MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

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Thank you Kate for all your efforts for this problem. The day after you helped me with this issue, I got the covid and has been since in bed for a whole week, now fully recovered. I still have difficulty with my connection but it works after a few trials.

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I am considering to change from Oanda forex data feed due to technical problems. I understand these 3 feeds have forex second data that is for me a requirement. Then which one has the most reliable connection and least problems ? I would like to hear about traders experience with any of these 3 poss...

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I use Oanda feed and since last windows 10 update, nothing works any more on my pc in connecting to oanda feed. When I try to log on my Oanda account in my browser, I get a screen with the rotating Oanda logo in the middle that goes on forever, no further reaction, no connection. Oanda tells me it i...

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Tammy found my problem, I needed some patches for Oanda feed, now everything works well, except that sometimes there are still missing bars, if I reload the chart, all the bars are there.

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Hello, I couldn't find the support hours by remote connection, can someone help me, I live in Singapore, we have little time overlap. Do I have to schedule it in advance ?

Pierre
Thank you

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Hello, I just started to use Oanda one week ago. It worked fine, I could reload data no problem but now when I reload a chart I lose the bars since the last day close, I tried a few times and every time I got the same results. Let's say I reload the last two weeks, the bars before the last day close...

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Thank you Kate, I will send it to them today and next time I will keep their MT4 always on so I can compare to that.

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Hello, I am using OANDA feed for one week only without problem for forex pair AUDJPY. Today at 0130am NY time, no data coming in for 3 hours then it restarted. I reloaded the data of my charts but the gap remains there, I closed the workspace and reopened it still the gap. I contacted OANDA and they...

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Thank you Kate.

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Hello, I am just starting to use Oanda and chart trading. For example, when I right click on chart, then select "place order", BUY 1 GBPUSD @ 1.37314.... The BUY quantity of 1 , is meaning what ? a quantity of 1 lot or 1 mini-lot or something else ? How can I change this default quantity ? Thank you

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Thank you TJ

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Thank you TJ, I managed to get it work with your code. It seems that the best for my need would be to learn to program a strategty. Could you send me a link to manual and videos about simple strategy just based on an oscillator, I did not find it through my search. By the way in your big reference m...

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Hello, I am not programmer but try to recycle code from existing study that works. It is a simple PaintBar study based on the value of an oscillator. This oscillator formula works well already on other charts, and the paintbar section also works on other charts as well but when I put these 2 segment...

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Hello Mark, my experience is exactly as written above. I had a pc crash and had to re-install MC on another computer but I had a simple file backup that I do manually every week of my databases, my studies and my workspaces. And with that I recovered everything. The problem I had was with the studie...

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TJ, Bravo this worked, all my indicators are now back as before. I am using Windows 8.1

Thank you very much

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Hello, I had MC installed on a pc that completely crashed no way to recover anything. I was doing a regular copy of the MC study folder. This is giving me .dll and .el versions of my home made studies. How can I import this to a new PC installation. I could only find this page but no mention of .dll...

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Thank you TJ. You had informed me before about posting code I could not remember how to tag it I made a better note this time. The topic you refer me to, I clicked your link it says ''there is currently no text in this page''. Value1 = Momentum(RSI(Close,14),9) + Average(RSI(Close,3),3) ; Plot1( Val...

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Hello, I am trying to move my indicators from one pc to another but it does not work on the new pc, I just copy/paste the listing of the indicator to a new indicator in powerlanguage and I get this error. (how can I post code in my message, showing as a box ?) Thank you ------ Compiled with error(s)...

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Thank you Henry, yes I received from the support team the instructions to solve my problem and it was that my pc time was not synchronized. I never checked on this because the setting of my pc clock is set to "automatic synchronize". Following the instructions of the support team, I anyway hit the "...

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Thank you Josh, I should have done that first, one picture is much easier rather than explaining in hundred words. So here is a pdf with 3 screenshots. These screenshots also show the pc clock in the right bottom corner Screenshots 1 and 2 is the start of 2 consecutive just starting 1min bar Screens...

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I have a EURUSD one minute chart. The countdown may show 30 seconds and a new bar starts with a countdown of 1:30 minutes. The 30 seconds is variable it may be anywhere between 1 to 30 but I practically never see it down to 1. I have a 5 minutes chart and it is synchronized with the 1 minute countd...

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Please add this line to your code.
You can find the explanation in the Wiki.

RecalcLastBarAfter( 1 );

TJ, you mean to add this line to my indicator ? I have one oscillator. I added that line to the oscillator code and it did not change the countdown, still off by 30 seconds

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Hello TJ, I trade the EURUSD on ETX UK broker, it is busy but I can notice that seconds go by sometimes without any trade. I am in Singapore so I trade after US market hours and like around midnight EST there is very little volume but at 3pm here, London opens and still at that time there is the sam...

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Hello, I use MC64 version 10.0 build 13626 with TS data feed I trade Forex multi time frames I have a EURUSD one minute chart. The countdown may show 30 seconds and a new bar starts with a countdown of 1:30 minutes. The 30 seconds is variable it may be anywhere between 1 to 30 but I practically neve...

