Two copies of MC at once?

NexusFi · 2012-04-02T12:29:28-04:00

What if one wants to have a copy open IN a VM or on another computer, so that one instance can be used for a live trading strategy and the other can be used for backtesting? I have found that it's easy to get MC to crash when doing a year or more of intrabar testing (not even at tick level, just one minute on hourly chart). if MC could restore my positions from IB on restart, it wouldn't be so bad for hourly plus strategies (still no good for shorter ones though); but the way it is now, I have to manually …

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Two copies of MC at once?

April 2nd, 2012, 12:29 PM

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Great, that's exactly what I needed to know.

Regarding the crash, I have yet to upgrade to the latest revision of 7.4. It seems to happen when I go to the File menu though - suddenly the main chart space will become white, the cursor becomes the spinning wait icon, and I have to restart from task manager to get it going again. I will not have time to try the update for another week or so, but I will let you know then if that fixes it.

Thanks for getting back to me on here.

I would recommend disabling your antivirus software and the other software running in the background.
The problem can be caused by one of the other applications. Please also make sure that all MultiCharts processes are finished when you close the software. Complete list of processes.

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