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Release Notes 

November 10, 2009

In a continuing effort to increase performance and expand functionality, we’ll be releasing our newest build this Wednesday, November 11th at 3:30am CT. Please make sure you close out your application today and allow extra time for the update to process on Monday morning.

The following items will be available after the upgrade.

Pipers Alley:

  • Introducing the Market Minute - Unique information ‘flows’ on active options, volatility spikes and overall put/call chatter.
  • New Icons and interface improvements.
Pipers Alley

DUET Order Type (pairs trading)

Found 2 stocks that trade in some sort of correlation and want to automate the trading of them against each other, you can now automate that strategy with our DUET ordertype. For more expansive information on this strategy and the available parameters, click here (.PDF).

TOS Charts

  • resize vertical (y-) axis with click and drag
  • scroll vertical axis with Ctrl-Click and drag (Command-Click on Mac)
  • undo/redo (Ctrl-Z & Ctrl-Shift-Z) feature for drawing tools
  • change order of lower study windows
  • FX charts for bid, ask, mark or last prices
  • new studies: Option Delta, Option Gamma, Option Theta, Option Vega, and Option Rho, and Major Gann Levels
  • New “Week to Date” and “two-, three- and four-day” time frames
shotG at 05.08.09

Odds and Ends

  • Reuters feed in the News Component.
  • Setting to display stock summary line without expansion. Click ‘settings’ - ‘analytics’ for the check box to enable.
  • Thorough redesign across all the configuration menus throughout the application.
Column config
  • Groups Management menu available within the “Groups Context” right-click menu in Risk Analysis.
  • Slice Order reconfigured for easier and smarter order routing for stock vs. option orders.

Keep the suggestions coming to support@thinkpipes.com.

NOTE: No action is required on your part. The newest release will be installed the next time you open thinkpipes. Learn more about thinkpipes' features in the help website.

As always, stay tuned for more updates as we continue to build out and up.

thinkpipes support

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