Lew Payne

Mike - I've sent you an email. I would love to have early access to the API so I can evaluate if it meets my needs. All I want to do is: Retrieve account balances (net liquidity, buying power, etc). Place and manage (status, cancel, replace) futures trades. Optional - receive RT quotes, aggregated to per-second ticks is fine. My current FCM/brokerages are: TD Ameritrade Interactive Brokers Thank you!

Thanks for the answer, Jerry. This is why I've created a TD Ameritrade post... I'm looking for a US-based broker supported by Medved Trader without the need for middle-ware (for trading - my data source is separate), offering stocks, options, ETF/Mutual Funds, and futures. Preferably, one that charges commission and engages in no (or minimal) sale of order flow.

It's my understanding, from reading TD Ameritrade forums, that their API did not support futures trading (even though TDA online does). I was wondering if Medved Trader supports futures trading when using TD Ameritrade as the brokerage. If so, are you using a different integration (API) than the "regular" one TDA makes available to vendors?

I realize Medved has supported trading through Interactive Brokers since the early days. However, it required the use of IB's middle-ware (TWS) running on the client PC. Now that IB has a new RESTful trading API, I was wondering if Medved supports it directly (for trading, not quotes or news) - without the need for IB middle-ware anymore. It would be great to have the ability to integrate directly with IB, without having to run their middle-ware in order to do so.

I realize we're living in a "new era" where things are done differently, and I like to believe I'm fair and thorough in my investigation of new trends, but that alone doesn't mean they do a better job than the original tool they replace. Take documentation, for example; well-produced documentation was written by technical writers who had experience in the field they were writing for. In the software sphere, that meant they had formal schooling in User Interfaces, User Experience, communications (formal schooling in), and human psychology. The fruits of their labor (i.e., their end product - the documentation) focused on and approached it from the end-user experience. Hence, we were able to assimilate and relate to maximizing our use of the software. Nowadays, "evolving" documents such as wikis tend to be written from a hardware or software perspective - their focus is all about the system and its features, with little regard for audience. In fact, I find it particularly frustrating that many wikis are little more than a reiteration of high-level features for those who wrote the system! They are devoid of any notion of who their main audience is - and thus tend to lack ground-level explanations (or at least summaries) that are people-driven. On an unrelated note, I feel this is why most colleges require Communications 101 as a prerequisite to anything - because common sense seems to be at a premium nowadays.

Unfortunate, that won't work for me. The "trace" tool successfully finds the equivalent point in all trace group charts (which is why I have it set up that way), but sadly the annotations can't. Which is fine... I've now figured out that I can open the "drawing tools" ribbon and RIGHT CLICK on the "text" and "oval" tools to add them to the title bar. I should have realized this earlier, from other comments I had read, but I was too busy focusing on other things.

It is not my preferred thing (at least when working on software development), because each user has their own style and way of doing things, which tends to make wiki sections inconsistent and (often) unclear. There are some open-source software (especially C++ libraries) that I visit, and after reading the "introduction" or "about us" page, I still can't figure out what the software is, much less its purpose, scope or audience. It varies, of course. If a team of technical writers use a wiki, there is some de-facto consistency produced. I'm flexible, and willing to revisit things.

I now have "Trendlines Unique Per Chart" unchecked. As a precaution, I exited and restarted MT from scratch. As I draw text, ovals, lines and boxes on one of my emini charts, it is not automatically annotating in the other emini chart. Both charts contain the exact same symbol. As a precaution, I made sure the area I was annotating on one chart was visible (current) on the other chart. I'm sending you a screen capture of this adventure, for debugging.

How do I do this... I'd love to give it a try! I don't know if the premiums (computed DTN indices) would be considered "part of the emini" though.

Let's say I have three different windows, each with the same symbol but different magnifications (time intervals). One shows the prior 200 ticks, the other shows the past 4 hours, and the other the past 4 days. In addition, I have the PREM.Z (EMINI Premium) and the S&P 500 Combined Session Premium. Each window may be running its own set of indicators, with unique settings. I then SHIFT to trace certain events across ALL windows, and use the draw tool to place ovals on each chart corresponding to that time. I may or may not also annotate notes (text) for that particular time period. I currently have to switch each window to "oval" followed by "text" to do this. Is there a different way I should be doing this, or is this an unusual use of the link group?

For charts that are all part of the same Trace Link Group family (same color assignment), allow the current drawing tool choice to apply to each of them. Right now, in order to draw on a group of charts that pertain to the same security under consideration, I have to select the tool from each individual chart. When you have various indicators you're following (6 windows in my case) for your signals, it can become quite tedious. Thanks!

