MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

Leo

Hello Polly, 1) yes, TS was still receiving data 2) restarting both MC and TS solve the problem. As I wrote my first post on Friday and you answered on Monday that you couldn't reproduce the issue, I'd say that you tested for a too short time, even considering that markets were closed for about 80%...

Leo

Hello Polly, 1) yes, TS was still receiving data 2) restarting both MC and TS solve the problem. As I wrote my first post on Friday and you answered on Monday that you couldn't reproduce the issue, I'd say that you tested for a too short time, even considering that markets were closed for about 80% ...

Leo

Thanks Polly, the problem is not with data backfilling, I try to explain better: 1) TS MC are on the same PC 2) MC gets the data from TS 3) TS platform is closed, i.e. I only logged in to my TS account so that I can upload data to MC Under these circumstances everything works fine. However, if I als...

Leo

I don't know if this problem has been solved in the latest versions, but it is a long-standing problem that I and other MC users have experienced: when MC takes the datafeed from TS you have to avoid opening the TS platform: in fact, if MC and TS are both open on the same PC, within a time frame tha...

Leo

Thanks Kate. Is the Symbol Mapping saved somehwere by MC?. If yes, I could copy and save it.

Leo

Hello everyone, is there a way to automatically export the Symbol Mapping on a daily basis? MC backup won't do the job as it is necessary to shut down MC whereas I'm looking for a daily and automatic backup of the Symbol Mapping file.
Thanks in advance

Leo

Hello everyone, I have 10-year historical data of a future taken from a broker I no longer have access. The data are from 2010 to 2020 and would like to attach the 2020-today period (with data taken from IB) by creating a custom future. I know how to create a custom future by assembling the differen...

Leo

Hello Svetlana, no, sometimes they do not correspond. Please consider that I check a couple of times per day that the number of contracts from charts and the broker are aligned. As said, sometimes I notice that the custom 1 line indicator is not updated correctly, and shows 0 contracts whereas I am ...

Leo

Hello all, I use the Custom 1 Line indicator to show whether a given system is flat or, if on market, how many contracts have been bought/sold. To do this, I've modified the formula as attached. The problem is that sometimes, the indicator shows that the system is flat, while that's not true, and I ...

Leo

sugar.png Downloading the delayed data from TS, I noticed that historical data is always downloaded correctly, but the delayed data is incomplete. Look for example at the 30 minutes chart of SB before and after the refresh. Since the historical is correct, I would expect the delay data to be correc...

Leo

Hello Tammy, I've just installed MultiCharts64 Version 14.0 Release (Build 23013), thus I don't know if this problem occurs even with this newer version but it happened with several previous versions. Real time data stops updating, thus I added an indicator on one chart which sends an alert when thi...

Leo

Hello everyone, unfortunately, I experience frequent disconnections from the datafeed from TS and when it happens I have to close both the TS and MC and run them again.

Is there anything I can do to avoid this? Is this something MC guys can take care of?

Thanks for help

Leo

Hello, is there anyway to show in the TWS Trade log, the system name which generated an order?
Currently, just the ID number of the order is showed, but it would be really nice to have the system name.

Thanks

Leo

ABC,

thanks! It works

Leo

Hello everyone, could you suggest an indicator which shows on a chart whether the trading system is long/short/flat?

Have looked around but didn't find anything.

Thanks in advance

Leo

Michael, close the MC and relaunch, next time you should see the correct decimals

Leo

Hi Tammy! Sorry, i have the same question for the Cotton Future (@CT). Could you please describe more in detail? In the Quote Manager in "Edit symbol > Futures tab > description" instead of "Cotton No. 2 Continuous Contract" there should be "Cotton No. 2 Continuous Contract * 0.01"? Thank you Micha...

Leo

Hello all, I have a system on the TS @SB future where the value is calculated to 2 decimals (i.e. 17.42), while on the TWS @SB is calculated to 4 decimals (i.e. 0.1742). I then need to have MC send the order with the decimals on the TWS. On MC's documentation I found a solution to the problem for Tr...

