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- 19 Oct 2015
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Can't add a new country to QuoteManager holiday list?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1231
Re: Can't add a new country to QuoteManager holiday list?
I would like to add Taiwan to the list at the moment. However the thing is that I don't know what other countries/exchanges I may need in the future and asking MC every time to add a new country and hope it would appear in the next build seems counter productive. Is it possible to allow the user to ...
- 16 Oct 2015
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Can't add a new country to QuoteManager holiday list?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1231
Can't add a new country to QuoteManager holiday list?
Hi,
I can't find anyway to add a new country/group to the holiday list in QuoteManager. The default country/group list is in no way comprehensive and lots of countries and exchanges are missing. Is it possible to add new country/group to the holiday list? Thanks!
I can't find anyway to add a new country/group to the holiday list in QuoteManager. The default country/group list is in no way comprehensive and lots of countries and exchanges are missing. Is it possible to add new country/group to the holiday list? Thanks!
- 25 Mar 2014
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9069
Re: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
Thanks Andrew!
- 25 Mar 2014
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9069
Re: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
Andrew, how much would it cost if I would like to pay for this feature as custom development?
Thanks!
Thanks!
- 11 Feb 2014
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9069
Re: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
Hi Andrew, Is there any update with the problem described in this thread? As a reminder, the problem in this thread can be summarized as one line below: In realtime, calculations from a bar of data2 (data3...etc) should only used when the bar of data2 is closed. The above suggested work around to ch...
- 24 Oct 2013
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9069
Re: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
[: if barstatus(2) = 2 then begin if time = 1001 and close data2 > close[1] data2 then buy this bar close; end; I believe the code should be the following: var: data2price(0); data2price = close data2; if barstatus(2) <> 2 then data2price = close[1] data2; if time = 1001 and data2price > data2price...
- 23 Oct 2013
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9069
Re: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
Data1: ES 1 min Data2: S&P 15 min Code: sumHighData2 = sumHighData2 + high data2; >>What do you want to do with this code? The code is to demonstrate that checking barstatus on data2 does not work as a workaround. New code that may makes more sense: Data1: ES 1min Data2: S&P 15 min Code #1: if time...
- 22 Oct 2013
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9069
Re: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
Checking BARSTATUS is a standard practice for sync critical analysis in multi-data studies. Hi TJ thanks for the reply. The "sync problem" in Problem #2 above is *created* by MC and shouldn't have happened in the first place. For example we don't have this problem when RHM is turned on (default). T...
- 22 Oct 2013
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9069
Re: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
Problem #1 (RHM on): In realtime Line2 simply won't run. This is because with RHM turned on (by default) MC would simply stops calculating at the earliest session-end of all data series referenced (in this case data2 stops at 1500). In backtest we don't see this problem because we have tomorrow's d...
- 22 Oct 2013
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9069
Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
The following behavior has been confirmed by MC (ie. not imagined by me) but they don't view it as a bug. Thus it would only be fixed if enough people would vote for it. I believe realtime vs backtest mismatch is a serious issue (whether we call it a bug or expected behavior). Please vote for it her...
- 21 Oct 2013
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: MC stop order backtest vs realtime logic [SOLVED]
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3735
Re: MC stop order backtest vs realtime logic [SOLVED]
I read the optimize order flow section and it does take care of following issue. So, thanks to the MC team. buy ("Entry 1") next bar high stop; buy ("Entry 2") next bar high + 1 stop; buy ("Entry 3") next bar high + 2 stop; Let's leave "Allow multiple entry" option unchecked in strategy property. I...
- 14 Oct 2013
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: MC stop order backtest vs realtime logic [SOLVED]
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3735
Re: MC stop order backtest vs realtime logic [SOLVED]
Realtime order management logic is something truly fundamental and needed to be fixed. MC has now surpasses TS in features and function. However fundamental problems like this (I can find 2 fundamental problems including this one) has been stopping users to use it for actual trading. Could anyone fr...
- 14 Oct 2013
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: MC stop order backtest vs realtime logic [SOLVED]
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3735
MC stop order backtest vs realtime logic [SOLVED]
For this piece of code: buy ("Entry 1") next bar high stop; buy ("Entry 2") next bar high + 1 stop; buy ("Entry 3") next bar high + 2 stop; Let's leave "Allow multiple entry" option unchecked in strategy property. In backtesting: The strategy would have simulated filled at high ("Entry 1") but not a...
