MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

shanemcdonald

hi

I get an error when trying to use maclellan oscillator that says "study is missing data 2".

What is that about ?

shane

shanemcdonald

check to see if the plot part of the code is causing the problem.

I remember something about not being able to use plot commands in a signal.

shane

shanemcdonald

I have not seen any on here.
But I have converted many strategies from the TS forum to use with Multicharts.

The forum there has many user contributed strategies.
Most will need some tweaking to work with Multicharts.

shane

shanemcdonald

I use sub accounts at Amp futures to run different strategies on same symbol.
Keeping them completely separated works good for me.

When testing on sim, this is not important, you can just use separate charts.

shane

shanemcdonald

hi

What is the logic behind the piv ext signal in MC ?

I see the piv reversal logic but I would like to understand the piv ext logic better.

The piv reversal seems to be based on a swing high or low.

Is the piv ext also based on swing highs and lows ?

thanks

shane

shanemcdonald

abc is an excellent and affordable coder.
He is here and on Big Mikes forum.

shane

shanemcdonald

why merge them ?

shanemcdonald

MA

Is that for tick charts ?
Has this happened to you on other charts ?

Would it apply to point or range bars that are buit on tick data.?

thats some serious memory usage !

shane

shanemcdonald

hi
Nothing needs to be done. Account will be the same.

You will have a new login for the customer portal, you should have gotten that in email by now.

shane

shanemcdonald

hey !

thats fantastic !
Excellent work Josh !

Thank you for your efforts, this is a great piece of coding.

sincerely,
Shane

shanemcdonald

josh could that be used to plot OHLC of previous day based on a certain session instead of relying on the session template under instrument formatting ? I would like to use a regular globex session for the charting, but show the OHLC of pit session for crude. 09:00 - 14:30 could your code be used to...

shanemcdonald

pretty much like you wrote it. inputs: length (14), overbought (70), oversold(30); variables: var1 (0); var1 = fastk (length ); if var1 crosses below oversold then buy next bar at market; if var1 crosses above overbought then sell next bar at market; there are other details you have to cover, but th...

shanemcdonald

Thanks for the code !

I only posted it because the Price Channel does not have the mid point.

I could not get the mid point set up properly myself. So I use the Donchian I found on Traders Exchange.

thanks for the new code, its great !

shane

shanemcdonald

I have had problems with rithmic on other platforms simultaneously. Including Rtrader by rithmic and SC.

Multicharts actually maintained live rithmic data while the others disconnected.
I could not place trades, but I still had data on MC.

SC and RTrader disconnected and would not reconnect.

shane

shanemcdonald

thanks TJ

shanemcdonald

It seems ok.
Rithmic must have addressed the issue

thanks

shanemcdonald

Trading Technologies Phone Support ? I had not thought of that . I figured I was not really a direct customer of TT. Due to the connection being through AMP. Thanks MATricks , I will try that. shane I called TT support and they daid I can connect Multicharts to their feed and use it. But AMP will ha...

shanemcdonald

What broker do you use to connect XTrader ?
Where do you get your data ?
I use AMP futures.
I also connect through TTnet with SC.

Do you know where the data is coming from if TTnet is not a data deed ?

shanemcdonald

Really ? Is that with Rithmic ?
If so, must be rithmic then.

CQG is working ok on charts.

shane

shanemcdonald

What would cause charts not to recieve data but the dom works fine ?

rithmic data

shane

shanemcdonald

CQG through amp futures offers 21 day trial with CME, ICE and EUREX available.
The TICK data is 3 months.
After 21 days you can sign up for another.

shanemcdonald

oops sorry be right back Thanks TJ for the heads up ! Here is the function {Ehlers MAMA and FAMA indicator - coded by dn //// From Cybernetic Analysis for Stocks and Futures} Inputs: Price(NumericSeries), FastLimit(NumericSimple),SlowLimit(NumericSimple), MAMA(NumericRef), FAMA(NumericRef); Vars: Sm...

shanemcdonald

This is the Mama- Fama mov avg study by Ehlers. See below post for function {Ehlers MAMA and FAMA indicator - coded by dn //// From Cybernetic Analysis for Stocks and Futures} Inputs: Price((H+L)/2), FastLimit(.5),SlowLimit(.05); Vars: MAMA(0), FAMA(0); value0 = MAMA_FAMA(price, fastlimit, slowlimit...

shanemcdonald

This is a Donchian Channel from Trader's Exchange . // Donchian Channel // // http://www.tradersxchange.com Inputs: Base(close), Length(13), ShowAvg(true); Variables: DonHigh(0), DonLow(0), DonAvg(0); DonHigh = Highest( base, Length); DonLow = Lowest( base, Length); DonAvg = ((DonHigh + DonLow) / 2 ...

shanemcdonald

I login to TTnet data feed every day with SC
It is indeed one of the better data feeds out there.

shanemcdonald

I have been doing the trade data.

