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Thanks Polly..

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Answer below Hi All... Im trying to use HA as a confluence for my normal candle chart and want to get the current color values for HA. My problem was the main window would run before i could get the HA values. (answer below). Answer for anyone else that might see this thread. The problem was i was a...

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Also go back to the spot you found this code.. and see if they posted the _gaverage function.. Id be surprised if it wasn't somewhere else in the thread.. Only cause without the function-- its not going to compile for anyone.. So others would be asking for it too..

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So it seems like your code is calling a function _gaverage( ) .. Do you have that function in your functions folder? If you dont-- then its not going to compile..

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If im calling a function from within a signal--- and the function uses the uptick count and downtick count.. Do i need to send those in the function call or will the function just know to reference the chart that it was called from?

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also.. just a thought-- if your using tick based bars vs time based bars-- you need to use the _s suffix reserved words...

Example = LastBarOnChart_s vs LastBarOnChart

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I dont believe GV is only for rt.. If i back test-- and on chart 1 i get a buy signal-- put the var result into GV... Then on chart 2 it will see the GV and take a trade... I do use Global mode for playback... Im on mc14-- so in order to use Global Mode i have to close all my other charts to use pla...

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Smoky.. Try going into MultiCharts -> File -> Preferences -> Trading tab -> Fail-Watch and trading system warnings. and set the settings to give your computer a bit more time.. Might just be a bit too tight..

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Global Variables might work well for you Rick.. Put the value into a GV and then pull that value out and use it in another Script..

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I am doing something similar-- and using Global Variables for this.. Set: AccuracySetNamedInt("Current",Current);// this is for int values AccuracySetNamedDouble("currentST",currentST );//double values Get: AccuracyGetNamedInt("Current",-1); AccuracyGetNamedDouble"Current",-1); So on chart 1 ill fun...

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NM... Found a VWAP with bands on here.. So feel free to remove this thread...

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HI mIk.. im a bit confused.. When you say "the problem was on the first bar" do you mean the first bar of the day? Or First bar of a setup (before the trade?) .. I coded a function to find start of day values-- current global net profit ect.. Lets say your question is referring to before a trade is ...

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Also there is a small script you can get to stop windows from updating.. Im using LTSC and i dont want any updates... Here is the script i use.. I have nothing to do with this site so this is just an example of what i use.. I read around to make sure the script was safe and all results seemed ok.. s...

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That would be a neat feature.. Though i wouldn't use it right now-- would be nice to have for the future..

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Here is a link to a script i posted a bit ago.. There is a picture for an example to see if this is something that might help ya.. You can go in and edit the items that are showing on the screen.. just use the keywords for the items your looking for... https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopi...

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So here is a pic of what i ended up coming up with.. text_On_screen_example.JPG If its something that anyone wants-- then here is the code.. //this puts text on chart Inputs: ShowText(true),TextSize(11),BackGroundColor(black),TextColor(White),PlaceABorder(false),BarsInFromLeft(1); vars: forBar(0), c...

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Are you checking this for on the same bar your placing the trade with? Maybe your getting the warning on the first bar-- and you think the warning is coming from another bar? Though its really just staying there from checking on the bar the trade was placed... entryprice -close price=0, so would = 0...

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Couldnt figure out how to fix the testing speed to a decent speed... ... So went back to 14.10... Though with that said--- looking forward to 15 once the testing speed is figured out... :)... Its almost like the speed bar was locked to 3 or 4 out of 10... Even though it was maxed out.. I was testing...

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"Upgraded" to 15.. Install and update went fine... Rebooted computer 2x... Opened 15 and all looks good... Clicked on simulated trading to test and Its kinda working-- but VERYYYYYY slow... When i slide the speed slider all the way to the right/fastest (where it used to do the whole range almost ins...

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Hi Polly... Ill put together examples for the point/tick comparison... Though all you have to do is bring up a renko chart-- and put your resolution to 1 tick and your box size to 5 and select points .. Instead of ending up with bricks that are 5 points in size.. you end up with bricks that are 5 ti...

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Ok Enough!.... Guys... You have to fix the instrument point value!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I trade with renko... So BrickSize and points are connected.. Right now i have to put the value of 20 points in if i wa...

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I know you did and appreciate it... Im just that guy that if there is a bug or something not working-- i tend to try and figure it out..

... I say new rule... If there is a pic-- there is a button... woohoooo

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Have a good weekend Kate...

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kkkaaaattteeeee.... question... doesnt a item in the drop downs (file/view ect) that has a picture next to it-- mean... There is a button available for it? and if that is the case-- then where is the format signal button in the customize tool bars? when i right click on the chart i see the "format s...

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The name kinda says it all.. Asking for a "format signal" button.. Where i can click it and it just brings up the current signals settings windows.. This would make testing and "playing" with signal easier.. I see there is a picture next to the format signal in the pull down(which usually means ther...

