MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

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I finally got back to this and confirmed working and resolved, thank you.

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I tried as a string with complete # .. Thanks. I compiled and put it on a chart now and it gives result of $0.00 when there is open PL see attached snip showing the open position and the script saying PL is $0.00 when it is $5.00.

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Tried multiple variations (see below) and couldn't get any to work. Please advise on how to get open PL on a Rithmic Apex account. myaccountnumber is main account number just the number part 5 is the sub account Tried.. GetRTUnrealizedPL(myaccountnumber-5); GetRTUnrealizedPL(APEX-myaccountnumber-5);...

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Same results for paper and cash accounts

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See attached

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Let's forget about IB.. Rythmic data is wrong.. see snips taken at same time. Below is Rythmic data (lvl 2) in their trading program Trader Pro and same data in MC

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That didn't work, see attached screenshots per your request

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The DOM is showing contract quantities that are way too low. Happens with Interactive Brokers and and Ryhmic, see snip... the values should be in the hundreds - 100, 200 345 etc.. not 1, 2 , 3

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Take a look at these bars!

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Is there any plan to include down the road?

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You should be able to reproduce very easily.. open a HA chart tied to IB data

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Windows 11 - latest build in MC 14

As you can see in snip price is below entry point and position is negative but MC position stays at $0.00

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Of course when I change chart to 1 minute the problem goes away. It is a petty big limitation of the software when tick based charts don't work correctly and crash the platform. This is just 2 charts on a very nice computer.. don't dare try using a tick based chart in Portfolio Trader!

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I have 2 workspaces with 2 charts at each. A 5 minute charts and a tick based chart.. 4 charts TOTAL and I am getting this error.

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I upgraded one of my computers to Windows 11 and it looks like MC has a lot of issues with win 11. The little box that tells you open profit loss by ticks, dollars or percent doesn't work (it stay at 0 - and doesn't update) and I noticed other things that don't work as well. When will MC be able to ...

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I can't seem to add Interactive Brokers crypto instruments to MC. Get them fine in IB TWS but can't add symbols to quote manager.

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Documented this issue before and it still happens. The prices in the charts are not correct and off by about 8 points in this case.

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This bug has been around for years. It's frustrating that MC says in the latest version the problem is fixed when actually it wasn't fixed.

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Data feed stuck again and MC stopped responding when live trading, the bid and ask prices are not correct and look at the spread!

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14 2 latest

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I had another crash in middle of night, in multicharts (not portfolio trader) with only 2 charts open and trading and it crashed! I might go back to a previous version or move it to NT... crashes usually cost me money.

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I have sat through plenty of sessions to supports connected for hours without resolution. My time is valuable, I am sure yours is as well. I can spend a minute documenting a problem versus easily up to an hour connected to support. Support should first see if they can reproduce on their end IMO. Als...

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Same exact symbol on side by side charts. Left chart has correct price at 12952 but chart is not tradable and prices are not propagating the buy/ask fields/buttons. Right chart won't load at all and the prices are WAY off 12952 versus 12872. Neither chart is tradeable. Screenshot 2021-01-13 092359.p...

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Portfolio Trader crashed on me when I clicked on button to close position manually yesterday. Only running four symbols tick based charts.

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You could set up data2 to be hours or whatever time period you want to measure and subtract bar numbers on the other data1 (renko data) at beginning and end of bar.

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inputs: Price (Close), Length (14); variables: Renko_Time (0), MyTime (0), MyPlot (0), OldTime ( 0 ), NewTime (0), TimeInterval ( 0 ), MyAvg ( 0 ), MinutesBetween(0); OldTime = DateTime[1]; NewTime = DateTime; TimeInterval =NewTime - OldTime; MyAvg = AverageFC( TimeInterval, Length ) ; plot1 (MyAvg,...

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Dear users, We have received multiple support requests regarding this issue. We are currently analyzing it on our end and checking with OANDA. We will follow you up as soon as there are any updates. Thank you for your patience. I find it a little disturbing that MC didn't notify users when they dis...

