NeoTicker Blog

We will be upgrading our company main site server on Dec 23, 2010 to better serve our customers.

We are sorry for any inconvenience during the move.

I’ve been asked quite a number of times if Microsoft’s latest .Net Framework version 4 will be supported by NeoTicker’s IDL indicator/system development environment.

The quick answer is yes – it will be supported.

The longer answer is that it will be supported by next release.

An option will be provided in upcoming NeoTicker 4.30 to allow the user to choose to use .Net 4 specifically to run indicators written in .Net environment (e.g. VB.NET, VC#, etc.)

Indicators written in .Net 3 or .Net 2 environment are compatible and can be deployed to NeoTicker running with .Net 4.

After I last wrote about the upcoming NeoTicker version 4.3, one of our programmers who handle the overall user interface coding had accepted an offer to work for a client of our firm.

We are very happy for him as working for a hedge fund has always been what he wanted to do. The issue was that we were left with no one to complete the work he was responsible for. Adding to that, our top secret project on NeoTicker version 5 has so many UI changes it will be very difficult to keep it as a separate project when a team member is missing.

Software Versioning Model Change

After series of meetings and discussions with our programming team, we have decided to change our software versioning model from major version “jumping”, to a model that better reflect our vision of frequent updates with new features and bug fixes.

What I mean is that the upgrade policy on permanent licenses will change. The main differences are,

1. Someone purchased our product version X.Y will be entitled to free upgrade all the way up to  (X + 1).(Y – 1). For example, someone who purchased NeoTicker 4.3, will be entitled to free upgrade up to version 5.2.

2. Within 1 year of purchase or paid upgrade, the license is entitled to free upgrade on all upgrades released during the time period.

3. Those who purchased permanent licenses of NeoTicker and other products on or after June 1, 2010 will be included in this revised upgrade policy.

Boundaries among Major Releases are Now Blurred

The change in the versioning model enables us to add new features to our products without worrying about classification of features designated for major release and/or minor releases.

I now have the flexibility to merge the planned (and implemented) new features for NeoTicker 5 into our release schedule whenever I see fit.

Overall, it turns out to be a good change for everyone within our company and I am sure many of you are happy to see that new features will be added more quickly.

Back to Normal

Our coding schedule is back on track. Programmers are less stressful and more productive as we streamlined the feature planning and release schedule.

Will keep you all posted on our progress.

Entering its 10th anniversary, NeoTicker continues to revolutionize the trading world with its superior technologies and innovations.

To say thank you to our clients for their loyal support, we are offering our clients a one time special offer of 50% discount on selected products off their list prices.

You can find more information about the sale here.

We figured out something very odds with Windows 7 64-bit. It seems like someone from Microsoft has made a mistake with their coding in handling OCX controls (like the ones from MB Trading). That causes the instability issue with the latest MB Order Server.

We thought it was MB – our bad, it’s not their fault.

We are now focusing on a bypass to workaround this issue.

Last time we reported the Vista bug with Aero theme, it is not fixed at all. And the corrected code went into Windows 7 when it was released. It makes no sense to hope for MS to take care of issues like this …

We’ve completed our in-house run of the site and is now opening the site for public access today.

DaytradingBias.com

3rd installment on the changes in NeoTicker 4.30 that will improve the users ability to create more complex indicators much more easily.
Continue Reading…

For users who connect NeoTicker to IB TWS for order placement or data, do not upgrade to TWS build 907.7 release on August 2, 2010 until further notice, as current version of NeoTicker IB order server is not compatible with TWS latest build.

For users who have already upgraded, you can download and previous version of TWS from IB site.

I promised to provide some details on DaytradingBias.com. Here it is!

The concept came from the mass amount of emails I received throughout the years asking for help from retail traders, both beginners and struggling ones. It is no secret that learning to trade is not easy and that daytrading is well-known for its 90% failure rate within first year.

I have answered as many emails as I could and posted some pointer articles in the neoticker blog site. But it seems like the knowledge and information are lost in cyberspace as I keep receiving more questions on similar topics almost all the time.

DaytradingBias.com is my effort to organize the knowledge and information in a way that is easy to access for all.

General trading related materials, educational materials for trading, and commentaries on various markets will be posted in the DaytradingBias.com website, while NeoTicker specific materials will stay with NeoTicker blog. This will make DaytradingBias.com pretty platform neutral and encourage healthy discussions among traders no matter what tools they are using.

We have been working on our side project, daytradingbias.com, for quite sometime already. Most of the stuff we want to put into the site is now ready.

Will post more information about the site soon.