Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position tracker

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Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position tracker

Postby Henry MultiСharts » 13 Nov 2013

Dear users,

We are currently looking into adding new values provided by your broker into the Accounts tab of Order&Position tracker window that will help you to better track your account/trading performance.
Please specify the broker you are using and the values that are available through broker API or in his terminal that you would like to have added to MultiCharts OPT Accounts tab.

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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track

Postby ACMilan » 13 Nov 2013

Hi..
I am glad you guys are working on improving the Order and Position Tracker window
Several months ago I made that suggestion via the Project Management section
What I was and still looking, is a way to see he PL for all the complete trades
Right now the position history is so confusing is basically useless IMO.
Would like to see the actual result for each complete trade and and a running P/L for the day
At the time I even attached a sample of a screen shot.
I believe brokers like Dorman Trading and Advantage Futures do provide all in that real time.

Thanks Henry

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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track

Postby Tresor » 19 Nov 2013

MT should be the benchmark as far as OPT (''terminal'' in MT) goes. It is clean and easy to read. I am missing ''margin'' and ''free margin'' in MC.
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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track

Postby ACMilan » 19 Nov 2013

Henry

I thought something like this is sorely missed.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... ZWmc#gid=0

Thanks

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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track

Postby MAtricks » 19 Nov 2013

You guys have some great suggestions. Thank you Henry for asking for our input!

Under the Accounts tab:
-Add the ability to assign a name to each account
-Remove the 'Equity' column. This is an odd name for the Open Balance and I see no reason to have it. The Balance should update with the open trades.
-Add End of Day P/L
-Add Margin Available

Positions History tab:
-Improve the organization of these trades. As it is, they're not very useful.
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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track

Postby ACMilan » 19 Nov 2013

I agree with you

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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track

Postby quantarb » 24 Nov 2013

I believe Interactive Brokers API now lets you access the account information for the entire FA account without having to deal with the sub accounts. Multicharts still tries to access each sub accounts individually calculate the account information for the FA. It makes the order and position tracker next to useful for those trading with FA accounts. Please fix this.

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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track

Postby Henry MultiСharts » 04 Dec 2013

I believe Interactive Brokers API now lets you access the account information for the entire FA account without having to deal with the sub accounts. Multicharts still tries to access each sub accounts individually calculate the account information for the FA. It makes the order and position tracker next to useful for those trading with FA accounts. Please fix this.
We are currently working on it and going to implement that is one of the future versions of MultiCharts.

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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track

Postby pmat » 05 Dec 2013

Hello,

this is funny because today I was looking for the trading report for manual trading. So I guess it is not available.

Why not re use what MC provides for backtesting ?

Anyway, here is what I would like to see added :

- Time in trade
- Maximum favorable excursion
- Maximum adverse excussion
- Best scale out

on a trade basis

Some statistics, on a given instrument and over a period of time (user defined) would be also much appreciated :
please see attache workbook


this is important for any manual trader to analyse and improve performance over time.


Many thanks in advance.
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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track

Postby MAtricks » 09 Dec 2013

Right click the chart trade tab and select Trading Performance Report

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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track

Postby pmat » 10 Dec 2013

thanks MAtricks !

Will give it a try next time I use MC to trade.

I would expect the same shortcut on DOM though (I do not use charts to trade).

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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track

Postby seneca » 13 Dec 2013

I'd suggest to add an Account Balance history. As of now, in order to get a time series of the account balance, I have to refer to my broker statements. I assume that most broker API only provide the current balance, so the balance for each day (or alternatively, each time a position is opened/closed) would have to be saved locally.

Further, specifically for Interactive Brokers, I would like to have an option do display the Real FX Balance in the Accounts tab, in case this is supported by IB API.

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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track

Postby ABC » 15 Dec 2013

It would be really useful if every info from the Order&Position Tracker could be pulled via PowerLanguage. The information that can already be accessed is quite helpful in automated trading.

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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track

Postby MAtricks » 28 Jan 2014

I've been thinking about this.. The O&P Tracker window could be useful in so many ways. Here are a couple that would be nice:
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and this would open up a new way of using this really nice window at the bottom of our charts:

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Wouldn't it be nice to have our back-tests at the bottom of our charts? Less clutter, less windows, and it completely makes sense when we're fine-tuning our strats which force us to constantly look at updated changes of our performance.

This bottom window could be used for several useful tasks.
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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track

Postby Henry MultiСharts » 29 Jan 2014

Thank you for all your suggestions. All feature requests were forwarded to the management of the company and were evaluated. 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 roadmap or there is no technical possibility presented by the broker API. This thread will be later updated with the design decision we'll come to.

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Re: Suggest new fields for Accounts tab Order&Position track

Postby Henry MultiСharts » 18 Aug 2014

As a result of this conversation the following fields have been added to Order and Position Tracker Accounts tab for Interactive Brokers (based on the available API functionality) in MultiCharts 9.0 Beta:
  • Free Margin (LookAheadAvailableFunds)
  • FxCashBalance (FxCashBalance)
  • Margin (LookAheadInitMarginReq)
  • Net Liquidation (NetLiquidationByCurrency)
  • Realized PnL (RealizedPnL)


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