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arnie

divide 1389.25 by 10 = 138.925

get the fracportion = 0.925

then multiply the number by 10 = 9.25

Damn!

Sometimes I fell so dumb...

Thanks TJ.

arnie

Hi.

So we have a quote: 1389.25

We can plot the intportion (1389) or the fracportion (0.25).
Imagine that I want to plot only the 9.25 and ignore the 138. How can we do this?

Regards,
Fernando

arnie

Hi can't understand what is happening here. I open a daily chart (@ES# - IQFeed) and no matter if I choose the default session (1530 to 1515), the globex session (1530 to 830) or the RTH (830 to 1515) I always get the same chart, bars don't change. This appears not be a version 8 issue since I'm get...

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Finally!! Another way: 1. Use ALT+TAB to switch to the off-screen application. 2. Windows key + Shift + Left/Right arrow key will move the window to the subsequent monitor This was the only way to bring back QM. I've been seen very weird things from Windows but this was the first. Thanks to you both...

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Do you know that game "Where's Waldo"? Well, I have a new one, Where's QuoteManager? Here's the thing, I have 8 monitors and Windows 7 by its own wish and pleasure, decided to change the monitors order, number 1 became number 4, number 2 became number 3 and so forth. I re-arranged all, re-initiated ...

arnie

Hi Dave. So tell me this, why did you change the way renko bars (with the wick selected) are plotted when you released this new .dll? I believe that you have a road map but I don't believe that you implemented the Better Renko the way it was planned since you changed the way renko bars are plotted. ...

arnie

Maybe this SC explanation regarding their new renko charts, since they have been enhancing this bar type, can help you guys resolving your renko issues: ...These Renko bars maintain the true Open and Close values for each bar in addition to the Renko Open and Close values. The Renko Open and Close v...

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arnie, Please submit it as a feature request to the Project Management so other users can vote for it. Done! https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-897 Although I don't know why I need to create a PM when yourselves created the problem. It was requested in the PM page Better Renko...

arnie

Now understood what you are doing. SC has the same option, to show the "real" open versus the renko open. So in terms of renko bar themselves, no problem here. Actually there never was any problem with renko bars when using 1 tick box. The problem I reported via email referred to using a box higher ...

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arnie, Normally, it should not be related to MultiCharts. When you start windows photo viewer manually or from another application, does it open faster? When I open it manually it opens normal, hence, faster than MC opens it. I never saw this happening with previous versions. It's not a big deal si...

arnie

Have you guys noticed when you create an "image as file" and the "show the picture when export completes" is checked, sometimes when the windows photo viewer opens the computer starts to get sluggish and some times the windows photo viewer can't even open the image?

arnie

Let's go now to a 4 tick box size. MC continues not to match with SC and IRT. Although we can see today's bars corresponding in both charts, yesterday and previous days bars are again different. Things continue to go the wrong way when we go above 1 tick. I remove the wicks for better view since it'...

arnie

Hello arnie, Please explain what exactly do you consider incorrect on this screenshot. You may want to try to disbale Show 'Phantom' Bars option. ? I thought the image was quite clear. Where are the wicks on some of the bars??? Some bars encompasses the previous bar which would mean a 2 tick box wh...

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Regarding renko and how the box size is selected, I think it's preferable to use the minimum move of the underlying symbol. So for ES we would write 4 if we wanted a 4 tick box instead of 1 which represents 4 ticks or a full point as we all know and in Euro instead of writing 0.0005 we would write 5...

arnie

Hi Dave.

I'm afraid that the .dll didn't resolve the problem, actually things got worse now since when "Show Wick" is selected we get the result shown in the image.

I'm on MC64.

arnie

I'm not seeing this issue in Build 5203 on either FDAX, CL or 6E using a variety of brick sizes with the Show Wick and the other two options ticked. You will not see the problem since the problem is not seen on the charts themselves. The problem is only seen when you compare MC charts with others c...

arnie

Arnie, whats the known bug?

Above 1 tick box size (in case of ES that would be above 0,25) the boxes themselves are not being plotted/calculated (?) correctly.

arnie

I have an issue, when I'm using the new Renko bars the chart is not moving with live data. When I refresh with ctrl + R, new data is loaded. Is this a known problem? I am using IQ feed for the data. Hi. I'm also using IQFeed and I have no problem what so ever with realtime data when using renko cha...

arnie

Although having the Sound Alerts checked, I'm no longer hear the alerts (I image a pretty sexy lady, like... Angelina Jolie :) ). What happened? If I'm not mistaken, since I unchecked the Sound Alerts and checked it again I lost the sound on them. Also, going to Windows Control Panel -> Sound -> Sou...

arnie

I tried to plot the Market Depth on Chart study, but received the "level2 data not available" warning. What am I missing? I'm receiving data on the DOM without any problem. Where is the study collecting the data, from the broker (IB) or the data feed (IQFeed)? arnie, At the moment you can get level...

arnie

Why there's an horizontal scroll in the DOM when it's docked?

Please tell me that it's already prepared to receive the cumulative/volume profile

arnie

John, It seems my happiness is your disaster. I am finding the current way of setting the right margin much better than the old one. I do agree the optional solution is needed then. Yeah, same here. I do prefer this way too. But I agree with John and TJ, an option is always advised when changes are...

arnie

I tried to plot the Market Depth on Chart study, but received the "level2 data not available" warning.

What am I missing? I'm receiving data on the DOM without any problem.

