MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

Mark Brown

I've an i9 20 cores CPU, 112 GB of RAM, and 2 RTX 2070 8Gb dedicated video cards. Yesterday I rolled back to MC 14 R10 and the LAGs disappeared. Probably the new SIM engine has a relevant impact on the regular functionality of the platform. MC 15 has a massive CPU and GPU utilization, about twice t...

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ask chat gpt to do it

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so any progress on this? evdl The above requirements are for manual charttrading with template exits. For autotrading, for example, auto entry with exit templates, there should be a reserved word to link in your strategy to the exit templates. With complete autotrader there should be a way to link t...

Mark Brown

What it does correct Code will auto entry and you can manually exit trade as desired. What it does incorrect It will not take another trade after the first trade. You must turn off auto trading and turn it back on. When you turn auto trading back on it puts you automatically into some random positi...

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to educate :

ES SP MINI FUTURES

12.50 PER TICK - 4 TICKS = 1 POINT WHICH = 50.

A TICK IS THE SMALLEST TRADABLE INCREMENT

A POINT IS THE RESULTS OF THE REQUIRED TICKS TO MAKE A POINT

BUT WILL THIS EVER BE FIXED?

Mark Brown

another problem that will never be fixed - i have complained about this for a decade.

mc does not really have it's on data server like ts does. it always relies on pulling data from the data vendor.

i have to laugh how many times this has been brought up sorry....

Mark Brown

this will never be solved this problem has existed from day 1.

it is impossible to trade what you see as in an indicator.

the solution is to send the order from a indicator to a file and have a custom order entry system execute the trades for you.

Mark Brown

I am using IQ Feed mapped to trade Rithmic symbols and sometimes just Rithmic for both data and execution. IQ Feed is the best feed I think - but no clearing services. By keeping your main feed IQ Feed you can easily swap brokers, I have several. I keep them organized by different work spaces for di...

Mark Brown

getting AVG anti-virus warnings on every exe. use - also never had this problem before .

Mark Brown

inputs: time_start(1530), time_stop(2259), upColor(blue), dnColor(Red); vars: vwap(0), pv(0), Totalvolume(0), Barfromstart(0), Squareddeviations(0), Probabilityweighteddeviations(0), deviationsum(0), standarddeviation(0), OncePerDay(0); // Function to safely perform division Function SafeDivide(Num...

Mark Brown

Using Kase range bars and the following code to trade inside a 8 full point bar. The orders using brackets will enter and exit within the bar, if there is a loss I wish to flip the trade at the close of the bar ; I have tried many times and must be overthinking it to get it to work. I'm at a loss of...

Mark Brown

what puzzles me is why mc database won't save previously loaded data - instead it pulls all the data each time.

Mark Brown

Hi Mark, in my opinion Multicharts is a good platform but for this request you have to upgrade to much more expensive trading platforms. I solved 90% of your problem by executing the market order after 7 seconds if it is not executed to realign the strategy and the broker. the same code i have whic...

Mark Brown

As you can see the system will only execute the trade on the close YET the same code will place an arrow where the code tells it. The Blue and Red arrows the system - the Pink arrows are a text tool placed by the same code. This means that SOMETHING IS WRONG [IntrabarOrderGeneration = true] var:int...

Mark Brown

Old one but a good one... maybe someone can gleam something from this MB Shortcut to Discovery Computerized Trading System Development and Modeling Presented by: Mark Brown The Year 2001 Dallas, Texas Copyright © 2001 by Mark Brown, All rights reserved. No portion or part of this publication may be ...

Mark Brown

In Real-Time if Intra-Bar Order Generation mode is enabled, strategy calculation is done on every tick of a bar. Thank you for answering - but what you say above does not work at all on 20 tick Kase range bars set to update 1 tick intervals. [IntrabarOrderGeneration = true] https://imagizer.imagesh...

Mark Brown

I would like to add to this thread. I have been trying to figure out a way to make a system using Kase Range Bars that will execute a trade within the bar when a condition is met.

So if my order condition is met why can I not send a order to the broker. Why are range bars stuck to OHLC?

Mark Brown

any update on this problem? also how would support suggest to modify the orders with limits orders please provide an example.

Mark Brown

so no one at all is using MC for fully automated trading?

Mark Brown

I have a indicator that runs on 1 tick resolution, 20 point Kase range bars, I use the text arrows for my signals which are are at the close of the bar. I am manually executing the trades using a game controller, it's quick but I am exhausted. I use the built in brackets that MC provides as template...

Mark Brown

tell you what MC should settle this auto trading back and forth by just posting some simple non profitable trading system that will execute the same as an indicator will plot. using kase range bar "any size" with update set to 1 tick show me a system that will enter on the close of current bar and g...

