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arnie

I plot the study to color the background and I guess that I can live with this. It's actually better than coloring the letters. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=7694 It seems that everytime the price scale is changed the plot gets messed up http://www.multicharts.com/discus...

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What I do to separate the sessions, is to "paint" them separate colors- similar to the attached chart.. Do a search for "paint the town red" ....if interested in the free code to get you started.. For bar charts, yes, that option is great but for TPO charts it's preferable (easier to the eyes) to h...

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I created a special session template so I could separate each RTH session for better reading. Since that special session template falls inside ETH session this was straight forward. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=7688 The problem is now doing something similar with ETH se...

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no....problem is not solve....i delete cache and date...close mc e open....
but don't load chart

but problem is...with all symbols

are you using the latest version?

it seems that you need to go to live chat so the guys can connect to your PC and see what is happening there

arnie

Clear the cache and delete the data for that symbol on QM. Close all MC instances, reopen MC and open a new chart to load new data to see what happen. Maybe it could be related to the limitation that IQFeed has when markets are open though Dax close 4 hours ago and I was able to load 50 without any ...

arnie

it load only 7 days..

what about the chart settings?
make sure you're loading days and not bars

arnie

USE IQFEED BUT IT VERY VERY slow to load chart...
i'm wait 30 minutes but i don't see chart load(30 daily ..frame daily)

can you post a screenshot of your settings, chart, QM's symbol settings...

otherwise it's impossible to help you

arnie

Hello arnie, Thank you for your suggestion. All feature requests are forwarded to the management of the company and are evaluated in a timely manner. Please note that even though we value your opinion not all requests can be implemented due to the fact that some features do not fit into our current...

arnie

... to what is shown on the main page of the .NET version. As you can see on the attached image, you show the profiles plotting the total volume without rounding up that volume but in reality MC does round up the volume which can be quite annoying. I never understood why you started to round up the ...

arnie

Hi Henry/Andrew I don't know if this is a bug or not since the .NET SE does exactly the same thing. When we set on the Data Range 1 Bar back the volume profile will never load. It hangs there, saying that it's loading but nothing happens. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=76...

arnie

It seems by selecting 1 bar back instead of 1 day I'm able to get the result I want, to see only today's session .

Sweet!

Thanks.

arnie

The chart attached here belongs to .NET version and Dru's TPO study because it's easier to explain and it's something also related to the regular MC version. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=7648 I have a chart with 2 data series, one for ETH and the other for RTH session. ...

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Just created a new feature request https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-1638 I'm asking an option where we could select a couple of studies we have on a chart and group them together as if they were only one. By grouping the studies we would have a single button on the Status Lin...

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Hi. Sometimes, having only the close is more than enough but I had not found the best way to plot it. I saw some line charts where we could see a different color for up and down closes which called my attention. I replicated it on MC and then decided to also add to it a little twist. Actually see th...

arnie

How different is the data processing when plotting volume profile and the TPO study?
Both use tick data and with volume profile I never received a red sign.

arnie

And... since we are talking about volume profile... it would be nice, by the time you start to work on it so it can be calculated based on minute data, you could also consider enhancing some of its options. https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-1515 https://www.multicharts.com/pm/...

arnie

Hello all, I'm wondering how many of you would want to see volume profile support become compatible with non tick data. Specifically have the ability to produce a profile using minute data. Clearly if minute data would be used it would not be exact as the volume information would have to be broken ...

arnie

Why am I always showing a red sign down there?

This only happens while Dru's TPO study is loading, which can take at least 3 to 5 minutes.
After data is loaded, business as usual.

arnie

Thanks Henry. I thought there was a difference between tick and volume delta. What I noticed today was the following. I reloaded minute and regular tick data and volume continued to be off in relation to prices. I then reload volume delta data and this time volume became aligned with price. arnie, ...

arnie

Hello arnie, There is no division: Regular tick data or volume delta tick data. Volume profile for IQFeed is plotted using Trade Tick data. It means after contract rollover (while all of the charts for this instrument are closed) you need to delete the existing Tick and Minute data for Trade quote ...

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Today IQFeed rolled over to the June contract on equities. For those using the back adjusted continuous contract we need to reload our charts so we get the adjusted quotes. This reload is always messing the volume profile because while prices do get adjusted, the volume profile does not. We need not...

arnie

When we have the status line updating fine but the chart's not. what might be the problem?
What can we do to try to fix such behavior?

arnie

The motivation behind my message was the second part of my post (which was ironically overlooked) I didn't overlooked it but rather didn't understand it. Sorry about that. I though I had asked for you to better explain the question :( MultiCharts might include when a more advanced replay/simtrading...

arnie

Wouldn't replaying a chart after the trading session give a false sense of 'tradeability'? I mean, what if a burst of ticks happen quickly after another (which would not be tradeable for a discretionary trader), but in the replay mode, with 10 ticks per second replay speed, it looks like a great op...

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Funny, I don't think it benefits the platform at all. :) Do we not get the same data much quicker by loading the historical chart at the end of the day and browsing over the data? The result is essentially the same. Well, why do we bother making videos of our children while... they build a sand cas...

