I'm not sure whether or not requests are fielded here but I thought I would inquire and give my reasons for a wish. IMO, QT is the best product out there and I've sampled many. No doubt my opinionated request is biased simply because it caters to my own needs. After exhaustive personal EQ analysis, I've come to rely on tick bars as the premiere market marker. The heikin-ashi thing is a beautifully great and simple item; reason being is that it is not possible to identify a magic tick point, so why should the close get any more special treatment than any other tick within a bar whether it be a period or tick bar. Think about this, 99% of your indicators are operating on the CLOSE data point of each bar. This is my own opinion and should be weighted according to a nwb. Kudo$ to whomever recommended the Heikin-Ashi bar representation. It's a killer, but I presume most are set in your trading ways and beliefs and I am no different. OT there. My request pertains to the time span between vertical gridlines (12 bars of user-specified ticks). The information is calculable from the timestamps located at the bottom of the vertical gridlines which is kewl enough. What would be sweeter is having the elapsed timespan for the default 12 tick bars over which the vertical lines are set apart. The gridlines tend to shift from time to time which in and of itself is not problematic but requires constant recalculating of the elapsed time for someone doing it manually. Of course, being a developer myself, this may very well be a pain in the ass. Any request should have $ome financial merit/gain. So here's some rational. There's a difference between 12 tick bars spanning 15mins (midday) as opposed to 10 secs. I've seen this several times just with GOOG alone using a setting of 25 ticks per tick bar, fractal up a couple of magnitudes to a manageable trading fractal and the market picture sharpens tremendously. The results on any trading fractal is an additional piece of market information that would be more cleanly revealed and easily gleaned; the pace of 12 bars of ticks or whichever trading fractal you select. I am not insisting that this is a must have request, just what IMO is valuable information. It's a marvel to watch when stops are getting blown thru, and this sort of information clearly indicates when this has occured without scanning thru T&S. In any event, for clarity, I've attached a rendering. As you fractal up, the displayed information would adjust accordingly (ie. if one were on a trading fractal such that 12 tick bars spanned 2h15m37s, one is on a trading fractal where 37s is not making a whole lot of difference in your decision, displaying 2h15m would be sufficient - for larger time frames days and hours is sufficient; the pairings could possibly be secs, min & secs, hours & mins, days & hours). Should my request be deemed useless, I will remain content with what I have and nonetheless proclaim QT as the top dawg. Again, great job QT.
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