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Good to know.. Thanks Kate..

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does that mean that MC can handle the file and just ignore the values or is the fact that there are "unused" values mess things up?

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Kate... THANKYOU.. i thought i was going crazy.. That was it..

Sending you over a O +\_/ (pizza and a beer)

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Here is a weird one.. So reinstalled MC.... Before reinstalling, id place a vert/hor line on the chart and my curser would automatically change my pointer back to the arrow after i placed a line on the chart.... Now.. If I go to place a line on the chart -- the pointer doesnt change back to the arro...

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Found a place where i can buy mes data in chunks of data vs a subscription.. here is a example of how the csv file comes and im just checking to make sure this looks ok(vs just importing it and messing things up).. They had a few options for types of data-- Will this work to import into MC? ts_recv,...

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just turn off putting your laptop to sleep.. Go to settings/power and sleep settings/sleep .. Then go to sleep and change to "never"... Close the window and you "should" be good..

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Though i already know i can do it they way you showed. .. Having something so basic that is wrong-- is something that Im sure the coders would want to fix.. So i was just bringing it to their attention... Sometimes some of the most basic bugs are the ones they dont see..

But thanks for the advice..

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Mazinguer.. Yes IB offers free data-- but for very little (i think its like$10 a month) you can get after market data (cqg/rithmic) and they offer tick level data/history further back... I know cqg offers 30 days and i think rithmic offers history back as far as the equity has been open.. I contacte...

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So i always thought that a tick was the smallest movement to the right of the dec point.. and Points were the smallest move to the left of the dec point.. Looking it up- (just to make sure i wasn't crazy) - here is investopedias take on it https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/032615/what-differe...

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Hi Polly.. We were on the same page.. I had looked into text drawing from your advice at the top... and realized i can place the text anywhere on the chart.. Easy enough..

Thanks for your help..

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"Note: To test out the Simulated Trading capabilities, you can use our brand new built-in MultiCharts data source designed specifically for Simulated Trading. It provides sample data for various instruments." So does this mean that you (multicharts) will be including back test data with 15? If that ...

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Hi Polly Data window isnt what i was looking for..Im wanting to see what my current var values are... Vs the data window which is just showing high/open/low/close and a few other things.. But none of my own vars that are being used.. I tried the expert commentary-- but it wasnt quite what i was look...

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Hi TJ... Always appreciate your trying to help in here.. What you showed wasnt what i was thinking... Let me see if i can explain it better.. I had had a mt4 indicator that was supplied by forexfactory. The indicator would call out and get the current calendar info for upcoming red and yellow news e...

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I have been looking and im POSITIVE these 2 features have to be in Multicharts but i cant find them anywhere.. 1. Global crosshairs.. Im wanting to have 2 charts up of the same instrument (can be in the same workspace) but different time frames... Id like to have crosshairs on both charts that match...

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Anyone know how to place a text/data box on the chart.. When im testing my scripts-- i like to see that the data im getting from some of my vars is correct... In MT4 i use a comments box which updates the values each bar and shows the value inside the box i have on the chart.. .. I havnt been able t...

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Have been looking around for a news and events indicator that can control my signals and turn trading on and off if big events are upcoming... Does anyone have something like this or know of an indicator that works like this? I saw Josh's-- but looks to only give upcoming news in text box (I just br...

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Thanks Kate.. Makes sense and was kinda what i thought it was for.. But just waned to make sure--

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I looked in the wiki but couldn't find anything.. Just wondering what the "order and data dragging" button does.. Its the button with the hand and the bars behind the hands.. I normally trade via signals-- so not manually placing trades on the chart... Is this button to specifically move manually ad...

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Tibouss... Im pretty sure you can run both demo/real accounts at the same time... You would use 2 charts of the same equity... One chart you go into signal properties/auto trading and at the bottom select "paper trader" or whatever demo account you have.. On the other chart you would go to the signa...

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Question on how to apply the set margin in the quote manager... So i went into the quote manager-- and for mesh24 i set the margin to 40.00(the correct margin amount for 1 micro contract for my broker).... Yet it still shows up in my order and position tracker as $2418... Do i need to do something i...

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TJ your slippin.... Thanks Polly.. Will check this out

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Danny.. There is a good thread going on here in the forums--- https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=45346 There might be some great info in there for you... Looks like Optimus is well regarded in the thread.. Also-- the last post by brown talked about using IQ Feed which isnt a clea...

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I dont have the true answer to this.. But my gut reaction would be---- Global Variable ? I dont know if GV's are saved outside of the MC universe or if 2 concurrent running copies of MC can interact with each others GV's.. But that is where id start looking... Maybe TJ has a thought on it.. Or reach...

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This is for anyone else looking for a answer to this.. The answer is-- MC doesn't do enum's What you can do is have a input and then a if statement and do it that way.. example: Vars: MyOptions(1); if MyOptions = 1 then begin do this; end else if MyOptions = 2 then begin do that; end else if MyOptio...

