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MidKnight

Thanks for the reply, this is good news. Can you tell me where I can find this data feed symbol to broker mapping configuration? Out of curiosity, why would the DOM be unavailable as an order entry option? The IQFeed symbol still provides inside bid/ask data, just the same as my level 1 data subscri...

MidKnight

It looks like both charts have a different starting bar and thus making them have a different starting price. Try using the exact same starting price on both charts and they should mirror each other.

With kind regards,
MK

MidKnight

Hi there, I'm trying to cut back my data costs. Currently I am subscribing to exchanges for data twice, once for my data feed (IQfeed, esignal) and once for my broker (Interactive Brokers). Can I cancel my Interactive Brokers data subscriptions and still place orders through MC.net? Is there a broke...

MidKnight

Hi Henry, Happened again this morning. FTP uploaded the logs to you. All I was doing was started MC.net and then opened my Oanda data source workspaces. That is all. My workspaces are all identical in terms of number of charts and what is on the charts. Each workspace contains 4 charts and I'm tryin...

MidKnight

Hi there,

I still get the very descriptive "Error 429" with this new datafeed module, and the charts won't load or backfill until I shut them all and try again. Is there anything in particular you would like me to provide you for further examination?

MidKnight

G'day JoshM, Normally I would say you may be onto something here, but I'm opening the same number of Oanda fed workspaces (19) that I have every day for months. Each workspace is charting a single instrument. Never had a problem before until the other day when there was holiday hours on some of the ...

MidKnight

I did contact them before posting here, and they told me to contact multicharts support.....They said something like, we only provide the API access and it is up to your chart provider to handle that.

MidKnight

Some extra information. This is with a real account as the data source and the account is Oanda's v20 account type. Yesterday and part of today was holidays in some markets and as a result, Oanda had certain holiday hours for some of their CFD offerings. It seems that if I start MC.net and only open...

MidKnight

Hi there, Since last night I have been unable to chart any symbols. MC.net quote manager says its connecting to each symbol and requesting data but they all come back with "Error 429". I've never yet had this problem and it worked fine all day. Then last evening I shut charting down for a time and w...

MidKnight

This issue has not happened to me since I posted. I will update this thread with logs and screenshot when it next occurs. Anyone else having the issue, please do the same. It would be good to have this fixed.

With all my best,
MK

MidKnight

I agree, it should.

The current implementation is just prone to making a costly mistake.

MidKnight

No change with the latest stable MC.net64 version. Data still randomly stops and only a restart brings it back to life.

MidKnight

Recently, the Oanda MC.net data server just stops distributing quotes. I see no messages in the quote manager window indicating of a problem. Here is a screenshot of my Oanda FX Trade real account platform and the MC.net chart. The MC.net chart has stopped. Both applications are connected to the sam...

MidKnight

Hi there,

From my experience it is common amongst DOMs to enter Stop buy orders if you click above the best offer, and limit orders if you click at or below the best offer. The better order entry platforms allow you to change it from a stop to a stop limit.

With kind regards,
MK

MidKnight

1) This is the default Microsoft Windows functionality for Multiple-Document Interface (MDI) Applications. Changing this behavior will go against Microsoft best practice directions. 2) The "Format" window pops up on the screen where your mouse pointer is currently located. 1. MS doesn't always know...

MidKnight

Most traders have several screens. MC.net has a few usability issues around multiple screens that make simple tasks tedious and unnecessary. Opening a new chart spans nearly the entire application of MC.net. If you stretch your MC.net across your entire screen real estate then you have re-adjust you...

MidKnight

And where is that setting?

In the MC.net file | preferences | trading tab I have a currency set.

MidKnight

Only recently I have noticed a new symbol in the strategy performance report appears where it I think it used to be a $ symbol. Where did this thing come from?

MidKnight

Yes I have noticed issues with this tool as well but I'm unable to rule out datasource issues, in my case. Something to consider is that real-time vs historical data will be different and as a result will of course change the shape. You need to compare real-time with real-time and vice versa. Esigna...

MidKnight

Multicharts calls this resolution "contract" - select it from the dropdown list.

With kind regards,
MK

MidKnight

Hi there, I want my price marker to always be on top in the price scale. My price data series is set to "bring to front" so that should make it the top series on the price chart. The indicator markers keep covering up the price marker though. Surely this must be possible, but I cannot figure out how.

MidKnight

This looks far superior to what I coded and use. Thanks so much for the effort JoshM. A tool like this should have been included in the default indicator suite for MC.net.

With kind regards,
MK

MidKnight

I'm not sure if this has already been requested, but could `TimeSpan` structures be allowed as an input? We can already use `DateTime` as an input, but that gives weird inputs where people also can also set the year: http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=9151 I'd personally muc...

MidKnight

I didn't know that was your site! I've used it quite a bit in the past. Thank you JoshM.

With all my best,
MK

MidKnight

Hello JoshM, The original behavior was not intended to be changed. For example IPlotObject.Reset(10) will delete the plot 10 bars ago from the current one. The plot is deleted but when Line style is used - it will connect the available plots. If you do not want to see the connecting lines between p...

