Solved my problem; uninstalled MCFX, deleted all its registry entries, and reinstalled. Everything is fine (so far)...

dennisc, please provide the information requested by TJ in post #2 or come to our live chat Monday-Friday 6:30 am - 2 pm EST to demonstrate this behavior remotely. We will do our best to help you.

Here you go...

Make sure you are running the program as "Administrator".

Still won't work on the desktop. I'm thinking I need to manually remove registry entries in order to get a successful install.

Any tips on that approach?

It turns out that everything works fine on my laptop install of MCFX, but not on my main desktop; so any problem is on my end of things...

Maybe the desktop install file was corrupted somehow... I'll try reinstalling from the install file I used on the laptop...

I have a few custom indicators that I use every day in MC64 (thanks to this forum); I installed MCFX and I would like to use those same custom indicators in MCFX. But when I copy and paste the PL code from MC64 PL Editor into the MCFX PL Editor, it will only compile with errors. I've tried uninstall...

I'm wondering why there would be any difference after reloading; is the realtime feed so bad that the reloaded data requires correction later? I can understand correction of obvious occasional errors, but not the resulting elimination of 1/3 of the bars that showed up in the realtime feed, as with ...

Hello dennisc, We confirm that most data vendors return different historical data (after chart is reloaded) in comparisson to rt data. At the moment FXCM brokerage is not recommend for both MultiCharts and MCFX, because their old API is used. We are planning to implement new FXCM API, most likely i...

My subscription at IB Market Data Subscriber Status: Non-Professional CURRENT SUBSCRIPTIONS: North America CBOT (Globex) Derivatives 1.25 USD CME (Globex) Derivatives 1.25 USD COMEX (Globex) Derivatives 1.25 USD (USD Gold Future) NYSE Global Indices 1.00 USD Message of Quote Manager : You are not s...

aud.usd.png For those of you who are trying to daytrade using IB data: IB is a broker. IB is NOT a legitimate data provider and their data is unusable for futures (and I assume stocks) daytrading purposes. You can see just how unusable their data is by creating a tick-based chart of whatever future...

However, you cannot move the individual studies you have showing up or down through that method :( I find the only way to do that is to delete studies and then reinsert them in the order I wish them to appear on the status line. Yes, that's the only way I've found to do it. But you only need to do ...

Hello Status line info series seem to be aleatory. On two charts I got -Indicator, Instrument, Scale, Indicator - Instrument,Scale,Indicator,Indicator I like to have my info in an orderly manner Martin Indicator_sort_1.jpg Indicator_Sort_2.jpg If you want to change the order of how items are listed...

Arnie, If you want the rectangle to continue to extend into the future, the only thing I can think of is to maximize the chart, increase the margin on the right of your bars and then manually stretch your rectangle. Then you can reset the margin without affecting the rectangle. At least then your re...

Hello dennisc, Function calls insignificantly increase the calculation time but make the code more readable. Each line of code (which is adding additional operations) increases the calculation time, that is expected. So let's say I create an indicator by coding it in two ways: with and without func...

First of all, I want to thank everyone who's helped me begin to understand how to use Power Language. Will using function calls in an indicator's coding generally require more processing resources than if I included the function coding within the indicator coding? Is it faster to use the function ca...

To find out, you should hand calculate this loop step by step... for Iteration = 1 to SMALength begin CloseSum = CloseSum + Price[Iteration]; end; Step 1: Iteration = 1, CloseSum = 0 + Price[ 1 ] Step 2: Iteration = 2, CloseSum = Step 3: Iteration = 3, CloseSum = ... I was clueless at first as to w...

Probably the correct answer is:

change the iteration in your code from 0 to SMALength-1

Yup, using TJ's suggestion with yours did the trick...

I don't get why starting at zero matters, but I guess I don't need to know...

Thanks!

Don't open multiple topics for the same thing, please. Or at least provide a link to the previous topic. Otherwise people have to search for your previous topic to see what was already discussed. It's more convenient to keep it all in one place. Josh, Yeah, I didn't really want to ask the same ques...

