MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

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From http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=5982 Please consider adding Heikin-Ashi candles to Multicharts next release. Would be a real advantage to have it added to the core features in the next major Multicharts release. The concept is very simple and covered here: http://www.educofin.com/ha/...

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Are there any forex MT accts supported? Is there any plans to support these? I'm looking for 2 things: 1) EA signals to be exported into multicharts. Or Data to be exported from the broker via api into multicharts and theand the EA (expert adviser) can be re-coded into easylanguage/powerlanguage. 2)...

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I purchased a lifetime license from you all over a year ago, but have misplaced the license info. How do I go about retrieving the license code information? Thanks in advance.

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But how did you actually MEASURE the speed of each application? What tools did you use? What did you use to benchmark? You do not say how you actually benchmarked each charting package. Could you please specify the question? Also, did you try a different machine? Like a single-core Pentium 4? You sh...

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What did you use to benchmark? You do not say how you actually benchmarked each charting package.

Also, did you try a different machine? Like a single-core Pentium 4? You should try about 3 different machines to see how each one stacks up.

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I had FDAXM7 and FESXM7 did not start updating until 2:22 last night. This is terrible, because it should start updating at 0200. The OEC trader dom was updating fine. So I know it is not the data. I noticed the chart not updating and as I started to play around with another chart, all of a sudden t...

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So, is this ability in the 2.1 Beta?
Yes, coping/pasting is available in the new beta.
Ah, great news! Would it be possible to post a screenshot of how it is done?

Yes. I right-clicked on a chart and I didn't see this option to "copy chart"

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I noticed that those soft symbols do not update with the OEC plugin with this new version as of Monday on. I shut down and restarted, but nothing has changed

I also can't get historical data.

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Please make the "MultiCharts" logo smaller on printouts.

There should be no MC logo, or the logo should be VERY TINY for those who have paid for their license.

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The new beta looks pretty solid. It may be too late for this release for a new simple request but it would be nice if you saved User Defined scaling properties for each chart. Every time MC is started I have to go through and rescale about 25 charts (5 workspaces each with 3 -5 charts). Thanks, ~mo...

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The beta looks good for now..

Think to recompile all your studies before launching Mltchrts

Yeah. I had to learn the hard way. Anything not built-in had to be recompiled. We'll see what happens.

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You did nothing else in the interim. Just installed and crash?

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What happened to the e-mail that was supposed to be sent to everyone regarding the new release? I was thinking you all never released the beta or new version yet.

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every 2 weeks ?!?! what for ? can't you guys let them concentrate to do their work ?[/quote] Case in point. When I tested out OEC plugin. If users waited until the next release, they would have been disappointed when the errors of logging in and downloading a lot of symbols took place. The point of ...

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Yep. Overall, this improvement in CPU usage makes all of the charts load a lot faster. And adding new charts appear to be much faster.

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Good. I hope in the future you do release complete beta versions more frequently. Every 2 weeks or so. So we can digest the changes in smaller bites

. I guess I'll hear from you soon!

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Ok. I found the 'bad' word. it is SetBreakEven(). The line of code is: If BreakEvenTks<>0 then SetBreakEven(BreakEvenTks*Tks*BigPointValue); It seems as if the entire code compiled correctly, and that was the only word not supported. when will this word be supported? I will first check to see if the...

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I was wondering what the red arrow on the indicator listing meant? Normally, when the code compiles correctly, there is a green arrow that shows in the status column. Or a padlock, or nothing at all. Never noticed a red arrow before, so I figured I'd get a definite answer from admin. Speaking of whi...

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I figured I'd bump this up to see how things are coming along for the next release of MC.

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Ok. About the CPU usage. I noticed that MC actually doesn't use much CPU. Neither does OEC Trader, EXCEPT when you have the quote window open with a LOT of quotes So I just closed out the OEC trader quote window entirely and about 1/3-1/2 of my CPU usage came back. But I need the quote window to pul...

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Now I am loading my charts (I have about 100 individual charts, although only about 20 unique symbols). I had shut down MC to restart and it took about 50 minutes for the charts to load. The chart data didn't start appearing until about the 45 minute mark. I didn't get that "too many history re...