I was not aware that the bid/ask was not good data ?

thanks for the heads up

shane

shanemcdonald

Sounds solid.

thanks for that info.

I have been doing something similar with cqg , but was hoping for something easier !

shane

shanemcdonald

Thanks ! That seems to be the best solution. Do you have to leave the symbol open in MC to collect tick data for the week ? If you have MC turned off for a couple of days, then you dont have any tick data collected for those few days, right ? You have to import data again for this ? thanks for ur he...

shanemcdonald

How do traders work around the limited tick data that rithmic provides ?

I only get one day when trying to build tick charts in MC

Is this normal ?

shane

shanemcdonald

Can I connect to MC with my TTnet data feed ?

rithmic has only 1 day of tick data and I would like to try ttnet.

shanemcdonald

I would like to clarify this request. After talking to Henry, I should point out my idea was not clear enough. We need an ability to have the trading performance report generated from historical orders on per strategy basis, so not just all orders placed under this account/instrument." It is the " p...

shanemcdonald

has anyone else thought about this feature besides me ?

I cant be the only one.

shanemcdonald

I suggest a feature to save all trading data locally to a database like most other programs do.

You wont have to manually export performance data in order to save it.

vote here
https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissu ... no=MC-1787

shanemcdonald

I added this as a feature request

To be able to save all trade data locally to database without having to run a separate spreadsheet program.

shanemcdonald

hi Wouldn't it be better to have all performance reports, including strategy performance reports saved to an MC database ? This way we are not dependent on having another software program. Most trading programs save all trading data to a local database so the user does not have to export or save dat...

shanemcdonald

hi yes, this is a major flaw in the design of the interface. There should not be icons at all. It should be straightforward and text, not images or icons. A dropdown menu with all of your saved templates should be available for quick selection. I do not like the way this is set up at all. SC has the...

shanemcdonald

Not sure what you mean by add ons ? Are you using any of the autotrade signals that come with Multicharts ? They all can be applied to the heiken ashi chart. You can mess around with those basic signals if you want to experiment. You dont need special coding to get started. I did some testing with t...

shanemcdonald

I like MC renko. The ability to " slow it down " with different time frames and tick amounts is great.
I do not know of any other software that allows you to choose different ways to " fill " the renko box.

I use flexrenko regularly on SC and it is nice. I agree with that.

shane

shanemcdonald

In the upper left hand corner of the chart is a small rectangle with the letters SA in it.
When that is green, autotrade is active. It is greyed out when autotrade is not connected.

shane

shanemcdonald

Memory issues have returned with the latest build for me. This is very discouraging to me. I am testing all of my strategies on TS to see if they will have the same problems. TS is a bit of a resource hog also. But it has good monitoring abilities. I do not understand all of the memory issues. I am ...

shanemcdonald

When I sroll to the left, this indicator gets "squashed".
In the pic you can see it.

What causes this ? How can I fix it ?
I tried different scaling options.

Shane

hi

shanemcdonald

Quandl is a site with free historical data. It is in .csv or Excel format.
How can you convert .csv or excel format data for import into MC ?

shane

shanemcdonald

Hi I use both TS and MC. With a rithmic connection on MC, I can run strategies on the sim account at the same time I can trade on the live rithmic account. This is a huge advantage over TS. Also, I can run a cqg demo, which is sim, at the same time I am running another live account. MC is great in t...

shanemcdonald

I did find the problem. But it was not easy for me.
Perhaps quite easy for an experienced programmer like yourself.

thanks

best regards

Shane

shanemcdonald

I modified the Pivot Reversal signal to include a trigger long above mov avg and trigger short below mov avg. The long one works but the short one does not and I cannot find the problem. Can you guys look at the code and see if you see anything ? The top code is the long one that works. thanks for a...

shanemcdonald

Any updates here ?

Is everything working ok now ?

Memory issues resolved ?

thanks
Shane

shanemcdonald

hi You will have to test it 24 / 7 for weeks before going live. You must find the boundaries for your particular system. I have tested MC extensively and found there are certain limitations, as with other programs. I typically start out with 8 chartbooks with 6 charts in each book. 48 charts with a ...

shanemcdonald

Henry

Performance was much better this week after installing the new Rithmic API.
It made a big difference. I noticed the memory expansion was much less while watching the processes on task manager.

