NeoTicker Blog

We’ve just released NeoTicker EOD 4.0.

If you are currently using an EOD 3, you
can download this version from customer area:
customer area

V4 will start in trial mode and require you to reactivate
the software. Reactivation will be either free or at a
fee, depending on your original purchase date.

Free Upgrade
To qualify for free upgrade, you must purchase EOD 3 on
or after June 1, 2004. In this case, simply email
support@tickquest.com, and we will send you a new key.

Paid Upgrade
If your purchase date is before June 1, 2004, we are
running an upgrade special at CAD$120. You can purchase
the upgrade at:
upgrade page

Thank you for using NeoTicker EOD.

Quote formulas has a very special ability in extending itself under different context. For example, if you are using quote formula within quote window, you are able to use the column names as if they are predefined functions.

We are going to cover the most common context functions in this tutorial.

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I have received so many requests for tutorials on writing indicators and trading systems since the publishing of the Formula 101 series, I am both encouraged and stressed. On one hand, I am very happy that many users benefited from the tutorials I have written. On the other hand, I know I am not a great teacher when it comes to explaining things.

Due to the overwhleming positive responses, I know writing a new set of tutorials for indicator creation is something that must be done. So, before I proceed to write anything in this area, I would like to ask anyone interested in the upcoming tutorials to email me what you think is more important so that I can shape the tutorials around the topics that are most difficult to tackle such that I can design a better and more organized set of tutorials for this purpose.

In the meantime, I will complete the rest of the tutorials for Formula 101 so that it can be used as a complete reference for writing quote formulas.

Thank you for all your support!

We have spent a lot of time on the syntax of the quote formula language. But we never spend any time to talk about the maintenance of the formulas we have written. Since we have covered enough ground on writing formulas, it is time to address this important concept.

To improve the readability of our formulas and help ourselves to maintain the formulas, comments are used to explain to ourselves the what and why our formulas are written in a particular way.

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We’ve released NeoTicker 4.1 beta 4.
Users can download this new release from our customer area.

We have not created a demo version for this release.

Lawrence Chan
TickQuest

We’ve got quite a number of support questions every day. One of the questions is very interesting,

“Does the variable name affect its computation speed / performance in real-time?”

Here is the answer,

The variable names used in quote formula, indicator formula, and scripts are pre-processed and they do not affect computation speed in anyway for any computers that you can buy today. So do not worry about that and feel free to write your indicators with more descriptive variable names.

If you have read any articles I have written (being posted here or published in the magazines), you will find that I do not save the effort of writing the indicators with very short and encrypted names. I always use longer and more descriptive names for the variables within the example indicators. More descriptive names promote better readability and better maintenance of the indicators.

So, for your next indicator or trading system project, feel free to write your indicators with longer variable names!

We’ve released a new version of NinjaTrader order server plug-in for NeoTicker 4.
This version works with the upcoming NinjaTrader 5 which is in beta now.

All the previous tutorials focus on a single statement formula at works. For some users, that limits what they wanted to do. In order to be able to utilize multiple formulas, say, within a single quote column, or, within one cell in the dynamic grid, the usage of assignment and multiple statements is necessary.

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NeoTicker’s indicator object model has the ability to manage profiles and produce statistics of the profiles easily. Here is an example on utilizing the object constructs for a foundational indicator, Profile Average.

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Many traders use band type indicators, like Bollinger bands, Donchian Channels, etc. to analysis the direction of the current price movements. It is a very common form of technical analysis. The issue is, when plotting such indicators, both lines are plotted all the time and for many power users, they would like to focus on the line reflecting the proper direction of the market at the time only. I am going to introduce an indicator that can be used to display any bands with the ability to show only the significant line.

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