MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

flipflopper

You're pretty smart for a cat.

flipflopper

Not sure what you mean that those times are not understood. If you use a starttime > 1075 it still returns results. If it was not understood you would think that it would return no results.

Can you check with the developers what it means?

flipflopper

MC team.

I would still like to know what it means when you optimize for time and get results for something like 1075, 960 etc.

flipflopper

You can't optimize over time simply by adding values for the reason you explained. You end up with nonsensical times like 1075. Previously, I wrote a simple EasyLanguage function that allows you to add minutes to a particular time so that the resulting time actually makes sense (so instead of getti...

flipflopper

When I run optimizations on time it runs on variables that are not real time and I want to know what it means. If I want to look to execute a trade between 1000 and 1100 and I run a 15 minute interval in my optimization results it shows how I would have done if my start time 1075... what does that m...

flipflopper

Got it. That worked.... still liked the old design much better!!

flipflopper

Homepage

flipflopper

I have always felt that Multicharts has the best designs for their software and website. Not sure what happened here. Not only is the new website design visually unappealing but it is also broken in Firefox. Multicharts... I love you but this new website is a blunder. Bring back the previous design....

flipflopper

Is it possible to have multicharts consider each entry seperately? And calculate each stop and target based on individual entries? Or does it always average your positions when manual trading?

flipflopper

I figured it out. The high and low were from the overnight session and I was only plotting the intraday. I now just manually enter the high low and close and I get the proper pivots on my study.

Thanks

flipflopper

That I would love to see. 1. When you get an error message (broker connection lost, etc.) Multichart's will e-mail you a notification. 2. When you enter a position with auto stops or target or both then you add to that position Multichart's will average your position entry and average your stops and...

flipflopper

Downloaded this version last night. Noticed that the bid and ask are reversed. Bid should be on the bottom and ask on the top. This is how traders are used to seeing it because of the DOM ladders and logically you think of a bid being underneath the market and the ask being over the market. It would...

flipflopper

I would say before optimizing the first thing is to address a few stability issues. I think Multicharts is already perfect if it was only a bit more stable. I can get MC to crash quite easily. Mostly when I make changes to the quote manager or backtest on zenfire data. Any time I start playing with ...

flipflopper

Daily Floor Trader Pivots require 3 pieces of information. The previous session high, low, and close. High and low should always be correct. The "official close" is a closing price calculated several minutes after the actual close. What I wanted to do is have the study calculate the high and low and...

flipflopper

All auto pivot Indicators are wrong if the close it captures isn't the official close.

Are there any studies out there that allow the user to adjust only the closing price in order to get real pivots?

flipflopper

Is there a way to have multiple signals on a chart and to have one signal either turn on or off other signals or pass parameters to other signals?

flipflopper

I am sending you the workspace and the signal so you can further investigate. Can I downgrade to a previous version until this issue is resolved?

flipflopper

Is this possible? Everytime you change code and want to run a new test you have to go through each parameter and set the start and end values and step.

flipflopper

I'm on version 6.1.

Every time I run an optimization my computer crashes. Anyone else have this issue?

flipflopper

Thanks! I think I know what to do.

flipflopper

Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?

flipflopper

I am using 5 minute bars to trigger a limit order. If that order is not filled within the next 5 minutes the order is canceled.

How do I prevent that order from being canceled until it is either filled or a new trigger creates a new order?

flipflopper

Thank you for responding and acknowledging Anastasia. I updated to the latest beta and it works perfectly.

flipflopper

flipflopper

I was trying to be constructive in an aggressive way. All software has bugs anyone int he business knows that. I just wanted these issues resolved asap.

flipflopper

Hi

flipflopper, what do you mean ?

http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=7405

flipflopper

* Position Tracker Said I had a position on when I didn't.

So there goes all the position tracker theories.

* MC was saying my orders were being rejected. That is because they stopped sending my orders to broker for some reason.

flipflopper

Yesterday morning I turned on and off my strategies several times. Then one of my strategies picked up a trade. Then MC and my broker AMP through zenfire stopped receiving orders. Status rejected. I contacted multicharts and they took my logs and confirmed a bug. I then turned back on multicharts an...

flipflopper

There is no way to get this. Which is a major major issue.

