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gianluca71, the value of your plot changes when a new trend line is drawn. The line is not created on the bar of the low/high (although it uses this point as the line's starting point for the drawing), but usually a few bars later when a new swing in the opposite direction is detected. That's what T...

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Al3cs,

you could update the text location of your text with every new bar.

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TrendFirst, it applies to both data streams. In other words you should see no trades until the max bars back are sufficient for the highest time frame you are using in your code and you will run into the error message when any of the length inputs in your code that require a look back (even if it's ...

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Hi gianluca71, Multicharts doesn't allow loading of other timeframes within the code. Therefore your best option will likely be using additional data streams on the chart. Alternatively you could look into computing the additional time frames out of the underlying chart time frame, but this might no...

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Hi Al3cs,

you can access the data via the volume profile collection and you can find an example in the WIKI here:
https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... me_Profile

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Hi odrk, when prints appear depends on when the conditions for the prints are valid and when your code gets executed. If your strategy only computes end of bar, the prints could only appear at the end of the bar. You can take a look at the IntrabarOrderGeneration attribute for a way of executing str...

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Hi BBurnout,

you might find the Study on Study feature useful:
https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... y_on_study

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Hi odrk, you wrote your code to print when "MarketPosition = -1" i.e. short and when "MarketPosition = 0" i.e. flat.. The best way to tackle this will depend a bit on how your systems trades, for example if it only evaluates trades at the end of the bar and never exits on the sam...

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Hi Automeq,

since you are already using the study on study feature, you could for example use the Custom 2 Lines indicator and have it plot both indicators.

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BogeyGolfer, the code works fine and you can get it to work by either creating a new indicator within Multicharts.NET calling it MACD_color and overwriting all (!) of the code in it with the code posted by TJ in the first post. After that you can compile the code without any error message. Alternati...

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Hi waveslider, ELCollections2 is a 32bit TS DLL and I am not sure it would even work with Multicharts 32bit. You should make sure to use the code and DLL you can obtain in the forum here (in case you are running MC 32bit you will need to use the 32bit version of the ELCollections.DLL): https://www.m...

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Wish I only knew what to replace NumberOfBars with. This would do something on the last 34 bars. :P Hi Jobauma, you can use Bars.FullSymbolData.Count and Bars.FullSymbolData.Current. Bars.FullSymbolData.Count gives you the total number of bars on the chart and Bars.FullSymbolData.Current gives you ...

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birdman3000,

you might want to take a look at the build in Percentile function.

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birdman3000 wrote:It's pretty basic statistics. Can I request it gets added?

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Hi synonym, you might have to enable the indicator value display in the status line. Your code is showing the symbol names fine on my end. Regards, ABC Hi ABC have tried your suggestion, please see attached code. It make no difference, it still plots, but the status line still simply says, "Spr...

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Hi synonym, you would use Plot5 and Plot6 for example (instead of Plot2 and Plot3 from Svetlana's code). The reason being that PlotPaintBar will use the Plot numbers 1-4 in your code. Regards, ABC HI Svetlana Thank you for your reply. How would i do this when i am plotting the spread as a bar and no...

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bowlesj3, your code misses the ProcessMouseEvents attribute and this might explain why it's not working. https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/ProcessMouseEvents Regards, ABC I created a script with the MouseClickEvent (shown below). I used the RecalcLastBarAfter(1); to force the co...

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Hi Parker,

there should be sample indicators in the zip file that can be used to check if everything is working correctly.

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Hi Parker,

since you have the entire file in lists already, you can use ListX.Count (where X is the type of list) to determine the size of a list and then read the specific entry.

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Syn,

you can accomplish something similar with trendlines already. Simply draw a trendline between your two points and click on the line. It will show you the difference in time and price in a popup window when you click on it:

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Hi Parker, I am afraid directly accessing the fundamental data TS provides is not possible via code in Multicharts. Besides importing the data into MC manually it might also be possible to exchange the data between TS and MC with custom code (for example via text files, Custom DLLs or Excel). Regard...

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turbofib,

take a look at the build in --- Market Depth on Chart --- indicator as it demonstrates different ways of flow control within an indicator.

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turbofib wrote:hi

Is it possible to use an output condition without using if then?

(in c# it's : If not(X) then return )

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JoshM, you can use the #return statement to accomplish that. Print( "A CurrentBar = ", CurrentBar ) ; if CurrentBar < 100 then #return ; Print( "B CurrentBar = ", CurrentBar ) ; The print starting with B will only start to appear with bar 100 in the output. Regards, ABC Is it pos...

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synonym,

thank you for you kind words, I am glad to hear that my answer was helpful to you.

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synonym, one solution would be to do it within one study. Either write your own or use the Custom 4 Line indicator to display the RSI, the average of it and the two threshold lines. Regards, ABC Hi All forgive me posting this, but i felt that many would not look at my post on the end of the thread &...

