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by RS
19 Jun 2009
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: MC 5 optimizer doesn't seem to free up memory for trend line
Replies: 1
Views: 1103

MC 5 optimizer doesn't seem to free up memory for trend line

Hi, I just started to upgrade my strategies from MC 2.1 to 5.0 and got into the following issue: During optimizing one strategy the memory for MC 5 just went up to +/- 2Gb and then MC crashed. Because this didn't happen in MC 2.1 I tried to figure out why. It seems that the 5 optimizer doesn't free ...
by RS
01 Dec 2008
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Maximum number of shares/contracts per position
Replies: 4
Views: 1953

Hi Marina,

Thanks! As you know, I will stay for the time being on release 2.1. It's the best one for me right now.

When the new version is out I will test it.

Regards,
Rob.
by RS
31 Oct 2008
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Maximum number of shares/contracts per position
Replies: 4
Views: 1953

Hi Marina,

Thanks for your answer. Do I get an update/patch? I don't want to go to a beta version (5.x) to solve this problem because a beta is to risky for me to run in production.

Thanks again,
Rob.
by RS
29 Oct 2008
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Maximum number of shares/contracts per position
Replies: 4
Views: 1953

Maximum number of shares/contracts per position

Hi Marina, It's a long time ago I had support from you; the last half year I'm running several MC (2.1.999) instances on DEV, TEST and PROD without serious problems. Great! Because I had to upgrade my Java (1.6.0_10) and TWS (888.3), the IB datafeed from MC 2.1 was not stable anymore. That's the rea...
by RS
17 Jun 2008
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Wrong behaviour Mod() in combination with TimeToMinutes()
Replies: 1
Views: 1173

Wrong behaviour Mod() in combination with TimeToMinutes()

Hai Marina, I ran into a strange behaviour of MC (2.1 and 3.0). The result of the expression: Mod(TimeToMinutes(time) - TimeToMinutes(0900.00), BarInterval of data2) = 0 returns (only) at a 16.20u bar false instead of true! I can show it via Live Helpdesk but it's also easy to reproduce. Can you giv...
by RS
21 Apr 2008
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Length of a string variable
Replies: 5
Views: 2629

Marina, I'm not sure but maybe I found the problem. The strReply buffer used with CallNamedPipe(gstrPipename, strBuf, intLen, strReply, intLen2, ... is always given a (fixed) length of 255 (intLen2) chars. I'm not sure how the OS handles this buffer within the CallNamedPipe function but I suspect th...
by RS
14 Apr 2008
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Length of a string variable
Replies: 5
Views: 2629

Marina,

Maybe because of the Beta 3 release these topic is missed :wink: Can you answer it please.

Thanks,
Rob.
by RS
11 Apr 2008
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: used resolution with backtesting of intraday strategies
Replies: 5
Views: 3153

used resolution with backtesting of intraday strategies

Dear Marina, In the topic http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=2977 Andrew stated that backtesting is done on the same resolution as the chart. I have a intraday strategy (10 minute bars) which uses stop orders. In real time the tick data is used -as expected- to test the stop condition. This ...
by RS
09 Apr 2008
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Length of a string variable
Replies: 5
Views: 2629

Length of a string variable

Marina, I'm using output parameters in external dll function calls. The documentation of EL describes: Text strings are passed by address as a default when the LPSTR parameter type is used. Do not change the size of the passed string within your DLL, as this can cause unpredictable results. How can ...
by RS
12 Mar 2008
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Does MC free space after calling custom DLL?
Replies: 1
Views: 1045

Does MC free space after calling custom DLL?

Hello Support, Some of the DLL routines we need to call must return a string value (char *). If we allocate space on the system heap with malloc, and return a pointer to that space to MC, can we be sure that MC will, after the string has been used, free the space on the heap? We will be calling the ...
by RS
05 Mar 2008
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: PLEditor unstable
Replies: 8
Views: 2626

Marina, I can now reproduce this behaviour of the PLEditor: Take a symbol with lots of bars (N); make a strategy (signal) which have a print statement for every bar; optimize this strategy with lots of simulations (M). The output window of the PLEditor will be filled with the output of the print sta...
by RS
28 Nov 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Not all contracts are closed when marketposition reverse
Replies: 15
Views: 4456

Marina,

It works! Thanks for the good support and the quick patch for the problem.


With regards,
Rob.

