NeoTicker Blog

Based on the market actions on September 18, 2007 during the Fed meeting announcement period, which has huge amount of market activities, I am pleased to say that the new Tick Buffer Size option introduced lately works as expected.

Here is a guideline to using this new option for optimal performance,

1. If you track only a few symbols, the default setting at 20,000 works fine even in fast market environment.

2. If you track a hundred or so symbols, raise the setting to 200,000 will do.

3. If you track a thousand symbols (like me), raise the setting to 1,000,000.

From our testing, this keeps NeoTicker working with lowest possible CPU load during those hectic moments.

In normal market condition, the tick buffer is empty almost all the time. Thus, changing the setting from default to a higher value is just for the occasional situations where the market has 10 times its normal activities.

Due to the weakness in US dollar, we have to adjust pricing on our products.

All new prices will become effective as of November 1, 2007.

For existing clients on lease term, their fees will stay the same as long as they keep their subscriptions active.
New subscribers who sign up before Nov 1 can keep their fees at the same price level just like all existing clients.
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During the summer we have been very busy working on new and exciting features for NeoTicker.
Here is a preview of what is coming up in the pipeline.
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All lease version releases of NeoTicker prior to 4.20 Build 14 will hard expire by end of September.
Please download and install the latest release as soon as possible.

Here is an example showing the proper setting for importing trade records from XTrader.
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New Features

– Introducing the next generation of TICK16, TickN and TickM. User definable settings available in User Preference>Real-Time
– Quote window Bar Graph style can now plot vertically
– Dynamic Grids added Bar Graph style capability matching that in the Quote window
– Superposition plug-in examples including source code included in Samples folder
– Much faster exit on NeoTicker installations with many cache symbols and that the user has used the Cache Manager to manage the disk cache during the session

Bug Fixes

– Editing the same indicator across multiple charts repeatedly, where the same indicator is located in different listing positions among the charts can occasionally cause a crash
– Quote window DayLine style not plotting correctly if 24 hours a day is used in the trading hours setting
– RealTick FXG exchange data are delivered in NY Time as oppose to GMT
– IQFeed forex data changed its broadcast method from individual bid/ask updates to combined trade/bid/ask update

Special Note

All lease version users MUST upgrade to this release as all current lease versions of NeoTicker will stop working by end of September.

The Trade Simulator has the ability to import trade records from various sources. One way in utilizing this tool is to import your own trading records from your brokerage into Trade Simulator. That way you can use the System Performance Viewer to review and analyze your trading performance.
(Lawrence – NeoTicker 4.20 Build 13 or higher is required)
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