Changes

Requirements for an '''executed-at-broker account order''' to be displayed on the chart:* '''Chart''' of the traded market should be''' plotted'''. The '''date and time of the executed order''' should be covered by the chart 's '''[[Data Range]]''',

* The '''Show Historical Orders''' box should be checked in the [[Chart Trading#Chart Trading Settings| '''Chart Trading Settings''']],

Please make sure you have applied at least 1 signal to the chart and it is turned on to make backtesting or auto-trading possible:# '''Right-Click''' on the chart,

<div style="background-color: #E3FBE5;">'''Note''': '''if a signal is applied successfully it doesn't , this does not mean it should show you orders anyway'''. Please [[Why chart shows no trades#Strategy is applied and calculated, but no orders are shown on chart| read this passage]].</div>

# '''Close''' all MultiCharts parts and make sure all [[MultiCharts Processes]] are ended in the Windows Task Manager,

# Click the '''Compile''' button (if it is grayed out, add a space anywhere to the script of the opened signal and then click the Compile button),

# Turn it off first by clicking on the '''Status''' button,# Turn it on by clicking on the '''Status''' button again.

===Strategy is constantly "calculating" in the status line===

Each signal code requires at least 1 bar to be calculated on it before it can place an order. For signals, the number of bars a code should be calculated on before it can place an order is defined by the [[Strategy Properties#Setting Maximum Bars Back| Maximum number of bars a study will reference (MaxBarsBack) in Strategy Properties]]. The indication that the If you have an incorrect MaxBarsBack value or the number of bars on chart should be changed is , you will see '''calculating...''' in the Status Line of the chart, and therefore you need to change this value. In order to see this, make sure your Status Line is configured correctly:

# Make sure the '''Enable Status Line''' box is checked,# Scroll down the list of items for the status line and make sure the '''Study''' box is checked,

<div style="background-color: #E3FBE5;">'''Note''': If there is no '''calculating...''' in the status line after that, this is not the reason of for the absence of strategy-generated orders on the chart.</div>

===Strategy is applied and calculated, but no orders are shown on the chart===

If there is no order on a backtested chart, it means either the '''order generation conditions in your code''', or the '''conditions for order execution''' (prices on chart) '''were not met on the chart'''. The same is '''true''' also for '''real-time script calculation''' (so called "forwardtesting") and '''auto-trading'''.Please [[Why an Order Was or Was Not Executed| '''read this article''']] in order to learn more and find out how you can trace your order generation and execution from within the code to understand why it doesn't does not work as expected.<div style="background-color: #E5F6FF;">'''Example''': If standard signals '''Custom Strategy LX''' and '''Custom Strategy SX''' are applied to a chart, there will be no order on a chart, because '''LX''' and '''SX''' stand for '''Long Exit''' and '''Short Exit''' respectfully. [[How Scripts Work#Order Execution Priority| If there are no entries, no exit orders can be generated]].</div>

The distinguished distinguishing feature of the [[Auto Trading#Mode Selection| Synchronous mode of auto-trading]] in MultiCharts is that the orders are shown on the chart only if they are actually executed and the broker returned a confirmation of that it through the broker 's API. Please check the following:* [[Why the chart shows no trades#General information| Are the requirements to show orders on the chart met?]]* [[Why the chart shows no trades#Strategy is applied and calculated, but no orders are shown on chart| Should the orders be sent and executed?]]

In order to see such orders, the same requirements as [[Why chart shows no trades#General information| described in at the beginning of the this page]] should be fulfilledmet.