Jason

THanks, it would allow me to avoid orders being rejected by tailoring the sizes of my positions according to those balances to guarantee execution. Many a successful trade has been missed out on because of this.

Is there any way to customize the balances shown to include the Equity With Loan value and Initial Margin? The problem is that there are times when I want to take a position in a stock that has non-standard margin requirements or my Equity With Loan value isn't high enough to enter and this can change per symbol. I am using Interactive Brokers and would like to make these other account balances visible in the Level II window.

Wow, thank you! The fact that I found the similar quote tool under View/Options in my charts I think led me to believe there should have been options for the candle data in similar chart sub menus. And the description in Charts/General isn't obviously connected to that tool in my mind. Obviously I once knew how to set it up as it was set to Always Show in all my charts from way back but kind of freaked out when I turned it off and couldn't remember how to restore it.

The ability to see the OHLC and volume on individual candles is critical for my ability to trade. Does anyone have any ideas or insight?

Okay seem to be having an unusual problem. I was playing around with the settings on my charts and while in View/Options I accidentally turned off the tooltip that I had set up showing the OHLC and volume of each candle when hovering . This was small, black and white and translucent. I had it anchored in one place on each chart. After I closed it it's now gone from ALL of my charts. I tried turning on "Show Hover Price Tooltip" from the General Charts settings but that tooltip is locked to my cursor which is pretty obnoxious and it still does not show OHLC of the candles I'm hovering over. When I go back to View/Options on a chart and choose to Show Quotes I'm in the same boat. The tooltip can't be configured to show data for the candles I'm hovering over. For what it's worth, I hadn't changed any Application Settings prior to fiddling with the chart I was looking at. I even tried reloading the layout I had saved in the past when the tooltip was working and it's still gone.

In a paintbar I'm creating I would like to draw a Risk/Reward tool on the chart the way I would if manually selecting Draw - Risk/Reward from the ribbon at the top of a chart. I wanted to know if there was any way to do this and set the values for the tool like the entry, target, stop etc. This would be very valuable as an indicator AND could also be used to act as a record of a trade taken based upon the setup as drawn. A part of the analysis of my results involves recording an image of a chart with the setup taken. Among other things, this allows me to see what the intended plan was vs. how the trade played out. The paintbar could also use this as an indicator highlighting trade setups according to the criteria/rules of my method. I have tried sort of replicating the drawing of the tool with SetLine and related functions but the results were extremely ugly and kludgy. Of course, I can't properly emulate the bubble display of the entry, target and stop values and how they scale as displayed when drawing the tool manually outside of the paintbar. It would be infinitely easier if I could some how just access the drawing tool parameters functionally, in code. Is there some way we could be provided with the C# code for the Risk/Reward tool used internally within MT that we could then use in our paintbar?

As it stands, it's impossible to use anchored VWAP for intraday opportunities, we can't set up more than 1 anchored VWAP without MT changing the date we specified and we can't set one up in a chart without it being displayed for every symbol loaded in that chart. Surely you don't mean that these deficiencies are intentional? Maybe there is a special reason why the user has to be required to set the indicator up by manually typing the date in but I can't see how these behaviors could be anything other than bugs. I just don't see the point of making available a tool like this if the way it operates in the software renders it useless. Now maybe I'm just an idiot and can't figure it out and there's a way to get it to work as expected but if after testing and struggling with it I, as a user, need a lot of assistance or special instruction to get the tool to perform as expected then generally speaking that's your first clue that something, somewhere, has gone awry.

Can I get any feedback on this? Is this being investigated, is it feasible or is this really not possible?

I have noticed that after applying two anchored VWAPs to a historical chart and restarting the program the date for one of them is switched to match the other. It's very difficult to set up multiple anchored VWAPs and keep the dates straight for a symbol. As mentioned elsewhere there is also the problem of the anchored VWAP set up in a chart for one symbol being displayed for any other symbol loaded in that chart. So in order to use this someone would have to remember each candle of interest for each symbol they want displayed and manually correct the dates in the interface for each anchored VWAP and perform this process every time a symbol is loaded OR the program is started. This renders the anchored VWAP pretty useless in MT. It can be EXTREMELY powerful to gauge at which price points large blocks of market participants, by volume, are going to be in or out of the money and to what extent. Especially for swing trading. This can also be very relevant to intraday trading and I'd like to see this functionality added. Large events, FOMC meetings and market reports, large volume changes near highs/lows of the day that mark trend changes and knowing the VWAP since those points can be far, far more important than simply knowing the VWAP from the open. As far as the interface is concerned there are lots of opportunities there as well. What I would like to see is this kind of implementation... User clicks Show Ribbon, clicks Draw, clicks an icon for Anchored VWAP, then clicks the candle on the chart from which point forward it will be displayed. This would be far more intuitive and would eliminate the hassle of the current implementation. I realize that I've included some changes here that aren't specifically bugs so let me know if you want me to re-post those under feature requests.

Wanted to update here to say that this indeed has solved the problem for me. It's a roundabout way of obtaining the candle frequency but does the job. Now, if there were just a way to SET the frequency for a specific chart through the API. It's not critical for me but would be very nice. My use case would be that when my software sends an order to enter a position it could then set the symbol for the main chart AND change the frequency to the one in use when the setup was defined and the hotkey used.

FYI, I've found that this error hasn't just disappeared. It's thrown again when I access the my current positions. I suspect it's when balance/account updates are receive by MT.

That is taking the place of ARR in the portfolio. It appears to be an Interactive Brokers bond identification number. It also appears that ARR went bye-bye. Can't even pull a chart from the IB website and don't immediately see any news that would explain what's happened. But I wonder if it may have something to do with maintenance that IB is performing as it usually does on Saturday.

Good question. First time I've ever seen it. Will have to log into the IB website to investigate.

Okay, I've tried closing MT again and restarting both the IB connection and MT and can no longer reproduce the issue. Can't explain this. I know it's possible to get a very rare and benign exception error but reported this after I was able to reproduce it earlier. Nothing had changed regarding the connection on IB Gateway either. Status was green across all IB connections both now and when I was able to reproduce the error earlier.

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