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I've never understood the concept of replaying a chart... unless you're cheating :D Replay a chart is one of the best tools MC has although not allowing yet to also replay the volume profile and footprint is really a pain for me. By replaying the trading day you can sometimes pick a couple of thing...

arnie

Could you please summarize how your request is different than the built-in VWAP tool? For some reason MC coded a VWAP study that resets based on date and time which I could never understood. I know that if we set all 5 time imputs with the same date we get the real VWAP for the day but all those ti...

arnie

I read somewhere that Win 8 is being seen as Win Vista, meaning, like Win 7 was the real upgrade for Win XP, Win 9 might be the real upgrade for Win 8. I confess that the only contact I had with Win 8 was on a tablet and I found it to be really interesting, especially the PRO version. For a desktop....

arnie

Should be fixed in a future version of MultiCharts.

Said like that it's a bit scary.
It might be fixed in version 9, 10, 11, 12....

arnie

On the chart/Status Line it's a bit odd when we resize the chart to a certain size the "x" that closes the plotted indicator be on a different line than the indicator. My question is if it's possible to better manage this, making the "x" always on the same line than the study. http://www.multicharts...

arnie

Henry -- Thanks for the response. Rebuilt everything last night. Things appear to be clicking along beautifully today, with no lag whatsoever during the heavy volume open. So I'm hoping this addressed the problem: I'll keep you posted. FYI, I'm using DTN/IQ and, no , it's not delayed data. Moreover...

arnie

When we choose the command line in the toolbar

it opens this really small window

which I cannot resize in any way
Even when I attach it to the toolbar it's no visible

arnie

Based on this thread https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=46123 Another simple thing that MC should (must) offer. An EL coded trendline has always a 1 sec lag compared with the last price marker. Something very, very annoying. Is it hard for you guys build into MC a trendline i...

arnie

See if this suits your needs

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11658

arnie

You can use the \n code

Damn!
So simple and yet so odd.
Wouldn't be much easier and user friendly if we could just hit enter to change line?

Many thanks TJ.

arnie

Does anyone here thought coding a VWAP study? Is it possible to convert this EL study to .NET? https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=16154 When I posted that study I forgot to include an input for calculation method. It would be nice to change the method between close and averag...

arnie

What about allow multi line text?
We are only allowed to write a single line of text at a time.

It's impossible in MC to write big chart comments because of this limitation.

arnie

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). I installed the last release of MC 8.8, Build 8593 (64-bit) one w...

arnie

ie. if TRUE then do this block of code... if not then do the other block of code?

In terms of execution, the number of blocks (17 or 170) will not make a difference in execution time because the unqualified blocks are bypassed.

Many thanks TJ

arnie

Imagine a study with 17 true/false inputs. All plotting a mix between lines and trendlines. Only one is set to true. In terms of responsiveness and memory consumption, will MC have the same performance if plotting a study with 17 inputs but only plotting one of them or plotting from a study which ha...

arnie

In Preferences there is an section allocated for "workspaces" which is grayed out. I wonder if this has any meaning... When you have the Show the Dialog checked you are able to select which workspaces you want to open from the previous session. If in the previous session you had 5 workspaces opened...

arnie

Hi, i'm considering using multichart. I mostly trade futures with Volume analysis (footprint): volume profile, delta... Honestly, for those that use that daily, how does Multichart handle this feature ? Are the data computed accurate ? Is it stable ? Do you like it ? Would you use it professionally...

arnie

(...) I'm waiting for a reply from the developers to see what is happening here. Did you get a response? I'd be interested to hear what the issue/error was causing this. According to developers this is a code issue and not a MC issue. I don't know... Unfortunately my programming knowledge is limite...

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This is the PM link where you can vote for the "copy to clipboard command". https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-1594 Done. I love the text to speech ability because it facilitates to set specific alerts. Using the AT&T natural voices (wave files) I set specific MC alerts which ...

arnie

Thanks Arnie, I will give it a try after super and shoveling snow. I am assuming the download site is safe. I submitted an update above after trying "cool speech". You might not have read that item. John I've downloaded several programs from that site and never had any issue. They are all open sour...

arnie

I didn't test any of it but maybe these can help

http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplettsreader/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/read4mecbr/

arnie

Maybe something like this : it plots the previous days ETH highs and lows(data2) on the current RTH data1 chart...(if that's what you want)..might need some tweaking.. If we plot your code and the data2 only shows globex session, 1700 till 830, we get the exact same result, no lines for today's RTH...

arnie

Here is the thread of the quoteboard study for those that don't remember it

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11804&hilit=quoteboards

arnie

(...)
I'm waiting for a reply from the developers to see what is happening here.
Did you get a response? I'd be interested to hear what the issue/error was causing this.

