stock777

Yes, no , maybe ?

Would still like any filter applied to be saved with individual alert windows. Have to remember to redo it on every reboot

yes, I'm aware of that and use it at the size Im using to fit a reasonable number of charts in a fixed space, the relative size of LAST and % change is on the small side % in particular is smallest, looks like that could be tweaked higher without losing any screen space for the chart

The price and percent change font is on the small side, and hard to read , if you're fitting a lot of charts in a port. Would be good if it could be about 50% bigger, or adjustable by user. Is actually smaller than this screenshot on my screen .

Glad I checked in here. TDA futures backfill still not working as of tonight, and I forgot YAHOO was useable for that

ok, thx

Stocks seem ok.

They, would be the datafeed . In this case Ameritrade

No idea why their SPCE number is wrong, unless they are using some very long denominator.

Is this a calculated figure or coming from the broker feed ? seeing a bad # for SPCE at only 2.9 million, its way more than that

Ok, so MT does not work at the moment with IB LITE. Too bad. Surprised it took me this long to realize TWS was being supported with LITE . Pretty sure they didn't offer it at the start, but see posts from late DEC that talk about the access

I just realized that you can use TWS as a LITE customer. Pretty sure that was not the case on launch They appear to block API access.... does this mean MT wont work with IB if you are under the LITE plan ?

Noticed this for a while. Have an alert set to fire at 4pm, playing a wave file. Often it does not fire . There is no audio, and nothing in the Alert log. Not sure if you have it printing to the alert log , but is the audio poss being interrupted by other audio alerts ?

ok

Haven't been using MT to trade via Ameritrade much, but ran into a problem today Shorted a stock with an OTA Buy attached . The short executed, but Ameritrade rejected the buy as 'account not allowed to BOX ' thinking I was selling and buying at the same time . Additionally , I could not clear MT of the buy order , it just remained on the screen no matter what . Something going on with the buy to cover logic ???

Could we have the 'filters' saved between sessions. Anyone using more than 1 Alert log would be using a filter to limit the alerts .

lol, using ini generically. we know you're more advanced than that! will try that method, hopefully it will overwrite the stale entries

New pc, and a new path name for user (document directory) Looks like the template location dropdown is hard coded to the old path Any way to update this? , I think all your ini files are encrypted

very good, since you already have a description filter, you can customize any alert to include a keyword , that can be used to isolate alerts to a given window

Thanks!

I might be the only one to want this, (maybe not) , but I use the alert system for some audio feedback on futures. Works ok , but it tends to fill up the alert log since they fire so often . Would be nice to have a checkbox "Don't Show in Alert Log"

Attempt a short at a price well away from the market for a a few shares , see if it goes through I'm finding Ameritrade has a very poor availability on anything but the most liquid stocks .

ah. thx

I never underestimate the amount of work involved, having programmed myself for 40 years. Was thinking about the the News Alert specifically, where the alert fires based on a simple TRUE/FALSE condition. currently , its a string match Adding a RegEx engine , optionally in place of the simple string search, which would also return a true/false , seems fairly straightforward.

How hard would it be to add a more sophisticated scan criteria to the Headline scanner. Pretty sure there are open source RegEx modules that can be plugged in without too much effort , would be helpful.