Thanks

shane

shanemcdonald

hi What if you wanted your stops and profit targets to expand as price range expands , and contract as the price range contracted ? How do you measure price range? ATR ? Volatility ? I am trying to figure out how to have a strategy adjust to increased or decreased price range. As of now, I manually ...

shanemcdonald

That looks good and it looks like you re on the right track.

Perhaps fine tune it so that it appears flat if within certain limits ?

shanemcdonald

Hi Thanks for the info about barchart and IQ. IQ can be expensive ? Barchart has an excellent futures website and I wondered about their service. I had problems with CQG on MC previously, as I had more memory issues wth CQG API , so I switched. ITs good to hear CQG is better now with MC. I liked the...

shanemcdonald

hi

Thats interesting. The 48 hour mark is around the same for me.
Thanks for the info.

regards

Shane

shanemcdonald

Thanks Every day ? Do you restart that often ? What a bummer. I have been expecting to leave it running all week ! When testing strategies, it is a hassle to export 20 or 30 reports individually. Do you think it is a legitimate request ? Also, what is your maximum charts and strategies you can run w...

shanemcdonald

When MC locks up, I lose all of the performance data from strategies that I may have been testing for days ! I have to manually export a report for each strategy before my PC locks up in order to go back and look at the strategies performance. If I do not export the reports , then all of the work is...

shanemcdonald

Hi

How can I get the equity curve line indicator at the bottom of the chart ?
Must I only use this workspace to get that ?

thanks
shane

shanemcdonald

This new alert message started today. I have never seen this before , What is it ? pop up says Rithmic o1 intraday history connection - Hearbeat has been quiet for 92.3 seconds the other says: trading system connection - Heartbeat has been quiet for 57.4 seconds the number of seconds changes I have ...

shanemcdonald

Thanks Arnie, I appreciate your input.

Thanks Andrew, this is good.

I will give the ascii a try again.

best regards
Shane

shanemcdonald

hi I like rithmic, but lack of historical tick data is a hassle for backtesting and optimization. How is TTnet with multicharts ? I already have that feed. I used cqg before, but I had lots of memory issues when using cqg api. The memory issues stopped when I switched to rithmic. In a related questi...

shanemcdonald

Well with the standard indicator , you have to use regular charts.
EST is the time zone and I select local time.

Can I ask how you set a chart up to base the ohlc off of 1800-1715 session ?

And I use a few charts . 34 point , 14 renko , and some minute charts.

shanemcdonald

Maybe by Globex time . 1800-1715.

I made a custom template with session end box checked, but it still went by 2359 / midnight.

shanemcdonald

Hi

Anyone have a basic OHLC indicator where you can set the times ?
I tried custom session time, but OHLC still reflected 24 hour default with 2359 end of day.

shane

shanemcdonald

hi

thanks again TJ !
shane

shanemcdonald

thanks SP

that site has some great tutorials

shane

shanemcdonald

Hi

thank you !
I appreciate the help.

best regards

Shane

shanemcdonald

hi

lol !

Can you optimize start and end times ?

I have start and end times in 24 hour format in my strategy settings.
In the optimization report, there are decimals added so I am not sure whats being done with the time data.

Have you ever used times for criteria ?

shanemcdonald

Hi WARNING : amateur question I was wondering about how to place an order on next bar. Lets say I have a momentum or breakout strategy and a long signal is triggered. I would like to buy the next bar if it pulls back from the current bar close. So, if it pulls back 10 ticks from the close, I would l...

shanemcdonald

Hi TJ

Thanks for your help.

The optimizer is new to me.

Have a good one

regards
Shane

shanemcdonald

hi

what does this error msg mean ?

invalid parameters/ # of simulations must be greater than 1

When I try to select optimization.

shane

shanemcdonald

the automatic trendlines indicator will draw lies between swing highs and swing lows.

I dont think you can isolate it to only draw horizontal .
It is a pretty good trendline indicator, one of the best I have seen.
It may help with what you need, I am not sure.

shane

shanemcdonald

I do not have to do this with the other programs I use with rithmic.
It seems to be a rithmic- Multicharts issue.