Not yet

arnie

FogChaser2011, Arnie, please attach full sized screenshots of all your screens so that we can see the behavior you are referring to. Please attach the workspace you are using. Specify exact version and build number of MultiCharts you are running (in MultiCharts go to Help tab-> About). Send me this...

arnie

Exchanges do filter the data and the final settlement price rarely is the same we see on the minute data. Yes, but a 30 cent difference on the low of the day on Jan 15, 2014? How can anyone backtest on daily data with this type of discrepancy. I'm finding these discrepancies on many daily bars usin...

arnie

Hello,
but would it be possible to move tha data from 32 bit version to 64 bit version?
regards
Ulrich

Data, yes.

https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... rting_Data

arnie

Yes, I've been experiencing the same problem but not in all windows. Some are correct, others not. Arnie, Who is your data provider? Is this with the latest build released last week? Actually, on the latest release, that I've on my laptop it seems to be OK but on a previous build, the one I have on...

arnie

Something odd happening here these past days. So far I only have seen this happening on the chart that has 2 data series, one for the ETH and the other for the RTH. As you can see the RTH profiles (white) tends to disappear from time to time on the 2 data series chart and than come back seconds or m...

arnie

I see incorrect crosshair cursor tracking on workspaces with multiple windows in them. The horizontal line shows different price levels in different windows of the same instrument. The problem is seen across instruments (CL, ES, GC, 6E, 6J), on tick and minute charts and with two different data pro...

arnie

Date keyword resets the day at midnight. ETH session start at 5pm in one day and end at 830am next day so Date will not read the data between 5pm and midnight. I don't know if this is a code issue or a MC issue. Something similar happened with the quoteboard study. When I started to add other data ...

arnie

Have you compared a 5 minute chart against the daily chart and the daily charts minute based? You will see that the 5 minute chart is identical to the daily minute based chart. The "problem" is in fact with the daily bars. If I'm not mistaken, daily bars are based on the data exchanges release and n...

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Please create your own session templates and do not the default ones that comes with MC. I can't understand the session times in that template. What is your goal? RTH (pit) session only, ETH (globex) session only, full 24h session or do you just want from the globex start till the end of the pit ses...

arnie

I got the popup notifying me of this most recent update, but when I clicked Check for Updates under the Help tab, the common popup "You are currently using the latest version of Multicharts" came up. Maybe some bug was preventing MC connecting to the server and check for a new version? As always, I...

arnie

Hello arnie, Please provide us with the following files and the exact build number of you MC version: The workspace to reproduce the situation. Export of used symbol (with data) from QuoteManager in .qmd archive, The exported script with all dependent functions that applied on the workspace. Hey An...

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Here's another update. We now don't need to manually write the prices in the inputs. Previous day high and low, previous day close, today open and today close are all now plotted automatically. The only problem is still the overnight high and low. In this version we still need to write it manually. ...

arnie

I'm having a problem here regarding calling data from data2 and I'd like to know if is a code issue or a MC issue and how multiple session templates are managed. Like I said, I have two data series in which one plots the RTH session and the other the ETH session. The idea here is to plot on the RTH ...

arnie

If my math is correct (I'm terrible at it), between Under Review, Not Reviewed and Not Determined there're 920 PM's. I'm curious how will MC management and developers be able to manage that list? Today I took a walk there and it scared me to see how long it is becoming and how messy it looks with al...

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Love the new pop up warning us that a new version is available. In MC, when we check for updates, we get a link for list of improvements, download new version and user forum. For some reason, the links open an IE window and not Chrome (which is my default browser). Is this a Windows "thing" or a MC ...

arnie

When we open a workspace we get the following window http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=7337 If we got it wrong and that is not the workspace we wanted, we would need to click the Cancel button, right? The thing is that the Cancel button does not work. If we click it MC might...

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Hello arnie, Do you select "Clear content" or "Remove instrument" to delete the symbols? "Clear content" clears the cell-instrument is deleted, empty cell remains. "Remove instrument" deletes both symbol and cell. You can delete the cells by pressing Delete on your keyboard. Hi Henry, Well, i actua...

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Could you attach the wsp with session template problem? Attached. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=7313 As you can see on the image, there's 3 charts there. The chart on the right is the one showing the problem. From Dec 26, where the ES opened at 500 and not at the regula...

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There's an option to Insert an Empty Row but what about one to remove them? I deleted the symbols I had above but the rows weren't deleted. I tried to copy and drag up the symbols below but that option is not available. Am I forced to write that again because there's no way to move them upwards or d...

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Here's another thing I've noticed. Don't know if this is a MC restriction or a study restriction. It seems some settings are not being saved on exit. In this chart I'm plotting two data series, one for RTH and another for ETH (due to the problem reported above, only plotting ETH data January 3rd for...

arnie

Here's something I like to do with labels. When two prices are identical, I like to plot one label in front of the other for better reading. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=7285 inputs: OnHigh (0), OnLow (0), OnColor (rgb(227,168,105)), PrevHigh (0), PrevLow (0), PrevColor...

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Final result: http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=7284 Simple and effective. inputs: OnHigh (0), OnLow (0), OnColor (rgb(227,168,105)), PrevHigh (0), PrevLow (0), PrevColor (darkcyan), PrevCls (0), CloseColor (magenta), TodayOpen (0), OpenColor (red), ShowLabels (false), Label...

arnie

This feature is not in our to-do list yet.

I hope they add to it soon.

arnie

arnie,

did you uncheck under Format Instrument -> Scaling -> General -> Expand Scale to Indicators ?

WOW!

I never noticed this option before.
Shame on me.

