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jim.tollan
01 Oct 2024, 08:42

RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Found a bug using Indicators.. in Initialize method

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

jim.tollan said: 

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

jim.tollan said: 

My apologies, I seem to be unable to create a new topic. 

Quick question. Can you explain why there have been no new cBots or indicators on your Algorithms section since 8th September? Normally, both those areas are pretty busy, but just seems to have drawn to a halt abruptly without any company PR/explanation. I personlly think this is bad for platform morale (the lack of comms) and makes you guys seem a little disconnected.

Anyway, apologies if it's just my login for some reason that's only seeing back to 8th September and if so, can you fix it for me -thanks

Hi there,

Now all new algorithms need to be uploaded ..

Best regards,

Panagiotis

So Panagiotis, just to confirm. Is the Algorithms [Indicators/Bots/Plugins] section dead then?? 

I never saw any announcement mentioning this, nor was there anything on any of the Algo pages, so was a bit confused. 

jim

It's not dead but no new uploads are allowed.

got it.. thanks…


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jim.tollan
30 Sep 2024, 10:47 ( Updated at: 30 Sep 2024, 16:02 )

RE: RE: RE: Found a bug using Indicators.. in Initialize method

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

jim.tollan said: 

My apologies, I seem to be unable to create a new topic. 

Quick question. Can you explain why there have been no new cBots or indicators on your Algorithms section since 8th September? Normally, both those areas are pretty busy, but just seems to have drawn to a halt abruptly without any company PR/explanation. I personlly think this is bad for platform morale (the lack of comms) and makes you guys seem a little disconnected.

Anyway, apologies if it's just my login for some reason that's only seeing back to 8th September and if so, can you fix it for me -thanks

Hi there,

Now all new algorithms need to be uploaded ..

Best regards,

Panagiotis

So Panagiotis, just to confirm. Is the Algorithms [Indicators/Bots/Plugins] section dead then?? 

I never saw any announcement mentioning this, nor was there anything on any of the Algo pages, so was a bit confused. 

jim


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jim.tollan
28 Sep 2024, 21:31 ( Updated at: 28 Sep 2024, 21:32 )

RE: Found a bug using Indicators.. in Initialize method

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

Hi there,

It works fine for me.

Can you try recreating the indicator?

Best regards,

Panagiotis

My apologies, I seem to be unable to create a new topic. 

Quick question. Can you explain why there have been no new cBots or indicators on your Algorithms section since 8th September? Normally, both those areas are pretty busy, but just seems to have drawn to a halt abruptly without any company PR/explanation. I personlly think this is bad for platform morale (the lack of comms) and makes you guys seem a little disconnected.

Anyway, apologies if it's just my login for some reason that's only seeing back to 8th September and if so, can you fix it for me -thanks


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jim.tollan
13 Jun 2024, 10:39

RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Issue Closing positions from an Indicator

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

jim.tollan said: 

jim.tollan said: 

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

Hi Jim,This option is only available in cTrader v5.0.

Best regards,

Panagiotis

Problem solved then :). I knew it must be a simple fix. I won't be updating to v5 until my broker does, so I guess I'll have to wait for that.

Thanks for your speedy response and for saving me going round the houses trying fixes on this.

Cheers

jim

can confirm that this all works with v5.x. and did ask for additional permissions before actioning it. I know that v4.xx development will have ceased, but is there any chance of a hotfix for this on the broker versions that will be on v4.xx for some time to come?? it's such a useful feature to have all position based actions available via the indicator.

Nope :) You would need to wait for 5.0

got it!! :) :)


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jim.tollan
13 Jun 2024, 09:27 ( Updated at: 13 Jun 2024, 09:30 )

RE: RE: RE: RE: Issue Closing positions from an Indicator

jim.tollan said: 

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

Hi Jim,This option is only available in cTrader v5.0.

Best regards,

Panagiotis

Problem solved then :). I knew it must be a simple fix. I won't be updating to v5 until my broker does, so I guess I'll have to wait for that.

Thanks for your speedy response and for saving me going round the houses trying fixes on this.

Cheers

jim

can confirm that this all works with v5.x. and did ask for additional permissions before actioning it. I know that v4.xx development will have ceased, but is there any chance of a hotfix for this on the broker versions that will be on v4.xx for some time to come?? it's such a useful feature to have all position based actions available via the indicator.


