What’s New in cTrader Desktop 4.7

mailforever90
13 Apr 2023, 09:19

Custom indicators are not getting loaded in Market Replay Window

Hi

Many thanks for the update.!

I have this issue with Market Replay:
1) Custom indicators are not getting loaded in Market Replay Window with this latest update.
Please fix the issue

I m trying to use the market replays, if i get any other issues i ll revert accordingly.

alexanderk7788
13 Apr 2023, 15:34 ( Updated at: 21 Dec 2023, 09:23 )

RE:

Spotware said:

cTrader Desktop 4.7 Offers Market Replay, Internet Access for Algos, and Other Features for Automate API

The cTrader Desktop 4.7 release delivers several fundamental features to our growing audience of traders and algo developers. With Market Replay, users can test their trading approaches based on historical data and without the risk of losing real funds. The cTrader Automate API now benefits from full internet access, the ChartShot method, built-in sounds for notifications in cBots and custom indicators, and the Help Center integrated into the app.

Download cTrader Desktop 4.7

Try Market Replay

With Market Replay, users can test their trading ideas and approaches based on historical tick data. Traders can increase and decrease the playback speed. This not only allows traders to test out new approaches, but also serves as an educational tool for beginners.

Find out more in our Help Center.

Get Full Internet Access for Your Algorithms

We have added specialised API methods for algorithms allowing them to go online without `AccessRights.FullAccess`. Algorithms can communicate with external services through JSON or HTML without compromising users' PCs.

Find out more in our Help Center.

Take ChartShots Automatically

You asked for it… we’ve done it! Due to the TakeChartshot() method, algorithms can take ChartShots of the current chart. They can be saved and used for additional protocoling of cBot actions.

Find out more in our Help Center.

Access Our Help Center in the Automate app

Guides, videos, and articles from the Help Center are now available in the right column next to the code editor window. Find all reference information staying on the platform: no need to google.

Use Built-in Sounds

From now on algo developers can use 5 built-in sounds in Automate API for adding sound notifications in their cBots and custom indicators.

Use Currency Conversion Overloads

We have implemented two new overloads for more convenient currency conversion. You can now receive accurate conversion rates even if you pass arguments of two different types (`Asset` and `String`) into the Convert() method.

Experience Compact Indicator Panels on Charts

To satisfy users’ requests, we have made the indicator panels on charts more compact. Now, there is more space for the chart itself. 

Download cTrader Desktop 4.7

 

After detaching some charts from the main Desktop the buttons on the top of charts like Find indicators, Find cBots don't respond. Please solve this problem.

acrigney
14 Apr 2023, 01:32

Global package references not found with .net 6 bot

Guys I have had a lot of issues with upgrading my bots to .net 6 and my latest problem is that my nuget references are not found when the bots run.

With .net 6 we are now using PackageReference as explained here

• Performance improvements: When using PackageReference, packages are maintained in the global-packages folder (as described on Managing the global packages and cache folders rather than in a packages folder within the solution. As a result, PackageReference performs faster and consumes less disk space.

But I have found that I have had to manually add the references to get this to work. And this was the old way as well from reading a previous post. Moving forward manually having to add package references is really a pain when the references should just be found from the global reference. I am surprised that others don't seem to have had this problem recently?

Best Regards,

                       Alistair

acrigney
15 Apr 2023, 04:35

RE: Global package references not found with .net 6 bot

I have added the nuget references directly by finding their locations and using add reference for the dlls but still at runtime the correct versions of the dlls are not found.

So the hint path is being ignored. Apparently the hint path is only for the compiler so its not used at run time.

<Reference Include="Microsoft.ML.Data">
      <HintPath>..\..\..\..\..\..\.nuget\packages\microsoft.ml\2.0.1-preview.22573.9\lib\netstandard2.0\Microsoft.ML.Data.dll</HintPath>
      <SpecificVersion>True</SpecificVersion>
    </Reference>

I have tried with and without the specific version but I still get the error that the version of the dll is not found, 

So I get errors like this

 Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.ML.Data, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51'. The system cannot find the file specified.

acrigney said:

Guys I have had a lot of issues with upgrading my bots to .net 6 and my latest problem is that my nuget references are not found when the bots run.