Many thanks SP.

arnie

Many thanks TJ.

arnie

Since we cannot send to back trendlines, only lines, I wrote the most basic study to plot some levels on a footprint chart so I can send them to back. inputs: OnHigh (0), OnLow (0), PrevHigh (0), PrevLow (0), PrevCls (0), TodayOpen (0); plot1(OnHigh,"ONhi"); plot2(OnLow,"ONlo"); plot3(PrevHigh,"PREV...

arnie

When we choose to highlight the open price we cannot see it on the chart

arnie

Finaly I found what the problem is regarding the overnight profiles. Is seems the code get confused by overnight sessions not starting at 5pm CT when the session template starts the session. On Dec 26 and Jan 02 overnight session began at 5am CT. Notice how we have all profiles prior Dec 26 but afte...

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One question Henry, do you know if the developers have started or is in their list the volume profile/footprint tick by tick playback feature? It's really a pain wanting to playback the day or parts of the day using some of my custom studies but only being able to use regular charts since there's no...

arnie

I'm going nuts here... I'm using a session template for globex only, 1700 till 830 CT. I've reloaded minute data, I've reloaded tick data, I've created new charts, I've created new workspaces, I've deleted all data and reload new one and nothing works. Why in God's name I can't have profiles for the...

arnie

I've been living with this for a while, but it's annoying. At some point, my Data Window became undocked from the workspaces and no amount of moving it to the left or right, up or down will make it re-dock. I suspect a registry problem, but I don't know where to look. Any ideas? (MC V 8.8 build 807...

arnie

I want to wish happy holidays to you all.

Wish 2014 can bring all the best in terms of health and wealth to you and your family.

That we all can continue to work together.

arnie

arnie, have you saved logs / dumps for this occurrence? Have you tried to close the charts/workspaces one by one to see which one was using the most of the memory? Have you restarted MultiCharts after that? Is it running fine now? First thing I've done was save the logs before closing MC because I ...

arnie

How nice, it rose 2Gb in 10 minutes

I've 98% of memory usage

arnie

What happened? http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=7237 Never saw MC.exe do that before. 5.5Gb of memory? I know that today's FOMC was wild but... Can this be the reason? http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=7238 For some reason, ABC's unstacked TPO study...

arnie

arnie,
rounding does not help, try the code i.e. on the NQ or YM.

Yes, that's why I ended removing the post because I saw what you were trying to do.

The only thing MC has that acts like a stair step is its developing POC option in the volume profile tool.

arnie

Yes, a stairstep line option would be very appreciated.

One way to mimic the stairstep line is to round prices to the nearest tick

arnie

I'm not aware of how you could disable the afternoon only for the 29th. In terms of code, I'm sure it's possible to make one data series search if there's data on another data series but I'm not the guy to answer this since I'm not a programmer. As I see it, you would need time variables so you coul...

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1.If my understanding is correct, US stock market is close on 11/29 afternoon. Why we still could see SPY price? I assume that is "after hours" trading. Does MDY trade after hours ? Markets were opened on the 29th but only traded half day. They closed at 1pm ET if I'm not mistaken. 2.May I cut SPY ...

arnie

Hey Dru, can you check what's happening here?

Why don't I have profiles for those 2 bars?
I download and reload the data and nothing, still no profiles.

arnie

Hello All, I just cancelled my very expensive monthly subscription to TS and I am soooooosoooo happy to have found MC. What a great SW program!!!!! I was able to import my years of ELD indicators I have built in TS into MC and I can also use all the extras that TS charges you if you do not trade th...

arnie

If you want to get creative you just plot several versions of the study, where you'll turn ON and OFF the several lines you have there and you end up with something like this: http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=7176 Careful when zooming in too much, it will ruin the color bac...

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Until MC management decides to offer transparency tools, here's a way to emulate it. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=7174 If the goal is to create simple channels like the one above, go to Format Study - Style - Type and than choose for the upper line Bar High and for the ...

arnie

ABC rules big time!

arnie

Hey Henry,

It seems this issue has not been fixed.
Just to confirm, I'm on build 8363

arnie

I don't know much about AMD processors but at the minimum you need a quadcore processor, a SSD drive and at least 8 to 12 Gb of RAM.

arnie

I know how to change the indicator color in down and uptrends but I want to change the background into down, up and sideways. Can you give me the keywords/syntax of changing the backgroundcolor for an indicator. Thank you. Just like NT maxresdefault.jpg Hi siscop Please vote https://www.multicharts...

arnie

Hope I have all requested "data"

IQFeed and IB have identical data but DOM is off by one tick

arnie

Can you guys check the DOM high and low calculations? It seems they're a bit off during overnight session. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=7144 I assume they're being retrieved from the broker (IB)? I've been noticing that the overnight are always falling short by one tick...

arnie

This has been already requested.
Please vote:

https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissu ... no=MC-1315

https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissu ... no=MC-1316

arnie

Just created a new feature request for a couple of enhancements for volume profile. This new request should be merged with the previous one since they are related. https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-1533 After posting it I saw/remember that Laurentius had already requested simi...

arnie

yes I did see it, but it did not affect my chart the same way.
yours looks great by the way !

if you can, make a video showing what are you doing.

you can use Jing for free to make a video of your screen
http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html

arnie

I still cannot get it to where I can read any numbers or letters.
I cannot use it.

