MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

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Congratulations to the MultiCharts team: http://www.tradingawards.com/winners

Gold award in almost every category - a nice bit of recognition from the userbase as to the excellent progress in features and development the MC platform is making!

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http://www.tradingawards.com/winners

congratulations to the TSSupport team, another raft of awards for the MultiCharts platform!

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MultiCharts is nominated for: Best Professional Trading Platform Best Software for UK EOD Traders Best Software for UK Intra-Day Traders Best Software for US EOD Traders Best Software for US Intra-Day Traders Best Software for Forex Traders Best Software for Mechanical System Trader Get your votes i...

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is it possible to get a greater resolution of timestamp on tick data than the second stamp at presented during data export? <Date> <Time> <Price> 16/09/2009 11:33:41 1058.75 sub-second would be great, as in fast markets its easily possible to have many ticks in the same second, and at the current re...

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late to the party - thanks for your support in our past encounters Marina, best wishes for your future adventures.

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ahh ok, thanks for the reply - shoulda clicked search first, my bad!

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Is MultiCharts able to use the multi-threading capabilities of NVidia's new Tesla Super-processor?

Claims upto 960 cores in parallel, with massive data throughput and calculation power - 250 times faster than intels fastest quad core...

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_te ... 60_us.html

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I think all of these features should be implemented. I know you need to prioritize, but I hope you'll do them all in due course!

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results here:
http://www.tradingawards.com/winners

MultiCharts has collected awards in many categories - congrats to the TS Development Team!

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yeah - its extended till this coming Sunday - feb 8th, vote for MultiCharts now! Vote results announced on Monday 9th

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voting was extended into January - 3 days left to get your vote in for MultiCharts!

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I've been testing some idea's on 1 tick charts, and loading a lot of data up. Occasionally i get an MC pop up dialogue box informing me that I'm running out of memory and I need to close some charts or reduce the number of bars. Unfortunately, a problem arises trying to comply with the request, beca...

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MultiCharts is also nominated in several other software categories too, including best software for mechanical system traders.

Happy voting!

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Has anyone tried running Multicharts in a Linux environment using an XP emulator such as Wine?

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I'm trying to test a portfolio of currency markets using an EL signal strategy.

The signal works fine on a standalone chart, but when I try to run it in the portfolio backtester, I'm getting an "invalid pointer" error message.

am I doing something wrong?

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any prospects of MultiCharts being able to work with RTD data links, as opposed to DDE uplink?

When working with TT via DDE, there is just not enough tick data being transmitted, there is some kind of throttling or filter on the data being sent into MC, which for volume bars is everything.

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whats the data like for Eurex?

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I see the 3.0 full release has been announced today! congratulations to the TSS team!

I cannot however, see any option to download the release version in the downloads section, only v2.1 and v3beta ?

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is it possible to install and run MC from a USB type drive or memory stick? I'm interested in installing MC on a portable drive that could then be used with different computers depending on my location. Will this work? or is the MC installation tied to a registry entry that would be machine specific?

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i have emailled you the logs and error message just now

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I keep getting errors and crashes since I installed this patch. specifically, I get a runtime error a few minutes after I load MC up. After the error, MC will not allow me to close the application, and changes to chart data do not permit you to select a different symbol. Also, data source field beco...

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that is really great news, thanks for the info - keep us posted!!

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as an after thought, in addition to TT datafeed IN to MC, it would also be great to have MC directly execute strategy orders OUT via TT.

Algorithmic trading in MC with ultra-stable fast data and execution via TT would be possibly the perfect combination.

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I'll be very interesting in reading the official TSS response to this!

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you're right - I hadnt noticed their name on the list somehow!

TSS must already be familiar with the TT interface in that case, hopefully not a large step for them to integrate into MC?

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Any plans for MultiCharts to be able to use the Trading Technologies feed? it would be great to connect MC to TT via the FIX gateway, or using the X_Trader API (or better still, both!)

http://www.tradingtechnologies.com/partner-program.aspx

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that isnt the nature of the problem I'm describing - the SEF files are all compatible with the version of MC that I am using - the problem is that the latest version of MC does not allow me to import seperate SEF files that share common read-only functions.

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I was very pleased to see that MC have radically improved optimization test processing time. does this speed improvement also convert into improvements in the way that MC handles data, calculates indicator plots and updates charts? In the past, I had experienced problems with MC charts seriously lag...

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I have several SEF files for different studies, which have some common shared functions. As of the latest release of MC (v2.1.999.999) when I try to import a .SEF file, if the common files are already installed, I cannot complete the import process, because the installation process no longer allows ...

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good luck, thanks for your support!

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OTfeed should provide backdata, should it not?

i'm experimenting with the feed, and I am correctly able to access realtime data, but historical data is not being downloaded.

is there a known issue? or any advice on correctly downloading back data

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hmm... thanks for the pointer. i changed the regional settings and it doesnt seem to have made any difference - still the same problems as above. I'll have a play around with this in a bit tho as I'm not sure if I changed all the regional options correctly or not. One thing I have noticed however is...

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I downloaded and installed v 1.90.610.985 it works and seems stable on this version of Vista. The only two problems I have encountered (so far) are: 1. in Quotemanager, when right clicking, the pop-up menu's appear blank until you mouse over and highlight the available options. 2. QuoteManager does ...

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thanks. will do

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do you have a link to a compatible version?

I'm happy to report back on any compatibility issues

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I've setup the latest Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 64bit version on one of my PC's. MC vers 1.90.559.729 seems to run up ok, but when I try to setup the data vendor options, the menu's dont seem to work properly, ie: no choices to select from. When I import the .GBD files from a running XP vers...

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oops - sorry, I'd been searching the forums under "continuous" instead of rollover

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how does one go about creating a continuous chart where eSignal does not offer continuous data? for example - GB M6-DT - bund data for June, rolled forward onto GB u6-DT August contract. Is there a way to splice the two contracts together? Obviously on the rollover the U6 data has no real data histo...

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is it possible to create inter-market spread charts between two futures contracts? ie: bund/bobl

I know its possible to create these synthetically in eSignal but I presume since MC accesses the data server directly these synthetics are not accessible?

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actually, I just spoke to support and they were very helpful. problem solved.

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I think i got to the bottom of the backfill gaps, I'd got my charts incorrectly set to "online" instead of "on-demand" - the charts now correctly populate with data, though I still seem to be getting runtime errors with Tsserver.exe, should I start a seperate thread for this problem?

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I've browsed & searched the forums without luck, so apologies if this has been answered before: in esignal you can create synthetic continuous contracts for the data they do not natively support in the #f continuous contracts. I've created a synthetic continuous contract for DAX and Bund data, but I...

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Re: VOTE FOR MULTICHARTS!

MC Winner!

tick data: timestamp granularity on data export

MC compatible with Nvidia Tesla multicore processor?

running out of memory

MultiCharts on Linux/WINE

portfolio tester problem

DDE vs RTD

version 3 release?

MC on USB drive

TT connectivity

MC data handling speed

problem importing read-only studies with shared functions

OTfeed backfill

Vista Release Candidate 1 - any compatible MC betas?

continuous contracts for rollover data

Creating a spread chart between two futures

using esignal synthetic continuous contracts + esig backfill