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New Release: v1.0.3 - Quick Wins

Got some small stuff done to clear up the ol' TODO list a little.

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Fixed Or Added In v1.0.3

  • Error when entering a mobile/cell phone number of 10 digits or more.
  • Double-click a row opens the corresponding detail window in edit mode.
  • Forex Factory calendar changed again.
  • User setting that let's the user decide how to be notified of messages.
  • New Oanda transaction descriptions - BuyBox and BoxClose.
  • "Save and Stay" buttons should be "Apply". "Close" becomes "OK" (but save as well as close).
  • Help menu item for "Documentation".
  • Click to send order to broker, but cancel. Status has changed to "Open" even though it should still be "New".
  • Bulk add of Data Manager entries - choose Weekly or Monthly as the Base, and it shows too many entries.
  • Change "X-over" to "Comparison". E.g. "SMA Comparisons" instead of "SMA X-Over".
  • Activity window "Add" button doesn't work.

posted @ Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:07 AM by Sharky

New Release: v1.0.2 - Back Into It

Long time no release :-)

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Fixed Or Added In v1.0.2

  • All windows will now show scroll bars if they are too big for the computer screen.
  • Now allowing up to 999 hours between database maintenance tasks (was 99 hours, but to kick it off weekly needs 168 hours).
  • Hopefully fixed "date/time field value out of range" error when loading price data from files, which might have occurred on machines where the locale is not US or Japan.
  • Added EFX Group, MB Trading, and Interactive Brokers as companies you can select from the pull-down lists, as well as the currencies each of those brokers provides. This is in preparation for the connection to those brokers through Medved Quotetracker coming soon.

posted @ Tuesday, September 04, 2007 7:44 PM by Sharky

New Release: v1.0.1 - The Customary Bug

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Fixed Or Added In v1.0.1
  • Can send test email message, but "Everything's Fine" email gives an error.
  • 3, 4, 6, 12, 20-minute, 6-hour bars.

posted @ Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:17 PM by Sharky

New Release: v1.0

Well, it's finally here :-)

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Fixed Or Added In v1.0.0
  • Finished putting shortcut keys on menu items, buttons.
  • Have user enter their own GMail account for the sending of emails.
  • Bulk delete button on Messages window.
  • Use the timeout setting on TS Activity & Messages windows, search & bulk delete buttons.
  • Option to ignore weekend data, and set the GMT times that the weekend starts/ends.
  • Using 3-Hour bars for entry and stop loss mgmt, and trade entered. Change stop loss to Hourly bars (and keep everything else using 3-Hourly), and no entry.
  • Different logging levels.
  • Fixed RSI Signal indicator on charts.
  • TS must do the subscription check properly at startup. However, once running, allow 2 subscription check failures. On the 3rd failure in a row, reset to Trial-Version mode. This lets the website be down for about 3 days before it affects anybody already running the program.

posted @ Sunday, April 15, 2007 3:07 AM by Sharky

New Release: v0.9.5 - RC6

(To be honest, none of the last few releases have strictly been "release candidates". Nor this one. But the next one will probably be v1.0).

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Fixed Or Added In v0.9.5
  • New Family: Relative Strength Index Signal
    • RSI Is Above RSI Signal Line
    • RSI Is Below RSI Signal Line
    • RSI Signal Line In Overbought
    • RSI Signal Line In Oversold
    • RSI Signal Line Is Rising
    • RSI Signal Line Is Falling
  • New Family: Detrended Price Oscillator
    • DPO In Overbought
    • DPO In Oversold
    • DPO Is Rising
    • DPO Is Falling
  • New Family: Parabolic SAR
    • Parabolic SAR (value)
    • [OHLC] Is Above Parabolic SAR
    • [OHLC] Is Below Parabolic SAR
  • New Values:
    • Previous Bar Swing High
    • Previous Bar Swing Low
    • Previous SMA Swing High
    • Previous SMA Swing Low
    • Previous EMA Swing High
    • Previous EMA Swing Low
  • New Oanda transactions: 'ChangeMargin', 'APILic', 'APIFee'.
  • Forex Factory calendar download stopped working as they changed the webpage a bit. Now fixed.
  • Option to mark messages as read automatically.
  • Starting adding shortcut keys to the buttons and menus on some windows.
  • The Command Centre will now always open at the top left of TS, to assist with programs such as AutoHotKey.

posted @ Sunday, March 11, 2007 2:17 PM by Sharky

New Release: v0.9.4 - RC5

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Fixed Or Added In v0.9.4
  • New Family: Heikin-Ashi Candlesticks
    • Heikin-Ashi Candle Is Bullish
    • Heikin-Ashi Candle Is Bearish
    • Heikin-Ashi Candle Has No Upper Shadow
    • Heikin-Ashi Candle Has No Lower Shadow
  • New Family: Relative Strength Index X-Over
    • One RSI Is Above Another
    • One RSI Is Below Another
  • New Rules:
    • Two Simple Moving Averages Are X Pips Or More Apart
    • Two Exponential Moving Averages Are X Pips Or More Apart
    • Two Typical Price Averages Are X Pips Or More Apart
    • X Completed Bars After Entry Bar (would normally be used for a time-based exit, i.e. a certain number of bars after entry).
  • New Oanda transaction: 'CrFunds' - Credit Funds.
  • Give the user the option to send Messages to an email address.
  • OCO not working properly when used in combination with Market Orders.
  • Delete FXCM, MG Forex, Interactive Brokers. They aren't set up for data creation nor connection through an API.

