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@timtrader We seem to trade in the same style, I have noticed the same from Fidelity. Beat the spread many times, or get 1/2 penny, it adds up when you move a lot of shares. Fido treats their heavy traders well, TDA seems not to care.

Sometimes the check for beta versions option gets deselected. Happened to me a few times. Application/General in settings.

Fido won't work with windows 7, you need W10 which has newer encryption keys. If not that, Jerry can probably tell by looking at your log.

The only indication that I received that the transition date had changed was that the Nov 3 box was gone, no emails. TDA did stop sending me "upcoming transition" promo emails. Guess we all will have fingers crossed when we check the PC on 11/3.

Yes, secondaries are more difficult. All sorts of CDs of hysterias past. I've looked at secondaries but haven't found anything amazing compared to new issues. Well, I guess Fido, and other brokers are what they are and one might be better than another for a particular use. There's a good side to it, if it's difficult to search sec CDs then you might find something good that others missed. Just looked at Fido sec CDs, like 2500 to sort through, good luck with that! And yes, it amazes me that large companies with like millions of customers have UIs that look so clunky. OTOH I've seen flashy cutting edge sites that are a frustrating mess to navigate. So I just want to get something done fast and don't really care about esthetics. So we have the power tag team of Medved and Medved so we don't have to deal with any stinky broker apps.

IDK @Fido. Just click products, CDs, and then search CDs. You get a rate summary by term. Just click on whatever product you want.

Didn't have the joy of seeing the blue box proclaiming a March 2024 date, but as for you, the blue box is gone, so I guess we're good for awhile.

I was told for my accounts that the change to March would happen this Thursday evening and be viewable Friday morning. We shall see.....

ydfah, I live in NYC near the exchange servers. If I don't wear an aluminum foil hat when I trade the prices jump up just thinking about buying something. At least you have a chance of getting filled if you can load up the trade ticket quickly. Harnessing the power of MT Hotkeys might be a solution for you.

I have the opposite problem. My alert pop up window times out and closes but the highlighted line in the portfolio continues to display the color until I bring the focus to the portfolio window. I don't think it happens all the time, but not sure since my focus is mostly on the portfolio window.

Have you found a significant different in the 20 bar EMA current bar value when looking back just 20 bars or as Mike said, going back many days? In my code I have found the difference to be small so I try to limit the data points to achieve a faster paintbar, especially for symbols such as SPY.

Am I simplistic in thinking that the 20 period/bar EMA refers to the last 20 bars with the most recent bars having a higher weighting?

Suppose you wanted to compare an algorithm's performance to the theoretical performance of "what if you knew what the next bar would be", not such a funny April Fools joke is it? You could probably synthesize that by making a decision on the previous bar by looking at the current bar. Ok, to be fair, I asked another trading platform company the same question, but they didn't give me a HAHA like Jerry did for you.

Hi, I use the alert log on charts to review the day's alerts and see how my paintbar code was doing. Curious, what do you use it for?

I get what you're saying. Everyone has a different type of operation. I use a trackball with acceleration to zip from screen to screen with a thumb flick. Moving slow gives the precision to hit a target. MT creators are very responsive to user requests. Min All Hotkey seems logical to me.