NeoTicker Blog

New Features

Various Function Windows
– New Significant Figures decimal display style, available across all function windows
– Report window new commands to print/save/copy to clipboard with formatting
– Level 2 / Depth window chart panel using user defined price format
– Time and Sales window added option to choose between coloring the background or the font

Time Chart / Drawing Tools
– Completely rewritten Chart Manager to improve efficiencies. No more slowness in working with charts having more than 100 data series / indicators / drawing objects
– Horizontal Line drawing object new options to control extend style and direct input the exact horizontal value
– Improved display efficiencies in chart drawing object labels and chart legends
– Superposition information added to chart legend
– Superposition real-time update and tick replay auto memory usage reduction
– Global crosshair performance improvement

Indicator / IDL / Script
– IDL added HorizontalLineExtendStyle property to support the new horizontal line extend style option
– Report window new IDL object methods for formatted reporting
– Trade object added new methods to directly resolve brokerage positions and orders discrepencies from live trading systems
– Internal indicator avgrange optimized for performance
– Indicator Countdown Time updated

NeoBreadth / User Define Symbol
– History Generator added new command to generate breadth data based on tempoary selection of NeoBreadth definitions
– History Generator Tick Replay option ready – Tick Precise data regeneration is now much easier
– History Generator Auto Generate Minute data based on tick data (N-second interval) ready
– User Define Symbol introducing the Fast Cash computation tool

Order Interface
– Order Interface upgraded to fully support multiple accounts
– All Order Placement Forms are upgraded to handle multiple accounts
– Trading systems that route orders to live brokerage can now specify which account to route the orders to.

General
– Time Zone caption indicator now available in Windows Classic Mode, compatible with both Windows XP and Vista
– Symbol List Manager new command, Create Dif Symbol List
– RAM Cache tick data processing core rewritten to improve efficiencies, directly reduce CPU load on usage of quote formulas
– Trade Simulator added new advance option, Delayed Fill, for orders placed through either a trading system or from the Order Interface
– Symbol Log Tool added options to enter entries with user specified date/time.
– Script Editor added ability to bookmark lines
– Printing engine updated to print much better across quote window, dynamic table, time and sales window, and system performance reports
– System performance viewer added ability to print a selected set of reports, making it easier to produce PDF file or printed presentation.
– 2nd generation of Superposition plug-in API ready. Examples updated.
– Much faster program exit

RealTick
– RealTick Forex Data does not have proper second resolution in real-time, our data server now provide the necessary second resolution based on RealTick timer information

eSignal
– option prices now supported in RTD and DDE
– news article are now directly displayed within News window
– threaded processing across eSignal data types to improve real-time performance

IQFeed
– possible illegal characters in historical data and streaming data are filtered before processing, improving overall data quality

All ActiveX Data Feeds
– improved historical tick data processing

Bug Fixes

Time Chart
– currently selected drawing object is dropped and switch to another one when both objects are clickable in the same position but the latter one is detected first due to its position in the drawing object list
– all drawing tools with snapping property enabled (through predefined templates) when draw on chart with data that has no data point cause immediate crash
– Support / Resistance drawing objects do not properly recognize its extend to diamond side property
– Chart Manager, while adding/replacing multiple symbols using symbol list, the user manually add or delete a data series can lead to crash.

Report Window
– Page Up / Down keys not functional in report window
– Report Window maximum number of lines is 100,000. The UI message is incorrect.

Level 2 / Depth Window
– when opened in a style that has the bid/ask depth hidden, and then enable the depth panel display manually or indirectly through selecting one of the quick setups, can lead to occassional crash of NeoTicker, or, subsequently causing the window failed to update in real-time.
– does not stop updating itself when data feed is disconnected

NeoBreadth / User Define Symbol
– History Generator Real-Time Friendly option does not work all the time with N-second interval
– History Generator after using Batch Gen once, the regular Gen Hist button still thinks it is in Batch Mode
– NeoBreadth Manager and User Define Symbol Manager do not keep the enable status of a definition when the user is saving the changes in offline mode, or while the manager is disabled.

Order Interface
– Order Interface option Delayed Cancel Checking slows down recalculation speed on trading systems
– Account Manager, with Auto Complete Symbol Entry option enabled, right click on quick symbol entry and then drag the symbol outside of the quick entry panel leads to crash

Indicator / IDL / Script
– In DelphiScript and VBScript, TransactionById method not functional
– When a formulas indicator failed to match up nested indicator bars with a shorten non-primary link data series, can halt the indicator calculation at that point, leaving the indicator evaluated to 0 for all plots at that particular bar.

General
– User Preference>Sound Playing Options setting not loaded correctly
– Cache Data Editor, the option for auto conversion of tick data into minute bar is 1 second off for the ticks that land on the minute boundaries
– Indicator Quick Reference print form cancel button not functional
– Server Reconnection Option form does not reset to the server setup chosen reconnect style

Special Notes

– New versions of various order servers will be released shortly to take advantage of the improved order interface
– New version of the SDK will be released shortly to include documentation of the new order interface API