MULTICHARTS 7 BETA 5 RELEASE – WHAT’S NEW
MultiCharts 7 Beta 5 is nearing on the Release Candidate and the final release of MultiCharts 7 (scheduled for July 13th, 2011). We are no longer developing new features, but polishing off everything that we created so far, and improving usability, as well as creating a learning environment that should help users. We fixed some critical issues, and upgraded symbol mapping.
NEW FEATURES
Symbol Mapping – You can trade any symbol from any chart, receive information from the broker regarding your orders, and see it displayed on the chart. You can chart IQFeed and trade on IB, you can chart IB and trade MB Trading, and you can even watch June futures and trade December futures if you wish. You can also specify different exchanges for sending orders and receiving callbacks, such as sending orders to SMART exchange for IB, but getting responses from NASDAQ or ARCA.
You can now export Order and Position Tracker values into Excel. This is a feature that was requested a lot by traders who wished to analyze trades that were completed during the trading session. Simply highlight your OPT window and go to File > Export to Excel. Remember to do this before closing MultiCharts, because the OPT data will be cleared out when you restart.
Interactive Brokers connection got a few improvements – detailed sub-account information is now shown for Financial Advisor accounts for Interactive Brokers (http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-364). We also added the HSI symbol root for Interactive Brokers.
OpenPL Calculations
- OpenPL from MBTrading broker can now be calculated based Trade PL, in addition to the current calculation based on Bid/Ask prices.
- PnL from IB is now calculated properly when there is no valid Bid and Ask values coming in from IB.
Scripts
- Signals and indicators now don’t go to OFF mode when there is not enough data on the chart to calculate the strategy. Once more data is added, the strategy will calculate automatically. More info here – http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=6434.
- Added a keyword ‘const’ to PowerLanguage, which allows you to define the size of an array.
Usability
- DOM auto-centering is now NOT cancelled when price leaves visible area and then returns to the visible area because of price movement (not because of manual dragging). This avoids the price jumping around the edge endlessly.
- Template functionality for ASCII Mapping (remembering last settings for similar files) was added. More info here – http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-402.
- It is now possible to search for eSignal symbols using the Description field.
- In the PL Editor window “Export Studies” the mouse now scrolls the view up and down without having to click on one of the listed items first.
- It’s now possible to search the list of studies while Importing/Exporting by pressing the first character of the file name to jump down the list of files.
- Status Line performance with Tracking Mode was optimized to reduce display lag.
- Automatic re-focusing of PowerLanguageEditor has been improved, now cursor is automatically located in the last place where it was left.
- Error messages from brokers “No security definition has been found for the request” are now treated as REJECT statuses for orders.
- Now you don’t need to restart QuoteManager in order for the ClearCache command to take effect on the chart.
- It is now possible to trade XAUUSD and XAGUSD commodities symbols from Interactive Brokers.
BUGS FIXED
Charting/Data Handling
- Last bar on daily resolution would get duplicated if another session is chosen on the chart. More info here – http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=7015.
- 60-second bars and 1-min bars from data providers that supply one real-time ticks were sometimes different in volume and in shape. More info here –http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/download/file.php?id=2965, and here –http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7641, and here –http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-37, and here –http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-45, and here –http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-46
- Fixed certain problems when importing QMD database files into QuoteManager under Windows XP and Windows 7 operating systems.
- Expiration rule for QG futures symbols was incorrect.
- Existing data would sometimes be deleted when reloading daily bars.
Trading
- PnL from Interactive Brokers was incorrectly calculated. More info here –http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8679, and here –http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-396.
- Inability to connect to IB’s TWS 918.4. More info here –http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-414.
- Inability to trade on ICE_IPE-A exchange from Trading Technologies was fixed (shown visually as just ICE).
- Trailing Stop strategy does not remember certain settings when saved. More info here –http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-376 and here –http://www.multicharts.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=8642.
- Incorrect default expiry dates in symbol mapping for futures contracts from eSignal. More info here – http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-383.
- In the Performance Report trades and outliers were incorrectly displayed. More info here – http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-457.
Stability
- Saving workspaces with scanner windows that have Custom Futures stopped working in Beta 4 (caused exception).
- Infinite loop would sometimes occur when sending orders to Interactive Brokers.
- Tick charts would get an infinite “Establishing Connection” message if ticks stopped arriving before the end of the session.
- Exception when requesting Symbol List from Patsystems.
- Exception when closing a workspace and moving mouse over indicators.
- Exception after working with IQFeed data provider for an extended period of time. More info here – http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-334.
- Exception when opening a workspace with many studies.
Visual/Usability
- Impossible to export ASCII data from the QuoteManager that have more than 5 digits after the decimal. More info here – http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-417
- Order and Position Tracker would sometimes show two rows the same position (duplicate the information).
- Fill prices at MB Trading broker would sometimes display incorrectly. More info here – http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-410.
- Portfolio Backtester’s save button would be unavailable after changing an input.
- Playback speed selection slider had incorrect hints. More info here – http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-407.
- The pop-up hint for the icon “Insert study” incorrectly showed “Show/Hide Drawing tools”. More info here –http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-307
- When saving a workspace the themes was not saved.
- Arrows were not centered on bars. More info here –http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-412.
- User’s session template gets reset when opening a workspace, if other session templates are added to the database.
- Value of last trade in DOM now dynamically fits into the cell size. More info here –http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-360
- Pressing F1 or toolbar Help from the QuoteManager didn’t open the Help file. More info here – http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-403.
- In the “Edit Data” window in QuoteManager the “Insert” button is now available when it should be.
- User’s session template gets reset when opening a workspace, if other session templates are added to the database.
- Mouse cursor would blink if positioned above the “resize” button in DOM.
- “Bring to Front” и “Send to Back” buttons in the Visual order dialog didn’t work.
- “CTRL + left mouse click” didn’t move the chart left and right, even though it should. More info here – http://www.multicharts.com/pm/viewissue.php?issue_no=MC-443.
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