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bowlesj3

Hi all, I am finally following up on my Saturday todo list for programming (a little behind). I have created this test for the 1 minute bars which I will be running today. I set the ErrorCnt to -1 too bypass the first occurance of "LastBarOnChart" since I am not sure if it will properly work the fir...

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I do not see a "funnyboy" on the link now (searched every page). Maybe he felt guilty and removed himself. ??? I agree with TJ. Most people will do an automatic tails out (reject the 1 or 2 extremes). They will tend to read the stuff that interests them (features they want) and look for agreement fr...

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Bowlesj3, there were no problems reported regarding Barstatus=0. Clarification. This problem has (absolutely for sure) been reported 2 times (about 4 years ago). However it has not been reported in the Bug Tracker. I have already put it on my todo list to report it officially in the bug tracker. I ...

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I have not done stats on the barstatus=0 problem but I am going to guess that 5 come trough daily on the 10 second bars. Maybe 1 or 2 every day on the 1 minute bars. Again I could be off by a fair bit but I know it does not happen every 4th time. It is not that bad.

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Hi Henry, What happens is the first tick of the bar comes through with barstatus=1 rather than barstatus=0. Knowing this it then becomes very easy to test for by using the above date code that without fail detects the first tick of the bar. None of my code has the barstatus=0 test so I do not rememb...

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Yes it is intermittent, It actually it occurs fairly often and I could write a script to get some stats on it using the date code to test the status in the bracketed code above. It was reported about 4 years ago by drawr (can't remember the spelling). Maybe if it is still out there I should put toge...

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barstatus=0 There use to be a bug in "barstatus=0". Did anyone create a bug tracker entry for this bug? Has it been fixed? This is why I test the previous time which also works but never fails. As far as I know barstatus=2 has no bug and barstatus=1 also has no bug. If time > TimePrev then begin Ti...

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.wav files is the easy part.

I either use the ones in this directory
C:\WINDOWS\Media

or

I create my own in my own voice using Audacity because you can cut and paste.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

bowlesj3

I am assuming your study is set to update on every tick. I am assuming your study is set to not bypass duplicate ticks at the same price. I assume your bars have been filled out (meaning you are processing this code during "LastBarOnChart". If true then put this code in the LastBarOnChart section. I...

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These are my notes on this. Last time I checked it the issue was largely fixed but there were a few missing ticks. I was not checking against volume. This was all done before the check box to skip ticks that have the same price (which defaults to skipping the ticks which I think should be the other ...

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It is not hard to know a spam has come in when you see the computer generated User ID as the last user post. Too bad a computer could not be used to auto delete the user and the posts. However it could be used to alert and list them.

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START: 2013/Feb/24th Update. Regarding this post, a new [RecoverDrawings = false] parameter, has been created that is inserted in your power langauge scipt to solve this issue. See this link for more details. https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11974&p=59597#p58425 END: 2013/F...

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but it does not stay there under some conditions. Should I submit this as a bug? START: 2013/Feb/24th Update. Regarding this post, a new [RecoverDrawings = false] parameter, has been created that is inserted in your power langauge scipt to solve this issue. See this link for more details. https://w...

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Hi Stan, Wiki Editing CheatSheet shows basic tags to edit content. To Edit a page, simply click Edit in the top right-hand corner. Choose Show Preview after adding content, and if everything looks good, click Save. I must have missed this part (not sure why). This is what the users need to see. Mayb...

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Hi Stan, You might find that a bit if instructions on how to go about making updates helps you get the contributions you are hoping for. My lack of contribution so far is mostly because I tend to be very busy (especially lately) and I have not had any chance to go about learning how to update the Wi...

bowlesj3

Actually, I have to correct myself. This problem is not a bug. It is a design flaw which has lead to a few added bugs on top of it.

bowlesj3

How is the right margin (bars out front) setting working now?
Thanks,
John

bowlesj3

That split string is a good thing to have. I am not sure if it would be faster but it is worth having something like that. Regarding the speed of GV transfers I think the delays we see are actually delays in the study getting executed (more of an MC problem than a GV problem). In other words the Tic...

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I was looking at the columns that appear when the user turns the indicator status on and off. it is a separate column from the Subchart column as it should be. I believe it is an error to change the subchart column to "hidden" when we turn the status off. Actually it is kind of obvious when someone ...

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The check box did not fix the problem yesterday. Here are the details on how to recreate it consistently. The problem occurs (in this case at least) when MC is brought down and back up. MC does not store this setting on the disk it appears. However it does store the setting in memory. These studies ...

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Here is the PM request. Often turning a study on and off changes the subchart that was selected for it. https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-478 I was thinking about the title to this request. The default setting check box really has nothing to do with this issue. Placing this st...

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Thanks TJ. I have put your possible bug on my todo list and I will give it a try.

bowlesj3

Hi TJ. The procedure you mentioned is what I have to do every morning and which I am trying to avoid. Actually I think I figured it out. I just have to set the default checkbox when I set them to subchart #1 and for these studies it seems to have remembered the setting. However, I think there are si...

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I have two studies I turn off every night now and turn back on in the morning. They never remember that they are assigned to SubChart #1 so when I turn them on I have to keep resetting them (they create a new subchart #3). I gather there is a method to get them to remember this. Can someone detail e...

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Yes strategy is an interesting topic. Any touch on the topic reminds me of all the great traders and how everyone is different. In one of the better books I have read John Hayden speaks of the technical traders and the fundamental people. He says basically they swear up and down that their system is...