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I still have, they need to update the oands api, I can't trade

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I have been documenting the charts stuck and not updating issue for well over a year and it is still a problem :( I trade live with MC but have lost plenty of money over the years from software issues. I have a lifetime license as well and think that changing the terms on an existing agreement is no...

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I have it to! I chatted with Oanda and they indicated that you need TLS 1.2

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Portfolio trader could be a great thing but with close to zero documentation (same crappy stuff from beta 4 years ago) I am not surprised people aren't using it. I will shift more of of my stuff over to NT

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I think a trade is both legs of the trade but they should clarify this

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I have a powerful computer and Portfolio Trader consistently crashes when using Renko bars.

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Price on chart dramatically wrong.. look at bid and ask then look at screen price. Both prices are updating tick by tick but chart price is way off...

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Version: MultiCharts64 OpenBeta Version 14.0 (Build 19747)
Windows 10 version 10.0.18363
Ryzen CPU, 32 Gig Ram.. see attached all specs.

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I have reported this bug before, The price bars stop updating and reflecting the current price. Note the the chart says the price is at Ask 3214.00 but real ask is 3203.75 see attached screen shot. Only fix I have found is restarting everything

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I have license and can't open program! I have never seen this error before.. I have seen instances where program has trouble communicating with the authentication server this is different.

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Does the limitation on "numbers of windows" exist with portfolio trader? Does it have similar restrictions? It seems to bog down as well when loaded up with numerous instruments

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Still having lots of memory issues with this release .. see attached

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I have noticed the same thing. In some of my strategies I use ATR to determine allocation size and the calculations are always a little off.

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When you restart your strategy you should be presented with a dialog box asking if you would like to accept the position(s) reported at your broker. Depends on settings in strategy see attached at bottom

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This strategy in portfolio trader has been working fine and today I get the error, see snip. Nothing has changed and this is happening on portfolios that have been working fine. This happens when I try to start live trading, start backtesting or optimization. I can't get past this screen Tried the b...

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2 questions:

1) I have it set with the broker plugin set to GTC but orders are still coming in GTD see attached snip and note order came from a strategy, plugin is set to GTC and in log you can see order is GTD

2) How do you control this in portfolio trader where you might not have a chart open?

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IC is now available in US and many other countries. If not the biggest one of the biggest and best forex brokers out there. Can we please get access to IC? They have a well documented API See more about IC here : https://www.icmarkets.com/en

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Yes vote here

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Strategy orders are being place GTD (Good till day) versus GTC (good till cancelled). Oanda V2.0 api is supposed to default to GTC.. How do I change to GTC?

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Yes, just use 2 data types

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In portfolio trader I would like to limit the number of positions for a currency for forex symbols. For example, not enter a new position if I am already in a position with a given currency. I see that I can get the base currency with CurrencyCodeToStr but that wouldn't work because you can have 2 d...

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Files sent

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This is still an issue... see attached where it is connected to oanda and the chart hasn't undated in days - look at bar info

See the screen shot of processes not ending when MC is closed.

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FYI It also still happens on my machine as well. I gave up and am now using different trading software for forex

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Logs uploaded.... happened again to day.. bot made a couple trades but after about 5 hours it stopped updating.

Same charts work fine with my IB data feed and doesn't stop updating like Oanda.

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The update didn't fix as reported and this is still an issue. See attached screenshots prices haven't updated in over 12 hours.

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Great, thank you!

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This is not correct, you can chart continuous and trade that chart which converts to the current contract with IB IWS

https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=13979

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You can add the symbol and see charts but you can't trade the continuous symbol in MC (unless this has changed just recently.. not at my trading desk).

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files are being uploaded to help desk right now.

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I trade using IB and Oanda and MC. The MC software is somewhat buggy and it has always been that way, so I keep a very close watch on things. Latest issue for me is the Oanda feed stops working in MC which is a disaster when autotrading. Definitely go with IB gateway over TWS if you don't need anyth...

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Nothing unusual in the quote manager log.. shows requests for data being requested and sent. Attached is screen shot showing the oanda in their web interface showing one price and MC next to it with a different price ... MC is running the Oanda data feed and is stuck and not moving. Screenshot inclu...

