What's new in QST Desktop Version 5.0 ?
 Charts
Added "Represent Prices With Decimals" property to display the prices with ^ format in decimals.
Spread Continuation charts now enabled for select contracts.
Added Time-based filtering to remove certain time periods from charts.
Added continuation options in the right-click chart menu.
Added option to “Remove all indicators” to right click menu of indicator status bar.
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| Chart Indicators
KAMA, KAMABW indicators - add Fast Length, Slow Length properties.
New Indicator: AVOI All months Volume/Open interest.
New Indicator: TD REI.
New Indicator: Accumulation/Distribution Indicator.
Included SMA component with existing Bolinger Bands Indicator.
Added Donchian Channels Indicator.
Added Chaikin Oscillator Indicator.
AVOI indicator - All Months/Aggregate Volume & Open Interest.
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| Indicator Builder
Candle components can be added to indicators.
Drag & drop indicators(from indicators list) to chart frames.
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| Application
Detect a broken connection to server in 10 seconds rather than old time frame of 2 minutes.
Added "Use UP / DOWN arrows in number editors " property to "Layout and Organization" tab in General Settings. If this property is enabled then number/price editors are displayed as spinner components with up/down arrows. If disabled, classic number editors are displayed.
General Properties - Layout and Organization-> "Maximize new external frame" property added.
Implemented "drag from" for OPM (Contract, Position and Strike columns), FQP (all columns) and QM (Contract column). You can drag a contract from any of these frames and drop it into a contract box in any other frame.
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| Alarms
Added pop-under notifications of alarms.
Added shortcut to alarms in the status area.
Added volume and price alerts.
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| Advanced Options
Added “Use Trading Days until Expiration” as an option for calculating greeks and theoretical values.
Added option for intra-session time decay for calculating greeks and theoretical values. Decay occurs every 15 minutes.
Added a property "Ignore Suspend-Resume Period".
Greeks columns can now be exported via excel link.
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| Quote Monitor
Added free text support on the empty rows within a Quote Monitor.
Added Daily Hard Limits(DHL) Min/Max.
Added Implied vs Outright data. Bid/Ask & Size.
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| News
Added the "Whole words only" option in the Search News window - for the whole search mode, highlight only the whole word in the story body of a news window - disable "Whole words only" radio button if the user attempts to input more than one word in the "Search what" combo box, or if he selects a search string that contains spaces (has multiple words).
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| Order Entry
Implemented support fo TAS (Trade As Settlement) orders.
Implemented server-side Iceberg (Hidden Quantity) for CQG.
Implemented a currency feature to display account data in a pre-determined foreign or domestic currency.
Implemented support for server side Iceberg orders via OAK
Implemented the 'On Behalf Of' feature using CQG's FIX API for placement of orders.
Added support for trading strip strategies via CQG.
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| Order Preview
Added setting to populate in upper left corner of computer screen rather than middle of screen.
Added setting to use blue/red as background for order preview.
Added setting to show realized P/L for order preview.
Added setting to show/hide last tick for order preview.
Added setting to show/hide "Order Ticket" button in order preview.
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| Order & Positions Monitor
Added “group by “order# - contract – price” to help with spreads viewed in leg form.
Added new column: Special Instructions. Not visible by default.
Included Shared Orderbook functionality at the if using CQG for order routing.
Included "Entered By" column in OPM for fills and orders, to track multiple traders account access activity.
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| Contingent Orders
Trailing Stop, Trailing Limit – now show Chase Activation price.
Generic OCO contingency - "Synthesize OCO" in OE menu.
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| Contingency Templates
Removed arbitrary limit of 9 templates.
Flatten and Reverse will no longer apply a template.
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| Order Activity Log
Log entries no longer truncated after 7 days automatically.
Added Print Archive feature.
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| Workspaces and Linked Workspaces
Implemented a docking capability that allows users to “glue” frames together.
Added setting to allow user to rename linked-workspace tabs.
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| New Frames
New Frame: Spread Matrix
Added a spread matrix screen with differential and exchange traded quotes, order entry, formula support, option spread capabilities. See more
New Frame: RFQ Request for Quotes
New Frame: Block Trades (CME Group and ICE-US/CA). See more
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What's new in QST Mobile ?
Note: Not all new features are available in every version of QST or a private-labeled version thereof. The specific package a user is subscribed to determines the feature set for that user. Feature availability can be confirmed by checking My Subscriptions->View Features while logged into QST or by consulting the “View Comparison” link in the Packages section of the My Subscriptions website.
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