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I understand now. I suspect not because the underlying tables of serial data are in theory historic data and thus you can not change history in today's world (gee if I could do that it would be great since I could redo all my decisions and be incredibly rich). If you figure out how to do that please...

bowlesj3

Not sure what you mean? Are you talking about putting an array of 10 elements into 10 different variables? Maybe an example of the variable data you are referring to is needed?

bowlesj3

Hi Martin, The TL_ commands only work on trend lines. I guess the horizontal line is different. This is why they need to create a function for the user to allow the Shift key to force the actual trend lines to be horizontal or vertical or whatever. This feature would render the horizontal line almos...

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TL_GetFirst and TL_GetNext For sure these work as I have used them for Arrows (Arw_GetFirst and Arw_GetNext). I think I have also used these for Trend Lines. TL_GetActive may create a problem. It use to be that this command worked for highlighted text, arrows and text. However it was changed and as ...

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I have updated the HMUZ futures change decision script in the zip file in the first post. For those not familiar with this script, it is used to help you decide when to switch to the new futures contract. It will now set the date to the last Friday trading date automatically if you are running it on...

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For anyone using this script to decide when to switch contracts and who seems to also be finding that the new symbol in the second bars copy and past chart is taking a long time to backfill , I have notice that if you set the new symbol's data range to only 1,000 bars to start then it backfills almo...

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Just curious. How many text are going out? Maybe there is a limit we need to know about! I don't know how new you are to MC so I will mention that you may be able to count the number of text out there with MC code if you put the count in a statement that only occurs with BarStatus=2. If you are not ...

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The right margin problem has not been fixed. I think you need to show the attached 6 pictures to the person who makes the final decision to release. I am going to give it 99.99% odds they will say this has to be fixed before you release. If there is a rush to get this out you had better show him soo...

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Bear in mind, the architecture, both at IB and MC, were designed when the internet was at 56k and cpu were single cored and running at less than 1 GHz. You were rich if you had 1 GB of memory. Yes, I totally agree. I had TS4.0. It was 16 bit and I brought it to a halt with too much code - LOL. Thin...

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Thanks swz168, I was not aware they assigned this number. It worked.
John

bowlesj3

Please understand that historical data and real time market are calculate completely differently. Historical data is captured with 300 millisecond snapshots that are then used to develop the Open, Close, High, Low and Volume values for the 2 minute bar interval of your chart, while Real Time Market...

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I can relate to one thing you said for sure. On reload the RSI tends to create tops/bottoms which are consistently higher or lower over all of them. This suggests an equal shift in time stamps (I suspect at the connection point between startups of MC or reloads of MC). My main point is this and noth...

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When I try to download and I fill out the form it does not accept bowlesj3. I tried the actual registration number from purchase and that is not accepted either. I also tried the registration name with no luck.

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Using server time stamps, I brought MC down and brought it back up. The 10 second bar RSI checkpoints matched exactly to the snapshot before bringing it down. The 1 minute bar RSI were off by about 1 value. I then recorded a few key values in the 1 minute bar RSI and took the snapshot. I restarted M...

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Why? Why not extend that to "Why have a chart?". It is true that some traders use time of sales and do not use the chart. But for me I use only the chart (and I have no complaints at all about my trading system after 12 years of development) so I prefer it to be as accurate as possible. Having it d...

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I think you are likely correct that the backfill of data has to be using the broker server stamps or else the exchange stamps. This is probably why a reload or restart of MC always changes the RSI when I have restarted in the past (because with the check box unchecked the bars have never actually be...

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It occurred to me that, regarding the 1 minute bar results above, even when the check box is in place, the fact that I had to reload the charts to correct the 1 minute bars is a problem . As far as I am concerned the delay should be reported to the trader by MC and when the data comes in to do the c...

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I just conducted the test with IB timestamps . At this point at least, I can say it is an improvement over using " time of arrival " timestamps. Here are the details and the results. What I did: In the morning before starting TWS and MC; I turned on the IB, "Real Time Data - Use Server Timestamps" I...

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If anyone else trades the E-Mini ES symbol and is using IB and you want to compare your charts to my charts while using the existing time stamp options in the IB quote manage settings then please send me a private message. I will write code to compare our charts quickly and easily. The goal is to fi...

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Regarding the above post regarding delay reporting here are some ideas to consider. This is an idea that others may want to discuss (especially if they use volume which I suspect that most do). I think it would be very powerful if the user code could detect the delay and the study could make a decis...

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Notice I changed the subject name. I will list the advantages when I have time later. For now here are some delay reporting ideas. A single number shows the seconds delay. It will of course be changing constantly. The background has 3 colors (green, yellow, red). The trader can put the cursor over t...

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I am just curious if the IB quotemanager "user server timestamps" is actually exchange time stamps and if this is checked on the 10second bars (or any bars) will not distort if there is a delay. If it does work (without creating any bugs) then all that would be needed is a notification of the amount...

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Proper Subject: Delay reporting and "Inaccurate Arrival Time Charts" versus "Accurate Exchange Time Stamp Charts". ================================================== To vote here is the link. https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-974 Recently I have become aware that if I run a p...

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I think that the date and time calcs in MC EL are far too hard. PCs sell well now because they made it much easier. This is no different. Here is a link to dump all your date and time tricks to make it easy the way it should be. I put the left side and right side of screen tricks in there along with...

