Doug Hayman

Is it me, or did we lose TD Ameritrade streaming quotes around 10:00 AM EDT? MT Source for TD is still green (Streaming) on the Dashboard Sources page. The only thing being updated are my Indexes.

When a Chart is in lower portion of screen, and you right-mouse click to bring up trading options, the "Buy", "Buy Ask", "Sell", and "Sell Ask" button selections appear at the top of the screen (top of right-mouse click menu), which requires additional mouse movement to get there and have mouse cursor be ready to select those options: This is not the case, when a chart is in top portion of screen - a right-mouse click puts mouse cursor directly near those button selections. Is there a way for those trading buttons to appear in the lower portion of that right-mouse click menu when a chart is in lower portion of screen? Thanks in advance.

Thanks Jerry for looking into this and discovering this issue. I got your update and just installed, thanks for that, I appreciate it. FYI, I plan on testing stuff for a bit before using MT live with my trading, so if you ever want me to run with a Beta version (like the one you just sent me), just ping me and let me know. I'll be happy to do that. FYI, I'm running with the new beta version you Emailed me, and Scan Results for my test above look much better.

Jerry,, I sent you Settings earlier. Not sure how much value I'm adding here, but once market closed at 4 PM EDT, this hard-coded RSI scan seems to be working fine. The anomalies above seem to manifest during trading hours, when data is constantly coming in. Doug

Further to above, when I Clear ALL Intraday data prior to my re-run of scan, I seem to be getting a larger scan results back, but unsure if all are being captured correctly. Could the large size of portfolio be effecting things here? Is there any value to running scan against a created Watchlist alternatively? I'm trying to do more testing here, to narrow down the issue.

I have a 1,000+ symbol portfolio, and I'm running a simple hard-coded scan that consists of 1 line: If (RSI_Line(14,1) < 35) {TriggerAlert(); SetScanResult(true); } I'm running the scan on Intraday, 5-minute bars, with Extended Hrs set to "Default". Data Source TD Ameritrade. I have an analogous 5-minute intraday chart running as well, with RSI being graphed as Period 14, Signal 1, Wilders Smoothing, RSI Type Standard. As of 12:25 PM EDT, several graphs that I've thumbed through from my portfolio have an RSI value of less than 35. A couple of examples are: AVP - 25.5177 AIZ - 30.4643 Why is my intraday scan not picking these symbols up??? Thanks in advance.

OK, NEVER MIND, figured it out. IB Paper trading accts use a different API Socket Port (7497), whereas live acct uses port 7496.

Sorry for the bother here, but I'm trying to connect MT to a paper trading account under the auspices of my IB account. Have no probs connecting to my real IB trading acct, btw. Logged into IB as a Paper Acct, and made sure that my Global Config is setup for "Enable Active X and Socket Clients". I also disabled the "Read Only API" checkbox. When trying to log in via MT and connect to this IB Test Account, I continue to get a "faulted" status when attempting to login. Am I missing something here? Does IB prevent API connections from test accounts currently? Next, I deleted all my references to my IB Trading acct (Live and Paper), and attempted to re-add my IB Paper Acct, and when I click on the "Verify & Get Accounts" button, I get the message "Account Validation failed to connect" error. Thanks.

I played with NinjaTrader a number of years ago (I think it was V6), and they had a really cool feature that allowed you to simulate trading against historical intraday data, by "rewinding" to a certain point in time, and allowing you to simulate trading from that point forward, by using data coming in from that point (using stored historical data in real-time). This allowed the trader to practice simulated trading in real-time against stored historical data, without knowing "what was coming next" data-wise. This would obviously require all the bid/ask deltas with timestamps to be stored (not sure if these are currently preserved in MT data files) and would be a healthy development exercise for sure. Certainly not a must-have, but would be a very sexy offering to add to your trading system platform.

Thanks, Jerry, for the clarification. I’d be very interested in the OTOCA order type, but I’m not a paying customer (yet!) Thanks for the weekend reply.

Hi, A couple of questions please on Bracket (OCA) orders executed from Chart Trading: Assume a BUY on both of these questions: 1) When I select "BRKT" order as my order type, and attempt to buy, I click on my desired purchase price initially (click # 1) and then can move up from this limit price for my upper (profit) price (click again), but I cannot then move lower (and click) to create my lower (Stop) price. Also, I'm confused by the comments when I mouse over the "BRKT" tab: One click for upper price One click for lower price (I can't seem to do this) The order does not matter (what does this mean????) 2) Regarding bracket orders (again assume BUY), does holding the Shift Key down when creating this Bracket order make this a "Buy Limit Bracket Order", and does holding CTRL key down when creating this Bracket order make is a "Buy Stop Bracket Order"? Thanks in advance.

