[daedalus]

Ok... So i'm trying to use multicharts and this is what i've found to be wrong... a couple things are just things i'd like to see but if any of you use multicharts and could tell me if indeed there are issues with some of these things or if its just me not knowing how to setup the program correctly please let me know!

Heres my lists of problems.

Don't get me wrong - I love the idea of multicharts and I think it could be great but i'm staggered by how much of the program just flat out doesn't work and that they are charging money for this thing.

A small list of things that just don't work...

The resolution link on the charts. There is no way to link resolution to the scanner window.

The workspace tabs can't be moved to change their orders. The move buttons don't work and they can't be dragged.

Indicator alerts don't work consistently. The dialogue box comes up maybe once out of every 20 times. While the audio alert does work, it leaves me scanning 20 open charts to see what candle actually fired. I think it is related to if you have the platform running actively ontop of everything else... it like if you are already looking at it and then the alert fires, it doesn't label it. And even then its a crap shoot.

A small list of things that need to be included...

HOTKEYS! How hard would it actually be to code this? Honestly? I can do it in VB in about 20 minutes? Yet this feature requested by their userbase has somehow gone undeveloped for years. For those of us who use drawing tools a lot having hot keys saves us tons of time. Having to click the damn tool bar and then come back to the spot on the chart we want to draw on is a huge inconvenience.

And a small list of things that always seem to go bad with its interpretation of data...

Soo all of my charts this morning linked to Tradestation data? Multicharts is convinced that from the time I shut off the charts last night until I turned them on this morning no market movement occurred.... and it translates this into one massive bar from where it left off until where it is. Chart refresh maybe? Sure- but it doesn't do anything.



Its just unacceptable. Fix the SERIOUS flaws and then i'll switch. Until then I continue to be dissapointed and waiting for you guys to get your act together.

And while I sound like a scathing a-hole let me make something clear. I want to buy multicharts and use it. I would love to eliminate my monthly platform fees with tradestation. The program is so lean and fast - I love that. A lot of their features are very innovative and the overall package I think is better. The easylanguage editor is very nice and much more robust.... BUT the platform has yet to address underlying issues in the foundation of the program IMHO.

[Tams]

Originally Posted by daedalus »

Ok... So i'm trying to use multicharts and this is what i've found to be wrong... ...
And while I sound like a scathing a-hole let me make something clear. I want to buy multicharts and use it.

you are... LOL


JK... ;-)>



as in anything in life, I am sure there are incompetence/deficiencies in both parties.

[trader273]

what data feed are you using to feed it?

[daedalus]

Tradestation right now. I was planning on using OEC.

I resolved the data issue, but I had to go into TS and refresh each data feed there...

My fear is that when I get rid of TS and go to OEC I wouldn't be able to have that "out" to fix it?

Or I guess maybe i'd just have to open up OEC Trader and refresh from there?

[BlowFish]

Having come across MC version 1.0 and buying in early version 2.0 I can say its a whole lot better than it used to be. Having said that there are lots of little (and not so little) niggles (some may or may not be fixed version 5.0. I gave up upgrading as it was often a painful and expensive process ) Stuff I reported way back when has still only got attention in V5.0, staggering really.

Compared to say Laurence and the guys at Tickquest they just don't have that spark. BUT it has native support for easylanguage and decent data feed support. That counts for quite a lot. Most things it does adequately but ELA support is actually pretty damn fine. Its a shame,that makes it an OK drop in replacement for TS and that is a strength but a weakness too. It could be so much more with some ahead of the curve thinking.

[trader273]

The charting is only going to be as good as the data it gets. Tradestation's data, at least when I used them some time ago, was absolute garbage.

I currently use OEC, and what does MC offer that OEC cant do since it does handle EL code pretty damn good.

[daedalus]

^^ Thats the only thing I didn't know about. I tried their demo but the demo doesn't allow the importation of .eld so I couldn't confirm if any of my indicators worked or not in the platform.

I would like to think they would as basically they are just basic candlestick show me's written with High, Low, Close comparisons in IF THEN statements....

[trader273]

Originally Posted by daedalus »

^^ Thats the only thing I didn't know about. I tried their demo but the demo doesn't allow the importation of .eld so I couldn't confirm if any of my indicators worked or not in the platform.

I would like to think they would as basically they are just basic candlestick show me's written with High, Low, Close comparisons in IF THEN statements....

They should work in the Demo. Did you install the custom indicators plug in?