Leo

Hello everyone, in Portfolio Trader I would like to limit the number of concurrent open positions, and this number has to be calculated on the basis of the overall open risk. Example: Let's say I have 5 different trading systems running on a total of 100 stocks, thus 25 per system. Say that each of ...

Leo

Hello all, when looking for any ticker in the Qandl database I'm not able to find anything as I always get "No symbol" In Quotemanager I get the following message: [03/31/2021 03:48:52] Error find symbols transaction: 8, Message: https://www.quandl.com/api/v3/databases/EUREX/metadata?api_key=XXX Fai...

Leo

Hello, when trying to download Quandl database, MC crashes either if you are looking for the entire database with a "*" in the symbol search filed, or just a single stock ticker. When the "Quandl symbol search progress" opens, it crashes after a couple of secs.
thanks

Leo

Thanks Vlada, think I'll have to contact live chat .

Leo

Hello all, I run MC connected to IB where I trade. Frequently, historical orders on my charts do not show, or they show in random orders. For example, I day traded yesterday and had my entry/exit arrows, entry price, etc showing on chart, but today they disappeared. Refreshing charts or relaunching ...

Leo

Hello Anna,

symbol mapping works but orders form a trading system are rejected by MC as the stock is not recognized.

For example, TCOM has been mapped following your suggestions, but MC rejects orders

Leo

Thanks Anna, it works!

Leo

Hello, I need to map the whole S&P500 stock list from the TS datafeed and map this list to the corresponding stocks in IB. From what I've read, I could import a .sm file containing the TS S&P500 list in the IB Symbol Mapping but am not sure how to do that, or maybe there's another way to have 500 st...

Leo

Hello Henry,

have uninstalled my TWS and installed version 972.1v as per your suggestion, but still cannot load charts of the following futures:

@FBTP, @FDAX, @FTMIB.

When looking for those tickers in MC, all I get is the same error message I had with the latest TWS version, plese see below

Leo

Henry,

very helpful, thanks

Leo

Hello everyone, is there a way to import on MC scanner watchlist a complete list of instruments from TS without typing every single ticker? For example, TS provides the complete S&P500 stocks as a group and would like to import that group as a whole. I would like to do this since downloading data fr...

Leo

Hello Henry, thanks.
However I'm talking about a situation where everything seems fine, datafeed is present and MC is connected to the TWS but whenever an order is sent, the error message appears and the order is NOT actually sent to the TWS (or does not reach TWS)

Leo

Thanks TJ, I'll try it even if, as said, real time data are present

Leo

Hello everyone, I sometimes get the following error from Order and Position Trackers Windows "Order rejected: Multicharts generate the order but was not able to send it because TWS API returned that the connection was broken". Question: since by looking at File/Broker profiles, Interactive Brokers a...

Leo

GIGO Do you know if the data are the same? Have you compared the databases tick by tick? Data feed is not a precise science -- lived ticks are streamed from the exchange in real time. In real time, what you see is what you get. Just ticks as they happened. At the end of the day, if you re-load the ...

Leo

I'm running several trading systems on futures index and commodities, using TS as datafeed and IB as broker. Identical trading systems are run by a couple of friends on their own computers and we all use TS as datafeed. Since we are running the same systems we are able to triple-check any single ord...

Leo

Here is my Symbol Mapping with @EMD highlighted, where there was a pending order at the time I posted the previous screenshot

Leo

Anna, orders are placed correctly and they are visible in the position tracker and triggered I'll post an example just to be sure I explain what I'm not able to see on a chart loaded with TS data (but visible if loaded with IB data). The first chart is loaded from TS datafeed where there's actually ...

Leo

Hi thanks for answer. I use extensively Symbol Mapping and don't think this is the case. I'll try to explain my problem better: Say I have a chart of KO loaded on MC taking datafeed from TS and want to trade KO on IB: I'll perform a symbol mapping saying to MC that KO TS=KO IB. However, when enterin...