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Here is another example. The same trade at same exact time.. the Oanda web interface showing 1.13410 and same exact time the MC data shows connected yet a completely different price at 1.1337 and the feed is stuck not moving. The Oanda feed was working in MC earlier but has stopped updating. Needles...

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This has been an issue observed in the past and this is in release 12 version. MC says it is connected but it really isn't or at least quotes aren't coming through to MC. See attached screenshot.. MC shows being connected to oanda, the current correct price is 1.1337 yet no prices are coming onto MC...

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Attached are screenshots of QM errors and a shot of my IB account market data permissions. I will also add that I have been trading Bitcoin futures with IB but entering orders in TWS and it works fine.

3rd image is MC screen showing an open position but no data in charting area

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I am having trouble getting IB bitcoin futures to chart and trade in MC. I have IB permissions and trading and charting works fine in IB TWS. When I try to chart an instrument I get a no data error in MC. See attached snip of the instruments in the Quote manager

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IB supports the continuous contract now.. it is symbols @CL, @ES, @RTY for example. I can trade all of them in TWS but get errors in MC.

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I understand that you can set up custom futures but I though continuous contract functionality was to work in version 11? I can set up IB continuous contracts and see charts but when I try to chart trade I get error that symbol mapping is incorrect see attached error and symbol mapping pics. FYI tra...

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I would hope the screenshots are sufficient to demonstrate that the software is not working as intended. I think if you simple test a simple buy and sell strategy (any strategy) you will get the same errors on an Oanda account. Can I please get a download link to a previous version of MC where the V...

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My old thread on this subject has been marked as solved so starting a new thread as issue is still happening. I uninstalled completely MC this weekend and re-installed. I now have Version: MultiCharts64 Version 11.0 Release (Build 15201) installed from scratch. See attached screenshots of OCO orders...

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For me, I use the platform for unattended auto-trading so clicking on a button to re-connect defeats the purpose of having an auto-trading platform.

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:shock: Yesterday I received an error that the authentication server was unable to be reached and MC would not function until link was restored. Logs showed server was down for about 1.5 hours. I had no issues with other internet traffic during this time. This happened while I had active live trades...

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The errant behavior stopped after I updated to latest version last night.

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There is still a bug with this. The OCO orders stay on the screen even though they don't exist and you can't click on them to make the order go away. See attached screen shots the orders on screen are OCO orders after a trade closed yet the OCO orders remain)

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I have it working now

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Still broken I must be the only person that is trying to autotrade with Oanda V20... see attached for errors that MC is generating.

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To fix the 400 errors you need to shut off MC, go to task manager and kill all MC processes and start MC again. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. This API has been out for over a year it's too bad it still isn't working with MC well. I hate to do it but will probably change back to the V1 API...

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Answers to your questions:

Not sure what version I was running prior to update. Current install says it is Version: MultiCharts64 Version 11.0 Release (Build 14943)
I did apply the hotfix which originally fixed this issue.
autotrading
v20 account
files sent

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OCO orders are not cancelling again, I believe this happened after I updated to latest version a couple days ago.

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Sometimes when starting up it won't connect, says connecting and in the quote manager it gives the errors shown in attachment. The only way I have found to fix is close it down and try again. Sometimes takes multiple tries to finally get connected. Please see attached screenshot from the quote manag...

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Looks like it is working correctly now, thank you. It would be helpful for others if you update the broker connection instructions.

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Not solved here... getting the same error as before

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Attached is another example

You can see a position opened and gaining profit but trailing stop doesn't move. The initial stop was sent out at .78722 (which is correct) but the position has moved into profit by 55 ticks and the stop hasn't moved from the initial order and remains at .78722

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Code and requested files/screenshots sent

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I assume that v20 are local emulation of stops? Sends an initial stop order but order never trails like it should AND OCO orders don't work.

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Changed settings on my Oanda account to the V20 account and strategy is having errors placing trades. See attached error. Happening on multiple instruments. I believe the problem is that under strategy properties > broker settings I can't select my V20 account (where it says lookup) the only option ...

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When the update failed my MC installation was gone, I had to re-install from scratch to fix.