Does support at Multicharts know what trade route to use with Eurex and Rithmic on their trading software ?

shanemcdonald

Which do you use for Dax ? There is no Eurex selection.

shane

shanemcdonald

I wonder why all the extra work

can you be logged on all of the different broker profiles at the same time ?

shanemcdonald

hi
It started after upgrading tonight to release candidate

It was not doing that earlier today.

shane

shanemcdonald

What does it mean when this symbol appears in a performance report instead of dollar sign ?

see attached image

thanks

shane

shanemcdonald

Thanks TJ

shanemcdonald

This was upon startup with nothing having been opened yet.

I thought they were both the last 8.8 release.
I just now realized one is latest beta version 9.0 beta 3. The one with much lower memory consumption.

Sorry, I did not remember doing that.

That could be it, right ?

shanemcdonald

On one computer, a dual core with 6 g of ram, the processes show multicharts at 150,464 k memory and ATcenterserver at 59,000k. On another computer, a quad core with 8 g ram, atcenterserver is at 607,00 k and multicharts is at 263,000k memory. there are no workspaces or charts open on either. Why do...

shanemcdonald

With the portfolio trader not having bar magnifier available, how will this affect walk forward testing with portfolio trader ?

During live sim autotrading, Will portfolio trader only calculate minute data ? HLC data ? Tick data ?

thanks

shane

shanemcdonald

hi

thank you very much for your help with this.
I appreciate it !

regards
Shane

shanemcdonald

Hi

Is it really that simple ?

I am new to easylanguage. I like the simplicity of it.

Do you know how you can flatten everything at 15:30 in relation to your code ?

thank you for your help,

shane

shanemcdonald

Henry,

Do you have the time filter code for easylanguage ?

I saw the time filtercode you posted in .net fm and wondered if you can do same thing in powerlanguage ?

thanks

shane

shanemcdonald

When setting up rithmic connection . You click " lookup " under trade route dialog box.
Now it has 3 options, Eurex, Globex and Ice. Which one do you choose ?

previously, there was only electronic as an option.

thanks

shane

shanemcdonald

What would be a reason that autotrade signals dont trigger when autotrade is turned on ? I have 2 with the autotrade turned off and those signals appear in the correct place and trigger properly. But the ones with autotrade tuned on do not trigger. I am on rithmic and the strategies are on local sim...

shanemcdonald

Thanks Henry for the links !
I appreciate the info.

best regards

Shane

shanemcdonald

Hi

Is there good documentation anywhere for writing code for .net MC ?

Looking to add trading times to strategy code and maybe a few other things.

Any good reference documents to refer to ?

thanks

shane

shanemcdonald

Memory usage has gone up with 9, is this a feature. If it is I will need to up my ram.Would this explain failure to save data ...... I would always lose performance report data when I had to shutdown MC from task manager. I did find a workaround to save performance data though. If MC freezes , then...

shanemcdonald

Is it possible to get the MACD to be based on a simple moving ave instead of exponential ?
You can select this option in other software programs and wondered if you can do this in Multicharts ?

Thanks
shane

shanemcdonald

When you backtest strategies in the portfolio trader, can you set the data to 1 tick like you can on a chart under strategy properties ? This provides great accuracy when backtesting a strategy on a chart. I would hope you can do this in portfolio trader as well. Hello Shane, Bar Magnifier is not c...

shanemcdonald

Hi

I have not seen this error msg before, have you ?

" The order cannot be placed; no instrument specific reference data for symbol NGEN 14has been received "

does this have anything to do with wrong month for contract ?

thanks

shane

shanemcdonald

It is happening to me also.
Rithmic is not working.
And gold and nat gas futures are all messed up on my cqg feed.
Gold spiked to 12,000

shanemcdonald

When you backtest strategies in the portfolio trader, can you set the data to 1 tick like you can on a chart under strategy properties ?

This provides great accuracy when backtesting a strategy on a chart. I would hope you can do this in portfolio trader as well.

shane

shanemcdonald

Forget forex and trade currency futures through a futures brokerage account. Regulated brokers and other benefits 6A, 6B, 6C, 6N,6E, etc...... They also have the M series which are like mini lots with very low margins margins will be around the same but intraday margins are much better. And you have...

shanemcdonald

Hi Henry

Thanks for the info ! That did the trick.