Did you see the video I made? showing how to expand the price scale?

arnie

Many thanks for your replies Dru.

It seems you've nail it.
Many thanks.

There's already 22 votes for the market profile PM request so let's hope the guys at management take the votes into consideration and decide to built this into MC.

arnie

You should find a way to fix this. Do not allow the second data series mess up the first one. Fernando, please go to Format->Instruments->Format second data series->Settings tab->Subchart: Hide. But Henry, if I hide it how can I see the profile for the last 30min bar? I not only hide the series but...

arnie

If anyone has experience with the use of the VWAP Reset please write back.
Have some questions
Thanks

Forget about it.

Try this one:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=16154

arnie

the latest one, 8.8 RC

arnie

I believe I've read something similar on the forum already but can't find it. I have a 8 point volume delta chart and added a second data series, a 30 minute one to track the last bar profile. As you can see, the 8 point volume delta bars end up getting extra space between them because of the 30min ...

arnie

...It was the incredible headache of having a different data feed than your broker, the pain of symbol mapping (MC could really improve that feature), and the symbols are so different with IQfeed. Yeah, when trading multiple symbols it's a bit of a headache to map them but comparing the first map v...

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IQfeed is good quality, but it's expensive, annoying symbols, and unnecessary with most modern brokers who offer free integrated data. Not that expensive when you have the CME waiver and a "must have" when you have IB as broker. Around $80 a month I think if you only trade CME products. I confess t...

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Hello I post a request to MC team to add an alert option on rectangle draw on chart. I draw this form to region of interest, I would like to be alerted when price do rech it. Actually, I draw a rectangle and a trendline with an alert attach to it To vote: https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.ph...

arnie

Hi
I would love to hear from MC users that have used or are using CQG and or ZenFire realtime data.
Which in your opinion is more accurate and faster?

Thank you

IQFeed. There's no better feed

arnie

Just requested a new PM: https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-1522 Here is a video that helps viewing what I'm requesting: http://www.screencast.com/t/N2GkpfU6hQ7 When drawing a trendline, in this case I'm drawing a horizontal line, it makes no sense moving/drawing it in 0.01 inc...

arnie

Manually ?
How do you change those manually ?

I like how yours look !

shane

See this video

http://www.screencast.com/t/jKWeE7Ido7

Click on gthe price scale and move it up and down with and without the Ctrl key pressed.

arnie

Hi, I want to less minutes from session close time. For example sess1EndTime is 1515 and i want to less 25 minutes from it. sess1EndTime -25,,,, and Answer is 1490 as a normal calculation. But i want MC to understand 25 is minutes and answer should be 1450. MC should do time deduction calculation i...

arnie

Is this how it should look ?
i cant read letters or numbers

thanks
shane

you need to adjust the text size and the price scale manually

arnie

I might be wrong but it seems there's some discrepancies with the sessions there.

What session are you using on MC?
It seems MC start/end session is different than TS.

arnie

Just created a new PM https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-1515 I'm requesting that volume profiles can be stacked to the right side for better view. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=7069 http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?mode=view&...

arnie

Hi Dru. Can you make a small change, making the study to start each period at even 30 min time blocks? This way we would have a more trustful reading for treasuries. By doing this the A period would be set between 7:20 and 7:30 and than B period would start at 7:30 even. http://www.multicharts.com/d...

arnie

Here's something that you guys need to address. I have 2 data series, a 2 min and a 30 min. The 2 min address the moves inside each 30min bracket and the 30min is giving the VPOC for each 30min (yellow rectangle). The problem is that each time a new 2min bar is made the 30min VPOC rectangle shifts t...

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Strange, I saw the image posted and now is not there :S http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=7015 I saw this happening with the TPO study. On the study toolbar, change the color for the value area for example. Open the palette window and it will be always on top of every window...

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It seems a bug that was on in the standard MC version transfer itself into the .NET version :) As you can see the color palette window is always on top of every window and also when we add a color to the custom palette, it's not saved. Next time you open the color palette the color saved is not ther...

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Here is a video showing the study working live. Why does it not update realtime? Is it coded this way or is there a bug in there? http://www.screencast.com/t/RniwPSUftvNo It is coded this way. I was too lazy :) Have you fixed it? For what I've seen there's still a lag. See how F period on the left ...

arnie

Do I need to have Java to enjoy IQFeed with MC?

To my knowledge, no.

arnie

1. Can one draw trendlines in TWS? 2. TWS is written in Java (or Java is needed on a computer while running TWS). I do not have Java and do not want to have it on my computer (for security reasons). Does one need to run TWS while trading with IB via MC? 3. There used to be some broker ratings / com...

arnie

Hi guys, I haven't been trading futures and stocks for a few years (only forex). I lost touch with brokerage market. I would like to resume futures and even stock trading (markets: America, Europe and Asia). I need your recommendation. What broker and what data feed vendor you recommend that works ...

arnie

We are at the 4th period and we can clearly see how the POC is still diverging and we can also see value area diverging, at least the value area low.

arnie

POC is not being correctly calculated, at least for the first 30min period of the day. See the difference between SC and MC. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=6999 Here is a video showing the study working live. Why does it not update realtime? Is it coded this way or is the...

arnie

WOW! Beautiful job once again Dru. Allow me to make some comments. First what seems to be a bug. Everytime we change the chart resolution the study toolbar disappears. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=6994 http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=6993 Rega...

arnie

Beta 2 is still from time to time showing lack of data.
Is this an MC issue or an IB issue?