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Gann_Man,

this is intended and you can get the correct volume using Bars.TrueVolume.
You can find some more information here: viewtopic.php?t=45347

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Henry, it appears MaxBarsForward and Getappinfo( aiSpaceToRight ) are static and don't reflect changes to the "Chart Shift" settings of a chart i.e. changing the number of bars for the chart will not change what MaxBarsForward and Getappinfo( aiSpaceToRight ) return for a study already app...

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shivax, what is your rational for setting TradeNumber to 1? Regards, ABC are you sure PosTradeislong run correctly? i try this example : .... if Time=1000 then sellshort next bar at open; print(Date,time," ",PosTradeislong(0,1)); i see all print =True https://gyazo.com/6da22860acd84ee78125...

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shivax,,

TradeNumber is the (zero based) number of individual entries into the position for the specific trade and you can use PosTradeCount to retrieve it.
If you don't scale in and out of trades, it should always be 0.

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shivax,

take a look at the strategy position trades keywords:
https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... ion_Trades

PosTradeIsLong could for example tell you if a trade was long or short.

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Hello Maxzhi, you can programmatically access the volume within the value area for a bar using the Volume Profile collection: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/4.7.6_Volume_Profile. You can also display the Volume Profile for a session/bar and have it display the value area by c...

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Henry, it would be great if the reloading feature could be expanded to the Portfolio Trader, too. If for example you are running a large portfolio of stocks in the Portfolio Trader missing data might go unnoticed (by the user) and create problems. The same goes for data feeds that adjust the data af...

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I agree, when you are looking for code performance the for loop will be faster. Depending on how the array is filled (and as you know the values you use to fill it), you might even save more time by just performing the loop in case the value that drops out is equal to the current highest value in th...

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turbofib,

using Array_Sort you can sort the array in descending order. If you need to keep the original order in the array make a copy first with Array_Copy and then sort the copy.

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turbofib, TS does the backadjustment on their end. Once you have the data loaded in MC and stored in your database, this data will not be affected by what TS changes on their end anymore. That's why you have to reload this data in order to obtain the changes. Regards, ABC ok...but i don't understand...

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turbofib, this won't necessarily reload the data in case you have the option to store TS data in Quotemanager enabled. You can read more about reloading data here: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/Reloading_Charts As an alternative you can delete the entire data for the particu...

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turbofib,

did you reload the data in Multicharts since roll over? Otherwise you might not see the back adjustment in the continuous contracts.

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Jobauma,

take a look at the "RecoverDrawings" attribute. This will prevent trendlines from disappearing in case they are created intrabar.

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Hello Henry, thank you for letting me know. The help file using MultiCharts64 Version 11.0 Release (Build 15566) shows these examples for PositionProfit on my end: Example PositionProfit (0) will return a value of 5 if the value of the open position has increased by ¤5 since it was entered PositionP...

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Hello Henry,

it's what the build in help file in MultiCharts64 Version 11.0 Release (Build 15566) shows, this might require an update.

So it's intended behavior that this reserved word behaves differently than in TS?

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Hello Multicharts, it appears there is a bug with the reserved word PositionProfit, at least in MultiCharts64 Version 11.0 Release (Build 15566). The help file states: PositionProfit (0) will return a value of 5 if the value of the open position has increased by ¤5 since it was entered However Posit...

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Order name length in MultiCharts = 32. We will have the performance report support the same length in MultiCharts 12 Beta 1. Hello Henry, great, thank you for the update. Not that it really matters, the chart appears to only show a length of 31 strings for me in MultiCharts64 Version 11.0 Release (...

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Hi Multicharts team, it appears there is a limitation for the length of an order name that MC displays and uses internally. However it seems that these limitations are different for what is shown on the chart versus what is shown on in performance report. 1. Could this limitation be removed? 2. Eith...

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monick, check this link and Henry's reply: https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=51048&p=127428#p127415 You can find out if CurrentContracts and CurrentContracts[1] are giving you the value that you expect when positions are opened, changed or reversed by using the print...

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jrgmak, you could assign the broker position to your strategy (https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/Auto_Trading#Assign_the_Initial_Market_Position_at_the_Broker_Settings) or change the inputs via an indicator that could for example send the input values to your strategy via Global...

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Al3cs,

Powerlanguage allows displacing NoPlot, too.

Code: Select all

Plot1( Close ) ;
NoPlot[10]( 1 ) ;

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Al3cs wrote:Well, now I know what the problem is.
What about the solution?

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waveslider, from your code snippet it appears you are trying to control the number of entries in the entry strategy. This will most likely not work, as too many entries on different symbols at the same time could go beyond your position limits. Take a look at how the build in "Portfolio Rank MM...

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tradingest,

you are welcome and thanks for posting the solution as it might help others, too.

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tradingest,,

if you have to displace the plot, then use the values for that bar, too. Just displacing the plot will not automatically use the displaced prices.

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tradingest,

you displace your paintbar by one bar, but use the current bar's values. This way you don't necessarily have a full overlap.