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I find MC EL code regarding dates and times far too difficult. It is not suppose to be that way. Here are a few tricks. These explain themselves. The variables get loaded with standard EL date and time format. LeftSideOfScreenDate = JulianToDate(GetAppInfo(aiLeftDispDateTime)); LeftSideOfScreenTime ...

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I think it may have been myself who asked. See posts 6 and 10 (actually 10 I think).
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10173

bowlesj3

Cool guys, now the Qcharts snapping trend line votes is from 2 up to 5. That is the problem with the bug tracker. The votes would be a lot different (more accurate) if the bug tracker had "My Votes" lists (filters) and also the MC team promoted their use. I am not sure who to submit these "bug track...

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The horizontal line idea sounds a bit like this Qcharts feature which I requested which is pretty cool. It applies to all trend lines (including any combo of extensions). However you have to move it with the mouse after you press the extra button. I can't remember which button it is now. It might be...

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In the FAQs there is now a "EL debugging (trouble shooting) guide" that I created (see below). TJ put it at the very top since finding bugs is quite often our most FAQ. It is there for those brand new to programming and for those with ideas to contribute. Also when someone completely new to programm...

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I started the thread tonight because I wanted to get examples of the fileappend command out there. If you have a script that is bombing on you the only way you can debug it is with FileAppend since it does not get deleted when the script aborts. Have fun. https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewt...

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This is a thread where users can contribute general procedures for debugging EL code and for reducing the number of bugs one experiences. The idea is that help may not always be available and if the procedures in this thread are followed then all users will be able to solve most of their simple prog...

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After seeing the problem code above and thinking about the posts in this thread, I realized that the FAQs section needs a new thread titled "EL debugging (trouble shooting) guide". It makes sense because this may actually be the biggest FAQ area. TJ agrees. It will be started late this weekend most ...

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I was going to leave this out but I have changed my mind for reasons I will not divulge. When I was learning unix shell scripting (we are talking a full time professional who decided to learn a new programming language) I would read the manual for an hour in the morning (over coffee of course) and l...

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I think the problem is your if statement. If you want both alerts when the if statement is true you need to put them in the begin and end keywords as below. I used a print statement because the alert only occurs on the last bar on the chart "lastbaronchart". In your statement you are missing the beg...

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Hi Arnie, now with the new .NET version I could learn C but then I start to think that my objective is to trade better, not program better. I had a C programmer estimate that I would have to dedicate 3 years to learn C and that is after all my other programming experience. I would also probably have...

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Hi Arnie, I have questions and ideas: Your data panel. Are you generating that using the \n new line option then positioning the text box? The gap: I can tell this is the e-mini because I trade that and I remember Friday. I guess you do not use the overnight bars. I personally could not live without...

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Hi. I am gathering any examples of the recalculate command in this one thread. The recalculate command restarts your study. In other words all variables are reinitialize, currentbar=1 is reprocessed and all bars continue to be processed up until LastBarOnChart. At that point the individual ticks are...

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I have a few databases I can use to store links and I can string search the descriptor. I have just been scanning for all my useful posts and putting those links in one of these database (it will save me a lot of time). I found this link. MC/EL frequently triggered traps (how to avoid) https://www.m...

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Last night I completed my tests to make sure the 10 second bar version of the economic lines code works to handle blank 10 second bars and it appears okay. I ran it late at night when the market thinned to help get through it. I put the revised zip in post 30 above. https://www.multicharts.com/discu...

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It just occurred to me that some users may think that the code in post #15 above is JoshM's code (even post #30 which is also my post) and that it can be run as is. That is incorrect (not correct). The post #15 code is only meant to be studied if anyone is interested. JoshM may want to use it (or so...

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I have decided to go ahead and improve the 10 second bar economic code I am using to deal with blank 10 second bars because I have already seen a blank bar around the 8:30 time frame when the economic events I am most likely to trade occur. I have completed the changes and will be testing today. My ...

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I want back the above link to check to make sure IntraBarPersist was in there. I thought it was but it appears not. So I did that up by putting this entry right at the very top post and this is a copy of what I placed there. I think the most important thing to be sure you understand before you progr...

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Hi, Make sure you include in your reading this thread. It contrains some rather strange things about the EL language that even programmers like myself had trouble with until we finally figure out what EL is doing. https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=7466 Having said that some...

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I am pretty sure the following code will cover the first one. If barstatus=2 then {Execute this code on the last tick of the bar} Begin If close > Highest(close,59)[1] then {search back 59 closes starting from 1 before} condition1 = true {what you are looking for is true} else condition1 = false; {w...

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See above post which now has the actual EL code I used to complete my changes. It is working now. I completely revised the above post.

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a feature that nobody wants Actually it was a PM request. Maybe " only a few want it " is more correct. I think the proper solution is this. Except for actual bug fixes and certain types of new features (like maybe first time inclusion of custom tool bars that can store users settings of tools) if ...

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Here is a test script for this chart anchor point problem which I explain in post #57 above (I included the zip file which has the movetrendline function). I included the link to the movetrendline function below. In MC 7.4 I just tested it. The vertical line is always at the time of the MaxBarsForwa...

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Hi Dave, The easiest way to see the problem is to bring up MC 7.4 release and MC 8.0 beta 3, running side by side on two different machines with the same 1 minute bar chart and symbol. However I will try and explain it here in a step by step fashion. 1/ first choose bars rather than percentage. 2a/ ...

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Hi JoshM, I just finished all the changes for my economic line notices. Rather than try to explain it I have just included the zip archives of the actual code. It may help with your effort. All I will say is this. If the economic time is 8:30 I put the line out on the chart 1 minute later (at 8:31) ...

