It had pretty decent layout and interface, seems to do everything but nothing well - very little support especially aftermarket etc
There was a lag here and there - more of a front end software -
Sierra is a different animal- the devs believe in efficient and lightweight code and don’t give 2 shits about he UI/UX - it is based on C++ their custom study language is ACSIL
(Advanced Custom Study Interface and Language) is also C++-based — you write .cpp files that #include "sierrachart.h", and Sierra compiles them into DLLs.
There is extreme customization available, with service package 12 (mbo data) it includes realtime and historical TICK data using their Denali datafeed going back to 2011 - horrible interface but with chartbooks etc it can be made to look like any software out there really.
Also even on the 64x version their recommendation is to run multiple lean instances of the software to not let memory utilization exceed around 3-4GB each, to help keep the allocator churn down when you hammer it with massive tick data /mbo data and things keep humming along smoothly-
They own the Denali exchange datafeed colocated in aurora datacenter with direct cme access and also have their own Teton order routing directly to exchange -
You can also use thirdparty datafeed and order/execution feeds.
Another one I tried for a while was ATAS I liked the design and layout but was invested too deep in motivewave to really try it out thoroughly- and besides I knew if I ever moved from motivewave it would be to a more robust software not for aesthetics -
Hopefully MW7 improves in the coming months, another thirdparty long time developer for MW mentioned that the “drawing engine” on MW7 is a lot slower for indicators that have fills built into them, where as MW6 was a extremely suited for such purposes - now this is troublesome on it own!
I doubt they will reverse course in this -
