NeoTicker Blog

This is a moving average crossover portfolio system written in VB.NET.

This system buy when fast moving average cross over slow moving average and stop and reverse when fast moving average cross below slow moving average for all data series on chart.
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Bug Fixes

– custom stat fields with blank spaces in the field name can destablize GO

Important Issues

– extended to hard expire by end of November

New Features

– new indicator object methods for ChartDrawingObjects and DrawingObjects

read write property IntTagValues [Id, Index] : integer
- can store upto 20 integer items to be associated with the drawing object
read write property SaveTags [Id] : boolean
- telling NeoTicker to save the TagValues and IntTagValues with the chart

– eSignal ICE exchange new future symbol format supported

Bug Fixes

– Alert Editor having formulas that cannot be verified can cause a crash when the Apply button is pressed
– Time Chart Pane Editor the Apply All button can crash NeoTicker when toggling log scale
– In Time Chart, can double click on drawing objects not visible nor associated with a symbol on the chart
– Text file read problem with monthly bars
– During Morning Restart, or on some ocassion with disconnect/reconnect on slow data feeds, RAM Cache will stop loading
– On Complete Reload during manual Server Reconnect, can erase the protected symbols from NeoBreadth and User Define Symbols

Many beginner traders have seen trendlines, but not many of them know how to draw trendlines properly. On the other hand, there are even less number of traders know what trend channel is.

I am no expert in trendline or trend channel usages – most of my knowledge about these tools came from my mentors and real life experience. I am going to talk about some basic concepts in using trendlines and trend channels that can help beginners to better understand these two useful technical tools.

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New Feature

Works with TWS 862.9

In the article An Introduction to Time Distribution Analysis, I introduced an indicator that can be used to generate reports based on user defined criteria. This indicator is a very good example that illustrate the concepts behind the NeoTicker indicator object model, which is the foundation for writing indicators and trading systems using regular programming languages (Delphi, VB, VC++, VC#, VB.NET, etc.) or one of the supported scripting languages (Delphi Script, VBScript).

(Lawrence – this article requires some basic knowledge in programming with one of the programming languages mentioned above)

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Important Notice

Do not install TWS 862.
It is not compatible with the current IB Order Server 5.2.
A new release is needed to work with this new version of TWS.