Much appreciated

Shane

shanemcdonald

hi

all orders are being rejected on several different charts and instruments

dialog says " invalid order parameters : Account field is empty. "

this is a new one to me.
Any ideas ?

thanks
shane

shanemcdonald

hi

thanks Henry

shane

shanemcdonald

Hi Henry

It was frozen, I could not gather any info without a restart

thanks
shane

shanemcdonald

I have had disconnects with rithmic also.
Maybe it is the internet connection.
CQG seems to be more sensitive to a weak internet connection than rithmic, but that has been my experience.
I also find that MC does not reconnect as well as others. Many times I have to restart after a disconnect.

shanemcdonald

the same thing happened to me on the rithmic feed.
it could not handle the heavy volume and all the charts froze up.

I used to blame it on CQG, but I now know that is not the culprit.

I had to restart everything.

It also happened during the non farm payrolls on friday.

shane

shanemcdonald

https://portal.vapornode.com/cart/

what is the deal with the free one they offer ?
Any idea ?

shane

shanemcdonald

hi the forward chart seems to fire fine. But I did find something on one of the 21 point chart. I changed data to 10 days back instead of 5 in a cloned chart and that fired today no problem. Could that be it ? Even though the forward test did fire on 5 days of data ? Also, I found on another that a ...

shanemcdonald

hi henry There are no orders placed for these charts which are 21 point charts I did notice that all of the time based charts have orders in place. That must mean I have a problem with tick data. I also see that 2 34 point charts have orders in that tab. So it must be that specific point chart. The ...

shanemcdonald

21rangeMC.jpg Anyone know why signals aren't firing ? chart is cloned with all same settings The chart with autotrading set to on does not fire signal all week. exact same setup on another platform has fired all the signals to match the chart on the right which has autotrade set to off. On other ch...

shanemcdonald

Hi Roman, I am looking for sample code for trend line trading--rather than starting from ground zero. I looked through the user contributed studies and didn't find anything that appeared to directly address trend line trading. There was a note from TJ back in Jan 2009 (https://www.multicharts.com/d...

shanemcdonald

I run rithmic with Multicharts at AMP. As Henry said, Multicharts has to be set up at AMP for rithmic on your account. It took AMP several days to set up Multicharts with rithmic for me on my regular account. They are backlogged with customers connecting rithmic. It is running smoothly now with no p...

shanemcdonald

When using rithmic data feed, I only get one day of historical tick data. I have a 34 point chart that needs a week to trigger a signal. Is there a way to get the tick data loaded from CQG without doing data merge ? I want to run the auto strategies on rithmic only, but I only get the historical tic...

shanemcdonald

thanks henry

shanemcdonald

I cant export performance report. DO you have to have excel installed in order to save a performance report ? I do not have excel on one computer and the save feature wont work in a strategy performance report On the other computer, where I have excel, it works fine. It just freezes where it says st...

shanemcdonald

I recommend a small account at amp or another like them. I have a CQG and Rithmic feed through them. Get familiar with connecting a few data feeds and setting them up properly. Then you can settle in and everything will fall into place. It is different from TOS or TS with the automatic data feed, bu...

shanemcdonald

good MC.net has gotten worse for me with new release. I am not able to run autotrade for more than 1 hour now. It is freezing up constantly. It is now unusable. I am now using DT version 8.5 to trade with. This has been very discouraging for me and an ongoing problem since the summer. Why cant the m...

shanemcdonald

since updating cqg api today, mc has been freezing almost immediately.

Anyone else ?

thanks

shanemcdonald

thanks again for your help Henry !
I appreciate how fast you solved the problem

sincerely,
Shane

shanemcdonald

hi

the default settings for sessions are the same on all the charts.
I cannot find anything different among them.

Anything else I can check out ?

thanks
Shane

shanemcdonald

I am using latest .net version I have a data feed problem in only one workspace. I have 4 workspaces. One with point charts, one with hourly and 2 with renko/minute charts. Data works fine on all but one wkspc with renko / minute. In this workspace, the charts do not update, although a dom in that w...

shanemcdonald

thanks

appreciate your info

shane

shanemcdonald

I don't know about autotrading, but to set it up in chart trader, you can select master strategy from exit strategies and select the number of contracts in upper right. Then set your stops and targets for each contract. You can save it as a custom template and re-use it in the future. See attached i...

shanemcdonald

Are all of the indicators at tradersxchange in non .net format for regular multicharts ?

thanks
shane

shanemcdonald

Are you talking about scaling in or out ?