P.S. May I suggest that you supply the dll's to the other forum users also!?
by RS
27 Nov 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Not all contracts are closed when marketposition reverse
Replies: 15
Views: 4456

ABC, Thanks for your help. The strategy does trade with more than one contract, see the code in the start post. The problem is indeed that only one contract is closed when the strategy is turning. The last open contract is closed by default when there is no more symbol data. You can see that there a...
by RS
26 Nov 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Not all contracts are closed when marketposition reverse
Replies: 15
Views: 4456

Marina,

I use the latest version. I will call the HelpDesk, propable tomorrow.


Regards,
Rob.
by RS
26 Nov 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Not all contracts are closed when marketposition reverse
Replies: 15
Views: 4456

Marina,

I attached the screenshot.

Regards,
Rob.
by RS
22 Nov 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Not all contracts are closed when marketposition reverse
Replies: 15
Views: 4456

Marina,

I do, but it will be monday. Now I'm not at the office and tomorrow I have a conference.

Regards,
Rob.
by RS
22 Nov 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Not all contracts are closed when marketposition reverse
Replies: 15
Views: 4456

Not all contracts are closed when marketposition reverse

Marina, It looks like that not all open contracts are automatically closed by MC when the marketposition reverses. Contracts are left open until the end of the chart. This gives unexpected results. It only happens when the # contracts in the second order > 1. Please comment on this. Thanks, Rob. If ...
by RS
21 Nov 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: EntryPrice(x) reserved word does not change when pyramiding
Replies: 15
Views: 3401

ABC,

I copied the complete list of "not reserved words" out of the post and paste it into PLEditor; the colors (blue or red) gives the answer :-).

Regards,
Rob.
by RS
21 Nov 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: EntryPrice(x) reserved word does not change when pyramiding
Replies: 15
Views: 3401

ABC,

Thanks for your advice. I tested it and it works with MC 2.1.999 The strange thing is that the reserved word avgentryprice is on the list of "not supported reserved words".

Do you know which strategy reserved words does work and which not with MC 2.1.999?


With regards,
Rob.
by RS
20 Nov 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: EntryPrice(x) reserved word does not change when pyramiding
Replies: 15
Views: 3401

Marina, Thanks for your explanation. You are faster than the response I would give you on basis of my research: I ran the same code with TS2000i and got, like you said, the same results. That's when some bells rang; my understanding of a position/entry was wrong. I thought that a position/entry was ...
by RS
19 Nov 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: EntryPrice(x) reserved word does not change when pyramiding
Replies: 15
Views: 3401

Marina, I don't understand your answer completely. This script is called every bar, during the first bar only 1 position is taken, the second bar (when the script for the first bar is finished) the second position is taken and so on. I thought that the code/script is calculated for every bar? Regard...
by RS
19 Nov 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: EntryPrice(x) reserved word does not change when pyramiding
Replies: 15
Views: 3401

Marina, Thanks for your quick answer. Because it's a urgent problem for me I called also the phone helpdek (spoke to Surgey?) who asked me to send my problem via help@tssupport.com. Because I've already contact with you now, I will not send it again via email. The code I provided was only part of my...
by RS
19 Nov 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: EntryPrice(x) reserved word does not change when pyramiding
Replies: 15
Views: 3401

EntryPrice(x) reserved word does not change when pyramiding

Marina, I try to change a strategy to a pyramiding strategy but I can't get the right EntryPrices for positions greater than the first position. It looks like that the reserved words could not handle pyramiding? They don't change after the first position. Can you help me with this? Thanks, Rob. Samp...
by RS
02 Nov 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: BarNumber out of sync with dataN series on chart
Replies: 6
Views: 1775

Marina, Let me explain my problem in more detail. I have a chart with two data series in different timeframes. I plot a XAverage via an indicator on top of this chart, based on data2 (50 min.). Now I want to use this XAverage value of data2 in my strategy (signal) which is bound (automatically) to d...
by RS
01 Nov 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: BarNumber out of sync with dataN series on chart
Replies: 6
Views: 1775

Marina, The first and second data series starting on exactly the same start date (start of a session): because the data1 series has another timeframe (eg. 10 minutes), the first (visual) bar of this timeframe is -of course- earlier after the session start than the first bar of the data2 series (eg. ...
by RS
29 Oct 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: BarNumber out of sync with dataN series on chart
Replies: 6
Views: 1775

BarNumber out of sync with dataN series on chart

Marina, I've a problem when calculating a formula (let's say a EMA) which depends on the BarNumber and two dataN series on the chart. Take a chart with two data series with MaxBarsBack = 5 for the same symbol with different time frames (10 minutes for data1 and 50 minutes for data2, for example). Ma...
by RS
25 Oct 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Strategy positions reserved words behaviour
Replies: 9
Views: 2431

Hope that answers your question and gives you a general idea how order generation and position reserved words calculations interact.
Marina,

Your explanation is very well. It's clear for me now.