Where is the study collecting the data, from the broker (IB) or the data feed (IQFeed)?

arnie

Arnie, did you manage to get ''drawing tools for each chart'' operational? How to do it? Hi Tresor. Well, I don't know what they did exactly with that feature. What I did find was a menu right clicking the mouse called "Insert Drawing" where you have access to all drawing tools. Maybe instead of an...

arnie

Maybe this is unrelated but... Usually my CPU usage is around 1 to 2% when no program is opened and today my CPU is at 30%. The only difference from yesterday was MC8 64bit be installed. I've already uninstalled it, but I continue to have my CPU at 30%. I just can't figure out what is happening her...

arnie

Maybe this is unrelated but... Usually my CPU usage is around 1 to 2% when no program is opened and today my CPU is at 30%. The only difference from yesterday was MC8 64bit be installed. I've already uninstalled it, but I continue to have my CPU at 30%. I just can't figure out what is happening here...

arnie

When I turned autotrading on for IB tonight, I received a weird audio voice, "Connecting... Connected." Was this part of MC 8.0 Beta 2? If so, please please please turn this off! This is incredibly annoying. I don't need a speech synthesizer to tell me whether or not I'm connected to my broker. It ...

arnie

I've made a video where we can compare MC better renko (lower chart) with another software house (above chart). Is it possible to build renko bars the same way the other software does, meaning, while building the bar we can see the wick and the bar itself instead of only seeing a dash? Maybe that's ...

arnie

Is it me or MC8 64bit is consuming much more memory then 7.4?

Using the same workspace , MC (version 7.4) is consuming 155Mb and tsServer 118Mb.
When using version 8 64bit, MC is consuming 222Mb and tsServer 286Mb.

arnie

It seems that the up/down buttons in fib format window are bit off.

arnie

Something that you might take into consideration.

Try release new versions between Friday night and Sunday morning. This way we can have some time to test it outside market hours and set it up to be tested during market hours.

regards,
Fernando

arnie

PM is showing beta2 released, but.....

https://www.multicharts.com/pm/index.php

This beta 2 has really great stuff...

arnie

Why when a strategy is active in the DOM we can't see the last trades size when prices are at the limit order?

arnie

You can see the existing differences when we decrease a chart with a different time range. With a higher time range, the decrease/increase step is much higher than when we have a chart with a lower time range. We could have an option so we could manually control the step. One way to do this would be...

arnie

Hi.

Is there a way to decrease the bar spacing step?
Everytime I increase or decrease the bar spacing the step in which the spacing is done is to large. On a minute chart the step is around 12 hours.

Regards,
Fernando

arnie

Hi.

Is it from my eyes or keyword "DarkYellow" plots the same color as keyword "DarkBrown"?

arnie

Here it is...

arnie

Hi. Why the marker from NYSE Issues Advances cannot be seen as the NYSE Issues Decliners is? When prices are right at the top the marker disappears. Shouldn't the Y scale be adjusted automatically so the market should be always visible? Although this chart is from MC 7.4, MC 8 does the same thing. h...

arnie

It's not feasible to have 100 charts opened just to collect the data, hence QM's option of collecting RT Data w/o plotting. Okay - what use is this then ? Huh? Like I've told you, if you want to collect data and don't want to have all charts opened, QM collects that data. The only thing that should...

arnie

Hi, I have a real time IQ Data Feed . Putting a symbol on a Chart , say BAC, to see actual real time data do I have to go into the quote manager and set this "Collect RT Data w/o plotting" to Connect Symbol for each symbol I am looking at? Or does this serve another function? I am doing AutoTrading...

arnie

As requested by Andrew, I've just opened a new PM request.

https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissu ... _no=MC-837

If anyone can think of more features for the DOM, please write them down in this thread or on the above PM.

Regards,
Fernando

arnie

Using this as an example: if currentbar = 1 then begin value3 = Text_new_s(JulianToDate(aiLeftDispDateTime), GetAppInfo(aiLeftDispDateTime), GetAppInfo(aiHighestDispValue),""); text_setfontname(value3 , "Lucida Sans Typewriter"); text_setcolor(value3 , white); text_setsize(value3 , 9); Text_SetStyle...

arnie

Hello everyone, I recommend to put all accumulated improvements for DOM window to a specifice feature request. Since in Project Management there are multiple DOM improvement requests and they all seem to be not connected among each other and to mentioned above suggestions, please create a new featu...

arnie

This code for the Fisher Transform compiles OK, but when I insert it into a chart, MC64 crashes. Could someone check if it's a code or program error? Thanks. I can confirm that MC64 really crashes with this one, actually I never saw any MC version crashing like this one did. Usually stays there a b...

arnie

Yes, it would be nice to have the possibility of having multiple .wav files played at the same time like the alerts() themselves do.

Having multiple instances of MC is not always feasible. I have around 20 alerts. Having 20 MC's opened? I don't think so.

arnie

P.S. What did you record the video with?

http://www.techsmith.com/download/jing/default.asp

It's free.

If you want something more professional they have Camtasia.

arnie

It seems something's wrong with the bracket strategy. I choose a 4 pip profit target, but as soon as the order is filled the target is at 5 pip, not 4.
The stop loss is correct.

http://www.screencast.com/t/0Vb8QvzU

arnie

Since I'm a IRT user I was able to confirm opening that same chart that is shown in the link. Those are not hourly pivots. Those are normal daily pivots plotted on a 30 minute chart. I think you are confused on what you requested. What you show on those links are what is shown on the image I used ab...

arnie

You can save the active chart as an image from File tab in the MultiCharts main menu. This is a new feature, right? I remember in previous versions trying to do this, but when I went to see the saved image it was always the attached one, never the detached. I assure you that I'd always activated th...

