MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

Traderji

Hello Traderji, How many screens you have? Please attach full sized screenshots of all your screens. Please attach the workspace you are using. I have one 27" screen. If I attach the workspace to a reply on this thread, is there any personal information in there? Like account numbers, balances etc?...

Traderji

I don't know if anyone else has a similar problem. I have my workspace configured as following 7 x detached chart windows 1 x detached market scanner 1 x detached order & position tracker Main MC application window maximised with 6 attached charts within. I usually have the main MC app minimised and...

Traderji

Did you try rounding your order price to 3 decimal places? USD/JPY is not quoted with 4 decimal places, maybe this is the problem. It is a brand new Multicharts install with instruments added from the broker. I haven't fiddled with any of the instrument settings so if the price is quoted in 4 decim...

Traderji

Trying to place limit orders on LMAX and keeping getting rejected. I have tried all four orders DAY, GTC, GTD & IOC Here are the messages from the log (for each DAY, IOC, GTC, GTD) Instrument: USD/JPY; Order: Buy Limit 1; Status: Rejected; Reason: Failed to place order M_price: 104.0965, M_conracts:...

Traderji

Thanks Henry.

Traderji

Anyone? Henry?

Traderji

I placed the built in mov_average_2_lines indicator on my chart. The fast line was 55 and slow was 100. The indicator does not draw the MA lines all the way back through the all the bars? I could not find anything in the settings for this. Any one why it does this? Screenshot http://i.imgur.com/sAHP...

Traderji

Hello Traderji, There is a built-in indicator called Spread__Diff. You need to add two data series to your chart and then apply this indicator. Hi Henry, I just need the spread for the current instrument on the chart. I think that indicator 'Spread_Diff' shows the difference between the spreads of ...

Traderji

Very rusty with my programming skills. So if someone could give me a pointer in the right direction. I need a simple indicator that outputs the spread between bid and ask.

Thanks in advance.

Traderji

Is there any option that the Stop Loss/Take profit targets in a Exit Strategy are saved on the client rather than sent to the broker? What is happening is that when the SL and TP orders are sent to the broker, the margin for those orders is deducted from my account thereby reducing the amount availa...

Traderji

Thanks for your reply. Isn't that exact same process that we have used to change DB paths in all the previous versions of Multicharts? Why put it in the release notes as a new feature? I thought they might have put in something like a prompt during the install process or in the Options/Preferences w...

Traderji

In the 8.5 release notes - Change save locations for databases, studies, logs and file cache Users can now define preferred paths and locations for MultiCharts’ databases, studies, logs and file cache. This may be especially useful if you have an SSD drive or not enough permissions in certain shared...

Traderji

Any ETA on the release of 8.5 beta for the .net version? I thought they were both going to be released at the same time? Looking through the Release Notes there are so many improvements and new features I want to try! PS: Can you provide some more detail on this -> "New upgraded API is used for LMAX...

Traderji

Are the release notes posted anywhere?

Traderji

Henry,

Using the ask/bid I am trying to calculate the spread in ticks. Could you post some example code of how to access the current Instrument properties like ticksize, big point value etc?

Thanks in advance.

Traderji

How do I access the 'Show Historical Orders' property of Chart Trader? I want to create a button on the toolbar which will allow the user to hide/show historical trades.

Traderji

TLDR: Why doesn't selecting "disconnect broker" actually disconnect MC from broker? When we disconnect from broker (right click on broker tab and select Disconnect) it seems the connection does not actually close. All my charts, DOM & real time market analyser windows keep getting real time data. A...

Traderji

Thanks for those links Josh. Looks like I am not the first one complaining about this.

Traderji

There is something definitely messed up either in the way Multicharts is calculating PnL in ticks or in the data structure of a Instrument definition. Do the following steps: 1) Brand new install of Multicharts .net x64 2) Set up connection to LMAX live. 3) Using Quotemanager import all forex instru...

Traderji

While trading spot forex on LMAX how do I enter a micro lot ($1000) order via chart trader? It seems the chart trader order entry for LMAX is in number of contracts, so order of 1 means 1 contract that $10,000. The chart trader will not allow 0.1 in the size entry. That true. If you want to trade f...

Traderji

While trading spot forex on LMAX how do I enter a micro lot ($1000) order via chart trader? It seems the chart trader order entry for LMAX is in number of contracts, so order of 1 means 1 contract that $10,000. The chart trader will not allow 0.1 in the size entry. This behaviour is different to tra...