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Thank you TJ, I have done my suggestion.

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Hello, is there a wishlist for new functionalities in future versions ? my searches in the forum and in google did not provide me the answer.

Thank you
Pierre

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Hello Angelina, In QuoteManager, my TS settings "Save data to local database" is enabled. But in this "settings" window, it shows the version of TS as 9.01 but the version on my computer is 9.1 could that be a problem ? That is the only choice in the dropdown selection. Overall I have no problem jus...

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Hello, I am using MC64 version 10.0 build 13626 with TS data feed. I use playback with one currency pair and 6 time frames 10ticks, 5seconds, 1minute, 5 minutes, 15minutes, 60minutes. It is in one workspace and I open a separate Multicharts session for that one, in addition to my regular trading ses...

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Thank you Angelina for your quick reply, I did not know this setting, I always used the standard setting. Now I changed it for custom settings and made the Price Scale 1/100000 and my bars are now showing as in TS and I have the Data window to show 5 decimals. Good learning for me. Thank you
Pierre

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Hello I use MC64 10.0 build 13626 with TS 9.1 The candles tips are truncated, actually the data window in MC shows one decimal less than in TS for the OHLC data, so this is why I guess the candles are truncated, I checked in the QuoteManager data and the data is missing the final decimal like the Ye...

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Hello, in the scanner, when an indicator plot is a variable, a number, is it possible to specify how many decimal places will show ? Actually all my plots show 5 decimals and I would prefer to show only the integer part. I tried with "intportion" but it now shows 5 zeros after the decimal point. I a...

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Thank you very much Josh, that answers all my questions, I can now continue.

Best regards
Pierre

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Thank you TJ, I understand what you mean, then no need for pre-scanning. I was worried because I often find MC slow when I have many workspaces opened at the same time with many timeframes on each.

Best regards
Pierre

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Hello, I have very limited programming experience. Here is what I am trying to do. I did a basic indicator that allows me to set as "inputs" the resistance and support level at which the indicator triggers an alarm when price gets there. That works fine on a chart. I want to follow with this indicat...

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Thank you TJ, this solves the 1 hour bar issue. I have same issue on the 4 hours bars ? If I try 4 hours or 240 minutes in MC, it still does not look like TS, I have reloaded and no change.

Pierre

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Version 9.0 Feed:TS Symbol:$INDU My one hour MC charts do not look like TS charts because the bars do not start at the same time TS starts at 0930 but MC at 1000. I tried in QuoteManager to change the session for the $INDU to "Use Exchange & ECN's sessions" but no success. I tried "Use custom sessio...

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Thank you very much, that solved my problem

Pierre

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Thank you very much you are a pro. I am confused about the date formats, I took the following code in the help section to display in the MessageLog the starting date and end date of the trendline. Now this parts indicate dates in 1903 and my chart is 2008 data. I understand that my formula is not th...

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Hello, I use MC64 version 9.0 (build 10759) I select a trendline on the chart and I want to calculate the span of time in calendar days of the trendline. This code works perfect when the 2 dates are in the same month but when the 2 dates are in 2 different months it outputs an uncorrect calculation....

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Henry, yes the 2 bars are in TS.

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Thank you Henry, I forgot to mention that I had done your procedure many times with no success and the data is not queued in TS. What else could that be ?

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Hello, MC version 8.5 build 6851 Data source TS(9.1 same version I use for months) In MC, I have many Forex symbols, all other symbols are ok but my AUDUSD is missing the daily bars of 27 Apr and 04 May 2015. I have restarted my pc then reloaded the chart in TS and MC Still missing the 2 bars in AUD...

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OK case solved, it seems the problem was the ascii format. I did not suspect it because I could see the data in QM after importing but I tried anyway to use a excel csv instead of the text file and it worked.

Thank you

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Hello, I have added a symbol manually in the futures category NYSE. I loaded data from csv file , I made a chart with the symbol and everything OK. Then I added another symbol, same procedure as previous, the symbol shows in the QM window and I can see the data also if I go to edit data. BUT when I ...

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So GREAT, Thank you Josh it worked the first time.

Best regards
Pierre

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Hello, I am a Forex trader and just starting with stocks and Indexes. I am trying to chart the Dow symbol $INDU from my TS feed. It charts properly in my TS. When adding a new symbol in the index folder of QuoteManager, the lookup identifies the symbol correctly with US exchange. But when I click th...

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TJ, yes I right click and all I get is the usual menu but it starts with "Format Window" and not with "Place order".

Pierre

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Yes, THANK YOU for your help, MC Support and the Experienced Users.

Pierre

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TJ, thank you for your help. One clarification, this is the first time I am using this functionality. I will contact the support when they open.

Thanks
Pierre

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TJ, restarting does not change it. I am using MC64 version 8.5 (build 6851).

thank you

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Hello, I have a chart with chart trading enabled and IB broker connected and green light. I can place order by dragging for example the STP icon to the chart, that works. But, when I right click on the chart the pop up menu does not display the option for "Place Order". What am I doing wrong ? Thank...