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jim.tollan
12 Jun 2024, 08:30

RE: RE: RE: Issue Closing positions from an Indicator

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

Hi Jim,This option is only available in cTrader v5.0.

Best regards,

Panagiotis

Problem solved then :). I knew it must be a simple fix. I won't be updating to v5 until my broker does, so I guess I'll have to wait for that.

Thanks for your speedy response and for saving me going round the houses trying fixes on this.

Cheers

jim


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jim.tollan
12 Jun 2024, 08:20 ( Updated at: 12 Jun 2024, 08:26 )

RE: Issue Closing positions from an Indicator

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

Hi Jim,

I tried this and works fine for me. Can you please provide more information demonstrating what you report e.g. screenshots, videos, logs etc?

Best regards,

Panagiotis

Sure, when I click (for example), the Green button to close the longs, I get the messagebox window popping up, which is as expected. However, the action on closing the Position(s) doesn't appear to be working.

Action trail:

Then:

 

The log reports the following error:

From previous experiences, this can sometimes indicate that an action is being attempted across different threads (UI and worker). I can't say for sure what this might be the issue or not. All I can say is that it's consistent across a number of different charts/forex pairs. Would be great to figure this out as it's part of a larger piece using this type of approach.

Thanks again

jim

btw - I'm using the Raw Trader version of the software, but the same thing still occurs on v4.8.30


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jim.tollan
03 Jun 2024, 11:27

RE: RE: RE: How to avoid updates?

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

Tarek.ElRaey said: 

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

Hi Augustus,

cTrader just prompts you to restart whenever it is more convienient for you. Disabling updates completely is not possible due to the nature of our service.

Best Regards,

Panagiotis

hi Panagiotis 

I really can't take it with the new Ctrader optimization speed , it is not practical at all and i need to stick to Ctrader 4.x without update until you solve this issue . besides the Ctrader 5.x optimization tabs are really of no use . . I want to stay with Ctrader 4.x interface and performance 

 

Hi Tarek, 

You can still use your broker's application that has not been updated yet.

Best regards,

Panagiotis

I actually did this. I downloaded my ICMarkets version of 4.9.2. Works great for now and will only update once v5 has addressed all the reported issues. thanks for the heads up.


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jim.tollan
22 May 2024, 12:28

RE: Why is backtesting SO slow after the update? yesterday it was fine before I updated and now my cBot is ultra slow

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

Hi all,

You can still use your broker's cTrader which has not been updated yet.

Best regards,

Panagiotis

where's the slow handclap emoji :)


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jim.tollan
22 May 2024, 12:19

RE: new Ctrader 5 versus Ctrader 4

Waxy said: 

+1 this, it occupies too much space.

Also, you should let us create folders to organize bots and indicators, some of us have too many.

For the time being, i will await a stable version 5 before upgrading as 4.8.30 does everything i need for now… I know it's probably teething issues, but the add instance as a whole new row is a bit mind boggling. I thought the premise was to have everything as compact as possible with function specific controls aligned.

As for the anecdotal stories of impossibly long optimisation runs, I don't think I'll take the risk to determine if this is so for me. Huge step backwards by the sounds of it, which is a shame as this is such a great platform (v4). 


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jim.tollan
09 Oct 2023, 19:21

I'm not saying it would be straightforward, but you could use a T1 timeframe object and construct an OHLC dataset from the onTick event (adding to your 30 second collection by only populating on mod % second 30 or whatever).

This would be a starting point. Obviously, you'd need to create an OHLC class and collection wrapper, but with a bit of patience, I think you'd be able to use this approach, especially if using in code (tho of course, you could use it in an indicator too).

Just my 2c and with literally 30 seconds of thought spent on the problem :D


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jim.tollan
12 Sep 2023, 18:02 ( Updated at: 13 Sep 2023, 05:39 )

RE: daily candles are labelled with wrong date (previous day's date)

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

Hi ctid4064603,

As explained above, Daily candles open on Sunday at 21:00 UTC. 

Best Regards,

Panagiotis 

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I am also finding this problematic and can't see why all the other candles use the Server.TimeInUtc but the daily jumps onto this weird non standard 21:00 start. Unless I can find a workaround that consolidates my hourly candles down to a bespoke Daily range, I am simply not going to be able (programmatically) to compare current daily activity as defined by that timings on all other candles that are on a lower timeframe to the Daily.  

