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What's New in Version 8.4
Several new features and miscellaneous enhancements, available now in
our latest release,
are outlined below. Click here to download.
New in 8.4.1, Released July 14, 2006
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Chart Buttons
for Adding/Removing Instrument
A chart button with purpose "Change the Instrument" has a secondary
purpose of adding an instrument to a chart instead of replacing
(substituting) the existing one. This is accomplished by prefixing the
ticker symbol in the button setup with a plus sign. A setup such as +TRIN
adds the instrument TRIN to the chart in a new pane leaving the existing
instrument in the chart. The behavior of this additive feature has been
revised to remove the specified symbol if it already is present in the
chart. Thus a button with setup +TRIN will show the TRIN on the first
click and remove the TRIN graph on the next click. The behavior is now
similar with the "Add/Remove Indicator" button purpose.
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NinjaTrader Trading
Order Enhancements
Incremental improvements to Investor/RT-NinjaTrader
interoperation continue to be made. See item #21 of the Version 8.3
What's New for details of 8.3 released improvements in this area. The
latest improvements have to do with submitting Change Order commands to
NinjaTrader. These trading order setups now allow an order quantity of
zero, which NinjaTrader interprets as "no change" to the quantity of the
order being revised. Most trading orders submitted to NinjaTrader are
now followed within a few seconds with an automatic check of market
position and order status. These checks record messages to the Message
Log showing the status of every order and the position status of the
instrument that was the subject of the submitted trading order. If
NinjaTrader responds with a position size for some symbol, Investor/RT
will records the TR_FILL and TR_POS tokens with the returned values.
These values can be displayed in chart annotations, or in a quotepage.
The user may also elect to send "Get Order Status", "Get Market
Position", and "Get Strategy Position" trading orders to NinjaTrader
using any of the techniques available for executing (sending) trading
orders.
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Screenshots of Investor/RT
Windows
The Windows edition of Investor/RT has an improved screenshot
feature that can now be used to capture a bitmap (bmp) image of any
Investor/RT window. Make the desired window the front window by
activating it, then choose File: Save: As Picture. For chart windows,
you can right-click inside the chart and choose Save: As Picture. The
improved image capture is no longer limited to chart windows; any open
window may now be captured as image. Macintosh OS X users have window
capture facilities as part of the Mac OS. Press Apple+Shift+4 to
activate the Mac's built-in screen capture facility. Then tap the
spacebar to activate the "capture window" mode and click inside the
window you wish to snapshot. The Macintosh captures the image as a PNG
(Portable Network Graphic) file, a compressed format. At present the
Windows capture feature in Investor/RT creates uncompressed bitmap (BMP)
files. Work is underway to improve Investor/RT to save images in PNG
format also.
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Miscellaneous
Fixes and Improvements for 8.4.0
When modifying the exchange or session setup for an instrument in the
Setup: Instruments window, changes to display format were being
discarded. In some circumstances, other checkboxes modified before
changing the session or exchange were reverted to their original
settings. These defects have been corrected.
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When choosing a scan to open from a menu or list, Investor/RT shows all
scans plus all signals that are marked as dual-purpose. If you choose a
signal, Investor/RT will now open the signal and setup the window as if
the signal were a scan. Similarly when choosing a signal to open, if you
choose a dual-purpose scan name, the resulting setup window will show
the scan formula as a signal.
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Miscellaneous
Fixes and Improvements for 8.4.1
Recent improvement of the recalculation efficiency of the Volume
Breakdown indicator had an unintended side effect, a fatal error if any
of the Jurik Indicator plugins were used inside a custom indicator or
signal. The defect is corrected in 8.4.1. The four Jurik plugin
indicators, JMA, DMX, RSX, and VEL where updated and now show a revision
date of July 2006.
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In the Rules tab of custom column setup, clicking in a signal action or
schedule cell to specify the named action or schedule was ineffective if
the selected action or schedule happened to be the last name in the
presented list of choices. This has been corrected.
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Chart buttons for setting a user variable and optionally executing a
trading order now accept TR_STOP and TR_TARG. The button setup "V#23
comment[myTradeOrder]" will prompt the user to click the mouse to set
V#23 (showing comment) and then execute trading order myTradeOrder after
V#23 has been set to the selected price. Similarly the setup "TR_STOP[myTradeOrder]"
sets the token TR_STOP to the selected price and executes the trading
order myTradeOrder.
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