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But since I only run ONE instance of MC and shut down and restarted MC and with the new API, it is good. I wanted to confirm: I no longer need the api version of the demo (special demo). I can use a regular demo acct to access this OEC plugin, correct? If the API demo will no longer work, I will hav...

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I figured I'd break this off to a separate topic as it may affect other data feeds. I have 4 instances of MC open simultaneously with the OEC feed. I've also noticed something else. I opened up my dom for my trading platform and realized that MC QMM7 and QGM7 were lagging about 5-10 seconds behind c...

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Josh, Thank you for your time and help in beta-testing of this plug-in. You are welcome. BTW, the data loading is MUCH faster. Great job. I still feel like when loading multple symbols it gets hung up a bit, but It is what it is. Here is a screenshot of opening 2 workspaces in 2 separate instances ...

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I've been working with admin over the last several days and we were able to repair most of the problems associated with the OEC plugin So the developer made some changes: 1) There was a problem where api.openecry.com wouldn't get data for certain symbols (the softs mainly). So we switched the server...

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I cannot get any data for the OEC softs:

KC-MN7
CC-MN7
SB-MN7

The data is there. I was able to pull it with NeoTicker (when I had the acct with them).

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But now I am having a problem. What if I do not want an indicator to show up until price bars actually hit it? I noticed that the price bar actually hits the HH LL line, . It's like both the lines lines stay on the screen, even if current prices are not near one of the lines. The line is being drawn...

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There was some code that I was working on and I was wondering if MC supported the reserve word "Once"? When I was using the PLE editor, the word didn't seem to be recognized when I tried to compile it. Once Plot_OK = True ; It came up as an error: ------ Compiled with error(s): ------ Comm...

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Now I am not getting errors, but the data requests are coming up empty. In other words, your software is requesting the data, but isn't actually downloading anything Remember, I've only requested a total of 7 symbols so far (about 3 weeks for each symbol). This results in all new symbols requested t...

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Too many history requests. but some good news. MC automatically reconnected to the live feed immediately (towards the bottom of the screenshot). I closed out the 6A 5min chart and reopened it. I got that gap thing again. But I tried that trick I mentioned above (adding the desired timeframe as a sub...

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The same thing happened to 6JM7. (no screenshot because I used the same chart instead of a new chart window). But I noticed something. It seems like if you ADD a symbol as a subgraph to an existing chart with a different timeframe, there is no gap in the data. When I did this with the 2m and added t...

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The data appears to be coming in fine for intraday. I am currently adding more workspaces and more charts. I am using a comcast internet connection. With NeoTicker, I was able to obtain intraday data back to April 4th, 2007. But that was 2 weeks ago. So apparently, you can only obtain a rolling 2 we...

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Does multicharts support these functions? HighD() Gets the High price from N days ago in an intraday chart (minute or tick). LowD() Gets the Low price from N days ago in an intraday chart (minute or tick). CloseD() Gets the Close price from N days ago in an intraday chart (minute or tick). OpenD() G...

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how much historical data is available from openecry? It's supposed to be 3 months of minute data. tick data seems to only be streaming. But in reality, only about 2-3 weeks of minute data is saved. Daily bars is about 3 months. I think their programmers are in the process of correcting that so that...

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One thing I noticed. If you try to connect via Quotemgr, and then have a chart open at the same time in multicharts, you get an error that user is already connected. This is interesting, as I would have thought that quotemgr would share its connection with MC. OEC only allows one username to be used...

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Okay. It appears as if they did set me up with the username/password. I was able to login to OEC from the quotemgr. However, when I type * to search for all symbols, I cant do this. When I connected with live support, they were able to do this. In fact, I cannot pull a single symbol. But we are maki...

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Brian Weis

Okay. I was in contact with Dan, my main customer support contact. He said he will set me up with the correct username and password. I will report what happens today with the feed.

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Dear customers,

Open E Cry asks you to contact them and they will create a testing login for everyone who wants to participate in this testing.

who did you talk to?

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The OEC betas wont work for current clients of OEC. Do you have a beta that works with the existing api that demo and live accts are on right now for OEC? That would be nice, as we don't know when exactly OEC will put out the new API. Please advise. If anyone was able to login to OEC feed (besides a...

