MultiCharts Project Management Timeline

Perhaps this is what was intended, so it's not a bug, per se, but the behavior is **completely unexpected**.

I created a simple testing Signal, where a Ctrl-Left Click of the mouse on a row in the Custom Mouse Click Area would execute an order to sell half of the current contracts in position at the broker. What I expected to happen was when I performed a click on a row in the Custom Mouse Click Area, the Signal would execute the order for THAT ONE SYMBOL ONLY in the row that was clicked.

What is happening is the Signal is executed for EVERY symbol in the Strategy. If there are multiple Strategies (with unique symbols - no symbol is duplicated between Strategies) that use the same Signal, it performs the same behavior across the Strategies. If the Signal status is off in another Strategy, then the action is performed only on the active (status: on) Signals.

I hope this is a bug and not what was intended. If it is working the way it was intended, then **you've created an action that runs counter to the existing actions**. For example, if I click on Pause/Resume or Close Position, __that action is performed for that row__, not the entire Strategy. If I want to Pause All or Close All, a right-click brings up those actions in a pop-up menu. If I wanted to perform the custom click action across all symbols, then I should have to right-click to choose that action in the pop-up menu.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

This is especially useful when doing Forward performance testing ... and one wants to quickly sort and have as top rows - just open positions (with Positions != from Flat), or by Net-Profit, etc.

Please can we add support for exchange traded spreads via Trading Technologies 2020 broker.

Thank you.

Having a for the SAME instrument (1 ticker, under 1 portfolio strategy, with PositionLimits=Allow-up-to-65000 regardless of who submits it):

longEOrder = OrderCreator.MarketNextBar(new SOrderParameters(Contracts.UserSpecified, EOrderAction.Buy));

you may submit .Send() multiple times - with or without the same label, with or without the same lots-size.

But essentially, all the above submissions add up to the SAME position for ticker X ... you can pull with CurrentPosition.Value.

When you submit a sell defined as:

longXOrder = OrderCreator.MarketNextBar(new SOrderParameters(Contracts.UserSpecified, EOrderAction.Sell));

with a simple: longXOrder.Send(oNameSort, 15);

you expect CurrentPosition.Value to be deducted with 15. Instead, what happens is - every long submission (every long .SEND() command sent from longEOrder ) is deducted with 15.

This is on latest 15 release .NET version.

submitting a sellFromEntry.SendFromEntry(5, oNameLong);

order will ignore the lots size (5 in the above) and pursue to liquidate all size submitted with oNameLong label.

There is a class missing: "Trade" or "Position". We have Orders, Strategy, Bars, etc. but not a Trade. A Trade would be attached to a symbol, and would be a full cycle of order executions, from flat, to "in-position", to "scale-in", to "scale-out", cycle through scale-in / scale-out multiple times, then back to flat.

A Trade would keep track of all these order executions, and their implications on the open PNL, Nr. Lots, drawdown / max-open-profit, etc.

Because there is no "Trade" class, working with Orders, various order types, defining scale-in / scale-out strategies - is a mess.
For example,

1) you send a long order for 10 lots at bar 1.
2) you are allowed to send a sell order at bar 2 to sell 5 - so you CAN scale-out, but you are not allowed to scale-in (send another buy order) with default settings.

To fix this, you need to specify a "Position limits" setting of "allow up to N" orders in the same direction:
a) when the order is generated by a different entry order.
b) regardless of the entry that generated the order.

There is an option missing in there: "when the order is generated by the same entry order" ...

Nonetheless, a more intuitive way, is to have a "Trade" or "Position" object that would own EVERY aspect of its position and order generation/management.

Good afternoon, I wonder if your team of engineers is going to address following issue: every single workspace has a self adaptive feature included. When I introduce my workspaces into a portfolio within your portfolio manager module the self adaptive feature of every single workspace cannot be used any longer. Are you going to upgrade your portfolio manager module and integrate the self adaptive feature shotly''

For example, adding any NuGet package that uses Google.Protobuf (>=3.21.0) would have depenencies that fail, such as System.Memory (>= 4/5/3). Just try and add, for example, the package mathworks.prodserver.dotnetclient and see if it works.

The second clunky step is to add a reference in the MC.NET's Power Language .NET Editor (right-click > add reference) - this is archaic and sub optimal to say the least ... and it fails in the above example.