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Hi Guys, I figured there were others using the out front portion (probably a lot who are not on this forum much and I do not advise releasing until this is properly back to the way it use to be). Also JoshM has an interesting app right at the top of the user studies that will be using this soon (he ...

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Hi JoshM, If you have not seen this MC 8.0 Beta 3 post already I think you will need to review it if you are putting the vertical lines in. I tried to send you a private message about it but maybe it is better to mention it here anyway. It pretty much explains itself. https://www.multicharts.com/dis...

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I forgot to use the test script above to test the RecalcPersist while I had MC 8.0 Beta 3 installed and before I rolled back to 7.4. Oh Well. Curiosity must wait. Maybe on MC 8.0 Beta 4.

bowlesj3

Interesting. I use the same port but there is a flag I turn off in the simulator so that MC gets the live feed. I will have to check and update this post tomorrow with the difference. I execute my orders from the database program and and I some times practice a risky trade on the simulator. A simple...

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I hope they fix this as I may have a need of such a feature in the near future (no pun intended). Interesting. I have a very good trading system (not that I am very good at executing it but I try and I am getting better slowly). I use to be secretive about it. Now I am very open about it fro two re...

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I tend to display most of my information outside the MC windows via a Windows api in my own DLL so it's not such an issue any more. I have to display my stuff on the portion out front. This is in fact why I bought MC in the first place. I missed a great band bounce trade with Qcharts a few months a...

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Well said bowlesj3. I couldn't agree more. There is one problem though. Over the weekend, at least with IB, one can't perform tests with the simulation account to check out the new software prior to the markets opening on Monday. The simulation account relies on the real market. I know there's a de...

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I downloaded MC 8.0 Beta 3. The good news is the hot fix for the RecalcLastBarAfter worked (I did need to run it). Thanks for putting the bars or percentage option in MC 8.0 beta 3 but unfortunately I still need to roll back to MC 7.4 because the correction to the number of bars before the chart is ...

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I think you meant to say "turned off". when they often don't even use the extra features. It seems we are on the same page everywhere. I think we are on the same page regarding the combined quotes above. My belief again is that new features (all except the very simple ones that obviously need to be...

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It appears I'm the only person on this planet seriously using the RecalcLastBarAfter feature in MC. Actually a vote count of 5 suggests otherwise and I did say I was not going to upgrade unless I could give high odds that this command was working based upon what I have been reading in this thread. ...

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I am glad the RecalcLastBarAfter has a hot fix and that I may not even have to use it. Even though I have gotten very good at rolling back (with 3 roll backs in total now since MC 3.0) I was not going to upgrade from MC 7.4 to MC 8.0 beta 3 until I got a feel for the fact that this command may still...

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My compile of the test script I wrote above failed on the main machine. I am running MC 7.4. I have decided to not upgrade until Friday night and I will test it then. Maybe you will want to test it Janus. Others may want to see the output. I will remove the comments on the command. We must be talkin...

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Yes to auto trade the the band bounces (all of them that is) one would need to find the band bounces (which often occur after the bands are adjusted) (and certainly no easy task for programming). It takes time to discover them however. I traded for 6 years before I even became aware of these bounces...

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Yes, my GV definitions come from the fact that I had to do this with TS4.0 and I did a bunch of them before I realized there was a wrapper function in MC (I just kept up the habit). I have been meaning to switch it over to the wrappers when ever I get around to doing a mass cleanup (someday). Right ...

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Hi Janus, After reading the Wiki on RecalcPersist I decided to create my test. I did it on the Notebook. When I get back to the main machine I will try it (assuming I can compile that keyword on version 7.4 of MC. Notice I had to comment it out for now to test the compile). Is this basically the sam...

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Yes .NET sounds interesting. I am not sure I want to go through much learning curve these days (hoping to get a life back :-) but I would be interested in doing a quick scan of the features it provides to see if I want to dig in. Anyway, getting back to the question you have, does the Wiki not have ...

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Yes it would be good to know. After the test you just did I guess my studies only work with the recalculate command because I always force things to the values I want when the currentbar=1 code is executed (old habit). I prefer to avoid using the variables statement to do the initializing. When it c...

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Interesting. I wrote a while study with GVs to detect when the hidden recalculate has occurred and it issues a popup on my database program because it detects that the hidden recalculate has reset the variable back to its initial value relative to the value held in the GV. So you are saying that you...

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Hi Janus, You probably have seen this post with all sorts of test runs explaining intrabarpersist. https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6871&hilit=understanding+intrabarpersist So you probably know this next statement in quotes. In short it forces a write to the underlying maxb...

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Try this function I wrote. It figures out the logic for all combinations possible. It is the last zip I placed in this thread. It does not matter if you created with tl_new_self or just tl_new. Create lines on bar #1 if you can and move them from that point on. There is a minute bars version and a s...

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Hi John (or maybe it is Josh after all), Yes the vertical lines you put on the image you created are basically what I do. I do not analyse the impact statement but that is a minor point because it is only specific to how I deal with them (I am 100% pure technical and I use no fundamentals at all so ...

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I just notice this has been fixed in MC 8.0 beta 3. Maybe this is helpful.
"Reload did not work for ASCII Mapping data provider."

bowlesj3

It sounds like you need to create an entry in the bug tracker. If there is a bug or new feature request it will never be looked at unless it is in there. It is a very good system. You get email notices as to the stage it is at. In this case if the big string field can not be skipped over then it sou...