Mark Brown

also auto trading driving me crazy -

the system will buy/sell on the close UNTIL you enable real money auto trading, then it will enter the next bar at the previous close price.

i honestly don't think mc can autotrade at all, please post sample code to prove me wrong. years this has been an issue.

Mark Brown

the system will buy/sell on the close UNTIL you enable real money auto trading, then it will enter the next bar at the previous close price.

Mark Brown

Nov 2, 2022 STILL THIS BUG EXIST WITH AUTO TRADING even using Rithmic data - it's not a data feed specific bug.

The fact is MC Auto Trading does not work at all.

Mark Brown

Mark Brown

i guess i will have to do a clean install to get them because i don't have them.

Mark Brown

where are all these? and where are the descriptions of what they do? MultiCharts comes with many pre-built Auto Trading Signal (Strategies). This comprehensive library includes traditional as well as state-of-the-art studies signals. A key advantage of MultiCharts is that any study's code can be eas...

Mark Brown

How to add: These signals should be used only if the user needs them and understands how to use them. You do not need to copy the source code of the signal. It is complete and should be added to your strategy as one of the signals. IOG is on by default for these signals. I have found this signal “!...

Mark Brown

look up me and others have complained about this problem for years now - mark

Mark Brown

So where is the "Create an account" BUTTON?

Mark Brown

lol it's not a unix program.

Mark Brown

There have been times that my computer crashes with the blue screen of death. Unfortunately when this happens the workspaces do not get saved like they would be by MC on a manual shutdown. It would still be very helpful if there was a way to press a button or have a keyboard command that could save...

Mark Brown

I will pay anyone who can give me sample code that actually matches backtesting with real trading.

Mark

https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/ ... ng.370211/

Mark Brown

so I don't know what the hold up is ?

given the huge number of data feeds available, i would imagine it's on the TD side where the problem lays.

mark

Mark Brown

I would really be interested in getting this data feed even if it was a fee based add-on.

Mark Brown

Coinbase feed please get this done before I die.

Mark

BTW thank you for Kracken

Mark Brown

i cant run any systems - i dont care about the systems results i want to see arrows, man.

it's set to none i set it to us its doesn't matter it doesnt work.

cant you fix this to run as good as the free exchanges to you do this for?

Mark Brown

after patch it looks better but still get error alert message both polinex and bit

Mark Brown

just recently Rithmic DOM in a fast market can't keep up on price levels. What is going on here? As the market slows down the Dom levels will display, I know it's not gaps in the market it's the Micro ES and it also does it just as bad on the e-Mini ES. This is very disturbing - Mark http://imagizer...

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this thing will drive you crazy with every tick even after the condition has passed. if h crosses above whatever then PlaySound(C:\MultiCharts\whatever.wav"); so i am going to try if h crosses above whatever and h[1]<whatever then PlaySound(C:\MultiCharts\whatever.wav"); all the settings for alerts ...

Mark Brown

I need orders from MC to run order strategy in TT's ADL - the developer says he needs MC to feed Excel live with orders and then ADL will take it from there and execute the orders. I am wondering in this modern world why would MC not be able to feed ADL direct as that is a product of TT already whic...

Mark Brown

However, why on earth would you do this: "IQfeed: maximum length of a tick data request is now limited to 1 day." What was the rationale behind incorporating that limitation ? It's truly irrational this "new" limit If I stay away for a week I can't reload and fill the data for the period I was away...

Mark Brown

the problem with super wide screens is the depth resolution, i have to have depth for my charting. but i also need width, i have been eyeing up the almost square monitors that are really big. https://www.eizoglobal.com/library/basics/eizo_4k_monitors/ https://www.amazon.com/FlexScan-EV2730QFX-Monito...

Mark Brown

i use mostly all asus monitors and mother boards for years love their stuff.

Mark Brown

What is your intention? 1. To remove the indicator from the chart? 2. To temporarily suspend the indicator from the chart? my intention is for it to do EXACTLY what TS does just like MC calling a tick a point they have made a mistake with disabling an indicator ANYONE would know when you uncheck an...

Mark Brown

Hello Mark Brown, This is the designed behaviour, it was made this way so that an indicator could be turned on again. Here’s what you can do: 1. In the main MultiCharts menu please select File -> Preferences -> go to Misc tab. 2. In the Charting section uncheck the “Enable the Status switch for ind...

Mark Brown

My 2 cents.

TIRED OF BEGGING MULTICHARTS TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND FIX THEIR DATA SERVER

STUFF YOUR 2 CENTS..

Mark Brown

DTN IS SENDING THE DATA BUT THE GLOBAL SERVER IS NOT WORKING PROPERLY AT ALL. I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS HISTORY BUG HAS BEEN HERE FOR YEARS NOW, SO FIX IT. i already deleted all the iqfeed versions and have the latest one 6.1.0.20 installed and i ma getting no history at all this is big problem how ca...

