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Sorry, I did not see this post since you did not @mention me.
We are at the tail end of the development process and not that far off from the estimate I provided earlier this year. I will be more specific in the near future. We intend to roll out beta to a core group of active users, then to NinjaTrader Brokerage clients and then to the general public.
Nothing wrong with asking for a release date, especially for people who are busy and plan to learn the new platform: they will need to schedule time for when it comes out. Perhaps you have a flexible schedule and/or enough free time, but we're not all that "rich" with our time.
The irony. No need to ask, according to your view, because you can see it when it's released:
Howdy @NinjaTrader Where the heck is the new NT
In all seriousness
Thanks for a great platform and support
But as ol Si(from Duck Dynasty) would say "Hey" c'mon with it
@NinjaTrader how can we get this approved for improved functionality?
It seems that it was depreciated because of low usage.
However, the function as so limited that traders look for other options external to NT.
The big issue is having to manually manage trades if the targets / stops are changed.
This creates significant risk of leaving trades open when using the NT Account Groups.
I think the number of traders that would be using it would change significantly if it were usable.
Your target market should be any 'friends and family' accounts and broker block accounts.
In the case of the broker block accounts (even with your brokerage) there is an additional charge per trade to use the block accounts. If traders could use NT Account Groups as a built in option vs a $1.00 or more per RT I'm sure the number of users would increase dynamically.
Should we start a petition or send requests and/or emails to NT support?
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I managed to roll my own, account groups functionality using a client/server model from an indicator. One Server chart can control up to 4 client charts. Overall I am happy with it because it works well for my use but it does have limitations such as a delay of about 50ms (could probably reduced some) between changes on the server propagating to the client charts, would not cut it for HFT but it works for me.
Hopefully NT8 will have better event hooks into the order entry/change engine to allow better performance.
The reason I bring this up is this. If I can manage to get account groups functionality implemented from an indicator using a simple client/server and available (albeit undocumented calls) without access to any order change event handlers, I would have to think it would be an absolutely trivial task for NT programmers to implement.
That is why I just do not understand why such a useful feature was depreciated, and I agree no one is using the current implementation because it is useless. Could it be they are eyeing the extra commissions from block accounts?
This decision was made well before we announced or had any plans to introduce our brokerage. NT8 will provide more hooks to be able to custom code account groups type functionality. Now that we will be rolling out our own server side technology, on the server product road map we have a place holder for mirror trading which is in essence what Account Groups do. No further information about that at this time since it is only a place holder.
I recently heard that the Point & Figure charts in NT7 were not up to par. I talked to a couple of long time traders and they prefer P&F charting from other sources.
Will NT8 produce better and more accurate P&F charts compared to the current version?