A second profit target on second contract ?

shanemcdonald

thats great news !
Thanks !

shanemcdonald

I cant run it on my dual core with 4 gb ram
I must use quad core with 8 gb ram

shanemcdonald

yes< I believe it is the cause of the lockup.

restarting clears the memory cache.

shanemcdonald

I recommend the Multicharts team for your needs.

shanemcdonald

memory usage will increase, but it should decrease as the memory usage declines.
If it expands but does not contract and keeps getting bigger, than it could be a memory leak.

shanemcdonald

yes I did see it, but it did not affect my chart the same way.
yours looks great by the way !

shanemcdonald

I still cannot get it to where I can read any numbers or letters.
I cannot use it.

shanemcdonald

When I use rithmic, there is no historical tick data, which interferes with automated signals that are on a tick or point chart. How can I save the historical tick data as it comes in from the live feed ? As it is now, after shutting down on the weekend, there is no historical tick data when I re-op...

shanemcdonald

intel quad core with 7 gb ram
win 7 64 bit
onboard video , no added card

shanemcdonald

I spoke too soon, now MC has frozen again on me with previous memory issue.
It is locked and I cant even shutdown without losing everything

shanemcdonald

I have 2,065,437 on rithmic
and 2,070,000 on TT

shanemcdonald

I cant get a separate reading for oct 20th.
It was a sunday and I don't know how you have your charts set up for the week / session.
Is it a separate day ? does it start at 18:00 ?

The daily bar for that day shows 1,105,000 on rithmic

shanemcdonald

I use rithmic at Vision Financial and cqg at AMP with MC. I find them them both fast and reliable. I have had the cqg api stop working on me a few times, but it appears that cqg will be integrated in the new MC release ? I prefer cqg because of the historical tick data that is included. Rithmic only...

shanemcdonald

I think the regular multicharts is 8.8 release now and out of the beta version.
I hope that was the problem and it works for you now.

best regards
Shane

shanemcdonald

8.7 ? have you tried new beta version ? I had everything lock up constantly on both rithmic and cqg. I could not go 10 hours without a freeze up. For me, It was a memory leak issue which they have resolved in the new beta versions. The memory leak would expand and freeze resources up. I have been te...

shanemcdonald

Manually ?
How do you change those manually ?

I like how yours look !

shane

shanemcdonald

Is this how it should look ?
i cant read letters or numbers

thanks
shane

shanemcdonald

Will updated new release be available soon ?

thanks

shanemcdonald

I have current SE version of .net SE 8.7.x64

Wondering how I can go back to previous version ? any link to previous version ?

thanks

shanemcdonald

hi I changed a keltner signal from a "crossover" to "> greater than" in regular Multicharts, But I cant figure out how to do it in .net. I want to use the keltner signal with smaller profit targets, which requires a new signal, and the crossover wont work for this. I cannot see which line to change ...

shanemcdonald

Thank you Henry,

I knew I was missing something ! The AA setting is the key to my understanding.
Thanks for that explanation. I see more clearly now.

much appreciated !

shane

shanemcdonald

Is this a 30 day trial or can i use it to update my starter edition ?
Been waiting awhile now for a fix on the starter edition, I cannot use it with the memory leak issue.

thanks
shane

shanemcdonald

I agree !
I find the support here at MC outstanding !

Thank you for your hard work and excellent support.

shane

shanemcdonald

hi I have 8 crude oil autotrade strategies running on rithmic local sim1. If I select the rithmic local sim1 on the chart trader panel, then I can see the trading performance report; it is no longer greyed out. But the trading performance report starts with this message: " warning, multicharts canno...

shanemcdonald

I thought the trading performance was for manual trding ?

I am more concerned with strategy reporting for autotrading. This is what I need to work with.

I cant access trading performance report on a chart that I am running an auto strategy on.

shane

shanemcdonald

here is the zigzag strategy.
import it through the editor.
it has a custom function included, which will be imported also. Then compile the TL_Zigzag function and Zigzag strategy separately.

it may not be what you want, but I have seen no others around

I find it works well on renko charts

shanemcdonald

there is a zigzag strategy signal at www.tradersxchange.com
I think it is in the strategy forum sections.

shanemcdonald

I do not understand it either ! I would think this is basic for any kind of strategy development. Not sure what you mean, but I have to merge all of the data together in a spreadsheet manually. Only if you keep the chart running with no interruptions can you have a complete report. You could run the...

shanemcdonald

the memory seems to be working much better now in the beta release !
have you tried it ?

shanemcdonald

this is a major shortcoming of MC. I was shocked to find that the performance data is not saved automatically. If you dont save it , then it will be lost on any kind of shutdown or reboot. On top of that, I have to export each chart report individually ! I certainly hope they address this in the nea...