MidKnight

Hi there,

Decided to try this out. It seemed to work but I cannot create a new file in the PL.net editor and have that show up in the VSC2015 project. I've did recompile all from within PL.net editor after adding the new file. Any ideas?

With kind regards,
MK

MidKnight

I have a version of this, but it may not work if your after hours session spans past midnight - is that of any use to you?

MidKnight

This should be start of the standard indicator suite instead of the huge majority of other junk indicators packaged.

With kind regards,
MK

MidKnight

Update ~~~~~ I did as Henry suggested in the post above and noted lots of times the last traded price was outside the bid/ask tick data stream. I don't have hard percentage numbers, but in 30 seconds i was able to highlight a dozen ticks that did this. Imagine how much that adds up to in an entire d...

MidKnight

mrmister,

I would not advise doing any intraday volume analysis with IB data, especially anything at the tick level. IB data is snapshots and not ticks. There is also a large discrepancy between real-time intraday data and historical data.

With kind regards,
MK

MidKnight

I just had more response from eSignal on this and they again confirm that they are not seeing this issue on a real-time feed with their eSignal charting application. They again pushed the problem onto my charting provider, you guys aka Multicharts.net .....

MidKnight

Screenshot. This is just nonsense.

MidKnight

Hi there, I've encountered a pretty strange problem with my tick data that is either a problem at my data providers end (eSignal) or in the way MC.net is processing tick data. Pull up a T&S window and watch the ticks come across on a real-time feed of the HKFE HSI Futures. You will note that a large...

MidKnight

Hi Henry, What I'm reporting is not a feature request, it is a usability defect and I report it to you as a service in hopes you want to improve your product. If you say the current implementation is the intended behavior, then I ask, who intended it this way? A programmer? A manager? This is not ho...

MidKnight

When you use the global crosshair with 'show cross' menu selection, it will try to mirror the X and Y axis across all charts. A pretty handy feature. When you are in global crosshair mode and you click on a chart, all charts will attempt to jump to the X axis. A pretty handy feature - except it will...

MidKnight

Just noticed this today. The status line low price for the day is wrong on both HSI and HHI futures. Esignal data issue or??? The high price is matching the current day high, low is wrong though. Note this is an all sessions chart. The high/low for the day is right if I change the symbol to only sho...

MidKnight

Have you tried the same data request with 1 minute data?

MidKnight

And I can assume when you are trying to backfill an expired contract that you have also adjusted the date range to suit the contract? I can see zero data coming for expired contracts if did not manually specify the date range....

With kind regards,
MK

MidKnight

Hi there, To the bets of my knowledge (and I may be wrong) MC.net custom futures builds the symbol from your local database. It won't go and add in historical contracts that are not currently in your database. You need to manually add each historical contract and collect their respective backfill to...

MidKnight

Doesn't work on FF either and hasn't worked ever since I came to MC.net over 2 years ago.

MidKnight

Same problem again on EntryBar_ATR_Stop LX/SX strategies.

MidKnight

Yep, that's what I thought....

MidKnight

What I mean is EntryBar_Stop_SX is an exit strategy for short positions, no? If that's the case, then the exit action for a short position is buytocover and not to sell. As an example for comparison Profitable_Closes_SX strategy has buytocover action as I would expect. EntryBar_Stop_* has the order ...

MidKnight

Not tried this but just throwing the idea out there.

You can probably do this by controlling your symbol date range on your chart.

With kind regards,
MK

MidKnight

The 2 EntryBar_Stop exit strategies (LX and SX) look wrong either in the naming conventions used or in their function. 1) In EntryBar_Stop_SX, the variable used for the stop exit is called "m_EbDlrLX". This exit is supposed to be a short exit, not a long exit. 2) The order action for the EntryBar_St...

MidKnight

I use MC.Net with TWS IB. For a break in the line today I have two holes of data. As before, I uninstalled Java, I installed version 1,8,0_31-b13 for Windows 7. I rebooted the PC, I opened the TWS latest version (948,3c), which loads the data correctly, I started MC . Net, I still found the holes i...

MidKnight

Thanks JoshM,

Nothing changed on my end except time elapsed....I haven't even re-booted my computer since starting work this afternoon. Should it recur, I'll visit the link you posted - thank you.

MidKnight

Several restarts later and a lot of time has elapsed since my initial report - now login works with the popup remaining visible until I enter the user/pass. No idea what happened or why it was in error earlier today.

MidKnight

Just today for some reason, the usual OANDA authorization screen has stopped working. Usually when I first open up an Oanda symbol for the first time within a multicharts session, it will display a popup allowing me to login to Oanada and allow access to the Oanda the API. Today that popup screen is...

MidKnight

I can't do any mornings. I have 2 young boys that take up my entire morning as I get ready to take them for their activities for the day. Can we set up to meet at 1230AM on Weds my time (that should be 630AM Tuesday your time) next week? I can replicate the problem 100% of the time. I want it made c...

