It would sure be nice to be able to select and/or hover on the charts and get information about the objects (contextually.)
For example, if I select a bar, instead of giving me a bunch of boxes to indicate that I can move all of them to another panel, how about a tooltip or semi-transparent description of what it is?
Selecting a bar could give me details such as the various price points (high, low, etc.) as well as a semi-transparent (grayed) overlay on the date-time and price margin bars so I know where I am at. That would save me from having to draw horizontal and vertical lines every time I want to see what I am looking at.
Also, maybe price data "where" I selected--such as the price on an indicator line when I click on the middle of it.
Though not related, I would like to be able to use the crosshair and then press the left mouse button to draw the crosshair on the chart. The vertical direction should "snap to the bar" like the vertical line does.
If any of this is possible, please let me know.
I was debugging connection issues with Ray yesterday. I would like to have a way to spy on the data feed a little to verify that data is being transmitted between the outside world and NT. I think that would be a great debugging tool, even if it looks like the Matrix to the uninformed. To keep it simple, add it to the Connections wizard -- like a Test Connection panel that exercises both the live feeds, but also historic as well. You could ship the system with tests that you know will return data in all situations (minute, daily, live, history, etc.) Right now, you have to complete the wizard and then attempt to connect which is clunky.
Now that I am using NT7, I think you should architect your data feeds to work with either 32 or 64-bit versions of NT. Currently, it looks like you are maintaining two sets of source code, and I am forever limited to NT7 32-bit until Ameritrade does a 64 bit port. There is no reason I can fathom why you need to "feed engine" to be tied to the target platform. That should be a seperate, black box that feeds either version.
Sorry for the random rumblings.
Thanks!
Michael
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