MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

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Hi Kate, Just a point of clarification, when you say "The Beta version can be installed on the same machine as the official release." Can the MultiCharts 15 Beta Version be installed on the same machine as a separate version from the official release of MultiCharts 14, without any conflicts? In othe...

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Hi Polly, That will not be necessary, to use your Live Chat. I have successfully debugged the issue and have the solution that permanently works. When MultiCharts advised, in their procedures to resolve this Compile Error, Line 0, Column 0, to create a new folder for the Studies, as follows (in the ...

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Hi Polly, Scratch the solution I posted above. The reason that worked, was because an Indicator was brand new and it compile again, for the first time. Subsequent compiles of that same Indicator generates the same Compile Error, Line 0, Column 0 errors. The ONLY way that I have been successful in re...

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Hi Polly, Thank you for your quick response to my original post regarding the Compile Error, Line 0, Column 0 issue. After going through all of the numerous steps included within the the Wiki article (twice), none of the suggestions for correcting the Compile Error prevented the error from reoccurri...

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Has anyone developed a permanent solution to the generated Compile Error, Line 0, Column 0 issue??? I have an Indicator script (nothing fancy, standard PL script) that requires a Repair of MultiCharts every time I need to recompile it. If I Repair MultiCharts, it will compile successfully one time. ...

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There are High CPU Load Messages being issued on our VPN Server, whenever a trade is triggered and executed. There are four simultaneous workspaces running. There are eight separate datasets (two datasets per workspace) being read and processed by the workspaces. This High CPU Load issue obviously d...

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What is the recommended or best practice for reducing the size of the TSCACHE.GDB? Currently our TSCACHE.GDB file is well over a half a GB and obviously keeps growing. How do we reduce its size? There is a 'Clear Cache" function in the Quote Manager, but I am not sure that accomplishes the objective...

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Very good suggestion. Thank you!

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The documentation for i_setplotvalue and i_getplotvalue keywords says: Gets the value calculated by a signal that is to be used for plotting from an indicator. It can be considered as a bridge between a signal and an indicator. Using i_setplotvalue and i_getplotvalue keywords makes it possible to av...

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Any update available when the CQG Micro Bitcoin Futures Symbols (MBT) will be added to MultiCharts? The IQFeed Symbols have been added, but nothing seems to be available for CQG. I know the symbols could be added manually, but would rather use the Add Symbols --> From Data Source, as we have many sy...

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Can the MC 14.0 Release be installed as an independent instance from MC 12.0, like we were able to do with the MC 14.0 Beta Releases? Or does MC 14.0 completely replace MC 12.0, once MC 14.0 is installed?

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Hi Henry,

Any ETA for MultiCharts Release 2?

Thanks,
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Hi general,

You might want to check out this other thread regarding using the IB gateway rather than TWS: viewtopic.php?t=51568

Good luck with your issue.

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Unless we are missing something someplace, the Bold Face font option is inoperable in MC 12.0. Whether the "Bold" checkbox is checked or not, all text is displayed as "Regular" non-Bold fonts. Reference the Format Price Scale, Format Time Scale, Text plotting, etc. Seems that all text is affected. T...

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Is there any way to obtain the Workspace Name upon which an Indicator or Signal/Strategy script is running, programmatically from inside of the Indicator or Signal/Strategy PowerLanguage script?

Thanks!

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If we have three signals/strategies running simultaneously on a chart. One of the signals/strategies contains a RecalcLastBarAfter(5) command. Will that RecalcLastBarAfter command in the one signal that contains it also cause the other two signals/strategies to be recalculated after 5 seconds as wel...

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We have a need to have the following setup: * A Signal/Strategy loaded in SubChart 1, the same SubChart where the Instrument Price Bars are loaded (Daily Bar Resolution). * The Strategy will calculate an indicator value, which will be used to trigger trades in the Strategy and subsequently execute t...

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Hi Angelina, Yes, "Update on Every Tick" was checked on the Indicator. It appears that this option on a Daily chart does not feed tick data to the chart (intrabar). But we were doing our testing over the weekend, so that might have been the issue, not sure. We will do some additional testing today t...

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Hi Angelina, Thank you for your recommendations. We wrote an indicator to accomplish what you have suggested and applied it to our daily chart. Unfortunately, the indicator is only active at the end of each daily bar. Therefore the test of the market position using the i_MarketPosition command keywo...

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We want to display an Alert window whenever a Strategy order is taken on a chart (all entries and exits). The chart has a one day bar resolution. Trades might exist for several days to several weeks. The Alerts function works correctly for the normal trade entries and exits, which are issued as mark...

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We still are unable to access any CQG historical tick data. What has CQG said about this issue? Any ETA for having a resolution available?