With .net 6 we are now using PackageReference as explained here

• Performance improvements: When using PackageReference, packages are maintained in the global-packages folder (as described on Managing the global packages and cache folders rather than in a packages folder within the solution. As a result, PackageReference performs faster and consumes less disk space.

But I have found that I have had to manually add the references to get this to work. And this was the old way as well from reading a previous post. Moving forward manually having to add package references is really a pain when the references should just be found from the global reference. I am surprised that others don't seem to have had this problem recently?

Best Regards,

                       Alistair

acrigney
17 Apr 2023, 15:49

RE: RE: Global package references not found with .net 6 bot

Guys can someone pick this up, I can pay someone to fix this?

acrigney said:

I have added the nuget references directly by finding their locations and using add reference for the dlls but still at runtime the correct versions of the dlls are not found.

So the hint path is being ignored. Apparently the hint path is only for the compiler so its not used at run time.

<Reference Include="Microsoft.ML.Data">
      <HintPath>..\..\..\..\..\..\.nuget\packages\microsoft.ml\2.0.1-preview.22573.9\lib\netstandard2.0\Microsoft.ML.Data.dll</HintPath>
      <SpecificVersion>True</SpecificVersion>
    </Reference>

I have tried with and without the specific version but I still get the error that the version of the dll is not found, 

So I get errors like this

 Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.ML.Data, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51'. The system cannot find the file specified.

acrigney said:

Guys I have had a lot of issues with upgrading my bots to .net 6 and my latest problem is that my nuget references are not found when the bots run.

With .net 6 we are now using PackageReference as explained here

• Performance improvements: When using PackageReference, packages are maintained in the global-packages folder (as described on Managing the global packages and cache folders rather than in a packages folder within the solution. As a result, PackageReference performs faster and consumes less disk space.

But I have found that I have had to manually add the references to get this to work. And this was the old way as well from reading a previous post. Moving forward manually having to add package references is really a pain when the references should just be found from the global reference. I am surprised that others don't seem to have had this problem recently?

Best Regards,

                       Alistair

 

Spotware
18 Apr 2023, 09:48

RE: The bot's performance is significantly reduced when using version 4.7.7 compared to version 4.6.6

Fx4U.net said:

Dear ctrader team,

Thank you for always working to perfect ctrader.
There seems to be something wrong with this version because when I run the same bot with the same data source, the results running at ctrader 4.7.7 are significantly reduced compared to version 4.6.6.

Checking Bot: http://fx4u.net/robots/gbpusd-m15-price-action/
Data source: Icmarkets Tick data

Please note this issue and if possible fix it in the next versions.

Regards

 

Dear trader,

Unfortunately we cannot use the provided cBot to reproduce the problem. Please provide us with the cBot's source code or with a cBot version that does not require full access.

Best regards,

cTrader Team

acrigney
19 Apr 2023, 13:57

RE: RE: Global package references not found with .net 6 bot

I see other people are getting their questions answered. I fixed the issue as I found that the normal package references are not supported and you have to include all of the references that a package has internally, I was hoping that they could be picked up by the global references but they are not.

Also it seems that the robustness of ctrader has suffered since the upgrade to .net 6, e.g now I have to build twice, once in visual studio but ctrader still says that the bot has changed and needs to be rebuilt so I have to click the build button in ctrader. Actually the compile speed was has greatly improved thought!

acrigney said:

I have added the nuget references directly by finding their locations and using add reference for the dlls but still at runtime the correct versions of the dlls are not found.

So the hint path is being ignored. Apparently the hint path is only for the compiler so its not used at run time.

<Reference Include="Microsoft.ML.Data">
      <HintPath>..\..\..\..\..\..\.nuget\packages\microsoft.ml\2.0.1-preview.22573.9\lib\netstandard2.0\Microsoft.ML.Data.dll</HintPath>
      <SpecificVersion>True</SpecificVersion>
    </Reference>

I have tried with and without the specific version but I still get the error that the version of the dll is not found, 

So I get errors like this

 Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.ML.Data, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51'. The system cannot find the file specified.

acrigney said:

Guys I have had a lot of issues with upgrading my bots to .net 6 and my latest problem is that my nuget references are not found when the bots run.

With .net 6 we are now using PackageReference as explained here

• Performance improvements: When using PackageReference, packages are maintained in the global-packages folder (as described on Managing the global packages and cache folders rather than in a packages folder within the solution. As a result, PackageReference performs faster and consumes less disk space.

