MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

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Hi flipflopper, What name did you use to log into livechat? (I just want to identify your logs and chat transcripts). Thank you. Hi Marina, I got your private message and thank you for the response. I tried to reply to that message but haven't heard back. Have you and your team identified the missi...

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Hi denizen2, Please contact our customer support representatives at http://messenger.providesupport.com/messenger/tssupport.html The customer support hours are 6:30 am - 4:00 pm EST, Monday through Friday. Regards. I contacted tssupport this morning, after which we had a 'remote session' to my desk...

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Let me know if there are any issues. Regards. I just started having trouble this morning with my charts NOT loading. I am using the IQFeed data service (my subscription changed to "delayed", not real-time, mode a few weeks ago). I just checked with the DTN IQFeed support and we did diagnostic testi...

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Dear Rob, You're absolutely right. We do think that this functionality is necessary. Moreover, we developed it and it used to be part of MC. However, it wasn't popular with our customers so we stopped supporting it. To bring this functionality back considerable efforts will be required. We have a t...

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Marina, RE: Edit Data Start dates I have 'tested' or 'tried' using the Edit Data now several times more, with different symbols, and in each case the 'start date' that I see displayed looks reasonable, e.g., it is NOT a date in 2005. So I am confused as to why I did see it the first time I did this ...

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Thank you Marina, for the above info. I tried it, and it works :) . However, the Edit Data window does not tell you any date/time for the 'beginning' and 'end' of the data, so you must use trial and error, or have some idea of what date you are looking for before you request the 'load' of that data...

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To see if you have data for a symbol in the database (and to edit or delete this data) please do the following: 1) Go to QuoteManager 2) Right-click the symbol 3) Choose Edit Data 4) Choose the resolution and the field from drop-down lists 5) Click load. That will bring up all the data there is in ...

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Hello everybody, Thanks for drawing our attention to this reload issue. Our engineers have confirmed that this is a bug: when doing a reload the history that has been accumulated and that goes beyond the scope provided by the data source is not plotted on a chart. However, this data does not get lo...

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Ugh!!!@%$@%$@# I just lost most of that 2months of data I had been accumulating! How? I thought I would just 'temporily' change the resolution from 100-volume-bars to 200-volume-bars (by use of the symbol formating dialog window). So I got the 200-volume-bars, BUT only the last 4 or 5 days worth! AN...

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It might be of interest to know what chart-style-resolution I was using in the post above. My 2 month old chart was plotted as 100 Vol-contracts, which I admit is not exactly the same thing as 100 Tick charts, but that is what was being plotted. So I would expect that I would at least be able to cre...

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Hello, Thank you for your suggestions. What you are saying does make a lot of sense. However, at the moment we cannot make the list of bugs publicly available for the simple reason that it's in Russian. In terms of time commitment it would take us much longer trying to translate the list into Engli...

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Hi miltonc4, &others, I have already looked at ElliottWave type 'indicators', such as the one you mentioned, plus the one presented in Perry Kauffman's book/CD, the 4th edition of his "New Trading Systems and Methods". I had no problem compiling the trade-station code from his CD, but my study of th...

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It is strange that the imported data should be lost after a reload. We have developed this feature in such a way as to ensure that the data in the datebase would not be lost. When the data is requested over a large period, the data that is supplied by the provider is receivd from this provider. The...

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I have been noticing that when I have a lot of files open in the PLEditor, and then minimize the PLEditor down to the desktop-taskbar, and then re-open the PLEditor: THEN Clicking on the tab (or the title-bar) of a particular file does NOT bring that file-window forward (in front of all other window...

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Re: How full my disk? The disk is 42% full... plenty of room left :) . Re: Multiple copies of QM running and tsserver not closing quickly. Yes, I also happen to have been running two copies of the QM (I allways am doing this), so the excessive CPU problem (that was the original reason for this topic...