CQG tick and volume charts are useless without the ability to download the missing data to fill the data gaps.

Thank you!

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Real time CQG data is being fed to the charts, but there is no access to any CQG historical data. Below are two screens showing the resulting issues. Both of the subject charts have been up and running for over eight hours. On recently reloaded symbols, where data was current as of last Friday, when...

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Regarding the MultiCharts processes that are loaded when MultiCharts is initiated, the current MultiCharts Help File states, in part: Sometimes you need to restart MultiCharts. If a user closes MultiCharts and restarts it too quickly, some of MultiCharts processes may have no time for a correct shut...

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Thank you, Kristina, for the very detailed and helpful explanation of the Currency Converter. We also thank you for explaining the current plans in the near future of its use. So, from what I gather, the Currency Conversion Server would only be accessed for non-USD denominated Futures Contracts (e.g...

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MultiCharts is displaying error messages that it cannot access the Currency Conversion Server (whatever that is?). The error message is being displayed on IQFeed Symbols for the EUREX Futures, BD, EX and XG. Why is this error message being displayed? What is the Currency Conversion Server? What is t...

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Hi Angelina, Thank you for your response. Obviously, MultiCharts was informed of the maintenance that CQG was doing last weekend. What changes has MultiCharts put in place now, after last weekend, to notify your USERS that you were informed of the maintenance that would be conducted on the CQG data ...

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The CQG data issue was resolved at 11:55 ET AM today. Everything is working as expected now.

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We cannot connect to the CQG data feed today. This issue occurs with four different sets of CQG account credentials from two different brokers. And we are using Henry's required CQG WebAPI connection. The Quote Manager reports: REMOTING APPLICATION CLOSED, Lost Connection to Data Network. Anyone els...

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Does anyone know how to access the bar direction (up/down) painting of the Heiken Ashi Bars in a Indicator. Obviously, using the calculated HA Bar Close and HA Bar Open values, it is close to the HA Bar Open < HA Bar Close for up bars, and HA Bar Open > HA Bar Close for down bars, on a chart loaded ...

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Hi Angelina, Yes, the gbak_9.1.zip file was unzipped and the gbak_x64.bat was run from inside of the unzipped gbak_9.1 folder. This same issue has occurred on two different systems, one running Windows 10 AE, and another one running Windows Server 2008 R2. The issue seems to be related to the gbak e...

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When running the gbak_x64.bat file for MultiCharts 9.1 and Higher, from the current link contained in the Online Help File (https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/How_to_Reduce_Database_Size), it generates an error: 'gbak' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operabl...

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Hi Kristina, Thank you for your reply. Yes, we do obtain both the MC User ID and Registration Name to authenticate a user using the scripts. Hopefully, the Windows 10 Anniversary Edition is considered a major OS upgrade and the User ID will not change that frequently when more normal Windows 10 upda...

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Our users are reporting that their MC User IDs are changing after the Windows 10 Anniversary Edition Update has been been updated on their systems. Since all of our MC scripts are tied to our users' MC User IDs, obviously this means a script change in order for our software to be continually usuable...

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We were running 33 autotrading workspaces overnight last night, split up between two instances of MC running. The worksapces were trading approicmately 25 different Futures symbols. The few duplicated symbols in this group were trading against separate accounts. We experienced an MC app crash at aro...

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Hi Henry, Yes, the names of the function calls are very straightforward, like: RFile - Open a Read File InData - Read a File SFile - Define a Sending File OutData - Send Data to an Output File ADDStringFile - Add to a String File(?) DelFile - Delete a File DirCreate - Create a new directory The issu...

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Without digging through the IOData source code, is there any documentation available for the IOData DLL function calls, like OutData, SFile, ADDStringFile, DelFile, DirCreate this library, where we can write to file, read from file, add a line to file, delete file, create folder? I have successfully...

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Thank you, Henry.

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I am having an issue today with setting up a chart to perform an Extended Backtest using Bid/Ask Tick Data in MC Build 12587. Three datasets are on the workspace: Data1 1500 Tick resolution in Subchart 1, Trade Data Data2 1 Tick resolution in Subchart 2, Ask Data Data3 1 Tick resolution in Subchart ...

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If autotrading is initiated intrabar, is there any way to programmatically delay the execution of the first trade so that it will not fire off until after that first bar has completed forming? The signal/strategy is set to fire off trades intrabar (wih IOG on), which is the desired behavior and acce...

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Does anyone know if someone (MultiCharts or otherwise) has developed a DTN Nanex NxCore data feed plugin for MultiCharts, either native or custom?

Thanks!

