NeoTicker Blog

New Features

– Added option for Point and Figure chart to indicate that minimum tick size is in use as the box size
– Added new super position style Kagi Percent

Bug Fixes

– Super Position style Renko revised to better handle the special situation that box size equals to minimum tick size of the underlying data series
– Trend Lines, Trend Channels, Andrew Pitchforks do not maintain their precisions in some situations
– reduced hold up time when user selects an indicator that has many drawing objects
– Account Manager cannot place the Go Flat / SAR orders routing to a brokerage if there is an open order of exactly the same nature, but routed to trade simulator, that is placed through an order entry form
– eSignal changed its exchange code for CME and CBOT, affecting NeoTicker’s ability to activate symbols for depth data from these exchanges

New Features

– improved RAM Cache data saving performance
– Orders routed to Trade Simulator while the brokerage connection is not are now identified in all order listings in Account Manager
– Itself.CurrentDateTime property is added to return the current date time in the hosting function window locale
– CurrentDateTime function is added to indicator formula language doing the same as the IDL Itself.CurrentDateTime
– eSignal news/depth/historical data connections are now individually managed and will not affect the main real-time streaming connection
– QuoteSpeed depth data from CME supported, limited support for Level 2 data from NASDAQ
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We have been talking about the spectacular performance of various stock market indices during May in our office. I then suggested that as far as my memory goes, the month of May in general goes sideway and what we just witnessed is something very unusual. Since it is hard to just talk about history without an actual picture of what I meant, I have produced a chart that highlights the month of May every year to illustrate my point.
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IQFeed sent us a correction notice stating that the new server upgrade schedule is June 16th.

The original email notice we received a week ago with the date of July 16 is incorrect.

New Features

– Andrew Pitchfork added new options to connect point A/B and A/C, extend multiples towards point A, and alternative Schiff style drawing
– New IDL drawingobject properties for setting the new Andrew Pitchfork options
– New drawing object methods to set the line widths for various kind of multiples
– Pattern scanner can use non default cache directory
– DTN IQFeed added new error log and ability to filter bad time stamps
– Include updated Interop.NeoTicker.DLL in indicator directory
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Correction – IQFeed emailed us a new message on June 5th stating that the correct server side upgrade date is June 16th.

We have received notice from IQFeed that their server side upgrade is now scheduled for the weekend of July 16th, 2007.

Please upgrade to the latest version of the IQFeed client software before that date to avoid incompatibility issues.