Kasper

Hello, Will it be possible to remotely control scanner actions for a portfolio window from API commands? Start/Stop/Pause scanner Enum and switch scan Enum and edit params Freq etc. The goal is to daisy chain some scans and may be get filtered results to generate a report. Thank you.

I use Questrade and MT handles all the heavy lifting. After adding Questrade under Trade/Account once, I only have to login to Questrade account every once in a while.

ah ok, same problem as last time. 😌I'll go through my command syntax again. Thank you Jerry

Hello👋 Not sure if there has been a recent change but I'm seeing intermittent error on sending commands. Following are tested on my app as well as WSTester.exe. Socket connection opens but fails to connect with password. I now see in logs <******> instead of plain password when it fails. But WSTester or my app are sending all commands as usual. MT: 18:31:50.79222 07412: API_WS: SENDING (6a4dbdcf-9): 00009: CONNECTED 23-07-30 18:31:57.581: SENDING: {cmd: "connect", Pwd: "MYPASSWORD"} MT: 18:31:57.59143 77392: API_WS: RECEIVING (6a4dbdcf-9): 00034: {cmd: "connect", Pwd: "<**********>"} MT: 18:31:57.60181 07412: API_WS: SENDING (6a4dbdcf-9): 00199: { "cmd": "connect", "success": "fail", "resultcode": 400, "result": { "time": "2023-07-30T18:31:57.135", "ver": "1.1.9930.105", "reason": "need to specify password" } } MT: 18:33:21.04030 80588: API_WS: RECEIVING (6a4dbdcf-9): 00019: {"cmd":"enumPorts"} MT: 18:33:21.05051 07412: API_WS: SENDING (6a4dbdcf-9): 00108: { "cmd": "enumPorts", "success": "fail", "resultcode": 401, "result": "need to connect first" }

Jason, I don't know if I fully I understand your use case but here's something you can try to read a chart's frequency from WS API. Calculate CandleSizeInSec function's value in a Painbar to assign frequency to chartvar() or Intervar(). Set this paintbar on the chart then value read from your app from getintervar()

Thank you Jerry

Hello, I am not seeing response from MT except Connect command. Following is from WSAPI Tester: What is "no cmd in message"? MT: 11:46:21.66385 27048: API_WS: RECEIVING (6767054c-0): 00019: {"Cmd":"enumPorts"} MT: 11:46:21.66785 43344: API_WS: no cmd in message: {"Cmd":"enumPorts"}

I see following in Beta 9880.100. ADDED - PAINTBARS/SCANS - Ability to reference other symbol data. NOTE: Calculations are only triggered by primary symbol's changes, not secondary one Can you tell which function is it?

Hello Mike, I am now using Set/GetInterVar between MT and my WS-API app to exchange data. Can you tell me if it should work like data subscription? Within MT GetIntervar can stream between two scans. Do I need to do something on app for something similar? Also, is there a way to throttle a scan, say one scan pass over all symbols then wait n seconds before going again. Or if frequency on portfolio is set to 5 minutes thena rule to run scan every (frequency * 0.25) minutes. Thank you.

Is there a safe way to ready/write into to text (non-code csv) file from scans? Error: 24, 19 CS0103 Possible security violation

Thank you, CandleSizeInSec works good for intraday. But on historical it returns following: 1Day=60 1week=300 so on.. Not sure if this is expected.

If it's not possible or too complicated then no worries. I am able to use DefinedPaintbarParameter and enter frequency identifier manually for each scan window.

Hello Mike, thanks for this info, I'll try it out. I assume if there are any variables in external script requiring access to data will have to be added to internal paintbar code? The other question I have is about scan chart parameters such as frequency can be read from within a scan? I want to append this to naming SetInterVar() then call by GetInterVar() elsewhere based on frequency selected.

Can you share an example external file and how it used within a scan? What type of code or languages are compatible? Including External Code #include This allows you to include code from an external file (specified following the #include). Example: #include c:\temp\mylibrary.code

I sent you log, I did not see a symbol limit pop up in MT or TWS. If there was an error, it never recovered despite deleting symbols and restarting MT. I'll check again tomorrow.

I have 26 symbols in MT in two portfolios, both using IB data feed. I noticed this morning, AAPL, AMD and SPY stopped streaming. After clearing data and backfill, I got AMD back to normal. But AAPL is still not streaming, SPY streaming Last price but no bid/ask. Also, it backfilled only current day for Intraday. I am on 9810.100, is there a known issue like this? Other symbols are streaming ok.

Thanks for clarifying your formula. Mine was based on my understanding of description of this column in MT help docs. i.e. Range as % of price. The formula you shared is similar to IV rank formula, but for price.

The calculation is slightly different with each data feed, but that's due to it's feed's speed. Here's actual example with IB: Symbol AAPL Last 136.50 Low 133.73 High 137.65 Rng 3.92 Rng % 70.66326531 I calculated below for same data feed. SetScanResultColumnName(0,"Range%"); SetScanResult(0,((SymbolData.High - SymbolData.Low) * 100 / SymbolData.Last)); Range% 2.871795

Hello, Can you check if Range% values for Day/52W are correct in columns? They seem too high for Day and too low for 52 week. Thanks.

Thank you

Hello, There's an option chains setting to display number of contracts near the money which is minimum 3. Can this be reduced to just 1? Thank you.

Num lock was on, I figured out the issue. I had 7 assigned to a custom hotkey. In chart and trade ticket, it was calling the hotkey instead of number when typing price or quantity.

Hello, Number 7 key on number pad does not send 7 in some situations. On trade ticket, it send Home. On chart, I use 7 for 200 bars shortcut but it only changes the number in drop down, does not change the bar on chart. I have to use number line of keyboard. Also non-urgent issue, on the option risk analysis, toggle buy/sell or call/put messes up the graph view. Starts to show opposite direction of chosen.

Since MT doesn't have window work spaces or tabs, I would like to suggest following that hopefully can be implemented easily. Sub-Layout: From MT Dashboard > Windows tab, user selects required windows with CTRL+Click then Right click to save as a sub-layout. This sub-layout can be used to open all the windows in this group. User can CTRL+Click items in the Dashboard > Windows as assign a Window group colour or name for easy window management e.g Minimize/Restore/Close/Move/Lock that apply to all windows in the group. MT currently have a feature to Shift + Arrow to select windows then minimize/Restore them.

Thank for adding the columns and scan data points for options. You guys rock. 🚀💯