Great to hear you're readying the codbase for an indicator import! Since QT has never carried the ALMA indicator, I'd like to request that it get added. Thank you!

I'd like to request the following indicators... ATR CCI Keltner Channels StochRSI (Stochastic RSI) ALMA (Arnaud Legoux Moving Average) If you need the formula for ALMA, I have a Java version I can provide. It is not proprietary, and there are no licensing issues. Lew

Thanks... it wasn't obvious to me. I'm used to the Microsoft way of doing things (right-click and select "rename" or click over existing name). Was trying to click and right-click on the portfolio names in the left column of the edit screen, rather than the name of the currently selected item in the right column.

I hope there will be a way in which we can assign our own names to Portfolios and Watchlists. Phrased as a question... "Will there be a way for us to rename the portfolios and watchlists?" Lew

I would love to have a PRINT option for graphs, that at least makes the graph print-friendly (sizing and perhaps overriding the colors such that it's B&W friendly). On a harder note, I would love the option of selecting two graphs, and printing both on the same page (in portrait orientation). Lew

Done.

So far, using the Sample Portfolio, I am unable to reproduce the problem. However, at this point, my windows are not positioned or sized exactly the same as they were when the problem occurred. I will, from time to time, move the "Exchange" column past an occluding graph window and see if I can cause it to happen again. It's interesting... in the "New Portfolio" where this took place, the column is simply nowhere to be found. If it's of any value to you, I do have the MTLog file, of course... though at level 20.

If I could somehow "find" the lost column again, I could try to recreate the issue. I've restarted MT, opened up "Column Chooser," and that column is still nowhere to be found (should I be looking somewhere else?). With the testing I'm doing, the default window focus priority becomes annoying. Thanks for letting me know how to change it.

In the portfolio window, I was attempting to move the "Exchange" column. The graph window partially occluded the portfolio window (it appears the graph window never gives up position focus, always wanting to be on top - a rather obtrusive annoyance). I began to drag the "Exchange" column to the left. While dragging it past the occlusion, the "Exchange" column disappeared altogether. It is no longer one of the portfolio columns, and does not appear in the "Column Chooser" - it has, for all intents and purposes, effectively vanished. Lew

Summary: When you hide an indicator, if you have "show current value" selected within the indicator, its current value continues to be displayed. When an indicator is hidden, its value should also be hidden. Otherwise, extraneous value tags appear on the graph that "belong to nothing." Summary: With the Volume indicator, there is no way of turning off (!show current value) display of the EMA while still displaying the current value of the Volume. The "show current value" checkbox applies to both, unfortunately. Update - This applies to many of the other indicators, as well. Lew

Email with attachment(s) sent regarding the following: (Non) shading of extended (after-market) hours Price (Y) axis label and/or gradients missing Thanks for the reminder regarding SHIFT and CTL+SHIFT... I vaguely remember having to use a key sequence of some sort, many years ago. I had seen the "trace" feature in the settings, and wrongly assumed it was debug-related. So far, I've had no further IQfeed disconnects. Lew

I'm sending you a current MTLOG.LOG file - I'm able to recreate this quite easily. In the log file, the very first STOP, START sequence leaves the portfolio stopped (non-updating) even though the dashboard shows an existing L1 connection. In the screen capture (which I'm also sending), the quote data remains invariant - it's stuck there. Hope that helps. Lew

I've found the OX API department to be less than responsive. Fortunately, the OX interface hasn't changed much since the old days... POST and GET emulation of SOAP are still supported, and the XML defs are still online. Using the defs and a bit of deduction, it's possible to see the new features (API hooks) that were added/extended to support more order types, etc.

I see what you mean now; I apologize for not responding to the question being asked. Here's a sequential toggle, with the diagnostics you seek... Initial state - portfolio shows @ES#C updating, dashboard shows: IQFEED, Streaming, Running, Bwth=n, L1=1 STOP pressed - portfolio not updating, dashboard shows: IQFEED, Streaming, Running, Bwth=n, L1=blank START pressed - portfolio not updating, dashboard shows: IQFEED, Streaming, Running, Bwth=n, L1=1 STOP pressed - portfolio not updating, dashboard shows: IQFEED, Streaming, Running, Bwth=n, L1=blank START pressed - portfolio updating, dashboard shows: IQFEED, Streaming, Running, Bwth=n, L1=1 One thing I'm noticing - it seems to be time-related, as far as how long I wait between button presses. When I take the time to write a diagnostic line out for you, the START toggle works fine. When I hit stop followed by START a second or two later, it doesn't work but sometimes it does. I hope that helps. Lew