Yes just my computer falling asleep causes the disconnection. I'll try simply setting it to never sleep and see if I can get an order sent to the paper trading account.

I'm trying to get my first autotrading (ETFs on daily bars, free data, buy next open) system up and running. As recommended, I created a paper account on IB and linked it with Multicharts. However... the laptops times out, falls asleep, and loses connection with IB TWS. Is there any recommendation o...

Thank you for the advice. I'll set up and try a paper trading acct on IB this weekend.

Good morning, I've been working on developing and backtesting some signals in a portfolio. I'm looking to set up autotrading now with some small $$$ to test out the process and connection. My question is do I need to have a dedicated account to autotrade? For example, if I have a $100k brokerage acc...

Good morning, I'm working on an ETF mean reversion signal in Powerlanguage using daily bars. Basically, I'd like to buy SLV when it's oversold (RSI(2) < 10 for example) AND the S&P 500 (or XLY) is above the 200d moving average. Is there a simple way to code this without calling a separate data serie...

Thank you so much for the lesson and for preparing the function! -Shawn scrichley, You must either copy the code from the ConnorRSI indicator into your signal and compile it there or turn the indicator code into a function and call that function from your signal. Creating a function out of the indic...

I am able to use import this indicator and apply it to a chart to show that it's working normally... However, when I try to apply it to a study for backtesting, the Power Language editor is not recognizing the indicator and the code will not compile. Any suggestions??? I'm trying to compare it to th...

Good morning, Admittedly, I am new to Multicharts and this is my first post... I'm looking to run a number of different mean reversion systems using the Portfolio trader. However, it seems to help quite a bit to hold bonds over cash when there is no signal to go long an ETF. Most of the time there i...