MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

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Darob, If you use just one chart and switch symbols on it, then for each of the symbols the autoattach status will be remembered only during the working session of MultiCharts, and if you save the workspace before closing MultiCharts the autoattach status for the last used symbol will be saved too, ...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, orad! We tested your case on 3 symbols (all 1 minute resolution), and received the following result: AUD/JPY started EUR/USD started CHF/JPY started AUD/JPY calculated bar number 1 EUR/USD calculated bar number 1 CHF/JPY calculated bar number 1 AUD/JPY calculated bar number 2 EUR/USD calculat...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, orad! MultiCharts supports trading only by integer number of contracts. But as far as at the moment crypto trading is not available, you can do backtesting with a fractional BPV value. The minimal BPV that can be set is 0.00001. So in backtesting if your order is generated for 1 contract it w...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, darob! Autoattach statuses for exit strategies are remembered for each symbol and account (not broker profile!) during one MultiCharts working session. Once you close MultiCharts, the status is forgotten. This is by design. But the autoattach statuses can be permanently saved along with your ...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, ilag! The priority can be set for the strategies that have already been calculated. In backtesting all bars are already closed and all strategies in Portfolio are calculated simultaneously. In realtime calculation bars are closed asynchronously. It means the bars are closes not in the order i...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, strelow! Optimization in Portfolio is still the same as in MultiCharts 11. Adding new features to the Portfolio optimization is planned for future versions. Modifying the NumberOfThreadsOnOptimization key in the Registry is still required to limit the number of cores per optimization in Portf...

Anna MultiCharts

Zheka, Sorry for confusion and thank you for the feedback. Our engineers are now evaluating the possibilities of enhancing this behavior so that all users’ needs are covered – the data is properly loaded and the cache does not disappear. Changing the current behavior requires time, so at the moment ...

Anna MultiCharts

Wilkinsw, I recall our previous discussions on this point. They were related to the Stop, Limit and Stop-Limit order emulations and order conversion for the CQG broker profile (with the CME exchange rules being an example). That discussion led to reworking the logic of the corresponding elements in ...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, khalaad! I’m afraid there’re no plans to introduce a separate category for ETFs. I’ve reset the password for your PM account and sent your updated credentials via email, so if you’d like you can leave a feature request, and if it gets many votes from other users we’ll estimate the possibility...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Mark! In situations like this please send us the logs so that our engineers could analyze them. To do that please go Help -> Feedback. In the Feedback app please enable “Attach a screenshot”, “Attach Log files…”, “Snapshot of the current MultiCharts setup”, “Data for active instruments…” and ...

Anna MultiCharts

Zheka, QGroup, Before MultiCharts 12 there was no “Download missing historical data” option for Portfolio Trader. Now when this option is enabled the missing data is requested from the data source. So the data is not reloaded for your symbols, but just small pieces of data (missing data) are being d...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Zheka!

Our engineers are working on this issue. I’ll inform you about the results once they are available.

Anna MultiCharts

wilkinsw, At the moment Paper Trader handles Stop orders as follows: it buys when the price >=Ask and sells when the price is <= Bid. In our tests Stops are triggered not earlier than Asks reach the stop price level. If there’re any more details for reproducing this, please specify them and if possi...

Anna MultiCharts

milda8005, Indeed in MultiCharts 12 Release 1 there was a bug when input values didn’t influence the number of simulations in basic genetic optimization. This bug was fixed in MultiCharts 12 Release 2. But there still remains a bug in basic genetic optimization with the number of simulations being c...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, milda8005! Please introduce print statements and trace the strategy calculations in the Output of the PowerLanguage Editor (if you don’t so that already). If according to the Output the order was generate, but in fact was sent with a huge delay, please send us the Output file, your logs, sign...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, shane1800!

Please make sure that you’ve set up the optimization parameters for Custom Fitness Value properly as described here:
http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/v ... 815#p59930

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, wilkinsw!

Our engineers couldn’t reproduce this in the current MultiCharts 12 Release 2.
Please describe your testing setup in detail and send us the logs for analysis.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, kiyi0317! Broker profiles do not make any difference for these keywords. They can work without any broker connections, meaning that’s enough to have trades on the chart for them to work, like in backtesting. There’re not many keywords that get the values from the broker directly, e.g MarketPo...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, bowlesj3! The solid line shows the open position at the Avg. Entry Price level. The U shaped arrow allows reversing the position. This is schematically shown here: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/Chart_Trading That is impossible to move a position, it’s not supposed to ...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Milda8005! Could you please be more specific? Would you like to know why the number of simulations with modified settings for parameters “Set Population Size” and “Maximum Number of generations” doesn’t change compared to the number of simulations with default parameters settings? Or do you w...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, wilkinsw!

Our engineers are investigating this using the files you provided. We’ll follow up with you by email once there’s any progress.

Anna MultiCharts

Mydesign,

This feature request is postponed and I’m afraid there’s no ETA when we can expect it.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, gianluca71! MultiCharts works with 3 basic resolutions: 1 tick, 1 minute and 1 day: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/Tick,_Minute_and_Daily_Data Please map your file as 1 min file so that the program could correctly recognize the data in it, and this will allow you to pl...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Al3cs!