Multicharts.NET has been around and proven a reliable alternative to EasyLanguage, empowering .NET developers to extend the core functionality.
Nonetheless, the core engine needs to be kept up to date with the .NET evolution, and once in a while, upgrade to a Framework release that is long term maintained & patched, and that makes common sense. And beyond anything else, to move forward from the old dusty 4.0 Framework that's been decades old in the works.
This would empower users to make good use of NuGet plugins & extensions, and use the latest Visual Studio Express editors.

a tool that once you press the mouse you drag it and it creates a line and tells you as you drag it the distance traveled in terms of percentage and points and the price of the tool. And if you leave it, it creates a line between the two points with the starting and finishing prices and the difference in points and percentage and the starting and ending price.

Many thanks for considering my request.

available for clarification.

Filippo

Autotrading against a Live Account.
Currently if I have more than 1 strategy against an instrument it will show ALL orders on the chart. I can either chose to show or not show them all. However what I need is the ability to see the orders that are relevant to the chart I am viewing and its strategy.

I do not have any value in seeing the orders from "Strategy 1" which is for the 15min chart on the "Strategy 2" chart window which is set at 60mins. If there are users who would have value in that I'd suggest the ability to chose via a toggle "show for Strategy/chart or for instrument" may be the way to go.

As it stands I now have to switch it off and cannot show due to it cluttering the charts and confusing the information.

Currently if one creates Text on a Chart from the Text Drawing Object (selected from Drawing Tools) there is an 'Effect' checkbox to make the Back Ground TRANSPARENT.

However if one creates a chart Text object via PowerLanguage there is no ALTERNATIVE to having a solid colour back ground. There is no way of having JUST text without a back ground text box.

The mandatory coloured text box is always in the foreground. This is *annoying* because it invariably covers bars and other chart information.

IS it possible to add a function to make Text created from code to have a TRANSPARENT back ground? Eg, Text_SetBGColor(TextID, TRANSPARENT); or Text_SetBGColorOFF(TextID);

cheers
Dean

As a computer hardware enthusiast, I would like the capability of a built in benchmark into MultiChart, so that I can compare different MultiChart version or computer hardware so that I know how much my new hardware improved performance.

There are several synthetic benchmarks created or used specifically to benchmark the performance of a system. This is used to compare hardware such as but not limited to CPU, GPU, RAM, HDD, and others.

This will benefit in several ways:
1. MC Dev/QA Team can use this as a tool to ensure that every version that is released is performant.
2. MC users can run the same benchmark quickly
3. MC users can share results.
4. MC users can then compare computer hardware between each other
5. MC users can then use this knowledge to purchase new hardware when required.
6. Perhaps multiple benchmarks that is quick and a benchmark that is more accurate and takes longer.

Please consider to add BYBIT crypto exchange to MC Broker profiles and Data feed, since it is one of the few CEX with good trading volumes both for spot and futures.

Hello

For a company in the world of trading and backtesting software, you need more training videos and online content help. A wiki page/forum is not enough. You really should have a whole educational department designed to release content. On Youtube, the videos are 7 years old !!!! That's insane, have a look at Tradestation YouTube for example. I don't even know why this wouldn't be a priority to teach and drive sales.

You really should have a department designed to make videos and live streams on common topics on tradings and how to use the software/ best practices.

I hope I am not the only one who thinks this would be a good idea. Improve the whole MC experience.

Regards

We all know TradingView has won the battle of best charting/plotting/ analysis of instruments and ease of use. Can we just bite the bullet and incorporate Tradingview into MC? It will make it a winning combination of charting and strategy/backtesting development. Would be good to not have to pay for TV in addition to MC. I am sure I am not the only one which would want the TV charting here...

Please add the possibility to add spot symbols from Deribit data source. I've noticed now only Futures and Option can be added in MC.

A nice feature no one else has would be - to keep a shaddow (un-effective) trading thread that would be the equivalent of Forward Testing ... in parallel with running a Live Trading Portfolio setup. Eg., a signal / strategy input could be "shaddow" signals / performance of existing "shaddow" / past PNL performance both at symbol but also at portfolio level.

Under portfolio real time auto trading, order and position tracker - would be great to be able to right click a ticker that has a position open and:

1) get an option to show its specific pnl detail. The report already has the performance broken against individual symbols, so exposing the performance data on each individual symbol on a right click option, would be a great enhancement.

2) get an option to show a chart with that symbols and the position taken on the past data:
- if it's in live trading, all the live positions already executed
- if its forward testing, all the theoretical past positions that this symbol had

thx

Having a large number of instruments into a Portfolio, would be useful to have filter / sort functionality across the various columns such as:
- Position (Flat/Long/Short)
- Net Profit
- Risk Capital
- Equity,
- etc.

From MultiCharts 15, it is possible to receive alerts from MultiCharts not only by e-mail, but also to Slack and Telegram.

