@Vlada thanks for your answer. The circumstance I'm describing is one whereby the symbol stops ticking, I believe, for example because it's a bank holiday and the session's duration is shortened by a few hours. I am not sure, without having this knowledge in advance, how I can detect that the sessio...

@tj would you be so kind as to answer with an answer, if you know the answer? I've already mentioned that that post doesn't clarify it for me, and my question is whether this works in live, and if so, how. More specifically, I understand that there is a timeout mechanism, but that post doesn't clari...

It is a hindsight thing. https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=50358 I read that thread but it doesn't fully clarify. Does that mean that my code will read the correct value in live trading when the session ends sooner? If so, how does MC know that the session has finished prematur...

I have a question about the behavior of SessionLastBar during live trading, specifically with regards to sessions whose duration is reduced compared to the theoretical session on the chart, for example during holidays when the market may close a few hours earlier. I saw a similar question being aske...

In MC you can customize the folder where studies and indicators are stored. This is convenient to set up file sharing such as Google Drive, One Drive, Dropbox and the likes and share code across different machines. In the PowerLanguage editor you can also customize the layout of the navigator window...

Amazing, thank you so much for the detailed explanation

Hello simoneb, In MultiCharts, Custom Futures are construed from the individual contracts that are present in QuoteManager. If a newer contract has not been added, the data for it will not be uploaded. For example, if you have added ESQ23, but have not added ESU23 and further individual contracts, ...

TS (and I assume other data sources) have "front month" continuous futures, such as @ESQ23, as opposed to the classic continuous @ES. These futures contain the whole history until then but won't rollover automatically, they will just naturally expire when the corresponding contract expires. This is ...

Will do, thanks

I have come across several other posts mentioning slowness in backfilling, but none of them seems to provide a solution, and I almost came to the conclusion that it's just the way MultiCharts works. Nonetheless I thought I'd make one more attempt and ask on the forums, hoping if not for a solution, ...

I am in paper trading Meanwhile I found the solution, or at least a mitigation technique. Enabling turning stop/limit orders into market orders mitigates this problem.

Thanks Polly, any other recommendations how to handle this apart from switching to SA mode, which is not an option for me since I'm trading with multiple strategies on the same instruments?

I have a very simple situation: I'm using Asynchronous strategy automation The strategy sends a short market order which gets 1 point of slippage, and a profit target at 100 points from the entry The chart believes that the profit will be satisfied 100 points from the theoretical entry, and doesn't ...

Thanks Kate, that explains it. It would be worth mentioning it in the documentation so to avoid any confusion (unless it's mentioned already and I missed it)

Hello, in Strategy Properties -> Auto Trading -> Get Real-Time Data section, the option "Broker" is disabled and only "Chart" can, and is, selected.

How do I enable the Broker option?

Hi Polly, thanks for your answer, but I don't understand how it explains the scenarios I described. The strategy should have entered long, but MC didn't even try to place any order. In the Orders tab of the Orders and Positions Tracker window, there's no trace of that order. What you explain and the...

I'm live trading this strategy using a real connection to Interactive Brokers (a paper trader account, but still a real connection to IB). https://i.postimg.cc/HLPnHCcx/347127508-6966901836672430-4312858251956199085-n.jpg This strategy as you can see is automated and enterer a long position with a s...

Hello, I appreciate this is not necessarily the best place where to ask but I found little information in the TS forums and docs. I'm looking to integrate with TS as a data feed in a similar way to how MultiCharts does, meaning using the locally installed TS and interacting with it, rather than usin...

Hi Kate, I've looked more closely into this and I still have some doubts: - The $ symbol: I checked and all the strategies, including the ones I showed in the screenshot, have USD as the base currency, which is the default and I never changed it, so I guess that's not the reason. Any other thoughts ...

Thanks for your answer Kate, lots of information in there, I'll take some time to process it and follow up in case I still have questions.

Hi, in the Order and Position Tracker window I'm having some troubles understanding what the difference between Strategy Open P/L and Open P/L is. Here's a screenshot of what I see on two positions, one short of a futures contract, and one long on TSLA. https://i.postimg.cc/MGBB70Lg/Capture.png Sear...