This appears to be a bug, we’re targeting a fix for it for one of the upcoming MultiCharts 12 releases.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, hughesfleming! “It would be very useful if we could set a fixed date for the start date in addition to the days back setting” – I’m afraid there’re no plans for adding this functionality to the scanner. This limitation was introduced in order to restrict the machine’s resource consumption. Th...

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Hello, QGroup!

Please send us your portfolio workspace and export of data for the symbols used in it to support@multicharts.com so we could test this on our end.

Anna MultiCharts

Mydesign,

Please specify the link to the PM request you’re referring to so I could check with the devs.

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automaton,

Thank you for your feedback, it’s really appreciated. We marked your PM request as released, no need to delete it.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Jonny473!

You can use BarsSinceEntry and BarsSinceExit keywords and add a condition that won’t allow exiting a position until N number of days is passed.
https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... SinceEntry
https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... sSinceExit

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, shane1800! Please provide more details about this: 1) what data source is used for Data1? 2) do you mean that for Data2 you use ASCII mapping? If so, why do you say that you need to reload it each time? ASCII data functionality allows for streaming the ASCII data into MultiCharts in realtime....

Anna MultiCharts

Mydesign, Variables cannot be declared dynamically like: Vars: Price(0, Data(DataNb)) You should use one of the following variants: Vars: Price(0) \\ if you’re not planning to reference historical values or Vars: Price(0,data2) \\ if you’re planning to reference historical values

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, automaton!

There were improvements in this sphere in MultiCharts 12. Please install it and test: https://www.multicharts.com/download/

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Mydesign! If you’re not planning to reference historical values of the variable then there no difference in how you declare it. You can do it this way: Vars: Price(0) ; Price = Close Data(2) ; Plot1(Price); or this way: Vars: Price(0,2) ; Price = Close Data(2); Plot1(Price); The way you decla...

Anna MultiCharts

Dear users,

The changes promised in this post viewtopic.php?t=51229#p128329 were introduced in MultiCharts 12 Release.
You can check them out by downloading MultiCharts 12 here:
https://www.multicharts.com/download/

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, ecarlino! What you’re describing is the result of 2 bugs of MultiCharts 11 that were related to incorrect optimization parameters initialization. These bugs were fixed in MultiCharts 12 Release-Candidate. You can download it as Beta on this page and test it: https://www.multicharts.com/downlo...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Mydesign!

Please try this way:

Code: Select all

Inputs: DataNb(2) ;
Vars: Price(0) ;

Price = Close Data(DataNb) ;

If BarStatus(DataNb) = 2 then
begin
// whatever calculation based on the variable "Price"
end;

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, JensOhle! Yes, you’re right about the description of PosTradeCount(PosBack) in Help: it doesn’t properly reflect what the function does. We’ll rework the description. PosTradeCount(PosBack) returns the total number of entries within a position while it is open. If you initially entered a posi...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, no erocla!

Unfortunately there’s no functionality for that.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, birdman3000! There were no improvements in this respect. The settings for the symbols are taken from the Symbol Dictionary (for futures), from exchange or symbol settings. Symbol Dictionary for symbol contains correct parameters. In all other cases the settings should be adjusted manually if ...

Anna MultiCharts

signalworks, At the moment there’re no plans to implement such functionality. If you’d like to have it you can leave a feature request on this page: http://www.multicharts.com/pm/ The current behavior corresponds to the situations when positions are left open overnight, that’s why it’s implemented t...

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Sten,

we’ll remove the Round Type: Bars, Days controls. The rounding will use Bars type.

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Sten,

After further analysis it turned out that his feature is still in development and leaked into MultiCharts 12 Release-Candidate by mistake. These controls will be removed from MultiCharts 12 Release and will be introduced back after this functionality is ready and fully tested.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Sten!

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We reproduced this on our end. The issue will be investigated by our engineers and fixed ASAP.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, ilag!

Please send us your portfolio workspace and the export of data in QMD for the symbols used in it to support@multicharts.com for analysis.
https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... rting_Data

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, wilkinsw!

There’s no way to calculate the number of instruments on a chart from a study or check the DataN availability, but that is possible to pass this number to your study as an input.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, johnromeronc!

If you need to get full volume for a bar, then you need to use barsTrueVolume() – it doesn’t miss any ticks out and returns true full volume.
As for the events – CalcBar method call is the event of a new tick arrival for the data series upon which a study is calculated.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, wilkinsw!

I’m glad you found a workaround, but our engineers still cannot reproduce the issue to be able to somehow confirm your conclusions. Please come to our Live Chat at the hours specified above to demonstrate this via remote connection if you’d like us to analyze this case.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, birdman3000!

There’s no such function in PowerLanguage. It will be required to create it yourself.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Umb! If you have any antiviruses/firewalls running please disable them completely and run the repair of MultiCharts: Control panel -> Programs and Features -> find MultiCharts and click on it -> Uninstall/Change -> Next -> Repair If this helps, introduce all MultiCharts processes and installa...

