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I recently imported a symbol list of 60 stock symbols (thanks for your help Svetlana). After doing this, of course I wanted to use the symbols, so I proceeded to copy the symbol list from excel, and paste it in a MultiCharts watchlist with a linked chart. Every one of the symbols showed up as 'UNDEF...

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Aha - that did the trick. Thank you Svetlana.

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Hi Svetlana Thanks for your reply. There was one stock in the list that had the exchange listed as NCM (Non Clearing Member). I attempted to add NCM using NASDAQ as a clone, but I got the message that I must use a unique abbr, so it did not work as outlined in the documentation. I could not add NCM....

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File attached as requested.

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I'm trying to import a symbol list from a text file. I've read all the documentation. For some reason it is not working. All I ever get is

"0 symbol(s) have been imported into Portfolio"

I've attached an image of the text file. Any ideas?

Symbol List.JPG: (49.65 KiB) Not downloaded yet

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Thanks Anna, this is helpful. Status line is updated 24/7 I assume you are referring to the status line at the top of the chart? FYI, I have not been looking at price in the chart status line. I'm only comparing the Last price from the chart price scale to the scanner Last price. But the chart is on...

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Hello Anna Thanks for your reply. But I fail to see the logic behind this request. It worked once, under ideal pre-defined conditions. I have a watchlist with hundreds of symbols and multiple charts, and it is not working for dozens of the symbols. If you have any ideas why MC is failing to post the...

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Hi Anna As per your request, I set up a new workspace with a new chart and new watchlist. I added FB to both the chart and watchlist, linked them, and set sessions to 24/7. I did not touch anything after initial setup. As you can see from the attached jpeg, the Last shown on the chart matches the La...

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Thanks Anna The primary issue is that the MC chart does not match the MC watchlist. So calculated indicators in the chart and watchlist are not the same. For example, if I calculate an RSI on the chart and an RSI in the watchlist, they do not match. So I question the validity of any watchlist RSI sc...

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It seems to be a fairly regular occurrence. Sessions for both the watchlist and chart are the same, and time zone is set to local on both. Time zone is MST.

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Hello, TrendFirst! Please post a screenshot of the IQFeed settings and specify the version of MultiCharts and IQFeed client that you're currently using. Hi Anna Thanks for your reply. I am using MultiCharts64 Version 12.0 Release (Build 18038), and IQFeed 6.0.1.1. Looks like I am behind one update ...

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AFTER HOURS MARKET

Please, no shouting.

And of course it's after hours market data, which I mentioned. But it's after hours data for both the chart and watchlist. They should both display the same data. They don't.

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I've noticed that after the market closes, stock last quotes in a Watchlist linked to a chart are often different from the last quotes displayed in the chart. I am using IQFeed real time daily data. Session for both the Watchlist and chart are set to 24/7 (I have tried other session settings, but th...

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Hello Svetlana

Thank you for confirming the issue and potential solution.

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I'm running Linux on several other PCs, and it is so much easier to administer than the bloated Windows Home and Pro environment. MS invades your privacy, shoves whatever they want into your PC, and generally makes life difficult for someone that just wants an OS that is stable and runs day after da...

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Thanks for your reply, Alex. I guess I didn't expect the experience to be better, just wondered if the end result would justify the hoop-jumping that would be needed. Sounds like you are back to Windows. Can you share why you use Windows Server 2016 rather than Home or Pro?

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I'm considering switching from Windows to Linux, and I'm hoping experienced Linux/VM users will chime in with some sage comments. I did a search and the last relevant discussion on this topic was 2014, maybe we can do an update on that. My biggest concern is the speed at which MC will run on a VM, a...

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I had another chat with IQFeed on this topic. It seems they swiftly batted the ball back into MC's court. Basically, they said the Symbol database refresh does happen overnight, as they have millions of updates to do and that is the only practical way to do it. So if I do a symbol search in MC, it w...

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Thank you Svetlana. The IQFeed tech support person I chatted with did not share this information.

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TrendFirst, I'm interested in hearing the solution to your issue. Can you clarify a couple of things for me please? From what I've read and understood, am I right in saying the following: -The realtime data for QCL# was correct (switched from March to April 2019, as expected), it was just the symbo...

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To further illustrate what I am referring to, I will use the gasoline futures contract, QRB# symbol with IQFeed. It just happened to roll today at 4PM MST. Both of the images shown below were captured at the same time, approximately 4:55PM MST. It is quite clear that IQFeed SnapQuote is showing Apri...

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Thank you for your reply, Svetlana. It seems you are confirming what I observed - April data with a contract description of March. I do not understand your comment that the "Description Field is not used". It is obviously displayed and updated (even if it is updated late) - so I do not understand wh...

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Thanks to all for your comments. To restate the issue for clarification, there was an inconsistency between IQFeed and MultiCharts on the crude futures contract (I don't know the exact period of time of this inconsistency - it started at the close of one day and disappeared by the open of the next)....

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Crude rollover is unlike other futures, I hope you do understand.