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every hour news pivots with the last hour with OHLC :) I know what you want chipeur. You want this: http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=4403 Chris programmed it for me a couple of years ago. It plots the previous 60min OHLC (there you can only see the high and low) into the n...

arnie

Hi Henry.

I just hate when this happens. Today I'm not receiving the error I've been receiving every time I tried to view a tick by tick playback on a 1 minute chart.

But, now I'm curious, where is the second by second option?

arnie

I have another question, if with tick charts we can use tick by tick playback, why with minute charts we don't have a second by second or even better use tick by tick playback?

arnie

By the way, using the same code, is it possible to use different colors for the numtostr() inside the text_setstring()?

I'd like to have specific colors for some of the text, but since text_setcolor() needs a text ID I don't know how to to this nor if it's possible to do it.

arnie

Why can't we save a chart as an image when the window is detached?
There should be an option in the top left chart icon to save the chart as an image next to the attach window option.

arnie

...and his prices are well afordable.
how much does he charge?

Well, maybe that didn't come out as I wanted too...

What is affordable to me might not be to others...

Many in this forum already commented on the fine programming Chris does.

arnie

How can I get those values aligned?
Try using a monospaced font like Courier or Lucida Console (other examples).

You're the man, you're THE MAN!

arnie

Hi. Using the code... text_setstring(dataBoxTXT, " DayHigh " + spaces(4) + " - " + NumToStr(dayHi,decimals) + newline + " DayLow " + spaces(4) + " - " + NumToStr(dayLo,decimals) + newline + " DayRange " + spaces(4) + " - " + NumToStr(dayRng,decimals) + newline + " PrevDayRange " + spaces(4) + " - " ...

arnie

help needed please

Hi chipeur.

Contact ABCTrading.
Chris is the best in coding EL and his prices are well afordable.

Regards.

arnie

Arnie, This might sound like a stupid question but with your SSD, do you install the MultiCharts application (the exe) on that drive or your database (or both?) Thanks! Hi furytrader. All programs are installed in the SSD as the MC database. Since it's a 120Gb drive, I have plenty of space to have ...

arnie

Just installed MC 8.0 Beta 1 64 bit on Win 7 64 bit, fully patched. I have an indicator that calls an external dll but even though the dll exists in the right place, its days it can't find it. This indicator works fine in all versions up to and including 7.4. The indicator uses the line: External: ...

arnie

All monitors in vertical mode (eyefinity set-up). 1. I would be interested to hear other guys' opinion on RAM usage of MC ver. 64. Should I go for 16 / 32 / 64 GB? I basically have no budget limits for this. 2. I am very afraid of SSDs after reading OCZ's and Crucial's forums. Regarding the monitor...

arnie

LOL. You would think that 8 monitors is a lot, but then again... Think it this way, I have everything I need in one workspace, though I usually have 2 opened since I trade 2 markets, but one at a time and one in each workspace. But I do agree with you, it's a pain when you need to turn your head to ...

arnie

if anyone can open this link..

http://www.tradersxchange.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=748

i can t register

check your private messages

arnie

On the DOM, when we check "Dynamic Price Scale" option the bid/ask size disappears.

arnie

Search here. They have a lot pivot indicators.

http://www.tradersxchange.com/index.php

arnie

Are there any plans to create easy language reserved words to access the DOM data (level 2)? I remember having read something about this, but can't find it now. In this video we can see TS level 2 on the chart, and as a plus, the X_Trader DOM with the cumulative volume (profile) and the times & sale...

arnie

Check the video I've made, something's wrong here. This is 64bit version. http://www.screencast.com/t/usQJuYO5Fku I have a workspace from version 7.4 which has 15 charts and this is the only one that reacts like this. Every time I open the workspace this chart data is not uploaded. As you can see in...

arnie

Hi, It's the first time I would try to install a MC Beta version. How does it work when installing following Betas and Release Version? Just install over the old Beta version or will I have to deinstall the old Beta version first each time? I remember that a couple of versions back support advised ...

arnie

I am currently trying to try the x64 version and am running into a problem with IQFeed. I am unable to retrieve any data using the IQFeed client 4.8.1.7 or 4.7.2.0 version.

That's strange since I had no problem.

Have went to QM and write your IQFeed ID and password?

arnie

So... I copied/pasted the StudyServer and PLEditor folders from version 32bit into 64bit and all went well. All indicators were recognized, compiled, all functioning 100%. Unfortunately the same can't be said regarding the Databases folder :( A .dll error pops up every time I open QM or MC. I'm star...

arnie

It's been stated that you can have both on the same computer since they are in separate folders, but you can only run one at a time.. I just installed the 64 bit with 7.4 on the same machine and it seems great, but you have to start from scratch with all settings (Including user ID and Password), s...

arnie

YES! 64bit here we go..... I need to hit the gym right now, but when I arrive I'll be all over this 64bit version :) One question before install it, do I need to uninstall the 7.4 version or can I let it be? I believe that someone already asked this same question, but can't find it. Since the 32 and...

arnie

Dave just replied, and SP was right, we should have the "Generate a new tick if Total Volume changes" option in QuoteManager/Data Sources/Interactive Brokers checked.

Now both readings, TWS BookTrader and MC's DOM, are identical.

Thanks everyone.