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Hi, Usually, fragmented disk should not influence CPU performance. It does slow down addressing the disk (just like with any other programs), but it should not affect CPU performance. Also, for how long exactly was MultiCharts working non-stop? And data for how many symbols was it collecting? Regar...

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Everyone should add to your list of possible reasons for 'excessive' hits on CPU performance this item: A fragmented disk can cause the tsserver-database-dataserver to push the CPU usage up to 50% or more, even with no charts displayed.... just collecting the 'online' symbols. [My system has 2GB Ram...

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Please Note After installation and before running Muticharts it is advisable to compile all uncompiled via PowerLanguage Editor ax You might also want to add the step to EXPORT and save (all) your script files BEFORE you start the install. Perhaps, this is not necessary now, but there was a time I ...

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Thank you for that explanation. So, in other words, the 'old' data from IB could be re-used (as history data) by changing (editing) the symbol(s) used for IB to be the appropriate symbol format for eSignal, right? For example, symbol for e-mini S&P 500 might be ESU07, and this could be changed to @E...

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No major changes in MC are required to switch from IB to eSignal. On how to do the settings for eSignal, please check with the following tutorial http://www.tssupport.com/products/multicharts/tutorials/eSignal.htm As for the changes in the database: do you need the data you have accumulated over th...

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The recemt post about changing the data-vendor from IB to eSignal brings up a question for me too. Does EACH data-vendor's data, for any given symbol, get its own unique and separate physical storage locations in 'the' database, REGARDLESS of whether TWO datavendors are used for the SAME symbol? If ...

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The PLEditor still has the 'bad habit' of not correctly aligning the left margin of all code text in this special case (that you can probably recreate yourself, by following these steps): (1) Open the PLEditor, from the Window Task Bar, NOT INSIDE the MultiCharts app. Maybe, using the inside MC's wi...

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Need to add more optimization-criteria, namely: (1) A Weighted summation of the existing criteria, e.g., NewCriteria= (W1*NetProfit + W2*PercentProfitable)/(W1+W2) (2) A Weighted TIME summation, so that possible to give more recent trades more importance in the backtesting-optimization (3) Allow for...

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I want to export some or all of the indicators on a chart to an ascii file. I have the latest beta version, but I can not find any chart exporting functionality. Am I missing something? Did we use to have a chart-data-export feature? In any case, it would be of tremendous value to me if that feature...

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Thanks for the quick reply....
Any ETA for when the next (beta) version will be available?

Will all of the supported datafeeds then have support for the Auto listing of symbols for each, or are there some that will not yet be ready for that?

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It seems that some data vendors, but not all, can support the 'Automatic' Add of new symbols. Why is this? Specifically, the DTN IQFeed data-source does not seem to provide any 'Auto' of new data symbols, while eSignal, OpenTick (and maybe others do). Is there something that I can do so that when I ...

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It is not possible to create a time&sales window in MultiCharts and unfortunately we cannot recommend you any alternatives since we don't have a profound knowledge of how it works. Unless I am missing something, a "Time&Sales" window is nothing more than Tick-Data prices being displayed as a sequen...

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I don't know if this is a known issue but I'd be grateful if this could be looked into as it can be quite disconcerting. Mark This is a 'known' issue. See recent topic: http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=3546 But, in the meantime, you might get acceptable plotting behavior for price-based i...

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I have the same question long ago, but the answer I got was something like 'no, not now'. But I am glad you are asking for this, because it would be VERY important to a lot of people. Especially anyone who needs to spread the computing-resource over several different computers. This is normally not ...

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Here is my 'solution' to creating a 'synthetic' price series that represents a price half way between the Bid and Ask ticks. The issue, as already stated, is that Bid ticks and Ask ticks do not normally occur at the same time, and therefore it is not possible to treat them as the same data series. T...

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Thank you for this information. We confirm this bug and are going to fix it. But unfortunately this fix won't be included in MultiCharts 2.1 because we have begun testing this beta-candidate version. It will be included in MultiCharts 2.2. Kate and TSSupport, Thanks for the confirming of this repor...