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tradingest,

what are you trying to accomplish exactly? The result on the chart is what I'd expect to see from the code you posted, but without knowing what you are expecting one could only guess what needs to be changed.

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waveslider,

the "Portfolio Rank MM Signal" and documentation should get you going.

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waveslider, you can accomplish this using a portfolio money management signal and only let the number of entry orders pass that you want to allow. Regards, ABC I am aware of "Portfolio_CurrentEntries", but this will not limit the strategy from entering 10 new entries on one day. For exampl...

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kagein,

according to your code anytime long_condition is true (even while you are in a trade), trade_on will become true and could allow an order.

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TJ, as far as I can tell from the code snippet posted, the trade_on reset to false is not done within the "if long_condition then begin" conditional statement. So for the snippet posted the code has a routine to "to turn trade_on = False" in case long_condition = False. However o...

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shivax, not all reserved words can be back referenced (maybe the Multicharts support can provide a list of the reserved words that you can back reference), in that case the references provide the same value as the current bar does. You can overcome this by storing the reserved word in a variable and...

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LMC1,

if you just want to change the visual appearance, you can change the number of decimal spaces on the "Scaling" tab under "Format Instruments".

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Martin,

for the shell32.dll there is in fact a 64bit version in case you are running a 64bit OS, so the function should not be the problem here.

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Martin,

in case the DLL is a 32bit DLL, calling it with MC 64bit will not work. That's a guess though as it's hard to tell without knowing what "cause an error to my indicator" exactly means.

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rst,

depending on the number of possible symbols you could also create a portfolio with all symbols and then read the number of symbols "into your code" and only allow trading on the specific ones.

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Smoky,

as far as I am aware WriteFile will create a new file and you can't append to an existing file with it. You could loop through your list and use FileAppend or read the contents of your file into the list first and then write it back together with your other list values.

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John,

yes, you can detect if a study is running in the Scanner or on a chart via GetAppInfo( aiApplicationType ).

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yoyotrader, while this is usually the case, you still might want to do a backup of your studies before installing a new version of Multicharts. Simply export all studies, this doesn't take more than a minute and it's better to be save than sorry when it comes to your studies. Regards, ABC If I downl...

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John,

the documentation and everything is available on the TS forum. I am not sure if you can find it somewhere on the net, but it might be possible.

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bowlesj3,

Global Variables 2.3 works in the scanner. I don't recall testing it with 2.2, but I don't see why it shouldn't work.
I never tried it with Access, though.

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plaforte,

you might want to consider contacting the Multicharts support via helpdesk directly to demonstrate the situation. The support team does a great job and is surely able to help you.

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dingmanhoe123, one way to accomplish that is to detect the next trading day. For that you'd require a list of the holidays for your respective market most likely. This would allow you to check every day if the next trading day is a Tuesday and in case it is, issue an order using your conditions. You...

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No Erocla,

you could convert the EasyLanguage date into a Julian Date using the DateToJulian reserved word first and then compute the difference.

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Automeq,

isn't orw the extension for a workspace in 2000i i.e. they don't contain code of the studies (similar to MC workspaces)?

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I should add 0.000001 then? stefanols, what if Value2 = -0.000001? I would suggest to check if the denominator of a division is different than 0 (for every division that you perform within a code). If it is, do the division otherwise you can do something else (optional). For example: if denominator...

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gillesc wrote:I would like to use ELExcel.dll with MultiCharts64 (Version: MultiCharts64 Version 10.0 Release (Build 14322)) and Windows 10.

gillesc,

do you have a 64bit version of the ELExcel.dll? I am not sure if one exists, but it would be required to use it with Multicharts64.

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Rick, you can either print the values to the output and add the required decimal spaces as described here: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/Print Or you can change the number of decimals a plot will show on a chart. You'll find the setting under General (No. of digits after the...

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Zheka,

I have noticed something similar and it appeared that MC was executing the function, although it shouldn't have. You could add print statements to the function to check if it gets executed.

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Martin, it's for regular MC and a DLL that you can download here https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=10094&p=51526&hilit=TicToc#p51526, but it appears it's just the DLL without the demo code. It's used as a performance timer to see how long certain code or code bl...

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Martin,

Bamboo is the TS forum user name the creator of EasyLanguage Collections, ADE etc. goes by.
As far as I am aware there is no Bamboo.DLL and it probably just means Bamboo's DLLs.

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Hi Martin, you could get the bar number with a workaround. Draw a text at aiLeftDispDateTime and ask for its bar number. txtID = Text_New_DT( getappinfo( aiLeftDispDateTime ), 0, "" ) ; Print( DateTimeToString( getappinfo( aiLeftDispDateTime ) ), "; Bar Number = ", text_getbarnum...

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Shahram,

there is no need to do that. Simply import the ELD with the functions, read the documentation and study the examples on how to use the functions.

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Hi Angelina, based on Henry's reply here: https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/posting.php?mode=quote&f=1&p=120907 and from past experience I was under the impression that this wouldn't work due to the instruments having different parameters. Did this change recently? Regards, ABC Hello gu...

