Jason

Jerry, have you had a chance to take a look at this? Hopefully I didn't make some boneheaded mistake in the options somewhere that caused this.

Thanks!

Done.

Yes, the "Play Sound" checkbox is checked with "Tone" selected. When I click the play button I can hear it. Also, when I select "Manage Scans/Chart Paintbars" and go the edit paintbar screen I have the "Alert" checkbox selected.

I don't use Windows Media Player but there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it when I open it. When I right-click on the chart and select 'Add/edit Indicators' I move the paintbar I created from the list of indicators on the left to the right side pane to add it to the chart. I then double click on the paintbar indicator on the right side pane and select 'View/Edit' for each rule. Alert (popups) is selected along with 'Play sound' on the Notifications tab. When I open the chart the paintbar marks where the triggers have taken place but I can confirm that when the current bar triggers the alert on a live chart it does nothing. If it matters, I'm using Windows 10 and WMP is not set up as a default player in my system. I will send the report shortly.

I've been experimenting with paintbars and have created a simple one that plays a sound and alerts with a message when triggered. The paintbar itself seems to be displaying the changes on the chart that I've specified (such as colored bands at the top of the chart) so I know that the rules are being triggered properly but I never hear the sound played or see a popup notification. I've also tested with a regular alert line drawn on the chart. The alert sends a popup message when triggered but it too does not play a sound. I've searched around in the forums but haven't found any topics regarding similar issues.

That would truly be awesome as it would mean I wouldn't have to learn hardcore programming and create my own application from the bottom up to take advantage of my broker's API. I look forward to the possibility. Thanks for considering it.

It is possible to create code that triggers an alert if the the price of a stock moves above/below and indicator. But is it possible to issue orders to buy and sell based on such movement? I've tried searching around for this but haven't located any information on it.

I would also be interested in greater color options for Level II's.

Jerry, I know you responded to this already with a negative but I wanted to post this in the proper forum for feature requests since it would be much harder to find buried in the support forum in case you're ever willing to reconsider. Ideally I would be able to select IBALGO Adaptive as the Default Route under Order Settings and there would a drop down menu selection box for either "Patient", "Normal", or "Urgent". Then in the order ticket window IBALGO would be selectable from the drop down list including SMART, et. al. For IB at least straight MKT orders can produce terrible fills. Often when I am trading I can be dealing with a considerable spread in a market where the price action isn't moving too quickly. The adaptive algorithm spends slightly more time trying to execute the order at a better price point within the spread whereas with the straight MKT order IB can send the order to execute right on the bid for a short or right on the ask for the long. Even if I make, say, $600 on the trade $50 or $100 lost in slippage is brutal. Thanks for your responsiveness with all the issues/questions I've had.

Yes. Ideally I would be able to select IBALGO Adaptive as the Default Route under Order Settings and there would a drop down menu selection box for either "Patient", "Normal", or "Urgent". Then in the order ticket window IBALGO would be selectable from the drop down list including SMART, et. al. For IB at least straight MKT orders can produce terrible fills. Often when I am trading I can be dealing with a considerable spread in a market where the price action isn't moving too quickly. The adaptive algorithm spends slightly more time trying to execute the order at a better price point within the spread whereas with the straight MKT order IB can send the order to execute right on the bid for a short or right on the ask for the long. Even if I make, say, $600 on the trade $50 or $100 lost in slippage is brutal. Would you at least consider adding this capability at some point?

When trading through IB's TWS I will sometimes use their IBALGO Adaptive instead of a simple MKT order. This can save a considerable amount of money in many cases by providing me with better fills. Is there any way to specify this through Medved Trader? I would think the only difference from a platform standpoint would be sending the order to IBALGO Adaptive instead of SMART or INET which I see as the only options in MT. But recent discussions have revealed my tendency to overestimate their API so... Also, what is INET anyway? I have not been able to find information on it. Thanks!

I was afraid of that. Are these restrictions endemic to the API itself? In other words, do you think IB would need to further develop their API in order to make it possible? Or are the restrictions of such a nature that IB simply isn't permitting the data to be accessed? I can try contacting them to see if they lift any restrictions if you think that might help. Short of that, can MT receive proper Level II data from any 3rd party data providers that you know work well with MT?

Okay, the other day I was using TWS and looking at some charts and started noticing that some of them looked very incomplete in the candlestick representation (I had a chance to see the same charts in someone else's platform live). This was in TWS and I've never had problems like this before. Even though I already had access to NASDAQ Total View, I added some data subscriptions and just like that the MM IDs started showing up in MT and the charts in TWS started looking complete. I'm now paying $70 for these data subscriptions. I now have NYSE OpenBook, BATS Depth, NASDAQ Total View, NYSE ArcaBook and AMEX and in MT there are only a couple of MMs that show. It's almost always NSDQ and occasionally UBSS. Both subscribed to TotalView and OpenBook are selected in MT settings. Is there any way to access the MM data at this point in MT?

