An All-new eSignal Launches...

learner2007 · Dec 17, 2012

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So what is the verdict?
Is the new ES version worth a subscription? I was kinda thinking of the advanced get edition but i am current having second thoughts?

Any recommendations by the avid ES users would be appreciated.

I think it's well worth it, but what you need may or may not be included in the program as yet.They keep adding new features and old features from the previous version every 3 or 4 months. You should take the trial and see for yourself if it's worth it to you.
Should you not have time for that, you could ask here in detail if you can do this or that in the new version.

JackDogII · Dec 17, 2012

The one major weakness that has always put some system developers off of E-Signal is that there is no significant amount of historical tick data available for any symbol.

Many work from volume charts and other data formats that are based on tick data and not only require months/years of tick data but require it in continuous format for futures.

Hard to believe a front line data vendor to be so lame is this so important area.

Jack

Jeffrey · Dec 17, 2012

I am doing well with it. There is a couple things that will get fixed, but they're minor, and it's better this month.

Samsara · Dec 17, 2012

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Or, you might have the 'Right Margin' set to a large number of bars. Chart Properties > Scales > Right Margin.

Thank you learner2007 for giving it a shot -- appreciate it. Unfortunately I think it's built in.

Try this: if you have two charts linked, one monthly, one daily. Click on a bar in the daily chart that's earlier than anything displayed on the monthly. The monthly chart jumps there (if you have the setting enabled), which is great. Now click on today's bar in the daily chart. The monthly chart jumps there also, but then adds half a window of useless blank padding.

I've given up on one or two problems with the efs coding a while ago, but this one seems endemic to the charting itself and drives me crazy every day. Only way to avoid it is to shut off the ability to jump to dates from other charts.

learner2007 · Dec 18, 2012

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Thank you learner2007 for giving it a shot -- appreciate it. Unfortunately I think it's built in.

Try this: if you have two charts linked, one monthly, one daily. Click on a bar in the daily chart that's earlier than anything displayed on the monthly. The monthly chart jumps there (if you have the setting enabled), which is great. Now click on today's bar in the daily chart. The monthly chart jumps there also, but then adds half a window of useless blank padding.

I've given up on one or two problems with the efs coding a while ago, but this one seems endemic to the charting itself and drives me crazy every day. Only way to avoid it is to shut off the ability to jump to dates from other charts.

Sorry, but I could not have understood from your original post that you were having this problem under the conditions you detailed in this post.

If you feel that this is a bug or would like to have a change in the function, you might want to use the Report a Bug or Request a Feature form under Support.

Samsara · Dec 18, 2012

Quote from learner2007:

Sorry, but I could not have understood from your original post that you were having this problem under the conditions you detailed in this post.

If you feel that this is a bug or would like to have a change in the function, you might want to use the Report a Bug or Request a Feature form under Support. They're quite good in replying to these.

Yeah, I wasn't too specific there. Thanks all the same for giving it some thought brother.

learner2007 · Dec 18, 2012

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Now click on today's bar in the daily chart. The monthly chart jumps there also, but then adds half a window of useless blank padding.

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Rather than clicking on today's bar in the daily chart, if you click on the white arrow in the corner of the y and x-axis on the monthly chart, there will be no blank space between this month's bar and the y-axis.

Samsara · Dec 18, 2012

Quote from learner2007:

Rather than clicking on today's bar in the daily chart, if you click on the white arrow in the corner of the y and x-axis on the monthly chart, there will be no blank space between this month's bar and the y-axis.

Yeah you're correct, and that's what I do now to avoid this phenomenon, but I've got about 10 charts linked, and subcharts where the chart series is hidden (to just show an efs) don't have that white arrow. For those I have to manually scroll the chart forward and line up the time periods.

sammybea · Dec 18, 2012

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I'm hoping version 11.6 will work smoothly. It should be out early 2013 according to the last word I received.

I liked the speed of Qcharts when it came to loading three linked charts. ES takes a couple seconds longer.

I'm currently a Qcharts subscriber and demo'ed ES last week.... What I can't understand is why would anyone switch to ES? Qcharts had its problems with data in the past, but after esignal took them over, those issues pretty much went away.. (I would assume any lag in Qcharts would mirror the lag in ES since they are using the same datafeed)

Qcharts is just a much cleaner piece of software and frankly better than CQG which is multiple times the price... I would urge anyone looking into esignal to look at Qcharts first. (same company)

sculptor66 · Feb 17, 2013

Installed 11.5 yesterday and played around a bit (I were using 10.6 until now)

After major disappointment with the first eSignal 11 versions, it seems to be finally ready for prime time.

Importing of old 10.6 pages works quite good, of course with some limitations. My existing EFS seem to work without problems also. Speed is fine, and there are now some additional useful settings, for instance to display a more compact version of the cursor window and so on (at least as far as I remember there was no such option in the early versions). It also "feels" pretty stable and smooth, at least for now.

Will give it a try next week, of course on a slow day first.

Kudos to the eSignal team, they are hopefully now on the right track.

There is only one thing which I find quite annoying: When 'compressing' the time scale of bar charts, eSignal then displays High-Low bars instead of OHLC bars . Would be nice to have a setting to suppress this. While compressed charts with full OHLC bars may look quite messy, I'm more comfortable with them.