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The Wiki has a fair bit of info (found when I did a search) but I assume you have gone through all that. Why not make a copy of the file, strip all but the basic fields, make it a few lines and see if you can get that working. Next try a manual update to the file (adding in a line manually and savin...

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Okay, so you have their website running or this downloader running and every hour it appends to the file. So I am going to assume the format is something like this SymbolA,date,time,open,high,low,close,lots-of-other-info-in-this-row-each-separated-by-csv SymbolB,date,time,open,high,low,close,lots-of...

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I am curious, what is updating this csv file every hour?

bowlesj3

Thanks JoshM, Gee that is a big project. Great work. I just stumbled on it through the regular forum and a link you included in a thread. Maybe at the end of the day when I take a peek at the regular forum I should also look at the user contributed. I don't have time to dig into this at the moment s...

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I think this may have been discussed a long time ago but I have forgotten the details and probably can not find the thread anyway so I thought I would bring it up again. I decided to shut MC down and bring it up again to free some memory so I could take a bmp picture snapshot. I was very aware of so...

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I started to look at learning the Wiki and how to update it. I will most likely get back at it in the next few Weekends. As a start at least, I want to make an entry in the intrabarpersist that links in my example scripts for learning the command. However I have a concern. The concern was presented ...

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Regarding logic, if you have one symbol on your chart, it sounds like you will need to load all the csv data in (every hour I guess) then loop through it all to find the last row for the symbol then extract it out for your plot. You need to apply it to the correct bar on your chart. Then once you ge...

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You are doing exactly what you need to do and a vacation is a great relaxed time to read through the ELcollections stuff. My first time through I was in a rush and it just didn't sink in. The second time I was reading it just for something to do while waiting for someone (long wait). That time it fi...

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Then I can manipulate them within MC code referencing those identifiers I was going to say you can manipulate them with the EL collections data. But that would be incorrect. You can get at them if the mapping will allow ELcollections at the data (or maybe the update program may block access). Howev...

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Your right, the Quote manager does say that "date, open, high, low and close" can be mapped and automatically pick up updates during the day from a csv file. My suggestion for using the ELcollections occured to me when I saw some of the other items in the list of data in the CSV file. For those item...

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I tried changing the left portion of one of the links to the new format but keeping the number on the far right. Unfortunately this did not work so the idea of a batch run fixing them seems unlikely. In other words all these older links will be for ever failing. I took a guess at correcting on of th...

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It sounds like it actually may be more work (maybe a lot more work in the long run). I don't understand your csv file. If a program of some sort is adding a line to it every hour and MC is running with 1 minute bars live during the day then the study which is running in that 1 minute bar chart which...

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Is there not a script or program that can be run to process and convert all of them.

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Don't feel too bad if your first read through the ELcollections does not sink in. I did not understand it the first time through ( a very relaxed read when I was in no rush). It was the second time through that I started to understand it. You have a bit of an advantage in that I have examples in my ...

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I have noticed at least 3 or 4 old links I had placed in posts (links to other threads) that do not work. here is an example. In this post https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2483#p29642 There is a link I had placed (right at the top). It gets a not found if I click it now. I ...

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I found it. This is the thread. https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2483#p8174 I added a few examples of using the map and the list of lists in this post within the thread. https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2483#p29642 I found it by searching only for ...

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If it can't be inported the ELcollections map command could be used. The Damageboy thread has it along with a revised document near the end on how to get csv data into MC (has examples). Unfortunately my old URL link does not find it and I find the search in this forum such that I can't find it easi...

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Wiki is great. Thanks very much.

Second that thought!!!!!!! Pease Feel free to delete my opinion (this post) and keep using this thread to have only new features (in addition to your new features list which comes out with each release of beta etc).

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I have noticed I get email notice of some posts twice or late. I was wondering if this is a different problem.

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I am going to take a guess. I use recalculate a lot. I use it in the lastbaronchart section. You trigger it with a GV setting (for example if the GV is value "R" you would execute the recalculate command). It causes the study to restart from currentbar=1 again and all normal variables to reset (all ...

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Interesting new command. I need to do a scan of the Wiki for new and interesting stuff. I wonder if it would help with the hidden recalculate that occurs in studies (not indicators I gather) that occurs if one exceeds the maxbarsback with a loop or search. See link for the solution I came up with to...

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A bit of work but you could write a function. value1 = funcTextOnTL(TL_ID, then put your details). It would get the coordinates, figure out the change per bar of the line, and do whatever you want internally using whatever logic you wanted. Maybe a dynamic array of text could be submitted along with...

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Actually the terms should be (to be highly technically correct I suppose) CenturyDateTime2ELdate and CenturyDateTime2ELtime inverted ELdate2CenturyDateTime and ELtime2CenturyDateTime The fact that it crosses two centuries would not impact the use of Century in the name (correcting the miss use of Ju...

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I was correct. Julian data is the number of days within the year and century date is the number of days from the start of the century (1900 - the century that computers were invented). If interested see the links below where I checked to see if I remembered it correctly. That is why I didn't bother ...

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Thanks TJ. I guess I figured out to flip the command as you were creating your post. I am thinking JulianToDate should be actuallly called CenturyToDate but maybe my understanding of the meaning Julian is incorrect. Julian reminds me of a school project over 30 years ago. We had a Julian project and...