Regards,
Fernando

arnie

Hi Dave. I've just sent to Katrin IB's reply to my inquiry. Accordingly to them, since BookTrader and Time & Sales are not mapped to the API, all calculations using the API are performed by the third party software, in this case MC, so any discrepancy its their (third party) responsibility. At least...

arnie

Here's another thing that could be changed in the DOM. When dealing with treasuries, due to their price length, when the traded size goes above 3 digits, price font becomes smaller. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=4313 What about add another column where the traded size co...

arnie

Regarding the charts, many years ago I decided that I would need a dedicated data feed since I could not trust any data provided by brokers. Nowadays that I'm trading a market order flow strategy a dedicated data feed is a "must have" service, specially when using CDV. More and more I'm transferring...

arnie

arnie, the times and sales from the TWS is definitely wrong. You could see it if you use the FDAX. It plots values like 6760,3333 as it aggregates different levels and sizes. Yes SP. But you can also use TWS's BookTrader. If you put it side by side with MC's DOM you'll see how they differ from each...

arnie

OK, accordingly to Katrin in live chat, it seems that the data transmitted by the API differs from the one transmitted by TWS, which is quite troubling to know. The first question that pops up on my head is which one is the corrected one, the API or the TWS? Which data are we trading? I've already s...

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Fernando, Please uncheck 'Generate a new tick if Total Volume changes' check box in Quote Manager --> Tools --> Data Sources to get the same trade size in MC DOM and IB TWS Time and sales window. When this option is checked MC generates a new tick (last trade volume changes) only if Total Volume ch...

arnie

We consider possible implementation of such feature in DOM window in future. However there is no ETA on this yet. This feature is not confirmed for implementation. You can search for various watch widgets in internet. Some can be made semi-transparent and placed on your DoM window. Hi Andrew. The c...

arnie

Hello arnie, Please compare MC DOM with the DOM in TWS and post video showing the lag if any. Hi Dave. As you can see in the video previously posted, it's not the market depth itself that is lagging, but rather the last traded price (yellow rectangle) that does not follow the bid/ask as it should. ...

arnie

Here's another video where we can compare the DOM with TWS for better view of the lag.

http://www.screencast.com/t/jmhBlL29

arnie

Hi.

Can you explain what is happening here?

http://www.screencast.com/t/vK7GxF8aJ6o

Unemployment data has just been released and the DOM started to lag (a lot) in terms of last price traded when compared to prices on TWS (IB).

The ticker is 6EH2 (Euro).

Regards,
Fernando

arnie

Well, MC team is really moving forward now with the release of the road map for the next versions

https://www.multicharts.com/pm/index.php

By the way, is the 8th version the 64 bit or that will be a later one?

Regards,
Fernando

arnie

Hi. Is it possible to "fed" MC's DOM with IQFeed's market depth instead of IB's? I'm starting to have issues regarding IB's market depth and I'd like to confirm their data with a more trustful feed, like IQFeed. If not, why can't we use the mapping feature for the charts in the DOM? Regards, Fernando

arnie

Another thing that the DOM must have is a clock. Time is one of the most important aspect of the markets and it's quite annoying every time we want to know the time we need to look at MC's bottom right corner and look at the small clock, forcing us to remove our attention to what is most important, ...

arnie

Hi Andrew. One question regarding the DOM. Have you also add to it the cumulative volume for the day per traded price as shown in the image? This would be really nice to have. In that image, the white rectangle shows the number of contracts being traded at that time, at that price. This way we not o...

arnie

IB's tick data is worthless. You need to subscribe to a "real" data feed service.

arnie

Yes, the effect is nice, but I wouldn't know where to start to change my custom made indicator. It would be easier to have an option to send back or send to front an indicator or price bars. Maybe a reserved word for trendlines which when plotted send the lines behind the price bars. If we think abo...

arnie

Hi.

Is there a way to move the price bars so they could be in front of trendlines and not behind?

Regards.
Fernando

arnie

Hi Andrew. Please don't take my comments in the wrong way. Of course you cannot implement every single customer request. MC would be a mishmash of tools that no one could work with, nevertheless, you should evaluate in a more expedite way the requests made by your customers. For example, in this cas...

arnie

Regarding the DOM, I have a MP for it: https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-390 I've been always in favor with the PM system, but now I'm not so sure since the most voted ones continue not to be included in MC... I could request this "idle" feature in the PM page, but what's the ...

arnie

Well, it depends the studies you have, how many charts... Yes, I confirm those 200 to 300Mb of memory which may not be a big problem for a faster computer, but when we have news releases, and you have several workspaces, with several charts, all updated in real time, your (mine) processor jumps from...

arnie

Hi. I'd like to know if there is any intention to add an option to each workspace for them to become idle when not selected. When we have several workspaces and multiple charts on each of them memory consumption may increase dramatically. It would be nice to have an option for us to select if we wan...

arnie

Never mind, just figured it out.

It was obsviously a symbol problem

arnie

Hi.

Is it me or something's wrong with the ZB DOM? I'm using IB as broker.

arnie

Why can't we, in offline mode, have access to the historical orders on the chart?

If all orders are registered in the Order Tracker, shouldn't MC be able to plot on the charts the historical orders?

Regards,
Fernando

arnie

Hi.

But how can we connect 2 IB accounts to MC?