MidKnight

I get up at 6am every day so that means I'm in bed before 10pm. Your live chat hours starts at 1230am my time - if I purposefully get up at 1230am to give you remote access to my multicharts application will you assure me an immediate meeting or will I have to wait in some sort of queue? Will I have...

MidKnight

G'day Andrew, I didn't say it was just a memory leak, I said it was taking all my RAM. It took less than a minute to totally cripple and disable a computer with 4GB of RAM. You expect me to install software that allows you to gather debug information but that same software you want me to install bri...

MidKnight

"That is not technically possible to implement this functionality same was as it is done in PowerLanguage (via study inputs). " Henry, I've been dying to ask for a while - why not? Indicator output should be treated as a dataseries just like symbol dataseries. It is an obvious abstraction. Since you...

MidKnight

Complete fresh install of Windows 7 with completely up to date windows updates on a brand new Intel computer that is dedicated to only running trading applications with MC.net64 version 9.0 build 10362 and this problem still exists. Also, if I happen to open Oanda data source symbols, there are 2 MC...

MidKnight

^^ I agree. Currently, this seems inconsistent.

MidKnight

Please oh please, finally make this bar specific data pane popup readable. Why do you make it a transparent window???

MidKnight

I know this isn't what you are asking but maybe even this would help. .....expose access to contract rollover functions through the API. They already have all the rules coded, but we cannot access it. I have had need to determine if today was a rollover day and like you, had to tediously implement i...

MidKnight

Also, using a footprint chart with IB data will be gross. I did it back in the original footprint charts from MD and did a in depth comparison between IQFeed vs IB with footprint charts. IB has no tick data.

With kind regards,
MK

MidKnight

Hiya JoshM,

Not the same build number as you report, but just thought more feedback for you may be appropriate. MC.net 9.0 build 10362 starts the PLEditor in 2-3 seconds. I have no virus software on my trading computer.

All my best,
MK

MidKnight

In the name of code re-use. Where is some example code for calling our custom indicators from within our strategies? I had thought this was supposed to be possible in version 9 but I cannot find it from searching the forum and google searching.

MidKnight

Please, please, please - change the way you notify the user of data feed disconnections. Every day on HSI just after the lunch re-open there seems to be disconnections from historical and cash market data services. I get spammed with these intrusive popups for about the first 30mins. Please either a...

MidKnight

MC.net has written code to calculate which date are rollover dates - I want access to that code via the API. I'm asking if there is anything in the API that allows me to detect when the rollover date is for a specific custom futures symbol. In my system code, I want to test a variety of ideas center...

MidKnight

Hi there, I'm conducting futures rollover studies across a variety of futures and need to determine if the current trading day is the last day of the contract. Because MC.net has code to calculate a variety of rollover rules through the custom instrument creation - I'm hoping to leverage that code. ...

MidKnight

IB does not provide tick data.

MidKnight

I should also add that its likely that the "real" vwap will vary depending on datafeed and if the data came from real-time collection or from historical backfill.

MidKnight

Its possible the results are different because you applied their vwap on something other than a 1 tick chart. The true vwap for the day is calculated from a 1 tick chart. The nearer you get to the end of the day, the closer a different chart (such as a 1min) will be to a 1 tick chart VWAP -- in most...

MidKnight

Describe what you mean by "good" and "real"? I have coded my own one, but I do not know if it meets your criteria. Happy to share if it does.

MidKnight

This will be really good - thank you!

MidKnight

No worries. I should add that if I was only to want USA products, I'd probably be using DTN IQFeed.

With all my best,
MK

MidKnight

Very tough question. All have issues and it depends on your needs and the size of your wallet :) If I could afford it, I'd probably be trying to use CQG....but instead I use esignal for Hong Kong Futures data and IB for forex data......My forex trading is on nothing lower than 2 hour bars, so IB is ...

MidKnight

Hi GTrader,

Be careful using volume with real-time IB data - it is grossly inaccurate. While all real-time feeds have differences between their real-time volume data and historical volume data - IB is the worst of the bunch.

With kind regards,
MK

MidKnight

You want me to export symbols with data or only the settings will suffice?

MidKnight

We also have few more questions: When you close MultiCHarts is any of your charts still backfilling? When you close MultiCHarts is any of studies on any of your charts still calculating? Do any other processes of MultiCharts stay active after the software is closed completely? Data sources connecte...

MidKnight

This bug persists with your latest "stable" release of version 9. Running both IB TWS and esignal for data. Your logscollector tool still crashes when trying to FTP the file.

MidKnight

Starting to think this problem is limited to situations when connected to data services. The few times I've run MC.net today in offline mode, tsserver.exe has terminated shortly after shutting down MC.net64

MidKnight

No difference, tsserver.exe still remains after exit most of the time.

MidKnight

Just windows defender. No issue with prior version of MC.net64, but version 9 leaves this process hanging nearly every time after exiting the program.

MidKnight

Several minutes.

