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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.

Not much in the way of explanation anywhere

Can we add a control for the color of the quotes. The red is too dark to be comfortable, if you keep the screen dim.

This might be the bug of the year Have an up and down audio file playing on alert . The up alert is fine . Plays every time The down alert only plays every OTHER trigger. Tried this manually (press play) . Tried swapping the wave file with the up alert wave . Same issue Seems to not be a problem in actual usage, thats what I was investigating. (sound does trigger at each event) . Never mind, merry Xmas!

Ok, the workaround is moving one of the small columns to the far right, so desc can be sized. I see you do a mouseover over the news with the new Stock Details app, why not add that to the alert box ?

pleased to report that a 10+ years old program not updated for 3+ years , works better at virtual desktops than MSFT's up to date code. who else is not surprised ?

Not really a bug, but could use a tweak. In the ALERTS LOG , when a news alert hits, you can see the headline in the alert, but only if you click on the DESCRIPTION column not so bad, but the clicking forces the description column to the left of the screen . This means you have to manually drag the scroller back to get the columns to the left of it back in view. Better if it didn't move at all. Even better, and possible I think , would be the mouseover to work without any clicking. Kill two birds.

So far , so good. 10000x better than the ridiculous W10 implementation, and haven't seen any of the issues I reported (yet) I think they actually hide the window off screen, not sure how W10 does it.

lol, tell you what, the built in VD is so heinous, I've loaded up Dexpot to see if it runs well enough to use Billions of dollars and they cant work up a usable VD product at MSFT They could have paid the dexpot guy a few 100k and had a world class utility

I was going to say, the problem is probably the MS code and not yours, but Virtual Desktops are 'supposed' to be transparent to the app I used MT (current!) and QT before it for a very long time using Dexpot , a Virtual Desktop utility. This was under Windows 7 So not sure what you mean by doesn't support. \ Running Thinkorswim and TWS simultaneously, neither exhibit this window jumping issue Problem is , Dexpot hasn't been updated for years, and I wanted to avoid using abandonware.

Actually, seeing this jumping around even when the window is not active.

Tried locking all windows, no help. Figured it out, what's happening is, when I move from Desktop 1 to Desktop 2, if one of your windows is active (selected), it follows the move . No good. See if you can duplicate the problem

Just went Windows 10 on a new build . Having some issues with SOME MT windows jumping from one virtual desktop to another, unasked. Not seeing this with any other app (yet) Is this something you've heard of or is it a new one ?

yep, black style . thanks

Loaded up the latest beta today. Any idea what the flashing blue border is on SOME of the open ports ?