Jerry Medved

if you defined two separate alerts, they are completely separate. They do not know about each other

ok, then why would you expect anything other than getting 2 alerts in that situation?

do you have 2 alerts, one for each portfolio?

I checked and it worked OK. Did you try hitting the "Reload Chain" button on the option chain window's ribbon? What does it say on the status bar when you do that?

on SETTINGS / APPLICATION / GENERAL - you can change Portfolio Basis to BID, LAST, or LONG/SHORT which will alternate between bid/ask for long/short positions

I fixed that though it will be lost if you switch datafeeds. Will email you

y, but the email server may be used by others who have

seems you were blocked for sending spam. That is what the SORBS stuff is. I got your 2nd email.

MT doesn't care if it is default or configured. It only checks when the login actually occurs. If you view the account info for example for the TK account, that will force the login. if the balance is $500 or higher, that should do it.

IB - don't know. If you can recreate, do so then send the log: go to FILE / Export/Backup menu (from Dashboard or Portfolio) Select “To share with others” export file protection option on top right Leave the checkboxes already checked, and also check LOG FILE. Export, then email me the exported file please. TK - you don't have to trade, but there is a minimum balance requirement as well as just a periodic check that you are using TK in MT. When MT checks, it updates the MT account accordingly to be enabled for a while. So if the account is used in MT (quotes, etc) at least every few weeks, you will not have an issue. for TK MBT accounts, the login has to be via the Trading portion (so account view at the minimum, not just quotes)

ah, ok the backfill all with IB is a different issue. IB has throttling so you re restricted to like 60 requests per 10 min. MT slows down the requests to try to avoid that but if you are doing Backfill all on a large portfolio, you will end up blowing through the limit and then the rest of the backfills will fail. As for free service notice and TradeKing - it is not like your account gets flagged once and that is it. MT assumes you will actually be using TK. If TK is not used in MT for a while, your MT account subscription will expire.

with that much data, it may take much longer than normal to merge the incoming BF data with the data that is already there, especially for high volume symbols that would have millions of rows. A quick test would be to open a chart for a dummy symbol - lets say TEST. Then do a "Backfill As..." and specify @ESZ16 as the symbol. That way MT does the @ESZ16 backfill but puts it into TEST chart. Is that fast or also slow?

how much data do you have for the symbols in question?

y, seems to happen if you do Minimize All. Will look

select FILE / HELP / ABOUT menu. Version also shows on the window that shows while MT is starting up The change was done after the production version so if you are not running the beta, you will not yet see the changes to high/low

yes, that will be it. I will email you in a bit.

OK I see. the thing is, it would be a solution to a problem that does not exist. it would be much harder to see if MT is frozen simply because if something does freeze, it would usually be one window at most. I added a CloseApp command, but don't think it ill be of significant use.

the HTTP API currently available is just for backward compatibility. We will be doing a clean API later. As for closing MT, why do you need to task kill?

What MT version?

The daytrading count is something returned by TD Ameritrade if you are not a day trader already. It is not something that the program tracks itself. I don't think TD Ameritrade returns margin days as you described.

send the log - it may still show what was wrong As for email - Did not get anything from you

I got the option chain on MU with TDA - no problem. 1) click on RELOAD CHAIN on the option chain window's ribbon. 2) Make sure you did not select some restrictive filtering on top. 3) If still no go, then then send me the settings+log: go to FILE / Export/Backup menu (from Dashboard or Portfolio) Select “To share with others” export file protection option on top right Leave the checkboxes already checked, and also check LOG FILE. Export, then email me the exported file please.

sorry about that. Fixed.

ydfah, the tile view port and future index panel will have most of the stuff of the scrolling ticker tape. We may do the scrolling stuff too in the future, but right now there are way too many things to do ahead of it (Like that index panel)

Joe, sign up for the MB Trading. Instructions that include how to get stocks/options account on the MB Trading system can be found at: https://www.medvedtrader.com/www/frontend/blog/TradeKingSignUp As for futures, I am pretty sure that they do provide them for free. Please verify with MB Reps.