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neurotrader

Does anyone have a problem merging ASCII Mapping for history and IB for realtime?. I am using the new version and trying to plot SPX NDX (Daily) using mapping and IB for realtime and have a problem ,,ie no data. I can plot the ASCII ok ..I can plot the IB ok .. but merging as above is giving problem...

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Here is what I do regarding workspaces. I create folders for workspaces. I may have a folder named "Daily" where I would place all my common Workspaces that I use everyday. At the end of the day, what I do is close each workspace independently. Then close MC. Next day fire up MC and go to ...

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futurestrader019 I am sorry you read it that way. I am not picthing any forum. Do you see any link posted to my FORUM ? I was responding to your comment "Also - for those that trade stocks on MC, have you found the software to be acceptable? " Next time I will refrain from addressing your ...

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One thing that I have asked awhile back and would love to see is a "System Equity" analysis that one can plot under the chart similar to TS.

After the optimization the System Equity analysis would complement.

Excellent tool for a visual as your system takes it triggers.

neurotrader

Why not go with Interactive Brokers for your data feed. Very cheap and if you trade with Interactive the data feed may be free. Check out their website. As for Multicharts software, I have been using it for about 18 months now. I really love the product and know that future releases will be even bet...

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Right now I do not think you can. If you remove them, MC goes into fix mode and places them back.

I tried many months back to remove them and that was my experience. They don't take up much space so why not just leave them

cheers

neurotrader

I have been trading for over 25 years now. In the past, I have tried omega products like SuperCharts RT and TS. I have had MC for over a year now and I am very happy with the direction that MC is taking. I publish a signal "maxprofitsignals" on a site and I must admit that MC has been a sa...

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Kate,

Thanks for bringing up the issue with TWS 8.70. I have downloaded your fix for the 8.70 version and all is well here.

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Nick

Go to Quote Manager > Tools > Exchanges & ECN's

Then just add it.

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benysl,

For a work around, why not write your system over as a study and add the alert to that study.

Apply the study to your system signal on your chart.

neurotrader

I have been with MC for over a year now. Their support has always been number 1 in my books. MC software has come a long way from a year ago. I am located in Canada and I can still purchase TS 2000i here for almost 3,000 USD WITH NO support. Very happy with the direction MC is going and I look forwa...

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If the patch does not work as one member posted, would it be easier to just adjust the Exchange Setting in QM?

Atleast until the next MC release?

neurotrader

SP thanks for the reply.

You also helped me find out how to get that data. Had to add EM exchange to quote manager.

I get the data now and see what you mean.

neurotrader

shuharsh I played around with opentick data and the only way I got MC to upload the next day (prev day data) was to do a reload (ctrl+r). On another matter, opentick continuous future contract data. Below is a quote from their forum: "Aug 18, 2006 We have a "beta" version of our Conti...

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Kate,

Understood. I really do not need the bar on SPX as I do on NDX. I just thought MC could use the Tick/Minute collected data to form the bar.

No big deal for me though.

Thanks for replying and great job on the latest release of MC.

Love this software

neurotrader

I am glad to see that Daily Index price now appears on RT charts. One bug still stands out. When plotting a "DAILY" chart with IB index data like SPX from CBOE, you will see that the price moves on chart through out the trading day but a bar is not formed. Just a dot moving no bar. This is...

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When I delete the demo workspaces. MC goes into error mode meaning it auto goes into REPAIR mode and when completed it places the Demo workspaces back.

So not sure you can physically delete the Demo spaces in current version or previous versions for a fact.

Tried it a few times

neurotrader

I have a similar problem but with IB data. I plot 15 min NQH7 and all is well during the trading day. After the markets close I close down MC. Next day when I restart MC and call for that NQH7 work space, begining of day market is missing. This happens everyday. What I do is a "RELOAD" and...

neurotrader

Ditto on fantastic!!!

I have been looking for away to export 15 minute data.

Thank you Andrew

neurotrader

I am using the same version and I see those on mine. Open QM and Data Sources.

I see open tick and transact there.

neurotrader

shuk,

try going here and register for a free account https://www.opentick.com/

Then use it in multicharts for historical daily.

I find IB historical data faulty. What I do in some workspaces is merge the above to historical and IB for realtime.

neurotrader

Guest,

I sometimes hesitate to upgrade to the latest release. I do keep copies of previous releases in case I need to go back.

