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seneca

OK, thanks, but that still leaves the question why MC DOM shows only what appears to be a subset of the book as displayed in the TWS DOM, even when there are less than 10 levels displayed. I also noticed that in MC DOM orders flash up only briefly and then disappear, whilst in TWS DOM the same order...

seneca

I noticed that MultiCharts DOM does not show the entire depth of Level II, when compared to IB TWS, see attached picture. The symbol is set to IB "SMART". I have subscribed to NASDAQ TotalView-OpenView and NASDAQ TotalView-OpenView EDS, in addition to Level I. I wonder if there are any limitations f...

seneca

I noticed that exit orders which have been attached to entry orders via Chart Trader are cancelled when the broker profile is manually disconnected or when MC is shut down. But when only the internet connection is interrupted, attached exit orders remain active. This behavior persists regardless of ...

seneca

Thanks Kate. Rescanning does not seem to trigger a reload of the data. I will try the suggested solution with .rldw command when I update to MC14, as I understand it is not implemented in MC12.

seneca

I pull EoD data for several international exchanges via Yahoo / Free Quotes, including AMS, ASX, BVMF, HKG, JSE, KRX, LSE, MEXI, NSE, OSL, SANSE, SGX, SHANG, SHENZ, SWX, TELSE, TSE.JPN and TWSE. Works like a charm for all exchanges, except for SGX instruments, which do not update in the scanner and ...

seneca

When I switch to another instrument in an existing chart window with IB data feed, in some cases no bid/ask is displayed in the chart trader panel. When I copy&paste the chart window with the new instrument, bid/ask is displayed immediately. The issue never occurs when a new chart window is opened o...

seneca

I run MC 12 R14 Build 20694 on a Windows 10 system. I am setting up a new system on Windows 11 and was able to install MC 12 on it, but when I try to start it, I get an error message "this build is no longer supported..." Is there any chance to run MC 12 on my new Windows 11 build? I use MC 12 as my...

seneca

Same here. No updates since May 20 for all exchanges. On the yahoo finance website the historical data is still available for download, so I hope this is just a temporary API issue.

seneca

I can't load any data from the finance.google.com server. The Yahoo server works fine. In the QM data feed config, finance.google.com is checked. I've tried this with several symbols (with EXCHANGE:SYMBOL and SYMBOL for symbol name, see attached screenshots). Is there anything wrong with my symbol s...

seneca

I can't find the “Request Historical ticks directly from API” option in the IB data feed settings in Quote Manager. Product Version is 12.0.16868.400. Am I missing something?

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seneca

I've left an issue in Project Management addressing this problem, please see it here: https://www.multicharts.com/pm/public/m ... es/MC-2209

seneca

The "Reverse" button function as implemented by the Chart Trading module is not cost effective, when smaller Forex or Metal lots are traded with Interactive Brokers: When the "Reverse" button is used, two separate orders are generated. One to close the current position, and another one to open the r...

seneca

I came across this old thread as I'm looking for a function that sends a "Good After Time" order to IB TWS in order to close open positions before session end in case of internet connectivity issues. Are there any plans to implement this feature in one of the future releases?

seneca

All feature requests are forwarded to the management of the company and are evaluated in a timely manner. Please note that even though we value your opinion not all requests can be implemented due to the fact that some features do not fit into our current roadmap. Once this feature request is confi...

seneca

I have just been notified that the PM feature request http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-1080 has been declined. Please reconsider this decision. This is an absolutely vital issue. There must be a protection for unintended shut down, and I do not want to confirm 10 times the "sa...

seneca

Hi Henry, What is the difference in application utilization since installing the update? Before the update, the MultiCharts64.exe process utilized around 500 - 600 MB. What is the scenario of replicating this behavior? Just starting one or more instances of MC64, running some few minute charts inclu...

seneca

MultiCharts 9.1 Release 2 builds 12009/12010 is out now!
You can check the change log in our blog.

After update to Release 2 memory consumption on my end increased significantly (see attached pic).

seneca

Hello seneca,

This is a known issue that will be fixed MultiCharts 9.1 Release 2.