Leo

Hello everyone,

I've several charts loaded with a TS datafeed and in this case I'm not able to see pending orders whereas I've no problem when taking data from my broker (Interactive Brokers).
Any solution for this issue?
Thanks in advance

Leo

Hi all, I've recently subscribed to real time data for the Italian market. However, I cant see any real time data feed on charts relative to Italian stocks, with the exception of the Italian future which is correctly updated whereas stocks are updated only EOD. Strange enough, charts appear to be up...

Leo

Hi all,

all of a sudden I get the NO DATA warning when trying to load data from the above futures on IB.
I havne't signed for real data but I was able to load delayed data anyway.
Any clue?

Thanks

Leo

HI, when compiling I get the following error:

Commentary end is expected before end of file
line 104, column 1

Thanks

Leo

@JOSHM If it's protected you cant even import it into MC. Isn't there a version number of TS after MC isn't able to import any ELD-file ? I thought I read or heard something about. But not sure. @LEO By the way, these Elder indicators flying around the web. Best Regards Ben Thanks all, I sent an em...

Leo

Looking at the pdf manual for that product, those scripts all use TS features that are available in MultiCharts too. So based on that it should work in MultiCharts too. However, and this is a big however , not all TS code works in MultiCharts and if the developer has used some of the more elaborati...

Leo

Hello,

Please contact its developer directly in regards to this question.

Did it, they don't know, thus I hoped someone here could have use it.
It's just a group of custom indicators thus they should be compatible, but tried to ask as the cost of the disk is not just two bucks

Leo

Does anyone know if Elder's disk for TS has full MC compatibility?

Thanks in advance

Leo

Hello Leo, Please contact us directly if you are interested in custom programming services. Henry, I'm not quite sure what your suggestion is all about. I'm asking how to setup MC in a way that it provides reliable autotrading syncronization because as far as I understood (and I could be wrong but ...

Leo

Thank you Henry, as said I'm not into either EL or coding in general, thus I'd like to ask if anyone in the staff or among users can help me implementing these scripts in order to use SYNC in autotrading and have entry bars not recalculated when turning off/relaunching MC or Portoflio Trader. As far...

Leo

You can store the value in a text file outside of MultiCharts, then read it into your code.

Thanks Henry, I'm not into EL or coding in general, could you help implementing what you suggest? Is there a script available to do this? How to use it?

Thanks

Leo

Thanks Henry.
I also tried to trade in SYNC mode, however I noticed that this way entry bar of a trading system is everyday updated. Therefore, those trading systems which has a "bar since entry" option will never exit a position.
Is there a way to solve this issue?

Leo

Thank you Henry.

However I was questioning about frequent position discrepancies between MC charts and/or Portfolio Trader and the actual position at the broker.
As said, I find multiple discrepancies everyday.

Leo

Hi all, it's several months I'm autotrading a number of different trading systems on different stocks, and almost every day I notice that there are several discordancies between Portfolio Trader's position tracker window and the actual broker position. I've a number of past examples and will keep a ...

Leo

Thank you JoshM, that might be the case and will have a look at next order.
I also noticed that such error message is not available in LMAX's logs, which should mean that the order doesn't even reach LMAX servers

Leo

Hello Leo,

Do you have the "F" master account?

Hi Henry,

I'm not sure what the F master account would be.

I've a Reg T Margin account and have opened a linked account to it. Both accojnts numbers starts with letter "U".

Hope it helps

Leo

Hello Leo,

LMAX does not support Futures trading.

Correct, infact I'm taking data from TS and applying the order on their CFD.
I'm doing the same with another trading system and it works correctly.

Leo

Hello dingmanhoe123, Each chart has its own auto trading plugin settings. Please go to Format->Strategy Properties->Auto trading tab->Select broker plugin->select the profile you need->go to Settings. Specify the required account in the Default account field if you do not have a master account. If ...

Leo

Hi all, a trading system of mine trading on @ES continuous contract (ES.D) taken from TS, when tryng to send a limit order on LMAX's CFD generates the following message error https://gyazo.com/85773bb96a224d18ec2e15473fef80f8 I tried to to link to the webpage at the bottom of the message but it seem...

