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NOTE: With the creation of the Thinking Stuff User Manual (available on the Download page), this Knowledge Base has become more of just an announcements area. So maybe not so interesting. Try the Blog instead.
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Articles from
June 2006
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The main new feature is putting red and green arrows on the chart so you can see what your trading system is doing. Also time-based rules have been added.
- Functionality to put arrows on a chart given trade information. Added new tab on Charts window. Can enter (a) trade buy/sell info; or (b) all data from the data file that results from backtesting; or (c) trade information from FXCM King Of The Mini webpage; or (d) trade information from the Collective2 website. Specify whether Long only, Short only, or both are to be displayed. Chart needs to be populated already.
- Time-based trading rules:
- Minute Of Hour Is X (GMT)
- Minute Of Hour Is X Or Before (GMT)
- Minute Of Hour Is X Or After (GMT)
- Hour Of Day Is X (GMT)
- Hour Of Day Is X Or Before (GMT)
- Hour Of Day Is X Or After (GMT)
- Day Of Week Is Sunday (GMT)
- Day Of Week Is Monday (GMT)
- Day Of Week Is Monday Or Before(GMT)
- Day Of Week Is Monday Or After (GMT)
- Day Of Week Is Tuesday (GMT)
- Day Of Week Is Tuesday Or Before(GMT)
- Day Of Week Is Tuesday Or After (GMT)
- Day Of Week Is Wednesday (GMT)
- Day Of Week Is Wednesday Or Before(GMT)
- Day Of Week Is Wednesday Or After (GMT)
- Day Of Week Is Thursday (GMT)
- Day Of Week Is Thursday Or Before(GMT)
- Day Of Week Is Thursday Or After (GMT)
- Day Of Week Is Friday (GMT)
- Day Of Week Is Friday Or Before(GMT)
- Day Of Week Is Friday Or After (GMT)
- Day Of Week Is Saturday (GMT)
- Day Of Month Is X (GMT)
- Day Of Month Is X Or Before (GMT)
- Day Of Month Is X Or After (GMT)
- Month Of Year Is X (GMT)
- Month Of Year Is X Or Before (GMT)
- Month Of Year Is X Or After (GMT)
- Other new Rules:
- [OHLC] Is Higher Than X
- [OHLC] Is Lower Than X
- Value of SMA Is Higher Than X
- Value of SMA Is Lower Than X
- Value of ATR Is Higher Than X
- Value of ATR Is Lower Than X
- New Values:
- [OHLC] Plus X Percent
- [OHLC] Minus X Percent
- [OHLC] Plus X Pips
- [OHLC] Minus X Pips
- Fixed real-time chart. Need to be downloading ticks for it to update.
- Auto-trading for Gain Capital rounds down to the nearest 100,000 units, but actually the demo accounts allow trading in 10K lots.
- Added "# Bars To Load" setting for all the Simple Moving Average Swings rules.
- Multiply Average Pullback Histogram by -1, so buy signals are given at the top of the chart, and sell signals are given at the bottom.
- Bring a window to the front if it's clicked.
- "Bulk" button needs to be disabled when creating interval data. Date fields should not necessarily be re-enabled after Interval creation finished.
- New option which allows you to turn off the warning message that comes up when you choose to retrieve more than 2,500 records.
- New option which allows you to hide the Subscription window at startup. If it is hidden, it can be viewed again by clicking "I Want To..." > "View/Edit..." > "View my subscriptions" from the main menu.
- Show the database name and user on About window.
- The Chart window does not open at all on machines other than the development machine. Read this page to see how to fix this problem.
- Completed code for auto-trading.
- Fixed the Orders window.
- Fixed the Trades window.
- Fixed the Transactions window.
- Fixed the "Copy Trading System" window.
- One Cancels the Other (OCO) calculations.
- Improved loading from text files so it takes minutes instead of hours.
- Fixed the "Pass on any trade where the risk is more than X pips" setting.
- Fixed the bit that works out if we have enough margin available for a new order to be placed.
- When retrieving Missing Gain Data it now takes into account if NY is in daylight savings time or not.
- On the Command Centre - periodically send a message to a given email address.
- Due to the efficiency of the algorithm which determines the number of bars to retrieve, the Profit Factor setting will not work in Auto-Trading (but it will in backtesting). Added user setting for number of bars to retrieve to override the calculated result.
- The user interface is a bit weird in places.
- Open the Options window/tab if it's the user's first time.
- Row Limit dropdowns don't work in all locales.
- Sort the grids if the user clicks the column header.
- In the backtesting output file - don't print the exit date if the trade is still open.
- Change "X Pips Above Entry" to "X Pips Above Calculated Entry", and "X Pips Below Entry" to "X Pips Below Calculated Entry" (because that's the reality).
- Make invisible those Families that don't have any children (e.g. Congestion).
- When add something that populates a dropdown, add to the dropdowns if the window is open. The new entry will be at the end, though, until the window is closed and re-opened. Also not going to do it for the Orders, Trades, and Transactions windows, as they require further data from the DB.
- Username filter on Accounts search didn't work.
- Oanda API (still some work to do with transactions, trades and orders).
- Display different time zones in status bar. New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, GMT.
- New intervals: 5-Second, 10-Second, 30-Second.
- 'Server' field for Oanda users (that option was previously only available when "Gain Capital" was the selected company).
- Due to Oanda's 35 currencies and 10 intervals, plus ticks, allow user to decide which to download in bulk. Currently one-by-one.
- Save settings for the # of Oanda bars to retrieve. Also save the time between downloads that the user has selected for all Command Centre functions.
- Check if the user has cancelled the downloading of Gain Capital Missing Rates data.
- 'Test connection' buttons where User details are entered. For Gain Capital users, a simple "connection worked" message is displayed. For Oanda, the details they have about that user is also shown.
- Row Limit parameter would not work properly if the user's machine locale use "," as the decimal.
- Scenario: create a new user when creating a new database (as opposed to just using the root user). Later log in using the root user. Root user creates a new Data Manager entry, which in turn creates a new database table. That table is owned by the root user. Later log in as the new user instead of root user. Try to delete that Data Manager entry and will receive permissions error as the table belongs to the root user. Have a 'database owner' config, and use it when creating tables. That way it won't matter what user they log in with - root or otherwise.
- User settings - separator to use in backtesting output files (comma don't work in some locales).
- User settings - Allow user to specify directory to save summary and data files when backtesting.
- Oanda's start of day is 4AM GMT.
- Error thrown if user tries the trial-version of backtesting, and they haven't set up to store the data that the trading system requires, even though the trial-version of backtesting uses its own data.
- Error thrown if user tries to backtest, in the trial-version mode or not, and there is no data in any of the tables that that trading system requires.
- Changed all fonts to Arial.
- On Admin Screen, Users Tab - show a message when changing Server from Demo/Live to not selected, and that user has been set up in the Data Manager screen to be used to download data. Fixed because user must choose either Demo/Live for Oanda and Gain Capital.
- Don't update the status label if user selected 0hrs 00min, or 0 bars, when downloading price data.
- Fixed tab orders on some windows.
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