Every commodity future is unlike others. Which I do understand. But I do not understand how your comment adds to this conversation.

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Yes, it has. But that still does not explain the discrepancy last night. MC should reflect the data feed, not some arbitrary rule.

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I chatted with IQFeed online support before posting this. The IQFeed support person confirmed that they had rolled to April. And I am getting April data, even though it says March.

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Yes.

<I quit all MC processes>

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I disconnected the symbol ( I was recording data), and then was able to delete it. But when I try to add it back in, it still shows up as March. No April.

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I use IQFeed with MC. After the close today, IQFeed rolled their continuous crude contract from March to April. I checked in their SnapQuote app, and it showed the change. QCL# was the April contract, with April data. But.....MC showed that the contract was still March, but showed April data. I trie...

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So Data1 is the only data stream that can be used for trading, it sounds like. And Data2 cannot be used to count bars for the LX strategy?

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Thank you for your reply, TJ. What kind of documentation are you looking for? Standard stuff. Good. Thorough. The kind that explains what the script is doing. Is there a specific question you have? Yes. Where is the documentation for the pre-built scripts in MC? Those canned strategies have been aro...

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Hello

Just an FYI that I have placed a Feature Request in Project Management, requesting documentation of the pre-built signals in MC. If you have an interest in this, please vote. Thanks.

https://www.multicharts.com/pm/public/m ... es/MC-2541

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I have built a strategy that uses Strat1 to enter long, and then exits using the Multicharts Percent Trailing LX strategy. During testing I found the backtesting results to be overwhelmingly positive, which I have seen before with the Percent Trailing LX exit. So I turned on IntraBarOrderGeneration ...

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Thank you CrazyNasdaq, I will review and test your idea. I haven't used counters before, so this will give me an opportunity to learn how they work.

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Hi TJ, thanks for the reply. Can you suggest an alternative to the time-based approach?

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I wrote a simple script to plot the high and low of the initial balance period on a 30 minute chart, and it worked fine. I'm using an if statement to only examine the first hour of data after the open, then using Highest and Lowest functions to find the high and low. This requires that you input the...

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I'm looking at S&P 500 emini futures and charting Volume. My understanding is this is trade volume, in other words the # of trades. As far as I can tell this is the only built-in option, their is no tick volume available, even on a tick chart. I would like to chart the total # of contracts traded. I...

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If you have a 200 EMA, the minimum number of bars required is 200. ie. you will get the first result on bar #201. if you also have a 14 period RSI on the chart, the first result of the RSI will also come on bar #201. Interesting.....so my first assumption was correct, even tho it confused me to no ...

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How does the Currentbar "screw up" your calculation? Are you looking for RSI in the first 200 bars of the chart? No, my typical RSI periods are in the 2 - 14 range. In the definition of CurrentBar they reference MaxBarsBack. The only place I had seen that previously was in the Signals/Properties ar...

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Hi TJ

Thanks for replying. No, I have not done an audit. I have no reason to believe the results are inaccurate. I'm just trying to understand how the code is working.

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I am in the process of learning Easylanguage. One of the ways I am doing this is reviewing the scripts for some of the basic indicators. I know how to calculate these by hand or in excel, so the idea is that I should be able to figure out and understand the script. As I do this, I am re-writing the ...

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Thank you for the links to the reference guide, TJ. For some reason these links do not appear when I search the Multicharts site, but thankfully I found them when I searched the web. I think the terminology is straight - it's just that I am new to using functions, and the documentation is not where ...

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Thank you for chiming in, TJ. I appreciate there are a lot of legacy documents available for Easylanguage, and that it has been around for 25 years. But it has not been static for 25 years, it has evolved. And Powerlanguage is not exactly the "same" as Easylanguage. When a product is being commercia...

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I am in the process of learning about MC Functions, and looked for a reference document. None to be found on Multicharts website. I searched this forum and found this thread. None of the links in this thread work, even tho I tried them in multiple browsers. I'm with Zheka, I expected better Multicha...

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I have a chart with 2 data streams; Data1 is a 5000 tick chart, and Data2 is a daily chart. Data2 is used for a filter, while buy/sell signals are generated on Data1. My question is: Which data stream does Max Bars Back apply to? It seems to apply to different streams under different circumstances. ...

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An update.....I was contacted by Anna and Cristina from support, and went thru a few steps including running the MC DataUpdater.exe, as they suggested. Version 11 seems to be running normally now. Thx!

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Hello yoyotrader, Please contact us directly for MultiCharts 10 download link. As for MultiCharts 12 - it can be expected by the end of this year. Hi Henry I will also be contacting you for the MC 10 download link. I have had multiple issues with MC 11, as listed below. 1) It does not load IQFeed d...

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In the event that anyone else has issues with Portfolio Settings........please double click Signals in PT to bring up the Format Settings dialogue. Go to Properties and see what you have for the Trade Size/Percent of Equity setting. Set it to 100%. Then with Margin set at 100%, the Max % of Capital ...