Leo

Hi all, I've just connected MC to a real LMAX account and have realized that historical charts start from beginning 2015, regardless the period specified in Format Instrument.
Any clue on how to increase hystorical periods?

thanks in advance

Leo

Hi all, I have this pending order on EURUSD which is present on MC but not on IB servers. https://gyazo.com/52b8acbc06d0ba1d5221412c41aef4b1 Order has been opened on March 28 and has never been cancelled by MC and as said it is not pending on the TWS. I tried to cancel this order for the Tracker win...

Leo

Hello Leo, We were unable to replicate this behavior on our end. Please follow these instructions: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/Problems_with_Data_in_MultiCharts Thanks Henry, I did follow that page but was unsuccesfull. I just PARTIALLY solved the problem in this way: 1) ...

Leo

Hi all,

on Multicharts charts the commodities under subject are missing one or more of the latest daily bars. I tried to delete both data and cache from the symbols in Quotemanager but was unsuccessfull.
Any clue?
Thanks in advance

Leo

Leo, I am using Oanda for one of my accounts right now and it has successfully run throughout the night for many nights. It only disconnects if an order is rejected. In this case, when I wake up I see that the connection to Oanda is disconnected and the Oanda login screen is visible. Are any reject...

Leo

Hi all, I've just opened a new Oanda account in order to perform some Forex autotrading. I haven't had any problem in connecting MC to Oanda, however it seems that MC disconnects from Oanda during the night: in fact every morning I find the Oanda's login web page open; further, an exit order occurre...

Leo

Hi Leo, Did you ever get this resolved? Tony, no, I did not resolve the problem dealing with the appearance of pending trades in the Position window. Generally, stop/limit orders starts to appear 1 hour before markets open, @market orders also are displayed, but there are some orders which are disp...

Leo

Hello Leo, In MultiCharts the bar timestamps are referring to the close of the bar. If your session starts at 8:00 then the first 1 hour bar will have 9:00 timestamp. Please configure the sessions according to this screenshot: http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?mode=view&id=949...

Leo

10am is the closing time in hourly resolution, if you put your chart in 5min candle, the first candle will have 4:05am time . Regards Actually trading times are from 8.am. to 10 p.m., please see below https://gyazo.com/308bf6125975e8d66bf17b8434010752 However, my first morning bar is at 10.am. inst...

Leo

HI thank you for your answer. I've setup as you suggested and now have trading time for both IBDE30 and IBEU50 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. However they both trade from 8 a.m. so I'm still missing the first two morning bars. Have you reloaded the data? MultiCharts collects data 24/7, regardless of what ...

Leo

Hello,

Try this :

HI thank you for your answer. I've setup as you suggested and now have trading time for both IBDE30 and IBEU50 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. However they both trade from 8 a.m. so I'm still missing the first two morning bars.

Leo

Hi all, how can I get on MC the correct charts with the regular trading hours? For example, IBdE30 trade from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. however on MC i get charts with abnormal trading hours, say from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. I've already tried to change the IBDE30 session in a custom session in QuoteManager as you ...

Leo

Hello Leo, Please add all MultiCharts processes to the trusted list / scanning exceptions of your anti virus: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/MultiCharts_Processes Hi Henry, I'm running MC on a Windows Server 2008 and have also uninstalled the antivirus but that didn't solve ...

Leo

Hi all, I don't have a clue as to why this happens but in the last days (after upgrading to the latest version) every time I try to connect MC to the TWS, MC freezes for about 30 seconds and then it connects. Moreover, when trying to open charts with trading systems on them, MC freezes again and it ...

Leo

Any clue?

thanks

Leo

Thank you, I thought that might be the problem, however I've currently 2.35 Gb busy and if I shutdown MC, thus freeing more memory, tsserver.exe activity continues at the same rate.
I've read other users reporting the same problem in the last year but couldn't find a solution.