But I have found that I have had to manually add the references to get this to work. And this was the old way as well from reading a previous post. Moving forward manually having to add package references is really a pain when the references should just be found from the global reference. I am surprised that others don't seem to have had this problem recently?

Best Regards,

                       Alistair

 

acrigney
19 Apr 2023, 14:04

RE: Global package references not found with .net 6 bot

Not to mention that I still cannot get debugging to work in VS2022, no version works I am using VS2022 17.6.0 Preview 3 

acrigney said:

Guys I have had a lot of issues with upgrading my bots to .net 6 and my latest problem is that my nuget references are not found when the bots run.

With .net 6 we are now using PackageReference as explained here

• Performance improvements: When using PackageReference, packages are maintained in the global-packages folder (as described on Managing the global packages and cache folders rather than in a packages folder within the solution. As a result, PackageReference performs faster and consumes less disk space.

But I have found that I have had to manually add the references to get this to work. And this was the old way as well from reading a previous post. Moving forward manually having to add package references is really a pain when the references should just be found from the global reference. I am surprised that others don't seem to have had this problem recently?

Best Regards,

                       Alistair

delaghetto
26 Apr 2023, 15:02 ( Updated at: 26 Apr 2023, 15:32 )

Spotware said:

 

Try Market Replay

With Market Replay, users can test their trading ideas and approaches based on historical tick data. Traders can increase and decrease the playback speed. This not only allows traders to test out new approaches, but also serves as an educational tool for beginners.

 

Honestly, Market replay is USELESS if we don't have the option to switch between timeframes.

I really don't understand why you guys haven't been able to enable this, first in the backtesting tool and now in market replay, when having tick or 1 minute data, the only thing you need to do is to construct the higher time frames using the same data.

Any serious trader, does a multi-timeframe analysis when using a manual trading strategy. 

I was waiting so long for Market replay, and very excited when it was released. Just to later see you guys have only implemented a copy of the backtesting tool, and added a few buttons. Sad! So upseting!

Hope timeframe switching for Backtesting/Markey Replay is somewhere in your near pipeline.

BR. Back to MT4 Simulations.

baroseiro
04 May 2023, 20:09 ( Updated at: 21 Dec 2023, 09:23 )

Indicator Panels on Charts WORKAROUND is worst than what we had - LISTEN suggestions already provided

Hi

Please LISTEN this suggestion https://ctrader.com/forum/suggestions/40444  on how to tackle this issue. What was done was worse than what we had. We want a toggle to hide/show the indicators info, NOT a hard cut of indicator info/settings. Now we don't have neither a clean screen without indicators nor complete details of indicators. Check the suggestion, just copy what TradingView already does (and Quantower and many others). Also, provide the viewing option in the API like all other viewing options. With this in the API I would do this toggle myself with an indicator.

Thanks and sorry about the negative comment but sometimes seems that you guys have very good developers on some areas of cTrader but in other areas, they seem below graduates. For instance, how about offering in the API to print text/labels with better positioning, colors and font families? how about a proper fibonacci drawing tool to define multiple configurations, levels, colors and text/labels for each level?

Nonetheless and regarding all other changes, overall, good work (but give multi timeframe for market reply btw)

Sorry about the rant :)

Spotware said:

Experience Compact Indicator Panels on Charts

To satisfy users’ requests, we have made the indicator panels on charts more compact. Now, there is more space for the chart itself. 

Download cTrader Desktop 4.7

 

Fx4U.net
13 May 2023, 08:28

RE: RE: The bot's performance is significantly reduced when using version 4.7.7 compared to version 4.6.6

Spotware said:

Fx4U.net said:

Dear ctrader team,

Thank you for always working to perfect ctrader.
There seems to be something wrong with this version because when I run the same bot with the same data source, the results running at ctrader 4.7.7 are significantly reduced compared to version 4.6.6.

Checking Bot: http://fx4u.net/robots/gbpusd-m15-price-action/
Data source: Icmarkets Tick data

Please note this issue and if possible fix it in the next versions.

Regards

 

Dear trader,

Unfortunately we cannot use the provided cBot to reproduce the problem. Please provide us with the cBot's source code or with a cBot version that does not require full access.

