Multicharts...???

[Andrew Kirillov]

Quote from BlowFish:

MC has great potential that it is finally starting to realise, the support guys and gals are great (and in the past have had to be!) but I would hesitate to recommend it for automated trading.

In a nutshell its not robust enough. There are still numerous irritating bugs in basic functionality that have been there since day one. To be fair it improves with each release but that sometimes seems to be a slow pace. Actually imho 2.1, the current release, is the first one that is really worthy of being a release candidate. One of the reasons is that there is a tendency at TSsupport to go hell for leather adding new features when existing stuff could use more polish. I guess that allows them to 'tick boxes' on feature lists.

For me its a love hate relationship. Its great strength is that it compiles easy language and I really like EL for quickly prototyping ideas. Obviously there is a wealth of public domain stuff to draw on too. TS2000i was all that was available (in the UK) until quite recently.

I have to say most other things it does 'OK' but often with something that frustrates. I guess it all depends what you want to do - decide that - then search out the best tools to achieve it.

Hello BlowFish,

Unfortunately we don't have any auto-trading related complaints apart form the following:

1. No Stop and Limit orders
2. No possibility to trade the same symbol from different charts
3. Jumpy charts. This bug rarely manifests itself, though.

Could you please specify which bugs cause problems in 2.1 release?

Thank you.

Best regards.

 

[Andrew Kirillov]

Quote from maxpi:

The thing about the quote page is that it is used to screen a list of 1000 stocks for some TA typically. There will have to be a way to mass-add symbols and get them connected. That was the hell about TS2000 radarscreen, changing out the symbol set was awful, they had to be added one at a time to the Global Server. I used to screen with a screener to get a set of 1000 symbols every weekend and then put them in Global Server. I used an external macro program to enter symbols and it still took hours.. With TS8 I could run the screener, output the symbol list to Excel and copy/paste to radarscreen and voila! I would have the data and the intraday screening would start...

Hello maxpi,

When working on MultiCharts further we will certainly keep in mind that the symbol list management must be flexible.

Regards.

 

[maxpi]

Quote from Andrew Kirillov:

Hello maxpi,

When working on MultiCharts further we will certainly keep in mind that the symbol list management must be flexible.

Regards.

even the guy using IB data limited to 40 symbols is going to feel the pain if he changes the set frequently...or once even...

If you could develope two models for adding/connecting symbols, one that worked from a template and mass-added huge lists and one that allowed the power/flexibility currently available for the individual symbols, you would be way, way ahead of the game...

 

[Andrew Kirillov]

Quote from maxpi:

even the guy using IB data limited to 40 symbols is going to feel the pain if he changes the set frequently...or once even...

If you could develope two models for adding/connecting symbols, one that worked from a template and mass-added huge lists and one that allowed the power/flexibility currently available for the individual symbols, you would be way, way ahead of the game...

Hello maxpi,

Could you please describe in more details how you would like to see it implemented?

Thank you for your help.

 

[maxpi]

Quote from Andrew Kirillov:

Hello maxpi,

Could you please describe in more details how you would like to see it implemented?

Thank you for your help.

Essentially I want the computer working for me instead of the other way around.... it's a philosophical thing I developed after working with computers for 3+ decades.

I screen with an online screener that outputs to an excel file... I would like to copy all the symbols from excel and paste them into the quote page and have a template in place that specified my settings for the data provider and have the computer put the symbols in the quote manager automatically and transparently to me... just set up the template and forever after that just cut and paste the symbols and wait for the download... Currently that is how easy it is with Tradestation but it's natural for them since they are the data provider and the "template" is therefore permanently in place for that operation...

If somebody wanted to add symbols with a different template, maybe there could be several templates they could fill out... if they wanted to add every symbol manually, fine, allow that choice too....

 

[Tums]

Quote from maxpi:

Essentially I want the computer working for me instead of the other way around.... it's a philosophical thing I developed after working with computers for 3+ decades.

I screen with an online screener that outputs to an excel file... I would like to copy all the symbols from excel and paste them into the quote page and have a template in place that specified my settings for the data provider and have the computer put the symbols in the quote manager automatically and transparently to me... just set up the template and forever after that just cut and paste the symbols and wait for the download... Currently that is how easy it is with Tradestation but it's natural for them since they are the data provider and the "template" is therefore permanently in place for that operation...

If somebody wanted to add symbols with a different template, maybe there could be several templates they could fill out... if they wanted to add every symbol manually, fine, allow that choice too....

since MC already has a powerful engine (as demonstrated in the <a href="http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1610998&highlight=optimization#post1610998" target="_blank">optimization benchmark</a>), the addition of the feature you described will put MC on the top of the trading software foodchain.

 

[syswizard]

Quote from Tums:

since MC already has a powerful engine (as demonstrated in the <a href="http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1610998&highlight=optimization#post1610998" target="_blank">optimization benchmark</a>), the addition of the feature you described will put MC on the top of the trading software foodchain.

What's up with Neoticker and the outrageously slow optimization calcs ?