MidKnight

No antivirus. CPU and RAM appears normal. Scenario is real-time charting only. I'm forced to use buttontrader for order entry due to previously reported and unnecessary limitations you place on the MC DOM. I can send you a screenshot on Monday, but I don't know what you expect to see from it. The pr...

MidKnight

The instruments I have been watching this on are Hang Seng Futures and H-Shares Futures.

No I have not notified IB about it because it is an MC issue. It was fine in version 8 and has been a problem in version 9, both using the same version of TWS - Build 944.3c, Apr 29, 2014 5:52:27 PM

MidKnight

The problem is intermittent. I'll manually FTP upload the logs if you can PM me access. Your logscollector program just crashes every time.

Edit: tsserver remains again today, have 2 log file archives now. Logscollector program crashes again.

MidKnight

Your logs collector crashes with a stacktrace. I have the logs in a 16mb archive but I do not have any filehosting services.

MidKnight

Support, your input on how to achieve this would be appreciated. Your lack of input suggests extremely hard/impossible to do within MC.net.

MidKnight

Another needed feature that is common across a variety of platforms. A feature like this should be a standard 'basic' feature. One of many that MC.net does not enjoy - yes, its a real shame.

MidKnight

^^
Exactly - that is needed.

MidKnight

Hi there, First time checking my IB data in real-time since moving up to the version 9 stuff. The price is usually out of sync by a large margin with both my order entry tool and with TWS. This is nothing to do with fast market conditions, I was noticing this in the doldrums of midday where the majo...

MidKnight

Hi JoshM, thanks for the reply. 1) This will visually mess up the timeframe being used for study. 2) I've been trying this, but I cannot get it to work with historical data - real-time only. Say for example I have a 1minute chart that I am studying with a tick precise indicator. The calcbar() will o...

MidKnight

Now that I've learned MC.net has great difficulty creating a tick precise indicator, I'd like to collate suggestions for how this is done. Originally I thought setting "update on every tick" in the indicator properties would do it, but no that is not the case as realized here: https://www.multichart...

MidKnight

It is not an antivirus issue.

Next time it occurs I'll do as you say with the logscollector. Thank you.

I do not know why it happens. All I'm doing is hitting file | exit from the menu system.

MidKnight

Frequently getting this happen, but not every time. tsserver.exe will remain after mc.net64 is exited. I have to kill it in taskman.

MidKnight

Well, it is not resolved on my 9.0 RC Build 9913 that you had me download today, Henry. Using LastBarOnChart consistently gives inconsistent results. I didn't even have to wait long to get these missing plots, imagine how many one would get on an entire day if using this code in a small timeframe ch...

MidKnight

Still a problem with build suggested from Henry to use (Build 9913). There are probably hundreds of errors within a single day of tick data. This screenshot only marks less than 1 minute of data and there are other discrepancies not marked on this chart. Code used: protected override void StartCalc(...

MidKnight

OK, I didn't even try my code without lastbaronchart but in my case on MC.net64 9.0 RC1 with tick charts it is sometimes firing and sometimes not. There is a real problem there somewhere. I'll try your suggestion tomorrow - thank you.

MidKnight

When running an indicator in real-time and trying to detect the bar open. It is quite frequently never in an open state. This seems like a serious issue. Indicator code: if (Bars.LastBarOnChart) { if (Bars.Status == EBarState.Open) { Output.WriteLine("new bar: {0}", Bars.Time[0].TimeOfDay); } } Outp...

MidKnight

Thanks JoshM, the online help does not even mention this real-time only quality.

https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... Every_Tick

MidKnight

Title says it all.

MidKnight

When creating an indicator that is tick precise and having "update on every tick" enabled in your indicator properties. Will it call calcbar() on every tick with historical data? My impression so far is that this may not be the case despite the help implying that this should be the case.

MidKnight

So I'm told that CustomInstrument in MC 9.0 Release Candidate will solve all my problems as per this thread accessing volume data tick by tick: https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=47126 I'm also told that MC.net 9.0 Release Candidate is stable and to not worry about using it....

MidKnight

Can you tell me what your code example is supposed to do? From my examination, this will not sync data with the main chart on both historical data and real-time.

MidKnight

Of course it needs to line up with the main datastream - that is the whole point of the study. If I didn't need it to line up then I'd just a 1 tick stream as the main data source and there would be no questions. But how are you gonna put any context within that 1 tick stream - its too detailed. It ...

MidKnight

From the example, it is not clear to me why you would use an array of WaitHandles and call WaitAny() rather than just a single WaitHandle and call WaitOne() ?

Also, would it not be prudent to have a timeout mechanism in place?

Perhaps you could clarify for us. Thank you.

MidKnight

Have you checked the instrument session settings in your quotemanager? Some of them are wrong without modification.

MidKnight

Thanks for the reply JoshM. No, I am not using version 9. Trading is hard enough without needing to use unstable beta software. This issue with the dataloader data being out of sync with the data1 stream is hugely serious and if it is well known and there is a well known way around it, why hasn't th...

