NeoTicker Blog

New Features

– SimServer added N-sec fast forward button
– New quote formula function @ChooseString that allows string result to be returned to Quote window, Dynamic Grids, and Quote Memo windows *
– Time and Sales window supporting continuous symbols
– User Define Symbol of spread and ratio type supporting continuous symbol when updated tick by tick
– Continuous Contract Manager supporting offset from current contract in Pre-Defined Rule option
– Cache Editor can now launch from Time Chart
– Cache Editor can auto generate daily data from edited minute and tick data
– Cache Editor smarter scan on tick data error
– Cache Editor can edit disk cache data not located within NeoTicker standard cache directory when launched from Time Chart
– Clear All Pending Sound button added in User Preference window
– New formula function UDSUpdateWithVolume and new IDL method NTLib.UDSUpdateWithVolume added for easier implementation of complex UDS External symbols *
– New OLE methods *
App.NewFunctionWindowByTemplateEx
App.Debug
App.Report
App.ActivateIndicator
App.DeactivateIndicator

* Refer to formula, programming, and OLE reference in the Help file for detail syntax information

Bug Fixes

– UpdateTime field in quote formulas not reflecting the correct locale
– User Define Symbol Manager and NeoBreadth Manager enable on startup options not saved immediately after the change is made
– Drawing objects being pushed backward in time in the Time Chart when certain combination of scrolling and zooming is done
– On disconnect/reconnect to a real-time data service, if heavy usage of two or more of Quote formulas with indicators, User Define Symbol (update by tick only), Trade Simulator with many symbols, and that the data service disconnect multiple times within a very short period of time, then abnormal behaviour in NT is observed
– Preload symbol list not handling Continuous Contract symbols properly

Book Information

Enhancing Trader Performance
– Proven Strategies from the Cutting Edge of Trading Psychology

Written by Dr. Brett N. Steenbarger. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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We are proud to announce our support of Open E Cry as a data feed and direct order placement brokerage.

Open E Cry has a complete order placement interface and historical data for futures trading.

All users interested in using Open E Cry can contact them for a testing account to test drive their service.

The order server is available for download from our customer area.

If you use a laptop to place orders like me, you probably would have experienced this issue – How come my top of the line laptop is not taking my click to place an order and that the keystrokes typed onto the keyboard are lost which is part of my limit order price! Here is what I found out after my (not so) painful experience with these problems.
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New Features

– Supporting new US Daylight Saving Time

Special Requirement

– NeoTicker 4.20 Build 3 or higher

New Features

– Working with new US Daylight Saving Time
– Working with new FXCM mandatory updated Order2Go software

Special Requirement

– NeoTicker 4.20 Build 3 or higher

New Features

– Much better auto reconnection ability with MB quote server and order server
– Forex price filtering ability
– Option to reject orders completely when brokerage server is disconnection from the order server
– Working with new US Daylight Saving Time

Special Requirement

– NeoTicker 4.20 Build 3 or higher

The new Daylight Saving Time schedule for United States and part of Canada will take effect this weekend.

Microsoft has already released important information about the impact of this event.

We have released a new version of NeoTicker to deal with it.

MB Trading and EFX Group has responded to the changes with their new software release.

We do expect more changes from various data vendors and brokerages in the coming week.

So be careful when trading if you suspect that your tools are not working properly.

A new version of Navigator is released to deal with the new Daylight Saving Time schedule that kicks in this weekend.

It is a mandatory update, please download and install that as soon as possible.

For the MB Trading / EFX Order Server, if we will monitor the situation to see if a new release is necessary to accommodate changes made in the new Navigator application.

New Features

– US new Daylight Saving Time schedule ready
– Various data feeds that depends on New York time for data delivery are revised to work properly in new DST
– Ability to accommodate multiple locales, including the ability to use different locales for each individual function window
– Forex demo group added
– 100% faster tick based data loading (N-tick, N-sec, bid/ask based bars, etc.)
– 100% faster tick replay in chart
– Can load 5 times more superposition bars based on 1-tick data series
– Much faster superposition data loading
– Much more efficient Sim Server that can handle 100s of symbols for simultaneous market replay
– Completely rewritten core tick processing engine that is 10 times more efficient, opening the way for tracking more real-time streaming symbols as bandwidth technology improves
– Completely revised Time Frame Manager
– Volume Distribution window rewritten with reduced CPU load, faster data loading, and visual scaling
– Level 2 / Depth window rewritten to better support Forex and other instruments with more decimal places
– Much better out of memory reporting
– Better Chart Manager>Stat tab
– Order Interface added ability to delay checking for order cancellation so that trading systems using update on bar completion can effectively cancel and replace trailing stops and target orders

Bug Fixes

– high / low prices in forex display style within dynamic grid was not reporting the correct prices all the time
– current day open, current week open, and current month open indicators revised to report the first valid open price as the first month’s opening value
– importing tick data not properly recognize TradeType field
– importing tick data not recognize tick volume properly
– Dynamic Table standard function window options (Distribute Target, Window Border, etc.) are not checked properly in the popup menu
– out of memory when indicator is adding more bars in real-time can lead to abnormal behaviour