Mark Brown

I AM HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM WITH DTN NO HISTORY

I HAVE IQFeed v6.1.0.20

Mark Brown

I AM HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM WITH DTN NO HISTORY

I HAVE IQFeed v6.1.0.20 I ALSO SENT LOG FILES

Mark Brown

I AM HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM WITH DTN NO HISTORY

Mark Brown

PLEASE FIX THIS ONE DAY IT IS VERY UNPROFESSIONAL

Mark Brown

Hi, Mark,

As soon as you delete the contents of the search box. The symbols are listed. You don't need to change data feed source.

regards,

Alex

RIGHT I JUST FIGURED THAT OUT YESTERDAY - WILD JUST WILD - TS DOESN'T HAVE THAT FEATURE. LOL

Mark Brown

HAPPENS ALL THE TIME THEY REFUSE TO ADMIT THEY HAVE A HISTORICAL DATA PROBLEM.

Mark Brown

so the problem is on range bar charts for me some charts will not plat at all and some charts will plot it's been like this for years now mc refuses to acknowledge the problem exist. just because its takes so long to load a chart has to have something to do with it, it has to be the server just can ...

Mark Brown

no not true that is the previous symbol that was on the chart so the only way to get a list of symbols is to start a new chart - once you have made that chart and go back to symbols there are none there to select from. now if you select a different data feed vendor and go back to the original data f...

Mark Brown

ARM users please post experiences here. Much research has let me to this combination in hopes of running some experimental automated systems at low cost and competitive speeds. Also will post the same thread title in the EliteTrader forum.

Mark Brown

Is it possible with .net or .pla to have an indicator value plot on the DOM, much like high of session and low of session?

Mark Brown

20 years ago I published the 1st Oddball trading system in a magazine called Active Trader. Prior to being published a variation of it was used at Regal Asset Management in Dallas for over a decade running on a Ned Davis trading platform called Technalyzer. In base system form, it's a foundation to ...

Mark Brown

TJ Tell us how to store the data we receive if possible so that when you open a workspace the data will come faster please. The slowness of MC to load a chart is insane! I would think that MC would store the previously collected data and then append the new data rather than pull the entire data seri...

Mark Brown

WE users of MC have repeatedly reported that MC is not saving the data that comes in evidently by how long it takes to pull up data each time you open a chart or change the settings. Why is MC pulling the data from the data vendor each time and not just appending the new data to the data that is sup...

Mark Brown

wonder if this bug is related? viewtopic.php?f=1&t=52875&p=136331&hilit=bug%3A#p136331

Mark Brown

well i don't give a crap lol i am going to just keep posing bugs that can be replicated and maybe one day.....

Mark Brown

i had the same problem can search here and when it did trade it doubled my order, i think it has to do with ib's crappy snapshot data.

Mark Brown

Dude, you've got set-up problems. I've been solid with IQFeed as the data source from the first beta release of MC 14-64 bit. No problems whatsoever in the initial production release as well. i have dtn on demo now so my history is limited, even so tick data comes in fine but minute and daily data ...

Mark Brown

for years i like many here have paid for data that never is saved by QuoteManager how can we save historical data easy? repeatedly every day MC loads the data from the data vendor and the charts take a long time to come up, even 32 bit piece of crap TS loads charts faster than MC. i feel like this d...

Mark Brown

i have demo's of rithmic, iqfeed and i run ts data and ALL of the data has to load every time MC is not capable of storing data? i really get sick of posting this so straiten me and other out on how to save m### f### data please. in fact this is just one more bug i will report in the forum since i c...

Mark Brown

wtf mc doesn't want me reporting bugs? how can i get in the bug reporting forum, maybe you need a real trader showing you bugs?

Mark Brown

Just got off the phone with eSignal. They will no longer support data or trade routing from any 3rd party software. GP they are one of the sorriest data vendors out there anyway, for them to sell their data as real time should be a crime. compared to TT in a fast market they are many seconds behind.

Mark Brown

So let me explain when you make a chart and go to format instrument, guess what sometimes the instruments are listed and sometimes they are not. Look at my screen shots below to see I can replicate this bug over and over, please refer to TS to see how it should perform correctly. NOW YOU SEE ALL THO...

Mark Brown

When plotting an indicator on a sub graph and then you uncheck the STATUS box to disable it. The chart still displays the space for the indicator, please refer to TS to see how this is supposed to properly work. BTW this has been a bug as far back as ver 9 BEFORE WITH STATUS CHECKED http://imagizer....

Mark Brown

hey guys i was reporting this issue for over a year now and still to this day charts are lagging.

Mark Brown

Hi, I don't know if it never caused a delay or the actual reason for it but you likely weren't notified of it or it was buried in the logs. I don't doubt the delay, the impact of which will depend on timeframe of strategy but i think its good to know. If I were doing a live screen recording I would...

