MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

Erik Pepping

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Erik Pepping

Same here

Please fix. Can no longer trade with multicharts !!!!!

Erik Pepping

I'm using Strato Virtual private server with remote desktop for 5 years now. Excellent and very cheap. See www.strato.de and www.strato.nl for German and Dutch site. Use google to translate the page. I have the cheapest server for 9 Euro / Month. I run automated systems there. Is cheaper then my ele...

Erik Pepping

I did all the necessary steps. following your advise. I:t stil send amount 00000, So it still does not work. I made the V20 changes logged in each time made sure everything was in sync. Still no result. So manual order entry still not possible. Still the message: Instrument: US Wall St 30; Order: Bu...

Erik Pepping

I spoker to my oanda respresentative. You need a personal API token. We need to be able to put this into the OAND rest api. I have a token, but I: can not enter it. It is linked to your account. It is documented. From the docs : With your personal access token, you can go directly to our Developer P...

Erik Pepping

MT4 works.....

Erik Pepping

i'm using multicharts 12 release 3. usng oanda as broker on demo account When i try to enter a buy or sell order via the chart trafer i'm getting the following error: Instrument: Germany 30; Order: Buy Market 1; Status: Rejected; Reason: Invalid Market order parameters: Buy 1 Germany 30 @ 0.000000 f...

Erik Pepping

I get errors in automated order execution mode with oanda.
See screenshot.
Account not filled ?

Using :
- Latest multicharts.(build 14943)
- OANDa V2 account

And:
- Manual trades work

Erik Pepping

Yes I Do, it is green.

Erik Pepping

When I start multicharts my open order is not showing on OANDA for instrumen "Germany 30"
Chart trading is set to show all .

See attachment.

Erik Pepping

In a study i'm trying to buy 10 units of Germany 30 contracts with:
buy ("LE") numunits contracts next bar at market;
An error comes back in live trading : illegal parameters 10.
numunits is set to 10.
In live chart trading I do indicate 10, and that works.
Broker OANDA. Symbol "Gerrmany 30"

Erik Pepping

for currencies if you have bought for 0.2 lot with
buy ("buy") 20000 contracts this bar at market;

You can sell half

Sell ("sell") 10000 contracts this bar at market;

Erik Pepping

When i try to programmatically : sellshort ("L_S_SZ") ToInvest contracts next bar at market; and toinvest is bigger then 65000 then 65000 is being bought. It seems to be an integer. But in currencies at oanda, this is money, not number of contracts...... What can i do. Now it is unusable. I can not ...

Erik Pepping

In the attached picture I'm curious about the Strategy Open p/L column.
Why is there a Yen symbol and dollar symbols and other values ?
Very confusing.

Erik Pepping

There is an option in the properties for automated trading : Enter only once per bar.

Erik Pepping

Well you make a function. That will make your code a lot shorter. plot1( v_Long_Linear_Reg_Current, "Line 1 Method") ; for k = 1 to Long_Deviation_Bands begin x = (Long_Deviation_Bands_First + (k - 1) * Long_Deviation_Bands_Next) * v_Long_Dev ; myfunction(k,v_Long_Linear_Reg_Current ,x); end ;

Erik Pepping

When I try to turn on my strategy. I get the error message : Can not connect to currency conversion server. The strategy is automatically turned off. 5 more strategies on currencies are running in the meanwhile on other charts. No problem there... This must be a Multicharts server...... But why ? .....

Erik Pepping

Aha, YES ! It was on USD there.
There are multiple places for this. No matter. It works !

Thanks

Erik

Erik Pepping

Version 9.x

Erik Pepping

Hi, I have installed Multicharts on a new windows 8.1 portable. (Lenovo) Works great. However when I enter a trade with chart trader, the profits are displayed in us$, and there seems to be some kind of currency conversion. I'm trading on the EUREX DAX DTB September futures. I allready have checked ...

Erik Pepping

Ok, I realize my post was a bit short. Let me try to explain again. 1. The data connection is working. Data is coming in and the charts are plotting fine. 2. I'm putting in an limit order. Everything with the lines Entry, stop-loss and profit display fine. 3. When the order gets hit, Multicharts mak...

Erik Pepping

This morning i installed the last TWS stable from may 2015.
When a limit order gets filled. The position buttons are not enabled and the P/L tracking is no longer visible.

Reinstalling the december version of TWS made everything work again.

Erik Pepping

Today I got an upgrade offer from windows 7 to windows 10. Probably will be released in end july.
Will Multicharts run on windows 10. Does it run on windows 8.1 ? (which should be compatible with 10)

Erik Pepping

This does it. Tested on the dax for 7 days in backtesting mode, with profit and stop to 200, profit 23000. See report (boxsize =2) But i have tried this one a long time real time. it is difficult to make system on renko, because the real prices are spiking an dipping witin a bar depending on a box s...