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I was wondering if you can return a value exactly from the nth day? For example, I want the close exactly 10 days ago (not bars, actual calender or trading days). Also, could you look over a period n days ago and return a value? For example, over the past 20 days (not bars) I want the lowest open. P...

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Dear customers, OpenECry changed their API.dll that is pointing to their server, so please download the new plug-in, unzip it and run regoecdatafeed777.bat. First time when you open QuoteManager this plug-in will be registered, then please close QuoteManager and open it again. Let me clarify. Do I ...

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I agree - any big announcements, such as this, NEED to be sent via email, not buried on a forum page. I realize this is not a big deal if you do not use OEC, but for those that do, this is a very nice addition. It eliminates the need for paying for data and you can work with your broker. Not just O...

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Funny. I'm charting with neoticker and the OEC datafeed is working just fine.

Anyway, let's say you didn't install the first OEC plugin yet. Do I still follow the instructions with the .bat file?

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You may want to consider tweaking windows a bit. http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=3572 . When I test out OEC when I get my new demo login, I will see if this improves MC any. I can see somewhat of an improvement between OEC trader and NeoTicker. Before the tweaks, I couldn't even run the 2...

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Here is an article that neoticker provided that "may" help some people here with performance issues, particularly with multiple windows. http://newsletter.neoticker.com/?p=175 I will report back here when I determine the results of these processes. Be sure to backup important files and hav...

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Thanks. Next time send out an e-mail. Due to the OEC configuration, you can only login to OEC once at a time. So I will have to have another demo acct setup for MC. I am assuming you have setup for both demo and live accts right? I'll find out later tomorrow or over the weekend. Another thing....you...

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I was reviewing the topic on when the next release would be sent out here . I think that MC would be served a lot better if new betas were released every 2-4 weeks. Rather than releasing a big improvement, release them in small dosages, so that we all (including TS support) can track the bugs better...

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For the datafeeds that do not have intraday tick storage, is there any plans for MC to setup servers to collect these ticks?

For example, SC does this with TransAct. It stores the ticks in 2 second bars

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Will the performance increase only be seen in optimiztion, or will it increase performance for all aspects of the program?

Good question.

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For those of you following the thread, TS Support determined my problem with many workspaces over three monitors (2 video cards) is caused by lack of video memory. I have 128MB on card 1 and 64MB on card 2 which just isn't enough to support the many charts/workspaces that I'm trying to run. Accrodi...

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I use 120 tick bars and set the "Build Volume On:" to "Trade Volume" (because I measure the actual contracts traded in an indicator). I would like to use a little text indicator I wrote for TS2000i that counts down the remaining ticks before the current bar close. I have it set ...

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Will there be openEcry support?
Yes, the next version will support OpenECry.

Yes. I will be one of the first to test it out. I hope you all have tested it out both historical and real-time feeds. I will certainly be working them with OEC.

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...............I've used Ensign for a long time but I don't like Howard's attitude regarding enhancements. Their UI technology is already way outdated and for a software company to tell someone that a common features will never be done is a cardinal sin. Howard is a smart guy but he's clueless when...

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Will there be openEcry support?

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Josh, Ascii import is used with tick, minute and day resolutions which are saved in the data storage and then other resolutions can be created on their basis. If you want to use other resolutions (tickbars, for instance) you should use Ascii mapping. In case of ascii mapping data is taken directly ...

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We will try to redesign "cursor tracking mode" functionality later.

Yes. Thank you for acknowledging this.

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Do you offer a form of Donchian Channels? This study should be available somewhere, please check: http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=3339 Or can I create a Highest High or Lowest Low indicator line drawn over xx number of bars or xx number of time? This code is very simple: input: length(14...

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Josh, When you merge data from different data sources, you should remember that data received in real-time is not saved the storage and if you change the resolution you may have gaps on the chart until you update the history data (it is possible if you use acsii files). So if you change the resolut...

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I just don't see why I can't just import the data directly to a symbol using the "ASCII data import" tool (right-click on a symbol listed in quote manager and select import). You can import via tick, minute, or day. But the volume and tickbar options aren't there like they were with the ma...

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I am attempting to import a symbol for text file. When I go to map the data, I select the tick bar resolution (it's already pre-selected). The resolution # is set to "n/a". Therefore, I do not attempt to edit this box. Well, after I'm done editing the import settings for the symbol, I come...

