MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

tonyt

Hi Parker, I am afraid directly accessing the fundamental data TS provides is not possible via code in Multicharts. Besides importing the data into MC manually it might also be possible to exchange the data between TS and MC with custom code (for example via text files, Custom DLLs or Excel). Regar...

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See post #11
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Thanks for this TJ. It is a good referral tool.

The second link give me a 404 error ..."https://www.multicharts.com/multicharts ... mentation/"

I solved this issue by adding UpTicks and DownTicks.

tonyt

Hello Code Gurus,

I am trying to compare the volume of two 60 min bars of @CL (Crude Oil) data is from TS. When I do a print statement to check them, for some reason only the up volume is calculated. How do I get the total volume to be calculated and displayed? Please see screen shots, Thank you!

tonyt

Hello Code Gurus, I am trying to create an ADL indicator that measures the instrument on Data1 against itself with the following code: inputs: period(14); variables: ADL(0), HL(0), CLV(0); HL = (high + low)/2; CLV = ((close - low) - (high - close)) / (high - low) * volume; ADL = ADL[1] + CLV; plot1(...

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Has anyone noticed that MC is slower to load since they installed the latest update / Build 24200?

tonyt

tonyt, it is better to plot out what you are attempting in an indicator before you write a signal. That way you can make small changes to the code and see the results. Thank you RRams, that's a good point. I didn't anticipate this to be such a challenge. I normally just 'count bars' not sessions wh...

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Hello code gurus, Can someone please explain why it is necessary or good practice to define variables using -.99999 and .99999 when calling them in a for loop or as trade signals? Please see the following code snipets: Value1=AvgTrueRange(ADRdays); value2=-999999.; end; End; {now add the stops} if m...

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I am not sure what you mean by this one-liner. It can be interpreted in multiple ways. How do I search 'n' number of session for the highest high / lowest low? You need to give a real-life example in step-by-step narration. You need to draw some diagrams/charts, with notes on the picture to point o...

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See posts #1 & #2

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thank you. the post is corrected. Can you please provide some insight?

tonyt

How do I search 'n' number of session for the highest high / lowest low? Attached is a screen shot with an example. I need to optimize an input, call it Nsessions, that looks at the highest Session High and Lowest Session Low for a given period, IE up to the maximum allowed by the native OHLC / High...

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Thank you Kate for the prompt reply. This is an obscure issue that I am sure has frustrated many traders. I did the above mentioned and was able to get the prices aligned. In the case of Cocoa, CC, does this need to be don? In other words, are all the ICEUS products 1/100th of the spot price? It doe...

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Hello Barnabas, MultiCharts is rounding the order price based on the chart instrument's price scale. Therefore, to send the orders from TS symbol to IB instrument, your TS symbol price and settings should match IB price format, otherwise the order will be rejected by the broker. This means you need...

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I am having difficulty even knowing where to begin with this issue. I have TS ICEUS data and it is not mapping correctly to IB. The minmove and price scales are identical, see screenshots. When I attempt to trade Coffee or Cocoa systematically, I am entered into trades that are not code / strategy g...

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I am attempting to symbol map the TS data front mth continuous contract for the VIX, currently @VXU22, in MultiCharts and it is not downloading the complete data history. It's patchy for some reason. This continuous contract has better data than @VX from TS in my opinion. In Quote Manager, @VXU22 ha...

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Not knowing if you issue is related to this, but there exist a confirmed critical bug in MC, related to SetExitOnClose that makes your orders not always exit at the bar close. Its caused by "caused by unexpected BarStatus value." in MC and its confirmed to be fixed in a "later" release. Just a frie...

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wow was not aware of this thanks of the heads up Salzburg. I know people who use is successfully so I will monitor this system.

tonyt

Hello Code Gurus! I have an an automated strategy that uses SetExitOnClose and a custom session, ending 5 minutes before the close. Chart time frame is 15 min. It works fine in back testing of course but on it's first live trade, it did not exit as expected. The session for Coffee-KC, closes at 13:3...

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Thank you Kate I'll try that

tonyt

Hello everyone, I noticed an issue with a live strategy today, on the 1440 min chart. I have been short the JPY front month future for about two days. Interactive Brokers is my broker. For some reason today, I get a weird message about, that 'price does not conform to the minimum price variation for...

tonyt

Hi TJ,

I am referring to sessions that cover two calendar days, for example, Wheat starts at 7PM and ends the Next day at 1:20PM, so it covers two separate calendar days.

tonyt

Hello everyone, I have an issue with limiting trades to once per session for sessions that cross two days, IE Wheat 19:00 - 13:20. I want to limit entries to Once Per Session. How can I accomplish this? EntriesToday and TradesToday goes of the 24hr clock, which is fine for longer sessions. Not so mu...

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Thank you Kate,

Actually it turned out to be an issue with the Symbol Dictionary. My data provider TS, did not have the DX listed there, so I needed to add it, so I could define the specs and instrument within the Quote Manager, properly. Doing this fixed it.

tonyt

Hello, I am trying to understand why there appears to be a significant discrepancy between the stated values of @DX, the US Dollar Index, and MultiCharts stated values. My understanding is that the Big Point Value for DX is $1000.00, yet MultiCharts has it as $10.00. As you can see from this live tr...

