MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

kagein

Dear users, The Saturday downtime was due to the maintenance work performed on our authorization server. It was shortly fixed by our specialists. Please restart MultiCharts if you still experience any issues with authorization. We apologize for any inconvenience. Was the maintenance work scheduled ?

kagein

V14 is what I’m having issues with.

V12 doesn’t have crypto brokers I believe.

kagein

I just lost Digital Rights Management Authentication on two of my live servers, which are located at different data centres. Connection seemed to be re-connected an hour or so later. During that time all auto trading is switched off, which in my opinion should definitely not occur as live positions ...

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I would stick $100 in a live account and use that as your test. I think the lowest trade nominal trade value allowed is around $50, so at 20x leverage you should be able to trade with no issues.

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I've struggled with this exact problem with Binance, im spending a small fortune on servers compared with futures trading. If you put all signals on one chart, can you track the market position of each individual signal?

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This happens to me all the time when i install on a new server, get support to remote into your computer and fix it. For some strange reason it never works when i try to do it.

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So you are saying that this issue is unique to MC14? I have no experience of live MC14. MC12 async order emulation works fine. Working with the following presets 2021-01-30_16-39-26.jpg I can confirm these settings work, in both charts and portfolio trader. Although if you manually move the orders ...

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I had this issue with MC14 when using Binance. I was told emulation using trade price doesn't work atm. I haven't tried it with other brokers to confirm whether its unique to Binance. Using MC12 i use this all the time and it works well.

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My connection is working Data is ok, trading also But I have problem : there is async trading is not working. I can see orders stops and limits at MC but they are not transforming to trades at market May be my settings is wrong. This happens with me also, orders get filled on binance but MC still s...

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Hi,

Could someone recommend a data service that provides historical daily data (1m ohlc, if possible) for NYSE shares and point in time index constituents for (Nasdaq and S&P).

Thanks

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Thank you, that was exactly the problem.

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On a chart with data1 being a 1 hour chart and data2 being a daily chart, I'm trying to reference previous bar values of a moving average from data2 but im not getting the right results. Ive included an indicator that shows the issue, i should be getting 5 distinct values for variable mavg, instead ...

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My broker just banned front month trading in WTI so probably wont be able to trade negative prices anymore

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This is what i do all the time.. Ive tried using the MP sync, but when you have multiple signals trading the same contract in the same account, it just ends up sending the wrong size orders. Ive found its easier to do it manually. ie changing the chart to AA. If an automatic solution can be found th...

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Impossible in the sense that you cant send orders with negative prices?

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There could be an issue with how the 2990wx is configured in the bios. When i get access to the server and can update the bios, ill run the test again and report back.

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I've got two servers, one running AMD TR 1950x 16 core and the other AMD TR 2990WX 32 core. When i run the same optimisation with the same data (using all threads) on both machines, the 16 core machine always finishes first. The TR 1950 seems to be using 100% of the cpu during optimisations whereas ...

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If you have two charts with the same signal that fires orders at the same time to two different accounts, how does MC decide which order to send to the exchange first? Is it random or is there some logic behind it?

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Local limit order emulation hows as a stop order in the logs kagein, which broker do you use? Please send us the logs so we can check this situation. In MultiCharts go to Help tab->Feedback (or Windows Start menu->All programs->MultiCharts64->Feedback). Select these options: - Attach log files to h...

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Local limit order emulation hows as a stop order in the logs

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Is the new TT api supported in this version?

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Personally, i found charts to be more stable and allowed better control of my strategies than portfolio trader did.

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This was the issue

kagein

Im using the code below to test the FileAppend function but nothing seems to happen. No file is created and if i manually create the file nothing is added to it.

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if close > open then begin



	FileAppend("C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\text.txt", "HELLO WORLD");



end;

kagein

I'm having the same issue, tested the symbol QCL#C. Earliest start date in Multicharts is 14/02/2008, using the IQFeed time and sales app it has an earliest start date of 19/09/2006.

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I had this error this weekend when i updated windows server, repairing Multicharts instead of uninstalling fixed the issue.

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Can it be changed that all market orders are forced to use DAY for TIF. On the ICE exchange all market orders with TIF of GTC will be rejected. This isnt a problem on CME.

kagein

Hi,

Is it possible to determine the TIF of an order (GTC / DAY ) from the code rather than use general settings for all orders on the charts?

kagein

In strategy properties, click the auto trading tab then scroll down to broker plug in, choose paper trader from the drop down menu.