Mark Brown

Good point :wink: Once you know it, it's not a big deal. Terminology is not always standard, and sometimes standard can be confusing: for instance a "tick" is either a minimal price increment or a new quote, so what exactly should be a tick based chart ? depends on the data feed tt will give you ev...

Mark Brown

Hi,

Can't you just use standard Maximize / Restore window buttons instead ?

to slow in a fast paced trading environment.

why you think ts has it, for fun?

they "ts" left it out of one release "3.5" and quickly found how many users wanted it back. it's been there every since.

Mark Brown

hotkeys for normal looking at charts does anyone else not have a problem quickly cycling thru charts to look at them?

Mark Brown

Add TS style ENABLE RIGHT-BUTTON DOUBLE CLICK which allows you to full size a chart and then reduce it showing all the other charts in the workspace. http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/4136/CIve3F.png or implement any sort of a hot key to enlarge a selected chart and hot key it back to the same ...

Mark Brown

what is wrong with this that you can login or register to post?

Mark Brown

Add TS style

ENABLE RIGHT-BUTTON DOUBLE CLICK

which allows you to full size a chart and then reduce it showing all the other charts in the workspace.

Mark Brown

for some reason mc calls ticks / points when building range bars makes me wonder what else they are confused about. A point represents the smallest possible price change on the left side of a decimal point, while a tick represents the smallest possible price change on the right side of a decimal poi...

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MC crew FYI A point represents the smallest possible price change on the left side of a decimal point, while a tick represents the smallest possible price change on the right side of a decimal point. When you build a range bar it should be stated as ticks per bar and not points per bar. Please get t...

Mark Brown

see my charts above now today build 14 is doing the same thing again i think this must be a range bar bug - they really need to look into how range bars are updated in the quote server.

Mark Brown

range bars on mc can not keep up with range bars on ts, for some reason mc will get behind and you have to refresh the data over and over through out the day. it's so frustrating.

Mark Brown

again today running ts and mc side by side range bars can not keep up on mc platform. i have to reload maybe this is a problem unique to range bars?

Mark Brown

Mark - I believe Rithmic is right up there with the best of them. However, they are expensive as they extract $0.50 per R/T for execution/routing. Also, for $100 per month they have an extensive tick-data historical database. I will be moving to them in December from IB and IQFeed simply because IB...

Mark Brown

CQG - I was not able to get CQG to even work with MC.

I have not tried TT but I guess I will, before I do is there anyone successfully using TT for data and trading and can you auto trade with any dependability?

Mark Brown

Unfortunately MC14 is not stable enough (yet) to make the move... so we are left with no solution :? :x It sounds like my question above about 14.0 versus 14.3 is extra important. Years ago I had to roll back once or twice. Don't get me wrong. I think MC 64 is the best TA software in existence even...

Mark Brown

big bug in build 14 when mc freezes up on me and the screen goes white because it can't pull data in from ts. kill mc and now EVER time it will shut down the ts data server and then eventually ts charting will have to be shut down also. so what i am saying is when mc crashes it shuts down ts also - ...

Mark Brown

so my box looks different than your box 14 - build 23905 so what your saying tj is you have a choice of being on line or being off line ? btw none of the little help buttons work at all they give no info or help - all i know is everytime i load mc it has to load all the data from the data vendor ts....

Mark Brown

PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO DISABLE THESE ALERT BOXES I DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

Mark Brown

Henry - I experience the same problem Mark Brown is having all the time - I'm saving 20 years of 1 minute data for system development from T mc is really just a charting program with a packaged translation database they call quotemanager, which is not a real data server. mc will never fix this prob...

Mark Brown

Is anyone aware of any product that will take signals from MC and send to some futures clearing merchant or introducing broker?

1. Other than IB

Mark Brown

In past versions of MC I never had a problem with the session times. Now with Version: MultiCharts64 Version 12.0 Release (Build 18184) I am having nothing but problems. Why am I having to manually set all the sessions times when I directly Imported the symbols from the TS server? Even in charting I...

Mark Brown

having exact same issue with rty and es the sessions stop at noon central time i have tried every setting i can think. update: mc will choose the wrong session settings you have to watch that and then the data it collects while using the incorrect sessions will be effected. i deleted all the tick da...

Mark Brown

real time data not working also. i am getting realtime quotes but the charting will not update. @es will update real time but @rty will not update at all. yes i have the same chart running in ts - it's just @rty and rty.d will not update - yes i have deleted the symbol, reinstalled the software - ro...

Mark Brown

real time data not working also. i am getting realtime quotes but the charting will not update.

Version: MultiCharts64 Version 12.0 Release (Build 18038)

Mark Brown

real time data not working also. i am getting realtime quotes but the charting will not update.

Version: MultiCharts64 Version 12.0 Release (Build 18038)

Mark Brown

Version: MultiCharts64 Version 12.0 Release (Build 17490)

I finally got this build installed with no errors after reinstall and the data is keeping up with TS and CQG.

