MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

widgetman

I would really like to see the opentick 0 tick issue to be fixed in this beta release. This issue has been around since April or so. Good job on the speed improvement. I know writing this code has to be a challenge.

Thanks

widgetman

never mind
I figured my mistake out

should be
stringvalue = "text" + numtostr(value1,5);

widgetman

Hi,
COuld someone post me a example of how to add a string with a variable value using the numtostr function.
I have tried what is shown below with no luck;
Thanks a bunch

StringValue =( "This is text"+numtostr(value1),4);

widgetman

Hi,
I found this DLL for IB which allows sending RT to IB.
In theory I should be able to send a order from a Indicator and not have to wait for a bar to close in a signal.

http://www.trade-commander.org/twslink/twslink.htm

widgetman

Hi, Is anyone else experiencing issues with getting the AutoTrader to fire orders to IB ? I have the option enabled, and my code triggers a print statement showing the condition is met, yet I see no order going to IB. Any ideas or help would be appreciated. Thanks Here is a buy code example if absva...

widgetman

Hi,
Does anyone have a good example of how to call a external DLL from the script language and pass data back and forth ?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

widgetman

I personally won't use the auto trading interface until it can generate a order on intrabar prices. I think they were planning to support that, but at this point it may be easier to use a API to IB and call it from easy language. Has anyone else tried to use a API to IB ?

widgetman

Thanks Marina,
I did not see this reply. At least now someone else finally sees the issue. I have been trying to get this resolved since May.

widgetman

Hi, I am still trying to see if MC development team can add a check box in the quote manager to filter out bad tick data from Opentick. I had to Andrew and never heard anything back so I decided to show what is happening here in case he did not see it. Here is a clip from the file showing what I mea...

widgetman

Hi, I wanted to let everyone know that the Opentick datafeed tends to be severly delayed when markets get busy or fast. I spoke with them about it and was informed they are bringing new servers online to correct this issue, but it may take several months. Until then I guess I am stuck with either us...

widgetman

Hi Andrew, I was wondering if you received my data file I sent you showing the 0 price data from Opentick on random tick prints. It has been a annoying issue for a while and I would like to see it get fixed. Is it possible to add a check box option that throws out any tick data which contains 0 for ...

widgetman

Sorry it did not attach my zip file for some reason. I will email it to you Andrew

widgetman

Hi Andrew, My workspaces contain custom stuff I can not release. I did however extract a ASCII file containing the tick data from Opentick from 6/25 to 7/31 Inside this file if you search for 0.00000,0 you will see 62 instances of the case I am talking about. If you load the /YMU7 symbol from Openti...

widgetman

Thanks Andrew for the help and response. ANy chance I can get you to filter out 0 price data from opentick feed as well when the market closes ? Every day there is a spike to 0 for the low which messes up the database. If I edit the data amd mark all of them for deletion the next time I open MC and ...

widgetman

Hi Andrew,
Thanks for taking a look at this issue. is there no way to fix it with a simpler patch ?
I hate to wait months for this feature to come back since anyone who uses tick charts knows the importance of knowing exactly when a bar is going to close.
Thanks

widgetman

Hi, I solved the issue by subscribing to the opentick datafeed. I came to the conclusion after watching tick charts from IB and Opentick at the same time that IB is masking a lot of raw data probably due to not building data from ticks but from second data. I found that my custom triggers worked sig...

widgetman

Hi, I decided to be brave and try the latest beta version of MC. After loading it and re-compiling my indicators I noticed that now even if I select Ticks Count instead of volume for the symbol I am using The script for counting ticks below always gives me volume count. It use to work in the previou...

widgetman

Hi, I was wondering when MC was going to get around to fixing the 0 data price Opentick produces at the close every day. This has been a issue for quite some time and still exist in the latest released version. I am afraid to test the Beta right now so I can't tell if it is still a problem there. In...

widgetman

Hi Stanley, I think I understand what you mean now. I still have a couple confusing issues maybe you can help with. If Sell Short is a short position entry, and Sell is a long cover, then why won't the script language accept a Buy Long for a new order. It seems I can only issue a Buy command for a c...

widgetman

Hi Kate,
I am now able to get a marketposition status to read 0,1,-1
I am not however able to get a correct status position back from IB after orders start firing. Does marketposition read the order status of IB back ?