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Trader M,

while what you experience doesn't sound like it is intended behavior, as a workaround you can
make the inputs numeric - 0 for false, 1 for true.

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auoto, you might want to look into the reserved word recalcpersist (https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/RecalcPersist) and apply it to your code here: https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=50624#p125429 You might also need to reset the variable at a later time. Re...

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Hi Angelina, as your are currently looking into this, can you please explain the questions raised in here: https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=50519#p125102. As the difference is only in using "Enable access to intra-bar time..." once and one time testing without that (e...

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mcjohn,

EntryPrice doesn't return values from the Order & Position Tracker, it just returns the entry price of a signal on that chart.

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cktsui888, as far as I am aware there is no build in study for the Bollinger Width, but you can accomplish this with a quick modification of the build in Bollinger Bands indicator. inputs: BollingerPrice ( Close ), Length ( 20 ), NumDevsUp ( 2 ), NumDevsDn ( -2 ), Displace ( 0 ) ; variables: midLine...

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You can pass dynamic arrays to functions. Check out page 109 of the EL Essentials PDF and the examples there.
You'll have to check out what happens when you change the array size within the function.

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If you got the doc from the original zip file, it also contains the functions ELD that you'll have to import before you can use the DLL. You can probably find them here, although I didn't check it: viewtopic.php?=&p=8189

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I also considered using Lists. I downloaded the ELCollections DLL to the correct folder but statements such "ListID = ListN.New; " indicate it isn't recognized. Another question - what is the scope of those lists? can a function access a list? I don't see how can a list be passed to a fun...

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Hi Angelina,

is there an update to the questions raised in viewtopic.php?t=50519#p125102 and viewtopic.php?t=50519#p125124?

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Angelina, can you please elaborate the differences that occur in the above example, when "Enable access to intra-bar time..." is checked versus when it's unchecked (everything else is the same i.e. IOG enabled, bar magnifier with 1 tick resolution, the code, the data etc.)? Why is the exec...

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evdl, this appears to happen only when you check "Enable access to intra-bar time..." in the backtest. In my opinion this shouldn't be expected behavior as this results in the code behaving different in a backtest compared to the same code in realtime and that can be a problem. Can someone...

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Hi waldem,

I had the same a few days ago. Following the steps described by Henry here cured it for me:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=50407&p=124545#p124545

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Jonny473, if I understand you correctly it should be enough to compare the open of a year to the close on day 5 and then buy/sell according to that. You can get the new year with: "if Year( Date ) <> Year( Date[1] )" Then you can use a counter to increment on each day until day 5, where yo...

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tradingest,

Forms are not available in regular Multicharts like in TS (it might be doable via external DLLs), but this should be doable in Multicharts.NET.

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tradingest,

if you want to do this via code look into "Text_New" and the related reserved words.

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To clarify what I wrote above, when I say "to get results that are as close as the tick by tick behavior as possible", this means as close as you can get with MC. Historic testing will always be different to live trading as there is only so much you can simulate. JoshM makes a good point a...

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kernel, in general it's possible and practical to optimize code that uses IOG (although there can be exceptions, if your code uses values that are only available realtime for example). When you backtest/optimize code that uses IOG I'd suggest to use the Bar Magnifier with the highest possible resolu...

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BC_Trading,

you can't accomplish this with keywords, but you can set it up with the plot styles under the indicator properties.
Simply set the Open to "Left Tick", the High to "Bar High", Low to "Bar Low" and Close to "Right Tick".

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BC_Trading, do you get the result you want when you don't limit the plotting to the date change? //OpenCloseIndicator Variables: OpenCloseIndicator (0); OpenCloseIndicator = close-openD(0) ; plot1(OpenCloseIndicator,"OC",Red,Default,5); You can probably polish it a bit more and have it dis...

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Do you refer to the time it takes on startup until the data is loaded and the results are computed? If so, do you store the TS data in QM's database or does MC have to download it every time from scratch? If it's the latter see if changing that (https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php...

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TraderWalrus, you can make use of some of the reserved words starting with I_ to plot strategy metrics in an indicator that is applied to the same chart as the strategy. You could also use I_SetPlotValue and I_GetPlotValue to make any value from your strategy available to an indicator and plot it. T...

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Follow the correct usage of "NoPlot" as described here and it should work:
https://www.multicharts.com/trading-soft ... php/NoPlot

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You might want to read about the NoPlot reserved word in the help file and wiki. If you are still having troubles after that, post the code modifications you made and I am sure someone is able to point you into the right direction.

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Yes, follow either of the two suggestions I posted here: viewtopic.php?p=124496#p124487

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Because you set it when your condition is true, but never reset it. If you set the value of a variable within your conditional check "if Condition12 then begin..." it would keep this value until you change it again, too. It's similar for the plots in the Scanner, they will simply keep the ...

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tradingest, the scanner is not wrong, it does exactly what your code tells it to do. When you set plot values they will be kept until you update them again. This means you will have to either remove them (using NoPlot) or set them to a different value when your Condition12 is no longer present. Rega...