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Just to add my own observations on this 'bug' concerning Indicator-Scales not being correct: I have created the same two plot testing indicators. (1) called TestPlotting, and the (2) PlotPaintBarOpen2Close. The attached file shows both of these two indicators plotted in sub-chart window #2, where th...

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I recommend you to go to File->Preferences->Workspaces and uncheck "Open Workspaces on Start". It is impossible to delete them from your system because the installer will restore them anyway. My system does not have this 'problem' :o . I managed to 'delete' the demo workspace, but I don't happen to...

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Denizen, We haven't noticed such dependency between this cursor and CPU usage. Could you demonstrate increasing CPU usage when moving the cursor via HelpDesk? Kate, The delayed cursor behavior first described in this topic has not recently been observed (by me) :? . So when it does occur again, and...

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With each new version released you can find the "What's new" file where you can see the list of bugs resolved. A reminder: That list of 'resolved bugs' AFTER a new version release does not inform those who are *currently* wondering if the 'problem' they are *currently* experiencing has *already* be...

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I would like to see TD Ameritrade added as a (stock) data-vendor, along with capability to trade manually and automatically. They currently have such arrangements with other independent charting software companies, e.g., Medved's QuoteTracker. The MC software adds considerable capabilities (e.g., Ea...

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This 'bug' was resolved offline using the HelpDesk and remote connection. It turns out that the OpenTick DLL was not being registered dynamically. The 'resolution' involved a redesigned version of the 'plug-in'. My computer's firewall or router are suspect has having been 'responsible' for some kind...

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Nick Go to Quote Manager > Tools > Exchanges & ECN's Then just add it. Maybe this fixes Nick's problem, but it doesn't really relate to mine as stated in the forum-topic subject. 8) I.e., I can't find the data-vendor in the data-vendor list. The ECN and Exchanges issue comes AFTER you have a data-v...

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I normally use only forex-based charts, but today I just discovered when I add a workspace of stock-symbol charts that the cursor-tracking interactions become VERY 'clunky' or 'delayed' whenever I move the cursor (in one of the Forex-based charts). The 'global' application of this feature to ALL wor...

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:roll: Ok, this forum topic seems to be (mostly) about how MC ver 2.0 is 'slower' than previous versions, right? But has anybody made any 'objective' benchmark testing that supports that complaint? I haven't seen any yet. :wink: In my own experience with using this newer ver 2.0 I have NOT experienc...

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I am trying to connect to the "OpenTick" data servers, but the QuoteManager's Tools->DataSources Dialog does not list this data-vendor. What am I doing wrong? I viewed your Tutorial for OpenTick, so it would appear that it has already been implemented, right? I also found what looks like the datafee...

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Concerning the topic of the Cursor-Tracking-Mode :) , I too will add another suggestion (to the last one): 'The tracking' mode in most cases 'should' only have an effect on the charts in the ONE workspace that is being viewed, i.t., it is not even possible to view more than one workspace at a time, ...

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Thank you Kate for your quick reply. I understand that using your existing QA test-scripts are probably not the most appropriate or doable approach. However, maybe something more like a few 'standard' test-workspaces would suffice, i.e., no 'scripts' are needed, just some workspaces with some 'stand...

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There are statements in several topics relating to some version of "it takes too long" for ......{fill in the blanks] :wink: Everybody has probably a different idea about what is 'too long' for something to occur. So I would like to suggest that TSSupport provide some 'benchmark' or 'example' script...

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:D This forum is filled with many 'contributions' to support the development of the MC product. However, these postings do sometimes take the form of 'complaints' or 'request for help or changes'. It is a very great credit to the TSSupport company and its staff that they have chosen to make this for...

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Thank you Andrew for your long reply, and responding to most of my queries :D . You say that most users do NOT "want to receive extra information in the status line. To get the information about where quotes are taken, either form the database or form the Internet, please take a look at QuoteManager...