Thanks

widgetman

Hi Kate,
Thanks for gettin back to me. I am using 2.0.777.777 and in your screen shot I noticed you are using Buy Long and Sell Short commands.
I simply used Buy and Sell so that may be why I could not get marketposition to work correctly. I will try it and see.

widgetman

Does it normally take days to get some simple questions answered ?

widgetman

Hi, Listed below is a simple If loop that tries to determine if we are in a current position. If we are then it covers the position and flips the other way. For some reason the marketposition variable never comes back -1 for a short position. I noticed in the search forums that was acknowledged and ...

widgetman

Hi,
I also noticed playing with a custom strategy that using the Marketposition command after I enter a order short does not return -1 as expected. What are the three variables I should see with using MP ?

-Thanks
0 no position
1 long position
short position ???

widgetman

Hi, Could someone please show me a code example using the auto trader to IB and explain how to tag stops as well when a order goes in. So far all I have been able to get it to do is send orders at the Market price. I would like to be able to send stops as well and also determine if I am in a positio...

widgetman

Hi, I recently signed up for a opentick feed to evaluate their service. I was very pleased with the data coming in , and overall performance until the markets closed. It seems that their data provider sends out some rogue spikes in the ER2H7 data that is the OHLC as a single tick. This causes MC to ...

widgetman

Hi, Opentick did finally get back to me and I was told to have EMINI RT Data and Globex Data it would be ~ 35/month. That is very reasonable. I am however concerned about getting reliable tick data. Attached is a chart of the ER2 showing what came in to MC as history for a 89 tick chart. The Minute ...

widgetman

Hi, I also noticed that I can load symbols from Opentick feed, but no realtime data loads after the history data comes in. Do they require a subscription for real time data ? It claims tick data is free on their page. Any help would be appreciated. The symbols I tried are listed below. /6EH7 Loaded ...

widgetman

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone is using opentick as a data feed, and if so how reliable it was. I know they had issues in the past. any input would be appreciated.
-Thanks

widgetman

Hi Kate, I was wondering how hard it would be to allow a order to be generated based on a tick resolution. I realize other computations may be tough on intrabar data, but looking at a tick count number and sending an order based on that tick count of the bar doesn't seem to difficult to me. The tick...

widgetman

Do you know if they offer tick data Josh ?
For 25/month it would indeed be a good feed source if MC can support it. IB is a good free feed, but their candle building on tick charts looks nothing like esig charts. I would like to see how OpenECry does

widgetman

Hi, I downloaded OpenCry's demo package and was impressed on how fast data downloaded. It also seemed to be a lot closer to datafeeds such as esig or TS. I think it would be a good feed for MC if you could implement it somehow. IB tends to have holes in data. I did not however see any tick data from...

widgetman

What will be new in 2.1 beta ?

widgetman

Hi, No I was able to send orders to NT any time I wanted. I created a indicator that sent orders based on a certain setup I was developing. The issue I found was NT allowed the easy language interface to send multiple orders before NT would respond. To correct this I only sent orders if tick = 0 and...

widgetman

Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the explaination. You and your team did a good job writing MC, and have a great product. Finally after years of searching we have some useable to trade fast markets. Keep up the great work.
-Thanks

widgetman

Hi,
Could someone explain to me how to use the 3D chart optimizations feature ? I guess I don't understand what it is, and when I tried to load a sample chart I can't find one. Any help would be appreciated.
-Thanks

widgetman

Hi, I figured out with a lot of effort that you can only fire orders off to NT when tick = 0. Otherwise you will get many orders sent out randomly depending on how long it takes NT to process the first order. This allows a whole candle resolution for the current order to be processed by NT. Listed b...

widgetman

Hi,
I wanted to see if there is any way MC can support orders being sent from a indicator type system instead of a strategy. I need to fire orders off a tick resolution using a BUYLimit or SellLimit type command. Please let me know if there is any to support this.
-Thanks

widgetman

I just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work in this latest beta. Loading data from IB is much faster and greatly appreciated. I look forward to the enhancements MC makes in the future.

widgetman

Hi, I recently noticed IB has implemented a limit of request you can make before it locks MC out for 3-5 mins. It then allows another group of request to come in. This is ok if you are simply downloading O/N data, but if you missed a couple weeks from a Holiday it seems to be a long time backfilling...

widgetman

Hi,
I can't seem to get the PL Editor to accept RECIPROCAL as a valid command. Is there a way around this ?
Obviously I can do a 1/X but was hoping there was a way to support this command since it is valid in Easy language.
-Thanks

widgetman

I wanted to let the development team know that if you have a variable as a input which is a negative number the strategy optimizer will not let you change it. I have a indicator which uses a top line range or say 55 and a btm line of -55. When I try to adjust the test for say 45-55 and -45 to -55 it...