MidKnight

OK, so I've been trying the dataloader route because Henry's previous suggestion looks to me like it will only work on real-time data. I need something that will work on both historical and real-time. I tried my best to follow the example here: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/...

MidKnight

Bugger. ;(

MidKnight

Hi there, I'm trying to create a study that will be displayed on any regular chart but it will require all its calculations on a tick by tick basis of the data within each tick. I had thought this would be simple to code but I can't see how I access the volume of each tick. Yeah I could do the uglin...

MidKnight

To answer my own question, it works with the current latest 11.8 data manager.

MidKnight

Hi there,

Which esignal data manager versions are compatible with MC.net?

MidKnight

Yes you must be doing something wrong. I am not using the bundled TWS version and only get pacing violations when doing daily backfill of minute data on over a dozen symbols or if I do 2+ days of 'tick' data backfill on a single ticker. How many days back are you requesting your backfill for? A full...

MidKnight

Does this mean we can now update java as long as we use the latest TWS and everything should work?

MidKnight

May I suggest that you remove the ascii mapping datasource dropdown list option when manually adding a symbol to eliminate confusion for the users.

MidKnight

OK, and if you do insert a symbol manually under the ascii mapping selection, should it map onto the file on subsequent chart opens when new data is provided onto the file? Because it does not, despite being titled ascii mapping.

MidKnight

Yes it works now Henry and yes you did cover it in your first reply. My point was why have 2 ascii mapping ways of adding a symbol but only have one of them actually perform the desired feature?

MidKnight

Hi Henry, This process is very confusing. What I did was manually add new symbol, select ascii mapping datasource. From there I went through the normal symbol setup definition. Afterwards I manually imported the data and expected the symbol to automatically map from there on. It did not. Only after ...

MidKnight

1. The file is a daily data file
2. The import resolution was set to 1 day (automatically detected)
3. 1 day
4. Daily
5. Version: 8.8.9593

MidKnight

OK - then I have a problem with it.

I have some ASCII mapped created symbols that do not update when I load the chart despite their corresponding CSV file having updated data. The only way I can get the updated to show is manually import the data through the quotemanager again for all the symbols.

MidKnight

I'm somewhat confused by the purpose of the ASCII mapping feature. According to your online help it says: "In such a case ASCII mapping is the solution; there are two principal reasons for using ASCII mapping: 1. If one or several ASCII files constantly used are periodically updated. Even if there a...

MidKnight

Dear MC.net Team, While it is possible to create your own cumm delta indicator - why isn't this provided as a built-in? Every other charting package offering cumm delta does it as such. That is what the OP is asking and implying in their question. It's a fair request too, IMO. You guys need to keep ...

MidKnight

Update 65 is available now, is this 'safe' ?

MidKnight

This has annoyed me since day one of being a MC.net user. All of the requests and their associated comments show an incomplete date. Show a proper and complete date that includes the year.

With kind regards,
MK

MidKnight

HSI trading hours are outside your support hours so I will unable to demonstrate it live. How do we proceed in this circumstance?

MidKnight

How can I demonstrate it to your engineers when the market is closed during those hours?

Instead, is there logging I can enable in MC.net and TWS that demonstrates the issue?

MidKnight

Hi Alex, Of course I am subscribed to the data.....otherwise I couldn't be charting it. To reiterate, I am only subscribed to level I data and see no reason for the log in the quotemanager to be requesting deep book (level II) data. Have you tested it with level I subscription only? Have you tested ...

MidKnight

Hi there, I've had this working before but now get 2 issues when trying to trade the HSI Futures with IB. 1) Trading from the chart just gives an order rejected voice sound. 2) The DOM won't load for HSIM14 as it is constantly trying to request a full price ladder but I am only subscribed to inside ...

MidKnight

I could be wrong, but I think the client ID of zero is reserved by TWS for the application that is placing orders. If you are connected to the TWS with your MC.net then you may not be able to connect to the TWS with your third party order entry. Don't worry though, you can still receive data from th...

MidKnight

I agree with much of that. For discretionary trading, the MC platforms are unsatisfactory as they lack basic and IMO standard functionality and/or usability. For learning purposes, the platform lacks adequate playback functionality. For research related statistical coding purposes, I find the API cu...

MidKnight

If you have a lifetime license I do not think you need the "special" TWS integration version at an extra cost. My lifetime license works just fine with the TWS.

With kind regards,
MK

MidKnight

I've contacted IB about this and they recommended gathering detailed log files from the TWS and from MC.net - sending them through to the MC staff and CC'n the API staff at IB. I've enabled the detailed logging within TWS. Do I need to enable some detailed logging in MC.net? I'll send through the lo...

MidKnight

Our discussion forum is for constructive dialogue. If you want to get help - there is no point being offensive to our support team or company management. If you have functionality suggestions – please create a feature request in the Project Management section of our website or send it directly to s...

MidKnight

I have already noticed that in the past, but I have now no more doubt about it : you modify our messages. You have changed many things in my message. For example the fact that I have been asking these enhancements for years, and also the fact that these enhancements concern really obvious things th...