Traderji

The first screenshot show Big Point Value set to 10000.
Have you restarted MultiCharts or reconnected the broker after the changes were applied in QuoteManager?

Yes after each change I restarted MC.

Traderji

On your screenshot the Big Point Value = 10. I don't think it is correct. If you have micro account, then the BPV should be 1000, because usually micro lot = 1000. Mini = 10 000; Standard = 100 000.

The first screenshot show Big Point Value set to 10000.

Traderji

Is there any way to link the instrument on a DOM window to a chart so that when I change the instrument on the chart the DOM switches also?

Traderji

I couldn't find one included in the default indicators, and while the documentation is handy for referencing, it lacks an example how one should implement DrawContext from scratch.

I couldn't agree more. There needs to be plenty of examples in the documentation for people to work with.

Traderji

Hi Dave,

Any updates for this?

Traderji

Thanks Dave

Traderji

Apologies for the newbie question but how to I get access to the properties of an account. This is what I have so far but it will not work. ITradingProfile myTradeProfile; private string ProfileName = "My Broker Name"; protected override void StartCalc() { if (MBT == null) MBT = GetProfile(ProfileNa...

Traderji

In this last screenshot, I have changed the Big Point value to 10 and now the DOM is correctly displaying the loss in ticks

Traderji

In the screenshot below, I have got instrument setup as per your screen. DOM is showing PnL in ticks which is showing zero ticks PnL. It should be showing -18ticks.

Traderji

Still not working for me.

In the screenshot below, I have got instrument setup as per your screen. DOM is showing PnL in dollar value which is displaying correctly.

Traderji

Traderji,

Everything works fine on our end. Please see attached screenshot. Make the symbol settings the same: PriceScale and BigPoint Value = lot size. If the problem persists, please post a screenshot of your DOM and symbol settings.

Hi Dave,

No screenshot attached in your post.

Traderji

I am having issues with setting up Forex pairs in Quotemanager. What is the "big point value" field? It is does not seem to work logically. For example: EUR/USD is quoted in 5 decimal places like x.abc D e so the price scale is 1/100000. The pip value is the value of D so "big point value" should be...

Traderji

I think it is because you have 'D' in upper case in name of the indicator "SessionCount D own" Try deleting that indicator and create a new one name "SessionCount d own" 'd' is lower case namespace PowerLanguage.Indicator{ public class SessionCountdown : IndicatorObject { public SessionCountdown(obj...

Traderji

This will create a countdown clock on the toolbar for each main trading centre around the world - Sydney, Tokyo, London & NYC. If the clock is coloured red then the session is currently closed and the clock will countdown to session open. When session opens, the clock becomes coloured in green and t...

Traderji

@rivertrader please post some sample code when you get working! I am pretty new to programming so sample code really helps. I got my price and time values for the two rectangle coordinates but quite confused on how to proceed.

Traderji

When connected to MB Trading, my open positions do not show the P&L in ticks or %. Only in $ value. Clicking on the P&L box to change to ticks / % shows 0 ticks and 0%. The instrument is EUR/USD. I get the same behaviour with other spot forex instruments with MB Trading. I don't have a futures accou...

Traderji

Hi Henry I don't know what you will see in screenshots other than what I have already described but I'll give it a go. I have uploaded the screenshots here http://imgur.com/a/lCvYc In the first screenshot, the chart window is set to EURUSD. I place a Sell limit order and attach a master strategy. Yo...

Traderji

On a EURUSD chart I opened a position and attached a Master Strategy template to that position. So far so good. Then on that same window I switched the instrument to AUDUSD and placed a limit order. When I attempted to attach my master strategy to that order I get the following error message in the ...

Traderji

Is it possible to add/show the timer for bars greater than 60 mins? It is just silly that timer only will show when there is less than 60 minutes remaining on the bar. I trade off the 4 Hour chart and it is no use to me knowing when the last 60 minutes are remaining. It is useful to know exactly how...

Traderji

Is there any way to show the following columns in the scanner - Current Open Position size - Unrealised Profit/Loss - Total Net Profit/Loss The idea being that you look at instrument row and see for that particular instrument if there are any open positions, if yes what is the outstanding P/L on tha...

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