Erik Pepping

This should be easy, but bricks appearing is not clear to me.
Better is maybe "has appeared", so you are sure there are two red bricks, so when the third brick appears after two red ones go short ? ( this means the two red one will stay on your chart)

Erik

Erik Pepping

You could try adding a feed on tick bars. 1 tick. Each tick is a close for multicharts.
So daily chart for analysis and tick for trading.

E.

Erik Pepping

This has frustrated me since Version 3 of multicharts...., but I have learned to accept it.
Maybe I will record a short video demonstrating it.

Erik Pepping

Yes you could monitor the trade yourself. Calculate the pips you want stop and profit and generate the order yourself. After SELLSHORT use buy to cover. After Buy use SELL to exit your position. So something like: if Marketposition=-1 then // You are in a short position if Close() <= ProfitTarget th...

Erik Pepping

Profit target with setprofit are always in dollar amounts, or the amount of the currency.
Make sure you do the rounding and put it to an integer number.

Erik Pepping

I'm not sure on what instrument you are doing this, this would certainly not work on futures or currencies. The ticks represent not necessarily a money amount. I think the target has to be a whole number (see docs, it takes a numeric simple). Now you are probably calculating a decimal number like 3,...

Erik Pepping

According to my experience. It is always a fraction or a multiple of the whole first right digit. Example 1: Voor Dax future I have set the decimal fraction to 1, so quotes are typical 9050.5, 9051.0 etc. A set Renko box size to two (Fixed Size). This means in a box fit two whole ticks (9050 and 905...

Erik Pepping

Andrew, Thanks., Great service. !
Good product. I use the chart trading a lot, makes me 500 - 1000 $ a day ....
So happy user...

Erik Pepping

No i'm using the desktop version not the web based version.

Erik Pepping

Since the last IB TWS updates (multicharts 8.0 last version) order that are filled do not show anymore, the attached stop loss and take profit are canceled for some reason and the profit/loss are no longer shown. TWS build info: Build 932.4, Nov 1, 2012 9:23:22 AM Jolt Build 1.2.1, Jun 7, 2012 05:22...

Erik Pepping

I always use the profit for the day calculation. Often to stop trading after a certain profit for the days has been reached. variables: NetProf(0), Target (0); if DATE <> DATE[1] THEN BEGIN NetProf = NetProf + NetProfit - NetProf[1]; end; Target = Netprofit - NetProf; if marketposition=0 and time < ...

Erik Pepping

yes but that means that for instance for dax futures it does not trade after 17.30. But i want that. I do not want it in the morning however. I do not think that is an option.

Erik Pepping

As an extra point to this. Keep in mind that Stop for profit ans stoploss with SetProfitTarget and SetStopLoss are sent to the broker. I found out that for instance IB fills your stops before market. or After market sometimes, regardless of your session settings. This is off course logical, but stil...

Erik Pepping

Will do, but you know real man don't read manuals

Erik Pepping

Setbreakeven does not make any sense to do it not conditionally, since it would be set immeadiatly, something you only want conditionally.

Erik Pepping

My code is: if marketposition <> 0 then if openpositionprofit >= (ChandelierStopPercentage / 100) * (MyStopProfit) then setbreakeven(Mybreakeven); It does not work. The ChandelierStopPercentage is u number between 1 and 100. Mystopprofit is in Dollars and also a user input variable to the study. On ...

Erik Pepping

No I'm trying to use the setbreakeven command in multicharts 7.2 beta.
But it does not seem to work.

Erik Pepping

I have a fixed stoploss in my strategy. I do this with:
SetStoploss(400). However At one point i want to set the system to breakeven + 1 point. This is no longer a stop loss, since it will no be < 0.

How can i set this order at the broker ?

Erik Pepping

You can also try to use LastBarOnchart. So it never prints with previous bars while loading / plotting the chart.

Erik Pepping

Market position is not reliable. What I do is with the but or sell set my own variable.

Erik Pepping

I have interactive brokers, there it is not in the list.
Look at my screen grab:
Is there any way to expand the list ?

Erik Pepping

Yes but that is the bund future, not the Dax Future, Futures on the Dax stock index.

Erik Pepping

I'm trying to make a custom future with the Dax futures, But the Symbol root for IB is missing in the drop down list ?
Function Insert Instrument, Custom future
MC 7, last version.

Erik Pepping

Something with global variables ?
See : http://markplex.com/tutorial36-using-Gl ... s-data.php

Or write a file in one strategy and read the file from another from time to time.

Erik Pepping

I have made a eur/USD charts with renko bars. The 15 pip bars are not correct. The 5 pip bars ssem to be. Look at both pictures attached. Since I want to use 15 pip renko bars this is not good ? What's wrong ? The renko 1 is the 15 pips bars. There is aboput 2 bars per day. = Not correct. The renko ...

Erik Pepping

I developed a trading system that backtests super, just looks at the strategy analysis picture.
However on a trail account results were somehow different. To much though.
At what parameters do i need to look to say the back test is reliable.?

Erik Pepping

I say I must agree. Multicharts 7 is Top ! The Chart trading improved my trading with 100 % .