I'd like to have my paper trading and real account connected to MC and then choose which one to trade with, but every time I have both TWS's opened MC only recognize one account, the first one opened.

arnie

We are planning to add Volume Histogram (displaying volume at every price level from the beginning of the session) to DOM. It was even presented on the first drafts. The downside of such functionality is that it may not work correctly with all brokers. What about an option to use the broker or a se...

arnie

...I'm unable to get a response from him, so I'm trying Multicharts. I thought he was a moderator in this forum but he does not respond ?... Damn, people are really touchy nowadays! Most people have lives outside the forum. I know that this is hard to accept, but it's true. There are more to life t...

arnie

Thank you for the reply, Arnie. I am using Windows XP SP3. Are you using a newer OS?

Tom

Yeah, I'm using Win 7 64 bits, but I don't think that is a Windows issue, though Windows is known for its issues...

arnie

Maybe it dont understand it, but why dont you change under Format->Scaling->User defined the Maximum and Minimum values so that it plots all your text. How could I forgot that? I'm constantly changing the charts scaling and I never thought on changing the indicator (subchart) scaling. Shame on me.....

arnie

Hi. I'm having trouble with plotting text on a subchart. The limits are set between 0.80 and -1.00, meaning that all text plotted above 0.80 and below -1.00 cannot be seen on the subchart. Is there a way to expand the visible subchart area? I need to add 4 more text lines and I just can't find a way...

arnie

In previous versions, MultiCharts would remember the location of detached charts placed on multiple monitors. Now MultiCharts just stacks the detach charts on the primary monitor every time the workspace is opened. I must then drag and place each chart to its correct monitor and location. I don't u...

arnie

Hi. Every time I look at the DOM I'm always wishing to have a way to know how many trades were executed at each price. I don't know if it's possible, but can we have a DOM that record all trades executed at each price, something similar to the attached image? With a tool such as this we could easily...

arnie

I was "zapping" between all the project management requests and I saw many not only being reviewed, but also with many votes and some quite old. Since 7.4 final version has been released and none of those high votes requests were attended, I'd like to know when are you going to start to attend some ...

arnie

see this line in the bottom of the code? Text_Float = 1 ; it is saying, return value "1" to the function Text_Float . but since you have copied the code to a new function with a different name, the PLE could not find Text_Float , thus giving you the error message. Damn...... What can I say... so ob...

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the answer is hidden in this line: >...which is a strange error when I copy/paste the code. What did you copy to? Hi TJ. I selected all tex_float function code, copied it and then pasted it all to a new created function, that was it. Both functions are identical now and I can't compile the new one....

arnie

Hi. I need help regarding the text_float function. Please see attached image. The text_float function uses the set_textstyle horizontal and vertical parameters centered on the last bar, which, as seen on the chart, lay half the text on top of previous bars. My idea is to plot the text to the right o...

arnie

I closed MC while maintaining an open position in the markets and received a warning that do not match with IB's position status. Hello Fernando, If you are able to reproduce the situation, please send us screenshots of Accounts table in TWS and Accounts tab of Order and Position Tracker as well as...

arnie

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I wish that 2012 brings all the best for the MC support team and for all MC users here in the forum.

That 2012 be the year in which we all get a healthier and wealthier life

Regards,
Fernando

arnie

The new IQFeed client has been released. IB clients are now able to have the CME waiver fee.

http://www.iqfeed.net/text/WaiverPluginInstruction.pdf

Let's see if this new client don't create any problem with MC.

arnie

Please see attached image.

This is something that always confused me. Why can't MC retrieve the requested data range? If I choose 6 days, why does MC only retrieve 3 full days and half of the fourth day? I requested 6 days, not 3 and a half.

arnie

Please see attached image.

For the past few days Google's web browser Chrome is messing up the forum. I tested with Firefox and everything was fine.

arnie

Please see attached image.

I closed MC while maintaining an open position in the markets and received a warning that do not match with IB's position status.

arnie

I've discovered the problem. I've recently changed the email associated to the forum and for whatever reason, Gmail considered as spam, and since I never go to see the emails inside the Spam folder...

arnie

Just made a video where you can see how Renko charts are different. This was shot using the new MC7.4 beta2 version.

http://www.screencast.com/t/bNaiHWN2D

arnie

To my knowledge, OnDemand service is reserved only to work with eSignal software. Why do you think the service has that price?

arnie

I don't know what is happening today, but MC is showing a lot of problems. This is the latest one, please see attached images. This is simple, opened MC, created a Renko chart with the setting showed in both images. Closed MC, reopened it, where the chart previously created was opened (in preference...

arnie

Hi.

Is the forum email notification service working?
I'm not receiving any notification emails from the threads which I subscribed or posted a message on.

arnie

Fernando, Could you please be more precise? Do you mean that when the Nasdaq chart is active and you open trading performance report (View --> Trading Performance Report) you see the trades, but when Euro chart is active and you open trading performance report there are no trades in it? Or is Tradi...

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Hi. It seems there's a bug in Renko charts when reporting PnL. Please see attached image. Prices trading at 1.3469 and a position opened at 1,3476 should report a 7 pip PnL, not 68 pips. Only the Renko chart was reporting this PnL. Minute and contract charts were plotting a correct value. I'm now u...

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Today I've made 5 nasdaq trades and 5 euro trades (all futures), but strangely enough, I can only see the nasdaq trades in the manual trading performance report.

Is there a reason?

arnie

Apparently the problem resides on Euro quotes. The same thing is happening with tick charts.

arnie

Hi. It seems there's a bug in Renko charts when reporting PnL. Please see attached image. Prices trading at 1.3469 and a position opened at 1,3476 should report a 7 pip PnL, not 68 pips. Only the Renko chart was reporting this PnL. Minute and contract charts were plotting a correct value. I'm now us...