Write an e-mail to support and request it.

flipflopper

I have always been a huge supporter of Multicharts. I voted for them on the Trade2Win poll and twice on Elite trader. I always recommend the product to anyone I talk to. This is why it's upsetting when I started coming across some data issues then reading about more data issues then also knowing tha...

flipflopper

If you can't trust the results of Multicharts simulations and backtesting and optimization then it is a worthless product. Why add new features to a product that doesn't work? TS Support please fix your data issues before adding any new features. New features on a product that doesn't work is a wast...

flipflopper

Found this post on thegrailsystem website: http://www.thegrailsystem.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=0b5af2c5afae87c756b1ab3cd6ac4caf&topic=39.0 Since I have posted the results of my benchmark test in September 2009, myself and several Grail users started using MultiCharts in parallel with TS. I regre...

flipflopper

Not sure if anyone cares about these data bugs but below is the response from TS Support: 1. Duplicate data on daily bars when you change session info. You need to clear cash to eliminate duplicates. It is a bug. It should be fixed in official release of MC 6.0 2. Sometimes when creating a chart wit...

flipflopper

Here are a few ridiculous data issues I've noticed with multicharts: 1. Duplicate data on daily bars when you change session info. You need to clear cash to eliminate duplicates. 2. Sometimes when creating a chart with multiple instruments and they are backfilling simultaneously there are gaps in so...

flipflopper

The tail chasing comment might be true... but in this case your historical results have the highest chance of becoming a reality. This might seem like double tail chasing but theoretically you optimize the in sample and out of sample data series time frames. Which is eventually what I would want to ...

flipflopper

Bruce,

The most valuable thing one could sell would be Easy language source code for self optimizing a set of inputs.

That way one could include that in the algorithm... chose the in sample and out of sample periods and let it go!

flipflopper

My systems try to buy/sell support/resistance so placing a stop one tic beyond that wouldn't make sense. For me using some volatility multiple is the only way to go. Care to comment on the realization I made that it is impossible to truly compare apples to apples when optimizing different strategies...

flipflopper

Interesting you say: Using volatility as a way to control the distance to the stop is a "reasonable" approach It seems to me that is the only way to come up with a good adaptable stop. I also noticed I made a huge blunder in my equation: Positionsize = dollarriskamount/(volatilityofindividualstock *...

flipflopper

One thing that I have always wondered about is position sizing during optimization. I think that you are NOT supposed to vary position size during optimization as a rule but below is the point logic I am weighing. Example: * You are willing to risk a fixed amount on each trade. * You are optimizing ...

flipflopper

How to chose proper position sizing on a portfolio of stocks so as to equalize the results from all stocks during optimization. Here is an example: * Stops and targets are based on the volatility of the individual stock * Let's say there are two $100 stocks. Stock A has a stop of $1 and Stock B has ...

flipflopper

A third party optimizer's cluster analysis feature is normally used to identify the optimum in sample period, out of sample period (if any) and reoptimization interval for maximum robustness, or in other words, percentage of profitability maintained out of sample after reoptimization. This works by...

flipflopper

"reoptimize every X bars including Y bars each time in-sample".

Great post.

The above is exactly what I'm talking about. Are there any books where I can study any of the concepts you mentioned?

flipflopper

flipflopper, If you search the internet there are several books and numerous web sites. One well know book that comes to mind is Evidence Based Technical Analysis by David Aronson. What your looking for is exactly what the Multicharts Walk Forward optimizer already does. Hope this helps, Gleb Hi Gl...

flipflopper

So we all know markets cycle. Identifying what cycle (RTM or Trending) we are in and using appropriate trading strategies is one part of the puzzle. The other piece to the trading puzzle is if you can you improve real time results by incorporating periodic walk forward optimization in your trading a...

flipflopper

The facts in this matter such as they are discernable are fairly clear. The original poster said that they contacted support and were told there was an existing issue. Naturally, we would like to know what that existing issue is so that we could look into it, see if it affects other projects, or se...

