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Introducing eSignal 10: New Features plus eSignal, Advanced GET Edition

What do you get when you combine the latest version of eSignal with Advanced GET? eSignal 10!

With eSignal 10, we've integrated the key components of Advanced GET (Dashboard, Studies, Drawing Tools and Scanner) into an upgraded version of the eSignal application and bumped up the version number to 10 to reflect this code consolidation. Please note: All of the Advanced GET features are bundled together and available as an add-on to your current eSignal subscription or as a new subscription. (Please contact Sales or Service for pricing details.) 

The new eSignal features included in 10 are as follows:

Time Zone Settings -- We have a new tab under Preferences in the File menu to control Date / Time Settings. This gives the user 3 choices for seeing the timestamps of the real-time data: (1) in the local time zone of the computer, (2) in the exchange’s time zone, or (3) all converted to GMT. 



Time of Trade field change -- To more accurately reflect the last real-time update, the Time of Trade field now only displays the time of the last trade instead of the last update. Previously, background and status types of updates would change this field, and it wouldn't necessarily be the time of the last actual trade. If the last trade was from more than 24 hours in the past, a date will appear in this field. To add this field in the Quote Window, right click an existing field (such as Symbol, Last, and so on), choose Add Field, then select Time of Trade (new). 



Stretch Chart -- This is a new window type that is a 1-day chart in which the data resizes to always fill the window. 



This displays a line chart only because the ability to constantly resize doesn't work well with bars and candles. There are no line tools or studies because this has been designed for users who just want to see the pattern of the day for each symbol. Also, please note that only Intraday intervals (1-, 5-, 60-minute, and so on) are available for this chart type. To open a Stretch Chart, click the New Window icon from the main toolbar and select Stretch Chart.

Range Bars -- A new interval type has been added to the eSignal Advanced Charts. The Range Bar chart creates new bars once a tick comes through that is outside the defined range. For example, in a 2-point range bar on the E-mini S&P 500 futures, if the price range is 1473 - 1475 for the current bar, the very next trade that is outside of that will generate a new bar.

VWAP -- We have added Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) as a Level I data field for domestic equities. This field can be added to Quote, Summary and Detail windows, as well as to the Level I areas of other windows that have this option. 



Option Chain Filter -- There is a new option filter for in- / near- / out-of-the-money strikes. This allows users to set different background colors (on the main toolbar under Option Window Options, Colors) for strikes, based on the underlying equity's current last price. 



All calls below the current price and all puts above the current price will be colored with the color chosen for In The Money. The 6 strikes that follow on the other side of the current price will be colored with the color for Near The Money. The default number of strikes is 6, but you can change that to another number by going into the Option Chain Preferences. The remaining strikes will be colored with the color for Out Of The Money. All 3 new color choices are at the bottom of the color choices list.

Single-Sided Setting -- We added a setting to bring up the last quote update on the opposite side of a single-sided quote in a T&S window. This setting is in the Properties menu as “Complete Single Sided Quotes” with a check box. Unchecked will be the default and will leave the behavior as it currently is. You can check the box to cause every quote to be displayed as a pair.

Advanced Chart White Space -- We've added a new feature under the View menu. On the Advanced Chart right-click option, you can now add Whitespace. This causes the chart to create a space any time there's a bar period without any activity instead of eliminating each of these periods from the chart. This feature is important for when you want to be able to maintain trendline slopes or parallel lines when switching time frames. 

Because this is just space created for interval periods that don't really exist for a symbol, you will not be able to start or end any drawing tools in a blank area. You can draw a line through the area as long as the endpoints are not in a blank area. Studies will not be aware of the space, so they will only count bar periods where there's currently activity, which keeps them the same with or without the white space being displayed.



Market Depth -- There is now regional data for NASDAQ symbols, as well as the listed exchanges, so it has become necessary to break out the Montage tab and replace it with a Level 2 and a Regional tab to allow users to pick which type of data they want to see. 



The Regional tab will now be used for NASDAQ symbols, in addition to the listed symbols that eSignal had already been able to display regional data for. To Open a Market Depth Window, click File, New, Market Depth (or use the New Window icon).

Level II Data for Listed Issues -- To complement the change listed previously, NASDAQ is now also offering a "Single Book" service, which will show NASDAQ book depth on listed symbols, as well as the NASDAQ symbols already included. At the same time, the Island book has been merged into NASDAQ’s TotalView service, so that tab has been replaced with the new SingleBook tab. You must have a subscription to TotalView to see data on either the TotalView or SingleBook tabs.

Canadian Depth -- A tab for Canadian depth has been added with plans for the data to become available at a later time. Once available, the data will be viewable on the Level 2 tab for aggregated pricing and on the TSXBook tab for full book view. 

Chart Icon on Main Toolbar -- Before this release, this icon only launched a new standard chart. This hasn't been helpful for most users because they now use the Advanced Charts. This icon has been modified to open an Advanced Chart, if the user has the rights to run this type of chart, and still opens a standard chart for users with the eSignal Basic subscriptions.