Hello!
I’ve discovered a bug in the MotiveWave app. I think it is present in both free and paid versions. It has been in MotiveWave for several years now. This bug affects Trend Line, Horizontal Line, Retracement and Extension drawing tools. It's possible that other drawing tools might be affected by the bug.
When I open a Trend Line Tool and draw a trend line with it, by default it snaps to the top or bottom of the nearest bar. This behavior is very annoying (to me at least). I want to be able to draw objects where I want to draw them and not have software tell me where I can and I can’t draw them. I’ve tried multiple charting software packages and none of them have Trend Lines that snap to objects, without giving you at least an option to turn snap feature off. The owner’s manual of MotiveWave says you can temporarily disable the snap feature by holding an Alt button on the keyboard while moving/dragging a trend line. This does work when I move an existing (previously drawn trend line) and avoids snap to bar behavior. But when I’m drawing a new trend line and holding an Alt button at the same time, a bug appears. Snap to bar behavior does indeed gets disabled, but as soon as I release the left mouse button to complete the end point of the trend line drawing, suddenly an infinite extension appears on the right side of the trend line. Like this:
I don’t want extensions on my trend lines. So, every time I draw a trend line with a snap off using the Alt button, I have to do a couple of extra steps to remove this infinite Extension to the right. I draw hundreds of trend lines each day, and for this extra step I waste a lot of time. It’s very annoying to do so.
Here's another part of the bug. Just to make my point clear, Trend Lines and Horizontal Lines have a start point and an end point. Holding an Alt button is supposed to disable Snap to Bar mode temporarily for both the start point and an end point of the trend line. But in reality it only disables Snap to Bar for the end point of the Trend Line (albeit with a bug that gives you a unwanted infinite extension after the end point). In other words, Alt button trick only disables Snap to Bar for the end point of the trend line. The start point of the trend line still snaps to the nearest bar even as you are holding the Alt button.
There is a separate keyboard shortcut to Extend a Trend line. It’s Ctrl + E. Then why does the extension appear when I use the Alt button to disable Snap mode?
I even tried to create a trend line template without an extension. I remove the extension, set the color, width of a trend line, and set it as a default so that next time I draw a trend line, it appears exactly as I want it to be. But no luck. The next trend line I draw using Alt, it shows up again with an infinite extension to the right side.
When comparing Trend line behavior with another drawing tool in MotiveWave such as an Arrow Line for example, you can clearly see that it is a bug indeed. When drawing an Arrow object, by default it also snaps to the nearest bar’s high or low. To disable snap temporarily, I press and hold Alt button. Snapping gets disabled and I can freely draw the Arrow object anywhere. When I am done drawing an Arrow object and release the left mouse button, the end point of Arrow stays where I drew it without creating an infinite extension. In other words, this bug doesn’t affect the Arrow object and doesn’t create an extension to the right infinitely.
This bug also affects Horizontal Trend Lines and Retracement drawing tool the same way as regular Trend Lines.
Please look into this issue. Thank you for creating one of the best Software apps.
Vitali
I’ve discovered a bug in the MotiveWave app. I think it is present in both free and paid versions. It has been in MotiveWave for several years now. This bug affects Trend Line, Horizontal Line, Retracement and Extension drawing tools. It's possible that other drawing tools might be affected by the bug.
When I open a Trend Line Tool and draw a trend line with it, by default it snaps to the top or bottom of the nearest bar. This behavior is very annoying (to me at least). I want to be able to draw objects where I want to draw them and not have software tell me where I can and I can’t draw them. I’ve tried multiple charting software packages and none of them have Trend Lines that snap to objects, without giving you at least an option to turn snap feature off. The owner’s manual of MotiveWave says you can temporarily disable the snap feature by holding an Alt button on the keyboard while moving/dragging a trend line. This does work when I move an existing (previously drawn trend line) and avoids snap to bar behavior. But when I’m drawing a new trend line and holding an Alt button at the same time, a bug appears. Snap to bar behavior does indeed gets disabled, but as soon as I release the left mouse button to complete the end point of the trend line drawing, suddenly an infinite extension appears on the right side of the trend line. Like this:
I don’t want extensions on my trend lines. So, every time I draw a trend line with a snap off using the Alt button, I have to do a couple of extra steps to remove this infinite Extension to the right. I draw hundreds of trend lines each day, and for this extra step I waste a lot of time. It’s very annoying to do so.
Here's another part of the bug. Just to make my point clear, Trend Lines and Horizontal Lines have a start point and an end point. Holding an Alt button is supposed to disable Snap to Bar mode temporarily for both the start point and an end point of the trend line. But in reality it only disables Snap to Bar for the end point of the Trend Line (albeit with a bug that gives you a unwanted infinite extension after the end point). In other words, Alt button trick only disables Snap to Bar for the end point of the trend line. The start point of the trend line still snaps to the nearest bar even as you are holding the Alt button.
There is a separate keyboard shortcut to Extend a Trend line. It’s Ctrl + E. Then why does the extension appear when I use the Alt button to disable Snap mode?
I even tried to create a trend line template without an extension. I remove the extension, set the color, width of a trend line, and set it as a default so that next time I draw a trend line, it appears exactly as I want it to be. But no luck. The next trend line I draw using Alt, it shows up again with an infinite extension to the right side.
When comparing Trend line behavior with another drawing tool in MotiveWave such as an Arrow Line for example, you can clearly see that it is a bug indeed. When drawing an Arrow object, by default it also snaps to the nearest bar’s high or low. To disable snap temporarily, I press and hold Alt button. Snapping gets disabled and I can freely draw the Arrow object anywhere. When I am done drawing an Arrow object and release the left mouse button, the end point of Arrow stays where I drew it without creating an infinite extension. In other words, this bug doesn’t affect the Arrow object and doesn’t create an extension to the right infinitely.
This bug also affects Horizontal Trend Lines and Retracement drawing tool the same way as regular Trend Lines.
Please look into this issue. Thank you for creating one of the best Software apps.
Vitali
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