- 02 Sep 2013
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9069
Re: [Bug] Strategy won't calculate until open of next Data2 [SOLVED]
The correct implementation should be this: For indicators/studies: - The calculation should continue as long as there is a new bar created on the series that indicator/studies is based on. For strategies/signals: - The calculation should continue as long as there is a new bar created on Data1. This ...
- 02 Sep 2013
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9069
Re: [Bug] Strategy won't calculate until open of next Data2 [SOLVED]
Hi evdl, Thanks for the reply. Un-checking that option doesn't solve the fact that during real-time trading the signal will stop calculating until the next bar of Data2 appears, which is tomorrow. The correct implementation should be as long as Data1 (or the longest data series in the chart) has new...
- 02 Sep 2013
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Realtime vs backtest mismatch problem [SOLVED]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9069
Strategy won't calculate until open of next Data2 bar [SOLVED]
I've reported this problem 3 years ago and worked around it at the time. This is a very fundamental yet commonly encountered problem I cannot understand why after all these years it is still here. What it is: - The calculation of studies in MC happens at the open of "next bar" which is what it shoul...
- 27 Mar 2013
- Forum: MultiCharts .NET
- Topic: When will we see better documentation for MC.net?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5174
Re: When will we see better documentation for MC.net?
I think a documentation that helps EasyLanguage user to migrate from EL to the new programming model/platform will be of great help. For example, the whole EL programming model revolves around bars on a chart and every indicators/signal operates on a bar by bar basis. How MC.Net would change that mo...
- 20 Mar 2013
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Metastock Xenith datafeed
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3309
Metastock Xenith datafeed
Is there any plan to support Metastock Xenith data feed? How much does it cost if I want to ask MC to develop a custom datafeed to suport Metastock Xenith? Anyone interested in chipping in for the development cost? Worldwide data available for a low cost: http://www.metastock.com/products/realtime/x...
- 19 Mar 2013
- Forum: MultiCharts .NET
- Topic: Multicharts side by side with Multicharts.NET [SOLVED]
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1829
Multicharts side by side with Multicharts.NET [SOLVED]
Can I install/run Multicharts.NET side by side with Multicharts? Are there absolutely no conflict? I'm still using Multicharts 7.4 and happy with it and don't want to risk ruining my current setup by installing Multicharts.NET (just for experimenting). If there is a risk I would install it in a VM. ...
- 13 Apr 2011
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: How to get symbol name of realtime data in merged chart?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 722
How to get symbol name of realtime data in merged chart?
Hi, In merged charts only the symbol name of the historical data is shown. I'm trying to create an indicator to show the name of the realtime data because I have no way to tell if the realtime data is setup by looking at the chart alone. I found that "getSymbolName" would only return the symbol of t...
- 08 Apr 2011
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Patssystem change password?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1386
Re: Patssystem change password?
should I make a feature request in the pm page? it is a necessary function for Pats account. I have called my broker and they say for Pats api accounts the software package has to initiate the password change. They wont change the password for me for security reason. There is no other way to change ...
- 08 Apr 2011
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Patssystem change password?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1386
Re: Patssystem change password?
I'm sorry I wasn't being clear. What I was actually asking is how do I initiate a patsystem password change with MC? There is no client application involved in PATS API accounts and the only way to initiate a password change is to thru the PATS API. MC doesn't seem to have implemented the password c...
- 08 Apr 2011
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Patssystem change password?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1386
Patssystem change password?
Hi, my broker forces me to change my password every 3 months. Is there a way to change Patssystem password with MC?
Thanks!
Thanks!
- 23 Nov 2010
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Data loading speed improvement
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2818
Re: Data loading speed improvement
Thanks Dave. I look forward to a faster MC. It's good for everyone.
- 18 Nov 2010
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Data loading speed improvement
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2818
Re: Data loading speed improvement
Here's a video of my 23 second time. It's exactly 23 second I've run it several times. My configuration is Win XP Core Quad Q6600 overclocked to 3.7Ghz 2GB Ram SATA2 HDD x2 Raid0 TS version is 8.8 (Build 6124). The data file is the same file I sent you. It could be possible that TS 9.0 (the one you ...