Mark Brown

i have the cqg data feed active in the quote manager but the symbol eph19 will not connect. i have tried both the demo and the live account settings neither one will connect even though it shows the data feed as active. i try to make a chart and it just hangs saying connecting. my platform from cqg ...

Mark Brown

Try Multicharts 12 R4 that has just been released. From reading the change log there have been some updates with regards to how the software works with TS. It might help your situation. well i tried it and now i can't use mc at all was that the purpose of getting me to try it? lol https://imgur.com...

Mark Brown

Mark, I still think you should be more proactive about isolating your problems from a hardware standpoint. You could setup a test on AWS quite easily. As it stands now, complaining about the same thing over and over without changing anything is the same as watching the Titanic over and over and hop...

Mark Brown

What hardware are you using Mark? You still have not mentioned any details. regards, Alex because this is a software problem not a hardware problem. this is beyond the "is your computer plugged in" tech problem. this is a can the pseudo server from 20 years ago still keep up today in a fast market....

Mark Brown

Reading the connection guide for Multicharts with regards to TS, the options are tick, minute and daily data for historical data. This implies that you would have 30 days of tick data available to build non time based bars. This is dependent on your data provider. For example, you can build tick ba...

Mark Brown

Hi Mark, 4 Points in Multicharts = 4 ticks so yes... we agree. In the quote manager, you can edit various aspects of how a symbol displays. It might be possible to set things up to match TS. I don't know if this is possible with range bars. Alex so how is the range bar built currently in mc is it b...

Mark Brown

ts has a setting for range bars where you can define the update frequency. it would help to compare if i knew what the hidden update frequency is that mc is using? it appears to be one minute when compared to the one minute setting for range bar in ts. do we agree below? mc says a 4 point range bar ...

Mark Brown

i am using the continuous symbols provided by ts. the top screen is @es on multicharts 4 points which (is wrong it should be 4 ticks) is 1 point on ts which is correct (which is actually 4 ticks). anyway this data problem of mc makes the program useless for serious real time trading. i wsh they woul...

Mark Brown

MC is not updating ALL charts in real time. It will update some charts but not others.

@ES from TS 4 tick range bars 30 days of data will update some workspaces but others will not.

I have TS running with same chart etc. and have tried everything.

Mark Brown

I am afraid you do not understand - MY DATA IS NOT BEING STORED. I was using TS before there was MultiCharts and I know TS inside and out ask Dennis. I know all about everything you posted, I understand all about what you are saying. MY DATA IS NOT BEING STORED - OR - MULTICHARTS IS NOT PULLING THAT...

Mark Brown

interesting thread is there any update on the disclosure of this topic?

Mark Brown

For this test.... 1000 tick bars, 10000 bars. 18 seconds to backfill on a freshly started MC. This is to a datacentre in Frankfurt so you should be able to do better being in the US. here is what i know "if data is being stored locally as they claim" even your chart should not take 18 seconds to lo...

Mark Brown

Data is being stored locally. If it has to backfill then the new data comes from IQFeed. If I close a tick chart and re-open it....the chart comes up instantly.

how much data are you loading? because mine and others are waiting for up to and over 10 minutes for data to load.

Mark Brown

How Much Historical Data Is Available? 180 calendar days of tick (every trade) ts can make a 1 point range bar chart of the es going back to 97 in a flash once you have created it once. mc on the other hand struggles to make a 1 point range bar chart of the es just one year. this is because ts can ...

Mark Brown

Are you sure it is not your firewall setup? Did you do it yourself? https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=98291 answer this question - is data being stored locally or not? if it is then what would a firewall have to do with anything? my mikrotik setup is not causing historical data from being ...

Mark Brown

Mark, why don't you try and get an IQFeed demo up and running and see if you have the same issues that you do with TS data. Disable windows defender or any other antivirus temporarily. If I were having your problems, I would even consider a fresh install of Windows on a different machine. You could...

Mark Brown

Hello Mark, 1. When you close MultiCharts and TS, please make sure that no processes remain in the Details tab of Task Manager; 2. To speed up the process it is recommended to have a chart for this symbol with the same resolution and data range plotted in TS; 3. Please also check that TS download s...

Mark Brown

do yourself a favor and search backfilling - see the post of people having slow data loading issues? the data is not being pulled from a locally stored database is it? the data is being pulled each and every time from ts server. no data is being stored - if it is being stored then why is it so slow ...

Mark Brown

The historic data comes from servers with a FIX protocol. I am told this data is not compressed and therefor all the ticks are available.. A test that will show this is to open a 1 minute chart. Note the price of the close and note the price of the open. They are different most of the time. Don bac...

Mark Brown

I've used MC's Chart Trader with Iqfeed and IB as a broker for 10+ years (not automated though).

try auto trading and get back with me.