Is there any way to optimize a scan, so that it only runs at the close of a bar, given the intraday Frequency scan setting? It looks like scans continuously run and processes data as it comes in (which certainly you want to have the ability to do in some cases), but there are other times when you only want to scan on the completion of a bar. Thanks in advance.

It appears, and I will verify this on Monday during market hours, that the culprit may be the "Extended Hrs: Never" selection that I made on the Scan Chart Settings. I set this back to "Extended Hrs: Default", and it now it appears to be working OK, although I'm testing this during non-market hours. Not sure why the "Never" setting, during market hours, would have exhibited this result.

I have a portfolio of 1,100+ stocks, and have created a simple RSI scan consisting of one paintbar line as follows: if (RSI_Line(14, 2) < 35 {TriggerAlert(); SetScanResults(true); } I have the scanner set for Intraday, 5-minutes, No Extended hours. My Alert is set to jingle a tune for a filtered match. Auto-backfill is checked. I have an intraday, 5-minute chart set up with a corollary RSI(14, 2) indicator graphed at bottom of chart. I run the scan against the universe of 1,100+ stocks, and get NO filtered results, yet there are definitely some that should be showing up. As an example, I have the symbol YRD in this list which closed today with an RSI(14, 2) on 5-minute bars of 20.5485, yet this symbol doesn't show up on my scan. I must be doing something silly here, can you please shed some light? Thanks in advance.

After this error stopped displaying, I went into Settings and noticed that both the Backup Settings and the User Save Path both reverted back to the default locations that were specified after initial install, under the C:\users subdirectory. I'm going to leave them at these defaults, and see if problem persists. If it does, I'll report back. Additionally, I looked at the Error Log and saw a lot of references to error accessing "C:\Medved\......", where my User Path config was set to "D:\Medved". Maybe therein lies the issue. Perhaps MT is ignoring the drive prefix??? I sent log file over per your above request. Thanks!

Hi guys, Former QT user doing some extensive testing/playing with MT since yesterday. Really like it so far! However, I am stuck in an Error Loop of some sort in MT, and was forced to kill task. However, upon re-start of MT, I'm still stuck in this loop. Help! Here's the repetitive MT error I'm getting, and it's definitely emanating from the Portfolio window: Now for some context: I have limited space on my C drive currently (about 12 GB left, after MT was installed), so I initially installed MT on my D drive yesterday. I realize (from reading another post) that MT stores a lot of stuff in c:\users subfolders, but in Settings, I switched 2 areas of configuration, the backup directory and the User Save Path to both be d:\medved on my D drive, to minimize (in my eyes) the amount of space consumed on my C drive. I created a portfolio yesterday that has about 1,000 symbols in it, and it is this active portfolio that is generating the error message above. Everything was running great last night - I was running Scans on this portfolio against a TD Ameritrade data source, have configured an IB trading source, etc. The sequence of actions that seem to have created this error that I can't get out of (when I hit the Close button on the error, it keeps re-appearing) was: 1) Stopped a scan on the portfolio I was running; 2) Shrunk the size of my portfolio window; 3) Right-clicked on a symbol in my portfolio to create an Intraday Chart for this symbol; And them this repetitive error came. Any ideas here? Thanks in advance. P.S. After writing up this post, I clicked to close the most recent error message box, and the repetitive errors stopped, and I have regained access to MT. P.P.S. I just Emailed over Error Log, that included Quote Data and News data - it's a big file, but I figured I'd send the works.

OK Jerry, thank you very much for your prompt response. I also have IB (I trade from IB), but if remember correctly, the limitation on # of symbols with IB is less than 1,500 (please correct me if I'm wrong). I can certainly pre-filter my original list to get down to that 1,500 #, so that will work. Congrats on your new creation; I look forward to learning how to use it and test it. Doug

Hi team, I'm an old Quotetracker user, and am looking into your new Medved Trader system as a one-stop shop for my trading needs. I apologize in advance if this is a silly question, but I couldn't find the answer in your existing forum posts. I'm looking to apply some fairly simple scans to the universe of NYSE stocks. Is there a limitation (either physical or practical) on the size that a Portfolio can be in Medved Traders? Would inputting the universe of NYSE stocks in a portfolio either hit a physical max that your software would limit me to, or would there be severe application degradation doing something like this? I'm on a powerful Win10Pro system, and would be using TD Ameritrade as my data source. Thank you in advance, Doug