MultiCharts Automated trading

[MarkBrown]

Wow - haven't thought about System Writer or Super Charts for ages.

So - basically - you want it to be Full Auto - good luck - as I said - I gave up on that long ago.

For me - I really do NOT need Full Auto - my objective is to reach my Net Daily Goal in Dollars - in a 2 hour period. If I reach it before the 2 hour time limit - I am done for the day. I keep things as simple as possible. Even if I trusted Full Auto - I would still be watching the chart - just in case something goes wrong.

I might try Full Auto again someday - but it would be for Fast Scalping ONLY. I did have it work for Scalping - but I was already at a point that I decided just not go Full Auto.

you know i have tried turning off order confirmation thinking it's the loop between mc and the broker etc. now matter what system or chart style or broker mc can not auto trade - and that is false advertising.

they need to prove it works - but they don't actually trade so how would they know?

 

[lucysparabola]

if you've fought this battle so long, why not move to a different platform? coming from a guy who fought with MT5 for 4+ years before finally changing over to Quantower lol.

just saying - at some point acquiescence is the best way.

 

[Rickshaw Man]

as you can see in the attached image i can get the trades where i want them visually.

MC can not get this to the broker is the problem, when you flip it on auto trade it flips out.

this has been going on before there was a MC or TS back to System Writer and Super Charts days.

What you need is Window On Wallstreet software....Thats a flashback.

 

[Bad_Badness]

Wow - haven't thought about System Writer or Super Charts for ages.

So - basically - you want it to be Full Auto - good luck - as I said - I gave up on that long ago.

It is interesting, that I recently threw in the towel on full Auto Trade. Mostly because I am at least a year out on coding all the libraries to monitor the tail end of the trade.

Although I see MBs issues, I assumed the API *might* be better, and assumed the MC interface is just for prototyping the signals. The other option I considered, was when you get a signal, use a LMT to execute where you want on the next bar, and if you fail to fill, go MKT. OF COURSE, this only works for some strategies.

Bottom line: Automatic Entry and Manual Exit, is the best I can do with the time-effort put forth so far. (1 year of coding, 15+ years of trading ES).

 

[destriero]

Mark,

When you have time - send me a private message. If you have Skype - I will see if I can help.

I have used Tradestation - NinjaTrader - MultiCharts. I will NEVER use Tradestation again - I do like NinjaTrader - but I prefer MultiCharts - been using it for many years now.

While I would really like to go Full Auto - I gave up long ago.

I prefer Range Bars - have coded it to get the same price as the "close" - or better.

tradestation is brutal, at least on the futures/FO-side. Funded an account -> misapplied the wire in -> mobile doesn't work, futuresplus doesn't show the credit after two days. Wire out. Awesome implementation of TT MD_Trader but they are just out to lunch.

 

[VSTscalper]

tradestation is brutal, at least on the futures/FO-side. Funded an account -> misapplied the wire in -> mobile doesn't work, futuresplus doesn't show the credit after two days. Wire out. Awesome implementation of TT MD_Trader but they are just out to lunch.

If I recall - I mentioned in my thread - Scalping_My Way with ACV - the last thing I said in the Tradestation Forum was - "if I had the money - I would Short Tradestation down to "0" - then close it down". That may not be the exact words - but I was so pissed off. Tradestation "Help" - was almost ZERO.

I better stop - I feel my blood pressure rising - LOL - and at my age now - I need to be careful.

Multicharts - Ninjatrader and other trading problems have their own problems - but for me - NOTHING like I had with Tradestation. I had a lot of Code on Tradestation - so I finally decided to go with Multicharts. I also Code in C# for Ninjatrader - great platform - I would highly recommend it. I have clients on both platforms.

 

[MarkBrown]

does anyone know of an excel auto trading example for

multicharts to rtd server to excel to amp?

 

[easymon1]

tradestation is brutal, at least on the futures/FO-side. Funded an account -> misapplied the wire in -> mobile doesn't work, futuresplus doesn't show the credit after two days. Wire out. Awesome implementation of TT MD_Trader but they are just out to lunch.

Which is more of the problem, the back office or the charting platform?

 

[destriero]

Which is more of the problem, the back office or the charting platform?

There was a problem with TT for my RFQ, but the back office was unbelievably bad.

 

[MarkBrown]

Which is more of the problem, the back office or the charting platform?

i think the problem is in the charting calculation of the formation of the bar.

simply in most all platforms systems systems can only use close of bar at best or open of next bar to execute a trade - rather than use price.

it's like price be dammed your waiting until the close or open to place a trade.

so what i have done to fix this is to build the bar using single ticks that way i miss nothing and can plot everything perfectly on a tick by tick basis. but again systems perform differently.

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