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Latest patch wouldn't install on my machine see attached screenshots of errors.

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I have an EA that rules are set on the opening and closing of renko bricks and it enters trades when it shouldn't as well. It tests and optimizes correctly but when going live it places incorrect trades

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This doesn't work, can someone at MC please look into making this type of account at Oanda work?

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Regular account works fine but added a V20 core account and I see the option for v20 at the first web splash screen but won't connect. Seems like there should be a third option in the broker profile maybe?

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Trades seem to open OK but getting errors after a while (and this happens for AUDUSD as well haven't tried others) Error message in log: warning: Invalid Market order parameters: Buy 100000 USD/JPY @ 0.000000 for account XXXXXXX" error: Instrument: USD/JPY; Order: Buy Market 100000; Status; Rejected...

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NothingDone, We plan to implement Collective2 support in the future, unfortunately there is no ETA at the moment. The 3rd party solution costs more than Multicharts, so hardly a good "solution". Has Multicharts abandoned supporting Collective2 trade signal integration? An integrated solution is alw...

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I bought my first bitcoins for close to $245 and today it is about $1,200 pretty good return for about 18 months. It is getting a lot more popular and accepted, trading at GDAX has plenty of liquidity and lot's of volume AND they have a good API. I have a couple strategies that would have performed ...

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Do you have a timeframe in which you anticipate this getting resolved? I opened up the account with FXCM under the premise that it was a Multicharts supported broker.

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I tried the new beta version 10 of multicharts and still getting errors.. see pic. I will come to live chat

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Windows 7 and MultiCharts 9.1
Followed the instructions but am getting an error that states "user or connection doesn't exist"

User exists.. triple checked and logged into their software with my user number.

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clear data cache, deleted data, reloaded keeps coming in with errors. Changing yahoo/google priority brings about new errors with the new provider. See attached screen shot of MC chart from Yahoo data and the yahoo chart (obviously generated from the yahoo data). Have you downloaded yahoo spreadshe...

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clear data cache, deleted data, reloaded keeps coming in with errors. Changing yahoo/google priority brings about new errors with the new provider. See attached screen shot of MC chart from Yahoo data and the yahoo chart (obviously generated from the yahoo data).

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when I set up like capture8 i get error capture9 and no output to debug. Have you set up any information yet on the proper way to set up data types? I guess it is a little bit confusing???

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Not giving correct results ... All I want to do is set up eurusd as data1 and gbpusd as data2 Something isn't right. What is "Informational Instrument" used for? See attached debug print output

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Trying to explore some of the new possibilities and curious about how to set up data types in Portfolio Trader. I can only get Data1 in the "Tradeable Instrument" column. Furthermore, I don't understand the usage of "Informational Instrument", please explain the use of this. See Capture1.png In tryi...

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Would probably need to see it but you are probably looking at yen not $.... MC is a bit awkward when backtesting forex pairs. It doesn't convert everything to your base currency like it should

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update??? I saw somewhere end of march???

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gpw797, snap mode sticks the drawing coordinates to the bar OHLC values. When you move your mouse pointer with the Snap Mode On - the drawing is tied to the OHLC values of the bars corresponding to the mouse pointer location. Please try moving the mouse pointer over the bars and not below them or d...

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Forum is not letting me post video of issue captured. Should be easy to reproduce on your end. You can't drag a line when snap is on like you can when snap is off

Got it to let me attach by zipping... see video below

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Forum is not letting me post video of issue captured. Should be easy to reproduce on your end. You can't drag a line when snap is on like you can when snap is off

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I was wondering about this as well, if you want your lines to fall on ticks (snap mode) it makes dragging lines go crazy mode... this is a bug correct? Shouldn't you be able to move lines in snap mode?

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I agree about it being slow... I upgraded my computer because I thought that was the problem and now have a pretty nice machine (8 core AMD, 16 gig RAM, SSD hard drives) and still see some latency. I tried SC (non .net version) and it executes my orders substantially faster. Sometimes by the time my...

