Application: Sterling Trader® Manager
Version: 8.7.0
Release Date: December 16, 2013
MANAGER:
- After adding/editing a destination, the destination list will now scroll to the newly added destination. (View -> Execution Destinations)
FUTURES OE:
- Right-clicking moves cursor to the Buy/Sell buttons setting added (Global Settings -> Futures OE page.) Bid click to SELL button, Ask click to BUY button. (Brazil feature)
- Can now display the full depth for Brazilian symbols (Global Settings -> Quotes page.) (Brazil feature)
- Added ability to add a scroll bar for Brazilian full depth viewing (View -> Scroll Bar.) (Brazil feature)
TRADE SUMMARY:
- Orders (top section) and Ttl Orders (bottom section) columns added. Represent the number of filled orders that make up the positions.
TIME AND SALES:
- Set Link Symbol added to the right-click menu.
GLOBAL SETTINGS:
- Display notification when account status is changed via risk control violation setting added to the Notifications page. Defaults to ON, which is the current behavior. Note: affects Pro/Elite only.
- The Display the full depth for Brazilian symbols setting has been moved to the Quotes page, as it now affects Futures OE and Options OE in addition to Level II OE. (Brazil feature)
TRADING MONITOR:
- A Quick Action Bar now displays above the right-click menu in the All Orders and Open Orders tabs. Allows for quick price changing (or canceling) of the selected order.
- Enable right-click Quick Action Bar setting added. Defaults to ON. (Trading Monitor Settings -> General page.)
- The trade notification settings (Trading Monitor Settings -> General page) were ignoring the window’s Instrument filter. Fixed.
- The Order/Trade Attributes Legend dialogs would sometimes crash upon exiting. Fixed.
POSITION SUMMARY:
- Was not using the account related to the position when double-clicking to open Level II OE, Options OE, Mini OE, or Futures OE. Fixed.
OPTIONS CHAIN:
- Max number of spread orders has been increased from 150 to 300.
OPTIONS ORDER ENTRY:
- Sym and Under radio buttons added above the symbol field, allowing the user to manually enter either the underlying symbol or the full options symbol. Defaults to ‘Under’, which is the current behavior. (Brazil feature)
- Can now display the full depth for Brazilian symbols (Global Settings -> Quotes page.) (Brazil feature)
- Added ability to add a scroll bar for Brazilian full depth viewing (View -> Scroll Bar.) (Brazil feature)
LEVEL 2 ORDER ENTRY:
- Open Price field added to the Expanded Quote Bar.
- The Books section has been removed from the Level II Settings (Level II page.) Books (all price levels) are requested automatically now.
- When the Open Level I by left/right clicking setting (Global Settings -> Level II OE page) is enabled, the mouse cursor will now move to the Send button of the opened Level I window. It will move back to its previous position when the Level I window is dismissed. (Brazil feature)
NEW CHART:
- Changes made to better handle several New Chart windows closing at the same time.
ACTIVE X:
- Ability to request/receive level II data added to STIQuote:
- RegisterL2(structSTIL2Reg *pL2) method added
- OnSTIL2ReplyStruct(SAFEARRAY(structSTIL2Update)* arrayL2Update) event added
- OnSTIL2UpdateStruct(structSTIL2Update* structL2Update) event added
- OnSTIL2ReplyXML(BSTR* bstrQuote) event added
- OnSTIL2UpdateXML(BSTR* bstrQuote) event added
- Note: Quote messages are passed as is. Handling of crossed markets and stuck quotes is left to the client.
- structSTIL2Reg is defined as follows:
- BSTR bstrSymbol
- VARIANT_BOOL bReg
- VARIANT_BOOL bNasdaq
- VARIANT_BOOL bARCA
- VARIANT_BOOL bBATS
- VARIANT_BOOL bEDGA
- VARIANT_BOOL bEDGX
- VARIANT_BOOL bNyOpen
- structSTIL2Update is defined as follows:
- BSTR bstrAction
- BSTR bstrID (Note: for Brazilian symbols this represents ‘Level’)
- BSTR bstrMaker
- BSTR bstrSymbol
- BSTR bstrSide
- BSTR bstrTime
- long nQty
- double fPrice
- The following MDX/Exchange Alert fields have been added to structSTIQuoteUpdate:
- double fClearingPrice
- double fReferencePrice
- long nPairedQty
- Note: RegisterMdxEx() is needed to receive these fields as the older Mdx functions filter out the Info Imbalance messages.
- Minor QuoteUpdate bug fixed.
MISCELLANEOUS:
- Position-related integer values (Manager, Position Summary, Trade Summary) now display the thousands separator (comma in the U.S.) for easier reading of large numbers. Was already being used when displaying monetary values.
- Dragging/dropping throughout the application would occasionally cause the application to crash. Fixed.
