MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

Hello Everyone! I'm new to MultiCharts, having recently transitioned over from TS. I like to optimize my strategies on different bar sizes - e.g., 1 hour, 2 hour, 4 hour, and daily. Some of my strategies perform well on the 1 hour bar, but not so well on the daily bar. While other strategies perform well on the daily bar, but not so well on the 1 hour bar. Is there a way to set the bar size as a variable in PowerLanguage so that I can Optimize not just the strategy, but the timeframe on which the strategy trades? I can do this manually by optimizing on different bar sizes, and comparing the results. But I am hoping that there's a way to optimize not just the strategy, but the bar size on which the strategy trades without having to manually re-optimize on every bar size I am testing. Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.

Jeff R.

Hello Jeff R.,

There is no option to do that in MultiCharts, I’m afraid.
But you can vote for the similar feature on our Project Management:
MC-1655

This would be a great feature to have!

Other related feature requests are:

- MC-2868: Testing and optimising a strategy across a basket of instruments and timeframes.
- MC-1399: Optimize over time interval.

Jeff, Please see if this will do the job for you:
viewtopic.php?t=58520