flipflopper

There's nothing wrong with reporting a problem, but we need more specifics in order to be able to reproduce the issue or help with it. Ummmm............ yeah. I don't expect you or any other non TS Support employee to say anything unless they have something useful to add. TS Support is the only one...

flipflopper

I'm using 5.5 And I'm afraid that I can't elaborate. That is what I was told on Live Help. Specifically, that it is a bug that the engineers are aware of and that they are trying to fix. The funny thing is that my crossover automated strategies were working fine until a week ago, when they would fa...

flipflopper

This doesn't frighten anyone?

I guess I'm the only one that is worried about a non corrupt database.

flipflopper

Yana: hi Yana: i am looking at the screenshot Alex: hi Alex: you can see many duplicate bars Alex: very worrisome Yana: let me analyze the possible cause of this Yana: so you have charted the symbol, then changed the symbol settings, and then charted it again Alex: ok Yana: that is the reason for th...

flipflopper

This type of stuff makes my skin crawl.

TS... What the heck is going on here?

This is from my IQ feed.

flipflopper

Hi flipflopper, Are your short strategies generally average based strategies? I am thinking of ones based off MacD crossovers, multi moving averages and the like. I find these can be very short but they enter the market way to late. I now use wave projections, bounces, break detection, and forward ...

flipflopper

Thanks for the responses. In my very short experience of automating systems I have found that when I have a good profitable strategy when I try to add too many ideas it seems to always erode the systems profitability. I have been a discretionary trader full time for 3 years and have constantly found...

flipflopper

10,000 lines of code!!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: Wow. All of my best strategies have fewer then 200. I guess I'm a believer that the markets aren't that complicated... at least the way I trade it. One thing I have learned is there are many ways to skin a cat. So I'm not going to say you're ...

flipflopper

That's fine I am posting to see if anyone else has experienced any of these issues.

flipflopper

Never had any problems with Multicharts in terms of stability. Ever since I turned on auto trading in one of my workspaces Multicharts has been crashing very frequently. Keeps giving me errors that multicharts has detected a problem. Also I tried to open my quote manager or EasyLangauge editor and i...

flipflopper

When I turn on autotrading it says powered by OMNE in the title bar.

It also says Trading Platform by Rithmic at the bottom.

What is OMNE?

What is Rithmic?

Where do they fit in the Multicharts autotrading equation?

flipflopper

Wow!! I didn't even know this existed. Thanks

flipflopper

or can someone explain how to use it?

flipflopper

So far they actually HAVE made all the right decisions. That is the amazing thing and why I have so much faith in this company! I just hope the streak continues!!

flipflopper

Multicharts has come a long way. They are making great strides and most traders I know would LOVE to have only one piece of software up and running while they trade.

Hopefully Multicharts can be that software.

flipflopper

No question that Multicharts has the best charting on the market... period. I originally purchased for their charting only and used NT Trader to manually enter my trades. I have recently begun automating a lot of my trading whcih makes me look at things in a whole new light. MultiChart Pro's: * Best...

flipflopper

Glad to hear you will be implementing this soon. I am correct because you are talking about the portfolio backtester in your response. The quote that I pulled from the site is referring to portfolio trading. The reason I posted PTMultistation is since you are getting into portfolio trading it is imp...

flipflopper

I also highly recommend adding a Broker/Account Window similar to what they offer at PTMultistation:

http://profstation.com/

flipflopper

I pulled this quote off the Multicharts website under portfolio trading: "A dynamic portfolio strategy is more then simply a collection of separate strategies, and takes in to account a number of additional factors, such as capital limits, entry orders priority, money and risk management, and overal...

flipflopper

Restarting solved the issue. Thanks.

flipflopper

It seems to be calculating profit and loss assuming $10 per point instead of $50. I changed that value in the quote manager and it didn't change the outcome in the strategy performance report.