Release 2 seems to have fixed the issue that messed up my "end of session" lines, thanks for that. However, the timescale still shows inconsistencies in playback mode, please see attached picture.

seneca

Does this happen to different symbols? Please check the session time on the chart. Please check the exchange time on the chart. Yes, it happens with different symbols. "Time zone" in instrument settings is set to "Exchange" on all my charts. I also double checked the session templates in Quote Mana...

seneca

After the update to MC 9.1, the timescale shows inconsistent behavior in some situations, please see attached pictures. This behavior can be reproduced by switching into playback mode. As a consequence, an indicator I wrote to display vertical TL to indicate session breaks does not work as expected ...

seneca

Hello seneca,

Please leave us such feature request.

I've posted it here: http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue ... no=MC-1777

seneca

Indeed there can be some problems with pacing violation if you use " Bars Back/Days Back " option for defining Data Range of the chart. If you switch the option to " From ... To ... ", there will be less tick data requests, though according the mechanism of building custom futures charts, the numbe...

seneca

In Order and Position Tracker/Accounts tab/Margin column the "Projected Look Ahead Initial Margin" is displayed for IB accounts. From my perspective, Current Maintenance Margin and/or Current Initial Margin might be considered to be even more relevant for open positions. So it would be nice to have ...

seneca

Hi Henry,

I've sent the workspace + scripts + instruments by e-mail.

Thanks in advance.

seneca

Henry,

I've uploaded a video which demonstrates this issue: http://youtu.be/_EVOUiW-8m0

seneca

Hello Henry,

I run MC64 9.0 release, build 10014.

And let me add: the issue occurs only with trend lines; not with horizontal lines, equidistant channels or regression channels.

seneca

I noticed the following unexpected behavior with MC 9 64 bit: In the format window for manual trend lines, the alert conditions check option is not saved when checking the "Use as Default" option and is always switched back to "On Bar Close". All other options (Audio/Visual Alert, E-mail) are saved ...

seneca

When I open some additional workspaces, I get this warning message. message.jpg When it pops up, I am not able to open additional workspaces. I run Beta 3 64 Bit and did not encounter this issue with older releases. I don't do any fancy stuff and plot just some few minute charts, distributed on seve...

seneca

Since MC 9 Beta, I get this pop up three times during startup, indicating that the connection to TWS is not yet established. I have enabled "launch TWS at start" in Quote Manager, so TWS needs some few seconds to establish the connection. I think it would be preferable to avoid this warning message ...

seneca

In Order and Position Tracker of MC 9.0.9505 Beta 2 I can select/deselect only some standard categories (Profile, Account, Balance etc.) whilst some other categories cannot be selected/deselected. Have I missed something?

seneca

Hello seneca, Have you tried disabling the option "Show detached windows in inactive workspaces" and saving the desktop? What exact version and build number of MultiCharts are you running? (in MultiCharts go to Help tab-> About) Hi Henry, I saved the desktop after disabling "Show detached windows i...

seneca

I noticed that when I open MC via "Desktop" function, the option "Show detached windows in inactive workspaces" gets automatically activated, even when it was deactivated before. When I open MC without using the Desktop function (e.g. via "open all workspaces from previous session"), this issue does...

seneca

MC team, you have done a great job on this beta, on my end the memory consumption of MultiCharts64.exe has been substantially reduced from about 7-8 GB to around 5.5 GB. I also recognized the optimized CPU usage which seems to make better use of all cores. However, I am not too sure if the following...

seneca

Hello, (1) all the input-parameter-names are missing under "settings" in the performance-report. Only the values of the parameters are listed... Valid point. I submitted a feature request for this back in 2012. Please vote for it if you like it. http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=...

seneca

Something else is slowing you down; there is more to it than the snippet in your 1st post. Your code is not properly written, but it should not cause any noticeable slow down. What you want is only a trendline; many people have hundreds of them on their charts. I would suggest you post your complet...

seneca

Sorry for unresolving this topic, but as of now we have only a workaround. A true solution would be a horizontal price line as an integral part of MC, as suggested above.

@MC, please consider this feature for implementation in future releases.