MidKnight

Still a problem with the latest TWS build. All my TWS data farms remain green and in a "connected" state. Maybe you could investigate this random behavior some. I'm connected to IB's HKfarm.

MidKnight

Still a problem with the latest TWS build. All my TWS data farms remain green and in a "connected" state. Maybe you could investigate this random behavior some. I'm connected to IB's HKfarm.

MidKnight

Does the data shown on the chart match what your chart instrument settings specify?

With kind regards,
MK

MidKnight

I'll give that a try for next week Henry. The version I'm running is only 6 days older than the latest release.

I hate all these bloody upgrades of software all the time - constantly breaks things.

MidKnight

TWS info:
Build 944.3b, Apr 24, 2014 11:53:01 AM
Jolt Build 1.2.6, Feb 14, 2014 04:09:43 PM
Nia Build 1.11.5, Jan 22, 2014 05:21:07 PM
ModelNav Build 1.1.47, Jan 7, 2014 10:26:24 AM
Riskfeed Build 1.24.7, Mar 5, 2014 10:12:20 AM

MultiCharts .NET64 Version 8.8 Release (Build 8365)

MidKnight

At about the same time as I was forced to upgrade my TWS from Interactive Brokers, my daily FOREX data is wrong every day. The only way to fix it is to force a reload. This never used to be a problem. Please see the attached screenshot showing a daily chart in the bottom right and the intraday 4 hou...

MidKnight

The last price on the daily chart matches the TWS. It will move up and down with the last price throughout the day but it will not plot a proper OHLC bar. I should add that this is a random real-time issue somewhere. After reloading from historical data once the day is over, it will right itself. "D...

MidKnight

When the issue happens, changing to individual contracts does not make a difference. I have not contacted IB about it yet.

MidKnight

Hi there, Recently I have been getting a '-' as my entire current day daily bar data from Interactive Brokers. I do not know if this is an IB issue or a MC.net issue. The problem seems to only happen on one of my symbols and also seemed to start once I was recently forced to upgrade TWS to a new ver...

MidKnight

Hi there, Trying to automate my contextual biases into a single place. I have a scanner window that has daily data loaded and I have indicators that on some days, will provide a +1/-1 value. I would like to have the scanner window colour code their cell within the scanner window based on these value...

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TWS version number please. I just updated my TWS (version 9443b) last weekend and it connected fine to MC.net 8.8 build 8365 all of last week.

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Please see the attached images. MC.net date range_1.png This is the screenshot of the format instrument settings data range that I have manually set it to. Now save the workspace and close down MC.net then restart it. Open the same workspace and look at the format instruments setting data range. MC....

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I would like to experiment with using vertical volume in my strategies.
What is 'vertical volume'? Googling that term only gives me search results relating to volume as in sound and music.

He means volume at price.

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Hi there,

Here is a volume profile on 15m chart set to draw a profile for each bar. Look at the profile high/low used, it doesn't match up even close to the high/low of the bar. Is it my setting issue or....?

With kind regards,
MK

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^^....and its tick backfill is 1 second data.

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So I just spoke to my friend (alias kiwitrader) that has coded this himself to work within Siera charts. Here is what he said to me. Here is the easiest way. 1. print bars to chart up until the last time interval based purely on the true data 2. print the current bar based on the highest of the two ...

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Hi Henry, Thanks for asking for user feedback. I need to think about your questions before responding. IB data you can see in MultiCharts is exactly the same data that can be seen in IB API example and that is streamed to all third party applications. We have added filters for the critical issues wi...

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Thanks for the reply Henry. This sparks some further questions. 1) If you store it in a cache and the user chooses to reload - the chart is just loading the same already defective data - so whats the point of the reload feature? 2) I have experienced collecting data in real-time. Closing MC.net for ...

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Hi Fabrice, Thanks for the reply. My question is not about getting the daily chart to match the intraday chart. It is strictly about forcing a refresh on the intraday data. Here is what I have recently noticed. We collect data for a market in real-time from the IB feed. As we have discussed in other...

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That is normal with the IB API. 1 minute data is requested in chunks and it will take several requests just to get a single days data. If you are trying to load many days of 1 minute data for the first time, you will certainly get pacing violations. MC.net will keep trying and once IB's pacing restr...

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I have recently noticed huge flaws in the IB data. Due to the heavily flawed real-time data collection this morning I loaded up my charts from the previous day and wanted to refresh my charts to get the correct data. I had the chart selected, clicked on the View | Reload | 1 day back menu option. Th...

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Hi Henry, I'm aware they provide tick data but I want to know how fine a granularity their timestamp is. Years ago it was only as low as 1 second - is this still the case? Just because they offer tick data doesn't mean they have fine granularity in their timestamps. eSignal referred my questions abo...

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Hi JoshM, Both charts were collected real-time! I'm well aware that historical prices will differ from real-time prices. That happens with esignal too and isn't unique to IB data. I'm not sure if it is related to that PM you list. The PM item #2 is definitely true and is not an issue with the TWS ch...