Mark Brown

Mark You think maybe your being a bit abrasive?? Based on all your complaints and dissatisfaction, I think it’s time you start developing your own custom platform. i am a bit abrasive because i have licensed two mc's and i have now forund them to be as riddled with bugs as where i come from "ts". a...

Mark Brown

Henry you can lock all the threads you want but the problem of backfilling data will not go away. If you can not get your team to fix this problem then just say so. Maybe we could crowdfund and hire some good programmers to help you. This problem MUST BE FIXED. IF DATA IS BEING STORED WHY IS IT TAKI...

Mark Brown

DATA IS NOT BEING STORED OR THE STORED DATA IS NOT LOADING. NEVER HAS ON ANY BUILD OF MC. I SEE MANY PEOPLE HAVING THIS ISSUE YOU KEEP CLOSING THE THREAD WHEN YOU GOING TO FIX THIS? DATA SHOULD BE STORED AND LOADED QUICKLY - MC HAS NEVER LOADED A CHART QUICKLY EVER! DATA IS CHECKED TO BE SAVED - TS ...

Mark Brown

windows 7 64bit 1.) data is not being saved locally or data is reloading each and every time a chart is opened. yes save is checked! :evil: 2.) when you close multicharts all the processes keep running it will not close down until reboot. no it will never shut down. 3.) indicator default settings ar...

Mark Brown

none of the session functions work when you include them in a study. i have had to resort to defining time instead of using sessions. the user functions are there and available but don't work. there seems to be a real disconnect between sessions in the data feed and sessions user functions. if t>830...

Mark Brown

I have learned some new things about phantom trades. If you use the Symbol Mapping you will get phantom trades if placing a order on a chart. This is very complicated, I will try and explain maybe someone else can verify or replicate my findings. Using TS as data vendor and "symbol mapping" to Inter...

Mark Brown

i now think this delay is what caused 100 contract auto order to add 120+ new contracts erroneously to a position i had. i looked up and i had 220+ emini sp's on and a resting order stop for that 100. it got so screwed up i just unwound the whole position and have not tried auto trading again. i hav...

Mark Brown

it's the pop up box and it's location and frequency of popping up that are driving me nuts. even stupid ts doesn't have this, i only see this now with later versions of mc.

Mark Brown

i will make this code, workspace, datas public and show all i found and hope this debug code help MC dev team to fix issues i will start my tests again with new release 2 on next monday on two computers manual trading is fine when using the dom. i can only think what has gone wrong with auto tradin...

Mark Brown

Getting really sick and tired of GDI objects limit.

At least have a option to hid the stupid thing or select the position of the alert box. I have two monitors and it keeps popping up on the monitor that I don't even have MC running on.

Mark Brown

totally agree multicharts is NOT capable of auto trading reliably at all! it's crazy how many bugs there are and i am becoming very concerned i may be stuck with TS the rest of my life.

Mark Brown

i woke up and had 289 emini sp's on when my original order was 100 - wow there are so many new bugs in version 12 i have not the time to argue about them.

Mark Brown

version 12 bug - charting - format objects - status - disable - the panel subchart will stay in place - even though the study is disabled. in other words on a chart when viewing a rsi when you disable it's status there is a big blank space still there. you have to delete the rsi to get the chart to ...

Mark Brown

wilkinsw,

will you do me a favor and check the speed of optimization - it seems UNBELIEVABLY slow as version 11 was. even ts is far faster at 32 bit.

Mark Brown

Rolling back to MC11R9 the Chart Trading settings are safed again ...

How do you roll back to 11? just reinstall it again?

Mark Brown

Printing problem, has anyone tried to print from the Power Language Editor? It throws up a Encountered an improper argument box.

Charting will print btw no problem.

No matter what printer I use it fails to print. Yes other applications can print, yes my printers are turned on and have paper.

Mark Brown

slow optimization - anyone experiencing it? the new optimization seems UNBELIEVABLY slow as compared to version 11. i been optimizing for 30 years so i know about all the ways to overload a run and didn't. i know what slow is - it's across the board slow even with just price patterns even the simple...

Mark Brown

About to hook MultiCharts up to TT myself and was wondering if "either" the built in DOM and it's attachment orders like Master Trade Template and or TT's own algo trader formulas will work together.

Mark Brown

Just run across this post and am in a position where I am wondering if RJO is less costly now 5 years latter.

Mark Brown

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 anyt...

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Why are you the only one affected by this issue? Why do you not have a backup of your OS? because i am the only one running windows 7 ultimate 64bit still. did you even test the installation with that os or just sling it out thinking everyone is on windows 10 amateur home owner os? if you had not i...

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how does this work now as there is no folder studyserver ? windows 7 64bit update so i found a zip file that has studyserver in it. hopefully my data and symbols are in there also. it looks like i have a 1 gig zip file backup or the previous day ver 12 install failure and a 200 mb file backup the da...