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https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/v ... 65#p124375

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Helmut,

what is the result of your code?

You have IntrabarOrderGeneration enabled, but your variables are not intrabarpersist. This might be an explanation, but not knowing what actually happens with your code this is just a guess.

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Jonny473, it appears you are not using the correct code for what you want and in turn use values internally that are different from what you expect them to be. Just because you feed the price of data 2 to a function doesn't mean the function is only computed on data2. It usually helps to print and p...

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Helmut, in general MC will keep orders alive as long as the conditions that triggered the order are true. If your order triggering condition is a mouse click, then this condition is not true anymore once you release the mouse key. One approach to solve this would be to set a flag to true with your m...

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BC_Trading,

in case of volume bars you can simply count a number of bars for your opening range. This will likely be simpler than using the volume directly.

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Mark, you are welcome. Depending on your preference you might want to enable that TS data will be cached in QM (-> Tools -> Data Sources), as this is disabled by default. This way it doesn't always have to backfill all the data, although you will likely have to reload the data after each rollover ad...

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Mark,

did you add the symbol to the Quotemanager already or does it fail when you try that? If you didn't add the symbol to QM, this should be your first step. After that you should have not problem to chart the symbol (@ES works fine here coming from the TS datafeed).

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pcrespo, I don't think MBB is the real problem here. Try the following: Set a date block in your code and only have it start when the chart date >= this date. Set this date to the beginning of 2016 and start your chart a couple of month earlier. Does changing the MBB value give you a different resul...

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datamonkey, how can you tell how many ticks are left in a Renko bar? For a tick bar this is simple, but for a Renko bar it could take 10 or 1000 ticks until the bar is finished. This is how I understand "ticks left" in a bar at least, which makes me think you are looking for something else...

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The9000, you can use the three build in portfolio trading strategies as a good starting point. They are similar to the ones you can find in PowerLanguage MC. Regards, ABC Thanks Josh the content on your site is great for someone looking to make the jump to c#. I found it extremely helpful. Is there ...

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arnie, you are using tracking variables that are not intrabar persist, but reset them intrabar i.e. as soon as there is a market position change. This will likely result in the variables not saving the new values, but instead keeping 0 (which doesn't matter for SessHi, but for the other two it will)...

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There is no such function in MC (there is no such function in TS by default either), but you can probably get the function where you got the indicator code.

That was the input by another user.

What exactly did the other user say?

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syracusepro, the code you posted is definitely an indicator. Trying to put it into a function won't work without several code changes. in MultiCharts, inputs and variables have to be declared or defined in a different way Can you give an example of such a case, please? To my understanding there shou...

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syracusepro, it appears this is not the full code you posted. For example you are using a function called QQE, but did not post it. With blocking the function call the code compiles fine, so the problem is probably not within the indicator code. As the QQE function from the TS forum compiles fine in...

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Hi waldem, there is no equivalent like "TrueFalseToStr", but you can easiliy write a function with a string as return value and one input of type "truefalsesimple". Then you pass your boolean, evaluate if it's true or false and return the appropriate string that you want to see i...

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It will probably not make a difference (although the help states for i_MarketPosition_at_Broker that "This function can only be used in indicators."), but what happens when you use MarketPosition_at_Broker without the "i_"?

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arnie, this is probably the explanation. i_MarketPosition_at_Broker_for_The_Strategy will return the market position for a strategy on that chart and not the position at the broker. You will likely nave to use i_MarketPosition_at_Broker. Regards, ABC These are all manual trades, not auto strategies.

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masber2000,

as far as I am aware elcollections2.dll is a 32 bit DLL and will only work in TS (maybe MC 32bit, but I never tried that). You might want to switch to the 64 bit version of ELCollections.DLL that you can obtain here in the forum.

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darob, you send the order using Bars.Low[0]. This will result in a cancellation or adjustment of the limit price every time the low of the current bar changes. When you want the limit order to keep a certain price, save that price into a variable (and don't update that variable after you saved your ...

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Xyzzy, you should be able to count fills or how many orders you let pass for the signals in the Money Management signal (where you can use IOG) and after one fill for a strategy don't let additional entries pass that day. Regards, ABC Hi Henry, Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I do need to u...

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while(StrategyInfo.MarketPosition > 0) { output.writeline(example); } RobBoss, I never had an issue with while loops in MC.NET, but the above would become an infinite loop as soon you are long, which might explain why your computer locks up. MC doesn't detect infinite loops for you during execution...

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nuno-online, that is possible, but not as simple as the one liner Henry provided. For starters you will need to have a list of holidays (and probably weekends) you want to check for. Now you can do something along the lines of: 1. Check if the current bar is not a holiday, weekend and what ever you ...

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That's likely because a developer can easily protect his/her code in the FREE Multicharts.NET, but the PAID version doesn't have this ability, yet. As far as I am aware there is no plan to change that in the immediate future, but I am sure Henry is able to explain this better. Regards, ABC My MultiC...

