MotiveWave Up(down)dates

[hhhhhhhhhhh]

Okay, the seventh version is a beta, bugs and lags are normal (why make a beta release public in that case, oh well), I won't talk about them. The path that the MotiveWave team has chosen is terrible and in short - remove the words about a professional trading platform from your website.

1. They didn't remove the fucking logo at the bottom left of all the charts, they just made it more annoying.
2. They didn't give a damn about "analyses", "workspaces", "templates" or simply a non-existent system of tabs raletionship. Let's pretend that everything is logical and not try to change it. It's better to make the most hacky solution of how to copy components from one graph to another (and even this didn't work properly in beta). Just try to steal it from Sierra, please
3. In order for the tick by tick date to be displayed correctly, we have developed a solution... we don't give a shit. You still have to zoom the chart back and forth so that studies are recalculated correctly from the start of the trading session and taking into account the tick data. And if my m1 footprint is set to 500 bars and I suddenly accidentally change the timeframe to m30 - my RAM is fucked with no reason. Just try to steal it from Sierra, please...
4. We as developers fucked the time axis in the mouth. If the user uses range intervals for the footprint (for example), where, of course, the chart buzzed before displaying about 30 rotations, there will definitely be gaps on the time scale. What gaps are there? It's just that under one of the 30 bars its opening time will be displayed
5. Let's add a smooth zoom of charts, it's so wonderful.... horror. Are you developing a trading platform or a fucking site for selling labubus?
6. Returning to footprints - this is still not a chart type, but an overlay on top of candles. And "totals" too, it looks terrible (bar time does not even have a background), but let's close our eyes to this.
7. Oh my, how could we forget - we added an arrow in the upper left corner of the graph so that all your 50 study names could be hidden. And one more thing - you can't remove this arrow, it will always be visible to you.
8. TPO charts, oh my god... It's still not a chart type, it's still an overlay on candles. We still haven't made stats output like RF, TPO count, etc., we haven't made auto font size for letters, we haven't made it so that when profiles are merged there is no distance between them (try making a composite of 20 profiles - why the hell is it 10 miles to the left?). Also composites - of course you will get TPO blocks like "xzyyq124", that's great. But! We added hotkeys, wow. Now instead of two clicks for a composite you only need one - and I do this 100 times a day, it's so necessary.
9. Magnet... The fact that it attracts components to the candles not only along the vertical axis, but also along the horizontal axis is not a problem at all, just add a magnifying glass
10. We have bird's eye view, maybe we should fix it or replace it somehow? No - we'll leave it as is and add a scrollbar. These are completely different things, yes, yes.
11. By the way, we used to develop websites for selling Labubu, that's why there is a cute red heart next to the favorite tickers to add them to your favorites.
12. By the way, you still can't copy the graph image. Only save it to your PC. Or try to make a nice screenshot using your operating system.
13. By the way, if you work in full screen on a Mac and open the settings, they will also open full screen on a new desktop.
14. We cannot make any component added to the chart strictly coincide with the time or price axis. Of course, adding a price label to ES will result in a price of 6400.23 and each time you need to go to the settings to make it 6400.25. Crosshair too - you need to use fucking double crosshair to move across time scale properly.

If there is a desire, I will add the same number of points, if not more.

Please developers, don't be like fucking tradingview (drawing app with candles) and stop fucking with your brains about a mobile app. We don't need a new gradient to display orders heatmap.... You have so much potential ahead of SierraChart, but you are trying to make a site for selling labubu that supports L2 data...

 

[bjmuzila]

i had high hopes while watching the beta announcement.

they seemed really open to have emails and actually talk to traders about fixes or ideas..

but since then.. absolute nothing. beta gets worse and worse and cant even use it..
while the stable version gets no updates at all.

 

[matcha_thecat]

Okay, the seventh version is a beta, bugs and lags are normal (why make a beta release public in that case, oh well), I won't talk about them. The path that the MotiveWave team has chosen is terrible and in short - remove the words about a professional trading platform from your website.

