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the strategy is awaiting data for Bar Magnifier...

Postby dario » 13 Dec 2015

When I read the strategy is awaiting data for Bar Magnifier... MC is downloading the data from DataSource??

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Re: the strategy is awaiting data for Bar Magnifier...

Postby TJ » 13 Dec 2015

When I read the strategy is awaiting data for Bar Magnifier... MC is downloading the data from DataSource??
MultiCharts has an option to "Download data before backtesting".
Make sure you have the box checked.
Your MC must be in Online Mode and connected to the datasource.


Although you can download data on-the-fly,
I would recommend you create a chart and download all the required data before backtesting. You should visually inspect the chart to make sure all the data are there. ie. no data gaps, no bad ticks. It just makes common sense to check your data beforehand.

Once the data is on the chart, MultiCharts will automatically save the data into your computer for further use when you exit the program.

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Re: the strategy is awaiting data for Bar Magnifier...

Postby dario » 13 Dec 2015

Where is this option?? I don't find it .....

IN FILE -> PREFERENCES -> DATA SERVER MODE
I have : online mode with download missing historical data (checked)

but everytime I start MC... i wait several minutes with the label : the strategy is awaiting data for Bar Magnifier... before the signal is applied to the chart.

Now I'm trying MC on an Asus notebook computer i7 with 16GB RAM on win8 64bit

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Re: the strategy is awaiting data for Bar Magnifier...

Postby TJ » 13 Dec 2015

When I read the strategy is awaiting data for Bar Magnifier... MC is downloading the data from DataSource??
MultiCharts has an option to "Download data before backtesting".
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Sorry, that's for Portfolio backtesting only.

For regular backtesting, please make sure you have the required data before starting the backtest.

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Re: the strategy is awaiting data for Bar Magnifier...

Postby hadenxu » 05 Apr 2022

When I read the strategy is awaiting data for Bar Magnifier... MC is downloading the data from DataSource??
MultiCharts has an option to "Download data before backtesting".
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Sorry, that's for Portfolio backtesting only.

For regular backtesting, please make sure you have the required data before starting the backtest.
Hi TJ

i also encounter this problem when doing back testing. "the strategy is awaiting data for Bar Magnifier..." always appears on the top of the chart.
i pretty sure that i have already download the data of the bar magnifier needed(for my case, i used 1min data to magnify a daily chart). but when i applied the signal on the chart, then MC starts to download those data(1 min data) again. I found this out by check Quotation Manager logs.
should this be considered a bug?

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Re: the strategy is awaiting data for Bar Magnifier...

Postby ScottishSpeculator » 08 Jan 2023

any answer to this issue? I am getting the same but it's the weekend and I am wondering if new live data is causing an issue. I can't get studies to even appear on my chart . Need to look into this more but its really frustrating cause TS fine at weekends with no further adjustments to show me studies

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Re: the strategy is awaiting data for Bar Magnifier...

Postby Jupp25 » 10 Jan 2023

@ScottishSpeculator: do you have the Bar Magnifier set to ticks?

if so, then my experience is, that "awaiting data for Bar Magnifier..." also shows, if your computer is just taking a while to load those ticks, even though they already are in your DB.

Even though the minimum spec`s for MC are quite low, there are a lot of errors(or endless wainting times) occure when system is to weak.
I had 12-Core 32GB Ram and had a lot of issues with historical downloads, they are gone since I updated to 96GB Ram.

Just my experience....

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Re: the strategy is awaiting data for Bar Magnifier...

Postby ScottishSpeculator » 10 Jan 2023

Yeah I fixed. Thanks for reply though.

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Re: the strategy is awaiting data for Bar Magnifier...

Postby Jupp25 » 10 Jan 2023

Yeah I fixed. Thanks for reply though.
just for me and others to know:

what did you do, how did you fix it?


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