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Kate and TSSupport, At the beggining of this topic I noted that there seems to be three 'bugs' needing some attention. In this topic's discussion, so far, we have only focused on the first one of the three. You recently acknowledged the first mentioned 'bug' as being repeatable, and you gave it a 'l...

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Denizen2, I'd rather call this bug "leaving a workspace overnight causes data-reload" because when MultiCharts is working overnight if the next day you open FormatSymbol window and simply click Ok (without changing anything), MultiCharts will reload the data. This fix will be included in the next r...

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I would expect that just re-opening a workspace of two duplicate charts would NOT involve downloading that data (from eSignal) again, right? And IF for some reason more data (maybe recent 2 minutes of data?) is needed, then it should NOT be downloadaed TWICE, right? (3) While you are explaining wha...

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Denizen2, Thank you for this information, we really appreciate your feedback. We confirm this problem and our developers are analyzing it now. As soon as they get a solution, I'll post it here. Thank you Kate for acknowledging 'this problem'. I presume you are referring specifically to the issue of...

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Here's some follow-up info on this issue, as of Sunday morning AND the rebooting of computer overnight. The 'problem' does not seem to occur now.... it only occurs when I am trying to 'get some work done' :twisted: ? :? . Maybe it has something to do with how long the computer was running, e.g., all...

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:roll: OK, I will try to calmly express myself...... I have just changed the 'style' of a symbol's plot from one size dot to a smallest size 'dot'. Nothing else was changed, AND nothing was ever changed that might have even a remote association with the data itself. So what happens next :shock: ? We...

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Dear Denizen2, Please review this topic: http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=3283 Thank you Kate. I have 'installed' the 'hotfix' files as suggested in the above topic, and the experiment-test was repeated [i.e., changing one sub-graph from 5min to 100tick bars, described in previous post]. ...

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I don't know yet whether your issue of 'missing data', using IB data feed, is the same as I have been reporting lately in these forums [under topic "Data Management BUG? More Evidence"], but theres does seem to be some resemblence. In my case (using eSignal and Forex data), I have a consistent probl...

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Dear denizen, We are analyzing your issues. You will receive a detailed answer soon. Thank you Andrew. Perhaps you have enough data already to look at, but here is something more I discovered this morning. If you look at the attached images, the first one has two 5min dataseries. The top one is the...

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Here's some more evidence of some kind of data managment 'bug': [This is different than the one presented in my previous post above] The attached screen shot (of two monitors) shows missing six hours of 5-min bars beginning around midnight 2/26/2007, for EUR A0-FX symbol (eSignal,... see left panel,...

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Almost three days have passed since I posted the above message, yet there does not seem to be any 'response' :roll: . I know it is a very long message to read, but it reports my own investigation that seems to confirm there is a 'bug' that is very important to 'fix'. Specifically, how the MC softwar...

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There is one major frustrating 'issue' that never seems to go completely away, even with the newest beta 2.0.777.777. I have been a beta tester since before version 1.0. Even though there have been VERY many 'bug' issues resolved, I have not *yet* been able to escape seeing some kind of problem with...

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Here ya go.........enjoy !! Your file compiles ok, and very quickly, but it is not the same file that I posted :o . BTW, your xml file had several functions and indicators that were not related to the one in question. I imported everything in your file, without thinking :cry: . The result of my imp...

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The version I posted compiles in less than a minute Yes I am using the latest Beta I Launch PL Editor from a shortcut placed on my desktop during istallation and have never had a problem I can post a xml file of XCap_PolyCycle and PolyPredict if you wish Good Luck ax Thanx 'ax' for the feedback.......

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The Feb 2 beta of PL-Editor has a problem re-opening any files left open before the Editor program is exited (under some conditions). Specifically, the re-opened files are shown with the left-margin of code displaced so that you can not see it. This seems to occur however only if the MultiCharts pro...

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I have no problem with this one Thanks "ax", Are you saying you can compile this file in something less than 1hour? And you are using MC version 2.0.763.930? Do you have any problem with lauching the PL Editor from the Start-Menu->PLEditor, and/or the Window XP QuickStart toolbar? In my case the on...

