A new thread!
Well there isnt anywhere else relevant and I just wanted to comment on MarketMaker (CMC's trading platform) and its upgraded version 5.3

Like its predecessor its got a huge print on the PC system but is stable enough in itself. Memory hog alert! and not just RAM or pagefile altho definitely those but at a very low system resource level. I have found this seems to give other applications issues - or arent I supposed to have 15 windows open in my default layout?

It takes a veritable age to start up too even with my dual core processor. It wasnt quite so bad in the previous version and is kind of annoying.

Some new features in the order placing are most welcome however. OCO's are much easier to place. I havent experimented with If Dones yet, but the whole layout is more intuitive around the new order window.

Prices can now display in Fade, Flash or neither, depending on how attension seeking you want price movements to be. And charts now can be set to use bid or offer.

There are a few more graphs properties available, I particularly enjoy pottering with the Point and Figure, but theres also Kagi, Renko , Three Line Break, and Heikin-Ashi with scale types of Linear, Log, and Reference.

Indicators are abundant, ADX, ATR , DMI, CMO, RSI, TRIX, Pivot Points, etc etc
SuperTrend was there before but is a useful trailing stop type indicator. I hadnt noticed Ichimoku before either so will surely spend some time with that cloudy magic now.

I've also discovered (again most of them may have been there before) drawing tools that include Fib Retracement, Fib Fan, Fib Arc, Gann Arc , Gann Lines , along with Speed lines AND Andrews pitchfork. Wow I dont need to do the calculations anymore.


So all in all some of the major limitations have been fixed except for the lack of a trailing stop mechanism.
One day maybe.