shanemcdonald

The last release has memory leak issues which are being fixed now. The new beta release just came out. My system froze up every 8 hours with 2 workspaces and 20 charts on a similar system. The tsserver and tradingserver processes would expand until memory was overwhelmed. It took awhile to figure it...

shanemcdonald

cqg does not work properly through amp. Please specify the particular issue you have. rithmic will not connect either. apparently there is a new trade route number in the rithmic api that MC support does not know. There is no universal setting for that. What is the connection error message you have...

shanemcdonald

cqg does not work properly through amp.
rithmic will not connect either. apparently there is a new trade route number in the rithmic api that MC support does not know.

unable to use it so far.

support told me I did not have to change cqg api for amp.

shanemcdonald

on the first chart, the keltner LE and SE did not fire at all. The Keltner settings are the same on both.
You can see the price closed above and below the keltner channel.
The same Keltner settings fired on the other.

Why would the data be different when both have same settings for the instrument ?

shanemcdonald

here is the other Although I copied one chart to create the other with exact same settings, I now see that the first bars do not line up. The start of the bars is quite different. The signals have not been altered, they are default. Since I restarted MC, I cannot check the chart to see if signals we...

shanemcdonald

here is one

shanemcdonald

I tested 2 exact same strategies and one fired signals and the other did not.
has anyone experienced this type of thing ?
attached chart

shanemcdonald

thank you
I thought the scaling settings in the window format dialog was the problem
I appreciate the help

shane

shanemcdonald

hi
when I add floor pivots or OHLC , the scaling distorts the chart too much for me.
I have tried the different scaling settings , but cannot get the scaling to stop all together.
I do not want any scaling of the indicators. Is this possible ?

thanks

shane

shanemcdonald

i have had that happen, but not after shutting the machine down.

sometimes a module will keep running and I have to close it in task manager, but shutting down would clear that.

shanemcdonald

i thought that it means the run up is beyond the profit point.
So if $100 profit was not taken , then the run up would be $190.

So it looks like the profit target is good for that strategy.

I may be wrong, but thats what I thought it meant.

shane

shanemcdonald

Does anyone know a good person that could convert a strategy from a different trading platform to MC ?

I have a basic one I created that works well on a renko chart, and I think I can refine the renko chart in MC to improve performance.

Is that an expensive job ?

thanks

shane

shanemcdonald

do you delete the trace /enable im each of the subfolders like the tsserver subfolder ?
or only in the main folder ?

thanks

shane

shanemcdonald

thanks alex

i think you did it for me on live chat !!
lol

thanks again

shane

shanemcdonald

mc locks up and when I try to create dump files to send to technical support, a dialog pops up and it says " logging disabled, please enable logging and try to recreate .................

or something like that.

how do you enable logging ? where is the setting ?

thx
shane

shanemcdonald

well lots of great information ! thanks everyone.

that custom 2 lines code worked perfectly in MC, thanks

I wonder why .net MC does not have custom 2lines`

I appreciate the great help.

shane

shanemcdonald

I wondered if a mov ave could be applied to an indicator ? is there a simple way to have a ma of the momentum indicator ? I like the indicator and thought a MA overlayed would help with direction. In ToS, they have momentum sma which has the ma overlayed. I would like to use it in Multicharts thanks...

shanemcdonald

I am unable to create and test strategies on multicharts for 2 reasons. 1. There is no trade data saved when testing strategies. I am required to manually export performance reports or I lose all the data if program crashes or restarts. I do not see how anyone can test in this environment. 2. I have...

shanemcdonald

the multicharts.exe dmp file is 1 gb and dropbox would not let me upload it

shane

shanemcdonald

hi mc locked up again, but it when i tried to run the dumpgui, it would not let me, it said "please enable logging and restart mc ". I could not get to screen shot software to take screenshot of process explorer. Only thing I could do was a dump file from process explorer on the 4 processes that wer...

shanemcdonald

Hi

Thank you very much for your info Henry.
You have always been very helpful

As a workaround, I used the other signal called Stops and Targets. That one works ok.
But your code is very helpful, thanks.

sincerely,

shane

shanemcdonald

hi

yes , session end is checked
when the SA is off, the historical trade history shows that the signal is working.
With SA on during live trading, it does not close position. It leaves position open.

thanks
shane

shanemcdonald

hi

I was testing the " Close at end of day " exit signal on a custom session of 7am to 9am.
After the session closed, the position remained open. It did not send any more signals, but it did not close the position.