Anna MultiCharts

bowlesj3, We'll concider adding the description for the functions to the PowerLanguage Help, thank you for your suggestion. At the moment you can refer to the additional information sources for PowerLanguage/EasyLanguage programming in order to find the description of the functions: https://www.mult...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Gann_Man! DataLoader receives new ticks in packs upon events, and the study is calculated at once for all of them. The time of study calculation on DataLoader data may not be in sync with the study calculation on the chart. You can add the following trace for the DataLoader events and it shou...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, bowlesj3!

You can view the logic of the pre-built functions in their code. They can be split into elementary keywords that are described in Help of the PowerLanguage Editor, so you can understand the function’s logic from them.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, janus! Yes, indeed there’s Real Open for Renko is currently presented in the platform, but there’s no Real Close. You can programmatically add it in your own custom resolutions plugin for your own Renko type: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/Custom_Resolutions If you’d l...

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Gann_Man,

Our engineers tested this on our end following the steps you provided, and they received matching results, no discrepancies.
If you’d like to demonstrate this to us on your PC by remote connection please come to our Live Chat Mon-Fri from 6:30 AM to 12:00 PM EST (11:30 AM to 5:00 PM GMT)

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, synonym!

To avoid specifying scaling as User Defined for several indicators you can combine the code of the indicators in 1 script so that Screen scaling is used by default.

Anna MultiCharts

signalworks, Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately adding this functionality doesn’t fit our roadmap at the moment. You can leave a feature request if you would like to have it in future: http://www.multicharts.com/pm/ If other users are also interested in having this in platform they will be...

Anna MultiCharts

concluding in one sentence, which is my requirement here: With the "Break on Session" option activated, the BoxSize should be calculated exactly the same as without the "Break on Session" option activated, except for the gap display. :-) signalworks, Could you please provide mor...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, synonym!

As indicators using Plotpaintbar pick up the style settings from regular chart style settings, try leaving the style of Data1 and Data2 as Candlesticks and Hide them instead of making invisible (Format -> Instrument -> Settings -> Subchart section -> Hide).

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, bowlesj! Next time MultiCharts crashes and doesn’t give you the opportunity to send a crash report please see if any MultiCharts processes are still running in Task Manager -> Processes tab (you can sort by Desccription to see if any of them left). If there’re some processes, please collect t...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, quantum777! I believe this was addressed in Live Chat: “My trend line LE or SE signals from MC sometimes work and then not”. As for your questions: “-Can the trend line be angular?” - if you mean diagonal, then yes. If you mean curved, then no. “-Are there any videos of setting up trend line ...

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signalworks, the documentation for this has not been created yet. Why do you need to access Session end form the code of your custom bars? MultiCharts is capable of closing bars at the required time on its own. Your custom resolutions should only be able to construct bars as you’d like, all other fu...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, mathematicurve!

Unfortunately this is not possible.

Anna MultiCharts

Smoky, The error message you get notifies you of several orders that were generated with identical names at the last strategy’s calculation. You can try to check the naming of orders in the code of your strategy or send us the required info for reproducing this issue so that we could help you more p...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, signalworks! We couldn’t reproduce this on our end using our data. Please send your workspace, studies used in it (can be simplified) with which this can be reproduced and the export of symbols with data in QMD format (https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/Exporting_Data) for...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Smoky!

We couldn’t reproduce this on our end.
Please send your workspace and the complete study (can be a simplified variant) with which this can be reproduced to support@multicharts.com

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, signalworks!

The possibility of creating your own chart type is already present in MultiCharts. You can use the built-in chart types as a source code for creating your own chart resolution:
https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... esolutions

Anna MultiCharts

signalworks, - When Break on Session is disabled then the direction of the initial box is calculated once in the chart’s beginning taking into account the Closes of the frist 2 bars of base resolution. And the following boxes depends on this initial one. - When Break on Session is enabled the direct...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Automeq!

Most likely there’s an issue with your database.
Please send us the Logs by going Help -> Feedback. You need just “Attach a screenshot”, “Attach Log files…”, “Attach minidump…”, “Data for active instruments…” and “Upload collected data to helpdesk” options checked.

Anna MultiCharts

Gann_Man,

No, there's no way to do this with less code

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, shargo! This can happen when you start different MultiCharts components as different users. You need to run MultiCharts and all of its applications as one and the same user. One copy of MultiCharts can have only one TSserver process which starts when you open any of MultiCharts components. So...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Smoky! When it is possible please exit MultiCharts and make sure that no processes with MultiCharts in Description are left in Task Manager -> Details or Processes tab. Then start QuoteManager, reproduce this issue and send us the logs for analysis by launching the Feedback application from M...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, LMC1! Please cross-check your symbol settings (min move specifically). If your data provider is not IB then please make sure that the data feed symbol is configured the same way as the broker symbol and adjust the symbol mapping: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/Symbol_M...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, bowlesj3!

If you’d like us to investigate this issue, please send us your workspace, the study and the export of symbols with data in QMD format to support@multicharts.com

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Gann_Man!

Please refer to the code of this study as an example.

Anna MultiCharts

signalworks, sorry for confusion, I’ll describe what I meant below in more detail. Hope this would be more helpful. To understand how the P&F charts with huge box sizes are constructed the understanding of the following is required: Levels: - P&F boxes are constructed on levels – the levels ...