Also for the love of god why can't you right click on your chart to get the Strategy Performance Reports!?!?

flipflopper

1. Has the ability to trade a portfolio of instruments. a) Multicharts allows me to backtest and optimize a portfolio but when it comes to trading I have to add each individual instrument and apply the strategy to it. This makes it very difficult for the system as a whole to know what the other stra...

flipflopper

How could you code this??

Doesn't seem possible.

flipflopper

You can backtest and optimize a portfolio.... can you trade a portfolio the same way? Or do you have to add your signal to each individual symbol in different charts? This makes money management a bit difficult since your strategy won't know how many positions you are in at any given time and how to...

flipflopper

Also is there a limit of 65,000 shares in MC?

Never mind!! I forgot that is an option in the strategy properties menu.

flipflopper

Also is there a limit of 65,000 shares in MC?

flipflopper

I am pretty sure Multicharts doesn't have support for hidden or reserve/iceberg orders in IB. If not can we please add this capability.

I don't know how many traders use Multicharts to auto trade large trades but if Multicharts wants to be used by professional traders they need to add this feature.

flipflopper

I use IQfeed but they only provide 2 years of history for the minute bars.

Are there any compatible data vendors that offer realtime data and historical minute data going back 10 plus years?

flipflopper

Wow. This seems like a major weakness. I can't imagine how one can properly allocate funds in a portfolio is the program doesn't even know how big the account is!!

TS let us know if there is a possibility to add a keyword to return total account equity.

flipflopper

I actually want to find out the Total account value so I can calculate the proper position size for my trades.

flipflopper

Is there a keyword or function that returns the current total account equity?

And the Current account equity available?

flipflopper

Anywhere to get free historical minute bar data?

flipflopper

Thank you. That was a helpful and informative reply!

flipflopper

I don't come here as an alternative to google. I come here because there are others here using the same product and going through the same issues that I am. The reason I come here is to get some informative replies from users that have experienced the same issues and have some opinionated input. Tha...

flipflopper

care to name one?

flipflopper

I use IQfeed for data and they only seem to have intraday (one minute bars) for only one year back.

Where can I get maybe the past 10 years of one minute bars? I know TS has 20 years of minute bars but is there anywhere else I can get them?

flipflopper

This is designed for the ES. I added the key word points just to try and got the same result. I strongly believe that the entryprice keyword does not work in Multicharts. Unfortunately the way I test what certain variables are showing is buy creating an indicator with the same code and leaving out t...

flipflopper

When I use the following:

If marketposition = 1 then
sell("My Long Exit") entry("My Long") (entryprice - 2) stop;

It just sells at teh next bar every time regardless. I'm pretty sure entryprice keyword doesn't work.

flipflopper

Why doesn't this work? I could never get the entryprice keyword to work.

If marketposition = 1 then
sell("My Long Exit") entry("My Long") entryprice(0) - 2 stop;

flipflopper

Exactly!!!

The question being what is the syntax to exit the script?

flipflopper

What function will make the strategy stop functioning for the rest of the day?

If maxiddrawdown < -1000 then
Close all positions
exit strategy for the day

flipflopper

Thanks I was able to resolve this issue. Had to do with having my my stop and target statements in a an if statement that causing problems. I have another question. I want my program to wait for 5 bars after any position has been stopped out before initiating any new trades. Are there any useful fun...

flipflopper

1. I want to Buy at a moving average. 2. I want to set a target 2 points higher. 3. I want to set a stop 2 points lower. 4. If either stop or target gets hit I want the corresponding target or stop canceled. This doesn't seem to work though. The targets seem to work but not the stops!?!? buy("My Buy...

flipflopper

Any one have any thoughts on the first question?

I have come up with a very sloppy way of achieving this. It involves a ton of code but I was hoping there is a function in Easylanguage that may help me out.

Any thoughts welcome.

flipflopper

This is a two part question: I have 3 variables that I want to use to make buy limit orders. My approach to this has been to try and find the closest support point to the current market price and create a limit buy order at that variable support price. Question 1: I have been trying to create code t...

flipflopper

Thanks for the response. Upon further research I agree that Easylanguage is the right solution for me. I will also have to research the datax parameter further. I want the symbols and timeframes to be hard coded in the script and it sounds like you are saying this can be done?? I have also purchased...

flipflopper

Can someone give me an example of placing a limit order to buy the 30 minute 20 period moving average?