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Hello everyone, I need to get my 'day counter', that counts the number of days a trade has been open, to reset whenever a new trade is entered. I thought I had it working but it appears that the counter is not resetting properly, and is continuing to 'count' after a trade has been exited. What ends ...

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Actually TJ I think I understand now. It does provide the correct output. The issue was I was incorrectly optimizing it using whole numbers that did not account for the correct # of digits after the decimal.

tonyt

go to the wiki look up the keyword PRINT study the usage example pay attention to the explanation of Expression:C:D Thanks TJ, this works beautifully in the Print Output... Now how do I accomplish the same thing in the following calculation? absvalue(Close - SMA) absvalue((close:7:5) - (SMA:7:5)); ...

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Hmmmm. I tried doing the same on EURUSD and for more reason the signal only reads 2 decimal points, which in turn is why it doesn't get the calculation right. From what I've found this needs to be addressed in the settings for the symbol somehow, but I'm not quite clear on how to do that. I've been...

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go to the wiki

look up the keyword PRINT

study the usage example

pay attention to the explanation of
Expression:C:D

OK, got it, this will also fix the calculation error in the signal/indicator (not just the print output) and the rounding up of the results too I'm guessing. Thanks!

tonyt

I am attempting to solve for the distance in points / ticks from the current close or Close[1] to a Simple Moving Average. I have tried var: SMA ( 0 ); SMA = AverageFC(Close,10); absvalue(Close - SMA) and I have tried: Value1 = Mod(Close,SMA) * (Num Ticks to BPV, / IE * 4 for e_mini) Both produce ab...

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Hello, Neither of these formats appears to accomplish what I need, which is to determine the distance in point / ticks between the close and the Moving Average. When I print the output for 'DistFromSMA' for the EUROfx (EC) for example, I get 00.00 and a price of 1.10 for the Close and the same value...

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GIGO

Your MC data is different.
See the LONG bar at the beginning of the day.

TJ in your experience, what typically causes these data discrepancies? Especially given that the data in both charts is from TS.

Thank you

tonyt

GIGO

Your MC data is different.
See the LONG bar at the beginning of the day.

I see that now thank you! I'll delete the data and cache and see if that helps.

tonyt

Hello, I have the Same CCI Indicator & Function, so far as I can tell, same inputs definitely, yet different outputs / trades between TS, which is live, and Multicharts which is the development desktop. When I compare the code between the functions and indicators, the MultiCharts code appears to be ...

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Wouldn't it be easier to modulate the 2 numbers and multiply it by 4? That's what I do. In your case it would look like: value1 = (Mod (C, SMA)) * 4; Result will be the difference in price between the 2 number and then a multiplication into the tick count. I just set it to value1, you can ofc assig...

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wow thank you Barbo, I did not know that the order of the variables definitions affected the order of their processing, I thought it was just a list so to speak.

tonyt

any advice as to how I would make that current in the absvalue(close - TrendSMA) calc?

tonyt

thank you, so I am effectively using SMA[1] for the calculation?

tonyt

If this is a coding question,
you have to post your code.

Here you go thank you TJ!

tonyt

input: SMALength ( 10 ), TrendGuide ( 233 ), CloseLookBack ( 10 ), ATRLength ( 5 ), StopLong ( 0 ), StopShort ( 0 ), ProfitLong ( 0 ), ProfitShort ( 0 ), minfromSMA ( 1 ), maxfromSMA ( 500 ), //FirstProfX ( 0 ), TradeCut ( 0 ); var: distfromSMA ( 0 ), ATR ( 0 ), MP ( 0 ), DayCount ( 0 ), SLB ( fals...

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thank you TJ, can you elaborate?

tonyt

Hello, I am attempting to get an accurate measurement of the distance in points from the current close of a futures value, in this example the e-mini S&P, to a simple moving average. I am using Absvalue(close - SMA) as the calculation. When I print the output, I get a number that is close, but not a...

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if I want to increment a 'trade day' counter at from 0 at the start of every year, how would I best accomplish this? The idea is to count the trading days of the year only. Easy Language has the BarDateTime.Year function so I can write it like this: if bardatetime.year <> bardatetime[1].year then Be...

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Great let me check that out thanks

tonyt

Attempting to install MultiCharts on my Vultr VPS and I get the attached error... 'error downloaing...' a microsoft exe for .NET. Is this due to my internet settings being too strict?

Please advise thank you!

tonyt

does not work at all

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that did not work. Please update on how to dock the output below the code

tonyt

Yes we did see that thank you Tammy for resolving this!

tonyt

Has anyone else experienced lately a discrepancy between actual and displayed data in MultiCharts? I am using TS data and the volume numbers are way off the actual exchange numbers, verified in both Interactive Brokers and TS. Any ideas as to why? Support email is down, and I am waiting to hear back...

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