widgetman

Hi Nick, I loaded it last nite and noticed a significent improvement on loading history data from IB. That alone was well worth the effort for me. I played with the back testing strategy a bit and did not notice any issues. Overall I think this beta version was well planned and stable. Time will tel...

widgetman

Thanks Stanley,
As usual you come thru for your customers

widgetman

I wanted to see if MC ever plans to add in P&F style charts. They are great for filtering out the noise and do a good job showing price action. I would like to suggest it be added to the wish list for XMAS

widgetman

Hi,
I was still waiting and wondering when the new beta was coming out, and if it will support signal triggers to IB yet ?

widgetman

Hi Kate, That sounds like a good plan. I would like to sugguest that MC try to stabilize the program a bit. I have noticed lately that MC will crash if I use my Windows XP box and compile a indicator while a chart is open and the indicator is being used. I have also sent in a ton of error logs from ...

widgetman

Hi Alex, Posted is the log for trying to get data from Opentick. I deleted port 10010 and added 10015. It did not seem to matter. This is so frustrating trying to get all of this to work together :) [11/29/2006 19:36:22] Establishing connection to opentick: Datafeed Version= 1.0.96.96, FileName= C:\...

widgetman

Hi, Is MC still working with Opentick as a alternate datafeed to IB. I have tried for days now to get Opentick to load a chart. I get connected ok messages and can even get it to show me a symbol list once in a while, but I have never seen a chart load. Do you have to pay for a feed first ? It state...

widgetman

Hi Alex, I am not where I can do that during the day right now. I will try to arrange it next week for you to demonstrate how fast NT loads a chart from IB vs MC. There is a noticable difference which I think would inprove MC if you could figure out why. As far as NT working with MC yes it does link...

widgetman

Hi Alex,
Thanks for looking at the script I posted. This script works fine in TS8 so I assumed it would work in MC. I will take a look at it and see if I can figure out why MC is not happy.

widgetman

Hi Alex, Thanks for the update and let me know if you need a beta tester. I am currently developing a custom system using MC interfaced to NT Trader. The interface works but there are issues that are not acceptable. I also have been noticing that with the latest TWS release of 864 data coming in fro...

widgetman

I was wondering if any progress had been made or attempted to allow trade automation off signals within Multicharts. please let me know if there is a way to fire orders off signals within the script language.
-Thanks

widgetman

Hi Alex,
What should the current version be for the IB DLL. I show mine is 1.0.92.92
Thanks

widgetman

Hi, I am trying to get the Playback feature working so I can debug some custom indicator stuff. I was able to install and test a Universal DDE link using the test btn in quote manager. It plays my EURO data just fine. On the symbol I created I used the same symbol as IB which is 6EZ6. When I open a ...

widgetman

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had been experiencing issues with displaying text on the right side of the charts. Listed below is a simple tick counter routine I found somewhere. It works just fine in TS8 but in MC it seems to randomly display and not display the tick count. I have also experienced o...

widgetman

Hi Alex,
Thanks for the quick response. Any idea why it takes so long to load data from IB using Multicharts ? I can load 10 days of tick data with NT on their chart which uses IB as a feed in about 30 seconds. Is it a DLL Interface issue to IB ?

widgetman

Hi,
I was wondering what the latest is on using Opentick as a feed for MC. I currently use IB, but loading charts seems to be intermittent with IB as a feed and extremely slooowwwwww. Any suggestion as alternatives would be appreciated.
-Thanks

widgetman

Hi The latest beta released seems to be much better than anything between 08/10/06 and now. Thanks for all the continued support and hard work from the development team. I would like to get a update if I can on when some work will be but into the trade manager, and also automated trading. I would al...

widgetman

hi thanks for the advice. do you know where one can download that build?

thanks

wayne

Hi Wayne
If you email me at widgetman@earthlink.net I will send you the beta version from 8/11 if that is ok with MC Support. It is too big to post

widgetman

Hi, I suggest rolling back to the 8/11/06 Build. I have been testing a lot of different combinations with MC lately and found that the 8/110/6 build is by far the most stable. It even runs on my new Dual Core AMD 4200+ machine with no issues. Until the next stable beta comes out that is what I am st...

widgetman

Hi,
I was wondering when the new Beta is going to be released. I still had issues with the 8/22 version not updating indicators when the update every tick option is selected.