I tried to use the statement:

[IntraBarOrderGeneration = TRUE]

from the Easly Language reference guide but it doesn't seem to want to take it.

flipflopper

I noticed that it seems like the only bar price data points you can use are open, high, low, and close.

What if I want to know the last price. I don't care if the bar has closed or not. I just want the last price traded in real time.

flipflopper

That seems to have worked.

Thanks. I'm a newbie at Easylanguage though I have done a bit of programming in my past. I'm just not too familiar with the syntax.

flipflopper

Great thanks.

But It looks like I cannot create a variable to represent data1 by itself?

flipflopper

Why doesn't this work?

variables:
ES30min(0);

ES30min = data1;

Why can't I use a variable to reference a data Id?

flipflopper

Can you reference indicators in your signal?

Or do you have to copy the whole indicator into the body of the code of your signal?

flipflopper

The more I read the more I think I can do this without Global variables.

Instead I can just add all the symbols/timeframes into the chart then reference them as Data2, Data3, etc.

flipflopper

Is there any sample code of global variables being used? I did a google search and didn't turn up much. For instance I want to have a global variable that shows the Advancing vs. Declining NYSE stocks. Then I want to use that number to to determine whether I go long or short in the ES. I want to use...

flipflopper

I'll be a bit more specific. I only want to trade one symbol. But in order to trade that symbol I need confirmation from another symbol. I then need my entries and exits to be based on studies for the main symbol but those studies are based on different time frames. Is this possible to do in Multich...

flipflopper

Is this possible?

Where can I learn about this?

flipflopper

This is the correct business decision. Congrats to Mulicharts. Many of us early adopters took a chance on your product and it paid off in spades. I always do and always will recommend your products to all who ask me about trading. I don't consider Multicharts an option for charting, I consider it TH...

flipflopper

I agree. Custom drawing toolbar would be great!!

http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=6754

flipflopper

Don't forget about custom trendline/drawing tools toolbar.

http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=6754

flipflopper

I also have to commend you for making Multicharts so customizable.

Best charting software period!!

flipflopper

It is not a bug, it is a feature other traders had to wait for a long time...
You can disable it here:
Window | Show Detached window in Inactive workspaces

Ahhhh. Great. Thanks

flipflopper

The issue will be fixed in MultiCharts 6.

What about how in Windows 7 all workspaces are one on top of the other.

When you open up multiple workspaces they are all on the screen at the same time instead of being able to switch between them.

flipflopper

Andrew... any thoughts?

Many will switch to Windows 7 so it may be worth taking a look!!

flipflopper

Any thoughts on the two Windows 7 bugs?

flipflopper

I just upgraded to Windows 7 and this issue is back.

I tried the hotfix but it causes the program to be corrupt.

I also noticed in windows 7 that if you do have multiple workspaces open they appear one above the other?!?

flipflopper

I just did a clean install of Windows and want to import my old studies. I have a copy of my old hard drive with all the studies.

Is there an easy way to recover them?

flipflopper

Andrew, any chance we see Draw Tool improvement in version 6?

As I said this is a feature I'd be willing to pay extra for.

flipflopper

Why wouldn't you just use NT Trader to do this? That's what I use.

This is completely different scope then just charting. This is an order entry front end.

You need to use the right tool for the job.

flipflopper

Bump.

flipflopper

Check out NT Trader.

flipflopper

I have many alerts.

Is there a way to see an alert log?

flipflopper

Trendlines and drawing tools are one of the most important features I use for charting. Here is how drawing tools could be perfected in Multicharts. Custom Draw buttons: Many years back I used Ensign Windows for charting. They gave you 3 buttons on the drawing toolbar that allowed you to create cust...

flipflopper

Show me a recent screenshot, please.

No worries. I think it has to do with the data coming in. The 405 minute chart instead of the daily has worked like a charm.

Thanks!! Love your product!!

flipflopper

This has happened two days in a row.