But I will say this, the latest release V 2.0.777.777 seems to be the most stable version yet.

neurotrader

Regarding ascii mapping. I tried a few and when I load up the chart there is no data. Checked the symbol and no data was imported when mapping done. Deleted symbol tried again but still no mapping possible. The above was done over weekend in offline mode. Today I repeated the above in online mode. C...

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First of all, I wanted to say that I really like the newest release. I have been able to transfer many of my systems over with only a few changes to the code. My question is. Is there a way we can include the "System Equity" indicator as shown in the attached chart. Is there a code for it?...

neurotrader

Thanks Kate,

Having a filter or a spike data removal would be ideal.

neurotrader

I gather there is no fix for this? I was finally able to delete that spiked data. I think with IB data one has to wait a couple days before the deleting/changing a data (spike) will take affect. I am assuming due to the fact IB keeps loading up the most recent data even though you make a change to t...

neurotrader

Yesterday there was a spike on QQQQ in IB data feed 4359.00 as the high. I have tried many different things with Quote manager. I have gone into ticks, minutes, day. and edited, then closed Quote manager and MC and reopened. The high quote was back again. I tried deleting, but same thing. How can I ...

neurotrader

Yes, for the indexes, its ticks away ok, but does not form the bar on chart during market hours.

Thanks

neurotrader

Downloaded the new beta. IB data seem to load much faster

But for daily charts, SPX, NDX etc. the chart in the new beta still does not plot the current daily bar. Quotes are active and up to date on chart but MC does not plot the current daily day bar during market hours.

neurotrader

I try when I can to read this forum daily. I can try and delete some ads when I am on. Email me with the info.

Perhaps you can get a couple more here to monitor as well, then we should be set

neurotrader

Is there a way to stop these annoying spam, ads on our support forum?

Seems there are more and more everyday.

Perhaps making posts only for those who register on the forum.

Just a suggestion. I get enough of these in my email.

neurotrader

The QQQQ does not seem delayed today so this may have been on IB side yesterday. As for the INDEXES .. none plot the current day bar. You say NDX works? .. I tried that one too and durring the trading day, when it is ticking on screen .. not after market close. You will see that MC does not chart cu...

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One more thing, I have noticed that IB now has histirical data for indexes like SPX and NDX so I do not need to do the merge for these. Just set it to IB source.

Some indexes like VXO do not have daily histirical from IB. So merge is still needed

neurotrader

Stocks seem to work ok with the new dll and description fix. Can someone try to plot a daily INDEX of SPX or NDX or which ever. Do the merge. History from one site (free or which ever) and IB as the realtime? Seems IB ticks away on chart but MC does not seem to chart the move. Had chart up all day a...

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Yes, the new dll and EDIT description seems to have fixed the problem.

Thank You

neurotrader

Well, I went to ADD SYMBOL>From Data Source> IB .. Type the symbol .. I click the search and see pic for what I get as selection .. Nothing with USD

Using version 1.90.449.1165

neurotrader

Tried that and still does not work. First I went and did the edit and changed description and did not work. Then I deleted and tried to add the symbol both using "from data source IB" and then I tried again maually and still did not work. Can you perhaps give us a stock example and go step...

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Does the same go for stocks? .. MC no longer plots any stocks from IB.

neurotrader

It stopped working last week on stocks. I track the QQQQ and posted a pic of Quotemanger last week .. I am posting one with todays. I also tried Google and same thing. It seems the problem is with stocks not futures.

neurotrader

Do you know when this probelm will be fixed? Still unable to plot stocks like QQQQ on MC with IB data.

neurotrader

thanks. I thought it could be on IB side as well.

Have a great weekend and thanks for all your efforts. Great software and best support.

neurotrader

A work around that I do, (if you have all the data) specially on indexes from IB is to set preferences from "On Demand" to "On Line" for my workspaces with indexes.

Works for me, after uploading that particular index workspace, I set the preferences back to On Demand.

neurotrader

Alex, I do see it use up to 97% at times. In one situation, loading up workspaces. For example, I have a work space with 3 charts I no longer load up. It plots a 15 min, a 60 min and a daily chart on QQQQ. There are about 3 studies per chart. When I load it up, IB takes forever to load even though d...

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Thanks Alex, The above was cut and paste from web re using firebird server and databases. On my PC's it seems that on occasion Firebird and fbguard load on boot up most times, but every so often they do not. Its these times that data manager will crash and you lose all symbols. This is not an MC pro...