- 16 Nov 2010
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Data loading speed improvement
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2818
Re: Data loading speed improvement
Last file.
- 16 Nov 2010
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Data loading speed improvement
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2818
Re: Data loading speed improvement
Here's the files.
- 16 Nov 2010
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Data loading speed improvement
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2818
Re: Data loading speed improvement
Hi Dave,
Here's the result for loading ASCII data (ES 1min 1997-2001)
1 min resolution:
TS - 23 seconds
MC - 3 min 6 seconds
That's 8 times slower for ASCII data. No TS data network of internet.
Attached is the file I used for testing.
Here's the result for loading ASCII data (ES 1min 1997-2001)
1 min resolution:
TS - 23 seconds
MC - 3 min 6 seconds
That's 8 times slower for ASCII data. No TS data network of internet.
Attached is the file I used for testing.
- 14 Nov 2010
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Data loading speed improvement
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2818
Data loading speed improvement
Hi, I've been an owner of multichart for a long time (5 years) and I'm still mostly using TS for my work because TS loads data a lot faster than MC. When loading from local cache data changing a chart symbol in TS rarely takes more than 5 seconds for 10 years of intraday data while MC would take 40 ...
- 29 Jun 2009
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Upgrade Fee
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5800
- 05 Jan 2009
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: multiple currency calculation in portfolio backtest
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5231
- 03 Jan 2009
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: multiple currency calculation in portfolio backtest
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5231
Glam_100, It is planned to Q1-Q2 of 2009. Can you explain how Monte Carlo analysis helps to improve trading results? I read about this technique, but I'm still not sure it is useful. Thank you. It is very important. It gives you a better idea of more realistic drawdown. Please take a look at Rina P...
- 02 Jan 2009
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: multiple currency calculation in portfolio backtest
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5231
- 10 Dec 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: multiple currency calculation in portfolio backtest
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5231
- 22 Oct 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Another minor feature request
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1400
- 22 Oct 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Another minor feature request
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1400
Another minor feature request
Hi, Minor feature request. In strategy performance view under Equity curves when you click on the equity curve it shows Trade number, equity, and net profit. Please show the date and time as well. This is an important feature as you always want to know during what period a drawdown happens. Little t...
- 22 Oct 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Minor feature request
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1256
Minor feature request
Request for the following:
1) Show strategy signal profit/unprofitable color line like the dotted line shown in TS.
2) Show strategy signal entry/exit/stop price in data window. Currently when you click on a bar it doesn't show any entry/exit price. This is important.
1) Show strategy signal profit/unprofitable color line like the dotted line shown in TS.
2) Show strategy signal entry/exit/stop price in data window. Currently when you click on a bar it doesn't show any entry/exit price. This is important.
- 22 Oct 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Minor bug
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1182
Minor bug
Can't rescale chart using short-cut (ctrl+/ctrl-) when strategy performance report is opened.
In fact I think every short cuts stop to work when strategy performance report is opened.
In fact I think every short cuts stop to work when strategy performance report is opened.
- 15 Oct 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Multiple systems in MC
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3173
I also think being able to put multiple strategies independently on the same chart is a very important feature. The current way MC works is the same as how TS works - When system A has a Long position and then system B enters a short the net result will be a short position (ie. a reverse) instead of...
- 15 Oct 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Portfolio backtester
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2455
- 14 Oct 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Portfolio backtester
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2455
- 14 Oct 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Portfolio backtester
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2455
Portfolio backtester
I read somewhere on the forum that the portfolio backtester is designed for equity back testing and doesn't satsifactorily on futures.
Is that still the case now with Beta 4?
Is that still the case now with Beta 4?
- 13 Oct 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: NEW PRICING STRUCTURE FOR MULTICHARTS?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7654
- 12 Oct 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: I HAVE TRASHED MULTICHARTS
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8663
I think the problem lies in MC's pricing scheme. Basically MC is a one time investment where a user paid once and then all the bug fix requests is done without any income. Inevitably this model promotes new features over bug fixes because new features is what draw in new customers. Bug fixes and mai...
