eSignal Release Notes Page 1 of 8 A product of Interactive Data Desktop Solutions

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eSignal 11.2 June 15, 2011

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eSignal 11.2 brings a suite of new features and enhancements for the active trader and investor. Chart Trading is redesigned with an updated look and feel as well as a slide panel for making quick trades. Line alerts are incredibly useful for catching trend changes even before they happen. Many application improvements have been introduced, including the ability to read 10.6 pages and back up all of your work with a single click. Read on for more information about this release. Features / Enhancements Chart Trading One of 11's strongest features is Chart Trading. With a sliding panel to the right of your charts, you will be able to open a position with just a single click, view a summary of current profit / loss and close or reverse your current positions. Money management strategies worked into this version support partial or fully automated position management. For instance, as shown in the following screenshot, I was able to short MSFT for 300 shares, and my money management strategy (called "Equity Strat.") automatically placed a stop and two limit orders at set price levels. This money management planner was introduced in 11.1, but it is even more valuable now that the price levels are visible on a chart window. Additional features include real-time limit and stop order adjustment with a drag-and-drop action, single-click order cancel (the "X" icon) or reverse (the "R" icon) and execution labels. The latter is especially helpful for knowing exactly on what bar your order was filled, so you can see historically where a trade decision was made or where your targets were hit.

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eSignal 11.2 June 15, 2011

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Line Alerts Trend lines now have the option of turning on an alert feature, so you can be notified when price has broken support or resistance levels. Numerous alert options can be set, such as an audio alert, a pop-up alert, email alert, or a color change. There is also the ability to set an alert area, so you can be prepared when price approaches one of your lines. Also included is the ability to automatically re-arm the alert. This is of particular importance because it is common for resistance levels to become support levels in future price patterns.

Currently, the following tools have alerts: Trend Line, Horizontal Line, Fibonacci Retracement, Fibonacci Extension, Pitchfork and TJ’s Ellipse. The remaining tools will have alerts in 11.3. New Broker / Service Provider Plug-Ins 11.2 adds support for more trading integration plug-ins to the line-up. The following brokers and service providers are automatically included in the installer now:

• TD Ameritrade • FXCM • Lind-Waldock • MF Global (Lind XPRS), which includes:

o MF Global Future o MF Global Futures Trading o MF Global NS Futures o MF Global Capital Trading Group o MF Global Advantage Traders

• OANDA • OEC

o Global Futures • TransAct, which includes:

o Infinity Futures o Proactive Futures o Trade Pro Futures o TransAct Futures o Zaner

For a complete list of brokers and providers supported in eSignal, head over to our Trading Integration page. Single-Click Back-Up Back up your pages, EFS studies, preferences and other eSignal 11 aspects all in one file with a single click! This makes it simple to preserve all your work in the case of a system failure or other such event. In addition, it is easy to move all of these items from one computer to another by saving onto a USB drive. Better yet, try saving to a cloud-based solution such as eSignal File Share or Dropbox, and access your eSignal files from anywhere!

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eSignal 11.2 June 15, 2011

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Opening 10.6 Pages eSignal 11.2 now allows the partial importing of 10.6 pages through the Open Page command. This is largely beneficial for those who have many pages from 10.6 and earlier and are just converting to eSignal 11 for the first time. The windows you are currently able to import from earlier versions of eSignal are outlined in this Knowledge Base article.

Price Ruler New for the Trend Line tool is the ability to measure the distance and slope between two end points. Typically, this is used to find the distance each swing is covering for comparison purposes to other swings in a trend or to validate a specific trend depending on each trader’s systems. The amount of slope is another method used to better define the severity of a specific trend.

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eSignal 11.2 June 15, 2011

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Go to Date Yet another feature brought back from 10.6 is, Go to Date. This handy tool allows you to jump back to a specific date and time quickly with just a few clicks. For those who have had experience with this tool in 10.6, you may have discovered that data would not load automatically when you used this tool. In 11.2, this all changes; if you want to take a 1-minute chart back quickly to 1997, this is now possible with Go to Date and the Extended Intraday Data service.

Magnet and Eraser Tools Both the magnet tool and the eraser tool from eSignal 10.6 have been brought back in eSignal 11. These can be found on the line toolbar and make working with lines much easier. To further speed up line drawing, a “Use only High and Low for Magnet” enhancement has also been added. Data Window Enhancements A chart’s Data Window now includes the ability to turn on the Bar Index and Bar Value fields. This improves the ability to see where your cursor is in relation to the most current bar and how many bars are loaded. In addition, you can now turn off unneeded data to create a more compact window. The Data Window now also shows times and dates in the future, which is especially helpful for timing analysis when using studies and tools such as trend lines, Fibonacci Circles, Fibonacci Time, or Gann Boxes.