Leo

Hi all,

I'm running MC on a Windows Server 2008 R2 with 4 Gb of RAM, and can frquently observe an abnormal (50%) and constant CPU load by tsserver.exe. The only thing I can do is to reboot the machine and was not able to identify a possible cause.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks

Leo

Hi all, I've a trading system running in Sync mode via Interactive Brokers, and have noticed that if for any reason I have to reset MC when a trade has already been opened, the trading system repaints the chart drawing a different "initial entry" point. As ytou can see in the below picture, I entere...

Leo

Ok, selecting a future date it works however this is quite new (previous version worked also with today's date) and may be confusing

Leo

Hello Leo, Please configure the From-To filters at the top of the Order and Position Tracker window. Hi and thanks for reply. Yesterday evening, europe time, orders have been cancelled at US market close, however new orders of this morning, which are currently pending on my IB account, are not disp...

Leo

I have just a brief experience with Directa.

You cannot autotrade different strategies on the same symbol, unless your broker allows hedging positions, which is not the case for the majority of the brokers

Leo

The Order and Position Tracker Windows no longer shows the current pending/filled/cancelled orders in the Orders tab, which is completely empty.

https://gyazo.com/df998d937bca0420bb1629905f1de031

Leo

Hi TJ, Ematrend is a proprietary indicator available among MC's addons indicator list. When trying to compile in Powerlanguage editor a trading system which uses Ematrend (in a way like if C>Ematrend then buy...) I get the above mentioned "unknown function" error. Thus I think I've to get Ematrend ...

Leo

Hi all, I'm trying to compile a trading systems which uses the Ematrend addon as signal. However I cannot compile it in Powerlanguage as I get the following error: ------ Compiled with error(s): ------ Unknown Function where the unknown functions is Ematrend. I thought it would have been recognized...

Leo

Hi all, I'm trying to compile a trading systems which uses the Ematrend addon as signal. However I cannot compile it in Powerlanguage as I get the following error: ------ Compiled with error(s): ------ Unknown Function where the unknown functions is Ematrend. I thought it would have been recognized ...

Leo

Hello Leo, If it is a daily trading system and IOG is disabled then the signal is calculated on bar close. If an order is generated – it is sent on next bar open (once opening tick of the next bar is received). An order is shown in the Order and Position Tracker window only when it is sent to a bro...

Leo

Hello, I was replying to the first post in this thread, which talks about unreliability of autotrading between MC and an IB account. Please see the first post for details. Furthermore, I'm also talking about the same issues I'm obesrving autotrading MC vs IB in this post https://www.multicharts.com/...

Leo

That's what I thought however it would be weird that a @mkt order placed before markets opening is deleted.
However, according to MC manual, even if that option is not checked, orders are deleted anyway after 40 secs

Leo

Even today a buy @mkt order has been placed and deleted 30 seconds afterward with no comment in the Logs tab

Leo

Hi, I faced the same difficulty, and solved it the following way. (1) In your "account management", subscribe to "UK-Cleared Commodities" (free). (2) When IB's TWS is open, do the following under QuoteManager: Instrument / Add symbol / Manually Data Source : Interactive Brokers Symbol : XAUUSD Cate...

Leo

Hello Dgresens, Usually “TIF unspecified” is not the reason but the result of the order reject. You need to go to File -> New -> Order and position tracker window->Logs tab to check the rejection reason. The same it happens to me. It seems that autotrading with MC via IB is totally unreliable. Is t...

Leo

I would like to come back to this topic to show that today a buy @mkt signal on ADBE has been deleted about 30 seconds after having been sent to TWS, please see image below

https://gyazo.com/1f67f08d0622acb4c2d2a90344e1bc3f

Any suggestion on this matter would be highly appreciated

Leo

Hi all, I have several Daily trading systems running on a MC connected to an IB account. I realized the tomorrow's order are displayed very randomly on the Tracker Window. For example, today I had 1) one @mkt buy order not displayed in the tracker and thus not sent to the broker 2) one @mkt sell ord...

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