Thanks

widgetman

Hi Alex, I will do that when I get a chance. It seems to mostly be noticeable Sunday nites to Monday AM. Not sure why. I may roll back to 8/11 version for more stability and speed. That version seems nuch faster loading data from IB. Is a new beta due out soon, and if so will it support the latest A...

widgetman

Hi, I am trying to understand which database mode uses the data from the local machine then gets missing data from the IB server. OnDemand mode seems to load all data from IB. Online seems to get the data stored in the database, but then goes to RT and does not fill the gap between that last time I ...

widgetman

Well I feel stupid. Thanks for pointing out my innogrance Fanus. I apologize for accusing MC of being wrong. Attached is a 5m euro chart from MC and yes indeed it does match. that would explain why my indicators were off. Like I said before MC is a awsome program and I will continue to do what I can...

widgetman

Here is the 2nd chart

widgetman

Hi Stanley/Alex Attached is a 5m shot of the Euro with data from IB. I have a friend who uses IB as a feed to his TS8 system somehow. When I compare the same charts over the same time period you will notice that the candle bars are totally different. We also compared a 5m chart using Esignal as a fe...

widgetman

Hi Joshua Thanks for the update. I have been trying for days to get data to come in from Opentick to Multicharts. I can login just fine but no data seems to come through. I was hoping Opentick would be a reliable source for data intraday since IB seems to be missing data on tick charts which can res...

widgetman

Hi I am still trying to get the Opentick datafeed working. I can get a successful login message in the quote manager, but when I request the symbol EUR on exchange HT I get a connection inactive message. Has anyone else seen this ? Does a special port have to be opened up on my Router for this to wo...

widgetman

Hi,
I created a new exchange called Opentick and abbreviated it HT for the globex. I then tried to add a symbol. I see that I am logged into Opentick ok, but no data comes through. What is the trick to using this feed ?

widgetman

Hi, The following lines of code taken from TS8 seem to crash the current beta version editor which was released on Aug 11th. I thought someone would like to address this and see if it can be resolved. -Thanks buy ("OrderName")this bar at CurrentAsk ; This also crashes it buy ("OrderName")this bar at...

widgetman

Hi,
I forgot to mention that I also tried to use the Market command from EL in TS8. It too gives a compile error. Listed below is the sample code from TS8 when you build a new strategy. This works in TS8, but does not in the PL editor.
-Thanks

Buy ( "Entry Name" ) next bar at market ;

widgetman

Hi, I am trying to get the question answered I asked earlier in the week about using the InsideBid or InsideAsk command in EL. In the PL Editor version 1.0 I was able to use this method, and my scripts would compile and work just fine. This new beta however seems to give me a compile error now. Is t...

widgetman

Hi, I have been using the latest beta version, and ran into a weird issue upon loading my charts today. When I opened my workspaces I noticed on my charts that all of my Indicators and Signals were gone. I opened the editor and saw that I could only open functions. The Indicator and Signal check box...

widgetman

Hi, I was able to get a trade manager to connect to a live IB account. I tried to enter a limit buy order and could not get the order to appear in IB. Is there a trick to this ? I also was wondering it the logic is in the MC platform yet to actually send an order from a signal indicator when it fire...

widgetman

Hi Chris, I am not sure I understand what you mean. When I load a new trade manager chart all of the options are grayed out. I don't think that feature is working in the latest beta yet. I agree this would be the interface mechanism for managing a trade, but I think some script code is involved to g...

widgetman

Hi,
Is there going to be a interface added to the beta in the near future to allow Automated Trades in IB from a Signal strategy? Any update on a time frame would be appreciated.

widgetman

Hi Stanley, I was wondering if Multicharts had a internal way of keeping track of MarketPosition in a signal Indicator. It seems MarketPosition is not supported using the easy language structure. TS8 keeps track as a internal variable I think returning either -1,0,1 for Short,Flat,Long positions. An...

widgetman

I already figured it out. This backtesting is a awsome feature.
The new beta also seems very stable so far on Win 2K SP4

widgetman

Hi,
I just downloaded the latest beta version 1.90.585.638 and I can't seem to figure out how to create a signal and get it to show me the results of bacttesting. Is there any help files available to show how this works ?

widgetman

Is anyone else having issues with the Power Language Editor shutting down by itself ? I have seen this many times in the latest version running on Windows XP or Win 2K. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

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