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wilkinsw, this appears to be a bug. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. As a workaround at the moment you can press Space on your keyboard – this will confirm starting automated trading. Smoky, I’ve already replied to the same suggestion of yours in another post – this is our company policy and...

Anna MultiCharts

Signalworks, Here’s the reply from our engineers: - As for the huge box size – we’ve thoroughly studied the technical requirements and peculiarities of the algorithm realization, and this seems to be expected behavior. A P&F bar doesn’t always correspond to its representation in Xs and Os. The b...

Anna MultiCharts

wilkinsw, “Before the order leaves Multicharts is it possible to intervene and cancel an order that is stuck in the queue (an order that was generated on an older tick)?” – if an order was generated by a strategy and it complied with the rules of PowerLanguage then it will be sent in any case even i...

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Hello, signalworks!

We’re analyzing this. I’ll get back to you once there’s any news.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, dvdkite!

Unfortunately there’re no options for this in MultiCharts at the moment.
As agreed in Live Chat we’ll investigate the possibility of introducing something for this by contacting Webank after you leave a feature request in our PM.

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Kel, Smoky,

I’m afraid this function will not be introduced as our position is that all risky money related operations should be confirmed prior to be performed. This is a precaution measure for our users so that there’re no cases when autotrading starts without any user’s intension.

Anna MultiCharts

rrams,

we replicated this behavior on our end and understand your concern. We’ll introduce some kind of notification in further MultiCharts versions. Unfortunately I cannot give any ETA at the moment.

Anna MultiCharts

wilkinsw, Each order has a life-span that is the time between the nearest strategy calculations. A strategy can be calculated either on the bar close or on each tick in IOG mode. If the order triggering conditions are met on the next calculation then the order’s life is preserved on the broker. If t...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, wilkinsw! Your code works as it’s written. If the conditions for a price order are not met on the next strategy calculation then the order is cancelled. There’s no difference in the speed that MultiCharts is able to send a market or price orders. If you use any kind of order modification for ...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, turbofib!

rrams is right. That is only possible to select either Local or Exchange time zone for the symbols within 1 chart and 1 portfolio. There’re no plans to change this behavior in future versions.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, rrams! This hasn’t changed. I’m a bit confused by your description. You say that “On daily charts at startup it also asks if I want to enable Auto-Trading and I click Yes; but SA is disabled when the workspace appears” and “How do I get this dialog to appear so I can always start the workspac...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, robz7575!

Yes, we hope to introduce this in MultiCharts 12 in one of the first releases.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, LMC1! The Open P/L in the "Portfolio Real-time Auto Trading" tab is the strategy Open P/L for the symbol. The Open P/L in the Order and Position Tracker can be calculated by MultiCharts or can be supplied by the broker depending on your Interactive Brokers broker profile settings (U...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Sky!

The optimization (WFA as well) runs across the whole data range.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Kel! 1) The existing positions are not picked up automatically when you start AT. You can assign the initial market position: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/Auto_Trading#Assign_the_Initial_Market_Position_at_the_Broker_Settings As you’re trading in SA mode, please take...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, turbofib! I’m afraid there’s no such option at the moment. You can try setting the minimal bar spacing (1) in the Format -> Window -> X – Time Scale -> Bar Spacing – currently this would be the fastest way to compress the bars on the chart. If you’d like to have a special shortcut for display...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, wilkinsw and hughesfleming! The batches of orders/order queue indication can appear due to a high number of strategy calculations and events. For example if there are a lot of charts auto trading/IOG enabled on fast markets/lots of order modifications/rejects, etc. All these events are being ...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, trader0311! Please refer to the Portfolio Trader documentation and strategy examples to learn how to use them: http://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/Portfolio_Trader Portfolio Money Management Keywords: http://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/PMM_Keywords Portfol...

Anna MultiCharts

Anna, Can you please provide more details or examples on how to "connect MultiCharts .NET with e.g. NT Trader using C#" . I've been searching for days "for the relevant instructions on the Internet" with no luck. Can you please provide some links to these relevant instructions? ...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, fepra! There’re pre-built special orders in PowerLanguage. They are able to calculate this on their own. Please refer to the PowerLanguage Help to find the description and usage examples for SetStopLoss and SetProfitTarget, and other special orders starting with Set. For them to work properly...

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Hello, LMC1! To restore Portfolio to the default settings you can try performing these steps: 1. Close MultiCharts and make sure no processes are running in Task Manager -> Details Tab -> click on the Description column name to sort all processes by description -> no MultiCharts processes should be ...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Gann_Man! There’s no pre-built functionality for this in MultiCharts. As for regular MultiCharts your Sharedvar solution should be the easiest way to achieve this. You’ll need to create a study that when applied to a chart will stream the data from MultiCharts to another platform through the ...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, darob! We managed to reproduce this on our end with the detailed instruction you provided. Indeed inadvertence when saving a workspace might lead to losing the workspace. Thanks for pointing this out. We’ll improve this behavior in the upcoming versions, but till then please take care to save...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, ural01!