- 20 Aug 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Max number of data source
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1908
- 20 Aug 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Max number of data source
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1908
Max number of data source
What is the max number of data source I can put on chart for analysis? Thanks
- 29 Jul 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: New build optimization much slower since 1200.4785
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2204
- 27 Jul 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: New build optimization much slower since 1200.4785
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2204
- 27 Jul 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: New build optimization much slower since 1200.4785
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2204
New build optimization much slower since 1200.4785
Hi, I've brought this issue up before referring to this post http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=5231 The latest build MC 4.0 Beta (build 1440) is even slower than 3.1 Beta. This is the test result I got for the 3 different builds: Test symbol: SPY Date: 12/31/2001 - 12/31/2003 Interval: Dail...
- 27 Jul 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Download 1200.4785
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3273
- 11 Jun 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Bug report - Compiling PL hangs up MC
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1702
- 11 Jun 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: MC 3.1 Beta optimization much slower than MC 3.0 release?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2723
Marina I am not a QA personnel and I got work to do. I've already reinstalled MC 3.1 beta twice to reproduce the problem. The problem is easy to reproduce. I suspect your staffs can't reproduce the problem because they have all the different versions of DLLs on their machine. Just find a clean machi...
- 11 Jun 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Bug report - Compiling PL hangs up MC
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1702
Bug report - Compiling PL hangs up MC
Hi, When you have a computationally intensive indicator/signal loaded on a chart and then recompile the indicator/signal code MC would hang up (keep verifying the indicator/signal forever) and the memory would never get released. The problem can be reproduced by the following code on MC version 3.0....
- 11 Jun 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: MC 3.1 Beta optimization much slower than MC 3.0 release?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2723
Hi Marina, I just re-installed the new beta for re-testing. The result was very consistent - I got 40 sec with MC 3.0 release and 1:40 with MC 3.1 beta. What I found is that when using MC 3.0 release the CPU load was close to 100% for all 4 cores while using MC 3.1 beta the CPU load was only 60%. So...
- 11 Jun 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: MC 3.1 Beta optimization much slower than MC 3.0 release?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2723
- 10 Jun 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: TL_NEW() -- Christmas Wish
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3694
- 08 Jun 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: MC 3.1 Beta optimization much slower than MC 3.0 release?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2723
MC 3.1 Beta optimization much slower than MC 3.0 release?
Hi, Somehow the optimization on MC 3.1 beta is much slower than 3.0 relase. Is this a beta thing or there is something wrong introduced to the new code? I performed the "standard" TS speed test and got the following result: Test symbol: SPY Date: 12/31/2001 - 12/31/2003 Interval: Daily Signal: Bolli...
- 06 Jun 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Drawing text object vertically?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1150
Drawing text object vertically?
Is there any way to draw a text object vertically instead of horizontally? Many thanks!
- 06 Jun 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: TL_NEW() -- Christmas Wish
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3694
- 06 Jun 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: TL_NEW() -- Christmas Wish
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3694
- 05 Jun 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Playback utility
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1211
Playback utility
Hi, I'm trying to use the playback utility posted here: http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=1699 It turns out the utility would only support tick data. I'm wondering if it is possible to have it support 1 min or other intraday data because tick data is pretty hard to come by plus most people ...
- 05 Jun 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Error message
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2874
- 04 Jun 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Error message
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2874
- 03 Jun 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Error message
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2874
- 29 May 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Error message
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2874
- 28 May 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Error message
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2874
- 27 May 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Error message
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2874
Error message
Hi,
I was running a study and I got an run-time error message saying this:
"Message: Error in Study "xxx" : {??} ?????????????"
The message is shown in a red msg box.
I don't know what the error is. Is there any way to see more in depth run-time error messages?
I was running a study and I got an run-time error message saying this:
"Message: Error in Study "xxx" : {??} ?????????????"
The message is shown in a red msg box.
I don't know what the error is. Is there any way to see more in depth run-time error messages?
- 26 May 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Study parameters set as default doesn't seem to work
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1201
Study parameters set as default doesn't seem to work
Hi,
I tried to set study parameters to default by checking the "Use as default" box under format study but it doesn't seem to change the powerlanguage parameters.
Is this a bug?
I tried to set study parameters to default by checking the "Use as default" box under format study but it doesn't seem to change the powerlanguage parameters.
Is this a bug?
- 20 May 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Aborting strategy calculation
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2882
Is there anyway to stop the printing pipe as well? TS seems to have a way to do that cos I ran the same code on both MC and TS and I can quit all calculation and printing on TS after clicking on the abort button. I can immediately go back to work on the code where as in MC I had to kill MC everytime...