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... I would say charting/quote processing...

Definitively!!!

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Everything is running smoothly here... as usual :) The manual trading performance report is awesome. I finally can stop manually recording all my trades at the end of the day in Excel. One thing that I've noticed is the bid and ask text size in the chart trading window. Isn't possible to make the te...

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So you should get the same result with Plot1(ticks of data1);

That's it SP.

Thanks.

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Hi. Please see attached image. On the left I have volume of data1 (bid) and data2 (ask) applied to each respective instrument, and on the center I have an ask bar chart with the respective volume indicator and on the right the bid bar chart, also with its respective volume indicator. My question is ...

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Hi. For those that don't know yet, IQFeed is testing a new version which will offer to IB customers the CME fee waiver. Finally!! NEW (Nov 8, 2011): We are currently beta testing a new version of IQFeed which will allow IB customers to receive exchange fee waivers. Please check back often or contact...

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do you mean a Time & Sales ?

Hi TJ.

Yes!

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Is there a way to retrieve data from the DOM using EL?

It would be nice to register all trades per bar using the DOM.

Regards,
Fernando

arnie

Trade2Win and S&C done

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Please send us the workspace you are using, Multicharts logs, screenshots and detailed description of the problem to my email (support@multicharts.com). Please keep in mind that the logs are erased on the restart of MultiCharts. You need to reproduce the issue and collect the logs. Here's how to fi...

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Does it happen after reload or just by itself? Please describe the steps for reproducing the issue. Just by itself. Today I opened MC at 8:00am and at 10:18 one chart (of the 12), stop updating. I hit the reload button, but it didn't reload the missing data. All the other 11 charts are updating fin...

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I can't tell from which version this started to happened, but I'm just looking at my charts and it is happening once again. I have 12 charts (all with the same symbol, but with different time frames and indicators) in one workspace, and from time to time, one of them froze and stop updating. It does...

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It's nice to see the bid and ask on the chart trading window. Also, nice to have an option now to insert drawing for each chart from right mouse menu. Thanks to add these. Now, this new "skip ticks" feature apparently are messing up with one of my countdowns barinterval - ticks . It has a huge delay...

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a) Use seconds instead of minutes. (ie: 180 seconds instead of 3 minutes) b) change to IQfeed. a) It seems that volume bar charts are able to show up/down ticks correctly, but the seconds charts are indeed a good solution. b) I was an IQFeed costumer, a happy one I must say, but something called CM...

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Hi. Something strange is happening, maybe normal, but strange to me. On a minute chart, I have historical UpTicks data but no DownTicks (indicator is at zero). On a contract chart, I have both historicals, Up and DownTicks. I'm using eSignal as data provider. Is this a normal reaction? Regards, Fern...

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One question. Previous to the 7th version, couldn't we opened MC on a 2nd computer in offline mode while already opened in 1 computer? I think that I've done that several times with previous versions, but I'm not certain. I've just installed MC7 on my laptop, but I'm not being able to open it in off...

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Place order buttons change places automatically: the last used order type goes to the top of the list. It should not be related to the crash. Please describe the crash issue in details. Are you able to reproduce it? Hi Dave, Never noticed that the orders change places. I basically only used stop or...

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How did the breakout up / fade strategy button moved places with stop order button?

This happened after MC have crashed.

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if you have used the "Stick" button on one of the detached charts (the push pin icon),
un-stick it by clicking on the "Stick" button,
then save the workspace.
This should clear the "sticky" problem.

None are or ever were "stick".

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Do you know how to reproduce the issue? Please tell us what is the sequence of actions leading to the problem or come to our Live Chat Mon-Fri between 6:30AM and 2PM EST to demonstrate the issue. Hi Dave. That has been the problem. I can't reproduce it. This morning it happened again. First I opene...

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arnie, i have the same problem. Seems that if i use the "Stick window" on a DOM some other detached windows keep in front too. Yes SP, I forgot about that one, DOM has also the same problem, although, other problems have been affecting the DOM. For example, If I have 1 DOM in each workspace, someti...

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I don't know if it's me or not, but since MC 7 beta1 version, there's something that have always bothered me. I have 8 monitors, and 12 detached charts per workspace, having only 2 opened workspaces. I spent all day between both workspaces, and what has been happened is this - sometimes, if I'm seei...

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Done!

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... or if MC shuts down incorrectly, it will be recovered and saved when you restart the program (there is a fail-safe built in). This fail-safe has been a life saver, although, it has a little problem, only saves data, not MC workspaces :( I'm a guy that draws a lot during a trading session, take ...

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I used IQfeed for more then a year and never had any complains. A 5* service, and cheaper than eSignal for european clients due to the VAT. Since IQFeed haven't offices in Europe, their european clients don't need to pay the VAT. eSignal clients, on the other hand, have to pay this because they have...

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Hi, Regarding the new chart trading feature. I use OEC as broker and eSignal for data. The 6E symbol price scale at OEC is showing 144.38 and the eSignal price is 1.4438. So if I'm using eSignal on the chart the order price will be all wrong. Is there a way to fix this ? Regards, Lars It seems that...

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Thanks But NOT showing up here see pic

That sounds to be a mapping problem.

I had to mapp all symbols again when I installed beta 5.
Actually, I had to create all new IB symbols in QM because, god knows why, I wasn't being able to mapp the IB symbols that I already had on my database.

