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johnyx2

Thanks, Robot

johnyx2

Fantastic,

2 years later, no holidays...

johnyx2

Holidays in QM does not work.
If you enter a holiday and press OK and open 'Holidays' screen again, nothing is there.

johnyx2

It does not take QM sessions time if the chart is set to show 24 hrs., even if QM sessions are RTH
That is the issue I am trying to bring attention to.
Even if I am looking at a 24hrs chart of YM, the end of the session is still 16:15 EST, not 00:00 EST

johnyx2

Hello there,

Format Window -> Show Session Breaks
show the session break always at midnight disregarding of the Sessions setting in QM for that symbol.

johnyx2

RobotMan, I see we share some of the pain here. I trade like you, a few TL's, trade around them, no backtesting. I stated this week to look at AB, I did not look before, because I know EasyLanguage, but I am not familiar with AFL (AB's language I think). That was the main reason I bought MC. But I s...

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My particular problem is the way I arrange the chart. Please see attachment. I know one can just choose an "Arrange ... windows" menu and have them all visible. But if you are used to some arrangement like the one in the jpg, that will not do. Also, trading is stressful enough to be worried about wh...

johnyx2

Thanks bowlesj3 for all the commentary and suggestions.

Looks like all of this is related. We will see what the developers have to say.

Happy Holidays

johnyx2

Hello bowlesj3, Thanks for the explanation. I am not sure if you issue and mine are the same. As I understand you have problems with the MC window loosing its position within the screen and my issue is that charts are loosing their positions within the workspace. In any event we will see what our fr...

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Hello there, I see this is an old post and that the issue described here happens by design in MC. I would like to request that MC should plot an X minute bar with the last bar's closing price when there was no trades. The reasons where well explained by the author of the topic. I would like to add a...

johnyx2

Thanks bowlesj3 for the suggestion.

Is this task bar setting in the 'Format Window' screen?
I only see 'Title bar' and 'Scroll Bar' with the auto-hide option. Is any of these?

Thanks

johnyx2

Hello there, About once a week I start MC and all charts in the workspaces are either hidden / minimized or smaller than they were originally arranged, and on top of each other. I am not sure if http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=5144&highlight=workspaces describes the same, so just in case ...

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We checked the data to see what caused the gaps on the charts shown in your screenshots. The thing is that TWS plots this data in exactly the same way (see the attached screenshot) Thanks for your reply, Please look at the attachment for TWS YM chart. There are no gaps. In TWS chart settings, pleas...

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Please open the attachment, To make sure regular sessions for daily bars are, in fact, 24 hour sessions, just go to QuoteManager -> Edit Symbol -> Sessions -> Use Custom Sessions and set them up as the 24-hour session (or you can use a 24-hour custom session template). These settings will then be ta...

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Hello there, I am plotting daily YM bars with IB TWS datafeed. In the QuoteManager I have "CME: Equity Index Futures (Open Outcry)" as the session template 2 issues 1. Daily chart are plotting gaps that where not there before in version 4. Only Regular sessions are available for Daily charts, but in...

johnyx2

THANK YOU

johnyx2

Hello there, Using Multicharts 4 with IB feed I would like to have 2 charts: 1 - YM ECBOT 24hours 2 - YM ECBOT RTH I tried to create these 2 symbols in Quotemanager with different session settings, but it would not let me create another symbol with the same name, category and feed. Any way to achiev...

johnyx2

Hello there,

Charts with Daily bars, do not download missing historical data when this option is selected in the Data Server mode preferences.

Thanks

johnyx2

So, just to confirm.

Is MC bringing back the regular functionality of the 'Empty Periods' on a single chart?

Thanks

johnyx2

Thanks TJ for the replay.

In the NQ Sep 08 1 minute chart I have this did not work.