- 16 May 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Aborting strategy calculation
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2882
- 15 May 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Aborting strategy calculation
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2882
- 15 May 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Aborting strategy calculation
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2882
The problem is that even when I remove the study the computer is still doing the calculation. This button is needed because there are many times during strategy development that we would have wrongly written code (let's say we get into an infinite loop) and we would want to terminate the calculation...
- 14 May 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Aborting strategy calculation
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2882
Aborting strategy calculation
Is there a way to abort a running strategy (when it takes forever) like what we can do with TS? TS has a button on the upper left corner that we can click on to abort strategy. I don't seem to find anything similar with MC.
- 30 Apr 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Is there a data playback utility with multichart?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1371
- 29 Apr 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Is there a data playback utility with multichart?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1371
Is there a data playback utility with multichart?
Is there such a utility?
- 22 Mar 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Multicharts 3.0 Beta 2 is now available (Now with Hot Fix!)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 13234
- 26 Feb 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: MC 3 - Final Release
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2181
- 02 Feb 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: PL Editor compilation error
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2516
- 01 Feb 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: PL Editor compilation error
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2516
The new beta is amazing. EL speed is much better and data loading speed has improved. My hat is off to the programming team and I know they deserve a vacation. However I've waited for a long time for this build (since Oct 07) and now that I have the build and I got this EL compilation error. The EL ...
- 31 Jan 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: PL Editor compilation error
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2516
- 30 Jan 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: PL Editor compilation error
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2516
- 30 Jan 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: PL Editor compilation error
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2516
PL Editor compilation error
I got the a "Cannot Sell from a SellShort strategy." error compiling the following code under MC 3.0 Beta: ------------------------------------------------------------------- buy ("buy LE") next bar high stop; sell short ("sell SE") next bar low stop; buy to cover from entry ("sell SE") next bar low...
- 29 Jan 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: MC 3.0 beta optimization error
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1935
- 29 Jan 2008
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: MC 3.0 beta optimization error
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1935
MC 3.0 beta optimization error
I was playing around with the new MC 3.0 Beta. First of all I think it's great the optimization is 8 times faster (4 cores) under MC 3.0 than my TS 8.2 and the data loading speed has improved. However I encountered this error when I was testing with optimization: 1) symbol: $spx.x (TS) 2) time perio...
- 24 Dec 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Why I won't change from TS 8 to MC
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7822
The problem with TS is they've become a brokerage and lost all incentive to improve their platform. If you look at TS8 and TS2000i, you really don't find much major improvements except for look-inside-bar and intrabar order generations (which are great to their credit). Users have been asking for cr...
- 14 Dec 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: ETA for MC 2.2?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2340
- 14 Dec 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Optimization report import?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1432
Optimization report import?
I see that I can export the optimization report.
However I don't find a way to import it back to MC.
I wonder if it can be done? I want to import it back so that I can do the click-and-apply parameters to strategy.
Thanks!
However I don't find a way to import it back to MC.
I wonder if it can be done? I want to import it back so that I can do the click-and-apply parameters to strategy.
Thanks!
- 14 Dec 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: ETA for MC 2.2?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2340
ETA for MC 2.2?
Is there a ETA for MC 2.2?
- 07 Dec 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Short-cut for Increase/Decrease time spacing
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1404
- 07 Dec 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Short-cut for Increase/Decrease time spacing
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1404
Short-cut for Increase/Decrease time spacing
Hi,
In TS I can quickly increase/decrease bar spacing with the Up/Down arrow key. I don't seem to find similar short-cut in MC.
Is there such short-cut available?
Thx.
In TS I can quickly increase/decrease bar spacing with the Up/Down arrow key. I don't seem to find similar short-cut in MC.
Is there such short-cut available?
Thx.
- 06 Dec 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Export data from chart
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1070
Export data from chart
There is a "Data Window" in TS that allows users to export all data from a chart. Is there a similar function in MC? I know I can export data from quotemanager but it's different from the "Data window" function in TS for which the data window allows you to export data in a WYSISYG sense with all the...