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I've solved the PT not displaying positions issue, and I have modified the script with a 5 min data stream and it is now entering orders in the last 5 minutes of the market session rather than at the close. Also the script generated it's first exit order today, so it has it's first round trip trade ...

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OK, please ignore my question about the "Assign the initial Market Position at the Broker" question. While messing around with Strategy Properties, I found that if I select "Do not show the Assign the Initial Market Position at the Broker" radio button (which I had not seen previously), and then the...

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Chatted with Alex today and got the first part of this solved.....Thanks Alex. He pointed me to the documentation and I was able to fix it. I'll share the link here in case anyone else has this issue. I had to go to Strategy Properties/Auto Trading tab and check the "Show Always" box. https://www.mu...

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Hello I've been running Portfolio Trader for the first time this week in a paper trading account. My signals are very simple and run on daily bars, and the instrument list is all ETFs. So far I've figured out I need different orders than are used in backtesting (buy this bar at close obviously doesn...

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Hello rickbw I have also been looking for more documentation and videos on this topic (you are not alone), and hopefully more will be forthcoming. I often visit the TS website training area, as there are significantly more training resources for TS. If you have a background in TS, that is probably s...

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Kristina, thanks for the help today, I was able to generate charts with the imported tick data after I restarted MC at the end of the trading day. For other traders that might be interested in using this data, I would proceed with caution. After uploading Oct 2016 Crude Futures from Histdata.com in ...

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More questions about the ASCII Mapping dialog. There is a "Resolution" header with n/a in every cell under it. I can't change this - what goes here, and how do I input it? On the right of the "Resolution" column is a column with no header. What is this column? If I click on the cells under this blan...

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Thanks Kristina. I did a little more digging on the histdata.com website, and they mention using only the bid data to create their OHLC bars. So perhaps I can just import the bid data. I will test this versus my IQFeed tick data and see how it compares. Anyone else have any experience importing tick...

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I am attempting to import tick data from http://www.HistData.com . The data is in the format shown below. As example, in DAT_ASCII_EURUSD_T_201202.csv: 20120201 000003660,1.306600,1.306770,0 20120201 000003973,1.306580,1.306750,0 20120201 000005003,1.306590,1.306760,0 20120201 000005707,1.306600,1.3...

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I had the same problem after a Windows 10 update. Started following the uninstall instructions, but then when I got to the "Uninstall" or "Repair" dialog, I took the lazy way out and selected "Repair". Everything compiled fine after that, and it was much easier and quicker than uninstalling/re-insta...

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Hi Henry

I updated as soon as it was available, haven't noticed the problem again.

Thanks.

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Hello TJ Thanks to your help, I was able to apply the alert code to the scanner window. I am now getting alerts as I would expect. Give this a try: // Indicator: Alert (for MultiCharts scanner window) // Author: TJ // Date: 20160202 // // This indicator will display the trigger price in the scanner ...

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>>you can always use the Scanner for this and set alerts programmatically

Thank you Grigorios. Have to admit I'm not really a programmer, but little mods and simple stuff is within my grasp. Can you point me to any documentation that explains this? Thanks again.

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Hello mickatrade

Thanks for your reply. That solution works if you have a relatively small number of instruments to monitor, and if you keep that workspace active all the time. I monitor around 150 stocks, a dozen futures, several dozen ETFs and around 20 currency pairs.

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I have been using the "Format Trendline" - "Alerts Tab" - "Enable Alerts" to set alerts when trendlines are broken. And I am seeing some problems, as outlined below: 1) Alerts don't work in the background. For example, suppose I have set an alert on AMZN, and I am viewing the charts for GOOGL (AMZN ...

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Hello TrendFirst, With PlotPaintBar you can paint segments of the bar. Therefore you can create and apply two PlotPaintBar indicators to have the bars colored in three colors. Thank you Henry. I have been able to paint different colors between the pre-defined price points, such as between the open ...

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You can have multiple symbols on the same chart. I wasn't sure, that's why I asked. Your situation is most unusual; I have not seen it before. Have you tried to expand (stretch horizontally) your chart to see if the indicators would come back? Does it happen on a detached chart? You might have to u...

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How many symbols do you have on the chart? What are the resolutions? Have you tried other symbol combinations? Do the indicators disappear the same? Thank you for your reply. I'm not really clear what you mean by how many symbols are on the chart, or what a symbol combination is. I attached a chart...

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Agree with tony, you should not have to launch 5 instances of MC to do what you want. Launch it once and use 5 workspaces. You may also be able to specify an account on each chart you are trading, so you may not need more than a couple of workspaces. You may have to have 5 instances of your broker s...

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MC randomly stops displaying studies on my daily charts. A jpg is attached showing the issue. The intraday charts are fine. I've deleted and replaced the studies several times. Upon replacement, the studies are displayed. But if I leave the chart and come back, they are gone. If I delete the chart a...

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I'm interested in using an oscillator to identify over/under valued areas and paint price bars. Painting the entire bar is no problem, I can do that easily with PlotPaintBar. What i'm more interested in is stacking colors on a single bar as shown in the attached pic (sorry the quality is poor). For ...

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