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- 08 May 2013
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Signals - when a stop order is filled outside of trade price
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1837
Re: Signals - when a stop order is filled outside of trade p
Henry, thanks very much. Using stop orders, I was thinking that I probably get filled at the bid and the ask quite often while the mid price hasn't caught up to that price point, but 99.9% of the time it will within a few seconds (generally even less), hence why I so rarely see this behaviour and de...
- 07 May 2013
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Signals - when a stop order is filled outside of trade price
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1837
Signals - when a stop order is filled outside of trade price
Hello! I use a strategy that predominantly uses stop orders, which it generates every new bar at the desired entry. I had the misfortune today of having my buy stop order filled on the bid price only for the trade price to then immediately reverse from that position without touching the fill price. ...
- 10 Jan 2013
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Time of day restraints in code and odd bid/ask performance
- Replies: 1
- Views: 843
Time of day restraints in code and odd bid/ask performance
Very sorry if this has been covered on the boards, but I was unable to do a satisfactory search due to common search terms. I have some basic signals operating together as an autotrader, i.e. LE, LX, SE, SX - I would like to limit these to be backtested to a certain time of the day, every day, e.g. ...
- 10 Dec 2012
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Different timeframe MAs not 'fixing' to price
- Replies: 3
- Views: 948
Re: Different timeframe MAs not 'fixing' to price
Thanks Andrew, Unfortunately this option was already selected. I have tried de-selecting and re-selecting etc, avoiding dragging the charts etc, but the same behaviour occurs as if the other timeframe MAs are not at all 'aware' of the prices being displayed on the 5 min range. I.e. they display the ...
- 10 Dec 2012
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Different timeframe MAs not 'fixing' to price
- Replies: 3
- Views: 948
Different timeframe MAs not 'fixing' to price
Hello, I'm sure this is my own inexperience with MC, but I have created a 5 minute chart and added two more data streams from different time periods. I have hidden the latter two and added the moving averages for them onto the 5 minute chart. They display fine... but refuse to remain fixed to the pr...