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This happened to me this morning when opening up MC, lost ALL my workspaces

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I wasn't aware you guys redefined what a pip was! A pip in the EUR.USD is .xxxx everywhere else in the world, why make things difficult? Working with forex symbols in MC is far from perfect when backtesting a strategy results are always in the secondary corrency not the users base currency. So when ...

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Here is one example of the data coming in incorrectly. I will post more examples if needed. This is on a fresh install of MC this morning, instruments imported via IB into quotemanager per you instructions look at the screenshot. Bracket orders are set to be 10 pips both directions but the orders ar...

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Please explain EXACTLY how to set up, if I import directly from IB my backtest reports are wrong and trading rules quantities are wrong. There are others here who obviously have having trouble with this as well. What I described in my "fix" to make things work uses $ entered in a trade to make it wo...

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This information is always imports incorrectly from IB into the quote manager, been like this for years. I just had to revisit this to fix a few symbols and here is how it works: for symbols with 3 digits of precision like GBP.JPY with prices like 172.320 171.325 172.330 price scale: 1/1000 min move...

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Trying to switch from IB TWS to IB gateway and IB Gateway/MC is having data issues. Everything will be fine and after while "historical data farm" will change to status yellow and I will stop getting live data. Attached is message in IB Gateway.. I want to change from TWS to Gateway and trying to ge...

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I have reviewed the posts about setting up multiple TWS on different ports to trade multiple IB accounts... but it doesn't work on my machine. Changing accounts in TWS has no effect on which account a strategy order goes to in MC. Strategy based orders are always sent to "a default" account in IB. O...

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Is there any plans change this and add access to market profile in the standard version?

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Thanks for reply.. I deleted data 2 and issue went away.

I use the second data set for composite MPs and have the data hidden... is there any way to keep the data w/o it affecting the other data set?

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All settings in MC and quote manager were at settings you describe. I just did a fresh reload and the bars are still missing. Note the cursor is at a place with no bar but there is bar data for data 2 for that "bar" in the data window. For the normal bars that data shows up data 1 (top) part.

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I am having problems with charts skipping bars. Where next bar should start there is no bar and that space that should have a bar does not. See attached pic with 8 bars skipped in a short span. Data is IB

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installer.log file too big to post here i guess... it's not posting but i am not getting an error. I emailed to you.. it is 19121K

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there are no directories in appdata for TS Support or Multicharts and no lg files

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there are not any regitry entries to delete.. I also re-downloaded and tried still no luck getting the same errors.

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There is no windows start button in windows 8 ...

Version 6.2 (build 9200)

Can't send log files because program never installs... after the second error MC cancels the installation and deletes everything it did (there in no MC directory)

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second error

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Here are the errors

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I updated to windows 8 and it continued to work.. but I tried to install MC on a fresh install of win 8 and got several error and it wouldn't install.

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MultiCharts64 Version 8.0 Release (Build 5622)

I had the same issue before on a previous install This is a fresh install

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it didn't post because there was too few characters.. here it is

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here are requested screenshots

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Had this problem before .. re-installed and the bug is happening again. Using IB data/broker. When I auto-attached a bracket order lets say 30 tick offsets for both target and stop, the actual target and stops are at 15 pips NOT 30. Please advise on how to fix this, thanks

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grrr... what a pain... Fill out the form for the umpteenth time .. wait a day for response.. to update my software. Please fix MC.

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I understand that it is a separate program.. all I want to do was update my 64 bit MC to the latest version. My version says "MultiCharts64 Version 8.0 Beta 3 (Build 5375)" and I get a little dialog window when opening that tells me a newer version is available.. and when I try update it installs an...

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I switched to 64 bit when it came out. I get a message that there is a new version so I download, start the install process, it asks for the location of the installation I point to the existing installation and MC installs a duplicate installation in the 32 bit program files directory (different loc...

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I would like to see the "undocumented words" documented as well... what good are they if they are not documented?

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Just a screen shot of the MC screen???

Today it again didn't place orders. Last beta version MC seemed to work better.. how can I revert to that beta?

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IP settings were at recommended setting and I don't believe any pop up windows were happening. I could come to chat but I am afraid all we could do is sit and watch for an hour waiting for an order to trigger and I can't spare that time today.