Look at the SPX.XO (and INDU.X and who knows what else!!)

The SPX.XO is stuck at 1073.66. When I add the symbol again it shows the proper price at 1060.87

This is concerning.

flipflopper

But the daily "24 hour" session for the SPX is from 9:30 to 4:00 EST. There is no after hours for this index.

This means the two bars should be exactly the same. Why wouldn't they be?

flipflopper

Actually I still have a problem. If I plot SPX.XO which only contains cash market hours data I get different readings for the 1 day and 405 minute bars. The average true range for the daily (14 period) is 12.14. The average true range for the 405 minute (14 period) is 13.65. Why is there this differ...

flipflopper

Ignore that. It looks like using the new settings works with my studies.

Thanks

flipflopper

This resolves the look of the chart. But I still get the overnight High and Low when I use the High and Low keywords/indicators.

flipflopper

Have you confirmed this bug?

flipflopper

Any luck with the daily high/low session bug?

flipflopper

Dear flipflopper, Here is the hofix attached. Let me know then. Thanks. Hi Andrew, As a rule of thumb you should always include some "installation instructions" when distributing any patch/hotfix as it is not common knowledge how to install these. I did know that this .exe file replaced the one tha...

flipflopper

To make sure we are on the same page you are saying that we use regular and outside regular data to construct daily bars. You want to see them regular. Is this correct? Correct. I have my session set to Index Futures Open Outcry. (Essentially Cash Market Hours). When I plot a daily bar the high and...

flipflopper

Thank you Andrew. You can imagine I was alarmed when I downloaded the latest version and watched Multicharts go into and infinite loop switching between my workspaces. I absolutely love your product and your support has been great as well. This product has come a long way and is unrivaled. My post w...

flipflopper

I don't really care to see your previous posts. I have contacted customer support and they have identified the bug.

flipflopper

You must only use one workspace at a time.

flipflopper

This is the WORST piece of software I have ever installed. Seems like the program is stuck in an infinite loop.

I am stunned.

flipflopper

IQfeed. But I noticed it with esignal as well.

flipflopper

Dear flipflopper, You should modify your sessions. I have my session set properly but Multicharts has always had a bug where it uses 24 hour time periods for daily bars. You can check this easily now: Use symbol ES: Use session settings: CME: Equity Index Futures (Open Outcry) Then look at the low ...

flipflopper

Dear flipflopper, You should just calculate the difference. What exactly do you need help with? I want it to show on the chart. Currently when I have weekly, monthly, yearly charts it shows the change for the current day. When you are looking at those larger timeframes it would be good to see the c...

flipflopper

When I use the high/low key words on the daily timeframe it includes the overnight session as well.

Any way to get intraday high and low for futures?

flipflopper

Anyone out there. I would think that this info would be quite useful.

flipflopper

bu bu bu bu bu bu bump

flipflopper

flipflopper

Someone looking at intraday and daily bars wants to see the net change and net %change for that day. But is there a way for weekly, monthly, yearly bars to see the net change and net %change for that bars time frame? In other words if I'm looking at a Weekly chart I want to see the Net change and Ne...

flipflopper

Because of this missing feature I am trying to manually delete the data from the data base but it still doesn't go away!?

I go to the quote manager right click the symbol click edit data the load the minute and daily data select and delete it but it still shows up in my charts.

flipflopper

This feature would be real useful on a day like today.

flipflopper

Wow... did any of them notice the problems that were fixed in the past? If not then how did you guys identify and fix those confirmed issues? Either way like I said I will be switching to IQ feed next month and am really praying that this will solve my problems. Again I am delighted in every other w...

flipflopper

I'm pretty sure the problem still exists even in this case.

I don't ever want to worry about when I close my program etc. Data and charts shouldn't be that fragile. Everytime I look at a Multicharts chart I should see all data!!!