Best regards,

cTrader Team

Dear ctrader Team,

I have removed the Full Access rights, please check again, there is a huge difference between the 2 versions of ctrader 4.6 and ctrader 4.7

Checking Bot: http://fx4u.net/robots/gbpusd-m15-price-action/
Data source: Icmarkets Tick data

Parameter setting:
Capital Management: Risk
Risk %:  2%
Other Parameters: Default

Backtesting results on ctrader 4.6 from 19/01/2014 to 12/05/2023

Backtesting results on ctrader 4.7 from 19/01/2014 to 12/05/2023

If you need more proof you can check with my other bots at http://fx4u.net/robots/. The results between the 2 versions are worrying about ctrader's reliability

I really hope you can fix it as soon as possible.

Thanks and best regards,

Fx4U

Fx4U.net
13 May 2023, 20:15 ( Updated at: 21 Dec 2023, 09:23 )

RE: RE: RE: The bot's performance is significantly reduced when using version 4.7.7 compared to version 4.6.6

Fx4U.net said:

Spotware said:

Fx4U.net said:

Dear ctrader team,

Thank you for always working to perfect ctrader.
There seems to be something wrong with this version because when I run the same bot with the same data source, the results running at ctrader 4.7.7 are significantly reduced compared to version 4.6.6.

Checking Bot: http://fx4u.net/robots/gbpusd-m15-price-action/
Data source: Icmarkets Tick data

Please note this issue and if possible fix it in the next versions.

Regards

 

Dear trader,

Unfortunately we cannot use the provided cBot to reproduce the problem. Please provide us with the cBot's source code or with a cBot version that does not require full access.

Best regards,

cTrader Team

Dear ctrader Team,

I have removed the Full Access rights, please check again, there is a huge difference between the 2 versions of ctrader 4.6 and ctrader 4.7

Checking Bot: http://fx4u.net/robots/gbpusd-m15-price-action/
Data source: Icmarkets Tick data

Parameter setting:
Capital Management: Risk
Risk %:  2%
Other Parameters: Default

Backtesting results on ctrader 4.6 from 19/01/2014 to 12/05/2023

Backtesting results on ctrader 4.7 from 19/01/2014 to 12/05/2023

 

If you need more proof you can check with my other bots at http://fx4u.net/robots/. The results between the 2 versions are worrying about ctrader's reliability

I really hope you can fix it as soon as possible.

Thanks and best regards,

Fx4U

I found the cause. Because the Fractal indicator has been modified in ctrader version 4.7 and my bot uses this indicator.
Thank you very much for always working to improve ctrader better and better.
Ragards,
Fx4U

Fx4U.net
13 May 2023, 20:15 ( Updated at: 21 Dec 2023, 09:23 )

RE: RE: RE: The bot's performance is significantly reduced when using version 4.7.7 compared to version 4.6.6

Fx4U.net said:

Spotware said:

Fx4U.net said:

Dear ctrader team,

Thank you for always working to perfect ctrader.
There seems to be something wrong with this version because when I run the same bot with the same data source, the results running at ctrader 4.7.7 are significantly reduced compared to version 4.6.6.

Checking Bot: http://fx4u.net/robots/gbpusd-m15-price-action/
Data source: Icmarkets Tick data

Please note this issue and if possible fix it in the next versions.

Regards

 

Dear trader,

Unfortunately we cannot use the provided cBot to reproduce the problem. Please provide us with the cBot's source code or with a cBot version that does not require full access.

Best regards,

cTrader Team

Dear ctrader Team,

I have removed the Full Access rights, please check again, there is a huge difference between the 2 versions of ctrader 4.6 and ctrader 4.7

Checking Bot: http://fx4u.net/robots/gbpusd-m15-price-action/
Data source: Icmarkets Tick data

Parameter setting:
Capital Management: Risk
Risk %:  2%
Other Parameters: Default

Backtesting results on ctrader 4.6 from 19/01/2014 to 12/05/2023

Backtesting results on ctrader 4.7 from 19/01/2014 to 12/05/2023

 

If you need more proof you can check with my other bots at http://fx4u.net/robots/. The results between the 2 versions are worrying about ctrader's reliability

I really hope you can fix it as soon as possible.

Thanks and best regards,

Fx4U

I found the cause. Because the Fractal indicator has been modified in ctrader version 4.7 and my bot uses this indicator.
Thank you very much for always working to improve ctrader better and better.
Regards,
Fx4U