Jerry and Mike,
As a daily QuoteTracker user from someone who trades for a living, THANK YOU both for taking on the endeavor to create your new Medved Trader application! (And as an ex-IT guy, thank you for writing it in C#/.NET and NOT in JAVA.)
Every time I get a survey request from my TD Ameritrade account, I slam them for dropping QuoteTracker and having instead decided to waste time on that unusable and rigid ThinkorSwim product of theirs.
If I might suggest one thing, it would be the following:
Add the ability to be able to set chart periods based on the frequency. For example, I normally trade off of a frequency of 3-minute charts set to a period of 510 minutes (1 day plus 2 hours). However, if a stock takes off quickly, Iâll quickly switch to a 1-minute chart with a smaller period of 180 minutes. (Otherwise the data on the 1-minute chart is too bunched up with the leftover period of 510 minutes.) While I can quickly switch to a 1-minute chart via CTRL-1 (and back to the 3-minute chart via CTRL-2), it retains the 510 minute period, so the data is too bunched up on the 1-minute chart (see attachment QuoteTracker Charts.jpg).
I noticed that TD Ameritradeâs StrategyDesk product handles this wellâ¦.perhaps itâs their Auto Scale setting for the price scale? Also, on StrategyDesk, you can add, and then click the interval you want (bottom right on attachment) and it keeps the spacing of the bars the sameâ¦.that would be nice. (Or, perhaps it would be easier to have an option to just set the spacing of the bars no matter what the frequency the chart is.) (See attachment Strategy Desk Charts.jpg)
Iâll be happy with whatever your new products looks like and gladly pay for its usage. Thanks again!