Okay, after a long time I have had an opportunity finally to revisit this during live trading hours and I'm going to have to say that the issues with the information not matching between TWS and MT are no longer present. I don't understand why there were so many discrepancies before. FNKO is as far as I can tell a regular NASDAQ traded stock and I haven't had any issues receiving data or complete information from FNKO or any other NASDAQ stock through TWS as far as I can tell. But in any case I can't repeat the issues and can't investigate any further. I am still having the issues mentioned in my first post regarding Level II data. As far as I can tell I have everything set up correctly in settings to source Level II feeds from IB but regardless of the symbol I'm looking at the market maker names, sizes and prices do not appear in any MT Level II window that I open. When I click on the "Main" tab in the Level II window it shows a green light next to STOP indicating that MT is receiving data and the information for the symbol.. the Last, Chng, Time, Vol., High and Low fields update properly in live trading hours but that's all that is displayed. Thanks for help.

Oh I see. It never would have occurred to me that the full data would be coming through to my TWS on a delayed basis but that same data wouldn't be passed through MT. I'll check it out.

Yes, but if your chart from TWS matches my chart from TWS that would indicate that through IB you and I both have the same data feed and subscriptions. I would think that whatever data I have subscribed to through IB would be the same data accessed by my MT via the API. So why would your subscription data from IB be showing up in your MT but mine isn't showing up in my MT? Unless there is something more that I need to do in MT to show this data... Okay I just checked in my account settings under "Configure Accounts" and found that the options for "Subscribed to TotalView" and "Subscribed to NYSE Open Book" were both unchecked as defaults when I set up MT with my IB account. However, after selecting them and clearing all the data I had for FNKO and re-backfilling, the chart still looks broken up in MT for me.

Here is the image of the chart from MT of FNKO from today's activity: Here is the chart from TWS: I will be sending the settings and logs momentarily. Significant differences in the volume data seem to be apparent just from the chart as well.

Then there must be some kind of problem here then. The data that I'm seeing in TWS is very different from the data in MT for the same minute. From what you are saying I guess the volume from each transaction may differ but the total volume for each minute and OHLC values should be the same. I have IB set up as the source for everything, I don't have any other feed or data providers. I'll look for another example again after I get home later today.

Wow, thank you!

Okay, I tried turning off spike filter and it seemed to improve things quite a bit. The moves on that particular chart were so small it never occurred to me that they might be considered spikes by MT so I didn't think to check for that. However, I'm still having a problem. And I noticed a bit of this on the MARA chart but wasn't sure of what I was seeing and didn't have enough time to investigate. I'm seeing the same thing now with another chart for symbol FNKO. There appear to be large differences in the data which shows on the chart for that symbol in IB's TWS. For example, on a one minute chart if I look at 15:59 in TWS it shows an OHLC candle of 8.46 / 8.47 / 8.40 / 8.40 with 10 transactions in the T&S and a volume of 2378. In MT that same minute shows an OHLC of 8.45 / 8.47 / 8.42 / 8.47 in 4 transactions with a volume of 1000 shares. And the first transaction within that minute in TWS is at 15:59:02 while in MT it's showing up at 15:59:07. These differences are large enough to change how the chart looks and even the reported record close for the day for that stock by, in this case, almost $0.10. That could affect trendlines, alerts, etc. Even in cases where I can see the volume matches for the minute being examined between TWS and MT there is still a delay or offset between the transaction times in MT and IB. I'm having a hard time understanding why there would be so many differences with the same data sources.

Hello again, I am having trouble getting MT to show a chart for the stock MARA. I have IB set up as my data source for all types of data. When I type the symbol into the chart MT shows "There is no data to chart." However in IB's TWS I can see the data for MARA just fine in a chart. Backfilling the chart also doesn't doesn't do anything. I can see the highlighted indicator at the top of the chart showing that it is backfilling the data but this again results in "There is no data to chart." I have also tried clearing and then backfilling to no avail. What's more, time and sales raw data is populating properly for live trades and I can pull chart data for other stock symbols just fine. I have also noticed that even though I have IB set up as the data source for Level II data no data is being displayed no matter which symbol I enter. I have also ensured that the Level II window is properly linked to my chart and tried entering symbols directly into the Level II window. I don't know if this is due to the fact that I'm looking at these symbols after normal trading hours. But I wouldn't think that would cause an issue as Level II data is displaying fine in TWS for symbols in after hours trading session. Another minor issue... let me know if I should create a separate topic for this.. but I've noticed that in my trade ticket no buttons are shown for "Short" or "Cover" even though I have the ability in TWS. If it helps to know, when I check the Order Settings under "Trading / Accounts" BUY and SELL are the only ones available. SHORT and COVER do not appear. Thanks for your help!

Fantastic! Thanks. I remember seeing that option after first installing but it didn't register with me when I wanted to implement it.

Is there anyway to do this? I have multiple charts set up for the same symbol displaying 5min, 15min intervals, etc. and often want to create a trendline possibly with an alert and would like it to show on all charts with that symbol. Thanks for your prompt responses!

Okay I will have to check into that. Is there any kind of colored tick indicator at all in the time and sales window that I could implement providing a colored or shaded indication of a higher or lower than last fill price? Every system I've used before had some way of indicating this.