Sorry I wasn't clear. They are mostly "helpers" conveying no more information than "you should be long" or "you should be short" or "Jack jumped over the candlestick" or "This system just triggered long while you're in a short." I need to be able to assess them simultaneously at a glance. BTW, thanks for dialogueing with me. I am a lonely old man with nothing better to do of a cold winter's night than rant and rave about how much time they are going to cost me to convert, and whether or not that same time would be better invested converting to NinjaTrader. My trading screen has essentailly been stable for a couple of years, so long that I can't even remember why I do it that way. Kind of like, "Why did I get married? Remind me?" So I don't want to think, I just want to trade.
Also, using detached windows and hiding all or some of those title bars will save you a lot of space.
Yes, thanks. I do hide a title bar on my 10.6, good suggestion. But what is a detached window? Is that like a detached retina?
Click on the box to the left of the X on the chart. A menu will open the will let you set the chart outside of the Main Window.
Ah, yes, very cleaver, just like in 10.6. I am beginning to get the distinct impression that you are smarter than I am. A common experience for me. Almost everybody is. But don't get cocky. It may just be because you are younger. OK, I am digging deep for kvetches here. This one is a gnit (that's even smaller than a nit). In 10.6 when I resize the formula output window, the contents wrap. Not so in 11. I have to scroll waaaaaaay over to the right to find out why 11 doesn't handle efs statements from 10.6. I plan on putting 11 through its paces Montag (that's lundi for you frog Quebecois). I don't trade short days, but neither as rascist white trash can I take off MLK day. So we'll see how well it handles scripts on a one-second chart. I already know it can't handle extended data on the one day.
Maybe, maybe not. But I'm no spring chicken. When you test it keep it mind that it is still far from complete. So the chances are you'll find a lot that isn't enabled yet or that isn't polished. I would call it the bare bones version. But I'm sure that once complete you will then rate Ninja Trader as a toy when compared to 11.
Thanks again. I plan to run tests on backtest speed, say 600 days of one-minute data. I can't say about the Ninja, but if I understand the current version correctly I can set a BT range, say of stop loss values, and have it run through them all. And I can set a range of stop loss and a range of profit targets, and it will optimize for the best combo-nation using a genetic algoraggem. And it autotrades NOW. If that's a toy, then it's a sex toy. And it will cost me $43 less a month. Of course I am filthy rich from trading, but nonetheless that is a month's subscription to a porno site or two boxes of ammo.
In any event I would wait for a few more releases before drawing any concrete conclusions as to its value to you in trading. Good trading to you.
Thank you kindly for your advice. I have my complete current 10.6 screen replicated in 11 and look forward eagerly to discovering every way it doesn't work the way I need it to. At this point the only thing keeping me from jumping ship is the mind-agonizing prospect of converting to NinjaTrader thousands of lines of operating scripts and tens of thousands of lines of utility and historical codes.
When I was a kid a high school buddy of mine who had a convertible used to cruise with his friends with the top down. If they saw a pretty girl walking, they'd pull up beside her and smile. The driver would say to a passenger, "Don't be a jerk! Say something nice to the girl!" The stock reply was "OK. Hi, cunt!" So I am going to say some nice things. The time template in 10.6 was more incomprehensible than my first wife. The template in 11 is like my second wife. A sweetheart. The time scale compression in 11 allows me to take a one-minute chart over 120 days and compress it to fill the entire screen, which has numbrous advantages in backtesting.