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Wiki heaven. Hah, it should then be JulianToDate (the reverse of DataToJulian). Lets try that. Now that worked. The solution is { MyDateTime = GetAppInfo(aiLeftDispDateTime); strMyYear = formatdate("yy",MyDateTime); strMyMonth = formatdate("MM",MyDateTime); strMyDay = formatdate("dd",MyDateTime); st...

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I have never used the Julian command. Now I am curious and visiting the Wiki on it.

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Actually I just tried this and it bombed. I am trying to figure out why now. { MyDateTime = GetAppInfo(aiLeftDispDateTime); strMyYear = formatdate("yy",MyDateTime); strMyMonth = formatdate("MM",MyDateTime); strMyDay = formatdate("dd",MyDateTime); strMyDate = "1" + strMyYear + strMyMonth + strMyDay; ...

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Totally agree. I had not checked to see if DateTime2ELTime was a function or reserve word. Now that I know I guess the DateTime2ELDate would be a good thing to put in project management as a feature request. It sounds like it may be one of the easiest request of all to put in since it would be a cop...

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Thanks Josh. I always knew Julian date to be the day number within the year so it never occurred to me to try the command that had Julian (thinking I would get the value of 1 for Jan first in any year). It sure looks easier and faster.

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I went searching for something that might be named "DateTime2ELDate" which would match the DateTime2ELTime function. However I could not find such as function. So I ended up writing the set of commands below to convert the DateTime format into the standard 1YYMMDD format that EL code uses. MyDateTim...

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Even though I feel the ideas in the bug tracker entry should and probably will be carried out, I have decided the bug tracker entry should be removed since it is better to be supportive of a great product. I feel the issue is in fact resolved.

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I think they may have hacked the bug tracker. I got a bug tracker email saying "resistance is futile" at the bottom (no something I would expect). I think they need to learn to play hockey or something useful and fun.

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IB fixed the problem. Anyone missing Tuesday early morning data can now backfill from the Mon or Friday file and get it.

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Even though I feel the ideas in the bug tracker entry should and probably will be carried out, I have decided the bug tracker entry should be removed since it is better to be supportive of a great product. I feel the issue is in fact resolved.

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I think the safest thing for MC to do with new features, is to have the default = OFF. Let the users determine if they want to use them.. Agreed. If it is made default on a warning should be in place. Ideally (after a new release install), MC should act for the user exactly as it did the last time ...

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I just found the request for percentage change in the right margin. https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-400 This comes right back to my request for a way to keep track of our votes so we can go looking for things to vote on and also to add comments to regardings keeping things a...

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I just called IB. He said they are working on the Missing backfill issue for ESM2. I asked if I should restore the Monday night file for backfill tomorrow and he said that is correct. Hopefully it will be restored at that point.

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Hi Guys, I am thanking everyone for the "Options" suggestion. Maybe I should expose how I use the out front portion of the chart. It will really drive home just how big a change this is. 1/ I have the band locations out front as text (useful bounces) (they get a box if a bounce exists) I can arm the...

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I think I am going to have to roll back to the version before the chart format window was changed to a percentage of chart out front rather than number of bars out front. The problem is I have stuff out front of the bars that is critical and if I change the bar spacing to a wider spacing for trigger...

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I just checked. it is exactly the same on the TWS chart so it is not MC after all. It has been a long time since I have seen this problem with them.

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UPDATE: this is an IB data problem after all. This morning at 5am I started MC and backfill was okay. I shut it down and restarted at about 7:30 and I was missing about an hour between 5am and 6am. Once I realized it was a full hour of missing data I shut MC down, returned the database from last nig...

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Thanks Dave, It did work in that I found what I was looking for but it is still a bit cumbersome because you can not see your threads but rather all your posts and across all forums. What I ended up doing is once I followed your instructions and had the list up I did a google chrome text search for ...

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Hi arjfca I am assuming you have the binary search function to get the offsets using date and time. So if worst came to worst, you could 1/ use the binary function to get the offset of the first bar of the range of time (session, day, anything). Call this OldOffset. 2/ use the binary search function...

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I'm not using the Trendlines for "trend", just to set levels for Hi or Lo of day, expected ranges etc.. Yes, lines have lots of uses outside of the trend line. I use a lot of horizontal lines on the RSI for expected ranges (I call them bounces or boundaries). I use lines to track one wave's forward...

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One note: I do not want to promote the use of trend lines in the true sense of the word and send someone completely new down what I consider a waist of time path. I use to use them and dumped them after 6 years of struggling with them (way too slow for day trading and very inaccurate/subjective I fi...

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It does not matter whether you pre-assign low trend line numbers as I have done or if MC was changed to allow you to assign a higher range with a gap at the front (for example starting from 500 to 600). Either way you would need to have these studies run first and pre-place those lines out there so ...

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Hi, I have tried a number of advanced search runs to try and get a list of threads which are ones where I am the author of the thread (not the author of the post but of the thread). I want to eventually link it to the Wiki but I can't find it (within the amount of time I have for searching). Ideally...

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I do it by putting the study at the top of the list of studies in the chart using the alpha order technique (A_whatever) and using a set of low numbers starting with 1. MC starts assigning the numbers for the chart (sub-charts included) starting at 1 and working up. Once it is assinged for the MC se...

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It is too bad there is no button on the forum we could click on to notify MC support of strange completely off topic messages being posted to a thread. These are message about something not even remotely close to trading or this forum or the project management system etc (spam I guess they call it)....

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Asking Google with carefully worded search strings may be a way to figure it out.