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The MultiCharts Online Help documents the following regarding OCO Order Groups: One Cancels Other (OCO) orders are the price orders sent in a group. When any of OCO orders is filled or partially filled, the system cancels or reduces size of other orders in this OCO-group. Questions: 1. If we issue t...

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I am attempting to use the Paper Trader DOM to test some simulation trade executions (manually entered) with my live CQG data feed and CQG API trading connection. When a trade gets executed manually in the DOM, the order gets placed and filled, but does not show up in the DOM, nor is the PnL tracked...

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Thanks Henry. That would make more sense, having it saved to the MultiCharts installation folder.

I appreciate the explanation and the impending fix.

Thank you!

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After installing the new MC 9.1 Release 2 (Build 12010) x64, whenever I save workspaces to a folder when I close down MC, a file entitled "ChartingThemes.xml" gets inserted in the folder where the workspaces are saved to. What is the ChartingThemes.xml file? Why does it get created? What is its purp...

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@Arnie, I am a Windows Insider and I have the new release of Windows 10 now. Microsoft just dropped another new build (Build 10240), which is supposedly the final version of the new Windows OS. Build 10240 is the version that Microsoft selected as its final Release to Manufacturing (RTM) copy. Micro...

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Has MultiCharts 9.0 been tested running on Windows 10 yet?

Anyone running MultiCharts 9.0 on Windows 10?

Thanks!

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I know we can use GETAPPINFO(aiHighestDispValue) and GETAPPINFO(aiLowestDispValue) to get the displayed price range on a chart. Similarly, is there any way to obtain the Indicator value range displayed on a SubChart? I am plotting a point/dot above the Indicator values on selective bars on the Indic...

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A couple quick questions... I have an Indicator that does not use any bar lengths as input parameters, and looks back only 2 bars in the actual coding, but on a simple minute bar chart loaded, the Indicator does not start calculating until Bar 61. No strategies/signals are loaded on the chart. 1. Wh...

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eegroup, the issue has been confirmed. The fix is targeted to MultiCharts 9.0 Release 4. I will get back to you if it is technically possible to provide a hotfix. Henry, not quite related but something I would like to know: are these millisecond timestamps in QM based on timestamps in datafeed or l...

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Of interest, if we build a 1 tick chart of the data in the main MultiCharts program, and export the bar data directly from the workspace, the millisecond portion of the tick timestamp is exported correctly. This is a little impractical to accomplish as a workaround, however, when we have over 12 ye...

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eegroup, the issue has been confirmed. The fix is targeted to MultiCharts 9.0 Release 4.
I will get back to you if it is technically possible to provide a hotfix.

Hi Henry,

Thank you very much for your confirmation and for the impending correction for this issue. Much appreciated!

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Hi Henry, Thank you for investigating and analyzing this issue. Here is another example of a data error in the export file. In this case, we have a single digit millisecond timestamp. The 09:22:36.7 timestamp should be 09:22:36.007. If imported into another program, like Excel, it converts the times...

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We ran into an issue with a data export file created from the Quote Manager. The millisecond timestamps are not being exported with leading zeros in the millisecond portion of the timestamp. In the timestamps, if the millisecond portion of the timestamp has only one or two significant digits, MC is ...

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Is there any way to get the name of the workspace that an indicator or signal/strategy is loaded on from inside of the PowerLanguage script?

Like something similar to:

WS_Name = GetWorkspaceName;

Like the way in which the strategy name can be obtained:

Strategy_Name = GetStrategyName;

Thanks!

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Hi TJ,

Cool. That may be exactly what I was looking for, especially the function that was called. Will check it out.

Thanks!

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Hi Josh, Yes, I was aware that it was impossible to populate a DOM with DTNIQ Market Depth (although logically it would seem to be an easy thing to do, even though DTNIQ is not a broker). That was not really my question, however. I wanted to know if the Futures market depth data can be referenced fr...

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DTN IQFeed reports that they can provide the full market depth on Futures contracts (bid and ask prices and volumes to many levels deep, the same data that appears in the DOM ladder). Does anyone know if this Futures market depth data is obtainable from within MC and have it accessible at the chart ...

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1. Do we have any access in PowerLanguage to obtain how the Position Limits are set in a Signal/Strategy? 2. Do we have any programmatic control in PowerLanguage to change the settings of the Positions Limits in a Signal/Strategy when it is running on a chart/workspace? Please see the partial screen...

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Great idea, sptrader! Here you go, everyone. What's new in MultiCharts 9.0 Beta 1 : MULTICHARTS 9.0 BETA 1 - WHAT’S NEW NEW FEATURES This version is a big step forward for our platform. We added a huge feature - real-time portfolio trading through all available brokers! In this version we also conce...