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Gann_Man,

wasn't this list always empty in Multicharts.NET? I don't recall ever seeing anything in there (unless in regular Multicharts of course) and I don't have anything in there in Version 9.1 Release (Build 12589) either.

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dnickless, this should only be an "issue" with indicators like an exponential average, where the length is not connected to a number of bars (like it is in the simple average for example). Two solutions come to mind, either use the one you proposed and have the code wait an additional numb...

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Henry, I don't have a workspace or study, but you can simply test it for yourself when you create a new indicator and in the default code just change the plot color in line 12 from Color.Red to Color.Transparent in the code. Apply the indicator to any chart and you should be able to reproduce the re...

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Henry,

it appears in MultiCharts .NET64 Version 9.1 Release (Build 12589) Color.Transparent is back to the white color again. Is this intended?

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ukcurrencier, while you can walk around the methods, your code seems to use PriceSeries providers to load data in the background without having the need to add these as datastreams on the chart. This is something not supported by regular Multicharts, so you would have to load each of the datastreams...

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The9000, do you use the words backtest and optimization to describe the same thing? Because if not and you actually did a backtest (and not an optimization) in your test where the CPU reached 8% utilization (was this overall or for one core?), this is not too surprising as a backtest has to be done ...

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tradingest,

your code should work fine (given it has the variables in it of course) the output will appear in the Output tab of the editor and not in the main program like in TS.

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tradingest,

you can use Print to write the variable value to the PL Editor Output tab or use a Plot to display the value on the chart.

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Hi arnie, the indicator and function gives you access to both the VPOC and Volume Value Area as well as the TPO POC and Value Area. It is however based on the chart data and not 1 tick data like the build in Volume Profile. Regards, ABC Notice though ABC's indicator is based on market profile while ...

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thank you, i tried and it works. strange things is that if i plot only one bid or ask work, if i try to plot both i get same argument error, but maybe is broker problem. Hi waldem, you should include all DOM price checks in the dom_isconnected check and not just the first one. That's likely why you...

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joenetic,

according to this link " MarketThisBar command cannot be used in IntraBar Order Generation and BarMagnified modes. The orders will be sent on the bar close only.".

This is likely what is causing the problems for you. You should use MarketNextBar instead.

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waldem, I somehow feel we are talking about different things. I am talking about a reserved word in the code: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/RecalcLastBarAfter According to Henry's post here "RecalcLastBarAfter" code word works in the scanner window." therefore...

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Hi waldem,

this should be possible by forcefully recalculating your study using RecalcLastBarAfter.
This wouldn't mean your study gets updated with every bid ask change though, but it would be updated every X seconds (as low as 100 milliseconds).

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I don't think this is a bug, just standard program behavior. You could check for the date of the current last bar, specifically to make sure that it's the same as on data1. You can also write code to check if there is a holiday on the data symbol or on a regular trading day. Regards, ABC yes. same 5...

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JohnR,

if you are using an IArrowObject for drawing arrows, it has a Color property.

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I'd suggest to take a look at EasyLanguage Collections. You can easily share lists, maps and collections of these across charts.

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Smoky wrote:Hi all,

did someone know how to share Arrays between charts ? (in PL )

Many thanks

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Ben, I wrote it further above in the thread and I only tested it briefly last week, but I seem to get exactly the order you are looking for with one click when I click above the current price on the buy side. However I have to uncheck the "LMT" order under Place Order, which seems a bit co...

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OK, then what's the problem with just using a normal buy limit order? It all can be done with one click now. I must be thick. True, I just checked that, too. It will work fine when you just click at the price on the buy side, but when you check limit (under place order) it will ask me if I want to ...

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If someone would like to buy 50 contracts @9547, in a normal behaving DOM setup, you would just enter a normal <LIMIT> order the way you would enter a <LIMIT> order below or at the best bid. You would be filled with 5 contracts @9545.5, 10 contracts @9546, 9 contracts @9546,5 and 12 contracts @9547...

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I think so, too. The current DOM design in MC doesn't allow to do it with just one click (afaik), which is what OP had in mind.
Edit: Turns out the current DOM design seems to allow to do it with just one click.

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Now I think I understand what you are getting at. Please correct me if I'm wrong. You want a normal buy limit order placed above the market and pending in the exchange queue but not acted upon until the market gets there. From what I understand from the examples (and I could be wrong here of course...

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radekj,

you can use VolumeProfileByDataStream(X), where is is the datastream number.

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jimpe606, two datastreams would probably the simplest solution. Data1 could be anything from 1 to 15 minutes, Data2 could be daily bars. If you need the actual values of daily bars indicator's 15 minute before the close however, you will have to compute them using lower timeframe data. In this case ...

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A collection of lists or maps would provide a multi dimensional and dynamic solution for storing values, too.

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I had a bracketed Stop Loss and Profit order in place (a OCO function) MC displayed the filled Stop signal on my chart but at the erroneous 53,350 price (i.e not the stop price I created in my bracketed order). Hi trim, if the OCO was in place before and showing the correct prices, I am willing to ...