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I took a look and came up with this site that shows futures brokers that allow canadian clients... I know optimus is supposed to be a good broker...

Here is the link. https://brokerchooser.com/best-brokers/ ... -in-canada

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Lordongi.. I wonder if you could do something like this...... Have MC send a email to a server-- then have the server send the message that is in the email, to your telegram channel.. I havnt looked into sending emails in MC-- but if its possible(which it HASSSS to be) then this might be a good work...

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Adi feel free to reach out anytime.. Im also new to PL and MC... But i have been coding for a while in other languages and whatever knowledge i have-- im more then happy to at least try to help...

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Looking to draw a vertical trendline in the future based off of time...

example..
New day opens at that point i draw a trendline in the future at 0930... I know how to trade Vert Tend line-- but not sure how to draw them into the future..

Any thoughts?

Yooohooo TJ

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Danny.. Also-- id reach out to MC techsupport.. They were great.. The guy sent me a pass for him to connect with my computer.. Looked around-- showed me a setting that was wrong and was off.. Maybe get tech support online-- show him what your seeing-- maybe there is a setting that is off in MC..

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Hi Danny.... So i originally was going to go with IB before i ended up at amp... Was a 100% noob to futures at that point.. I downloaded NT for a demo(30 days(before i ended up at MC)) and of course had questions.. I called and talked to tech support there (at IB) . He said that though they (IB) sup...

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ugh... Im so over this world tracking money thing.. Bring on bitcoin and all federal agencies can eat a big one lol... With that said.. You can purchase your own data from cqg and rithmic for IB (this is what i was going to do when i was going to go with them)... IB offers super low data fee's to th...

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Danny--- quick question.. What days are the gaps there? Maybe its a monday and there was a gap over the weekend and it opened up high or low...

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Danny.JPG: (72.8 KiB) Not downloaded yet

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Hi Danny... I am running renko charts-- and show phantom bars is on mine.. Must be a tick chart/renko thing... How about building the chart with minutes (dumb suggestion but its worth a try).. Its a option in your pic you sent.. (reaching for straws i know).. A suggestion is to just subscribe to cqg...

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Trying to figure out how to create a Enum based input..... So a input where there is a drop down menu with multiple options and i can select one of them... Here is a example.. This is just a example... I know we dont use months like that in PL-- but im trying to figure out how to be able to select o...

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Hi Adi Not sure if this will help... But it sounds like you want to take total account available equity and use ALL of it to place a position.. Though that sounds DANGEROUS (hearing danger zone song from top gun in my head right now--- also archer "danger zone")... Try using GetRTAccountEquity as a ...

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Hi Danny... Im new here too.. But --My guess is Tradingview has auto fill for gaps and or "phantom bars"... There is no way TV could show a chart with a bunch of holes in it... Here in MC,to turn on phantom bars--- go to (right click on the chart) format instrument/settings/(up at top)show phantom b...

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Hi PiTrader... So the problem is you need to add the _s suffix to break it down to seconds... Try this. Youll notice that i added the suffix to both tl new and tl sets as well as the time calls.. Once TL=TL_New_s(Date,Time_s,0,Date,Time_s,0); TL_SetEnd_s(TL,Date[Displace],Time_s[Displace],Plot1 [Dis...

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TJ TJ TJ TJ TJ .... That was IT...

Thank You!!!!!...

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Hi TJ... Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.... Makes sense.. adding resolutions down to seconds vs just minutes... (seems so obvious once its in front of you)...

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Hi TJ Thanks for taking your time out to help.. I really appreciate it.. I think my original question was a bit confusing.. I kind of asked two questions into one.. So ill just start with one part for now.. (forget the above question).. 1. How can i put a signal/script onto the chart and only run th...

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Hi all... So i coded up a line cross signal script... I placed it on the renko chart and my lines dont match up with the MA lines.. Anyone have any reason why? inputs: Price( Close ), FastLength( 9 ), SlowLength( 18 ), style(1); // ( 1 = solid, 2 = dashed, 3 = dotted ... etc etc ) variables: var0( 0...

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Hi all.. Bruce here... Nice to meet ya... Question.. Does anyone know of a good tutor for powerlanguage/multicharts... Im wanting to find someone to help me with back testing and a few things id like to find out how to do (vertical charts/ comments on the chart)... When i reached out to MC support t...

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Another way to comment out code is 1. you can use open bracket to start and close bracket to stop .. This is good for large groups of text on multiple lines that you want to comment out example= {text} 2. you can comment out a single line of code by just using // example= //here is my commented out ...

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Trying to figure out how to place a single vertical line on each bar starting from the data playback point i pick. Im running into 2 problems: 1. When i place the study on the chart - it automatically goes back and fills in all the previous bars.. Id like to just start from where i pulled the data p...

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