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After updating my (beta) version of MC I have not been able to (re-)compile some files, e.g., XCAP_POLYFIT.ELD. [attached]. This file, or a couple of related ones, has been mentioned as taking a VERY long time to compile. The reason appears to be that maybe several hundreds of constant-parameters ha...

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In case anyone cares, the last post labeled as from 'guest' is actually 'denizen2'. It seems that the forum software often 'timeouts' after I have been logged in, and then I don't realize it until I 'submit' the post. It would be nice if the timeout period was set longer, but there are more importan...

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In case you set explicitly style properties in the indicator code then these style properties will always have a priority over style settings in "Format Study" window. Andrew, ... I have not set explicitly any style properties in any indicator code, as you might be suggesting in your post. This is ...

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I can no longer change the line-width property of an indicator's plotted line (i.e., Plot1). In other words, if Format Study-> Style box, then try to change the 'Weight' of the top-listed Plot, then the drop-down list that is supposed to show the different weights available does NOT drop down. This ...

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One of the problems that users have with installing a new version is the "Install Wizard" is really a 'wizard' :wink: . In fact, it is more like .... well let's just say it is confusing to use :roll: . E.g. If the wizard is about 'installing', then why does it not lead you through the whole installi...

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The code being discussed here was imported and compiled, using MC/PLEditor, in about 5 minutes or less. But I did have to exit all other applications to see any progress.... more specifically, I had to exit MC charting.

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Our developers failed to reproduce the situation without a sample code. Moreover, we have never noticed such a strange behavior of the indicators after changing their parameters. I understand that this is not likely to be a 'typical' occurence, and furthermore, the developers might have not changed...

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I'm reading the messages in this forum topic with interest too. It was suggested in one message or two that since two applications sharing the same data vendor [esignal] would imply that BOTH applications are receiving the SAME data at the SAME time. Though this sounds reasonable, it might not reall...

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I just discovered that the compiler can be 'confused' when an existing (and working) indicator is edited & compiled with a the input-list re-organized. Specifically, I added a new named-parameter, eliminated a couple, and re-arranged most of them. The resulting file compiled ok with no errors report...

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I just tried to use the 'Off-Line' Mode, for a 2nd copy of MC running on another computer, while also continuing to run the 1st copy in Real-Time mode. The eSignal DataManager on the 1st computer was 'disconnected' when the 2nd computer version of MC was started (in the Offline mode). That should no...

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A feature I would find useful, and 'am not sure exists or has been requested yet, would be the ability to export data from charts (including all indicators) to csv format so that more analysis could be done in spreadsheets etc. Great application which just seems to improve on each release. Kind reg...

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The desired 'feature' being discussed in this topic is something that I have also identified as being VERY desirable. Namely, the ability to create a 'synthetic symbol' (and data-stream) that can be accessed and used just the same as Data#1 and Data#2, etc., are currently used. The obvious objective...

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I too wish you the best, and thank you very much for a job very well done. I appreciated very much your careful and thoughful response to every inquiry, including my own. Working on the 'front-lines' of the customer-service desk requires great skill, and a lot of patience, all of which you indeed de...

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Dear templ, Currently MultiCharts supports global linking mode only. It means linking works through all the charts, workspaces and even MultiCharts instances running at the PC. You can operate 14 independent link chains for symbol names and another 14 for symbol resolutions simultaneously. Frankly,...

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Do I mean some related here? http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=2671 No, that is a different topic :) [re: Resolution Linking]. The topic of my comments is about adding to plot-'status' description the resolution of the data series that any indicator-study is associated with, at any given t...

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The data-resolution of a plotted price series can be included in the plot-status-line in the 'Sub-Chart' #1. However, there is no way (now) to look at the study-indicator sub-charts and 'see' which (of possibly several) data-series-resolution is being used for that indicator-study. This becomes a 'p...