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I'm not seeing this. Is there any extra config?? No, just give an order and you'll see it on the eSignal charts. Drag a stop order onto it, and again, you'll see them. See the attached image. eSignal chart, and the stops orders. In previous beta versions they would only be visible on IB/brokers cha...

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The reason of such behavior is that you have two chart symbols (IB chart and eSignal chart) mapped to one symbol at broker (IB). We understand that it may be confusing so we plan to display such orders in one line using / (slash) symbol: 6E U1 / 6EU1 in your case. Do you think such behavior will be...

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I don't think that's necessary a bug or error - if I'm not mistaken - depending on your definition what a "pip" is, is the 52 pip loss equal to the 5 pip loss. If you see a pip as the smallest price increment for a instrument, the 52 loss in a forex instrument with 'fractional pips' would equal a l...

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Another thing I've noticed (I don't no if previous versions acted the same way), if I have 1 IB chart and 1 eSignal chart, both of the same instrument, and an order is given, Position Tracker will register the order twice, one for each chart (IB and eSignal). Is this a normal reaction? Only 1 order ...

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It seems that there are an issue with PnL.

See attached image.

On the left we have an eSignal chart, indicating a 52 pip loss, and on the right, an IB chart, indicating a 5 pip loss. In terms of % and $ PnL is equal on both charts. Only pip is showing this discrepancy.

Regards,
Fernando

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Today TSSupport made me a very happy man

I'm gonna even sleep better tonight

I can finally see on my eSignal charts the orders given through the chart window. No more IB charts to manage my stops.

Thank you guys.

Regards,
Fernando

arnie

I remember reading that the final release of MC 7 will be out by the end of June is this still the case or will there be more beta's or an RC candidate coming out anytime soon?

You can see in PM page a Beta 5 waiting to be released.
If this will be a RC version, we need to wait and see.

arnie

resolution chart - barinterval

instrument name - getsymbolname

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Yes, it is a very nice way to plot the value for manual trendlines. But it seems that it doesn't work as it should in MC. We move the line, but the text doesn't follow. We delete the trendline, but the text isn't delete. Did I miss something? // http://www.markplex.com/tutorial64-easylanguage-drawin...

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It happened again, when the US unemployment claims was released a couple of minutes ago, some charts started to show some delay to each other. At the end I had almost 1 minute delay. I went to check the Windows TaskManager and noticed that from 4Gb of ram, only 100 MB was available. Also, as you can...

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I think the answer is "No", but just in case: Is there a way to secure a DOM window to a workspace, so that like a chart window, it will stay affixed in one place in that workspace? As it is now, the DOM window is either fixed on top of everything or free floating above/below everything. Annoying. ...

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Supposedly a financial application of the future http://www.pfinance.com/ made by a start-up supposedly worth ca. $1 billion.

We and our quest in finding the "holy grail"...

arnie

Just saw the first Windows 8 presentation:

http://youtu.be/p92QfWOw88I

How will trading platforms work with touch interfaces?
Will it be more user friendly?

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Thank you Fernando and Jesh,

The bug report is here - https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissu ... _no=MC-396

I'm glad I could help.

Regards

arnie

What is the lag when you use the Last Trade PnL calculation? As bad, or better? Here is a video where we can see the Last Trade PnL calculation. http://www.screencast.com/users/FernandoSantos/folders/Default/media/be3fce35-3f00-4a22-bae5-9ef538a63420 When we compare both videos, we can see that Las...

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http://www.screencast.com/users/FernandoSantos/folders/Default/media/9b0749a6-c569-45e2-b8a1-505d7394eec1 What I'm posting here is what the engineers and Andrew already saw 2 days ago in my computer. They said this is a normal reaction. This can be many things, but normal... I'm sure it ain't. Somet...

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Has anyone noticed any price lag with this beta 4? Something just happened that I never saw with this computer. I have 4 6E charts, all with 500 contract resolution, but all with different indicators. The same workspace and indicators that I had with beta 3. All of a sudden prices on 6E moved fast a...

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I will look at it again. This is partly a test message. My last couple of posts have not appeared. As well, the index suggests there were 24 replies at this time but I only see 12. And many of the posts are mislabelled. See example below: http://screencast.com/t/g4f7haqL7pK That's weird. From my si...

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That is not currently possible. You can add a feature request.

Done!

https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissu ... _no=MC-390

Regards

arnie

As far as I know nothing was changed in PnL display from IB when based on Bid/Ask from beta 3 to beta 4. Can you make a video comparing the two versions? The two should function the same on the same setting. After a couple of hours connected to my MC, comparing PnL's between beta 3 and beta 4, TSSu...

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Beta 4 has two option for displaying PnL from IB - one based on bid/ask and one based on Last Trade. We feel that calculation on Ask/Bid is more accurate, but it's slower to update than when it's set to Last Trade. In beta 4 you can open the Interactive Brokers broker plugin and change the appropri...

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Is there a way to dock the DOM to the respective symbol chart?
Something similar to the chart trading panel?

Regards,
Fernando

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Hi. Is there a trusted place where we can learn how to read the DOM (I've been all my trading life a chartist)? I've searched on the web but didn't find anything useful, or at least all were a bit confusing to understand. What does it mean the numbers inside the parenthesis? The contracts traded at ...

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I'm seeing some delay on PnL using IB. MC is telling me that I have a -2 ticks position when actually the position is at +7 ticks. Then, came down again to -2 ticks while IB continues at +7 ticks. Prices rose to +12 ticks and MC was indicating a +7 ticks. I'm using the new TWS version (Build 917.8, ...