Please send us your study, workspace, export of data and detailed description of how to reproduce this to support@multicharts.com for analysis.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, ural01!

You can change the price scale for the symbol in QuoteManager.
Find the symbol in the symbol list and double-click on it, then go to the Settings tab. Adjust the price scale as required.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Spaceant! You can export the data in CSV format from QuoteManager as described here: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/Exporting_Data And you can export the data from the chart directly by going File -> Export data: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/E...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, 4trading!

Please come to our Live Chat that is accessible from our web site http://www.multicharts.com/ (at the top of the page) to demonstrate this issue remotely. We'll be expecting you Mon-Fri from 6:30 AM to 12:00 PM EST (11:30 AM to 5:00 PM GMT).

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Ural01, In autotrading an order exists as long as the strategy keeps generating it, i.e. the order life is the time spent between strategy’s calculations. In MultiCharts a strategy can be calculated on bar close (without IOG) or on each tick (with IOG), and as long as the order generating conditions...

Anna MultiCharts

Ural01, We slightly adjusted the code in https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=46241&p=103087#p103087 Please review it so that you can see the example. can i use just StrategyInfo.MarketPosition <0 for sell , StrategyInfo.MarketPosition >0 for buy order ? Yes, you can.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, ural01!

You can monitor the order state with the help of TradeManager. Please refer to the PowerLanguage .NET Help to find more information about it.

Anna MultiCharts

Signalworks, Thanks. These values are not the ones that cause this message to appear. MultiCharts monitors the virtual memory usage and notifies the user about the lack of memory. Judging by your setup – 2 workspaces * 4 Rangebar charts – the virtual memory consumption can be quite high. You can tru...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, ural01!

Is your question about manual or autotrading?

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Grigorios!

Yes, this is planned for the upcoming MultiCharts releases along with introducing the support for new IB API.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, signalworks!

Unfortunately I cannot get to see your picture down this link. Please share it with a different cloud service or attach the image to your forum post.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, teinba71!

I’m afraid there’s no way you can get the CUSIP number in Scanner: neither from the available fields in the Scanner itself, nor from the PowerLanguage.
Please leave a feature request if you would like to have this functionality in future: http://www.multicharts.com/pm/

Anna MultiCharts

Dear users, We’ve been notified by IB representatives that starting May 1, 2018 TWS and IB Gateway builds prior to 959.1 will be desupported. We strongly advice to upgrade to a higher build before this date. You can download newer versions here: TWS: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f...

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Hello, competitor59! Please try restarting MultiCharts completely making sure that no processes with MultiCharts in Description are left in Task Manager -> Details or Processes tab. If the issue is reproduced after that please send us the logs for investigation by going Help -> Feedback. You need ju...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, LRP! This message is still the result of incorrect symbol mapping and it is still sent to us this way by IB without any exact hints towards the symbols that generate this error. Good that you figured out the symbols yourself. As these are continuous futures, they cannot be traded. You need to...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, Stormy!

You can also try using the ELExcel.dll (viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8731) for this purpose or create your own dll that will serve a communication tool between MultiCharts and Excel.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, macieyo!

Your code looks fine and operable. Unfortunately we cannot think of a better way for achieving your goal.

Anna MultiCharts

tozwp, thank you for commenting on this. As a rule following these steps doesn’t lead to the issue with sounds that you described. If you or anyone else ever encounters this again, please contact support in Live Chat (accessible from our web site http://www.multicharts.com/) to describe any major or...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, tozwp!

Glad you were able to fix this. But could you please recall how you re-installed MultiCharts to the new directory? Were there any errors during the installation? We’d like to reproduce this on our end, so if it is possible to describe what you did that would be perfect.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, wilkinsw!

This will be implemented in the upcoming MultiCharts versions. Unfortunately I cannot tell the ETA at the moment.

Anna MultiCharts

CAGMAD, When you use setstoploss in AA mode then it is calculated both vs chart prices and vs broker prices. So as per your example: 1) on the chart stop loss would be 12314 2) at the broker stop loss would be 12317 To avoid this please use SA mode or write your own stop order for AA mode that will ...

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, wilkinsw and kagein! In the upcoming versions of MultiCharts the conversion for CQG will be reworked as follows: -If Buy stop trigger price ( (<=BestAsk) and (<=LastTrade) ) or <=BestBid , then convert and submit market/limit -If Sell stop trigger price ( (>=BestBid) and (>=LastTrade) ) or >=...

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CAGMAD,

On the chart that is trading in AA mode your stop loss will be filled according to the prices on the chart. The orders sent to the broker will be filled according to the broker prices. In 99% those prices will be different.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, shivax!

Email and other kinds of alerts can only be triggered in realtime, i.e in forward testing and live trading.
In backtesting you won’t receive any alerts.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, shivax!

I’m afraid there’s no readymade function for this in PowerLanguage. It will be required to create such function yourself.

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Hello, CAGMAD! AA mode is very similar to forward-testing. The prices are taken from the chart, for AA mode that is not possible to get the prices from the broker for the strategy's calculation. If for the stop order generation you use the setstoploss command, then this is a special order. If you us...

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Hello, fepra!

