Jerry Medved

NOTE: you can add separators to portfolios (add symbol starting with 3 dashes where you want the separator to be. In regular grid mode, that defines sections and they can be collapsed separately. In TILE mode, it also groups though can't collapse.

If you resize the window to be so narrow that the only thing on the caption is the system menu, and the minimize, restore, Close buttons, then yes, you can't click/drag. However, that is a general Windows issue, not MT specific thing You can use System Menu, Move (or ALT+SPACE, M). the thing to remember with that is that after you select MOVE, you must use the keyboard arrows first. Once you do, you can use the mouse to move it, but not till then. (again - a windows thing) Tile View - it shows the tiles in whatever default unsorted order. You can drag the tiles around to manually change their order. I have it on the todo list to add sorting at some point, but not soon. NOTE: Next build will have an option in the portfolio editor to sort the symbols).

timely. Too bad that they only mention THEIR most Advanced platform, not THE most advanced platform that can be used with the TDA accounts - Medved Trader

Matrix chart view - I think you are referring to the Tile View, where you select the tile that has charts on it. On the Portfolio Window, click on the VIEW tab on the ribbon, and change the Display type to be the Tile view that you like. Refer to this post for more:

cannot use the arrows because stuff on the ribbon does not keep focus. Right now there is no other way to do it. Maybe in the future if we do custom menus/shortcuts

I just started work on that. It is the next big project to be released after paint bars

You have until September 15th so don't go too slow

Yes, though there is a workaround for Vol %. That column needs AVG VOL, which is not returned by many datafeeds. However, if you open a historical chart, which triggers Hist Backfill, MT computes the AVG VOL. If you need it for the whole portfolio, you can just hit the HIST BACKFILL button on the portfolio window once a week or so.

MT does that already

They cover the cost of the subscription for their users. So it is not that we are giving it for free to you. They are. So, every TK client that gets it free is obviously beneficial to us, but then so is any regular paid client as well. However, note that we give the same high level of support to everyone, regardless of how they signed up, or if they are paid or free. Best advertising is word of mouth and nothing says more about you than the quality of your support.

1) Yes, it does. When you select PORT.XML to import, MT should show you the portfolios in that file for you to select. If it does not, then that file must be corrupted. If you want, email to us and we can check why it is not working. Do the log export too 2) no

first stuff is correct. As for the last item - if you choose to go with the original platform, you CAN use it to place trades in MT as well. MT supports both. It is just different than the MB Trading system. Once they do integrate, then we will no longer have 2 different options in MT. We will merge them here as well.

Xin, TradeKing bought MB Trading so all MB Trading clients are now TradeKing clients. Right now the MB Trading system and the TradeKing original system are still separate with the accounts being separate. They will be merged in the future at which time we will combine stuff in MT as well. The requirement to connect via trading for MB is a technical one because of how stuff works internally in MT. Basically, bringing up anything related to trading would be sufficient for the "Trading Login" in MT - Balances for example. MT will at that point do the eligibility check. There is no requirement to actually trade via MT, though you will definitely want to do that. With the MB Trading accounts you do not trade on the web site. The default mode is to use their software (MBT Desktop Pro), so it would be either using that or MT. Trust me - you want to use MT

In MT when you right click on the selected symbols, the Clipboard options including COPY are at the end of the menu, after the alert stuff. You can either COPY, then PASTE, or you can drag / Drop - regular drag drop is MOVE. hold down CTRL while dragging and it becomes COPY. CSV list of symbols can be pasted into QT. Why are you bothering moving stuff back to QT?

1) in MT select FILE / Import... in the Open File Dialog box, change the file type to "Old QT Portfolios" on the bottom right, then navigate to directory where the port.xml is and select it 2) You really are not supposed to open the backup files. Why? Talk about doing things the hard way... If you need the symbols, just create a WatchList, and copy the symbols to it from the portfolio (COPY, not MOVE), then you have the nice, comma separated list of symbols right there. If you really want to mess with that, do a manual export (not auto backup) but make sure to select the security option "to share with others" so it will not be encrypted. Then open the file with WinZip

the symbols are @GCU16 and @CLU16 but your datafeed also has to support them. Not all do (TD Ameritrade does not - TOS uses a different datafeed)

when you export the log, the location of the export is shown right in the center of the export screen. Usually in MyDocuments / Medved Trader

let me explain how it works. There are two components. 1) the Option Chain - list of option symbols for a given root symbol. 2) Option quotes The chain and quotes do not have to come from the same source. In fact, some sources support just one or the other but not both. When MT retrieves the CHAIN, it caches it for a day. So if you bring up the chain on the same symbol again, it should not have to retrieve the chain again and just gets the quotes, making it much faster. I am thinking that maybe, for some reason, the option symbols in the chain retrieved the first time were bad, so the quotes could not be retrieved. after reboot, you got the chain again and it worked The other thing that could have happened is if the datafeed for quotes was somehow messed up and the restart fixed it. best to send us the log file and we can look at it and see if we can do anything about that. 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. NOTE: if emailing that, please give details = what the problem is, what exact symbols you were dealing with and approximately what time that happened so we know where to look in the log

when you say options did not work, are you referring to individual option symbols in the portfolio? Option chains?

Mark, I moved this question to separate thread. if you are referring to the columns on the quote grid, just drag the column headers where you want. Works same way as in Outlook, File Explorer and others.

TD Ameritrade changed the QuoteTracker shutdown date to September 15. Just FYI.

SETTINGS / CHARTS / DISPLAY - in the center in the Dimensions/Sizes section, change the first one "Scrollbar Height" to 3

y, that is what they are charging for it. We can implement it I am sure, if there is demand

are you willing to pay $247/month minimum for them?

you are talking about two completely separate settings. PINing the shortcut to the taskbar is just a glorified shortcut. Some people do not want the taskbar icons there when minimizing the entire program. Thus the option to minimize to tray. There are actually a number of programs that do that. As for the default, ok i can change that.