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Warning

– If you are using a live account, do not install this new release until after OEC officially releases its new OEC Trader on the Live Server and Sim Server

New Features

– Support OEC API 3.5.x.x (OEC Trader 3.5) that will be released after Sep 2012
– Support parallel running with OEC Trader on the same computer
– Support dynamic symbol information loading with new OEC API

Important Notice

– Does not work with prior OEC API versions
– If you are installing both OEC Trader 3.5 and this new order server, remember to reboot computer and then launch OEC Trader 3.5 at least once to let it register its ActiveX / .Net components with Windows before you launch NeoTicker again
– First time you start NeoTicker with OEC connected, open the OEC Order Server window and check if the API is set to 3.5.x.x. If not, change the setting to 3.5.x.x and close the order server. The setting will then be automatically saved and NeoTicker will auto restart the order server for you afterwards.

New Features

– support MB Desktop 11.8.0.xx (no longer works with prior MB Navigator)
– support all 3 types (daily, minute, tick) of MB historical data
– improved sync in handling positions and orders changes
– updated server spec to 200 symbols max for streaming

Important

– you need MB Desktop installed and at least run it once before you can use this order server on the same computer
– you need to either turn off the ping option if you are upgrading from version 5.9 as mbtrading.com no longer a reliable ping reference site, or, you can specify a different website
– MB imposed a limit of 15 requests per minute for historical data, it can slow things down a bit (Update Jan 12, 2012 – We are notified by MB tech that the limit is higher, should be closer to 40 requests per minute. Hence we will try to work on an improved algo to optimize the handling of this limitation.)
– MB data is pretty good in quality, so if you need faster data loading, then learn to use the cache manager to reduce the amount of data download
– We have tested with 150+ symbols streaming in real-time with NeoBreadth data generation. I am impressed with its performance
– MB states that it has 10 years of daily, 1 year of minute, and 10-30 days of tick data. From testing, we found that most of the time MB has about 10 days of data for most of the symbols
– We have hold off the additional customizable MB visual windows until we have enough feedback on this release

New Features

– support MB Navigator version 11.6.0.x
– added special login form to replace the MB Navigator Login component
– added code to bypass other issues caused by Windows 7 64-bit

Special Notes

– does not work with MB Navigator version 11.5.x.x or any earlier release
– if upgrading both MB Navigator and order server at the same time, you have to launch the new MB Navigator at least once (after reboot) to register its new ActiveX components first. Then reboot once more if you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7. Otherwise you may experience odd behaviours.

Windows 7 64-bit

– if your computer support hardware DEP (Data Execution Prevention) in Windows 7 64-bit, certain incompatibilities are found with MB’s visual components
– workaround requires adding the MB Order Server to the DEP exception list if you encounter compatibility problems

How to add a program to the Windows DEP Exception List

– select the computer icon, right click, choose the property menu item
– the computer property screen will show up
– choose from the left side menu, Advanced System Settings
– In the Advanced System Properties window, there is a Advance tab. Under that, you can find the Performance options, click its Options button.
– In the Performance property window, you can find the DEP tab. Add MB Order Server to the exception list from here.

Resolved the issue with MFC files missing.

New Features

– supporting TWS standalone 908 (latest release as of today)

Known Issues

– new API settings within TWS console must be set properly for market data to be sent to connected applications
– TWS itself has SSL connection issues
– demo account free delay data is no long available to connected applications starting with this release of TWS, only forex data is still available

New Features

– Support OEC API 3.5.0.0 (OEC Trader 3.5)
– Support Forex order placement
– Support multiple account order placement.

Working with Multiple Accounts

– On order form right click to select account
– For automated trading, specify account name in trading system properties or directly supply the account name in order placement methods

Important Notice

– Does not work with prior OEC API versions
– If you are installing both OEC Trader 3.5 and this new order server, remember to reboot computer and then launch OEC Trader 3.5 at least once to let it register its ActiveX / .Net components with Windows before you launch NeoTicker again
– First time you start NeoTicker with OEC connected, open the OEC Order Server window and check if the API is set to 3.5.x.x. If not, change the setting to 3.5.x.x and close the order server. The setting will then be automatically saved and NeoTicker will auto restart the order server for you afterwards.

Notes

– Cannot work properly with remoting until certain technical issues are resolved at OEC’s end
– Stock order placement and data subscription not supported yet as OEC sim server do not support stock related order placement testing yet

New Features

– support MB Navigator version 11.6.0.x

Special Notes

– does not work with MB Navigator version 11.2.x.x or any earlier release
– if upgrading both MB Navigator and order server at the same time, you have to launch the new MB Navigator at least once (after reboot) to register its new ActiveX components first. Otherwise you may experience odd behaviours.

Windows 7 64-bit

– if your computer support hardware DEP (Data Execution Prevention) in Windows 7 64-bit, certain incompatibilities are found with MB’s visual components
– workaround requires several steps to be taken

i. on a computer not using Win7 64-bit, install the MB Order Server and start the server application
ii. type in the user id and password to the MB Order Server so that upon next restart of the order server, it can auto connect to MB
iii. copy the file NTOrderServerMB.ini from the MB Order Server folder into the Win7 installation location
iv. disable DEP on the Win7 computer using the command prompt (type cmd.exe at the Windows Start menu).
v. Within the Command window, type bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOff
vi. restart Windows 7
vii. Start NeoTicker and it should be able to start MB Order Server without login screen

New Features

– Support OEC API 3.4.0.0
– Real tick by tick streaming

Current OEC Server API Versions and Matching Order Server Version

– API server is using API 3.4.0.0, requires this release of order server
– Sim server as of tonight, Friday, July 31, 2009 will switch over to API 3.4.0.0, requires this release of order server
– Production server is using API 3.3.0.0, requires order server version 1.40

Important Notice

– Does not work with prior OEC API versions

New Features

Added support of OEC API 3.3.0.0

New Feature

– Operate as Data Server Only option added

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