You can add an additional counter/input for days and specify the time for your existing inputs from 0000 to 2400. This will allow for resetting the hour-minute counter for the day y after the calculation of the day x is performed.

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automaton,

You can create a PM request for this so that other users could vote for it. The bigger the number of interested users, the more chances there’re for the feature to be implemented faster.

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Hello, joenetic!

In the View menu first choose “Show cross” and then also in the View menu go “Tracking Settings” and select “Tracking Time and Price”.

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Hello, bluepillrobot!

I’m afraid this field is not available for the optimization report. You can leave a feature request on this page if you’d like to have it available for the optimization report at some point:
http://www.multicharts.com/pm/

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Hello, shivax! Please try the following: 1) in TS set the same data range and resolution as in MultiCharts 2) reload the chart in TS 3) reload the chart in MultiCharts 4) if in the TS data feed settings the “Save data to local database” option is enabled, then delete the data for this symbol and cle...

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automaton,

I’m afraid there’s no such PM link. This is our internal intention to readdress this setting behavior in relation to holidays.

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Hello, wilkinsw! Our engineers didn’t manage to reproduce this on our end. And we haven’t changed anything in this respect in MultiCharts 11. Will it be possible for you to come to our Live Chat and demonstrate the issue via remote connection MON-FRI from 6:30 AM to 12:00 PM EST (11:30 AM to 5:00 PM...

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Hello, automaton! I’m afraid there’s not much you can do about the way holidays are treated by MultiCharts when Bars Back/Days Back setting is chosen for the Data Range on the chart. This is to re reworked at some point, but I’m afraid we cannot give any ETA at the moment. As for now please try sett...

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Hello, ctu1121! Please make sure that the symbols are added properly from the data source, that the data range is set for 10 years in the Format Instrument window -> Settings tab. Try to reload you chart (Ctrl + R). If this doesn’t help, try deleting the data and clearing the cache for the symbol in...

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Hello, turbofib! If the data for the symbol is coming in realtime, then you should see the last price marker on the chart’s price scale move and the Last price change in the status line. If you don’t see those indications, please make sure they are enabled: - last price marker: Format -> Instrument ...

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Hello, rreyes22! Without IOG orders in MultiCharts are generated on the bar close and are sent to the broker on the next bar open. “Next bar” command depends on the IOG setting: if IOG is ON, it will generate the order on the next tick, if IOG is OFF, the order will be generated on the bar close and...

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wilkinsw, in incremental GA a new generation is created after concurrent crossover of as many pairs from the previous population as allowed by the number of available threads (cores). If the population size is significantly bigger than the number of threads, then the result won’t be much different f...

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Hello, elitetrader! In older versions of MultiCharts high market volatility caused by news announcement could lead to similar issues, but it is not a crash of MultiCharts. We’ve improved the data handling algorithms in the latest releases of MultiCharts 11 so the realtime data should come fine at th...

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Hello, Gaetano! 1. I’m afraid this is not possible at the moment. 2. Will it be able to come to our Live Chat to demonstrate the issue via remote connection MON-FRI from 6:30 AM to 12:00 PM EST (11:30 AM to 5:00 PM GMT)? Live Chat is accessible from our web site http://www.multicharts.com/ (at the t...

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Hello, shivax! In manual trading you can do that by just counting the number of trades yourself or monitoring them in the Order and Position Tracker. If you need to do that in autotrading, then your strategy should memorize the time of the trades and in case you need more than just one trade a week ...

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firemag, I’m afraid PowerLanguage doesn’t have the ability to access the info you specified and there’s no way you can retrieve it from a dll written in C# by means of PowerLanguage. Please name the exact fields that you’d like to get access to so that I could provide a more precise answer in respec...

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Wilkinsw, Our engineers have tested this case on our side and provided a reply. 1) “Maximum number of generations” should indeed be perceived as “Maximum number of generations per core”. Actually genetic optimization has one hidden parameter in the Registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TS Support\Pow...

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Smoky,

Please, come to our Live Chat that is accessible from our web site http://www.multicharts.com/ (at the top of the page) to demonstrate this issue remotely. We'll be expecting you Mon-Fri from 6:30 AM to 12:00 PM EST (11:30 AM to 5:00 PM GMT).

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Hello, firemag! That is not possible to get the Broker name for the strategy by means of PowerLanguage. You can get the name of the symbol to which your study is applied by using the SymbolName/GetSymbolName keywords: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/SymbolName https://www.mult...

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fede.adv, The strategy on each chart knows about the amount of contracts on it. You can use Global Variables to establish the connection between the charts and use some indicator that will calculate the total amount of contracts for this symbol: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php...

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Hello, wilkinsw!

Our engineers are analyzing this case on our side. I'll let you know the results as soon as they are available.

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Hello, Automeq!

I’m afraid this is the way the visual part works at the moment. It might be enhanced in future, but not in the nearest versions.

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Hello, Smoky!

Please describe the issue in more details:
What data feed do you use?
Have you tried to reload (Ctrl + R) your chart for @FDXM?
Was MultiCharts closed properly last time? Were there any disruptions in its work?
Haven’t you changed the time on your PC recently?

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Hello, tradingest!