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Attached is symbol mapping as requested - setting are per MC forum recommendation

Can this problem be easily reproduced? >> no.. sometimes strategy execute orders like it should other times it does not.
Was this strategy trading before? Yes
What has changed in MultiCharts setup? Nothing

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Order confirmation is off

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I don't use excel but use open office instead and it looks like export won't complete without excel installed.

I got export to work. Files are attached (forum doesn't accept csv so I changed extension)

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It states that the orders were "rejected" and in the TIF column it says that "TIF unspecified"

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Today MC didn't execute any of my strategy orders. No trades placed... Green indicator was on left hand corner of chart but nothing happened. Connection to broker was green as well. Looked at broker logs and there was no errors with broker.. orders were not placed. Reloaded and strategy orders that...

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Today MC didn't execute any of my strategy orders. No trades placed... Green indicator was on left hand corner of chart but nothing happened. Connection to broker was green as well. Looked at broker logs and there was no errors with broker.. orders were not placed. Reloaded and strategy orders that ...

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at these settings every pip = 1/2 pip... i.e. a 10 pip stop is a 5 pip stop. How do these get messed up? I haven't even opened the quote manager in months...

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My stops/targets were not working right (coming in at wrong values) and you guys had me come to chat and fixed.. somehow they are not correct for eur.usd on IB again. Can you please post the correct settings for IB eur.usd so I can fix thanks.

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Figured....

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One of the features I like in SC is you can link items from one chart to another. For example if I draw some important (lines) levels on one chart the lines transfer to another chart. Move them on chart one and they also move on chart 2. Is there any way to do this in MC?

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No.. MC does not really support MP

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Created a new custom session today and somehow it applied it's self to all the workspaces/charts I had open. I only applied it to one chart.

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Fixing Renko and HA charts appears to be a very low priority unfortunately.

Volume problems in renko charts as described in this issue in the PM section http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue ... _no=MC-571 is not fixed in MC 7.1 beta1.
I hope it will be fixed with the next beta.
Regards

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I went to live chat and they told me that they couldn't help unless I could reproduce the event live and I couldn't. Please refer to the previous event when we were live and the crash happened and you guys downloaded all the files off my machine (aprox. 6 weeks ago). This same crash happened on my m...

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This same crash happened on my machine while you guys were on it via live chat about 6 weeks ago investigating another issue. You guys downloaded all kinds of stuff when it happened... would it still help to send again? The crash that happens when you open an exit strategy (especially when you have ...

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Thanks.. that is easier. You might want to dd that link to the release notes. gpw797, Indeed, there is such a list here: https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9206&p=43689&hilit=revsize#p43689 Other keywords added to the help file are: mc_tl_New, intervaltype, intervaltype_ex an...

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The crash that happens when you open an exit strategy (especially when you have an open position) still happens with this version

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Comparing the old help file to the new help file to find the new words.. that will only take a day or two...??? Isn't there a list of the new commands someplace? I thought I saw an post somewhere with the new words? Can you please let me know more specifically to find these new keywords mentioned? "...

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Can you please let me know more specifically to find these new keywords mentioned?

"Documentation for 50 PowerLanguage keywords

PowerLanguage Help section was updated to describe 50 undocumented keywords. Check the Help file to see detailed descriptions and examples."

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I re-installed MC and it seems to have fixed the issue I was having. See how it goes for next couple days with a demo account and lots of monitoring. I will reiterate that IMO this program needs more stability and needs to behave consistently. After all, for some folks, this is real money and the pl...

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The problem is backtesting and live implementation of Renko do not perform the same. Backtesting doesn't includes prices that occur in the wicks and live operation does. Also Renko charts sometimes just don't behave as they should. I will get some pictures together that show backtesting and live per...

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[/quote] No use blaming MC... this is intrinsic to non time-based chart.[/quote] so you are saying that nothing but a time or volume based chart works with MC autotrading????[/quote] That's NOT what I said... read my words again.[/quote] I think if you saw the code you wouldn't say that the errors i...