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If the above copying of databases is infact a problem with MC as well, then perhaps in future a way to backup databases automatically would be advantages.

neurotrader

Some more info on Firebird and copying database files when firebird is running. Below is a copy and paste from some info on web re firebird and databases. "Please note that moving, editing or copying a live database file will cause database problems – even corruption" If you need to move o...

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A few times I have had Firebird server crash. I am new to this firebird system so I did some research and found that firebird system does have problems specially with some firewalls. In the firebird log I get the message "C:\Program Files\Common Files\FireBird\bin\fbserver.exe : The guardian wa...

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This problem still exists in this new version .. I did a re install and after compiling ... before I knew it, PL closed itself

neurotrader

Interesting, when I compiled, that happened to me once, but I just thought I hit the "X" close by mistake ... lol

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Alex, I have sent it yesterday but re sent again to the address you gave me. FWIW, since I took out yahoo as free source, (unchecked) no more data manager problems. I am on version 442.1230 and all seems well. The crash log was sent as for workspaces I deleted them, but you can re create them, just ...

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A little more info that may help. I had one workspace set for EOD index data and used yahoo (free) for the historical to merge with realtime IB. Its only since I added a few more yahoo index historical charts like ^VXO, ^NDX etc that data manager started crashing. The problem started this morning wi...

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Here is somethjing of interest, ok, e signal is deactivated. I also deleted all e signal symbols that came with MC on install, but when you load up Data Manager, it still generates in the data manager the event log as posted above. Once again, these messages do not bother me as long as it is not rel...

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Alex, The messages do not bother me. The crashing of data manager does. A few times what has happened was when loading data manager an error occurs and all your symbols are gone. You need to reinstall MC to get them back. The log on that error(s) has been sent to you. As for Deactivate eSignal did t...

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I have recently recieved data manager errors. In the past, I used online and not on demand since I had all data to end of day. What happens is that data mangaer generates errors on start up and sometimes when MC starts up it notes the errors and if I want to send report which I have. I disabled esig...

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Quotemanager seems to have some problems. This happened with previous version this morning and new current release. It generates errors when you open quotemanager. Once opened no data is there. You reinstall and all data is back. I sent the bug report. The difference from last few days is that I set...

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I am using version 1.90.438.735 curently and seems to work well, what will be my benifit to go to 1.90.442.1230? What has been fixed in 1.90.438.735 to warrent going to 1.90.442.1230

Is version 1.90.442.1230 the 1.90 final or is it a beta?

Thanks

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SuperGuest

These bugs are growing pains. But their final release of 1.90.438.735 works like a charm.

Omega went through these growing pains too with their development and release of TS many years back, as another member here pointed out.

neurotrader

Thinking outloud here, a couple studies did not compile and all other custom studies did compile, could it be that even though PL Editor shows that those custom studies compiled, they infact did not compile? If that was the case it would explain why they did not show. Cause as you mentioned if there...

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One more thing, some of the studies that compiled in the PL Editor were also paint bars, those compiled but would not show when opening the workspaces ... As for checking to see if they were there and re inserting, I did not go that far. They were in PL Editor and were complied. When going back to 1...

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Alex, As soon as 1) some studies could not complie, 2) When loaded up my workspaces I could not see my studies that were in the PL Editor and were complied, I just decided to uninstall and re install my previous which all is working well. I did not play around with anything else. If you really can n...

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Alex, the above post was from me, neurotrader. I was not logged on and it shows guest

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Alex, I was using version 1.90.438.735. All works very well with this version, I have had no errors all my studies work well, Fantastic. My curious self decided, to uninstall and try the version you just mentioned 1.90.440.760, ..there appears to be bugs with the PL Editor. First of all, after impor...

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Thank You

neurotrader

Dennis, Could you please repost those two charts using the period I mentioned and A "200 DMA" .. I just want to confirm that Supercharts may be incorrect? A 200 Simple Moving average. The above you posted is ema and shorter frame I believe. When you have time. Thanks. I am now puzzuled as ...

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Re charts not fair, Don't understand not fair. I was not trying to misslead. The data used was identical from the periods I posted. Both data used on my example was taken from yahoo. (^NDX) It could be the way Supercharts calculation of the 200 dma? .. It was just an observation for a check since al...