At the moment there’s no such option. If you’d like to have it in future please leave a feature request on this page:
http://www.multicharts.com/pm/

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Hello, Shivax and Wapi!

Both of the codes seem to be fine.
Shivax, we cannot recommend anything regarding an easier code as it all depends on your goals. Please describe what you need to achieve in more details.

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Hello, fede.adv! In autotrading you can use the MarketPosition_at_Broker_for_The_Strategy keyword for this purpose: it returns a numerical value, indicating the number of contracts and the type of position at the broker for the strategy. Please keep in mind that the resulted value will not coincide ...

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tradingest, With your session settings and resolution it won’t be possible to align the bars as their bar close timestamps are different: for @GC you have 20:00, 22:00 and so on timestamps and for EURUSD you have 19:00, 21:00 and so on. If you’d like to align the bars of two data series, please make...

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wilkinsw, regtracer, the feature request was reviewed by our development team and will be implemented in future versions. At the moment it’s hard to tell when this will be exactly. Please follow our Blog to find what new features were introduced in the new versions: https://www.multicharts.com/trade...

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tradingest, please attach screenshots of the session settings for both of the instruments from QuoteManager: File -> New -> QuoteManager -> find your symbols in the symbol list and double-click on them -> Sessions tab. If the instruments use exchange sessions, please send screenshots of the exchange...

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Hello, tradingest!

Let’s continue on this topic in the following post of yours:
viewtopic.php?t=51199

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Hello, tonyng!

Please, come to our Live Chat that is accessible from our web site http://www.multicharts.com/ (at the top of the page) to demonstrate this issue remotely. We'll be expecting you Mon-Fri from 6:30 AM to 12:00 PM EST (11:30 AM to 5:00 PM GMT).

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Hello, tradingest!

I’m afraid that’s not possible to change the symbol on 3 data series of the chart at a time.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, tradingest! Please be more precise about the “slowness” – what time period are you talking about: seconds, minutes, hours? Please send us the logs (Help -> Feedback) with the detailed description of the situation (what instrument, broker, time when the position was opened and when you receive...

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Hello, tradingest!

What data feeds, resolution and sessions you have for each of these data series?

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Hello, kagein!

If you use this keyword properly there should be no issues.

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Hello, wilkinsw! Unfortunately the implementation of this feature is not planned for the upcoming version, but our developers might come up with a new commission rule that will work differently for different instruments. Please give an example of 2 instruments and the commission/slippage settings fo...

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Hello, Zheka!

Our engineers have given another thought to your suggestion and they plan to implement this functionality at some point. At the moment it’s hard to tell when this will be.

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Leo,
please, come to our Live Chat MON-FRI from 6:30 AM to 12:00 PM EST (11:30 AM to 5:00 PM GMT) to demonstrate the issue via remote connection. Live Chat is accessible from our web site http://www.multicharts.com/ (at the top of the page).

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Leo,

Please also attach a screenshot of your symbol mapping settings for TS -> IB.

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Hello, firemag! Margin values are not supplied for all brokers through their API, so for some of them (as is the case with GAIN) it won’t be possible to get this info from the code. IB do provide this info. Please refer to the following sample code to find the keywords associated with margin and oth...

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Hello, ctu1121!

I’m afraid none of these settings will help increasing the data download speed. What has changed in MultiCharts setup when you noticed that the data downloading became slower?

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Leo,

are the orders placed fine? Can you see those orders in the Order and Position Tracker? Is it possible to illustrate the case with screenshots?

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Hello, wilkinsw! "Convert stop orders guaranteed to be executed to market orders" is an optional parameter. When a stop order is placed with the prices: Buy order price <=BestAsk, Sell order price >=BestBid, then we convert them to market orders. With this option enabled the orders that ar...

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Hello, whqt!

If you use ASCII mapping please make sure that UpVol and DownVol are properly supplied to your MultiCharts from the mapped file.
I also forwarded this reply to you by email as you sent us an email request. If you still have questions on this matter, please address them to me directly.

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Hello, hughesfleming! I’m afraid what you’re trying to do is only possible if you have both MultiCharts 32-bit and 64-bit, cause MultiCharts is installed for all users of the machine and has common database across all users. If you try to launch 2 MultiCharts of one and the same bit you won’t succee...

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Hello, ppc!

Haven’t you recently deleted the Order and Position Tracker files from the directory specified in File -> Preferences -> Directories -> Order and Position Tracker files?

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Hello, Leo!

Please check symbol mapping:
https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... ol_Mapping

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kagein,

No, I’m afraid there’s no way you can access the price of the pending orders from the code.

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raffaele,

I’m afraid there’s no way you can avoid this.

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Hello, kagein!

I’m afraid there’s no way you can do that if you’re trading one and the same symbol from multiple charts.

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Hello, wacketywidge! I’m afraid that is not possible to set the default exchange at the moment. When adding a new symbol for most data feeds that is possible to specify the exchange from which the symbol should be added. When changing the instrument on a chart you can sort the list of them by Exchan...

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Hello, Zheka!

I’m afraid that is not possible to generate orders in a loop, this is pre-determined behavior.
You can specify the required number of lines for exits or use the SameExitFromOneEntryOnce attribute to achieve your goal.

