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Hi, I would classify this as a bug and probably an extremely easy to fix bug.

I find entering adjustments into the "Chart Trader Strategy Parameters Stop Loss Offset" difficult when it is set to %. For example, I will clear the box and start typing in something new such as 1.45 it tries to anticipate as soon as I put the 1 in by inserting two zeros. So when I type the .45 it ends up giving me this "1.45.00" or something else very strange such as 51.40.

I have actually auto programmed the filling in of this box from MS-Access (see below) and thought I had it down pat. However it messed up and I am trying to figure out how to program it to work and it keeps throwing me these very strange curves. So much so I am having trouble doing it manually. Any fix A.S.A.P. would be much appreciated. I think a simple clear the box upon entry and let us type whatever we want would do the trick.

Thanks,
John


Call AppActivate("MyMarketWaves", False) 'Activate my MS-Access program that I use as a market assist program
Call funcSetInitialStop("Y") 'This gets the ATR value used below. It uses global variables to pick up the highest ATR value from multicharts
sngMyRound = Me.fldADT_SLE_StoppedOutPerc * 100 'This moves the decimal over
sngMyRound = Round(sngMyRound, 2) 'This rounds the above adjustment to two decimals.
If funcJWYNSmallTalk("Have you opened the initial stop dialog box to have the initial stop percent of " & sngMyRound & " inserted into the chart trader? If you have enter yes.") Then
Call AppActivate("Strategy", False) 'Activate the initial stop stretegy dialog box of multicharts
Call funcJWPause(0.3)
SendKeys "{TAB 5}", False 'tab over 5 times to get to the offset which is set to % rather than ticks
Call funcJWPause(0.1)
SendKeys "{DELETE}", False 'clear the text box.
Call funcJWPause(0.1)
SendKeys sngMyRound, False 'Insert the value you selected from the highest ATR (average true range) for the chart you selected.
Call funcJWPause(0.1)
SendKeys "{DELETE}", False 'Delete everything after the amount you submitted.
Call funcJWPause(0.1)
SendKeys "{TAB}", False 'tab to move to the save key.
Call funcJWPause(3) 'This long pause lets me see if it actually worked since I have had problems with it.
SendKeys "~", False 'press enter.
Else
Exit Sub
End If

For the sake of visual clarity/useability it would be helpful to be able to choose specific studies to show in the status line rather than the current all or none options. Thanks.

Scenario:
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1. Auto Trading with many charts
2. Many charts trading the same Instrument (e.g. ES), same time/bar data (e.g. 15 min), same Signal/Strategy
3. The difference between similar charts would be the Signal Settings are different: e.g. different EMA, overbought/oversold settings, etc.

I compare how my charts are trading for real vs back-tested data. The back test data is fine, however the efficient means of exporting all the trades that actually take place is through the Order and Positions Tracker window [Orders] tab. Unfortunately, I can not determine which trades came from which chart--and hence, which strategy settings.

Request:
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Please add in the Chart window Format properties the ability to add a custom "Chart Name" . This could be a default to a number within that Workspace. (Chart1, Chart2, etc.). The Chart name should show in the window Title bar. ***This Chart Name needs to be added to the fields output in the Order and Position Tracker - [Orders] data that is exported.

This would be a tremendous help to analyzing the real performance of live strategies.

I already wrote to support with all the theory and logic. I will just file here a short summary so everyone can see.


For TPO chart to make sense time needs to be constant. **This is an axiom. That is the way they were designed.** There is literature on it available.

In normal charts say 1 week resolution, all the past data is held constant and current week bar starts from Monday morning and builds itself up as the week progresses.

Multicharts created TPO charts using the same principle. Look at the attachment below, I have 5 day resolution profile. I expanded them so everyone can see. What do we have? Current profile is half the size in terms of time of the previous.

ARE WE HOLDING TIME CONSTANT? NO !

THIS IS USEFUL IN PREDICTING THE PAST. BUT CANNOT BE USED IN CURRENT PERIOD AS THE NUMBER OF TPO's IS NOT CONSTANT !!!

(It only works well a the end of 5 day period when by coincidence they are the same/ 20 % of the time)

As nobody knows who I am I will use Dr Keppler (industry top authority on Market profile) for theoretical support. In his talk at one of the conferences he spoke extensively about this. The wheel has already been invented and I see no point in arguing further why it has to be round.

PRACTICAL SUGGESTION:

*One way is to have a box with a "reverse fill" option. That reverse fill option would make TPO chart redraw themselves at the end of each time block ( may be add an option for redraw intervals). This way current profile is of the same number of TPO's as the previous. THIS IS WHERE PREDICTIVE VALUE IS !!!

** The other option I can think of of make a resolution by number of time blocks

*** At the very least please give me an option to choose which day I want to start this 5 day TPO to be build from. Currently software decides ( probably Monday). If I could adjust manually I can click it every day and use it. Today I am looking at this and scratching my head.

PLEASE PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. This is not a suggestion for improvement, this is rectification request.

Hi, I use a lot of mouse click capture of chart location data for EL programming purposes. Unfortunately maybe every 4th to 5th click I accidentally do a double click and I get the "Format Window" screen coming up. I never use the double click method of getting to this window. Instead I use right click. After a while this popup starts to get a bit annoying. So since these two features I use conflict with each other and since it probably occurs for other users and since some people probably like this double click feature I an thinking it would be handy if there was a checkbox on that popup at the bottom which would give the user the option to turn off the display of the window upon chart double click. I can't see myself ever wanting to turn it back on since I don't think I have ever used the double click method even before I did all the mouse click data programming. I always used right click. It is not as if I have to go in to that popup all that often now that everything is programmed.

Thanks,
John