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After intensive review of the new OEC API and testing of its new capabilities, it is obvious that it has a lot of advantages over the current API releases. That warrants our effort to rewrite the existing OEC Order Server to support all these exciting new features.

As the new OEC API will not be going into their production server yet, we will work with their API and Sim servers for now and have the new OEC Order Server ready for their production release.

A highlight of the new features available from OEC,

- faster and more stable historical data download
- more efficient quote delivery
- ability to run OEC Trader side by side with NeoTicker

Open E Cry has enforced a mandatory update of their software on both API account and Sim account. NeoTicker users using those accounts will have trouble working with OEC historical data.

We will release a new version of OEC Order Server to address this issue.

For OEC real account holders, there is no update to your OEC Trader software as of this point in time.

If you start NeoTicker and find out the historical tick data requested does not look right, close the eSignal Data Manager manually. NeoTicker will restart eSignal Data Manager automatically. You can check your charts again to see if the problem is taken care of. For some situation, you may want to use F11 to repair data in a chart. The problem seems to be very specific and happens only on some servers. eSignal mentioned in their forum that they may take those servers offline to restore the database properly.

We are expecting a 36-hour snow storm in Toronto. Have to send everyone home early.

Since we have completed our blog site upgrade, I am inviting anyone interested in writing in our blog to contact me.

We’ve decided to add a special category for add-on tools that work with NeoTicker. Spreadsheets, small applications, etc. designed to work with NeoTicker will be posted under this category.

Many IQFeed users have experienced various usage issues like real-time streaming data slowness, and drastic increase in memory usage. The cause of these problems is rooted in the IQFeed Data Server not being able to process the flood of incoming data into NeoTicker as the amount of real-time market data has grown significantly in the last 12 months.

As many of you already know, we have revised eSignal data processing in the latest builds to address this issue.

We now have completed the revision in the IQFeed data server to take care of the same issue.

It is now available in NeoTicker 4.20 Build 26.

Please upgrade to this new release as soon as possible, if you

1. use IQFeed to track more than 50 symbols, or
2. download tick data from IQFeed, or
3. download a lot of minute data (100+ days) per symbol

New Features

- new indicator Depth Bid Ask Size
- Replace Chain window has its Symbol field widen to accommodate longer symbols
- Group open / save dialogs support additional detail description
- IQFeed data server rewritten to improve real-time performance

Bug Fixes

- using time frame definition with one locale while the holiday list is based on a different locale can affect compress series methods in indicators, ocassionally leading to hang
- in Indicator List Manager, choosing the popup menu item “Manage …” leads to crash
- Time Chart>Copy to New Window - the new window will not have the description/name of the instrument showing in the legend, until after a reload of the chart
- Time Chart - switching from daily bar to weekly bar for some non real-time data source will strip the description/name of the instrument
- Superposition Data sync stuck on a particular bar in real-time due to an introduced bug in the memory conservation algorithm added in build 17
- Superposition initial reload too CPU intensive leading to disconnect of data feed
- System Performance Viewer Equity Change Distribution by Duration not working properly with daytrading system
- eSignal real-time symbols disconnected cannot be automatically reconnected, introduced in build 23

We received multiple updates from various data vendors that the mini-size Dow future (i.e. YM) will no longer be available without exchange fees. To complicate things further, YM will move to the globex platform during Jan-Feb period, making it unclear which exchange (CME or CBOT) should a trader subscribe to in order to receive the necessary real-time data.

Please check with your data vendor to find out what you have to do to continue receiving real-time YM data without disruption.

New Feature

- support the latest version of FXCM Order2Go Interface
- multiple account support in trading systems
- transparent handling of limit orders and stop orders
- works with both mini and regular accounts
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