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Alex, You did agree that the data-hint-display should/could include color-coding to correspond with study-indicator color. so, I don't understand why you just dismissed the 2nd related idea of also suppressing the 'junk' and 'clutter' contributed by CONSTANTs levels being in the data-hint-display. :...

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Hi Alex, Here's one more suggestion to add while the developers are 'thinking' about color coding the data-hints to match the colors used on the plot. Namely, drop the data-hint-reporting of the CONSTANTs, e.g., plot3(0,"0"), plot4(1,"1"), and plot5(-1,"-1"), etc. It is really silly to clutter up th...

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Dear denizen2 - We recognize there's an issue with displaying long decimalthe l values in this field - the field shows the last 13 digits of the value, not the first. In the .6666666.... example if you clicked in the field and scrolled to the left, the first value will still be 1.6 So can I assume ...

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So the hint works - or does it not? Dear denizen2, we need to take a look at this directly. Alex, doesn't my post make it clear enough :P . It does NOT work properly, or at least not as 'expected'. After much testing we both have confirmed so far that the hint function is 'sensitive' to the *exact*...

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Maybe the problem has been fixed already in the new internal version I'm testing, or something - I can't seem to reproduce it with a couple years of 5-minute, 10-minute bars. Both using IB and eSignal data, when I change the color or line thickness, there is no reloading. Moreover, the new style is...

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Dear denizen2 - We appreciate your willingness to explore, but what you describe here looks like a case of "user puts file in random place, product doesn't find it". I'm afraid our product - or any other for that matter - cannot be made proof against this. Out concept of handling templates presumes...

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I just 'saved' a study-template, but then this template was NOT listed when later I tried to re-apply it to another chart. :? . What went wrong here? After more checking around, I see that all templates are saved in the "Application Data" folder, in a Documents and Settings directory, etc. But the d...

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RE: The Bar-Spacing Setting field in Format Window->X-time Scale The readout in this field-window is many time filled with what looks like 'junk'. Upon further investigation, I see the problem is really that there is no format control being applied. For example, if the bar-spacing turns out to be a ...

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Three Problems/Questions: (1) My change of just the COLOR style of a dataseries seems to be enough to trigger the reloading of a whole year's worth of 2min-data. A rather silly reason to reload ANY data, I would say, wouldn't you? :roll: (2) Since the computer has been on constantly for days, and th...

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When used on a sub-graph, and contrary to my previous post, the 'Data Hints' function is NOT presenting any data except the date and time, most of the time. :( It is also 'adding' an 'extra' item called "Price" that is not even one of the indicator 'item' for the subgraph :? . I can adjust the dista...

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Dear denizen2 - Still I'm afraid data downloading is not as predictable as we'd like it to be. Example 1 - I have requested ticks for 1 hour back. How does one know the exact number of ticks in a hour before that hour of data downloads and ticks can be counted? Example 2 - I have downloaded 90% of ...

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As to the progress indicator in the status line - we have no power over the data source. Such an indicator, showing percents or a color bar, could work if data downloading was always a stable process, at least as predictable as say downloading a file over a HTTP connection. In reality, if data is d...

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Thanks, we're considering this - and maybe even making asynchronous, "chart-as-loaded" plotting an option. Thanks, Alex, that sounds great :!: I just had another 'thought' about something else that will come up when cnsidering design and implementation of 'chart-as-loaded' feature-option: What shou...

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The data-hint readout would be so much more simple if it was just color-coded the same as the plot. :idea: Now, I have to remember, or recognize, which data-label is associated with the data-indicator that I am trying to get a 'data-hint' readout. Using the color-association cues would be so much ea...

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We've analyzed how this is handled in Metastock, its's fine and flexible, and the question is - would you like a case of inserting another symbol with a drastically different scale to be handled by scaling its chart to fit the available height? With a second scale added perhaps, so it's possible to...

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Dear denizen2 - Things that seem convenient turn can out extremely difficult to implement. We tried once, and analyzing empty bars turned out to be a problem that would take too much effort to solve. Really, if you're using the computer for charting and do not shut it down during trading hours, hol...