Erik Pepping

Have been with them for years. Never any problem. Use multicharts for charting :). Super fast execution. Never had any problem with Stop orders. Offcourse Stop LIMIT orders there is no guarantee they will executed. If you want use STOP not STOP LIMIT. For stop loss ORDERS never use STOP LIMIT, it mi...

Erik Pepping

Yes, so far this morning everything seems ok, after the recommended change. Maybe should be default for IB ?

Erik Pepping

Another update if I look at the data in quote manager (because it just happened again) , the trade fields does not have this value !

Very urgent BUG ! Super untrusted indicators because of this problem !

Erik Pepping

When i delete all data with the quote manager and reload the charts it is ok !

Erik Pepping

I updated the IB api from multicharts discretionary trader I'm getting huge shadows (extreme lows and highs) in my charts (See attachment) . These ticks have not been seen in charts from IB, so they are not correct, Live i can see them forming in one second or so, so it seems to be one tick. I'm usi...

Erik Pepping

Will this be supported in V 7?

Erik Pepping

I try to enter a limit order with my Study :
sellshort ("SEL") next bar at low - 5 limit;

however it seems to be a mrket order or send at low.?

Is this supposed to work ?

Erik Pepping

I don't get it, where do I set the data series settings. They are set to 30 minutes in the instrument.

Erik Pepping

I really like the real time stock scanner, however I have the following problem.
I have an indicator that plots LONG or SHORT text in the window. My resolution is 30 minutes. I expect the plot to work on 30 minutes time frame, but it does not match a chart of 30 minutes. Any ideas ?

Erik Pepping

Everytime I optimize i have to set the settings for my input vars. Somtimes 4 or 5, according to a certain start , end and step values. Each time I compile the study I loose my settings, and sometimes a have different set of settings that I backtest. Could we please get a Save and load setting like ...

Erik Pepping

I'm trying to set a stop loss based on some criteirum in IOG setting. However only my stop profit get set in IB. Her is part of my code, setstopposition; setprofittarget(ProfittargetInEuros); If marketposition=0 and SomCondition then begin setstoploss((LastTop + 3 - Close) * 25); SellShort ("se") th...

Erik Pepping

Today I came home while the system was on autotrading. All of a sudden the authorization had somehow failed during the day? This means all trading was stopped. Fortunately I was not in the middle of a trade. I find it unacceptable that midday checks are performed during real autotrading on IB

Erik Pepping

This mornng i tried the option, Async, assume initial market position as on chart.
However the system did not trade after that, it should have gone short according the strategy, but it did not. It works during the day.
Please help on the right settings so you can continue the next morning.

Erik Pepping

At the end of the day my Strategy is still in a trade with autotrading turned on. I shut down the computer. In the morning I start up TWS (interactive borker) and then multicharts. I again turn on automatic trading. Does the Strategy understand that i'm still in the trade? If not ->Not Good, because...

Erik Pepping

When i have intrabartrading=True on a 15 mini bar chart and I have: Variables: Trend; Trend=Xaverage(Close,3); is Trend[1] then the previous trend on the 15 minutes or is it the trend from the last 3 ticks ? I suspect it is the trend from the last 3 ticks. If so, how can i get it from the last bar i...

Erik Pepping

I have [IntraBarOrderGeneration=True] in my Stratgy. I log my trades also to a file. Although multicharts puts the Sell and ButTocover when I exit a trade at the end of the bar the condition that is met is met anyway, so many files are written, almost with evey tick. How can i test that the real SEL...

Erik Pepping

I have mutlicharts running until my computer shuts down at 2215 every day. The shutdown is done with a windows task. However every time i start up multicharts after says the database has a problem and needs to recover. Is there a possibility to shutdown Multicharts from EL code ? Why does multichart...

Erik Pepping

OK, I think Then it is probablty my coding experience. When I'm coding for a Buy stop I just code a Sell ? Is that wrong ? How Do I code a Stop Loss or Take profit correctly in Easylanguge.?

Now I have something like :
if Close < Stoploss then
begin
Sell ("StopLoss") this bar ;
end

Erik Pepping

How do I close out the current trade in Multicharts.? I don't think you guys understand my problem. The problem is that multicharts will send the upcoming trade to IB, if the arrows are visible or not. Since the next trade is a stop loss it will send a buy signal to IB. But i am flat at IB, which me...

Erik Pepping

Actually sync mode is wrong. Because the position of the chart does not concur with the position at the broker when you start. My system only trades once or twice a day. I start multicharts. My broker position is flat. Multicharts position is short, because i just start. I do not want to go short, s...

Erik Pepping

How can i start with the automatic order execution. I just have started my system, but multicharts is in the middle of a trade. I do not want to jump in, nor do I want the first Sell Stop or Stop profit to take a position in interactive brokers, which will happen. Is there a possibility to skip the ...

Erik Pepping

I think it was due to having to data feeds on the chart. One was an expired future. I removed it, now it works !

Erik Pepping

I downloaded and installed Multicharts 6 Today. However on no Signal I get Buy or sell arrow, not on my own study, nor on build in studies ? What's going on here ?

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