- 06 Dec 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Line to connect entry and exit signals
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1698
Line to connect entry and exit signals
Hi,
Is there a way to display lines that connect the entries and exits in a strategy? In TS we can see by default that a winning trade would show blue lines and losing trade would show red line. I can't seem to find such setting in MC.
Thanks!
Is there a way to display lines that connect the entries and exits in a strategy? In TS we can see by default that a winning trade would show blue lines and losing trade would show red line. I can't seem to find such setting in MC.
Thanks!
- 24 Nov 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Roadmap for MC
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9271
- 23 Nov 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Roadmap for MC
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9271
- 27 Oct 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Stop order signal very slow in optimization
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2947
- 11 Oct 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Stop order signal very slow in optimization
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2947
- 11 Oct 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Stop order signal very slow in optimization
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2947
- 11 Oct 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Stop order signal very slow in optimization
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2947
- 10 Oct 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Stop order signal very slow in optimization
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2947
Hi, Thank you for drawing our attention to the issue. By the way, was that you reporting the similar issue on EliteTrader as laputa? http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=102469&perpage=6&highlight=multicharts&pagenumber=13 Just wondering because the same issue has been reported ...
- 10 Oct 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Stop order signal very slow in optimization
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2947
Stop order signal very slow in optimization
Hi, I've done some test to compare the optimization speed of Multichart vs TS. I found that strategies (signals) with the keyword stop slows down Multichart drammatically. Below is a simple test strategy. I ran it on a chart using symbol SPY with 2 years daily data (10/10/2007 with 2 years back). {-...
- 08 Sep 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Multicore utilization under genetic optimization
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1222
Multicore utilization under genetic optimization
Hi, In brute force optimization, all CPU cores are being utilized at full load because each "chunk" of the optimization work is easily divisible. However, this is not the same case under GA. I found that in the later half of GA optimization under MC, the CPU utilization drops to 50% because half of ...
- 06 Sep 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Upcoming MultiCharts Beta Dramatically Outperforms TS8.3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10659
- 06 Sep 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Upcoming MultiCharts Beta Dramatically Outperforms TS8.3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10659
- 06 Sep 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Upcoming MultiCharts Beta Dramatically Outperforms TS8.3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10659
3 minutes vs. 5 seconds is indeed a dramatic difference. However, the tests we have run here show different results. According to our tests, the previous beta is about 3-4 times slower than TS, the latest beta 2.1.976.1109 is 1.5 times slower than TS. None of the tests in these two versions yielded...
- 05 Sep 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Upcoming MultiCharts Beta Dramatically Outperforms TS8.3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10659
We reproduced the situation you are describing. You are right. It does take a long time to load a chart. We are currently working on speeding up this process. It will be at least 3 times faster in the 2.2 release. I look forward for the speed upgrade. For comparison purpose, the same data that took...
- 04 Sep 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Upcoming MultiCharts Beta Dramatically Outperforms TS8.3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10659
- 04 Sep 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Upcoming MultiCharts Beta Dramatically Outperforms TS8.3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10659
- 04 Sep 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Upcoming MultiCharts Beta Dramatically Outperforms TS8.3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10659
Hello, We have been working on improving the loading time and we have aleady increased the downloading speed 2.5 times. Our goal is to make this process faster than in TS. What MC version are you using? Have you started using the latest beta 2.1.976.1109 now available on our website? Also, when you...
- 04 Sep 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Upcoming MultiCharts Beta Dramatically Outperforms TS8.3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10659
- 04 Sep 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Please show Date and time on Equity Close on Close graph
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1267
- 04 Sep 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Please show Date and time on Equity Close on Close graph
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1267
Please show Date and time on Equity Close on Close graph
Hi,
Please add the date and time information on the equity close on close graph in performance report (like TS equity close on close graph). It is an important piece of information.
Thanks!
Please add the date and time information on the equity close on close graph in performance report (like TS equity close on close graph). It is an important piece of information.
Thanks!
- 29 Aug 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: MC Portfolio Back-Testing and Optimization Feedback Request
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8317
I suggest the TSSUpport team take a look at wealth-lab as well as RINA for ideas. Wealth-lab is a great product, all they lack is performance. It is so slow that renders intraday testing completely impossible, not to mention portfolio backtesting. RINA has everything only trouble is it is not fully...