Please USE the code I gave you in your previous thread. TJ, I wasn't clear enough in my previous response to your suggestion; I DID use the code you gave me. The code you offered made it LOOK like it solved my problem, but all it did was displace the moving average by one period. I see that maxmax6...

Is there a way to code a moving average that changes color when the slope changes? I can get it to change color, but it does it one bar later than the change of slope...

Is there an example somewhere to show how to do this in Power Language?

ps: [FAQ] How to Post Codes (that people can read) https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=11713 Gotcha. Here's the original code again: Inputs: Price (Close), SMALength (50); Variables: Iteration (0), CloseSum (0), LastSMAValue (0), SMAValue (0); CloseSum = 0; for Iteration = 1...

Try this: if SMAValue > LastSMAValue then SetPlotColor[1](1, darkgreen) else SetPlotColor[1](1, red); note SetPlotColor [1] TJ, I tried something similar, but all that does is displaces the moving average by one bar... The color changes where it should, but how can it be done without the MA being d...

Hi all, Being new to Power Language, I don't know how to solve my problem in getting a moving average to change color when its slope turns up or down. Actually, I can get it to change color but the color change is plotted one bar late. How do I get the color to change one bar sooner? Thanks, DC Here...

Try this: vars:rsidelta(0),rsisma(0); rsidelta = MOMENTUM(RSI(CLOSE,14),9); //Then a smoothed short period RSI is created: rsisma = average(RSI(CLOSE,3),3); //The indicator code will then be: Plot1(rsidelta+rsisma,"Plot1"); Plot2(average((plot1),13),"Plot2"); Plot3(average((plot1),33),"Plot3"); Hi ...

Someone on another forum pointed out that I had to include the calculations for RSIDelta and RSIsma in the indicator code itself instead of creating them in two separate functions.

So it's all good after doing that!

: )

Thanks for the help!

DC

You miss the comma after the RSI(close,3) , 3); RSIsma = AVERAGE(RSI(CLOSE,3) , 3); This will work !!! DOH!!!! OK Crazy, thanks for that... Everything compiles OK, BUT... all the indicator values display as zero. Something is missing in the indicator's plotting code, but I'd have no idea what it is...

Still get the same syntax error:

RSIsma = AVERAGE(RSI(CLOSE,3)3);

------ Compiled with error(s): ------
syntax error, expecting 'bars'
line 3, column 29

I'm having a problem converting EL code into Power Language (I know nothing about either); I'm trying to create Connie Brown's Composite Index (originally Andrew Cardwell's CFG Momentum Oscillator). The following is the way Brown claims it's done in TS: First,create two functions in EasyLanguage; Th...

I'm not sure what happened, but TJ's response got deleted; or at least I can't find it now. If I somehow deleted it TJ, sorry - I was trying to respond and wanted to quote you, but... Anyway, to answer TJ, I don't need to enlarge the chart - I just compare different charts side-by-side using differe...

See my previous post from Feb. 26, entitled "plotting moving average problem", and my request description at http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-1610 If you've never noticed how indicators plot differently in the price chart from where they should be, depending on which scaling o...

Hello dennisc, Unfortunately there is no direct way to do that. You can use one of the workarounds or submit a feature request to the Project Management of our web site so other users can vote for it: https://www.multicharts.com/pm/ Thanks for checking Henry. But, uh... wow. I can't even begin to u...

I don't know how to add TICK to my list (maybe I don't have the necessary permissions), but I can tell you that it's not a good idea to rely on IB's data anyway. It's all snapshot data, not actual realtime data. If you were to plot one of the e-mini indexes using IB tick data, you'll only see about ...

I'd like to know how to get a moving average to plot using the price scale of the instrument, but with a different decimal precision than price. I'm not trying to program anything in PowerLanguage, I'm just trying to get the standard options to work for me. Here's an example of my problem: Let's say...