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It has been recommended to me by Henry to uncheck "Generate new tick if total volume changes". When I had it checked, the last price was often out of sync with what TWS was quoting as the last price. So here I have some comparisions between TWS charts and todays HSI futures. "Generate new tick if to...

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Thanks for the message Fabrice. I've been trading full-time for coming up 10 years now and one thing true for me, is one needs to keep exploring because what you do today may not work in the future. Of course we will never know if an exploration will make more money than before. Asking that type of ...

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I have some general esignal queries that I couldn't find information on.
- is the timestamp accuracy from esignal still only down to 1 second?
- esignal have a datamanager only option that they sell via a charting vendor. Do you have such an agreement?

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I don't check the normal MC forum so I didn't know about it. So this was discussed 2 years ago and still this PM request is an "not determined" state. How could something so crucial remain like that for 2 years. There are a lot of benefits to using IB as a datafeed. The most obvious to me is that it...

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https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissu ... no=MC-1224

There are 7 votes for this PM entry. I would like to know why this hasn't been addressed yet. Any charting vendor I've used that supports IB as a datafeed has had this addressed years ago.

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Could you please summarize how your request is different than the built-in VWAP tool?

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The logic expressed above is simple to do. You just need to flag session end boundary by as I had said previously, using either session object or LastBarInSession property. I personally think sesison object approach is cleaner rather than checking if previous bar was the last bar in session, but thi...

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(...) Do you guys have method to retrieve the session trading dates? (...) If you have more than five days of historical data on your chart, you could store the session start and session end times for every historical day (Mon - Fri) in an array. Then determine some day in the future (for example 3...

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It is not that I'm used to how MC.net do it. Every charting package of the more than 1/2 dozen that I have used define a symbol with just time and day - never date. If you gave an example of a session definition for forex that uses DATES, maybe some one could give you some answers. I cannot see how ...

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I respectfully disagree. Having a date makes no sense to me. All that is needed is a TIME and DAY. Maybe you could give an example of your suggested session definition with a date for forex session. I run many forex symbols and have no issue with how the current session definitions are. With kind re...

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Hmm...that is a bit odd then. When I go to import into powerlanguage.net editor. The import dialog says it VWAP_reset indicator is being imported, and that is the same name as what comes with a standard install. I've stopped the import right here until I get further confirmation this will not clobbe...

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Thanks Andrew,

This indicator is intended to replace the pre-packaged one? Won't this break my other charts that only have 1 data source on them? This pln looks like it will overwrite my existing vwap indicator.

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Session definitions do not have a date and it probably makes no sense for a session to have a date. Session is a template for trading days, but not trading days them self. I hope that makes sense. To get a trading date, you just use Bars.Time[0]

With kind regards,
MK

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Howdy, Checking for the first bar of the day is not hard and there are probably several ways to do it either through using the Session or Bars.LastBarInSession. If you want to save state in your code outside of the CalcBar() loop, you put your variable into the object. If you have many variables sav...

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Hello MidKnight, Project Management experienced some crashes in the past, some statuses were lost and each of the requests should reviewed one-by-one now. We are doing it, but the priority is given to bugs and requests with greater number of votes. That is not true Henry. There are items that get p...

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I'd also, respectfully agree with what JoshM says. There is a major IB key issue for me that I would like to raise but note it is already in the project management site but under a not reviewed state coming up 2 years now. I'm tempted to raise the issue again since someone last raised it 2 years ago...

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To the MC team:

How long do you let things stay in a "Not Reviewed" state?
Why are there items in that list exceeding 2 years that are still not reviewed?
Is it MC policy to use the project management site as a way to shut clients up without having to address their needs?

Frustratingly yours,
MK

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Andrew, Obviously my visible symbol on the chart is set to OHLC - that is why I was posting it as a problem. Your solution is not what I had posted a normal 5min chart would look like if it was the only symbol on the chart. Please try your suggestion and tell me if you can get it to look like a norm...

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Hello,

Still unsure how to proceed. Please suggest a solution that will not affect my other symbols on this exchange.

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In SC I can't get the data feed's time stamp that easily... So this gives me the data feed's "bar open" time stamp down to seconds resolutions. And to extract milliseconds from that stamp I do this? The bars timestamp in MC.net is the bar close time. This is common amongst most other platforms too....

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G'day TicksCollector, I used SC for a time and its a good platform for the price. I personally hated their model for writing customized studies but I have a good friend (Kiwi, you have maybe heard of him) that just loves it. I'm by no means an expert on MC.net but will help where I can. The bars tim...

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Have you tried to close the chart you are using and open it again? No. Is any holiday list selected for the exchange used by HSI symbol root (it should be HKFE, you can find it in QuoteManager->Tools->Exchanges and ECN's)? No. There is no holidays listed. I cannot use the HKFE exchange and ECN in t...