- 27 Aug 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Optimisation and Multi-Core
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10970
- 27 Aug 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: MC Portfolio Back-Testing and Optimization Feedback Request
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8317
I suggest the TSSUpport team take a look at wealth-lab as well as RINA for ideas. Wealth-lab is a great product, all they lack is performance. It is so slow that renders intraday testing completely impossible, not to mention portfolio backtesting. RINA has everything only trouble is it is not fully ...
- 25 Aug 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Optimisation and Multi-Core
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10970
- 24 Aug 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Upcoming MultiCharts Beta Dramatically Outperforms TS8.3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10659
BTW Andrew, how did you guys managed to outperform TS on a single thread basis? My understanding is that TS is highly optimized for code performance. Did you take advantage of the SSE floating point? If not would it be possible to exploit that and further leave TS in the dust? thx Actually we didn’...
- 23 Aug 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Upcoming MultiCharts Beta Dramatically Outperforms TS8.3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10659
- 23 Aug 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Upcoming MultiCharts Beta Dramatically Outperforms TS8.3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10659
- 23 Aug 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Upcoming MultiCharts Beta Dramatically Outperforms TS8.3
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10659
- 23 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Praise for MC incremental genetic algorithm
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1981
Hey am I asking for too much? It may be a lot of work but these are real issues faced by many TS users. I really wish TS support to succeed. TS has changed itself from a research tool developer into a brokerage and all they want is trading commision. They've lost all interest to improve the research...
- 23 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Praise for MC incremental genetic algorithm
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1981
Hi Andrew, I suggest the TS support team can do this: 1) Create a set of out-of-the-box fitness criteria. You already have that done and you may want to throw in a few more exotic ones derived from the standard criteria such as NetProfit/MaxIntraday DD, Expectancy, NetProfit * Winners/MaxIntraday DD...
- 21 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Where to put slippage and commission?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1423
- 21 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Where to put slippage and commission?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1423
Where to put slippage and commission?
I can't find the place to put slippage and commsion.
Could anyone please help?
Thanks!
Could anyone please help?
Thanks!
- 21 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Data loading speed much to desire
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1289
Data loading speed much to desire
The data loading speed is very slow. I loaded 7 years of 15 min bar data (composed of 1 min bars) from ASCII source and it takes about 1 min to load where in TS it is loaded within 5 seconds. This is very problematic because whenver a user changes the bar compression it will take much time to reload.
- 20 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Praise for MC incremental genetic algorithm
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1981
Praise for MC incremental genetic algorithm
The incremental genetic algorithm in MC is the best I've ever seen implemented on commercial GA products. The quality of the solution is so good that it is a truely viable alternative to brute force. The basic genetic algorithms used by other GA products are pretty much unusable in my opinion and th...
- 20 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Real life optimization speed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5885
Andrew, If possible pls consider adding an option to set the number of optimization thread the spawn in case some users would want to leave one core for other work. The computer would get very unresponsive when all cores are used. I have no problem with it personally cos I want fastest speed possibl...
- 20 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Bug report: Cannot use exhaustive opt after gentic opt
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1127
Bug report: Cannot use exhaustive opt after gentic opt
I found a bug with optmizer. Once you have done a gentic opt, you cannot run an exhaustive opt again. The optimizer will run genetic opt even when you choose exhaustive opt option. This can be seen by the incorrect number of iteration runs and also the totally dis-continuous 3D optimization chart. T...
- 20 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Suggested Feature: Out of sample data
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1274
Suggested Feature: Out of sample data
Please consider out of sample optimization run options for optimization runs ( both brute force and genetic ). Idea is to let user select the date range used as in-sample for optimization and display performance report with In-sample and out-sample side by side. This will save a lot of time for doin...
- 20 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Real life optimization speed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5885
- 19 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Real life optimization speed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5885
- 19 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Real life optimization speed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5885
Hi Andrew, Thanks for the update. You guys have a great product and I'm sure you can overcome the signal study inefficiency problem. I look forward to your optimized version with Multichart 2.2. If you can get on par or better performance than TS on a per core basis, Multichart will easily become th...
- 18 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Real life optimization speed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5885
I just downloaded the new beta. The bugs are gone but the optimization speed is still a disappointment. I ran a few benchmarks: 1) Moving Avg 2 Lines Moving Avg 2 Line Cross LE ( Fast Len 1..9; Slow Len: 1..18 ) Moving Avg 2 Line Cross LE ( Fast Len 1..9; Slow Len: 1..18 ) TS time (with 1 core): 1 m...
