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Mark - I can't argue with your statement. There are a couple of solutions. One of them is to have the tsserver.exe process (and other MC processes) execute in a separate core. However, MC tech support said they couldn't do that because of interprocess communication. I am sure that multithreading...

You just need to know they have an interface for the market data and a separate interface for trade execution. A major factor in trade execution is called IOG which stands for Intrabar Order Generation. When that is turned on, multicharts evaluates each tick to see if it will trigger an order...

Interesting....because I have heard of the opposite RR: 30/15 for instance. I don't understand why you don't trust a backtest of this factor ? Daily average of drawdowns ? How far back do you go in the average ? 10 days, 30 days, etc.

So bottomline summary: When in auto-trading mode, you are unable to scale-in with additional contracts on a manually entered order. Another condition: the initial manual order had an OCO bracket.

Was the multi-lot order for an entry or exit ? So it will work with a one lot ? This smells like a bug to me for sure.

Yeah, but that was a "black swan" event....only occurs once per generation.....at most.

Really ? Tell that to Jim Simons..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician)

Mark - did you trace the code using PRINT statements ? "freaks out" - exactly what was the behavior ?

The important aspect of scalping is that it can work in both trending and non-trending environments. However, it will never approach the profits of a trend-following system when there are nice intraday trends. Some study done a while ago indicated that the EMini futures market is best exploited...

There was talk about BTC correlation today on CNBC. Many investors think it is uncorrelated with NQ or QQQ, etc. Also, Bloomberg had a big piece on BTC and how the volatility has dropped considerably lately.

There are three features which can cause a difference in backtest vs. realtime results. 1) Set statements: SetStopLoss, SetProfitTarget, etc. These statements operate INTRABAR...so in Backtest mode, Multicharts does not know which came first...the high or the low. 2) IOG set on...

Experience. I am running a couple of dozen of tick-level charts on an old processor. CPU Utilization rarely goes above 60%. I've used both IQFeed and Rithmic....both are rock solid.

Multicharts is great for real time trading and scalping.....as long as you have a fast and reliable data feed source. Two good sources are DTN's IQFeed as well as Rithmic. Multicharts is written in C++ which is extremely efficient and fast....compared to C# dot-net.

First of all, scalping fast moving markets like ES, NQ, etc. is pretty foolhardy without taking an automated approach. On top of that, where are your trading stats ? Win rate, avg win, time-in-trade, etc. Your trading stats are the most important thing you can have right now. You need a platform...

Don't forget MBT as Bitcoin trends nicely at times. Then there is MYM as well as MNQ.....the choices are many.

Depends on your style of trading. For discretionary swing trading, I would agree with you. But for scalpers, I see no problem with the leverage.

Many FCM's offer outstandingly low margin requirements for EMini futures trading....as long as you close open positions by the end of the session.

This is absolutely the best way to go.

Get a new platform....like Multicharts. You can write code to accomplish your alerts in tremendous detail.

Why not ?