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The new MultiCharts 9.0 Beta 1 was released tonight for downloading, but the "What's New" link lands on the MC 8.8 What's New webpage, and there is nothing posted in the Forum about this new version. Where can we get a list of the new features and capabilities being provided with the new MC 9.0 Beta...

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Thanks for your reply, evdl. Much appreciated!

I think, as you do, this is related to MC and not the OS. I have checked most of the OS issues that could be causing a similar issue and they are all fine. And as mentioned in my original post, it only happens in the PLE, nowhere else.

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After upgrading to MC 8.8 Build 8967 (x64), the copy and paste functions quit working in the PowerLanguage Editor after a while, for some reason. Sometimes it occurs in 10 minutes, sometimes it may last up to an hour. When this occurs, the keystrokes Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V are inoperable. The right-click d...

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I agree with tortoise, that something has changed with the new release of MC 8.8, Build 8593 (64-bit), in that things just seem to be running slower. Workspaces do not load nearly as fast as they did under MC 8.8 Build 8363 (64-bit). Also, when running an optimization under MC 8.8, Build 8593, the o...

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Or do you mean you need to get the value that has been specified in Format->Instrument->Settings->Data Range? Hi Henry, Yes, that is exactly what we are seeking access to, the starting date of the data range specified on the workspace in the Format-->Instrument-->Settings-->Data Range-->From Date i...

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Is there any way in which we have access to the Starting Date (or Starting DateTIme stamp) of the Data Range that is loaded on a workspace, inside of a PowerLanguage Indicator and/or Signal/Strategy? We find that we can get access to the DateTime stamp of the left most bar displayed on the chart, us...

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Anyone know what is passed in an Indicator/Signal when the GetUserName and GetUserID commands are issued when running on an "Evaluation Copy" (30 Day Trial) of MultiCharts? At least for the User Name it appears not to use the "Licensed to:" name displayed as "(Evaluation Copy)" [the name that is dis...

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Is there any way in PowerLanguage to check if Auto Trading is turned on or not?

Thanks.

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In PowerLanguage, can we programmatically determine if an instrument in a workspace has the Display: Time Zone setting set to either Local or Exchange?

If so, how?

Thansk!

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Thanks TJ and escamillo for your quick replies. For question 1, I should have provided more explanation. Attached are three screenshots which depict the problem. When I display text on a chart, if the multiple text items are displayed on bars that are close to one another, the new text overlays the ...

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A couple questions: 1. Do I have any control over the transparency of text plotted within PowerLanguage? I can make the text NOT transparent manually in the Format Text Window be unselecting the Transparent Effect checkbox. I could not find a PowerLanguage command to turn off the Text Transparency p...

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When I attempt to install an .sef Read Only file into the PowerLanguage Editor, it immediately returns the following error message: Error occurred during import. File: "C:\multicharts\NewStudy.sef" Study:"(Function)" Error Code: 1 This set of studies imports fine, without errors on all but one syste...

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I have a simple indicator, applied to a Contract Bar Chart in MultiCharts (Version 6.0, Beta 3, Build 3276) with two Data Sets (DATA1 and DATA2). The "Update on every tick" selection is not checked and the indicator does not use IntraBarPersist. The indicator only needs to fire off, have the variabl...

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I installed Beta 3 on two of my systems. Both are running XP Pro x32. One of the systems works perfectly and I can recompile all user built functions, indicators and studies. On the first system, all of them recompile perfectly, and I can use every one of them. The EXACT same functions, indicators a...

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Is there any way to get/obtain the Subchart Number that a Study/Indicator is loaded on, from within the MultiCharts PowerLanguage code for the Study/Indicator, without setting up an input parameter to indicate the Subchart Number that would have to be manually set when the Study/Indicator is added/l...

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Hi, Janus: No, no pissing contest. Just trying to help Max out. You got him on the right road; I just was attempting to help him get to his destination. I appreciate all of your hard work posting on the Forum. Thanks for your contributions. They are all very informative. Have a Carlsberg HOF for me!...

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Hi, Max: "Trigger" is defined as a numeric variable, not a condition. In a logical statement (IF .... THEN ...), you need to compare something with something else in order to have the Buy take place as coded. In Januson's example that he provided, it was assumed that you wanted to buy (go long) when...

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Hi, TJ:

Thanks for the reply.

No, the printer is set for letter size paper. We're in the States, so A4 is not a "normal" paper size for us. I wish this was that simple.

Take care,

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When printing out a PL Indicator/Study/Function in the PL Editor, it cuts off the last line of the listing, as that line falls below the maximum margin for my printer, or it simply prints more lines per page than what my printer can print. How do I modify the number of lines that the Print command p...

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