On NET (but applies to both):
Switching a Portfolio Trader into Automate Order Execution while setting up Initial Market Position = always ask will trigger a confirmation dialog for every symbol on the chart - this is not feasible if you've got 200 symbols under your portfolio.
Setting Initial Market Position to Strategy = show dialog window only if market position on chart is different from broker, should show the dialog window only for those symbols where the (virtual) chart (as there is no chart under Portfolio Trader) position is different from broker (Paper trader in this case).

Well, this doesn't happen - instead, all symbols start from Flat.

This is very, very simple to reproduce (just make sure you have 500 - 2000 symbols under a Portfolio - high numbers might break the feature).

Hi There - in addition to TradeStation as a data source it would be incredibly useful to have them as a broker option as well. I use TradeStation extensively but their platform is very unstable and slow, and the 32bit architecture is a real limitation - MC is way better. I would purchase another 2 lifetime MC licenses if they were a broker option. Thank you!

At this time, when data on a chart is obtained from a data source other than the broker, it may need to be adjusted manually, but this requires individual changes one at a time.

We would like to be able to change them all at once, which would save time and improve efficiency even when there are multiple symbols.

[Bulk change of symbol mapping](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-FHq3z0-O7k4DCtChmcYGzVHMeP6nET7/view?usp=sharing "Bulk change of symbol mapping")

It would be very useful to page up/down half a screen to still see some of the screen before the scroll and so not lose focus of attention.

TastyTrade is an up and coming Broker that has the ability to connect to their API. It would be great if Multicharts could look into connecting to TastyTrade API at least for data and also possibly trade automation.

https://tastytrade.com/

Thank You!
Mark

Can you add an extension for PL for VS Code that will recognize reserved words and compile a code from VS?

I see people complaining about visual appearance and while I know it's not your priority, MC users spend a lot of time in PL Editor and it would be really nice to get a nice environment to work in. Besides from quick research, it's not even that hard to do if you already have the required files.

Again, unless there is something I don't know about, it's not that hard to do and for only N amount of time, you'll get the most popular IDE which is highly customizable and convenient. This is also not a high-maintenance project, it won't bring any bugs that you have to deal with.

Hi, have you got a list of performance measures used in your performance summary similar to the one of TradeStation with, on top of it, a formula for each measure?

There are some cases when, while using AA auto-trading mode, there could be a misalignment between real broker position and the position of the strategy applied on a chart and that could happen due to different reasons.

Considering the above, it is known there are 3 different kind of positions that may differs from each other at any time while using AA (Chart position, Auto Trading engine position and Broker position). In Order & Position Tracker, Strategy and Broker position are available to be tracked,but there is no way to be able to see Chart position in the same way and the other 2 positions. **Will you be able to create a third column reporting the Chart position like the other two**? That would be really useful for all of us in order to be able to easily check any kind of misalignment from a single screen, because otherwise it would be impossible to spot a misalignment if using AA (and I think a lot of people uses AA auto-trading because that's the easiest way to trade more than 1 strategy on the same underlying.

I am writing this because I love MC. You have been very good to me. I love your customer service and I want to see your company flourish. The Power Language editor should have a special plug in for ChatGPT. Microsoft currently integrated ChatGPT into the Microsoft 360 platform with the Copilot plugin. I think you should do the same thing. Integrating chat GPT into the power language editor would put MC head and shoulders ahead of any other platform. ChatGPT is making programming languages obsolete quickly. You could market yourself as the first platform to integrate AI and open your sales up to Non-Programmers along with Programmers. MC was started to allow Non programmer types to use easy language in an open source environment. You should continue to be on the cutting edge and integrate AI in to your Power language Editor allowing the need for only natural language pseudocode to program a strategy. This would get rid of the barrier of needing to learn coding syntax, structure or philosophy. Please consider passing this on to your programming team


Custom ChatGPT Plugin Page:
https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins?ref=platformer.news

There should be a button to expand the order and position track and minimize it in the top right hand corner of the window next to the close button. When you detach the Order and postion tracker that is connecting to a chart those buttons are not present. Please put those buttons on a future upgrade of the platform

Allow Workspace Name to be available within a script.
**An example** is in the use with an ALERT message - particularly useful in email alert
eg.
If CheckAlert Then Alert ("Open Long EURUSD ", **WorkSpaceName()** );

Hello MC

Today only Binance and Kraken exchanges we can do automated trade . Please provide more options for us please

CoinEx

CoinEx have APIs only necessary create MC side.


https://www.coinex.com/en

Thanks.

please, check the attached pic

It would be great to get support for Charles Schwab broker, especially in the context of them acquiring TD Ameritrade too.
Thanks