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Coming Soon in eSignal 10.5
The last few releases of eSignal brought some great new features focusing on some key areas of the product, such as trading integration and performance improvements, including data hibernation. In the next release of eSignal, we’ll be introducing a whole suite of exciting tools…here is a preview of some of them.
Extended Intraday History
The long-awaited extension of our historical database will be coming in eSignal 10.5. This will dramatically increase the amount of available intraday data far beyond the previous limits. This new service will allow you to access 10 years of minute-based bar data.
This will be a huge boon to those back testers who need large amounts of historical data to track the performance of their strategies across all types of market patterns and conditions. Additionally, support and resistance lines can now be established with a greater degree of accuracy, given that the recent market contraction has pulled back into levels not seen in many years.
Snap Quote Bar
One of simplest ideas turns out to be one of the most useful…the Snap Quote Bar displays the quote for a symbol you type into it. It works much like a standard toolbar and can be placed along the top or bottom of eSignal. It can even be free-floating, so you can put it anywhere on your computer display.
The data fields can also be fully customized, so the exact data you want to be displayed is there at your fingertips. In addition, the symbol linking box is fully functional, which allows you to type a symbol in and have it appear in multiple windows simultaneously.
Renaming Windows
eSignal’s Layout feature has allowed the renaming of windows for a long, long time…even before the “e” was added to eSignal. When Pages were introduced, one of the items of contention was that the windows themselves couldn’t be given a custom name to identify them in a unique way -- that all changes with eSignal 10.5. With a quick menu selection, you can change the name of practically any window type in a page.
Global Portfolio Window
The Portfolio window has long been a staple for eSignal clients wanting to track both the short- and long-term performance of their accounts. From the eSignal Pro side, money managers will often have multiple client accounts spread across multiple Portfolio windows. Coming soon in eSignal 10.5 is a way to compare the totals of multiple Portfolio windows.
The new Global Portfolio window automatically lists the key statistics of each portfolio in a window that can be placed anywhere on your PC’s display. In addition, a quick double-click on the name of the portfolio will bring that window into focus for further analysis.
A Few Months to Go
We are still a few months away from eSignal 10.5’s release, and this is just the beginning. We have a number of other features "waiting in the wings", so keep an eye out for some exciting articles over the next few months.