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eSignal 11.2 June 15, 2011

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Arrows for Lines One thing we have had a number of requests for in eSignal 11 is to bring back the ability to create an arrow. While basic Up / Down arrows were present in 11.1, some traders were looking for a way to draw arrows using a variety of shapes. Now, in 11.2, you can do this with the Trend Line tool. By using the two “End Type” selections in Edit Chart, you can control how you would like the arrows to appear in your chart. You can choose from 7 different types to add some variety, offering an advantage over using the arrow tool in 10.6. If you would prefer to have your lines always draw this way, choose the “Defaults…” button and select “Set As Default”.

Standalone Quote Bar The Quote Bar previously appeared in the upper right corner of eSignal 11 and shared an entry box with Symbol Search, but many users found this confusing and not useful. We have now moved the Quote Bar to its own bar above the ticker with a separate symbol entry box. In addition, any of the Watch List data fields can be added to the bar and moved to any position.

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eSignal 11.2 June 15, 2011

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Interval Selection Box Typically, in a chart, one can either type in an interval and press Enter or hit the drop-down box and select a recently used interval. A third method is to click the clock icon to the right of the interval box and choose an available interval from a selection box. This selection box has been enhanced to show, not only more popular choices, but also the actual interval values. These values are sorted in a more logical manner — from time-based intervals at the top to tick-based intervals in the middle to day-based intervals at the bottom.

Track Time, Track Price — Separate Cursor Choices The cursor in the chart previously had a toggle to “Track Time and Price”. Now, in eSignal 11.2, these are separate to allow you to choose more easily how the cursor aligns with other charts. For instance, as I move my mouse in a 10-minute chart of GOOG, I can see how this lines up with a 133T interval chart in another window. Likewise, I can line up price across various charts with Track Price on. With these features separated, more control is possible with the price cursor. Option Chain Frequency Filter Numerous stocks and indices have multiple expiries available with their option chains now increasing the number of choices for traders. This includes options that expire on a weekly basis. While this does provide a lot of flexibility for short-term option speculation and hedging, this can quickly fill up an option chain window. In the filter drop-down tray, there is a new toggle called “Monthly Options Only”. For those traders looking to remove weekly and quarterly contracts (anything with a D## in its name), putting a check in this selection box will help trim down the option chain to only those contracts that interest you.

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eSignal 11.2 June 15, 2011

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Additional Enhancements and Fixes As with every release, we correct crashes and other issues reported through Help Report a Bug menu. Thanks to all who submitted these reports. Below is a list of other changes in 11.2, including smaller enhancements and bug fixes.

- Symbol counts have been added in the eSignal tray (lower left corner) - Style Templates have been added for all remaining windows and improved to Apply, Rename, Delete - Opening a new window in Standard mode no longer detaches that window - eSignal OnDemand for Forex is now fully supported in eSignal 11.2

Alerts - “Reactivate” once again allows the editing of a selected alert - Fired time is now correctly reflected in all time zones - Alerts can now be entered with a more decimals

Charts - When a line tool is selected, studies in the price area are dimmed - The Time Templates window’s More button has been separated to Defaults and Apply to - Bar Replay now correctly exits its mode when clicking the X - Bars and candles can now overlap using the Bar Width field or Shift + Right Arrow - The text tool is easier to use and can now have multiple lines of text - The Data Window now displays n/a when whitespaces are enabled and no trading occurs - TJ’s Ellipse no longer generates an error message when the tool does not have any chart data loaded - When you insert the same symbol into a chart (typically with a different interval), the scales are now

automatically aligned Detailed Quotes - This window scrolls automatically to a recently added data field EFS - Selecting any function and pressing F1 now brings up the KnowledgeBase article for that function - getVersionNumber() now provides correct version information - A number of EFS compatibility issues were addressed, such as Pivot Console, Volume Profile, and many

others - Double clicking a line in the Formula Output window now correctly selects the whole line - The Strategy Analyzer will now automatically recalculate if the chart is refreshed - The Output window can now clear the data via a right-click - The HTTP object is now able to open more file types

Integrated Trading - Money Management Strategies (MMS) now remain intact if a disconnect occurs - The confirmation screen will now appear if MMS orders are to be cancelled; can be disabled in same

screen - When reversing a position, different choices for MMS implementation are now possible, including

Reverse Position only; no MMS, Reverse position and apply MMS defined quantity; or Reverse Position and apply quantity of remaining position (percent scaled based on MMS)

- Similar logic as described above is applied when changing the quantity of an order that is different from MMS

- The OCA Column has been renamed to OCO to better match standard naming conventions - Cancel All orders correctly shows positions as being closed

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eSignal 11.2 June 15, 2011

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Watch List - Percent Change will now be colored the same as the Change column - Format Columns renamed to Edit Columns - “UPC On” symbol flag has been renamed to “Restricted” - When adding a Formula, eSignal now inserts the correct number of columns