1. They didn't remove the fucking logo at the bottom left of all the charts, they just made it more annoying.
2. They didn't give a damn about "analyses", "workspaces", "templates" or simply a non-existent system of tabs raletionship. Let's pretend that everything is logical and not try to change it. It's better to make the most hacky solution of how to copy components from one graph to another (and even this didn't work properly in beta). Just try to steal it from Sierra, please
3. In order for the tick by tick date to be displayed correctly, we have developed a solution... we don't give a shit. You still have to zoom the chart back and forth so that studies are recalculated correctly from the start of the trading session and taking into account the tick data. And if my m1 footprint is set to 500 bars and I suddenly accidentally change the timeframe to m30 - my RAM is fucked with no reason. Just try to steal it from Sierra, please...
4. We as developers fucked the time axis in the mouth. If the user uses range intervals for the footprint (for example), where, of course, the chart buzzed before displaying about 30 rotations, there will definitely be gaps on the time scale. What gaps are there? It's just that under one of the 30 bars its opening time will be displayed
5. Let's add a smooth zoom of charts, it's so wonderful.... horror. Are you developing a trading platform or a fucking site for selling labubus?
6. Returning to footprints - this is still not a chart type, but an overlay on top of candles. And "totals" too, it looks terrible (bar time does not even have a background), but let's close our eyes to this.
7. Oh my, how could we forget - we added an arrow in the upper left corner of the graph so that all your 50 study names could be hidden. And one more thing - you can't remove this arrow, it will always be visible to you.
8. TPO charts, oh my god... It's still not a chart type, it's still an overlay on candles. We still haven't made stats output like RF, TPO count, etc., we haven't made auto font size for letters, we haven't made it so that when profiles are merged there is no distance between them (try making a composite of 20 profiles - why the hell is it 10 miles to the left?). Also composites - of course you will get TPO blocks like "xzyyq124", that's great. But! We added hotkeys, wow. Now instead of two clicks for a composite you only need one - and I do this 100 times a day, it's so necessary.
9. Magnet... The fact that it attracts components to the candles not only along the vertical axis, but also along the horizontal axis is not a problem at all, just add a magnifying glass
10. We have bird's eye view, maybe we should fix it or replace it somehow? No - we'll leave it as is and add a scrollbar. These are completely different things, yes, yes.
11. By the way, we used to develop websites for selling Labubu, that's why there is a cute red heart next to the favorite tickers to add them to your favorites.
12. By the way, you still can't copy the graph image. Only save it to your PC. Or try to make a nice screenshot using your operating system.
13. By the way, if you work in full screen on a Mac and open the settings, they will also open full screen on a new desktop.
14. We cannot make any component added to the chart strictly coincide with the time or price axis. Of course, adding a price label to ES will result in a price of 6400.23 and each time you need to go to the settings to make it 6400.25. Crosshair too - you need to use fucking double crosshair to move across time scale properly.

If there is a desire, I will add the same number of points, if not more.

Please developers, don't be like fucking tradingview (drawing app with candles) and stop fucking with your brains about a mobile app. We don't need a new gradient to display orders heatmap.... You have so much potential ahead of SierraChart, but you are trying to make a site for selling labubu that supports L2 data...

Lol, it’s funny to me that Sierra Chart could easily be the best of the best trading platforms all they need is better support for prop firm traders. That’s it. But they don’t, and they kinda seem to look down on those traders. If they did multi connections like MW does, people would flock to buy their license.

 

[CV123]

i had high hopes while watching the beta announcement.

they seemed really open to have emails and actually talk to traders about fixes or ideas..

but since then.. absolute nothing. beta gets worse and worse and cant even use it..
while the stable version gets no updates at all.

I said the same thing in an email to their support. Talk to traders, not developers.

 

[Merc]

Points 2, 3, 4 and 5 indicate that you regularly change the resolution of your charts, zooming in and out.

I never understood why anyone would regularly change the interval on their chart, on any platform, where they can create independent charts for each interval they analyze and monitor. Each interval is a different analysis, conducted for different but related purposes.

I don't see the vocation of conducting analysis as looking at one picture of an asset's market, where I have to zoom in to peer into the nostrils of somebody in the picture: I see it as different pictures of the same market. One picture displays a seaside pier on a sunny day. A separate picture displays the nostril hairs of somebody sitting on the deck of the pier. Why waste your time (and RAM and CPU) zooming in and out between the two?

I created and maintain a separate chart for the monthly, weekly, daily, hourly, 5-minute, 200CV and 100CV intervals, and I keep them all open at the same time. Note: I have only one chart on my screen at any given time, in fullscreen mode (I use a single 37" monitor). I'm on the Mac, which allows me to maintain a separate desktop for each chart. A simple trackpad swipe enables me to instantly scroll from one chart/desktop to the other in the manner of a carousel.

So each morning I start by reviewing the monthly and cascade down to my entry charts, updating each along the way only where necessary. The monthly, weekly and daily rarely require an update. The hourly chart is the most critical for me. My most relevant drawings/analyses are on that interval, and so when I update it I then copy the update and drop the hourly interval of the copy down to the 5m interval: and that's how I get my fresh new 5m interval chart each day.

If I add drawings to the 5m, I then copy it the same way down to the 200CV chart. And so on. In other words, I always conduct a top-down analysis and cascade everything down to my entry charts. Other than a glance, I review the monthly, weekly and daily in the morning and then ignore them for the rest of the day. I may glance at the hourly 2-3 times in a trading day after the morning update, depending on what happens. But other than that, I'm focused on the various pictures of the nostrils.

I say all this partially to help you and partially to defend what is in my view the absolute best trading platform on the market. I can't say more without giving away my strat, but MW is a highly capable nuclear submarine next to the various other light surfboards and overweight cruise ships and utilitarian tugboats on offer. It's built for people who wish to seek and destroy. I depend on MW to make a living, and so I need the platform to stay in business. That's why in all honesty it troubles me to see its professional rep (and by extension its life-giving revenue stream) jeopardized by unfair or baseless critiques. My reasons are selfish: I have skin in the game with this platform.

You, on the other hand, boldly claim the platform isn't worthy of professionals, and then start off your rant with a complaint about... the logo placement. That speaks volumes about your priorities as an analyst/trader.

Like any user, I have gripes about one thing in MW or another. But as a full-time trader who exclusively uses MW to make a living, your complaints don't amount to a reasonable basis for characterizing it as a non-professional program. If that's how you feel about it, why not bounce over to Sierra Chart, which you seem to hold in high regard?

Otherwise, I do hope this help you consider MW (and analysis, generally) in a different light.