I am not sure how to put this tactfully - I am still enormously disappointed with the Drawing tools in MC. I am not sure how to convey how extreme this feeling is. This is the worst implementation of a set of drawing tools I have ever used (and I have used many many packages since the good old DOS days). Even TS (which has very poor drawing tools) is better.
Have they even had there overhaul yet? All I can see is the bug that was introduced last version that causes points to 'drop' without releasing the mouse has been fixed. Seems like all the other bugs that I have painstakingly reported over the last couple of years are still there? Also none of the small improvements that have been suggested by numerous people seem to have found there way in.
Let me give my top 3 wish list :-
1) More options for 'mirroring/refelecting lines'. Allow all tools where mirroring makes sense (most of them) to have reflections both +ve and -ve at the same time. And 'internal' divisions (50% 75% etc) Pitchforks in particular need this along with warning lines and lines P0 -> P1. P0 -> P2. with options to extend these lines. Pitchforks need lots of love.
2) Adopt the drawing method mentioned here http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=3510 essentially left click place a point right click cancel a point. You could add shift click to snap as an option while you are at it so that its easy to snap some points and not others.
3) Introduce drawing templates (see Ensign) for object properties. (probably in a tab at the bottom of the properties dialogue. This would allow people to for example set up fib retracements just using major numbers in one colour. Gann style retracements using different styles and Fib retracements with minor numbers in different colours. You could quickly switch between them by applying another style template.
4) yeah I know I said 3 but if you ever have nothing to do
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Please Please get the designer &/or developer responsible for drawing tools to spend a couple of hours messing with Ensigns tools. You can download a demo. It will alllow you to see what is possible with a bit of thought and will provide a much better design to use for inspiration than TS (which has hardly changed since 2000I and even supercharts).
There are two main reasons that Ensign has the largest number of subscribers when it comes to independent charting software. Firstly the large range of novel and unique built in studies. Obviously the huge range of public domain easylanguage studies will allow MC to give a run for the money here. Secondly is the wide range of easy to use flexible drawing tools they also have the bonus of a vast number of styles and attributes that can be use. As it is now MC can not compete with anything n this arena.
I honestly believe that a modest amount of development time in this area is likely to reap a much greater reward in terms of customers gained than things like genetic optimisation. After all what professional is going to use MC for this when you can't even filter out errant data from holidays or spikes? People wanting to go down this path are unlikely to choose MC anyway. Smartquant, Neoticker or coding your own (maybe using libraries) is much more likely.
Multicharts is charting software (according to your home page). Please devote time to making it good at drawing charts.
I hope you take this in the spirit is meant...to offer constructive criticism.
Thanks
Nick.