Multicharts User Thread

the vwap is already build in MC...look for VWAP reset if I remember correctly. otherwise you can easily import the TS file & use it in your MC.

cheers,
cosmic
 
Does MultiCharts have built in Monthly, Weekly, and Daily Pivot Points?

Also, Once you draw price levels on a chart, can you save it so every day you bring up the chart the price levels are already there and do not need to be re-drawn, and if so does this work with all indicators?

I know this is a basic question, but it is important to me.

Thanks in advance.

Chris
 
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Does MultiCharts have built in Monthly, Weekly, and Daily Pivot Points?

Also, Once you draw price levels on a chart, can you save it so every day you bring up the chart the price levels are already there and do not need to be re-drawn, and if so does this work with all indicators?

I know this is a basic question, but it is important to me.

Thanks in advance.

Chris
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MC has no built-in pivots.
MC is EasyLanguage compatible; there are a number of pivot point scripts written and posted on the web, as well as on MC's website.


I don't understand what you mean by "Price Level"?
Do you mean a line object?
After you drawn an object (line, text, box, arrow, circle, etc.) on the chart. If you save the chart, the object will reappear at the exact location next time you open the chart.
 
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MC has no built-in pivots.
MC is EasyLanguage compatible; there are a number of pivot point scripts written and posted on the web, as well as on MC's website.
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Correction:

While there is no built-in pivot in MC, the Floor Trader's Pivot is available in the included EasyLanguage Indicator Library.
 
Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your replies to my earlier questions about the IB interface. I recently purchased Multicharts after the trial and I am very happy, especially with the portfolio backtesting engine. I do have a few comments and concerns - at this point I am debating on purchasing a lifetime license of your product, I think it offers the best solution for my needs at this time.

A few questions:

1. Can the backtesting engine handle X number of processors/cores and have you tested for stability in doing 100+ portfolio sims for 10 years on 100 symbols at a 1min timeframe? For such a case, assume the hardware has enough memory and plenty of processing power and the windows version supports more than 2 processors.

2. Is it possible to run Multicharts on a NON-windows based OS? If not, would you consider it in the future?

3. Can you incorporate a feature that, upon request, does the following with each optimization run : writes the results (the equity curves and trade lists) to an excel file automatically after each optimization run? Currently the optimization only spits out a few resulting numbers, I'd like to have the option to store ALL results/trades from every optimization run to an excel database of sorts when running a 100+ sims or so...

That's all for now. Again, thanks for providing a terriffic product and thanks for you time.

Regards,
Mike
 
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Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your replies to my earlier questions about the IB interface. I recently purchased Multicharts after the trial and I am very happy, especially with the portfolio backtesting engine. I do have a few comments and concerns - at this point I am debating on purchasing a lifetime license of your product, I think it offers the best solution for my needs at this time.

A few questions:

1. Can the backtesting engine handle X number of processors/cores
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If you press the ‘Backtest’ button, only one processor will be used. The thing is that portfolio backtesting is calculated dynamically (the calculations are done for all the symbols at every point of time – just the way it happens in real life) and this process can’t be split up to be distributed between different cores. However, as a rule this is a very fast process. What does take a lot of time is optimization. When you press ‘Optimize’, the program creates multiple copies of a portfolio with different input values and then all the available cores are employed for calculations. The more cores your computer has the faster optimization will be calculated.


and have you tested for stability in doing 100+ portfolio sims for 10 years on 100 symbols at a 1min timeframe? For such a case, assume the hardware has enough memory and plenty of processing power and the windows version supports more than 2 processors.
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It’s not possible at the moment, because gigabytes of data must be kept in the memory. Since MultiCharts is a 32xbit program, it can’t use more than 2 GB of memory.

I believe that 20-30 symbols will work but we haven’t run tests on such extensive historical data samples. However, if you want to run tests on 100 symbols, as a custom solution for you, we could change the program’s logic. There would be a shifting ‘window’ of data: the data that is no longer needed will be replaced by the fresh data. Thus, the volume of data kept in the memory would be constant and thus acceptable for testing.


2. Is it possible to run Multicharts on a NON-windows based OS? If not, would you consider it in the future?
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MultiCharts wasn't developed to work with systems other than Windows. From what I know, though, some of our customers have installed it on virtual machines on macs.

3. Can you incorporate a feature that, upon request, does the following with each optimization run : writes the results (the equity curves and trade lists) to an excel file automatically after each optimization run? Currently the optimization only spits out a few resulting numbers, I'd like to have the option to store ALL results/trades from every optimization run to an excel database of sorts when running a 100+ sims or so...
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You can write any data into a CVS file by using PowerLanguage commands.

If you have any further questions, please let me know.

Regards.
 
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