Regards.

arnie

Hi,

Taking ES or YM as examples, how can I extract the day-session data only?

I have tried it before, but extracted with day + night sessions data.

Thanks!

Sa

Extract?
What do you mean?

arnie

I asked for this in the last version. Dave replied "Your request has been forwarded to the developers and will be considered for future implementation." It is a disappointment not to see it in 8.8 as it does waste so much valuable screen space. I don't know if you remember but T&S first versions we...

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Arnie, Can I ask if you're finding the beta stable and whether you'd install it for a live trading system at this stage ? Thanks For the first day or two I use beta just for paper trading, after that, if all goes OK I go live with it. Since this version has new DOM features I'll have extra careful ...

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I would love to be able to narrow this window more because there's too much empty space in there. I think it looks better if the bracket of trades could be placed behind the volume instead behind the price. Actually, as I already requested far too many times to remember how many, the number of trad...

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It seems Price columns size is not enough since it's "eating" 2 characters. Only with a font size of seven I was able to see all characters. The bigger the font the less you see. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=6881 I would love to be able to narrow this window more becaus...

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Is it possible to make the High and Low a bit more pronounced? It's too small, almost invisible. Maybe extend it into the bid and ask columns also. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=6880 Also, This high and low is for the 24h session (ETH + RTH). Is there a way for us to swi...

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i ask if you can implement in the next version of the volume bar on the basis of contracts traded Example: Each candlestick forms only after 750 futures contracts have traded. See pics below(exemple is a indicator for NT) Volume charts in MC are Contract charts http://www.multicharts.com/discussion...

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Hi, I posted before and have finally got the market profile indicator shown on screen. But it seems my setting is off because as you can see from the pictures I posted below, it just doesn't look like a normal market profile. I have tried the setting recommendations in the first post but still can'...

arnie

Is version 8.8 beta 1 ready?
PM is saying that all new features are implemented.

Is there a date for its release?

arnie

Hello, I would like to suggest an addition to current Volume Delta charts options - show volume as Bid x Ask in a Profile mode. See the attached image. I know there is a way to go around this by using volume profiles depicted on bar level but then I lose the option to use higher time frame volume p...

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ok, i didn't get irt was investor/rt. Can u explain why it should give the same results of mc, when it's the same program as md? We are not talking about slight differences, but about *BIG* differences, as u can see in my pics posted earlier You show how different MD is from MC we can clearly see t...

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I bought both historical and realtime In the pic i posted i inserted a 4 minutes bar to analyze the inside development without garbage due to some seconds of difference What's that irt cumulative delta indicator? you mean on md or mc? You talked about MD (MD). IRT (IRT) is the same platform as MD b...

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And by the way, allow me to refer this once again because everytime we have a holiday I'm facing the same problem. Holidays are selected on QM settings which hides the data directly at the database. This messes up 24h charts (ETH+RTH) because the holiday option only recognize RTH sessions, not ETH, ...

arnie

Here something that I just find out and I just can't figure why is this happening. Well, I know why, it's the inability MC always had in dealing with non time based charts. When I remove yesterday's data from the chart, it is indeed removed from minute charts but not from non time based charts. How ...

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Arnie, you should be able to test IQFeed with ProphetX from IQ parallel to MC. I hope I'm not wrong and wasn't pressed to do so ... But in tha past it was working. Whenever I saw MC not updating I switched to ProphedX for confirmation IQFeed was down. I've been in contact with IQFeed support and fo...

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I never compared MD footprint charts with MC's, but I did compare IRT's Cumulative Delta indicator, which is the same as MD's, and it's identical do MC. When comparing MC footprint charts with SC's they are both identical, existing from time to time some divergence but I would consider normal since ...

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Does anyone using IQFeed (5.1.0.3) and MC build 7634 is losing connection from time to time? Almost every day now, MC charts just stop updating although the status line show the last price traded updating. Today for example, my charts stopped updating 2 hours prior the cash close while the status li...

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I've used 3 different internet security package while using MC and never had any issues regarding dll's being considered as virus. That is definitely not a good sign. I remember having issues with BitDefender package because for some reason it would really slow down MC. Quotes were lagging. It seeme...

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From a programming perspective, adding millisecond is easier than adding sub-minute analysis -- everything defaults to a single datetime. Good point TJ. Yes, the DateTime keyword gave us a much better control over the text plotted on non time based charts thanks to milliseconds. It was quite painfu...

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Is it really helping you ? As I defend my thoughts and ABC is on the same direction, HFT with MC is "useless" and makes no sense. So analyzing milliseconds makes less sense. Why adding something which is useless ... ? Right, it brings people to MC only , but doesn't help !!! As far as I remember I ...