Thanks.

seneca

Have you tried my code? All others seem to really bog my charts down, but that one was the ticket. Totally agree that this should be a platform feature that we can turn off or on and that's updated every TICK. The trendlines have a slight lag in them... Your code is the fastest of the three on my c...

seneca

arnie, MAtricks, thanks for the codes posted above. Although the codes work great, they still consume some noticeable amount of computing resources. A horizontal line drawn through the chart is fairly standard.. It would be a simple thing to add for MC. Absolutely. As we already have the price marke...

seneca

I use the code below (I found it some time ago somewhere in this forum and customized it slightly) to display a horizontal price line which updates on each tick, see the yellow line in attached picture. vars: intrabarpersist need_delete_this_bar(false), priceline(-1), tl_first(-1), pl_attr(-1), line...

seneca

In Preferences there is a section allocated for "workspaces" which is grayed out. I wonder if this has any meaning...

seneca

@MC: Is there any chance to implement the "are you sure" window in one of the next releases? As reflected by the replys in this thread, there is a distinct need for such a feature.

seneca

...if you uncheck the option "Do not show "Save workspace" dialog on Exit" then when you accidentally close MultiCharts application - "Are you sure" window will appear for closing the workspace... That is correct, Henry. But what if I actually WANT to close MC? Then I have to confirm 20 times the "...

seneca

I had submitted a feature request for this in August 2012. Please vote for it if you like it.

http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue ... no=MC-1080

seneca

Does Easylanguage have a wildcard function?

I want to do something like this

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if symbolname = "CL**" then begin...

so that all symbols beginning with CL, like CLF4, CLG4 and so on are being addressed. Is there such a feature?

seneca

seneca, we were unable to replicate this behavior on our end. Are you able to replicate it 100% times? Was it always like on different versions of MultiCharts? Henry, I can reproduce the behavior 100% times at my end. I do not know if this behavior was also present at previous versions, as normally...

seneca

I second this. Setting RecalcLastBarAfter to 0.1 or 0.01 in order to allocate a fixed position to textboxes is more a workaround and not a fully satisfying solution.

seneca

When you zoom out of a chart to the maximum possible extent by CTRL key + mouse scroll wheel, you cannot zoom back in by using this method. You first have to zoom in by another method (e.g. dragging the time scale of the chart), in order to reactivate the CTRL + wheel function. (I tried to report th...

seneca

Loading of one Project Management webpage (single issue page, not the frontpage) just took 2:48 here (yes, 2 minutes and 48 seconds) according to FireFox's Extended Statusbar plugin. Is the PM also slow for other people? If so, can we please have this fixed? On my end, it takes 41 seconds to show u...

seneca

Maybe "right click" to cancel it and "left click" to go to the chart.. Or some macro like "shift", "left click" to cancel it.. I'd still like the option of going to the chart.. Being able to cancel an alert is a great idea.. I agree. In addition, there should be an option to close all alert boxes a...

seneca

I'd suggest to add an Account Balance history. As of now, in order to get a time series of the account balance, I have to refer to my broker statements. I assume that most broker API only provide the current balance, so the balance for each day (or alternatively, each time a position is opened/close...

seneca

That definitely makes sense. I voted for it.

seneca

Do you mean there are no orders with "Position matching" name in Signal column of List of Trades in the report? Yes, there actually are "Position matching" designated orders in the signal column of the List of Trades section of the TPR. Obviously MC detected the position mismatch, so why do I still...

seneca

It is triggered only when locally stored position history does not match historical orders: 1) position info is taken from OPT Position history for the date of the last bar on chart, if there is one. If there is none-current broker market position is taken. Initial market position is determined by ...

seneca

seneca, please make sure the Name of your Custom Futures has no lower case letters (only upper case letters can be used).

OK, that resolved the issue at my end.

seneca

Hello StefanoSF, It will be corrected automatically. Sync orders will be added to match the locally stored historical position. Such orders will have "Position matching" name in Signal column @ List of Trades. Henry, I also get this error message for some symbols. Is the automatic sync order which ...

seneca

I noticed the following unexpected behavior: As instruments normally can be selected via the "Instrument Dropdown" button in the status line of a chart window, this is not possible for Custom Futures. When a Custom Futures is selected from the dropdown list, it will not be recognized as futures but ...

seneca

The reason was #1 from the article that is mentioned in the previous post. ...please check the following settings: 1. The software is in Online mode and Download Missing Historical Data box is checked I didn't have the box checked. I think it becomes unchecked when I switch between Online and Offli...

seneca

argos_888,

May I ask what was causing this issue and how you resolved it?

Thanks.

seneca

Since updating to the latest beta (7994), I'm experiencing an issue that the charts of some symbols are not completely loaded after starting Multicharts. There is a gap between the last bar of the time when MC was shut down the day before and the first bar of starting MC on the following day. The af...

seneca

Target drive may not be the issue. There can be not enough space on your system drive for a temp file. my system drive, which is also the target drive for the export file....is an SSD with NTFS file system with over 50 GB of free memory I'm running the lastest beta version. The size of the database...

seneca

I totally agree. Maybe the export can be modified, so that Multicharts doesn't extract all data in one go to export it and compresses everything again only in the end, but does it automatically symbol by symbol.