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"All of the issues appear to me issues with the MC implementation of Renko bars not working correctly." Maybe you could explain specifically what the problem is with MC's implementation of Renko bars. The fact that you're finding a problem *should* allow the programmers to fix it, assuming that it ...

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so MC needs to disable everything but time and volume charts from autotrading.... quit confusing the masses with incorrect data.... BUT my strategy works.. tested it on another platform :) (that works) No use blaming MC... this is intrinsic to non time-based chart. so you are saying that nothing bu...

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so MC needs to disable everything but time and volume charts from autotrading.... quit confusing the masses with incorrect data.... BUT my strategy works.. tested it on another platform

(that works)

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I have coded it in EL but present version of MC I have problems with the strategy working as coded i.e. correctly.... backtests perfectly but live it has issues. All of the issues appear to me issues with the MC implementation of Renko bars not working correctly. I have set up dual data frames and d...

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I will do.. but I can replicate the same issue with a very simple strategy. Problem lies in your implementation of Renko bars which is still incorrect. I will do some more testing but I already know that backtesting of Renko bars is flawed as it doesn't count the ticks in the Renko "tail". Looks lik...

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.... The trivial mapping line should appear in the symbol mapping. Please make sure the symbols and exchanges are correct in both columns. To disable trivial symbol mapping please import MC-DLG-Off.reg registry key. I don't see trivial mapping line but not sure what it is and what I am looking for....

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and the reason I don't want to come to live chat.... Last time in live chat I was connected for over 1.5 hours and you guys spent 20 plus mins downloading half my hard drive without explaining what files you were downloading and why. Over the years, MC has cost me well over $5,000 in automated tradi...

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Is this problem only happen during real time trading or in backtesting also? Please come to our live chat Monday-Friday 6:30 am - 2 pm EST. I would like to connect to your PC and check the symbol mapping. Only happens in real live trading (real and demo accounts)... there are no errors in backtesti...

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Please describe what do you mean by "Broker sync". - Broker sync is a MC setting (see format objects > Signals > Properties > Auto Trading > Mode Selection - It is my understanding that this MC setting verifies that orders become actual positions. Do you want the strategy to automatically start fro...

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The exit of the orders isn't working like it has in the past and this strategy hasn't changed in months. I haven't changed any settings or anything in MC ... this behavior is out of the blue. I restarted the strategy last night on a demo account and it had multiple errors again. Is it possible that ...

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strategy won't work the way it has for months (entries and exits are pretty simple to define)... I think problem is it doesn't know it closed out a position. What can I do to "reset" MC or clear cache or do something to fix this problem that popped up? I rebooted and restarted and it still isn't wor...

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Here is pic of MC closing out and starting positions when it shouldn't. This strategy normally works fine with just an occasional missed entry but really is screwing up today

I don't want to go top live help and share my strategy so just posting here.

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thanks.. that's what I thought but it wasn't clear.. to many traders a "trade" = an entry AND an exit.

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Yes.. best way to get a problem resolved.. my only gripes are that sometimes it is painfully slow (spend a lot of time waiting for someone on other end) and the hours available are right in the middle of the trading day.

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Can't find an answer to this one..

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you guys spent over an hour on my machine "fixing" this issue yesterday but now I can't see my position entry (item mention is yesterday chat). thought I posted this bug during early beta but can't remember...(and it still isn't fixed). Forex cash symbols (for example eur.usd) pip calculation is inc...

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no this is a linear deal...

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thought I posted this bug during early beta but can't remember...(and it still isn't fixed). Forex cash symbols (for example eur.usd) pip calculation is incorrect for chart trading. For example if I set a 10 pip stop loss into an exit strategy the actual stop set by MC is about 5 pips. This is with ...

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When I came into live chat the fix applied by you guys was to delete the reference to MIBSX and he also indicated when it popped back up to delete it. This is in conflict to the above fix. Please let me know which is correct. When is the fix in 7.01 going to be released?

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wondered about this too and poked around but I don't beleive this is a current ability

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I am getting more crashes than usual with latest version. Quite often when I go to adjust parameters (edit exit parameters) on an open position that I haven't applied exit strategy to yet it will crash about 50% of the time.. not good when you have an open position.. I send all my crashes in so I kn...