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i came across this in live trading, couldn't work out why some signals weren't firing. I agree the meanings and effects of those settings could be clearer.

kagein

This seems to fix the issue. Ill keep an eye on it but thanks.

kagein

As I wrote above, not using iog and have no time related code It is possible you have a hidden infinite loop. Have you tried one chart only ? How does the CPU respond? i doubt it, It happens with different data2 strategies (varying from simple to complex) and only occurs when they are placed on a c...

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As I wrote above, not using iog and have no time related code

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Do you have any PL code created drawing objects?

eg. Trendlines, arrows, texts, etc.,

No

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I have an instance of MultiCharts that has 8 workspaces open, each with 6 charts. All charts rely on a second data stream. When auto trading is turned on at a set time of the day (8:00 gmt) it seems cpu usage immediately spikes to 100% freezing my server. Only by opening task manager and ending the ...

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How do i go about checking if the stored value is what i want it to be?

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When i try the code below i get a value of 1500 instead of the close[1] + open[1], where am i going wrong?

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vars:
	irtnval(0);
	
	iRtnVal = GVSetDouble( 1500, Close[1] + Open[1] );
print(irtnval);

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I've just been in contact with TT and they are retiring access to the old API (which works with Multicharts) at the end of the year. Also new users wont be able to use the old API. Is there an ETA for Multicharts to implement TTs nextgen API as its currently unusable unless you can convince them to ...

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I would second this, hopefully it gets fixed in 12r6.

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I would check the performance monitor to see where the bottleneck is. My guess is you need more ram, try upgrading to 32 gb.

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On the Strategy Positions tab in the Order and Position Tracker window, i can no longer select by instrument, the drop down menu just says 'ALL' without listing any of the instruments i have trading. I just upgraded from v11r9.

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I found an issue, would like if someone else can confirm. When applying input combinations to a chart from the Strategy Optimization Report, the input values occupy the wrong inputs. Example I optimise inputs say: rsi , overbought, oversold and the highest net profit occurs at 14 , 70 , 30 respectiv...

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Update: I'm setting up a newly rented dedicated server. This one has an E3 1240v6, is located close to NYC, and is cheaper. It's from a different provider, just to eliminate a variable (though I have zero complaints about OVH). But before I get to the Moment Of Truth, I'm curious about something. I...

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Just installed MC12r2 on Windows Server 2016.

Everything normal.

Alex

same

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So i just upgraded to v12 yesterday night to test performance and its been horrendous for me personally. So i run 2 instances of multicharts, with 6 worksapces each , with about 6-8 charts in each worspace, all with auto-trading on trading futures via cqg. My server specs are as follows: xeon e3-124...

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I totally agree, getting filled at the extremes of the bid/offer spread when you shouldn't be is definitely something that needs to be addressed.

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Im trying to figure out how i can use setstoploss_pt and the setpercenttrailing_pt functions together so that when the setpercenttrailing_pt triggers it pulls the stop order from the setstoploss_pt function, without using IOG. Having two sets of stop orders when only one is needed, isnt a very good ...

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I would like to know what the potential issues are with placing setstoploss_pt within a condition. For example

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if count < 1 then

		setstoploss_pt ( stoploss);

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As a work around, is there a way an indicator could show the price of named orders working in the order book.

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I have multiple charts of the same product each with different signals. I would like to know if there's a way i can show on each chart the orders related solely to the signal on the chart and not all the current working orders from other charts.

Thanks

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When i set barstatus to 0, currentbar returns 0, if i set barstaus to 2, currentbar seems to work. What is the reason for this?

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vars: barnum(0);

if barstatus(1)=0 then

	barnum = currentbar -1;

	

plot1(barnum);

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yes this is the case, because i want to have the order open for a set number of bars even if the next bar is false. I want to limit the trades within the bars_valid. So i thought that once i put trade_on = false when a trade is initiated it will limit the number of trades till another bar satisfies ...

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This is essentially shows the issue im having inputs: bars_valid(10), target(10), stoploss(15); vars : entry_price(0), long_condition(false), bar_number(0), trade_on(false); long_condition = high > high[1] and low < low[1]; if long_condition = true then begin bar_number = BarNumber; entry_price = hi...

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i thought the code below would turn trade_on to false. So 1. when an order is placed above a high and i'm filled. 2. When bars between time order is placed is greater than bars_valid.

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if marketposition = 1 then trade_on = false;

     if (BarNumber - bar_number) > Bars_valid then trade_on= false

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I'm trying to figure out how i can keep an order open for set number of bars. At the moment the code below is what i can come up with. The trade_on variable doesn't seem to be resetting, so after an entry, buy stops are still placed even though the long condition is false. if long_condition then beg...

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