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it should works once the feature explained at the bottom of this thread becomes functional: https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8450 Very interesting. Opening a position manually and then a strategy will recognize that position and activate itself as a stop loss, trailing sto...

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Hi. I'd like to know if it's possible to write a study whichs plot the entry price of our position (given in the chart trading window) as text on the chart. There are a couple of reserved words, Entry Price, i_MarketPosition_at_Broker, MarketPosition, but they are for strategies, they can only be us...

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Is there something new regarding the 64bit version? Do you plan to charge something for the software or does it count to the free update?
Looking forward to that version.

That is a very good question siscop.

arnie

OK, here is something weird that never happened before.

Please see attached image.
Where are the windows?

Did this ever happen to any of you?

arnie

Dear arnie,

This would be a feature request, please add it to the PM.

It's already there

https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissu ... _no=MC-354

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Dear Fernando, We are planning on adding the Global Hot Keys feature, which will allow you to define your own hotkeys for pretty much any function in MultiCharts. The approximate ETA is end of summer, or fall 2011. This is part of https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-34 although...

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you are on the right track... you just have to tell the computer what to do your wish is the computer's command: you can modify your code with this addition: if high <= high[1] and low >= low[1] then PlotPaintBar(h, l, o, c, "", blue) ELSE {-- what would you like MC to do when the bar has broken ou...

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ask yourself this real time question... what happens if the bar started out as an inside bar ... but expanded to be a higher high bar by the end of the bar? Maybe 95% of all bars start as inside bars and then they expand up or down. So those 95% would always start as... blue, and then as soon as th...

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Arnie .... I never experienced a problem like you have. But with conditions like your's I'm always working different. First be cautious with 'and' commends in EL. I always put each part of the condition in braces. I know it sounds trivial. But had so many problems with it. And may I'm wrong, but fr...

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It offen occur if the study is running in "tick-by-tick" mode .... After re-compiling it again, the history will be updated ;o). So check the "Update on every tick" is not checked in the property windows of the indicator. Mike Thanks Mike. The weird thing is that I have a couple of indicators where...

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I don't know if this is a bug or not, since is not something that happens all the time, bit it happens. I applied a simple study, to paint inside bars. if high <= high[1] and low >= low[1] then PlotPaintBar(h, l, o, c, "", blue); Notice that from the start of the overnight session, until the start o...

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Is perfectly normal that what I say and think disagrees with the opinions and actions of others. You gave your ideas and opinions. I gave mine. You defend a payment method. I defend a voting method, independently of what TSSupport says or do. We are merely giving our opinions, nothing more than that.

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Notice that when I mentioned voting, I was referring to the fact that there would be a list of pre-selected features that can be included in the next release, but due to time restrictions, TSSupport creates a poll so their customers choose which feature will see daylight in that next release. The ma...

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What is an important feature? Something that is important for me, might not be important for you, or not even be important for TSSupport. Pay for a feature has it's issues. TSSupport will always be the one to decide which ones go to be voted since they are the ones that will put a price tag on it. A...

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When we plot a time line trendline on a chart, that same line shows a vertical text. Is it possible to do the same using the available text reserved words (ie. plotting vertical text instead of only horizontal text)? Actually, it would make no sense having a tool that to that and then not making it ...

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Hi. Any ETA regarding the keyboard shortcuts? Specially the ones that allow us to jump between open workspaces. Do you guys know the time spent moving the mouse from monitor 8 into monitor 1 just to change to other workspace? My wrist tendinitis every day complain about the time spent with that damn...

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Does MC have a list of vetted consultants to do a small programming project? Thanks Hi. TSSupport themselves offer programming services, but at a rate that I personally find quite high. I always used http://abc-tradinggroup.com/ services. Chris is really a professional in what he does, at a much mo...

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Arnie, Duration at the top of topics showed screen shots from NT. In the NT a have indicators named Swing and named Pivot. I want to find the same indicators for MC, because I know how make backtest in MC. And I think its no good idea to study C# and NT backtest system, to test 2 indicators. I used...

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That's impressive ! Not really, we are talking about a simple bar counter, which plot the text with that same count and paint those same bars. I didn't know how to make a counter, I didn't know how to plot text, and I didn't know how to paint bars. OK, so it wasn't 4 indicators into one, it was onl...

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TJ, I hoped topic starter or somebody help me with search working indicator. Because its strange for me is out of Pivots in MC. Swing is not so popular. I ask community to help me find working indicator and npt planned buil my own. Thanks. What do you consider as a swing? What do you consider as a ...

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See if this can help you:

Swing Reading
http://www.tradersxchange.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=454

Woodie Pivot
http://www.tradersxchange.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=202

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TJ, Thanks for the links but I'm really looking for historical data from an actual broker because shouldn't I be trading my systems with the same broker/data I've backtested with?????? Everything I've read has suggested that this is best practice for automated systems trading .e.g I don't want to b...

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I can open volume bar charts with no problem. Only off-line charts... I haven't tried them on-line yet. I actually was opening them online. It's not a question of not being able to open them, I can open them. The problem is when I change their resolution. Imagine that I open a 500 contract chart, t...

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Something weird is happening here. Can any one open a couple of volume bar charts (my feed is eSignal) to see if beta 3 opens them? I'm having problems with volume bar charts. Some times they are loaded, but other times they are not. MC just stays there, waiting for data. Even closing the workspace ...

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Let's concentrate all posts relating to beta 3 in one thread for easy reference

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