This is how some of us make our living!!

flipflopper

Not sure what I can add. I have all my stocks, futures, and indexes in my market scanners. I sometimes close Multicharts after the cash market close... within 30 minutes. Sometimes when I run through the symbols on my scanner (clicking on them and viewing their charts) I notice that historical daily...

flipflopper

Not sure how I could be the only one with this problem. In fact I recently formatted my whole hard drive and reinstalled everything from scratch and still see the same issues. You had also confirmed and fixed several variations of this issue in the past. So if you guys were able to recreate it on yo...

flipflopper

Since I love your product and can tell that you will be unable to fix the esignal daily data issues I am switching to IQ feed once my contract with esignal is up.

I would recommend that you warn customers that daily data may be missing if they use esignal data.

Thanks for trying though.

flipflopper

I guess my question is how do I get my cursor to jump increments of .25 when moving my cursor up and down on a chart.

flipflopper

I've switched to the ES contract recently and notice that when I move my cursor up and down on the chart the price shown goes in increments of two decimal places (937.26, 937.27, 937.28, etc.) But in reality the contract only trades in increments of .25. (937.25, 937.50, 937.75, etc)

flipflopper

flipflopper, As far as I see that you are the only person on the forum who has such an issue. I think you do something that other customers don't and we can't reproduce it too. Marina asked you to provide logs and other things. The pictures are not enough to fix this issue. Please send us the requi...

flipflopper

Missing TONS of daily data today. This is really sad that I can never trust daily charts using Multicharts. I thought you said that Multicharts was supposed to use the open, high, low, close if the settlement daily data has not yet been released from esignal. This was supposed to ensure NO MISSING D...

flipflopper

Still have the same issue

I feel like Multicharts will never be able to support daily data for esignal.

Attached is a screenshot of the $compq

Missing yesterdays data.

flipflopper

Was this issue fixed in the gold version?

flipflopper

Hi flipflopper, I haven't received anything from you regarding missing daily bars for ES. Is the problem still there? If it is, could you please e-mail me the information as outlined in my post above? Hi Marina, I have been really busy lately so have not had time to deal with this. It has been happ...

flipflopper

I have not seen the problem again for the other indices.

flipflopper

Anyone have the original VWAP reset code? I was trying to modify it so that it would paint my bars green if the last close is above the VWAP and red if the last close was below the VWAP. I've searched the web to no avail. On another note... where does Multicharts store all the code for the indicators?

flipflopper

This is the E-mini S&P.

Yesterdays bar is still missing.

flipflopper

Please try Beta 6 - it has the discussed fix.

Same issue... missing daily for today in the ES.

flipflopper

No. It's still XP SP3.

flipflopper

see attached. I got this when closing MultiCharts.

flipflopper

Fair enough. Keep up the excellent work. You guys have done some great things with this software and it has come a looooooong way!!

Now the best charting software on the market by a clear mile.

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Have you guys found a way to implement this?

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Great thanks.

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But how will Multicharts know if that bar is ready?

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My only fear is what if you do a reload after hours but before esignal posts the official close. Would that cause Multicharts to pull a "blank" bar? Will Multicharts know if the esignal official close daily bar is not ready yet?

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Ok. This is great. So the way I understand this is Multicharts will not use the official close unless you do a reload after hours. This will eliminate missing bars because if you NEVER do a reload Multicharts will always at LEAST use the unofficial close. If you reload it will go back and pull the o...

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Thank you for investigating and validating this issue. Are you saying there is no way to really solve this fully? Anytime you open up a chart after hours before esignal releases the "official" close Multicharts will always not be able to pull any kind of daily bar from esignal? Not even the "unoffic...

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Here are the screenshots. I just opened my charting after hours started flipping through charts and noticed GS was missing data again.

I have also sent the logs to Marina.

I'm surprised no one else has been noticing this issue again.

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Sad to report that this issue is back.

The way it manifested itself with me is by opening daily charts after hours from my Market Scanner.

I will be sending the logs to the support team and have talked to them about this issue. If anyone else is having this issue again please post here.

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Sounds good to me.

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Wow. Thanks for the reply. So even though I have defined the day session as outcry only it won't apply it to a daily bar?

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Ok. Cool. Now that that's solved... anyone have trouble with esignal daily futures bars?