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Teresa, long time no see. I remember you from Avid many years back as Dr Doom.

As for MC I agree, I like the software so much I never hesitated to buy the license.

Can't wait for the signals (optimize) etc so I can import my systems.

neurotrader

I have noticed that when loading daily data from IB like NQ, you get day history but not the current day bar (the high and low). You get history for everything prior to today and for today it starts ploting current price. It does not load up the current high and low bar. So if the day has started an...

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You mentioned version 1.90.420.960 .. I was not aware you had another release. My current version is 1.90.417.971 Beta . When MC checks for updates it does not alert. (which is ok since some may not want to load right away the latest) My question is, can you post when a new release for download is o...

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Another thing is to remember you can not launch IB on weekend ,, Since IB does not connect,.. So on weekend like Saturday one should not click on the Trade Manager Window.

thanks

PS. A few bugs but Great software once full version complete

neurotrader

Some more information on above. I re installed MC and the re instalation repaired . When I went to Quote Manager all the data was now there. Here is the bug (I think) When I opened up a particular workspace, I got the same error and problem. This happened with opening a particular workspace. On that...

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After I got the above error, I lost all my symbols and data. All are gone. The quote manager is empty.

neurotrader

On weekend I started up MC and set the Preferences to offline mode. Then I opened up a workspace and got this error on screen. Does this mean I should have started IB TWS prior to opening workspaces? .. IB is off on weekends. I did set to offline prior to opening workspace, or is this some other err...

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Is it possible to create an OHLC chart ... with up bars one color, down bars another? Similar to the attached.

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Another suggestion for Indexes with those using IB feed is, Free quotes from Yahoo does a great job geting history. Yahoo is also realtime on current INDEX quotes. When you use Merge History with Free Quotes and Then select realtime with free quotes to get current day INDEX price it does not work. A...

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I have been told that there is no backfill for IB Indexes. But on Quote Tracker when using IB Indexes I found that When a QT chart has data gaps ..I backfill and it works! ... Can MC do the same? Now it "may or may not be" only backfills the same day data. But even if that was the case, th...

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I closed MC and re opened but same thing occured .. No data loading from IB. I rebooted computer and all seems well now. Here is what may or may not have caused the problem (something to look at) I also run Quote Tracker for portfolio Quotes and QT is getting these quotes from IB as well. This morni...

neurotrader

Hello,

This morning I purchased your permanent license. With my luck I later tried to load up my workspace and no IB quote charts. Here is pic
of screen

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I found away to make it work by changing the StochRSI to a diff name in formula ..like adding a 1 or what ever.. Then at bottom make sure you write StochRSI = StochRSI1; worked for me but wish PLEditor would not crash on error and need to use task manager to close. Something to look at. Even with al...

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I have spent a few hours trying to import the function for StochRSI. PLEditor keeps crashing. When I imported the function was empty so I tried to add it manually. The old formula is as follow; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Input: Price(Numeric),RS...

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On Sunday I too was using the offline and data worked well, then this morning I opened workspace, switched to ON DEMAND (IB) to get misssing data for NQ 15 min, then I clicked reload ( I assume you need to click relaod to activate get the missing data after you switch back to On demand from offline?...

neurotrader

makes sense, one can always download and keep the most recent version backed on CD. Can you tell me which files one should back up to retain all current settings and data?

neurotrader

If one purchases now the beta early release to get the entry price. Can one get the software on CD after the "FINAL" product is released?

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We cross posted .. Your previous post was correct .. A few other ela's I imported I had to change some of the imported values to read Plot1 .. So far so good. On another matter, do you have an idea when the Signal function will be available? .. days? weeks? months? ... thanks... I really do like wha...

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I just found out the problem when I imported my old ELA's ..in the example I gave you, the %K should have been imported as Plot1 .. So changing the %K to plot1 and compiling works ..Now to figure out the other imported ela's.. Perhaps similar? .. we see .. The ela's I m importing are from two omega ...

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I have just imported many of my created ela's from my older software into MC and many still can not be compiled. What I may have to do is re write all which would be very time consuming and a pain. Will see .. Thanks for the response

neurotrader

I have imported a few of my ela indicators into PLEditor and some can not be compiled. One example is the Stochastic-Metastock indicator which worked well in other Omega Products. The PLEditor imported the indicator and function fine, but when trying to compile it generated errors. This indicator ex...

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