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trim, if I understand what you wrote before correctly, you had a stop in place at the broker. Then this stop was executed at the broker and MC displays the fill price for this stop on your chart. Is this correct or did your code send an order upon a condition that got triggered upon a certain price?...

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When you take a look at the Highest function code, you'll see that it just calls another function called Extremes. The latter returns both the value and the bar number of the occurrence (in bars back from the current bar!). You can implement the function in your code exactly like the highest functio...

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Yes, there are. If you open the PL Editor any signal without the vb_ prefix is in C#. The other are in Visual Basic.

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Thank you Henry, that's valuable information.

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Riccardo,

this is expected behavior as the value for Portfolio_CurrentEntries gets only updated at the end of the bar. The best solution is to use a money management signal and only let one entry pass.

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Hi MC Team, is there a list of how far back the convert_currency reserved word can be used and actually return useful information? I am interested in the dates when the rates used for the conversion start. It appears for SEK it only starts at the end of 2008, before that the values are not converted...

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Leo, you can't call indicators like you are trying to do. This is only doable with a function. Just because you have an indicator called "Ematrend" doesn't mean there is a function with the same name. If the function doesn't exist you will receive the error message that you are seeing on y...

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waldem, they are documented when you leave the "@" away - except the Summation, which is a function and therefore not included in the help. I am not sure why the reserved words are also working with an "@" in front, as this is not legacy EasyLanguage. So it's probably some idiosy...

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Henry MultiСharts wrote:Hello AlphaCat,

MultiCharts .NET 9.1 Beta 1 can be expected within a week.

Will this Beta bring the ability to export protected studies out of MC.NET like you added to the free MC.NET?

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Amour, there are probably some commercial tools available, but I wouldn't rely on them as you'd likely need more flexibility and control. One thing useful for you is the Mod reserved word that you can use in combining bars to the higher time frame. Other than that I don't think there are any build i...

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Amour, depending on your chart setup you might be able to build the higher timeframe bars within your code - like virtual bars. This way you'd only need one datastream and would have access to the bar magnifier. This obviously works best for time based bars, for non time based bars it will be a lot ...

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In my opinion the main obstacle is that the depth of market in Multicharts is only provided as snapshot (besides it being only available from broker data). At least the one that you can obtain programmatically. This makes it impossible to detect all book changes. For example a cancel and add on one ...

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novaleaf, what about simply excluding symbols from your code calculations depending on the date? So for example you have a list of 1000 symbols in the Portfolio Trader and each day your code would read a list of symbols to use for that particular day. If a symbol is not in this list you would stop f...

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Hi kernel, instead of constantly deleting and redrawing a trendline, you might want to consider drawing it only once and then just updating its start and end points with every tick. This is not only simpler it is more resource friendly, too. Regarding TL_Lock: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof...

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wilkinsw, you can create something like this best within the Portfolio MoneyManagement signal. Monitor the portfolio equity in there and once your stop value is reached force the close of all positions and deny new entries. https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/PMM_Keywords Besides ...

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RobinT wrote:ok, got it. if you declare a variable int does it have any effect?

In MC it doesn't. All variables except Boolean ones are of type double.

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Yes, intentionally.

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Yes, this is what I mean. I don't have a sample code, but think of it like this: When you draw a trendline you know the start and end point. So you can compute the slope and with this you can compute every point in the future. With that it's simple to substitute the trendlines. Regards, ABC Hi ABC, ...

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MC ignores Trendlines in the optimization. Therefore without modifying the code you can't optimize the signals. The usual result is that of mrticks - an optimization report containing zeros for all combinations. However I can imagine that this can create other issues like runtime errors, too. Regard...

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I have used SetStopLoss with negative numbers a while back (two years or more) and it used to work for me. However I always felt like it was not intended to be used that way and didn't use it too much (it feels more like a bug than a feature). Regards, ABC Yes, thanks Orion. I'm working along that l...

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Yes, two gateways or two instances of TWS. Then you need to make sure to properly configure them i.e. make sure that the two different IB programs use different ports and configure them in MC with the same ports.

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ADE is based of EL Collections and you can pretty much do everything with ELC right away. ADE just gives you some functionality already implemented in my opinion. For transferring entry conditions I would use EL Collections right away. Fredi, one important aspect is to make sure that you don't look ...

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Erik1966, it's probably best if you post the whole code with entries and exits. You can change the entry conditions to something else to protect your logic. This way we can all see the same thing and as TJ has pointed out changing the IntrabarOrderGeneration in your code several times will not give ...

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Erik1966, your requestion is a bit confusing for me, maybe you can try to elaborate a bit. - You want to use values from an indicator in a strategy. Why not compute the value in the strategy exactly. - I misread that you asked for a stop limit order. The code I provided sends a simple stop order. Yo...