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There was a time where IB wouldn't allow any type of connection during the weekend. Maybe yesterday day had some server maintenance, explaining this way your inability to download data. By the way, when you said you were trying to load data from QM, were you loading it with MC in online or offline m...

arnie

Installed the new release 7634 on 7 august. During trading hours I had two times, that tick charts was not updating. Restarted MC and tick charts updated again. Now in the weekend, with the exchanges closed. The charts are not loading at all. The establishing connection text is displayed on all cha...

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Great discussion, even though I'm not a politician :) I tend to look at the business side of things first, even if that might go against my needs which can be of a pain. Regarding the milliseconds, for those coding strategies, HFT strategies, something that everyone is trying to get into nowadays, t...

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BTW ... Is there a chance to vote against it ?????????????????????????? Well, the best way would be not vote at all. If only one person votes I doubt MC management will lose their time in considering and planning such implementation. What you're saying is that MC needs to choose one road when both ...

arnie

Here is the request ready for vote

https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissu ... no=MC-1408

arnie

Tried to create a PM but it seems it' not yet working. So I request it here and when PM's are once again available I'll create it there. Please compare both charts. Which one it's easier to read? Less stressful to the eyes? Both show identical studies. The ability to create transparency options for ...

arnie

Now when I close MC, if IB's TWS is already closed, the connection window pops up. It seems when MC is closing its processes call the IB connection.

Is this happening to you guys also?

arnie

arnie, I recall running into a similar problem about the time MC 64-bit was introduced. It was not connected to the harddisk in my case, but to an error in one symbol within the database. Try to export the symbols in chunks and not all at once, this will show where it fails. I don't mean export one...

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Make sure you have enough free space on the local drive where the Temp folder is located. Well, I have 22 GB of free disk space, I'm pretty sure this is more than enough since my database has only 2.2 GB of size. I need to export the data (from my 64bit MC version) since it's to be imported into a ...

arnie

I'm trying to export all my symbols and data so I can import them into another computer but I'm having this error over and over again.

What's the problem?

arnie

Just comment that line if using a version without this keyword.

arnie

Finally I had the time to finish this....
Many thanks for your code SP.
You need to post the text_lock function.

That function is already on MC.
Which MC version are you using TJ?

arnie

Finally I had the time to finish this.... Many thanks for your code SP. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=6636 [IntrabarOrderGeneration = true]; //Strategy, SA on inputs: ShiftBox (0), TimeOffSet (5), LabelSize (10), LabelColor (lightgray), LongColor (green), ShortColor (red...

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has some one created a delta indicator of the market depth on chart indicator....

total bids - total asks

coming from TS...adjusting to MC coding differences

thanks,

9baller

Try this:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12914

arnie

As a starting point. Insert as strategy, turn SA on. How cool is this. I had no idea that this was already available on MC. I remember having requested something similar to this many months ago and at the time there was no such keywords. Many thanks SP. This weekend I'll have my hands on this to tw...

arnie

Is it me or this last build is way faster closing than the previous ones?

arnie

Is it me or something's wrong with cumulative delta?
up/down ticks is identical to ask/bid
This issue has been confirmed. It will be fixed in one of the future versions.

Do you have a time table for it?

arnie

As it it right now, using start/end option the profile is only capable of drawing inside selected period. The easiest way to fix this would be an option to draw on the right or left edge if we select the start/end option, something similar to the pin option that toggles the end date/time between the...

arnie

Like I already said, Dru coded a magnificent study but it needs some improvements to become really, really workable. This Saturday, after spending a couple of hours looking at the code, I felt searching for a needle in a haystack. Remarkably, I was able to find the lines where the text size is set, ...

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Upgraded from 8.5 to 8.7.7408 yesterday eSignal - all charts plot IB - none plot Upgraded to 8.7.7431 today eSignal - only some charts plot IB - only some plot Could you give me the download link of 8.5? Thanks. That's strange. Have you gone to live chat so support can look at it? Is this happening...

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So many people nowadays using the .NET version and not a single one able to make little enhancements on this study. People said when the .NET version was released that finally Multicharts had a shot against NT and the thousands of free studies available for it, coded by their users but apparently al...

arnie

Hey guys, what quotes are those seen on the naked VA and POC?

126 30/64?
126.54/64?

Should they be 126 15/32 and 126 27/32?

arnie

Is it me or something's wrong with cumulative delta?

up/down ticks is identical to ask/bid

arnie

Are all of the studies compiled after going to the editor and compiling "all uncompiled" or there are still some studies that cannot be compiled? What I've been seen is while installing MC and checking it to compile the studies, after installation, if I go to the PLE, select Compile All Uncompiled,...

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1) Upon installation, not all indicators get compiled. Once the installation is done with all check box enabled, you can still go to the editor and compile "all uncompiled" to have the left over successfully compiled. Actually this is something that has been happening since the first 8.5 version if...

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This has been discussed on previous threads and emails but so far we couldn't find a better way to implement the holiday option on 24h charts since it only removes the RTH portion of the day, leaving the ETH portion visible on the chart, completely messing any 24h study we use. http://www.multichart...