Right.
@Henry, can you reproduce this issue and are there any plans to release a fix?

seneca

seneca, you are not alone with this. I can't export my database in one go without running into this error either. Several others I talked to have the same issue. What helps is exporting the database in chunks. Start with half of the symbols or a quarter and if the error pops up, decrease the amount...

seneca

Changing the target to an external, empty 512 GB drive (NTFS) does not help; I still get an error message, as attached.

seneca

Hello Henry, my system drive, which is also the target drive for the export file - I don't use separate system/data drives or RAID since I prefer things to be as simple as possible - is an SSD with NTFS file system with over 50 GB of free memory. So from my understanding, there shouldn't be any issu...

seneca

Is there a size limit for the Quote Manager export file? I regularly get an error message "unable to write temporary file" when trying to save all instruments including data. The last successfully created export file is 3.3 GB in size, so I wonder if there is an issue when the file exceeds a specifi...

seneca

How many charts (symbols times resolutions) do you open at start? The rules for pacing violation is very specific. The application is merciless: if you exceeded the request, you get time out. There are thousands of users around the world, IB's server does not know any better. They don't single you ...

seneca

I thought there was an option to save (or not save) the data in the database (can't find it on the wiki). Judging from your description, might you have turned that option off? Josh, I think you are referring to "Utilization of cache for real-time price data" in the QM Data Feed settings? This optio...

seneca

Martin,

Thanks for your reply, of course I'm aware of the IB historical data limitations. I just wonder if MC could adopt the frequency of its data requests to these limitations, in case IB is selected as data provider.

seneca

Ever since I use MC together with IB as broker and data provider, I get hundreds of Historical Market Data pacing violations when I launch MC. I do not use anything else than minute bar charts (mainly CME Futures and Forex), around 30 symbols in total, and do not use any studies that requests tick o...

seneca

Gold traders usually only rollover 5 times a year using the feb, april, june, august and dec
contracts.
So you may could uncheck the oct (V) contract at "Select contracts to Use" as the oct contract does not play a role in gold, then it should roll directly from Q to Z.

That did the trick, thanks.

seneca

As the GC Gold Futures contract is somewhat special since the highest volume is not consistently at the leading month or at the second/third/etc. month, it is not possible for me to generate a continuous futures symbol for GC that is consistently based on the contract month with the highest volume. ...

seneca

@MC team, any ideas? If required, I would demonstrate this issue during live chat.

seneca

I often have 30 charts on my multiple screens, with no problem. What kind of computer do you have? (What CPU?) How much memory? How much back data do you have on your charts? Do you have many tick charts? Any 1 tick charts? Any other programs running on your computer? TJ, I do not think this behavi...

seneca

I post this here because the Project Management Module drives me crazy (when I try to edit the text in PM, the changes cannot be saved). So this is the issue: My setup uses more than 30 workspaces (for each instrument, I have a separate workspace), each containing 2 charts of the same symbol with a ...

seneca

Seneca, Do you use a 10 minute chart to replicate this behavior? How long do you usually wait between all MC processes are finished and you start MC again to replicate this behavior? No, I use mainly 15 minute charts and 30 minute charts, I do not use 10 minute charts at all. This behavior occurs e...

seneca

Henry,
any suggestions how to narrow down this issue?

seneca

May it this issue is connected to your settings for IB here : http://ubuntuone.com/420RXRXxJxzKFz0WN79Fa1 Other issue could be you have a scanner window open with symbols set up with "tick"-resolution. MC will have an answer ... :) There must be another reason. I tried this setting (see attachment)...

seneca

I still wonder what is causing this issue. The strange thing is that on startup, Quote Manager will initially request "Tick" data for the last 10 minutes for each symbol, regardless of the chart resolution. After the Tick data for this 10 minutes period has been downloaded, it will start to request ...

seneca

I had once a similar problem. There was an hidden charts that was loaded. On your tool bar, select Window. Look if you have only one workspace in the list. If not, that could be the problem. Martin No, this is not the case at my end. There are no "hidden" charts. So there must be another reason for...