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Hello, rafaelle!

The number of strategies in portfolio equals the number of instruments in it. When you run optimization in Portfolio all strategies are optimized together, so the total number of optimization runs in your case will be 10^6 and not 10*6.

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Hello, MJOONIU! You can use the If operator to check if the current bar time corresponds to the specified time interval and generate an order or not depending on this. I’m afraid that’s not quite clear what you understand by “trade” here. If you need to send just one order, then you can use a boolea...

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trader0311, That is also possible to add Optimize by Sharpe Ratio signal for strategies in Portfolio in order to optimize it by Custom Fitness value. At the end of an optimization run there can be only 1 Custom Fitness value for all strategies in Portfolio, so if you need to calculate the total Cust...

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Hello, Pipscalper and damnpenguins! As we are aware OANDA has decided to restrict API trade execution from 3rd party platforms (Motivewave, TradingView, Seer, Multicharts, etc.) for the European residents registered under OANDA Europe Limited to conform to the MIFID 2 regulations. As they informed u...

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Hello, trader0311!

Please, provide screenshots of what you’re doing in MultiCharts and what difficulty you have with Portfolio.

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Hello, lordongi! CustomInstrument was intended to be used for the basic (main) data series. It cannot get sessions for other instruments. For that purpose you can use DataLoader: https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/4.7.4_Receiving_the_data_for_any_symbol_and_any_resolution._DataLo...

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Hello, jek!

Implementing this feature is planned for one of the future MultiCharts versions. Potentially it may be introduced next year in MultiCharts 13 or 14, but it’s not possible at the moment to define the exact timeframe.

Anna MultiCharts

Hello, momentum!

I’m afraid there’re no PowerLanguage keywords that allow accessing Volume Delta/Imbalance Delta values from the code of a study, though these values can be accessed in MultiCharts .NET.

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Hello, Smoky! If I get it correctly from your description, usually you’re able to get the data in MultiCharts, but from time to time the data stops coming, right? Do you get the data in IB TWS at times when you don’t receive the data in MultiCharts? If yes, please come to our Live Chat when the issu...

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Emmanuel,

Yes, we received your link. I'll continue with you by email on this case.

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Emmanuel,

Thank you for your kind words. We’ll be waiting for the link and will get in touch as soon as the files are analyzed.

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Hello, Emmanuel!

Unfortunately we couldn’t reproduce this behavior on our side. Please, send us your database files to support@multicharts.com so that we could analyze them. You can find the path to the folder containing your Database files in File -> Preferences -> Directories -> Databases.

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Hello, beck donald! I’m afraid from you description it’s not clear what exactly went wrong. If you’d like us to analyze this issue, from main MultiCharts window please go Help -> Support -> Open Logs Folder and delete all folders and files there. Then reproduce the issue and send us the newly formed...

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Zheka,

as you can see at the moment from the screenshot that our engineers provided there’s no difference in calculation between MultiCharts and TS.

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Hello, Zheka! Our engineers have analyzed this and came to the conclusion that there’s no difference between the indicator plots in MultiCharts and in TS. Please, see the screenshot. 1.png The difference between “emavola = XAverage(vola, period);” and “variables: emavola(xAverage(vola, period))” is ...

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firemag,

I'm afraid to achieve this goal you need to have 2 separate MultiCharts, as one MultiCharts can have only one QuoteManager (which is database). Sorry if my previous answer confused you.

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Hello, TraderWalrus!

Reload allows to request the data from the data source anew and is intended to rectify the issue with incorrect data. Once the data is reloaded, the newly received data is stored to the local database and the erroneous old data is deleted from it.

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ppc, “The log just show latest message. How to reference back earlier in the event log? Thanks.” – is there a possibility to scroll the event log? The scroll should be on the right side of it. “1. daily data (OHLC) of US stocks from IB include non-regular trading hour data?” – I’d recommend you to c...

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Hello, swisstrader82!

Have you tried to reload the chart (Ctrl + R)?
If this doesn’t help, in QuoteManager please right-click on this symbol -> Delete Data and then Clear Cache. Then reload the chart again.

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Hello, waveslider! I’m afraid we haven’t introduced any keyword for limiting entries. If you need to limit the number of entries for the day, you can compare the value returned by Portfolio_CurrentEntries with the one you need (10, as in your example), and make so that the entry orders are not gener...

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Hello, firemag! For trading correct symbol mapping is important. When you use different data feed and broker then you need to adjust the data feed symbol settings according to the broker symbol settings. In autotrading the prices are rounded off according to the price scale of the chart so that the ...

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Zheka,

we're currently analyzing this. We'll post a reply from the engineers when it's available.

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Hello, firemag!

According to the script and screenshots you provided the orders are sent simultaneously because both conditions are met. If you don’t need SellShort to be sent after a position is opened, you need to adjust your code accordingly.

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Hello, kagein!

If you’re referring to backtesing then the calculations are carried out on the bar close (barstatus = 2) that is why you have the results.
Barstatus = 0 or 1 which represent bar open or inside status will not work in backtesting, only in realtime.

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