My use case for this is to allow me to perform a top down analysis of the Daily→H4→m15 to align ranges within ranges. This simply isn't possible out of the box

Has anyone used a workaround that doesn't involve frigging around with creating virtual dailies out of the hourlies)??

 


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jim.tollan
21 Aug 2023, 16:29

RE: We have a problem Houston - thread dates

firemyst said: 

All they really have to do is change the default sorting on the page to “last added” which would go towards a long way of doing this.

I presume our plight has gone largely unnoticed :(

c'mon guys, you must surely see that the forum useability has been trashed… any thoughts on a fix?


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jim.tollan
10 Aug 2023, 09:08

RE: RE: Can not connect to internet

I also meant to add.. There still seems to be a very annoying issue also with the forum. Old messages seem to be in a constant recycle which means that it's almost imposible to identify new content in any section.

I did create a separate post about this a few weeks ago, but it obviously got buried under the ever cycling refresh! Really will help to have this addressed if possible.

thanks.. jim

 


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jim.tollan
10 Aug 2023, 07:41

RE: Can not connect to internet

PanagiotisChar said: 

Hi there,

Do you still have this problem?

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Hi there- no, it seems to be resolved as of logging in today at 08:30.

What was the issue??


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jim.tollan
10 Aug 2023, 01:49 ( Updated at: 21 Dec 2023, 09:23 )

RE: The same case

prawiranegara.83 said: 

Yesterday I used Ctrader and as usual I was able to log in and use the application as usual. But this morning when I opened it again, Ctrader tried to connect it to my account but it didn't work and it kept flashing like the case above, please advise to solve this problem, thank you very much.

 

 

Best regard, 

 

Prawira

Yup - exact same issue here. Begun around 20:00 UTC. Based in the UK. Hoping it's a temporary blip.


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jim.tollan
20 Jul 2023, 13:14

RE:

Spotware said:

Dear trader,

Please let us know which version of cTrader you use.

Best regards,

cTrader Team

hasn't this issue been around for quite some time. ?? I know that since I started using cTrader about 9 months ago, the issue was present even then.

Not sure if a fix came in that sorted it at some point between times and that that fix no longer works?


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jim.tollan
13 Jul 2023, 19:00 ( Updated at: 13 Jul 2023, 19:01 )

Hi BBB - it would appear that v1.0.8 is now available (I just updated via my solution). This event is a timely addition and will definitely make some of my logic a lot less convoluted.

thanks cTrader team!!


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jim.tollan
30 Jun 2023, 11:32

RE: RE: RE:

firemyst said:

AlexFrei said:

 

Hi Firemyst, thank you so much !! I didnt know about History collection. Great. Thanks ! Have a great day

 

No worries. That's what the forums are for :-)

also thank you so much for this nugget. i've been wrestling with as issue regarding completed orders and this looks to address the problem i was facing... ;)


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jim.tollan
21 Jun 2023, 10:43 ( Updated at: 21 Jun 2023, 11:12 )

RE:

emanuelgornic said:

add please oco order, i place a buy limit and a sell limit over night, if buy limit is activated, then delete the sell limit

coincidently, i just started working on some automation that does exactly this. i place a buy liimt order above the closing price and a sell limit order below the closing price (or based on trading edge of the current move). whichever order is taken, the opposing one gets cancelled. In my scenario, i'm not only focussed on market opening. I'm also focussed on news events and supply and demand zones being broken.

I have to say tho, I do need a little more data on positioning the prices and TP's etc as i'm trying to milk the super fast moves and be out on TP within the 5 minute bar. my backtesting is still in progress and nothing definitive yet. would love to hear your take on this...

In theory, I could adapt this to simply be a kind of manual helper which runs in the background and identifies an OCO set of orders and cancels the unmatched order when the other is matched. that of course would have to work using some premise regards the setup of the two orders (so that other normal orders were left unaffected - using a comment in both orders with the exact same content would work for example as this could be searched in the pending orders collection and cancelled when the promary OCO candidate is matched).

Happy to share a basic algo file (or even the code if preferred) with whatever specifications you feel would work for you.


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