again with my _TxtExist. Running the code you ...

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It seems that it wasn't possible to use the function as expected but late I checked the existence of the underlying txt object itself. I did not know that there is such kind of wrong 'garbarge collecting'. Meaning the handling of MC with txt objects is not as it should be. This is clarification for ...

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Regarding the probs (see #8) with Text_Exist I now understand. From my point of view it's not working because the used functions Text_GetFirst(3) is not delivering a newly created text object (at least not in the same bar, only after the bar is closed). Perhaps this is a forced limitation but within...

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Changing the line

if _txtId < 0 then
into
if Text_Exist(_txtId) = false then

will do on the chart what I am expecting from the indicator, but here the lost/disposed txt object will be created again and again instead of just changing the location.

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What else can I write more? The text should be changed by placing on the chart on the current place according to AIRightDispDateTime and Last-Price to be used as X and Y-Ordinates. Can You run this indicator and see that the object is getting disposed?

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TJ, I can't give You an answer to this. I've tried some things, thought it would be working but was not. Following a shortened piece of indicator code showing a text with Last at the current price. To get it running You won't need _GetIntervalType , any string will be fine. For the indicator Update ...

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_txtObjId = Text_New( ... ) // once

_lastDate = getappinfo(AIRightDispDateTime);

// later on
_result = Text_SetLocation(_txtObjId, JulianToDate(_lastDate), datetime2eltime_s(_lastDate), Last);

I get it working but checking some things and post here ...

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@ABC thx for your help, pls see the last sentence of my first posting.
@Henry from dictionary-documentation: "returns a value of 0 if the location of the object was successfully modified, and a value of -2 if the specified object ID number is invalid"

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While re-arranging the marketdepth indicator I came to some un-easy things while dealing with text strings. If I want to put a simple text I can create a new text object with text_new_s and giving as paramater a place for X and Y (datetime and price). The last time MC often has problems with not eno...

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I have a HotFix-Update of tsIBDataFeed.dll installed. Now all available contract data is loaded and shown on chart, as expected.

Thank You very much!

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the session template now has one line for each day instead of two lines as before and the settings for datafeed IB has been changed to: Checkbox Regular Trading Hours unchecked. Obviously this setting affects the time-range for daily candles. Hardly to guess. But this is working. Thanx for the help ...

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Regarding a second candle prob with custom future (for ES @ GLOBEX) I came to the problem that the daily candles have a wrong Opening time and depending on the daily run on stocks wrong High and/or wrong Low). The hint to use the 24/7 session template is causing Hokus Pokus on the Chart (in case bef...

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For the session template I had 'Use Symbol Dictionary Sessions' showing me time like 8:30 - 15:15. Today I changed this to 0 - 23:59 because this was likely to create a second daily candle for the current day at 3pm everyday. Changing the session time was no good idea at all. Now MC is showing cand...

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Hello, in the Live chat I've talked to Roman and Katrin. Regarding this the export of settings and data (Future ES) was exported and sent. It was very helpful as always in the Live-Chat but no real solution for now. I'd like to explain it: Settings: Dataprovider IB (Real-Account), ES-Future Live col...

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