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Does this kind of thinking help? Since stretching a chart scale or widening the bar spacing would effect angle but also effect all lines equally then why not do this. Imagine a perfect rectangular box on your chart. It has 10 bars left to right and 10 units of price vertically. Okay in this case a l...

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Getting back to the topic of this thread,

There are two requests for tick by tick replay in the bug tracker (74 and 774). I have added my thoughts regarding "true replay" or "tick by tick replay" to this bug tracker request.
https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissu ... _no=MC-774

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Before I forget, another thing that needs to be thought of regarding a true replay is the request for other methods of executing a study such as change in bid or ask. For me I do not need it but I am sure some will use this feature and would like to replay it. Another item to be put in the request s...

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Yes I guess you are correct about the Milliseconds. I had not thought it out that much assuming the MC programmers would get right down to the nitty gritty. It occurred to me this morning that the current replay should be left intact if they do decide to put in a true replay for two very good reason...

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I remember reading that some day they are going to try and make the replay an actual replay tick by tick (a real and true replay). I guess you already know the replay only replays when barstatus=2. For my purposes this is not that big a deal but I did have to change code to get it to execute with th...

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I would suggest you to give EL Essential Programmers Guide another read. I second this. In fact I suggest a yearly read (if you can swing it time wise) since it will refresh ones memory to help with all those new ideas that have been created in ones mind over the year. I did that with the EL collec...

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This may help. I have about 2 or 3 studies I put on the sub chart 2 which relate to RSI (relate in that they have exactly the same scale). To get them to line up with each other every one of them has to have a dummy horizontal plot at zero and a dummy horizontal plot at 100 so that I can bring them ...

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Hi arjfca. I am not totally sure I understand your question but maybe these will help. Upon reading your question again I noticed you do not have the _s at the end of your command ELTimeToDateTime. Maybe adding the _s will fix it. All my examples have it as ELTimeToDateTime_s rather than ELTimeToDat...

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8 GB of memory.

With this amount of memory this alone means an upgrade from XP (max 3gig if I remember correctly) to Win7. I am curious. What is the max ram that Win7 can handle?

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Thanks guys. Nice setup Arnie. Stacking them helps I guess. I have a 20inch and 27.5 inch and badly need another 27.5. I will do the whole upgrade all at once. Kind of glad I held off since knowing 64 bit is here (and targeting it directly) I think it saves on an extra upgrade.

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I went on the web site and could not find this (probably because the 64 bit is not officially released) but out of curiosity what are the minimum machine / operating system specs for the 64 bit version (all user types including power user). I am hoping to upgrade in the next month or so and I was th...

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If may have been the missing ticks problem that tripped the idea in my head. I had mentioned it would not be that bad an idea (AS AN OPTION) to have the program skip executions if the price had not changed since some traders use price action alone. I think I had suggested that it should be done in s...

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Yes it should be an option. In my case I only use price and not volume but some (maybe even most) will need it. So the default probably should be the other way even though some will want to skip the extra calcs as I would.

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Thanks Henry.

I will install it either the night it comes out or the weekend after that. I will also post a reminder (for 3 weeks after install) to let you know if any spikes have or have not come through.

John

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I thought I should mention in the original thread on this issue that I was given a fix to test for this problem and it fixed the issue in that I went 3 weeks (21 days) of MC starts without any backfill spikes. The regular very large economic spikes in the e-mini ES were in no way effected so in my m...

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Hi vking, I think what you are describing is exactly what I am describing. The only difference is I was not including any keys in addition to the method (whatever that may be) that the study would detect that the mouse clicks had occurred (both down and up). The only thing that I added was the abili...

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I would say that if the user has left clicked down and not clicked a tool (if that can be immediately determined) then that would normally be when they want the bar info. I don't think they should have to click directly on the bar. If the backward offset (distance from current bar) is returned they ...

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It has a lot of uses especially if it can pick up info from the cross hair location. https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7764&hilit=binary At the same time the above script could be modified for trend lines and a horizontal target and stop line could be floating out front of c...

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After underlining the text in the prior post, and giving it some more thought, it occurred to me that if the mouse up click was detected by a study and if the study was also checked to be executed at that point it could execute MC_Arw_GetActive to see if a specific arrow is still highlighted then it...

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So there it is, I put the feature mentioned above in this PM entry.
https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissu ... _no=MC-801

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Note: This loop function is now obsolete. Instead use the new version of the binary scripts which are described below in post #14. The new binary scripts (minute bar version and seconds bar version) are contained in A_FindOffsetViaBinary_ClosestFutureNoFind.zip. Posts #15 and !6 give a bit more info...

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With regular charts date and time would be useful since the binary searches can be used to get the offset.. With tick charts, If bar number is returned, although I have never done it, I am assuming we can calculate the offset from currentbar and use that to get the date and time. From that the user ...

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Thanks Stan, If there is something I have written the MC staff like, feel free to move it into that medium. I have no idea what is good and not so good. Maybe a bit of editing would be in order since I am not an English instructor (nor a trained technical writer). I am assuming there will be an anno...

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It is too bad EL (or MC-EL) could not be adjusted to have a good VB / VBA format IF .... then else End If alignment (unloading the begin/end combo) with a method of putting the cursor on the IF or the Else or the End If and having the tab key make it jump to the next corresponding part of the 3 of t...

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If you are new to MC and are new to the reserve word "intrabarpersist" (and not using it) that may cause problems. Also line/arrows and text do not stay on the chart until the end of the bar when barstatus=2. They get drawn then deleted then drawn then deleted then drawn then deleted over and over o...