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symbol mapping problems All of a sudden yesterday my strategy for TF (russell futures) stopped working. Called up my broker IB and they said that all TF orders are being routed to exchange MIBSX thats why no trades are taking place. Deleted TF in QM didn't fix.. Look at symbol mapping and MIBSX is l...

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got it.. thanks...

needed to assign a variable to netprofit to reference it historically

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I don't know... ... is there a place I can look that up? I am a rookie at this stuff but trying to learn.

I would think that marketposition[1] is either -1 (short trade) 0 (no trade) or 1 (long trade) one bar ago...

I am not familiar with the use of marketposition(1)

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If the last trade was a losing trade then add that trade count to a cumulative total of losing trades.

For example today there are 4 losing trades so far i.e. counter = 4

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thanks for helping but that wasn't it...

the netprofit code isn't working.. took it out and it counts fine

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how come this isn't working?

vars: counter ( 0 );

If marketposition = 0 and marketposition[1] <> 0 and netprofit < netprofit[1] then begin
counter = counter + 1;
end;

counter isn't counting but netprofit is changing

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I think they should work correctly or not at all or possibly give the user a warning when they start to backtest or autotrade that is doesn't work correctly.

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Autotrading won't initialize on a HA chart and backtesting doesn't work correctly see post here about backtesting

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8518

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Backtesting HA charts doesn't work. The prices used in backtesting for bar start and end are the HA averaged prices (look here http://www.investopedia.com/articles/technical/04/092204.asp#axzz1P0DOeyZz) NOT what the price is when the bar starts or ends. So when you you have an order in a strategy th...

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Went to change contracts on ES this morning and when I click on ES Sept 11 Globex it adds "NQM1" June NQ instead... IB data

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USA is selected for Holidays

Tried going here "(QuoteManager > Tools > Exchanges > Globex > Edit)" but Globex isn't listed under "Exhanges and ECNs" <Ctrl + X>

Isn't working correctly on my machine

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Session: Custom but just mon-fri 9:30-1:15 (est)
Symbol: ES
Data provider: IB
Resolution: ??? Price Scale is 1/100 Min. Movement is 25 ... chart is a 1 minute chart
data range: 30 days back

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I have tried both settings and am getting erratic (incorrect) displays from both. I changed to last trade and display fluctuates from the correct number to other numbers quite often very far away (more than one ES point) from the actual correct P&L. I'm seeing some delay on PnL using IB. MC is telli...

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Unchecked box and restarted MC and it is still plotting the holiday. Using version 7 beta 4

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Yesterday was Memorial day and is in my list of holidays in the quote manager. "Do not use holidays" box is checked in quote manager yet data from yesterday still plotted. How do we get holiday days to NOT plot?

gpw797

That is good news, thanks. I have the update installed but MC version 7 still doesn't handle backfills as good as version 6.01 occasionally it just "hangs" and won't load the data.

gpw797

When can we expect a version 7 beta for license owners? I like many of the new features but there are some problems with IB data still.

gpw797

Hi,

I just saw the screen shots and noticed that there were only buttons for Buy/Sell @ Market, Bid, and Ask.

How about a button that allows us to Buy/Sell by clicking at discretionary price levels on the chart?

Thanks.

You can right click and get to options that allow orders at different levels

gpw797

I have tested for a day and certainly welcome the changes and increased functionality. The icons look great they don't distract from the charts yet are easily identifiable. Ran into a few things that I have already submitted via bug reports.. is that the preferred method of submitting bugs? Or here?

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All I changed was the description from the incorrect F to the correct letter Z I did not change the date... Irregardless the CL symbols are incorrect in Multicharts... if Multicharts is assigning the designation (like you say) F to a december (or january contract) Multicharts is assigning the wrong ...

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Problem solved by MC support putting answer here to help others The contract expiration data does not come into MC correctly from IB for the CL futures contract in the symbol dictionary for autotrading. To fix go to format signals > Properties > Auto Trading > Select Broker Plugin IB Settings > Symb...

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I looked at it and it shows the correct month (december which is the month of chart).. but signals executed are the January contract... that is not the problem

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