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Erik1966, declare a variable and make it intrabarpersist to store the value of your stop price instead of using value2. Besides that use print statements in your code to print the values of the stop at each bar to the output. This way you can track down the values used in your code and know why the ...

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Erik1966, I am not sure if I follow you about what you mean with "still at open of the next bar". With intrabar order generation an order for "next bar" will be issued the next tick. So the order will be send immediately when MarketPosition = -1. If you are doing a backtest and a...

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Erik1966,

how about using a stop order to accomplish what you have in mind?

Something along the lines of:

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[IntrabarOrderGeneration=true]
if marketposition = -1 
then
         buytocover ("rsishortstop") next bar value2 stop ;

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RedBerlin, how good is your written German compared to your written English? If it's a lot better, there is always the possibility to have someone help you to translate it to English. I am fluent in both languages for example, but here in the forums are others that speak/written German, too. Regards...

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Let me give you some answers from what I understand in regards to your question. 1)Yes, MC.NET has all features of MC PL. MC.NET platform has features PL doesn't have, like programmatic access to the volume profile for example. 2) Yes 3) Don't think it's noticeably faster. Depends on the code of cou...

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Yes, but you have to buy the API first (which if I recall correctly from the price that was once published on the MC website and if it didn't change, is in the medium four figure range) and then write the connection for the new datafeed.

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In my opinion this would do more harm than good for the exact same reasons MAtricks has pointed out. This really might drive less people to MC and in turn harm us all. If the intend is to lock out people with pirated copies than maybe limiting downloads of studies to registered users might be an opt...

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Microsoft basically made the Professional edition of Visual Studio available for free for individual developers (or small companies):

http://www.visualstudio.com/products/vi ... mmunity-vs

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nuno-online, one difference is that Global Variables was developed by TS were EL Collections (ELC) was developed by a TS user originally, who introduced storing concepts with ELC that are also found in higher programming languages. There you have one of the main differences in my opinion, you can st...

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This should provide you with all the information you need: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-soft ... tplotvalue

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Since MC 9 you can use i_setplotvalue and i_getplotvalue to send plot values from a signal to an indicator and plot them from there. This might be a slightly simpler way to accomplish what you have in mind without having to use trendlines.

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I am glad that I am not alone with this feeling, but it's sad and I'd love have it otherwise. I guess I just have to live with and adapt to it. Regards, ABC I find it slightly disappointing that there is, after 36 days, no response from MultiCharts Support on this topic, not even the common text tha...

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As far as I know methods were introduced together with OOEL and one could argue if it's a part of it or not. In my opinion it's a concept used in object oriented programming, comparable to a method within a MC.NET code. Apart from that it would still be great to have it implemented into MC and there...

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It appears that Color.Transparent is not actually giving you a transparent color, but a white one that overlays what ever is behind the color (which seems to fly in the face of the meaning transparent). I am not sure if this intended to behave this way, but it somehow feels like a bug. It would be n...

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No, but it would be great to have one.
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bruce.mtpredictor wrote:Is there a power language event that is fired when an indicator is about to be unloaded or removed?

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Henry, thanks I am aware of this. It was just to point out that it seems like there still is an issue. But if you are convinced that on a new installation of MC this doesn't happen anymore, this is fine with me. Regards, ABC Henry, it happens with a new chart in a new workspace and it doesn't matter...

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Henry,
it happens with a new chart in a new workspace and it doesn't matter if it's MC or MC.NET as it happens in both.

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It seems that the coloring of the Volume Delta charts wasn't changed, although "This issue has been confirmed. The fix is targeted to MultiCharts 9.0 Beta 2.". It's still white with white text for some boxes. Of course this only is a minor issue, but I'd expect a new MC user getting confus...

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Henry, can you elaborate on why this wasn't implemented, specifically on the rational behind this? From a user point of view this seems like a serious shortcoming when you implement volume profile information into a platform geared towards automated trading, but then cutting it's use short by removi...

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Is there the chance that Volume Profile information will be present during an optimization with one of the next releases? Meaning is this planned to be implemented, not going to happen or not even considered as of now?

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Henry, we had the exact same conversation two years ago here (https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10518#p55110) and I trust that in case the MC team would have seen the usefulness of this feature back then it would already be implemented by now. I don't think a feature req...

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Henry, I am afraid you are missing the point. Assume you have a file with 1000 functions and indicators in it that you exported a couple of years back - everything is in the file, no function missing. Now you want to re-import just a few indicators from that file, but you don't know which functions ...

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By the way it appears that with ELDs this checkbox is not greyed out, but with files exported directly from Multicharts it is.

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Henry, I don't think that is the issue here. The problem is that you can't select "import dependent functions" when you import from a file. Therefore you will likely miss to import the needed functions and have to manually check them and reimporting them. When importing a file just contain...

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I agree that MC quickly reaches it's limits with text and trendlines when you are use quite a lot. I'd love to see this getting improved, right now MC.NET is running circles around MC in this regard. arnie, maybe a paintbar would work for you that simply spans from the high to the low. This wouldn't...

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