Any thoughts ?

shane

shanemcdonald

hi it is 64 bit version. it freezes and at the top it says not responding . No error or other dialog boxes. after trying to shut it down with task manager on 2 occassions, after 10 mins the dialog for cqgtrader would come up and say " cqgtrader has stopped responding " , that only happened twice. do...

shanemcdonald

hi
I would like to be able to have performance data, from automated strategies , automatically saved to excel on a regular basis. Can that be programmed as code or something ?

Sort of like the autosave feature you see in many programs.

thanks
shane

shanemcdonald

hi what kinds of things cause the program to stop responding and freeze ? I cant go more than 2 days testing automated strategies without the program freezing up. And when it dreezes up, all of the trade performance data is lost. When it does freeze, is there anyway to workaround and at least save t...

shanemcdonald

thank you henry

thanks for all of your help here at Multicharts

sincerely

shane

shanemcdonald

hi I am fairly new to MC and wondered how accurate the orders are when running an automated strategy on a cqg or rithmic demo account. Are these orders realistic ? Do they resemble what the actual live orders would be on a live money account ? I am testing on liquid markets like crude and s&p. thank...

shanemcdonald

hi
thanks ABC

that will help
switching over to MC is tricky for me

also, I am using the SE .net version and I posted in the wrong forum ! haha lol
sorry about that

take care

shane

shanemcdonald

hi henry
yes, they do form the basis for the strategy. I just wanted to set up a scenario where only the
mov avg LE and SE are used when price is above the 50 period MA. In other words, the 15 period Mov Avg LE is triggered when price is above the 50 period MA. Does it make sense ?
thank you

shane

shanemcdonald

hi
What would the code look like for having long entries only when above 50 period mov avg and short entries when below 50 period mov avg.

I am migrating from a different platform and also I am not the sharpest tool in the shed.

thanks

shane

shanemcdonald

I use the dollar trailing signal.
I think there is another signal . Its called " stops and targets" , it has a trailing signal in it as well as breakeven and percent settings. It is in the beginning of the signal list, not alphabetized.

shane

shanemcdonald

hi I have tested many settings in my autotrade strategies and found that different settings work best with different instruments. I start by making the box size equivalent to the point value of the instrument. e.g. for crude I use .10 , which equals $100 , or a ten cent move in price. for resolution...

shanemcdonald

thanks henry

shanemcdonald

hi

every sunday night when the market opens, the historical data is always messed up with gaps.
This happens every week and throws off most indicators. Reloading data does not correct it.
Is this common with cqg or is it just me ?

thanks

shane

shanemcdonald

hi when developing a strategy, how do you test it live when there is no sim account ? Right now , I am using a demo but I cannot connect to my live account to trade. CQG does not allow that. Is this different with other data feeds ? When I am connected to live account, I cannot test the autotrade st...

shanemcdonald

ok thanks Henry !
I appreciate your quick reply

shane

shanemcdonald

hi
The OHLC indicator shows the open , close at midnight no matter what session I load.
Has anyone seen this ?

shane

shanemcdonald

thank you henry !
much appreciated !

shane

shanemcdonald

you can use either DT or new SE with amp/ cqg if you have regular version, it works also when the trial expires , buy the multicharts or just use se or dt. the only thing dt cannot do is custom scripts through power language editor. I like the way mc.net runs on dual core processor, very nice ! shane

shanemcdonald

I was checking out the trendline autotrade signal and cant get it to trigger.

Does anyone know about the settings on this signal ?

shane

shanemcdonald

hi
I am migrating from the other trading platform and had a couple questions.

Where do you find your current daily profit and loss and trades for the day ?

Also,can you be in a virtual position so as to catch the next signal for an automated strategy ?

thanks

shane

shanemcdonald

thank you both for this great information !
during my migration from a different platform, I do get lost sometimes on the road.
I appreciate the help in finding my way !

peace
shane

shanemcdonald

Hi
It is a great idea you have come up with .
I am enjoying the SE version very much.
It actually may be good for me to focus on two symbols only.

It has been helping so far.
thanks

shane

shanemcdonald

Why doesnt MC have a decent pivot indicator ?
are there any out there ?

thanks

shane

shanemcdonald

ok, thanks !

shane

shanemcdonald

where do i find trading performance report ?

shane

shanemcdonald

hi I am fairly new to MC and have been live testing some strategies . I restarted my computer and multicharts to find that there is nothing in the strategy performance reports on the charts that i have tested. Did I lose all of that live testing data ? I am a NT user and I am used to being able to v...

shanemcdonald

do i need to do this for multicharts.net ?

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