I have been live on NT through MB trading for a few months. While it is a short period of time I have never had an issue....not one. While I have heard the lamentations of some others their experience and mine have been quite different. My judgement on that was that the queer deal must be due to some other variable like harware, isp, or faulty human interface. I will say though that I use the MB spot forex feed not the CME micro. Best of luck. DB

I actually spoke with NT on an issue like that this morning. The guy asked what version I was on and said that 7 should hav ethat cleared up. I use NT7 btw. We determined that data was hanging somewhere. When I changed the chart timefram from 3 min to 60 min and back to 3 min all the data populated properly. I think that issue was a "here" issue not an NT issue. DB

I thought this was a MC DT + MBT feed discussion??? :P talk about thread derail.

I have a live account and demo account with MB Trading. I use both everyday with Multicharts DT and feel that overall it is satisfactory but there are certainly some quirks. Quirks which I would like to be fixed, I am testing the 7.1 release today.

1) Due to MB Trading's 1/10th of a pip quotes the DOM is frustratingly not useful because it makes the DOM 10 lines apart at best (EUR/USD 1 pip spread). Unless you have a really big monitor or a monitor which can rotate and change aspect (like my Dell 2407wfp) you will find it very difficult to use the DOM.

2) PnL for non-USD pairs cannot report accurate profit and loss. My fav pair EUR/JPY cannot ever tell me the correct PnL. If you use Multicharts DT with MBT you cannot use Navigator to log in separately. My workaround for this is to use MBT Web (the silverlight web interface). It reports the correct PnL, positions and etc correctly to me.

3) "DAY" order types in MC DT do not work and get rejected. You can change the type to "GTC" which does work. The only annoying thing about this is that MC DT defaults to "DAY" orders (I at least haven't worked out where to change this default behaviour, so I claim ignorance if this is possible). If I forget to change this setting, my orders get rejected and I wonder WTF is going on until I read the server logs.

4) If you change your orders through the chart trading, MC DT will report the order as submitted. However there is a delay between submitting an order and the order servers actually accepting an order. This isn't an MC DT problem, it is simply how MBT works. It would be nice however if MC DT could report to you that a submitted order has been accepted. Again, I solve this issue by having MBT Web open and checking the orderbook.

5) This last one aggravates me to no end. I really really like the chart trading in multicharts. It allows me to visualise where my orders are directly on the chart I am looking at. However there is a really annoying bug.
The way my accounts are organised at MBT is that my demo account appears in the MC DT list above my live account.
If I just trade using the demo account the chart trading is fine. No issues here.
However if I start trading live, this bug appears. Basically if I enter an order onto the chart it appears in the correct account being chart traded.
However once the trade is executed the open order appears in the demo account's chart trading interface instead. Although the entry marker appears in the live chart trading interface.
It is kind of hard to explain this in words so excuse me if it sounds confusing. What ends up being annoying about it is. I cannot attach an "exit strategy" to the order. The option is greyed out on the live account because it thinks there is no position open. If I try attaching it to the demo chart trading interface it submits an order for the demo account.

If Multicharts fixed these bugs I would actually buy a lifetime license just so I don't have to work around these issues.

I know Multicharts is branded as an awesome automated trading tool, but I actually find its charting interface and chart trading to be the most pleasant discretionary trading interface ever.

Despite these issues I continue to use MC DT because I don't like NT as much. Oh and one other thing, I hope develop a nice "white background" colour scheme at some point. At the moment the entire program feels like the black background is what suits. Even if you change the background colour to white the other interface elements don't feel right.

I thought this was a MC DT + MBT feed discussion??? :P talk about thread derail.

I have a live account and demo account with MB Trading. I use both everyday with Multicharts DT and feel that overall it is satisfactory but there are certainly some quirks. Quirks which I would like to be fixed, I am testing the 7.1 release today.

1) Due to MB Trading's 1/10th of a pip quotes the DOM is frustratingly not useful because it makes the DOM 10 lines apart at best (EUR/USD 1 pip spread). Unless you have a really big monitor or a monitor which can rotate and change aspect (like my Dell 2407wfp) you will find it very difficult to use the DOM.

2) PnL for non-USD pairs cannot report accurate profit and loss. My fav pair EUR/JPY cannot ever tell me the correct PnL. If you use Multicharts DT with MBT you cannot use Navigator to log in separately. My workaround for this is to use MBT Web (the silverlight web interface). It reports the correct PnL, positions and etc correctly to me.

3) "DAY" order types in MC DT do not work and get rejected. You can change the type to "GTC" which does work. The only annoying thing about this is that MC DT defaults to "DAY" orders (I at least haven't worked out where to change this default behaviour, so I claim ignorance if this is possible). If I forget to change this setting, my orders get rejected and I wonder WTF is going on until I read the server logs.

4) If you change your orders through the chart trading, MC DT will report the order as submitted. However there is a delay between submitting an order and the order servers actually accepting an order. This isn't an MC DT problem, it is simply how MBT works. It would be nice however if MC DT could report to you that a submitted order has been accepted. Again, I solve this issue by having MBT Web open and checking the orderbook.

If Multicharts fixed these bugs I would actually buy a lifetime license just so I don't have to work around these issues.

I know Multicharts is branded as an awesome automated trading tool, but I actually find its charting interface and chart trading to be the most pleasant discretionary trading interface ever.

Despite these issues I continue to use MC DT because I don't like NT as much. Oh and one other thing, I hope develop a nice "white background" colour scheme at some point. At the moment the entire program feels like the black background is what suits. Even if you change the background colour to white the other interface elements don't feel right.