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Nick, What features and improvements should we add to make you satisfied? :) Phone tech support should be available AFTER day trading hours. I noticed right now it is from 6:30 AM till 2:00 PM EST. That's about when most trading takes place. Phone support should be available from, say 1030 to 6:30 ...

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To edit bad ticks: 1. EDIT bad ticks, and not DELETE them (leave the time stamps, edit the price/volume data; you may use the last good tick data preceeding the first bad tick to keep the chart smooth). Otherwise on the next run QM checks the database integrity and downloads bad ticks again. 2. Aft...

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I have previously commented (privately) to TS SUPPORT about how frustating it is to use the cursor-crosshair tracking modes. I will repeat here my complaint and suggestion for improvement: Once you click the toolbar choice for vertical cursor line and/or tracking mode, the vertical line is moving A...

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if I had known this product was only in beta, I would not have bought it.

It is clearly posted as being in a beta format.

Anyway, I did notice this problem as well. I thought it was just me.

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Once you import data, you can then manipulate it however you wish, right? I saw the data merging tutorial. On slides 21-26 of the tutorial, it talks about defining resolution. My question is, when adding real data, can you change the resolution of the chart? What if I want to convert to minute or ot...

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Do you offer a form of Donchian Channels? Or can I create a Highest High or Lowest Low indicator line drawn over xx number of bars or xx number of time? How do you adjust the decimal scale on a chart so that only a user-defined amount of digits displayed on the actual axis.? For example, MultiCharts...

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Josh, If you want us to solve such issues faster, please contact us via our live chat or give us a call. We can converse for a long time trying to guess what is going on with your charts. But if you can contact us and allow to connect to your desktop via HelpDesk and analyze the problem with IQfeed...

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you create a volume bar chart the same way you create a minute chart. you create a volume bar chart from the very beginning, as soon as you specified a symbol, you go to specify whether it is a minute chart or a volume bar chart. there is no need to re-define the chart attribute. The option wasn't ...

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INSERT / SYMBOL / SETTINGS / compression = contracts

Yes. I see that you have to first create a chart, and then switch it over. luckily for me, it creates the subsequent charts defaulted to the volume bar chart.

There should be a way to create the volume bar chart from the get go. Oh well.

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I am having an issue loading IQ-feed data. The symbol SWM7 loaded fine. Then I tried to load MTJ7 and it's stalling. Other symbols seem to stall as well. It appears as if I cannot load 2 different datafeeds at once. I have DTN-IQ feed up with a few symbols. Then I tried loading a symbol, FDAXM7 from...

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How do I create a volume bar chart. I notice the charts are setup for minutes. How do I start fresh with a volume-based chart?

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Anyone using Pats for their European and U.S. futures data with MC?

What is the quality like? Does it go down?

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks

I am also curious to know the answer to this as well. Please advise.

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It will take 1-2 months approximately.

Okay. If you can beat SC to this, you may be in luck. I've already got the permanent license, but I'll start using the software more often

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Any news on the OEC trader datafeed? ( www.openecry.com )
We have come to an agreement with "Open e Cry" and are planning to implement a data plug-in for them.

Any timeframe on this?

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Paolo, If Transact is not present in the list of Data Sources, please contact us via the live chat or give us a call. Transact feed is working okay. I haven't used your platform in a while. I did get the license, as I feel it has a lot of potential. But you still have some things to work out with t...

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I was wondering if there was a way to copy and paste a chart within the same workbook. More importantly, to copy and paste a chart between workbooks. Also, I dont know if I mentioned this before, but the line thickness of the MA lines is terrible. I moved up 1 notch from the thinnest line, to the se...

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Okay. I see. But first, I had to set one symbol up manually in QuoteWindow. Hopefully not ALL the symbols. Just one. That wouldn't be good. SC has a way in which they automatically pull all of the symbols that your acct is activated for and allow you to select from a list which charts to open initia...

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Do you know if they offer tick data Josh ? For 25/month it would indeed be a good feed source if MC can support it. IB is a good free feed, but their candle building on tick charts looks nothing like esig charts. I would like to see how OpenECry does Yes. They actually have a trade-on-the-chart fea...

