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I had a brief look at Multicharts and overall it's a very nice
charting package.
Some things I think need improvements.
The program won't start without an active Internet connection, I
installed the demo version and when I clicked on the icon nothing
happened, at first thought I must have got a faulty download but after
about five minutes a window popped up Unable to find server.
Ever heard of working off-line.
There is no Data Window, in the TS data window, click on any bar in
the chart and the data in the window jumps to that line and shows the
data values and the values of the plotted indicators, this is very
valuable when trying to problem solve indicators that aren't plotting
correctly, or when comparing an indicators values with the same study
written in excel.
A further problem with having no access to the charts data is there is
no way to edit a bad tick, if you are trading and the chart gets a
wild spike it's all over for trading till the bad tick is fixed, and
exchanges have an uncanny way of giving out bad ticks just before
things like fed interest rate reports are to be released.
I have to stay with TS because I need my data window crutch, but it would
be nice to see Multicharts implement some access to data.
SC
S> Hello CC,
C>> SC: regarding your question about MultiCharts including the Power Editor
C>> - yes it is included in the less expensive version. The $10,000 ver is
C>> aimed at institutional firms, and includes custom programming,etc.
C>> MC is getting close to releasing it's final version which they call
C>> 'Gold'. After that, it appears that the 'Lifetime' license will start
C>> to include 'paid' updates if a trader wishes to buy.
C>> From the best of my recollection, the price structure was something
C>> like the following, keep in mind that until that so called Gold version
C>> is released, all of the upgrades have basically been betas and free.
C>> 2004 - $99
C>> 2005 thru June or July $199
C>> then started an approximate doubling of prices as features increased,
C>> to the current $1497.
C>> Why not try the free 30 day trial if interested.?
S> Thanks I will have a look at it, I don't know how they can use
S> easylanguage without tradestation sicking their lawyers onto them, but
S> if multicharts has been around since 2004 then that has probably been
S> resolved.
S> SC
C>> Mike Symth wrote:
>>> For those who use multicharts I have found the following optimization
>>> bug when an outside DLL is loaded.
>>>
>>> If you have a strategy that uses an outside DLL for computation and
>>> that DLL is large...say 1meg then if you do an optimization with 5000
>>> cases then you will get a memory overflow.
>>>
>>> I get an out of memory error which means the DLL is not being detached
>>> or unloaded at each optimization case and a new copy is being loaded
>>> at each new optimization case. The DLL is approximately 1meg.
>>> Total optimization cases is 5000. thus the total memory that will be
>>> used is 5gig. Once the memory used reaches 2gig I get an out of memory
>>> error and crash. when I tried the optimization with a 100K size DLL,
>>> only 500meg of memory was addressed and no crash.
>>>
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Best regards,
SC mailto:secaseba@xxxxxxxxxx
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