Are you sometimes envious, when seeing professional Trading platforms using a Dome for orderentry? Don't be, trading is a business and up to 600$ a month license fee is a lot to pay. Especially, if you can get it with The Tower, FuturesTraders newest Trading platform. Place your orders with a click, move your Stops or Profit limit orders just with the click of a mousebutton in the Tower, scale out of a position all within the Tower. Download from http://www.futures-trader.net
Croc, This feature is terrific ! Remembers me of an expensive platforms This is definitely a hyper cool feature! With eSignal 7.4, you can also download tick history in order to replay it with $PLAYBACK symbol. Could you potentially support this tick data format for replaying the market in Future-trader?
eSignal 7.4 beta with $Playback is available, and it works great. Link to download here: http://forum.esignalcentral.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2384
Time goes by, no posts from croc. Futures-Trader is alive and new releases are published every 2 weeks or so. That only depends on my trading needs and your imagination. Download from www.futures-trader.net If I miss something in my trading I fix it or add it. That's the beauty of being a developper and trader. If you have an idea and it convinces me right away, is not a great deal of work and is of benefit to more than just yourself, chances are good, that you'll find it in the next release. So Futures-Trader is now on Version 2.41 and if you know it from earlier stages This is really new: A Profit Protection scheme: It's a trailing stop with discretionary levels A Chase function which get's you in the trade only when a certain number of contracts remain at a selected price level The ability to place StopLimit orders also from the Tradedesk A Bartimer, which get's you in once a 3, 5 13 min (selectable) bar completes. The Watchlist can hold upto 6 different contracts. Nothing the real ES trader needs, but for all of you European guys and girls trading different markets, it's a fine thing to switch contracts with the click of the mouse. Save and share your Layouts. Every trader has it's own Futures-Trader. Each window is scalable and movable, and now you can use different Layouts as your needs dictate. Sound support has been added also Email me at croc1964@futures-trader.net if you have any questions. Regards, Croc
Hi, finally it is true. I have placed a first Draft of the FuturesTrader Documentation on the Website in pdf format. It is not completed, but the 70 pages available already cover a huge part of FuturesTrader. I can only hope, that now some of you already experienced with FuturesTrader will take the time and effort, to clarify things, to correct some of my spelling or grammar errors, as I'm not a native speaker, or to send me some Add-Ons on parts, I only covered briefly in the Documentation. For this purpose I also placed a Word-Version of the Documentation on the Server. Download from the download page. www.futures-trader.net Regards and happy Wintertime. Chris
Futures-Trader has taken the next Step FuturesTrader now offers - Faster Order Entry. Enter the market with usually no slippage in 0.5 - 1 sec - Enter or Exit a trade, when only # contracts remain (Chase orders) - Stop and Reverse trades - MarketMaker trades, place orders on both sides of the market - Trailing Stops at discretionary intervals - Trading with the Tower (see below) or a regular Tradedesk - Bracket orders, StopLimit orders and a lot more... - Mixed Simulated (Demo) and Regular Trading - all Windows can be sized to fit your screen and moved to the location you want them - Tradewindows in additon can be detached and placed right in your chartprogram - Layouts can be saved and reloaded at any time, select the Colorscheme you like - Datafeeds supported: Interactive Brokers, ESignal DDE, ESignal ActiveX And from the What's new list for V 2.47 just released today: Fast Order Entry FT now not only features the Fast Order Entry system, which gives you a time advantage of upto 1.5sec compared to a regular submitted order, for Limit orders, but also for Market orders. The Tower and The Tradedesk have a new Button, called <Fast OE>, which when pressed in preparation of the trade, submits the necessary orders outside of the market to the exchange. The number of ticks, where these resting orders are placed can be set under Options/adjustable options Caution: I have tested this new system to work on Globex, I have not yet tested it on ECBOT or any of the European exchanges. So it might be, that some exchanges forbid the change of an already submitted order from Limit to Market. If you encounter such a problem, please let me know. Chase Market orders (or MIT on steroids) for Entry and Exit FT already had Chase Limit orders, now it also has Chase market orders. If the number of contracts available at a certain pricelevel, falls below the preset value, an already submitted order is moved at the current pricelevel and executed. There still was the possibility to miss the move in a strong up- or downsurge. The Chase Market order takes care of this, as the presubmitted order is changed from a Limit order to a Market order and then executed. The Chase price is set as usual with the Mousewheel. The Chase ticks or ordertype Market is set by holding the CTRL key down and then turning the mousewheel, while pointing to the Chase Button. To place a MIT order, when in a trade, use the Chase feature, set Chase to Chase M and set the number of remaining contracts to a very high number (depending on the instrument you trade) Spreadtrades making use of the Chase feature Bonds or ES are flat, trending in a 4 to 5 tick range. You know it, you need to sit tight on your hands. But you still trade: The existing Spreadtrade feature already lets you try to grab the Spread. But now we go one step further: We place a Spreadtrade 1 tick outside of the current Bid and Ask. And we use the new Chase feature. In the Chase window, we set the number of remaining contracts to a number which makes it likely that we will see an up- or downtick, when only this number of contracts remain. The number is hit, FT goes long, if the Ask shows less remaining contracts or short, if the bid shows only a few contracts left. We see the uptick or downtick and there is the other part of our spreadtrade waiting to be executed and cover our trade. What makes this so nice is, that this second order has most likely a very good position in the queue, as it is resting there already for quite some time (as long as it took the market to decide, if it would Uptick or Downtick) Of course nobody hinders you to go for 2 or more ticks instead just for 1 tick. For this reason the Spreadtrade button features a number, which shows the number of ticks the 2 trades will be placed outside of the current market. <Spreadtrade(1)> would have to be used in our example. To place such a trade, you use the MarketMaker screen (Select under Windows) Set the number of contracts remaining in the field left of the Chase Button with your mousewheel and press the Chase Button Now set the Spreadtradebutton to show <Spreadtrade(1)> and click the Button. This works of course in Demo and Real mode. Special FuturesTrader Ensign Version FuturesTrader always supported the ESignal DDE connection. But now ESignal offers something new. An ActiveX API connection to ESignal, which is not only faster than the DDE connection, but shows a lot less drag on the CPU. It offers history for the Minichart and timely and reliable Tickdata, which are invaluable when making use of the advanced features introduced in FT with the new Spreadtrades or Chase features. As only when FT knows exactly what size is bid or offered, it can decide the entry criteria is hit or not. The ESignal ActiveX API at this time unfortunatly offeres no marketdepth, so this is still requested and displayed from your IB connection, if such exist. Also ESignal has to run on the same computer as FuturesTrader. Another disadvantage is cost. ESignal charges for the ActiveX API a one time fee plus a monthly charge in addition to your regular subscription, if you want to use the ActiveX features. The alternative for me would be to register FuturesTrader with ESignal for a fee and then add these fees to my monthly subscription. Sorry, but I think this would be unfair for all the users not using ESignal as a datafeed. So, if you want to use the ESignal ActiveX link you need to subscribe for it for a one time fee of 195$ plus 20$/month as far as I'm informed. If there is huge interest in this link, I might consider registering FT with ESignal and then offer the FT ESignal version for a higher monthly price. But as for the near future, you need to subscribe yourself to the link in order to use it. Download from http://www.futurestrader.net Best regards, chris
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