Thanks

johnyx2

Hello there, Is there a way so the chart can plot empty periods in real time? I use 1 min charts 24 hrs. sessions and use trendlines to set up the trades. In the overnight session when volume is low, a lot of minutes are not drawn, therefore the width of that day in bars could be for example 1000 in...

johnyx2

Thank you,

That did the trick. However the Friday daily bar is stamped with Saturday's date, but at least the bar is there.

Thanks

johnyx2

Hello there, MC does not display the daily bar on forex symbols starting Sundays 17:15 ending Monday 17:00 EST. My assumption is the way IB time stamps these weekend bars as show in their TWS charts. For example for last weekend bar starting Sunday 06/15/2008 at 17:15 ending Monday 06/16/2008 at 17:...

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If I change the 'Maximum Bars the study will reference' to 50, I get:

Error in study "Test": Not enough series length. Bars reference value: 50

I just changed it to 500 to see if the error will go away since the chart has only 75 bars, but the error is there in both cases

Thanks

johnyx2

Hello there,

I have a signal on a 75 bar chart. This is the wholes signal:

Print("Date ", Date);

And I get this error:

Error in study "Test": Not enough series length. Bars reference value: 500

Any help
Thanks

johnyx2

I see, thanks TJ for your replay. One question you might be able to answer: When I open the QuoteManager the column 'Collect RT data w/o plotting' says off on all symbols. Then I select all symbols and right click connect symbol and it starts counting received (I guess) ticks. Maybe this is why some...

johnyx2

Hello there: Not all missing historical data is downloaded when relaunching MC. I suspect that even some data that was already downloaded while running does not plot when relaunching MC. On daily charts even full days are missing. I can reproduce this, I see it everyday in many workspaces. I work wi...

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I cannot speak for any other trading software as I do not own them all, but I can for TS since I have it and this is not true that TS does not do this. When you change a strategy in Easy Language already applied to a chart and do not compile/verify, the next time you open the workspace, you get a p...

johnyx2

Hello Marina Hi Jerry, This is exactly what I meant. If the study is changed, the changes are saved, but the study isn't compiled, it won't appear on the chart after the chart is re-opened. This is the way system works.Because when you change something in a study you don't create another copy of it....

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Marina, drwar is exactly right. I am asking to leave on the chart a signal that has already been applied and compiled before. If there are some changes being made while the signal is on the chart, the signal should NOT dissapear from the chart. Please, review the topic again, maybe I did not explain...

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I found the cause of the signals disappearing from the chart. The signal was not compiled at the time the charts where open. In my opinion this is a bug/mistake. Let's say you are modifying a signal that is in use in a chart that you are trading live. You just did not compile it because you are work...

johnyx2

Hello there, This is just to see if anybody else has seen things like this: - After starting MC the bar spacing in the charts is not the same as when you shut it down - After starting MC signals applied to the charts where not there anymore - After starting MC trendlines show up vertically disregard...

johnyx2

That is not the case. I looked in the Trendline Properties Coordinates and the start date and time where the same as the end date and time.

Is there a log or something I can send you for you to see what happened if it happens again?

thanks
Johny

johnyx2

Hello there, 2 hours after restarting the computer I turned on MC with 13 workspaces with 3 charts in each. IB is the datafeed. After a long wait for chart redrawing, the manually drawn trendlines I had, appeared vertically on the chart. Please see picture. All trendlines are there, but vertical as ...

johnyx2

Hello there,

any resolution to the problem? comments?

Thanks
Johny

johnyx2

I have 13 workspaces with 3 charts in each for each symbol: 5m, 30m, daily. Data comes from IB. Refill missing data is on. They draw very slow, sometimes not at all. Lately I have been opening them one by one. Still slow, but they open. I wonder if the cache is working, where is it located? I rememb...

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Holidays

Session breaks show always at midnight

Chart arrangement lost in workspace after restart

Daily bars in version 5

RTH and 24 hours data for the same symbol

Daily bars do not download missing historical data

Empty periods

Forex IB daily data

Not enough series length

Missing data

Erratic behavior

Trendlines lost

Slow chart drawing