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cmaxb
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 427 |
02-06-08 03:01 PM
I downloaded multicharts.exe. It ran, and complained that 'multicharts.exe' was running, and close it first. I renamed the installer to mc.exe, and the install went smoothly. When I manage datasources, nothing happens when I click Settings for eSignal-- IB, and PATS are ok. I went to the forum, there is no way to get a username, password to log on.
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trillenium
Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 195 |
02-06-08 03:48 PM
However sometimes ticks get lost from esignal and one has to reload the chart to fill the loast ticks and when you run 20 charts then it takes forever
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Could you please explain why?
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Lets say at the end of the day you look at your 5 min chart and you had a couple of buy and sell signals. Then you close the chart and reload it ... then the chart gets the data from the esignal server. However many times when you do that, some buy and sell signals changed or dissappeared alltogether. That is because when markets are busy ticks get lost on the way from esignal to your chart. e.g. The high at 5:00pm is suddenly different etc etc. So you have something that we call "disappearing trade". That is very annoying and we catch it when we constantly reload the chart (we do with dynaloader in TS2000i).
Does anybody out there confirm what i am saying and that its important ?
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cmaxb
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 427 |
02-06-08 04:22 PM
Quote from etherboy:
I downloaded the trial version and found one thing is very, very annoying -- the last price color keeps changing between up, down & wick colors. I don't even know which one to look after.
It confuses end users since last price keeps move between other indicators' price, and these indicators has their own colors too.
If users don't like the way last price color is displayed, they should be able to choose a fixed color, since the bar chart colors already let users know the price is up or down.
Actually, what I'm wondering is, how one can turn off price updating on the y-axis.
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ProfLogic
Registered: May 2004
Posts: 6424 |
02-06-08 04:25 PM
I've used MultiCharts for about 4 years now and have had my share of problems but being a professional trader I am proactive as to ward off potential problems. I upgrade my computer yearly and cost justify it as a cost of doing business. Since I moved to a Duad Core 6700 overclocked, Win XP Pro x64 OS, 4 gig of Ram and a QID Quad video card my problems had greatly decreased. This spring I will be upgrading my internet from a 2 mg up/down WAN to a dedicated fiber at 10+ up/down. Will data hiccups diminish, absolutely. They already did from my old WAN to the new one. I'm an extreme user though. I usually have 80 charts open intraday and review over 900 different charts on the weekends.
There are many different charting packages out there and what is important becomes what each person REQUIRES for their own specific applications. It is nearly impossible to compare packages because of individual priorities.
My priorities are Constant Volume Bar charts (CVB) and their accuracy, data integrity, lack of latency of data and finally anxiously waiting for the Radarscreen/Quote page that has been promised to me since 2006. (I know they are working on it).
One of the only other things I would love to see is when the session break occurs (usually midnight) where ever the last bar of a Constant Volume Bar chart finishes, the next bar (first bar of next day) should begin where the last bar ended.
EXAMPLE:
3000 CVB chart (Constant Volume Bar chart)
Last bar of day = 529 contacts on that bar
First bar of following day = 2471 contracts on that bar, then each following bar would return to the user defined 3000 CVB's.
I know it can be done because I know a few programmers that have created this scenerio inside of their own trading environments. My personal feeling is that, if you are going to offer a CVB charts, make sure their are as perfectly accurate as they can possibly be.
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