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I can't remember if I've already spoken about this, If I did I apologize mentioning it again but this is really getting on my nerves.... How in god's name can I switch Off my "gann swing" study if the damn button is always moving? Please, please, "hot fix" it. http://www.screencast.com/t/otdXxQsnhXH

arnie

I definitly decide to revert to Multicharts 8.7 beta 2 which had normal and much more clear candle chart. If you compress the chart a little bit, candles become tiny lines unreadable as candles. In my opinion (first time in many years using Multicharts ) this kind of chart is very very bad and is i...

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For TY/ZN, a daily bar RTH based is a 400 min bar. This is the most used one. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=6555 ETH (globex) based is a 860 min bar, although we rarely use daily bars based on ETH alone. For this it's more useful looking at the 24h chart (ETH+RTH). http:...

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That would be possible only by building such custom daily bars out of minute data. It means the quantity of such daily bars would be significantly smaller than the quantity of server-side daily bars. If a date vendor doesn't support minute data, there is no solution in this case. The open questions...

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Can anyone update on these two PM's? https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-856 https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-79 For those that need to have, weekly and monthly charts from RTH period these features are a "must have". Daily bars can be easily built using ...

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Today I was away from the office so I took a couple of trades on my laptop. Now, back at the office, I wanted to study today's trades but have no information of the trades on my desktop. Is there a way to import the trades from the laptop into the desktop? Went to C:\ProgramData\TS Support\MultiChar...

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One thing that really annoys me is when you use Windows -> Arrange All is that it rearranges the charts in a randomized fashion. I would like the ability for my charts to be arranged alphabetically when I use this option. Open the charts in the order you want and you`ll have them correctly arranged...

arnie

It seems you are using a logarithmic scale. Consequently, the lines of the equidistant channel are not parallel.

Touché seneca.

Thanks.

arnie

This is what the other trading platform plans (preview): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCUu_gf3KRQ Interesting ideas but not fond of the idea of having the desktop version opened so the mobile can access the data. For managing positions I understand the desktop needs to be running since all orders...

arnie

I've used TeamViewer a couple of times, back then I had no tablet so, like you, I would access using my phone, a 3.5" screen, which would be an adventure to scroll not only one screen but since I have 8, I would need to know in advance in which screen was the information I wanted to see. A pretty tr...

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You can already do this using TeamViewer software. Personally I would prefer a standalone app capable of plotting realtime charts. The question though is what type of tablet chart capabilities we want. Something similar to MC with all the bells and whistles or something more basic? We also have the ...

arnie

I've been applying some equidistant channels and something looks off. Is this an optic illusion or indeed the equidistant channels is not that equidistant? See the video. See how an uprising channel shows the far right channel (channel's end) a little more narrow than the start while on a downside c...

arnie

Hey Henry,

is there any time table for playback with volume profile/volume delta bars?

Regards,
Fernando

arnie

better be careful with any changes... for most users, trendlines are only useful if they are on the top. Otherwise you cannot see them. Well, I don't know about you but I really can't see how useful is a trendline on top of a volume delta bar chart. If a simple line I can right click and choose Sen...

arnie

Will we be able to plot trendlines and move them to the volume delta bars back on 8.7 final version? It's so frustrating not being able to move trendlines to the back of volume delta bars... I'm forced to have side by side a volume delta and a regular bars chart so I can plot my trendlines studies o...

arnie

When we close MC there's a window that indicates data being saved into QM. Is it possible to have also a window indicating that all MC services have been closed? Usually when I close MC at the end of the day is also when I turn OFF the computer and I tend to open Windows Task Manager to see if all M...

arnie

Hello Fernando, Is IB gateway broker profile connected in MultiCharts? Is proper mapping set for it? Do you filter information in OPT Orders tab? Mapping.......... That was the issue. I assumed the second IB account would assume the settings of the first one since the broker is the same. Ma bad! Ma...

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I have IB TWS connected to my real account and IB gateway connected to my paper account. OPT collects trades on both accounts but I can only see the TWS trades on the charts. None of the trades using the gateway are visible. Am I missing something or this is indeed the way it's supposed to be? If so...

arnie

Please vote: https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-1344 Interesting analysis. Do you have a sample chart? These are from MD which also has this bar type. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=6427 http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=642...

arnie

Please vote:

https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissu ... no=MC-1344

arnie

Now that we have volume profile available in multicharts, how can I grab data from it to use in my strategies and indicators that I write in easylanguage?

You can't.

Volume profile reserved words are only available for the .NET version.

arnie

Please vote:

https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissu ... no=MC-1307

arnie

In fact, looking through the TS data now I can see that sometimes the data starts earlier on the Sunday when in 24/7 session mode vs. the standard Eurex session seetings. 24/7 says that you only look at sessions beginning and ending at midnight. It will not show you a correct 24h intraday session, ...

arnie

Would anyone like to share the session settings they use on CME's Euro FX contract. I'm not entirely convinced my settings are right: "use symbol dictionary session" gives very weird candles with 20 min past the hour closes on a 60min chart. "Use exchange and ECN's sessions": is this the right one?...

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Here is another issue with beta1. The status line resolution dropdown is not saving the last resolutions used. This is what it look like before closing MC. http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=6357 This is what it looks like after re-initiating MC. http://www.multicharts.com/di...

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