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Hello, I use TS as data feed, I follow 6 forex pairs. Last week until Friday night I was connected and my data were there. I restarted during the weekend my pc and now I am missing on 5 pairs the intraday data after Wednesday 1830 EST I followed the below instructions (given by Andrew some time ago)...

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Thank you Henry, it seems that the TS reload was the solution. I will remember this one.

Pierre

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Hello, my MC was running for the last 2 days and my chart were up to date. This morning I changed a EURUSD H1 chart to Daily and when I switched back to H1 it was missing almost 2 full days of bars, which I indicate with rectangles on my attachment. I hit reload for 2 days but still the same missing...

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Hello, I have Windows 8. My installation was done remotely by online support since it was problematic. I cannot locate where are my historical data stored. I looked in the Application data at C:\Users\Piert Laforte\AppData\Roaming\TS Support\MultiCharts64 but not my data in these folders. Thank you ...

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Hello, I had a pc crash but before i could close MC. When i restarted pc and applications, my EURUSD charts in all workspace do not show tick or minute charts. Daily and Weekly ok but no hour or minute charts. They are restarted at 1 bar and now adding bar after bar but zero history. I tried to relo...

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Hello plaforte, Collect RT data w/o plotting collects only real time data from the moment this option is enabled (you need to keep the QuoteManager open and the option enabled in order to to collect data). It does not backfill historical data. If the option "Save data to local database" is enabled ...

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Hello,

I follow 26 currency pairs, I have a workspace with 6 time frames and I flip from pair to pair by typing the new symbol. My feed is TS

If I use the RT collecting w/o plotting, will that speed up the opening of my charts when I change the symbol ?

Thank you

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Hi, can I get a feedback on this problem, should I request remote assistance ?

Thank you

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Hello, I have tried the first solution with the updater because I did not have any registry error message when installing MC. I made sure that with Task Manager that MC is all shut, then after running the updater, there was no error in the log of the updater but I still had the compilation error whe...

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Thank you Andrew, can you update the instructions to include Windows 8, the file structure is different and I don't want to play with the registry without instructions for Windows 8. I have attached in the first post of this thread the compiler log. I am not sure which error I have, I believe it is ...

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Good you clarified Andrew, I tried both methods. Importing from the 32 bits version caused the error and I also just copied the text of the indicator as in my first post here and then pasted in my fresh new installation windows 8 64 bits and the compiling caused the same error. I have Build 5622 Tha...

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Thank you Andrew. I am not sure if I got your point right. I have installed the MC 64 bits version on my new PC and I copied the indicator text in a new indicator on my 64 bits MC so I believe that I am using the 64 bits compiler. Is it the subject of your investigation ?

Thank you

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Hello, I had this indicator in MC 32 bits. I try to put it on my new pc with windows 8 64 bits and I get the compilation error causal study: (Function) in case this is of any help I join the compiler log here is the indicator; Value1 = Momentum(RSI(Close,14),9) + Average(RSI(Close,3),3) ; Plot1( Val...

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Thank you Andrew, I followed the instructions and on the second time it worked. On the second time I had also rebooted my pc.

Everything is OK now.

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Hello, I have a workspace with tick, minutes, hours and Daily time frames, all EURUSD. Every day I reload the missing data from the previous day, my feed is TS. This has been working for weeks every day without problems. Last week I was travelling and did not update my data for 6 days. When coming b...

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Hello, I have a workspace with 6 charts of EURUSD in different resolution. I have a 10 Ticks chart, how can I reload only that one chart and not the others ? I have tried
.rld glob, res=10 Ticks
that did not work

Thank you

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Hi, I have been trying all day to automate some of my processes in MC with AutoHotKey and MacroExpress products. I could not get anything to work it seems that MC does not allow other applications to work simultaneously. Has anybody been successful in recording key strokes or mouse clicks in MC thro...

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Hello, in my trading I use W.D Gann's squaring technique of my charts and for that I use the "Movement Size" setting for the Price scale and the Bars Spacing Pixels for the Time. I sometimes switch to automatic scaling with a "Reset Scales" hotkey and I change the bars spacing. Is there any way that...

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I used the reloading function and that worked.

Thank you

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From the process mentioned in the FAQ "How to backup user data". I am not clear if the backup of the "Database" folder also backs up all workspaces and associated charts. Can you pls confirm.

Thank you

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Can you pls tell me how to access the "profile page" to change the password of my Forum access.

Thank you

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Hello, my feed is TS. I have a few EURUSD charts which I update regularly to keep the history in MC database. On my 1 Minute chart (and 5 Minutes and one hour) there are 2 days in July with no data. I have a 10 tick chart and the data are there for these two days. When I launch MC, I select the opti...

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Thank you TJ. GOT IT

my function name was missing the first character _

Best regards

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Hello, I copied pasted an EL indicator and function to a new PL indicator and a new function. It works in TS but I get an error message when compiling the function and so in the indicator as well. the error message is "assignment is allowed only for variables or array elements" error line 29, which ...

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