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Hi there, Today is supposed to be rollover on the Hang Seng futures but my custom futures symbol is failing to rollover. Maybe you know how I can fix this. We should be rolling over the day before the last trading day of the month. Normally that would be a rollover of tomorrow because Friday would b...

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No I have not checked that article. Will do so before adding more to this thread.

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Hi there, I have a strategy on Renko charts that looks really good. But looking at the fills they seem to be unrealistic. For example: Lets say its a 5 tick Renko. Price goes from 95-100 on the bar that generates a buy signal. So the system tries to buy next bar at market. Next bar at market price i...

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Hmmm, OK that could be the issue. In my previous versions of MC I have the database moved to my D: in the same installation directory as the application - as it should be IMO and not in in a separate installation on C: as you guys do. Anyhow, so I did upgrade to version 8.8 and had to edit the regis...

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Hi Andrew,

While your suggestion does fix the indicator scaling problem it is not what I want. Take a look at my screenshots showing your suggestion versus what I want.

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OK - its on the way....

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Yes it is easy to replicate and I get a 100% success rate in doing so. I've sent the workspace through to that email you mentioned. Simply open the workspace and voila it will do its thing with the line. It will do it on any of the charts in that workspace. As soon as you open the horizontal line pr...

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I never went ahead and did as JoshM suggested above because you posted it would be added to version 8.8 and since I was going to be upgrading once to the latest release once it was stable I waited. I don't see it in my list Henry.

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Hi there, Using the latest version of MC.net64 the price scale of the horizontal line value is wrong. As can be seen in the screenshot there is all these decimal values. This bug only happens when you first load the chart, as soon as you open the horizontal line properties - the price text will corr...

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Using version 8.8 and I don't see this is in the available symbol root list for Interactive Brokers data - what name have you given it?

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Hi there, I have moved my database OFF C: onto D: in the same location as the rest of my installation. I had modified the registry as per this page: http://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/How_to_Move_MultiCharts_Database,_Studies_and_Logs_from_C_Drive Upon installing version 8.8 you g...

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Hi there, I have a chart with one data series that is minute based and another data series of the same instrument that is based on 1 tick data. I want to have the 1 tick data hidden and base and indicator off this. This seems to create problems with bar spacing of my minute based chart and the indic...

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I'll get back to you in a few days on this one Henry. Just upgraded TWS to the latest STABLE and will see if the problem persists.

With kind regards,
MK

PS: I'll also update to MC.net64 8.8 now that the release is official.

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G'day Henry, I'm referring to when I load a daily chart, it has stopped showing the recent data correctly until I manually do a reload. Nothing has changed on my system and like I mentioned, it seemed to coincide around daylight savings time changeover but I don't know why that would affect daily da...

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Hi there, Up until a little while ago the daily data on all my currency pairs has stopped being accurate. I need to do a complete chart reload to rectify the data on my charts. I _think_ this started to happen around the daylight savings adjustments but I cannot see why that should be affecting thin...

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Good to hear Henry and thanks for the suggestions. Using a drawing is probably the way I would like to go - is there any example code of doing custom drawings based on user interaction?

With thanks,
MK

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Hi there, Open up the strategy performance report and go to the list of trades. Right click on the main pane and select save. It will popup with a location to save the .xls file to and then try to open Excel for you. Problem is....I don't have excel. Instead I use OpenOffice which can read .xls file...

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Hi there,

I am considering the idea of having a tool that lets you click on 2 bars of your chart and it will perform a calculation on all bars within the selection. Is this possible for us to code? I wouldn't even know where to start.....

With kind regards,
MK

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Hi there, I don't understand why this is happening. I'm trying to chart 2 instruments that both trade in the same timezone but have different session times. One of the symbols is the futures, the other is a cash index - that is why they have different session times. Both the daily bars show the date...

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Hi Henry,

That fixed the problem, thanks. No idea what the difference is internally to MC.net but the price updates are now in sync with third party execution platform.

With kind regards,
MK

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Hi there,

No best wait till support replies. I thought it may have been the problem initially, but as you will see in my edited post above. Your symbol is correct as per the TWS expects it to be.

All my best,
MK

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Hi there,

Ahh the Nikkei, I used to trade it a lot back in 2005-2008 - a trip down memory lane......

But onto your issue, are you sure that it isn't Z13 ?

With kind regards,
MK

Edit: nevermind, I just looked it up on TWS, you are indeed correct.

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Hi there, Attached is a chart comparing quotes from the IB TWS charting with MC.net charting. Consistently, MC.net will lag behind. I'm not talking about micro-second, but like a full 1 or more seconds. It is not because I'm doing intensive work with MC.net. My charting is very minimal without any c...

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It sounds like what you want is screen locations and not chart points, right? If so, I had queried about this before and Henry pointed me to the Environment class. As an example: label.Location = new ChartPoint(Environment.RightScreenTime, Environment.HighestScaleValue); Maybe you find all you need ...

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Best to wait for MC staff to confirm, but when I've had data like that - it has always been a data problem.....

With kind regards,
MK

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