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Hi denizin2, You could install ELCollections + ADE to achive what you desire. Using ADE you can basically reference any bar from any timeframe that you have pre-recorded in advance, so for all purposes, you could reference a year in advance assuming the ADE data exists for this bar. Yes, or maybe, ...

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Dear templ - We're sure that our handling of IB data is the best available anywhere outside IB itself. There is no fault of ours if IB has issues in its data stream - if this happens, do not use the "I want to download missing data" in the Preferences->Data server mode, and the chart will be plotte...

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In the Format Study dialog ->the General tab->"Style" section: Add a field f for "Last Price Marker", and a check box in that field. The idea is to give the user ability to select only a subset (maybe only one) of the Plotted lines, instead of requiring ALL, or NONE, of the lines to be shown on the ...

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I think something might be needing adjustment on the forum settings. I get timeout or logged off after only a few seconds of typing. Especially when logged in via a laptop and wireless connection.

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This can be easily alleviated bu expanding the chart horizontally - click the Increase bar spacing button a few times and both lines will be ok. You might need to use a study that will be based not on each bar but on every tenth or so - this can be done with EasyLanguage. Alex, your suggested 'solu...

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is it possible to pass variables between studies? say I have a MA number from a study on a 30min chart, can it be read by a study on a 15 min chart in the same chart window? The short answer: Yes, with some help from an "EasyLanguage Extension", the name of which escapes me at the moment :roll: . I...

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Just discovered something relating to why/when the dashed-line style is not (consistently) displayed as dashed. Same story for dotted lines. To recreate the 'bug': Create a chart with two different time-periods for the price series, say 10min and 1HR, and then create a sub-graph indicator based on t...

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We'll create such a section in a couple days and keep updating it with all new released versions, hope this will sort out the problem Alex, thank you for the good news. :D If possible, it would be very useful to all of beta testers if that 'Beta Page' included some kind of list of bugs and/or 'issu...

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The add-ons are in a separate tab in the Insert Study dialog, the list of PLEditor contains all studies together. Ok, I see now :) . Perhaps the PLEditor list of studies could also be 'segregated'? Just add another check-box to the existing ones where we can choose to list for the categories of Ind...

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We have a FAQ for questions relataed to use of the Forums. I suggest that another separate FAQ be added for questions related to Beta-testing, as well as other MC-software upgrading, backup, and maintenance issues. You guys probably get tired of answering the same questions, right? Then please make ...

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Are there any plans to provide a 'Download' web-page where we can always and easily identify the most recent version of the 'beta'? I know that this information can be found somewhere in the Forum. There has already been many user-feedback comments in this Forum about this issue, i.e., the need for ...

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Here is more specific info about when the double-click is required: When any indicator parameter value is changed, say by entering a new value, then if I click the OK button, nothing happens until I click it a 2nd time. This may not look and feel convenient, but this is the proper behavior of focus...

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The add-ons are located on a separate tab to keep the list of indicators compact for ease of use. Maybe my version (1.90.644.1126) does not have that feature? I do not see any separation of add-ons, and there is no 'tabs' in the PLEditor window when I click on "Open...". Am I missing something? Or ...

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Thanks for the feedback. I just re-checked .... and now it is working properly on my system too. :oops: . Maybe I did not notice that it was required for the mouse pointer to be exactly on a data-bar. Since the data bars were not being plotted in a subgraph that uses 'lines connecting' the bars ther...

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I notice that the Data-Hint display indicator only seems to work on certain sub-graphs, and not others. E.g., I have a price-plot with indicators, and 3 sub-graph plot windows. The data-hint works on the price-data plot, but NOT on the first sub-graph, nor on the last sub-graph. The only sub-graph o...

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It is nice to know that there are add-in modules available for MC, but I prefer if they were not automatically downloaded. If a user just wants to compile the 'standard' studies and his own code, the 'extra' functions and indicators are loaded and compiled too. This makes my 'list' of 'available' st...