- 18 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: MultiCharts 2.1 Beta
- Replies: 93
- Views: 54301
- 17 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: MultiCharts 2.1 Beta
- Replies: 93
- Views: 54301
- 17 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Real life optimization speed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5885
- 17 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: MultiCharts 2.1 Beta
- Replies: 93
- Views: 54301
I have similar problem as 066 during optimization. Basically whenever a relatively large optimization (>20000 iteration) is run MC optimization went into trouble. It either stops or freezes and the next time I run optimization it simply pops up the optimization report without running a single iterat...
- 17 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Feature Suggest: Grid Optimization
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2231
- 17 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Feature Suggest: Grid Optimization
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2231
- 17 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Feature Suggest: Grid Optimization
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2231
Hi Andrew, Please consider optimization speed as a high priority. I would say optimization speed improvement is the No.1 incentive for existing TS customers to switch to MC... I myself is eagerly waiting for the next MC release that would speed me up 4X with a 4 core machine (after you fix the core ...
- 17 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Feature Suggest: Grid Optimization
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2231
Feature Suggest: Grid Optimization
Please consider adding Grid optimization feature. The idea is to install Multi Chart on a lot of machines, and have the "host" to dispatch chunks of optimization work to each "node"... This is a good way to utilize the low cost commodity multi core CPUs of today like the Core 2 Duo/Quad on commodity...
- 17 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Real life optimization speed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5885
- 16 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: High priority reserve words
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1266
High priority reserve words
These 4 reserve words are being used extensively in many existing TS strategies. Lacking these 4 important reserve words renders many (maybe 50% or more) TS strategies useless and thus making MC much less practical as a backtesting tool. If possible please treat these 4 reserve words as high priorit...
- 16 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Real life optimization speed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5885
Hi Andrew, I did further testing. Both bugs seem to relate to the same source. Everytime I run an optimization with # simulation > 20000 - 30000 runs the above two problems appear. You can 100% recreate the scenarios by running a BollingerBand LE and BollingerBand SE strategies with optimization par...
- 16 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Real life optimization speed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5885
Hi Andrew, I tried another optimization and encountered 2 bugs: The first bug I tried to run the following optimization: BollingerBand LE ( Length: 1..50; Num StdD: 1..5) BollingerBand SE( Length: 1..50; Num StdD: 1..5) Total tests: 62500 When I run this optimization MC hangs up every time when it j...
- 16 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Real life optimization speed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5885
Hi Andrew, I just downloaded the latest Beta and performed the following test: Symbol: SPY Date: 7/18/2005 - 7/17/2007 (2 years back) Strategy and Optimization parameters: MovAvg 2 Line Cross LE ( FastLength: 1..9; Slow Length: 1..18 ) MovAvg 2 Line Cross SE ( FastLength: 1..9: Slow Length: 1..18 ) ...
- 16 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Real life optimization speed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5885
- 16 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Real life optimization speed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5885
- 15 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Real life optimization speed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5885
BUG report I found that everytime I cancel an optimization, MC runs into optimization premature exit for the next run. TSsupport pls look into the problem... scenario reproduce: 1) run an exhaustive optimization and cancel it 2) run another optimization under genetic mode what to expect: In the seco...
- 15 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Real life optimization speed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5885
I played around with a few optimizations (keltner channel, bollingerband) and compared the speed between TS and MC... What I found is basically the speed of TS using 1 core is the same as MC using 2 cores... This is quite surprising because it suggest EL code compiled into C++ on MC is only half eff...
- 14 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Real life optimization speed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5885
I just downloaded MC beta and played around with it. I loaded up a few signals and optimize to test for speed. The first time the optimization went ok, but from the 2nd time on the optimizer just quit on me. It jumps out from the optimization window. First it jumps out after a few thousands iteratio...
- 14 Jul 2007
- Forum: MultiCharts
- Topic: Real life optimization speed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5885
Real life optimization speed
Hi, I'm a long time TS user and I'm thinking of migrating to MC because of the exciting multi-core optimization feature. For those who have done optimizations on MC, may I ask what's the real life optimization speed you're getting compared to TS? I'm interested in both the multi-core speed and singl...