seneca

Hello Henry, 1) MC version is 8.7 Build 7472 2) TWS version is 932.4 standalone The issue seems not being connected to a certain MC or TWS version and occurs on older versions of MC and older and newer versions of TWS as well. 3) I can reproduce it on a constantly basis. Even when I create a new wor...

seneca

Everything will be fine and after while "historical data farm" will change to status yellow and I will stop getting live data. I had exactly the same issue with IB Gateway and IB data feed about one week ago. I have sent tons of logs to IB, but they did not find anything. Then, without changing any...

seneca

I noticed that in some cases Quote Manager will request "tick data" from IB data feed - which is not real tick data as we all know - for creating charts with much lower time resolution (e.g. Minute bars / hour bars), which will result in data request pacing violations. In the example attached, EUR.J...

seneca

•Added a Jump tool that lets you jump to needed bars and dates without scrolling. More info here - https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissu ... no=MC-1200 .

Is this already implemented? I couldn't find it yet...

seneca

I've been applying some equidistant channels and something looks off. Is this an optic illusion or indeed the equidistant channels is not that equidistant? See the video. See how an uprising channel shows the far right channel (channel's end) a little more narrow than the start while on a downside ...

seneca

I use two "Order and Position Tracker" windows and noticed that sometimes positions appear only in one "Open Position" tab and not in the other. Background: I have set up a dedicated "Order and Position" workspace, but in order to permanently see the actual position when I switch to other workspaces...

seneca

Henry, this behaviour is replicated every time I run Multicharts with IB Gateway. Unfortunately, deactivating “Utilization of cache for real-time price data” and restarting all processes as suggested does not help. Behaviour with previous MC versions is the same. I do not run TWS / Gateway versions ...

seneca

When I run MC64 with some charts of IB "tick" data and IB Gateway for some hours, I notice a massive memory consumption of MC64, please see the attachment (luckily, I have plenty of RAM on my end....). Further, IB Gateway will successively open several client tabs. With IB TWS, memory consumption is...

seneca

I wonder if drawings can be locked by EL code, instead of using the chart window's context menu. For example, I use the following code (which I've found in Project Management) to display a horizontal price line which updates on each tick: vars: intrabarpersist need_delete_this_bar(false); if lastbar...

seneca

Hi TJ, Thanks for your reply. In principle, this should work, but since I generally base my charts on exchange time instead of computer time, I would prefer if there would be something like "CURRENT_EXCHANGE_TIME", but I think there isn't? Of course you can do the math and convert the time, but sinc...

seneca

I wonder if there is an option to extract price data at a specific time "between" the bar intervals. For example, I want to extract the settlement price of LE at CME, which is being determined once a day at 13:00 (Exchange time). If I use a 15 minutes bar chart, I will have on the Monday session 12:...

seneca

Thanks for your answer. You were totally right, the problem was that the code plotted many lines on top of each other. As suggested, I've added two counters to prevent this: input: lock_limit_up(10), lock_limit_down(-10), settlement_time(1430); var: {intrabarpersist} count_1(0), {intrabarpersist} co...

seneca

Just in case that the issue has not been resolved yet - I can get VIX historical data (several months of minute data) via TWS with the setting as displayed in the image below. Exchange is CFE. Hope this helps.

seneca

Hello there, since I want to automatically calculate and display the lock limits defined for some futures contracts (e.g. commodity futures at CME), I use "tl_new" to calculate and display those lock limits (generic example): input: lock_limit_up(10), lock_limit_down(-10), settlement_time(1430); var...

seneca

Are there any news on these topics? http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=mc-785 http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=mc-362 The idea is to handle chart trading orders entered during data playback as if they had been entered during the point of time that is being repla...

seneca

But IB provides historical minute data. So MultiCharts requests the minute data from IB server next time you request this information. I fully understand this. But what I do not understand is that MC doesn't display the historical minute data that is already stored in the cache, when it is not conn...

seneca

Hello Henry, I'm using minute data, but tried other resolutions (ticks, 15 minutes etc.) as well, but the behaviour was the same. I can easily reproduce the behaviour on different machines and different versions (MC 8 beta and MC release version). I just have to start MC (without being connected to ...

seneca

When I use MC 8 beta offline for backtesting purposes and try to display data received from IB historical data farm in previous sessions, the following issue occurs: If "Download missing historical data" is checked in Data Server Mode menu, MC won't display a chart, although the data is stored in th...

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