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This will be done, a list of links to various versiosn will be published. I can not (yet) find the 'published' links to the current 'beta' :? . Please, make it simple to find and download the current beta, AND separately a link to the current most stable (previous) version. Maybe this has already b...

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Multiple-DataSeries Case Issues? The proper scaling attributes in cases of mulitple price-data series on same plot-chart should always be the same, if they all share the same price-scale (on the right, and/or left sides), i.e., the scaling parameters for Data1, Data2, etc. for 10Min, 1HR, and 4Hr pl...

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It would be VERY useful to be able to reference price bars in the 'future', for historical testing purposes, e.g., as price[-N]. Or perhaps it would be easier to implement without changing the compiler by just adding a 'special' function for advanced bars for only the prices, Open, High, Low, Close,...

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could you please send a minimal test script where this can be reproduced? :oops: I can't seem to duplicate that 'problem' :o anymore.... I withdraw my 'bug' report.... must have made a mistake in my previous code that I was too quick to attribute as a possible compiler bug. I will be more careful n...

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Dear denizen2 - Clicking the OK button once should also work just fine, as it did for me when making those screenshots for instance. Here is more specific info about when the double-click is required: When any indicator parameter value is changed , say by entering a new value, then if I click the O...

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Dear denizen2 - As concerns the linear/semi-log scales, this works fine, I'm attaching a couple screenshots showing what selecting a scale does to an indicator. Ok, My 'problem' was related to a sub-chart with indicator having both negative and positive values, I now realize that log scales can not...

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Why is the QuoteManager (when launched) placed inside a specific Workspace window? Shouldn't the QuoteManager be treated the same as the PLEditor when lauched? I would like to be able to launch the QuoteManager and then minimize it to the desktop-TaskBar on the bottom of the screen (just the same as...

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I can't not seem to get the all of the dashed line styles to show as separate dashes. The style that works uses small short dashes, e.g., "- - - - - -", but e.g., the styles with mixture of long and short dashes looks more line the continuous line, with no spaces at all. Also, the line thickness dis...

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I have problem using a value[offset] in an expression such as: Momentum = (Value1-Value1[offset])*scaleFactor; The above expression compiles OK, but the results are incorrect, while if I just change to using two separate expressions: Momentum = Value1-Value1[offset]; Mom = Momentum*ScaleFactor; Then...

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First of all, what was the version of MultiCharts where this happened? We need more information to try reproducing and resolving this problem. My version is latest, I believe: 1.90.644.1126 Beta Thanks, I found the template files and copied them back to the C:\Program Files\TS Support\MultiCharts f...

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HELP Recover from MC hangup-lockup; forced power-off only way to re-start; then various attempts to get everything working again, but gave up and did the MC "Repair" re-install thing. I saw message during 'repair' that the user-files were being saved, BUT where are they?!! I now have no template ".t...

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I have previously commented (privately) to TS SUPPORT about how frustating it is to use the cursor-crosshair tracking modes. I will repeat here my complaint and suggestion for improvement: Once you click the toolbar choice for vertical cursor line and/or tracking mode, the vertical line is moving AL...

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MC's unique capability to chart multiple data series and multiple-symbols, all with different compression or time-scale was very interesting for me today. Check out the attached (large) jpg file, and you will see Liquidity and Spreads for TDFX, FXCM, and COES data feeds, plus eSignal's composite of ...

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:D Thanks Alex.... Your 'tip' about the ActiveX being related to Quote.com was puzzling because I do not use Quote.com data, but I discovered that there was an ActiveX with name of 'CONTINUUM' that was 'registered', so I unregistered it. That solved the MC install hangup problem, and now I am runnin...

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:( Can't complete install of Oct beta. Get error message: "Could not open key UNKNOWN/CONTINUUMX.TRecordSetCtrl.1", "verify ...access to key'', "contact technical service". :? So any clue? I previously un-installed the non-beta version 1.90.428.735, so I thought there should be no hiccups when insta...

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