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Dear ybfjax, Are you able to see TransAct as it shown on the screenshot attached? Is this in the multicharts platform, or the quote manager? When I initially went to open a new chart in the multicharts platform, I didn't see it. But I did see something in the Quote manager for transact. But it shou...

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Hi, I downloaded OpenCry's demo package and was impressed on how fast data downloaded. It also seemed to be a lot closer to datafeeds such as esig or TS. I think it would be a good feed for MC if you could implement it somehow. IB tends to have holes in data. I did not however see any tick data fro...

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I noticed that transact is supposed to be supported here: http://www.tssupport.com/products/multicharts/datamanagement/#datasource . Well, how do I go about selecting it as a datafeed? I don't see it in the drop-down menu when I go to open a new chart. Please advise. I'm using MultiCharts 2.0.777.777

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I was wondering if MC had or could have a study that automatically drew a horizontal line that changed with the current price. This line extends back throughout the chart history. The purpose was to see where current prices could touch support and resistance or other chart reaction points in the pas...

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We had no requests for OpenEcry before, if they contact us, we'll be glad to communicate with a potential partner. The TransAct will be added in the next beta to be released. As to data playback, a complete properly working version will be available in the first quarter of the next year. I was just...

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As a follow-up, Ensign Software's IB refresh also failed. I had to update using their DTN feed. This is definitely an IB problem and I don't think there is anything MC can do to resolve this, other than display charts with available data. ~mojo SC has said that IB's backfill has ALWAYS been unrelia...

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There were two additional feature questions that I had? Could you all support the OpenEcry tick datafeed? That would be wonderful OpenEcry support did say that they would try to contact you all on Monday or so. I told the guy I would post on the forum as well. www.OpenEcry.com . They have an API to ...

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I thought I posted this a few days ago, but the post did not go through (that has happened a few times on this board. So let's see if I remember what I wrote. 1) Integrate brokerage data. The particular one I was referring to is www.transactfutures.com . I would love to take their feed and create ch...

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I was glad to see that some of my suggestions were actually in the software, although I had to dig. 1) Can you copy and paste a window? Having to start the new window process is a bit cumbersome. 2) A new feature request is to allow support for InfinityBrokerage (TransActFutures) www.infinitybrokera...

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When I loaded ER2 (emini Rusell for TS) 30 sec, 1 min and 5 minute charts onto MC, I notice that it skips from 00:18:00 to 10:00. It did NOT do this for the e-mini nasdaq NQ charts (nasdaq properly shows the whole 24 hour period). I did NOTHING different. So what happened to my data? Loads in TS jus...

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1) User should be able to add xxx blank bar space to the right of the chart, configurable from the preferences and saved as a default. 2) When pulling data for a chart, user should be able to specify xx days back, instead of having to calculate/configure the days manually. 3) Fixed scaling PLEASE. N...

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Heikin Ashi candles and moving average

forex MT 4 brokers/ ea signals supported....

Lost product registration code for lifetime license.....

OEC: KC-MN7 and other softs wont update....

Re: Think recompiling your studies before launching Mutichar [SOLVED]

Red Arrow in indicator listing....

Data Lag with multiple instances of MC open

Update

Does MC support "Once"?

I noticed

returning values "exactly n days ago" & "

Windows registry tricks for improving performance.....

MC should release more betas in-between major releases.....

Historical Tick collection for OEC/Transact....

Re: Tick Count Down when using Trade Volume?

Re: openecry support? [SOLVED]

openecry support? [SOLVED]

Re: Highest H/lowest L/Donchian Channels; custom scale digit

Importing data problem: ascii Mapping error.....

Re: Cross-Hair and Tracking Modes should be 're-designed'

Merged data and data collection questions....

Highest H/lowest L/Donchian Channels; custom scale digits

2 datafeeds at once? TransAct and IQ feed. Problems DTN...

How do I create a volume bar chart?

Re: Pats System Data

Chart Copying and pasting and Line thickness.....

Transact data plugin....

Current price line study....

it's a IB problem

OpenEcry.com support and market replay....

Integrate brokerage, Trade from chart,

Copy/paste window, new datafeed, and trading from the chart:

E-mini russell missing data for no reason.

Don't overlook the simple stuff....