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To open the Admin window, click the following from the main menu:
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posted @ Saturday, October 28, 2006 11:27 PM by Sharky

Support Availability

Support is as normal - within 24 hours of receiving your request.

posted @ Saturday, October 21, 2006 5:39 AM by Sharky

Website Under Construction

There will be some construction taking place on this website over the next couple of days. You might see some strange things or inconsistencies on some pages.

posted @ Friday, October 20, 2006 10:59 AM by Sharky

New Release: v0.8.3 - Market Orders

Download - See what changed - Purchase.

The main change in v0.8.3 is the inclusion of Market Orders for Oanda.

posted @ Friday, October 20, 2006 10:56 AM by Sharky

Fixed Or Added In v0.8.3

Market Orders:
- For Oanda only.
- Backtesting calculates the entry/SL/TP from the previous bar, but assumes gets in at the open of the current bar.
- Enter At Market cannot be used for anything other than Long Entry Values or Short Entry Values.
- If Enter At Market is used, it overrides any other Entry Values setting.
"Average Bar Range" family is now "Bar Range"
- Current Bar Range Is Narrowest Of Last X Bars
- Current Bar Range Is Widest Of Last X Bars
- Bar Range Is More Than X Multiple(s) Of The Average (this one was already there)
- Can now chart the Narrowest Bar Range, Widest Bar Range, and Average Bar Range.
Some latency during auto-trading saw the limit order price placed below the current price. Gain Capital throws an error when this occurs. Oanda allowed it to happen. And, it was when the price fell down below the price (rather than rising through it) that the order was taken up. In this case the order is now cancelled. Will recalculate next bar.
Trading system moved to Trade Mgmt Only section immediately reverted to an available system even though it had a trade outstanding.
For Gain Capital, order marked as 'Cancelled' even though its trade was entered (so its status should actually be 'Entered'). This is Gain's problem - there is a small window of time where the order is gone and the trade is not their either. It's not a critical issue.
For Gain Capital, order marked as 'Open' even though its trade was entered (so its status should actually be 'Entered').
\BUP\ORD\ and \BUP\DEAL\ no longer treated as unknown messages from Gain Capital's rates feed.
Could delete a user who is being used in the Data Manager window to download rates. Then when click Search, any entries for this user would not show up, because referential integrity is broken.
On Update Trade window, added confirmation messages when user wants to send any type of change to the broker.
On Update Trade window, now showing current Bid price for longs, and Ask prices for shorts, as these are the values used when exiting.
Fixed Exit At Market button. Now works for Gain Capital, and doesn't overwrite the trade's entry ref # for Oanda. Although, often there are problems at Gain Capital's end.
Use sequences instead of Sequences_SEQ table (which was a left-over from the days of using Microsoft Access).
Gain Capital changed it's demo accounts to only allow trades in blocks of 100K, rather than blocks of 10K.
Removed third L from "Bolllinger Bandwidth Is Below X"

posted @ Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:09 AM by Sharky

New Release: v0.8.2 - Candlesticks

Download - See what changed - Purchase.

The main change in v0.8.2 is the inclusion of Candlestick trading rules.

posted @ Friday, October 20, 2006 10:54 AM by Sharky

Fixed Or Added In v0.8.2

Candlestick trading rules:
- Abandoned Baby
- Advance Block
- Belt-hold
- Breakaway
- Closing Marubozu
- Concealing Baby Swallow
- Counterattack
- Dark Cloud Cover
- Doji
- Doji Star
- Dragonfly Doji
- Engulfing Pattern
- Evening Doji Star
- Evening Star
- Gravestone Doji
- Hammer
- Hanging Man
- Harami Cross Pattern
- Harami Pattern
- High-Wave Candle
- Hikkake Pattern
- Homing Pigeon
- Identical Three Crows
- In-Neck Pattern
- Inverted Hammer
- Kicking
- Kicking - bull/bear determined by the longer marubozu
- Ladder Bottom
- Long Legged Doji
- Long Line Candle
- Marubozu
- Mat Hold
- Matching Low
- Modified Hikkake Pattern
- Morning Doji Star
- Morning Star
- On-Neck Pattern
- Piercing Pattern
- Rickshaw Man
- Rising/Falling Three Methods
- Separating Lines
- Shooting Star
- Short Line Candle
- Spinning Top
- Stalled Pattern
- Stick Sandwich
- Takuri (Dragonfly Doji with very long lower shadow)
- Tasuki Gap
- Three-Line Strike
- Three Advancing White Soldiers
- Three Black Crows
- Three Inside Up/Down
- Three Outside Up/Down
- Three Stars In The South
- Thrusting Pattern
- Tristar Pattern
- Two Crows
- Unique 3 River
- Up/Down-gap side-by-side white lines
- Upside Gap Two Crows
- Upside/Downside Gap Three Methods
Found a HDD that doesn't show its details.
Status labels for Transaction downloads.
Update licence to meet TA-Lib licence requirements.
Put Add/Delete/Modify buttons on Admin window on the individual tabs, instead of just the one set for the whole window.
Gain Capital - Exit At Market button throws error - "Amt must be > 0".
Removed some unused references.
Fixed "canceling statement due to user request" error. Occurred when a trip to the database took a long time. Changed the timeout to 30 minutes for the statements which take a long time.
Fixed error when trying to create new trading system.
Fixed "trs_system_id not found" error when downloading Oanda rates.
"%b must be below X" is now "[OHLC] Below %b Value of X"
"%b must be above X" is now "[OHLC] Above %b Value of X"

posted @ Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:05 AM by Sharky