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understand this - my multicharts 11 was working - my TS was working - when upgrading to multicharts 12 - multicharts tried to upgrade .net and FAILED - now i have no multicharts and i have no TS. yes this is multicharts fault because you choose to include .net as part of the install package. how do ...

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ok multicharts 12 forget that 4x .net will not work on windows 7 ultimate - what i need to know is this. i have a destroyed version 11 on my main trading computer i have a new version 12 on my backup laptop please tell me where my studies are at on the version 11 tell me that i can move them over an...

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Ok Mark. Got it. If something comes to mind, I will send you a PM. It is 10pm here so it would have to be tomorrow. It looks like your permissions are messed up somehow in the same way they would be if you were not installing as Administrator. regards, Alex logged in as admin - gave temp sharing pe...

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In the mean time, have you tried this? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42642 Alex about 100 times. http://markbrown.com/screenshots/mc/20180822-026.png i cant even get back to 11 because of this http://markbrown.com/screenshots/mc/20180822-027.png this is why i hate upgrade...

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I'm not sure what kind problem you have on Ultimate but I'm running things here on Win7 64Bit Prof and there's no problem with an up-to-date . i am running ultimate - different os - so you dont know or understand my problem. the .net update that henry included was 6.1 which is wrong. i tried direct...

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the worst problems upgrading to 12 i have been down for two days now costing me money. because windows 7 ultimate 64 bit will not load the .net 4.xx environment. what was wrong with .net 3.5 ? how can a trader depend on this program when bad changes like this are made? i have contacted support and t...

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Are you referring to the GDI limit? You can always start another instance of Multicharts and divide your charts between the two. Other traders here have mentioned issues with the licensing server. I have not had them. Traders do like to bash TWS and for good reason. There are some features that are...

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Try using the IB gateway application rather than TWS. TWS will log you out. You should contact support and find out why you are losing your license on login. I have to research the IB gateway cause You are correct I am using TWS and I have never seen such sorry software. As far a MC logging me out ...

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I have been trying IB but they are kicking me out every 24 hours and I have not been able to get the auto login open source thing to work anyway it's very sketchy. How are you guys using IB handling the automatic log out? I have a ATT Enterprise fiber connection it's the best of the best commercial ...

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is anyone doing auto trading using "any" data feed broker service and multicharts? i just want to auto trade with multicharts and i need some advice and or guidance if it can in fact be done. i will trade any market thru any broker using any feed that will work without lots of failure and problems. ...

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INSTALLER PROBLEMS SAME THING EVERY UPDATE

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THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH MC QUOTE MANAGER!

NOW YOU HAVE TO SELECT THE VERSION OF TS 9.1 OR 9.5 FOR DATA FEED TO WORK

ALSO NOW THERE IS NO RANGE CHART DEFINITIONS IN THE QUOTE SERVER WHAT HAPPENED TO IT?

I AM USING RANGE BARS IN MC WHY DIDN'T THE GET PUT BACK INTO VER 11?

Mark Brown

My charts are still blank any ideas if there are issues with MC or TS updates?

Mark Brown

My charts are blank and saying Establishing connection but the data never comes how can I use MC if it doesn't get data?

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Problem has persisted with getting historical data from TS. It does not matter if it is daily, hourly, tick etc. All data has gaps in it. @ES TS 8 point range bars go back to 1997. same as 32 point bars in MC. MultiChart 32 point range bars go back to 2016. same as 8 point range in TS. Using daily d...

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Submitting Ideas and Reporting Bugs Notification. The discussion forum is a great place to research topics that interest you, get answers for questions, and meet with other users. However, if you want to be sure that your feature request or bug report are investigated, please submit them to the Proj...

Mark Brown

There is clearly a issue with MC getting data from TS and filling the charts of MC with the same data. This issue has kept me from using MC as a serious replacement for TS, it's sad that ignoring the issue will not make the platform more usable. I can not use MC to trade with because of this poor da...

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Look many of us have complained about this problem for a very long time and it is you who need to work on fixing the problem. It takes forever for MC to load historical data and then it takes a very long time for the studies to calculate on that data. Stop asking for us to replicate the problem, you...

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Loading @ES from TS and plotting a chart 32 points history will only go back about a year. But in TS the chart will go back many many years. I have continually had a problem with MC loading historical data from TS, why can you not get this bug fixed? I have deleted the cache and reloaded the chart a...

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Is the option " Save data to local database" is checked in QuoteManager -> Tools -> Data Sources -> TS -> Settings? Yes it is. MultiCharts64 Version 10.0 Release (Build 14417) TS 9.1 Version: 9.1 (Update 29) Date: 06/16/2014 TradingApp Version: 9.33.00.12880 Date: 06/16/2014 Browser Version: 9.33.00...

