Hello, I'm trying to Optimize a strategy on over 1 year of data. The strategy involves over 15 different bars (some tick based and some time based). When I try to load more then 1 months worth of these 15 different bars onto a chart Multicharts freezes (even though I'm using the 64 bit version of MC...

Hi TJ, One follow up question regarding the code (shown below) you posted in post #6 of this thread. Input: Profit.target.price(100); If (Close data2) > Profit.target.price then SELL next bar at market; This code exits the trade if the Profit Target is >100 at the Close of the Data2 bar. How can I c...

Hello, I have a chart with the following: -5 minute Last bars -5 Minute Bid bars -5 minute Ask bars I am using MC's "Precise Backtesting" feature so that orders are filled with Bid prices and Ask prices accordingly, rather then Last prices. I also have bar magnifier on. When I do a Long entry with a...

Hello MC Users, I ran a backtest on 1 minute bars using Bar Magnifier (set to 1 tick) and IOG. My "Stop Loss" exit fill happened within the 1 minute bar, however the timestamp (shown on the Chart and Performance Report) of the exit fill was the close of the 1 minute bar instead of the exact timestam...

Hi TJ, I guess "Plot" may have been the wrong word for what I'm trying to do. I thought "Plot" means any type of graphical representation of data. Does it mean something different? Anyway, attached 1.jpg is a hypothetical chart I made in photoshop for the symbol ESH16 that show all 10 levels of mark...

Hello MC, I don't think this is possible when backtesting, but when live trading is it possible to make a chart that shows separate "Line On Close" bars for each of the 10 levels of market depth data? This would mean the chart would show 10 different "Line On Close" bars at the same time. Two questi...

Thanks for the Example Tony!

Also, thanks for pointing out the "of" I wrote accidentally. The "of" is a typo. I meant to write that line of code like this:

condition1 = CurrentBar of data3 > 2 and var2 crosses over 0 ;

Hello MC and MC Users, I'd like to code an automated trading strategy that trades/analyzes many different Option strike prices at the same time. I'm guessing each strike price would be considered a different symbol from a programing POV. Is it possible to have my backtest's entry/exit fills for such...

Can you please revise the code I wrote and repost it?

This simple example would teach me (and other users) a lot about how to write Multi-data strategies.

Thanks.

Thanks TJ, I read that link and changed my code to this inputs: FastLength( 12 ), SlowLength( 26 ), MACDLength( 9 ) ; variables: Macd3( 0, data3), var1( 0 ), var2( 0 ) ; Macd3 = MACD( Close, FastLength, SlowLength ) data3 ; var1 = XAverage( Macd3, MACDLength ) ; var2 = Macd3 - var1 ; condition1 = Cu...

thanks!

Thanks Josh!

Hello, I am trying to apply Multicharts' built in "MACD LE" signal to the 3rd data series on my chart, but it is not working for some reason. The code I wrote to do this is below, would really appreciate a code example showing what I did wrong. FYI: You'll see the third to last line of this code is ...

Hi Henry, Any thoughts on post #5 of this thread?

Alex was able to solve #5 during a live chat via pressing "Terminate Playback, go to Realtime" however the problem has come back even when i press that button.

Perhaps there is something else causing the issue?

Thanks

Hello Again TJ. Can you please show me a full code example of how I'd do this (to both the "Profit Target" and "Stop Loss") when using the following 3 signals (that come with MC) all at once? Happy to pay you for this code example if needed , please private message me your fee if so. -"Bollinger Ban...

Thanks!

You cannot use global exits based on data2; you have to program the profit/stop exits yourself.

Hi Tj, I think I understand, but can you please elaborate a little more on this?

Thanks for the tip TJ. I just edited my original post so that the code is easier to read.

Hello, Can someone please show me what I'd add to MC's "Profit Target" signal's code (shown below) in order to get it to analyze Data2 and Data3 instead of Data1? I tried doing it via the "Multi-Data Analysis" instructions on page 15 of this link http://bit.ly/1ShIdRK but could not get it to work. (...

Hi Henry, I made a chart with Trades as Data1, Asks as Data2 and Bids as Data3. However, as shown in attached screenshot 2.jpg, it only gives gives me the option to select the Data1 in "use for ask series data" The same thing happens when I press the "use for bid series data" pulldown. Any idea why ...

Hello,
I ran the following 3 signals (that come with MC) all at once in Replay mode:
-"Bollinger Bands LE"
-"Profit Target"
-"Stop Loss"

For some reason the "Profit Target" and "Stop Loss" would only exit trades on Bars, but never in between bars.

Any idea why this is?

Thanks!

When I have 2 symbols on the same chart and drag a signal onto it, how do I know which signal the symbol will trade? For instance, Lets say I have Microsoft and Apple on the same chart and add the "Bollinger Bands LE" signal. How do I know if the "Bollinger Bands LE" signal will trade Microsoft or A...

Thanks for the reply Josh, Step 6 from the Wiki says 6. Apply the strategy to the Ask data series, which is the first chart. It does not matter if the strategy is applied to the Ask data series or the Bid data series. It only matters that the strategy is applied to the first chart. I figured this me...

While waiting for a backtest to finish, is it possible to see a progress bar of some sort showing how close the backtest is to finishing? I ask, because I have some signals that are very GPU intensive and take a long time (10+ minutes) for MC to backtest. Would be great to be able to know how close ...

Is it possible to have my trading Algorithm run calculations on "Last" bars and still fill limit orders on Bid/Ask prices that happened in between (or on) Last prices? I tried doing this via "Precise Backtesting" mode (as shown in this link http://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/Preci...