I always seem to get the overnight action ie no gaps. I have my sessions defined properly in the Quote Manager and equities always seem fine but I never seem to have overnight gaps in the futures charts?!?

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Good question!!

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I'm attaching a screen shot of two charts. One is the Daily YM and one the 30 minute YM. I am curious about the 5 and 10 day moving averages. On the daily chart its just a simple 5 and 10 period moving average. On the 30 minute chart it is a 65 and 130 period simple moving average. These should crea...

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Thanks. Your team has done an excellent job on the new versions and it is incredible how you have stayed on top of all the bugs that naturally come in developing such a complex piece of software. The fixes have all come in a timely manner as well. I have dealt with many many software vendors and use...

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Most of my charts say this in the title bar of my detached chart windows. If I type the symbol into the chart again its fixed.

Also sometimes when I drag the x axis it moves the entire chart instead of resizing the space between bars.

Anyone else having either of these issues?

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Hi Marina,

Any word on this?

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On a positive note I have found this latest version to be the best upgrade I have experienced. The software now works better for me then I could have ever hoped. I am a discretionary futures day trader though. And no I am not some paid shill or someone who is hoping for a free license as some one el...

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I on the other hand have found the new beta to be the best piece of trading software I have ever used!!! To qualify that I will disclose that I am strictly a stock and futures discretionary daytrader. I bet you will be rewarded with a free copy of MC Gold, you are the first person with positive com...

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I on the other hand have found the new beta to be the best piece of trading software I have ever used!!!

To qualify that I will disclose that I am strictly a stock and futures discretionary daytrader.

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I am shaking with excitment.

This is the first time I have been truly impressed in a vendor in a long time.

I am sure all of your current and future clients will be pleased to know they have the best out there.

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Sounds good to me. Thanks

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Any word on this or when the new beta will be released?

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Hi Marina,

You can use any equities symbol. Try AAPL.

The field can be found when you open a quote window and right click on the field and choose replace field.

Also when is the new beta coming out?

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Bump.

Marina?

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Hi Marina, I am looking forward to the 5.3 beta and gold release. It looks like you will have an almost perfect piece of trading software by then. I have only one additional request. Esignal does some annoying things with their equities data. There are two data fields to get the last trade: 1. "Last...

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This has to do with the way esignal stores daily data when the cash markets close.

I am assuming you noticed this problem after hours.

This is an issue that I have worked with Marina on and should be resolved in the next beta release.

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Ahhh wonderful!!

Got scared for a minute.

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I run 4 monitors, 3 with MC and 1 with TWS. I stretch 1 workspace across three monitors and then place multiple windows within the workspace.
I hope this helps.

That doesn't help someone with 6 screens (3 over 3).

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Hi radekj, Thank you very much for your comments. You are right saying that the current behavior of workspaces/detached windows can be quite inconvenient with certain set-ups. We are planning to change this behavior in the versions of MultiCharts that will follow MultiCharts Gold. Regards. Hi Marin...

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I think there are many of us that are very thankful for all the hard work and progress your team has made.

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Wow!!!!!!!!!

I am very excited to hear this!!!

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Very nice TJ. Thanks!!

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Thanks for the help guys!!

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See attached

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I have two moving averages for my 30 minute chart... they are the 65 and 130 period SMA.

In reality they are the 5 and 10 day moving average.

Is there a way to add text after each moving average calling them a 5 day and 10 day?

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Can't seem to find studies I've imported directly into Multicharts on my hard drive.

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It was 6 hours after cash markets closed. I have all my symbols in a scanner that I click on the open a chart for that symbol.

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Tonight I noticed that when I look at the OIH it is missing 12/4 daily data and the SPY has the 12/4 data...

These symbols are both on the same exchange (AMEX). I hope this doesn't poke any holes in the hypothesis.

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That's great news... so I'm not crazy!!!

I guess your users don't use esignal data since no one else noticed the problem.

Thanks for your help Marina.

Hopefully this will put all the missing data issues to rest!!!

Let me know when you apply the fix.

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Is anyone else having issues with missing daily data.... or am I just going crazy??

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