MultiCharts: Trading Software for Automated Trading and Backtesting

If I start MC with Patsystems in the morning will the chart be all blank and RT data will start ticking when the software opens ?

If I have a couple of hours of RT data on the chart and restarts MC during the day will the chart be empty again?

I trade from the chart so I want to understand if I need two charts to trade, one for historical data and one to put in orders on.

larssan wrote:
If I start MC with Patsystems in the morning will the chart be all blank and RT data will start ticking when the software opens ?


If you have no data in your local data base, then the chart will be blank.


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If I have a couple of hours of RT data on the chart and restarts MC during the day will the chart be empty again?


You will have a hole for the time it took you to restart, but you will have data for the other times. Since data is saved to the local data base, what you collected previously will remain to be displayed on your computer.

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I trade from the chart so I want to understand if I need two charts to trade, one for historical data and one to put in orders on.

Why would you need two charts? From two different providers?

No, you don't need two charts - that's why we have Symbol Mapping in the Broker Profiles. You simply make a chart of eSignal, and indicate the Pats symbol details in the Mapping - your order for the eSignal chart will be routed to Pats.

Alternatively, if you want to trade based on real-time from Pats, simply Merge two data feeds in one chart. Use eSignal for historical, and Pats for real-time. Every time you create or reload a chart, real-time from that moment on will be taken from Pats, and history from eSignal.

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Alternatively, if you want to trade based on real-time from Pats, simply Merge two data feeds in one chart. Use eSignal for historical, and Pats for real-time. Every time you create or reload a chart, real-time from that moment on will be taken from Pats, and history from eSignal.

This sounds perfect!
I'll test this tomorrow.
So when I put on a manual trade I'll see the order on the chart ?

You probably don't see the order on the chart when you merge, but when you check your Order and Position Tracker, the order is there. If you use OEC only, you will see the order on the chart.

We are developing the symbol mapping feature necessary to address the first case, where you don't see the order on the chart yet. You should see it in Beta 5, which is scheduled for release tomorrow.

Check the logs tab in the OPT. If your mapping is off it should say something like 'No security definition has been found" for the order you tried to send.