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Again as mentioned in the other prior email, in dataplay back you only get the completed bar (barstatus=2). I think to get the completed times from smaller bars you need to run in global mode but again all the smaller bars are also running with completed bars only (barStatus=2).

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I did not think there was any update between 10 minute bars in data playback unless you have 1 minute bars or less which were being updated. The closing price of the bar is never moving. All that happens is the next bar appears fully completed (meaning open, high, low and close are already fully the...

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I think anyone brand new to programming would be interested. I do not know the balance here.

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It is always good to pass on any formatting ideas. There are some formatting ideas in this thread. https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=7665 Useful for moving around if statements (use it a lot) https://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7142 Even with good met...

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Hi Martin. I actually went ahead and created the post you suggested. It should be interesting to see the response. By the way I did load Hypersnap. It can do everything except hide its borders. It can create a slideshow to hide its borders but this hogs the whole screen and everything else gets hidd...

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recording their entire trading session Thanks arjfca. Gee that is a great idea. I would not want to save it for any more than 1 day but for sure, I could use that since I have a lot of stuff going on outside of price movement. I think there was a post here where someone mentioned some screen record...

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I tried all of these programs. I do not believe any can do what I had in mind. To reword what I had in mind, it would be to display a slide show of the original snapshot but in the exact same size as the original snapshots. Slide shows always seem to have the idea they have to hog the whole screen (...

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Thanks Martin,

I am going to be trying the software's this weekend.

John

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Have a great holidays everyone.

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Thanks guys. I have emailed both since they will know in an instant for sure.
John

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Is there any program that can display a snapshot image of a screen which is in file format (bmp or png or jpg or any file type) such that there is no border that can be seen (such that it looks exactly like the screen that was the source of the snapshot). For example a snapshot image of IB’s TWS. In...

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I see "Clear Browsing Data" rather than "Clear Navigation Date". Under there I see several options. I am thinking Cache is the most likely choice.

Chrome Wrench, Tool, Clear Browsing Data

So where is F5 I am wondering. Time to look for it I guess.

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I used F5 about 4 days ago and the problem has not returned. I find Chrome does strange things every so often generally. Maybe I should try F5 every time this happens. What if a trade is loosing? Maybe it will work there

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Please press F5 from your keyboard to reload the page.
The visual issue you have encountered is due to cached data.

I was getting the same thing (could not even log on) and F5 fixed it. However I tried the other computer before knowing this and it was fine. Both running google chrome.

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https://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-530 The status of this issue at the link above is a bit in limbo on my end. I changed the check box that is in the quote manager (as described in the link above) but but I still had two startups of MC at about the 7:30 hour Eastern Standard Ti...

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The computer with 32-bit OS you currently use will become obsolete latest in a year or two. So you can easily subsitute the word ''never'' with ''max 2 years''. I am not sure how MC team is going to handle this, but I think that once the benefits of having an MC 64-bit version are proven, you will ...

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I updated the HMUZ decision script so that it would not incorrectly bypass totaling ticks for any hours if the new contract is currently very thin. I also updated the instructions in the first post to suggest that if the back fill is taking a long time the data range should be reduced to 10,000 bars...

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Agreed "Charting and quote processing first" As far as "indicators calculations" I often have had to wait for an study to catch up so it can send data back go my external program via GVs. However placing this command RecalcLastBarAfter(1); at the bottom of of the LastBarOnChart if statement has made...

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I just want to thank the MC Staff for putting the RecalcLastBarAfter command in. I have had it on my todo list for a long time to try it. This morning I got tired of waiting for the slow ticks to feed one of my many interactive EL scripts and I gave it a run (works great for these types of scripts)....

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Can this problem be reproduced? Hi Henry, I do not think it can be reproduced. It has not done this since. It was a strange abort that I have only seen 1 or 2 times in 4 years. It is where MC will abort and not provide a dump form to store the dump. It did not even detect the abort on restart as I ...

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Done, latest MC 7.2 beta ran without fail all day today. Great program. Thanks.

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I do not know if this is reported. I did not get a dump screen but on the latest release MC 7.2 beta both MC and the Editor aborted when I opened the editor. However I opened it again and it was okay (this was after I restarted MC of course). It all happened pretty quick. MC had been running without...

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Hi geizer, I have seen that product. it is computer voice as you say. It can't really do what I do. I actually do two things (computer voice and my voice). For computer voice: I use an old freeware program (better than Speakonia) to voice any text that hits the clipboard (basically it speaks it inst...

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Google searches such as "How to concatenate .wav files" or "How to join .wav files" produced some forum discussions. "Shuangs Audio Joiner" is the one I have selected (freeware). I can put all the .wav files in a directory and just go ctrl+a to highlight all of them. Changing the order would be a si...

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Thanks TJ, Using the thanks buttons still gives an error. I think you have outrun your thanks limit.

I will search the web tonight and if I find something post it to this thread. I have a feeling there is a command line in windows for it (the old dos stuff). Maybe I can use that.

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I have an older version of Audacity. I am not sure if it can do what I hope. I want to create a series of .wav files then put the names of each one in a text list (1 text line per .wav file). So the merge program would run with say 1 button click (a shell command maybe) and it would use the text lis...

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Does anyone know of software that can concatenate a string of 15 or 20 .wav files into a single .wav file. Preferably something that can take a command line of .wav files. Actually if it can use an input text file list of .wav files that would be even better. I gather each .wav file has a header and...

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