Thank you!

Rob.
by RS
24 Oct 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Strategy positions reserved words behaviour
Replies: 9
Views: 2431

Marina, Thanks! It works. As a (former) software engineer it is strange for me that the strategy position reserved words are only calculated after the strategy code is executed and not directly after a statement. If I'm right the strategy position reserved words are calculated just before the (next)...
by RS
23 Oct 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Debug a study [SOLVED]
Replies: 14
Views: 4758

@marina: Thanks for your answer. I hope that this functionality will be top priority. @denizen2: Thanks for your comment. And your right, it's easy to 'complain' about the things MC cannot do but sometimes we forgot to tell that we like the way the product is going: After 1 month of extensivelly tes...
by RS
20 Oct 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Debug a study [SOLVED]
Replies: 14
Views: 4758

I'm now working extensively with MC during the last weeks and I really miss debug functionality. It's difficult to find out what kind of debugging MC supports. For example the reserved word "breakpoint" is NOT in the list of NOT supported reserved words so you can asume that it must working. The PL ...
by RS
19 Oct 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Strategy positions reserved words behaviour
Replies: 9
Views: 2431

Marina, Thanks for your answer. I will explain my problem in more detail. When I create an order, lets say a buy, together with an stop (loss) order, lets say a sell stop on bar 2 and that stop order is filled somewhere during the next bar (bar 3) the reserved words MarketPosition/BarsSince.... are ...
by RS
19 Oct 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Strategy positions reserved words behaviour
Replies: 9
Views: 2431

Strategy positions reserved words behaviour

Marina, I have some problems using the strategy position reserved words. My strategy uses al lot of opening orders with the "this bar on close" order action. In the same strategy code, after the code of these order statement(s) I want to use the strategy position reserved words: marketposition, bars...
by RS
10 Oct 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Session Start/End Time give different result when optimizing
Replies: 6
Views: 2349

Marina,

Thanks for your answer!

Because it took me some time to figure out this bug -debugging in MC is not trivial- I want to know whether you have a list of known bugs/issues. That list will save me time.

Thanks,
Rob.
by RS
09 Oct 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: Session Start/End Time give different result when optimizing
Replies: 6
Views: 2349

Session Start/End Time give different result when optimizing

Marina, The reserved words sessionstarttime and sessionendtime gives different results when running normal in a signal and when optimizing the same signal. I think this must be wrong. The following simple signal code reproduces this: Inputs: OnlyForOptimize(0); print (date, " ", time, " ","sessionst...
by RS
04 Oct 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: PLEditor unstable
Replies: 8
Views: 2626

Hi Marina,

Maybe this can help you with the problem. When PLEditor is unstable and I want to reboot my machine. MC ask me to save a changed 'workspace' which I don't made: MCActiveX1. See screenshot.

Regards,
Rob.
by RS
04 Oct 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: PLEditor unstable
Replies: 8
Views: 2626

Hi Marina, That's a fast response. Thank you! I'm not sure which action I did before the PLEditor freezes. I'm doing mainly strategy development. That is changing signal code by interpreting the corresponding charts and than run a lot of optimizes on the signal parameters and change again the code. ...
by RS
04 Oct 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: PLEditor unstable
Replies: 8
Views: 2626

PLEditor unstable

For the last two days my PLEditor (version 2.0, file version 1.6.966.24865) is very unstable; when I'm not using it for a while it freezes and consumes up a lot of resources (see task manager picture). The signals which I have open in de editor are already compiled so the editor has 'nothing' to do ...
by RS
03 Oct 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: optimize with data2 does not work
Replies: 3
Views: 1417

Marina, As a supplement on the email I send you yesterday, I have found some interesting new information on the problem. It looks like that when the data series are active (sessions are open, real time data feed is coming in) the error occurs. When I change the 'from date' of the data ranges in the ...
by RS
01 Oct 2007
Forum: MultiCharts
Topic: optimize with data2 does not work
Replies: 3
Views: 1417

optimize with data2 does not work

Hi, I'm currently working with the latest MC 2.1 (2.1.999.999) version and run into the following problem: When I have the following statement in my signal: EMALongTimeframe= XAverage(close, LengthEMALongTimeframe) of data2 {longer time frame data}; the optimizer gives the error "Not enough series l...

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