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I had a crash and the computer did not shut down properly. Now I have no data showing in all my charts. TS was also affected by the crash and I restored all the data and have charts working there perfectly with all my history. But MC will not display the data on a chart. I have run the repair progra...

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This is what I don't understand - if the data was there in the first place and I have chosen to store the data on my computer. Then why is the data missing? It seems that the selection to save historical data is not working. If you have to clear the cache and reload the data each day, what happened ...

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I tend to uninstall the 'old' version first w/o deleting the data/strategies etc. After that I run the installation file as 'Administrator' and all is fine ... Never had a problem ... Ben well it's not your fault Ben but i tried that and now am left without anything being able to install on my comp...

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I tend to uninstall the 'old' version first w/o deleting the data/strategies etc. After that I run the installation file as 'Administrator' and all is fine ... Never had a problem ... Ben well it's not your fault Ben but i tried that and now am left without anything being able to install on my comp...

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i have tried to disable the antivirus any other suggestions how i can upgrade? this is very disappointing.

is it possible to run multi charts without being connected to the internet? how long will the program run without being connected?

Mark Brown

I get gaps when using TS data for point based bars in MultiCharts. If my data service is interrupted like my internet goes down. MC will just have a gap in the data where TS will fill that gap when the chart is reloaded. Even if I shut down MC it will not fill the gap. If is use 4 point bars for ES ...

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installer 0x80070005 - get temp file name w : access is denied. runtime error 216 at 0000255c ///////////////////// the continual upgrading of TS with errors like this is why i bought multicharts to get away from the stupidity of TS. i am not happy that multicharts continually is checking digital ri...

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I have screenshots 20170203-006.png of TS and MC side by side and the indicators are diffrent values. The code is the same I am using 10 point range bars on TS and using 40 point bars on MC both plotting the ES mini. I can see that the point bars in MC are diffrent than TS range bars, so is there a ...

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I have the local data storage box checked yet every time I load a chart it takes a long time to populate. Using TS data.

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{ ******************************************************************* Indicator : Equity Profile Last Edit : 9/22/97 Provided By : Bob Fulks Description : This indicator plots bars of closed equity for each trade of a system on the last 200 bars of a chart. If more than 200 trades, it only plots the...

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Input: PositiveColor( Green ), NegitiveColor( Red ), ZeroLineColor( White ); Variables: OPP(0), ProfToday(0), PLB4Today(0); OPP = I_OpenEquity; If date <> date[1] Then PLB4Today = OPP[1]; ProfToday = OPP - PLB4Today; If ( ProfToday > 0 ) Then SetPlotColor( 1, PositiveColor ) Else SetPlotColor( 1, Ne...

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if I_OpenEquity >= 0 then Plot1( I_OpenEquity, "OpenEquity", Green ) else Plot1( I_OpenEquity, "OpenEquity", Red ) ; if I_ClosedEquity = 0 then Plot2( I_ClosedEquity, "ClosedEquity", DarkGreen ) else if I_ClosedEquity > 0 then Plot2( I_ClosedEquity, "ClosedEquity", DarkGreen ) else Plot2( I_ClosedEq...

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thanks for this thread. i am wanting just to trade e-mini sp futures. i am running MC using TS data and login. i thought i would try IB and OEC dom in MC because i would like to setup auto trading and not have to manually enter the trades. but i can not get with brokerage to work with MC the DOM jus...

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IncludeSignal: is not supported?

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I did finally find and added @ES from TS to MC part of the problem was I didn't realize it was backfilling which took a while. But now I get a error that the expiration months need to be selected however they are already selected. I just close the error boxes and everything seems fine. Thank you for...

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i wish to change all the signal buy and sell arrows styles and colors. but i do not wish to change them all one by one. as it is now i think each signal has to have it's individual properties changed one at a time. even if you change the default in the power language the settings for signal properti...

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Thanks i try it. My best. i use it this way put a print statement in your system or indicator to send what you want the message to be to a text file. then i have a program "auto files 1.41" that monitors that file for any changes. when the file changes it executes a .bat file and postie grabs the c...

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MultiCharts comes with the same style default entry and exit arrows and colors as TS. How can you change the properties for all signals at one time? Do you have to change the signal properties one at a time? ----------------- I tried to set the properties in the signal editor but that only sets the ...

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http://infradig.com/

i have been using this for over 10 years at least to send email, sms, to myself and others. it's a great cheap program that works very well. mark

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do you want the line plotting forward to stop when it is hit? or do you want the line to continue for x number of bars?

Mark Brown

I am not able to specify the @ES symbol from the TS datafeed? Can anyone point me in a direction, I did a forum search to no avail.

Mark

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TS>View>Chart Analysis Preferences>General>Enable right-button double click? How else can you QUICKLY enlarge a single screen displayed as "arrange all" or "cascade all" etc. It is VERY inconvenient to go to "window" > "arrange all" in MultiCharts. In MultiCharts what is the Hot Key combination to p...

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