posted @ Monday, February 26, 2007 8:09 PM by Sharky

New Release: v0.9.3 - RC4

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Fixed Or Added In v0.9.3
  • New Rules:
    • [OHLC] Is More Than X Pips Above Entry
    • [OHLC] Is More Than X Pips Below Entry
  • More Long/Short Stop Loss Mgmt Rules and Values. That is, you have more ways to decide when and where to move the stop loss. In total there are 9 ways to move the stop loss, plus the Move To Break Even one makes 10.
  • Auto-login.

posted @ Sunday, February 18, 2007 7:50 PM by Sharky

New Release: v0.9.2 - RC3

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Fixed Or Added In v0.9.2
  • No trades taken during backtesting when using Enter At Market.
  • Fixed calculations for all X-Over rules.
  • Forget RateTable exceptions given by Oanda API. Create Activity instead.
  • Cannot cast DBNull error when backtesting.

posted @ Sunday, February 11, 2007 11:43 AM by Sharky

Fixed Or Added In v0.9.1

  • When testing auto-trading, I set it to output files just like it does when backtesting, so I could see what it's doing. But I forgot to turn this off when I released v0.9.0. So whenever auto-trading kicks off, it printed out 2 files for each trading system checked. It no longer does this.
  • Removed a couple of erroneous tooltips (the little yellow rectangle that appears if you hover your mouse over some parts of the software).
  • Prettied up a couple of result grids.

posted @ Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:34 AM by Sharky

Fixed Or Added In v0.9.0

  • Changed email address on Troubleshooting tab of Version Check window. Had listed an email address I shut down months ago. How embarrassing.
  • Put a "Close" button next to any "Save And Stay" buttons.
  • Fixed NY "Is in daylight savings" option.
  • Changed the menu structure to be more 'traditional'.
  • Warning message on Oanda Test Connection button.
  • Long Description for trading systems, so you can write a free-text description of how the system works.
  • Decommissioned the Backtest current configuration window.
  • Some GUI changes.
  • Internet links point to the correct webpages.
  • Sometimes putting orders in at the preferred entry price, even though the price has moved beyond that already. Depending on the Last Gasp settings, should move the entry price up.
  • GMT offset on File Loader needs only one decimal place.
  • Canceling statement due to user request - caused by timeouts when doing database transactions. Have a user option for the timeout period.
  • Bulk delete button for TS Activity.
  • Option to turn off or on the recording of TS Activity.
  • Elapsed time - 07h 01s, needs 00m.
  • File # and total files when not recursing directories.
  • Chart - don't round indicator values.
  • Error on File Load window when loading a text file with 1-Minute bars: ERROR: 23505: duplicate key violates unique constraint "pk_zoanda_gbpusd_1mi"
  • Unhandled exceptions are now handled, and give the options of restarting TS, or just closing.
  • Trying to run more than one instance of TS crashes both.
  • Order rules including Descr and Bar Offset DESC. Both on window and in backtesting output.
  • Strange scrolling when highlight a row and click Search again, on Trading Systems search.
  • Clear and disable "I want this to NOT be true" checkbox when the rule type is a Value.
  • Allow user to input starting amount when backtesting.
  • Print Expectancy (in terms of pips per trade) in backtesting output summary results. Expectancy = (% winners * avg win) - (% losers * avg loss)
  • Backtesting status - use thousands seperator for column/row numbers.
  • Include currency in backtesting output files.
  • Update Help sections.
  • Added Date Format field to file loader.
  • Allow import from Dukascopy text files of historical prices.
  • New option in "Initiated By" field for when saving orders and trades - "Backtesting"
  • Initiated By field for Trades wasn't updating.
  • Downloading only Oanda 1-Minute bars, had the other fields set to zero, TS stopped downloading after the first currency.
  • Added an extra decimal point when displaying any kind of pip value in backtesting results files - some backtesting data has "pipettes", and by rounding these some of the summary values looked like they didn't match up with the others.
  • Backtesting results in terms of dollars was calculating profit/loss as if only 1 contract is being bought each time (which may not necessarily be the case).
  • Annualised % Gain was working off the start date of the first trade and the end date of the last trade. Should use the start and end dates that the user selected. E.g. user selects a 2-year period to backtest over, but there is only one trade that goes for 1 month. In this case, the annualised % gain should be the actual gain divided by 2, but TS is multiplying by 12.
  • Alerts - disallow the same bar being used to send multiple alerts. E.g. if working off 5-Minute bars, and running Alerting every 1 minute, just alert once, not 5 times.
  • Gain Capital trade's date was set to one hour before the order. Need the NY "is in daylight saving" option set properly.
  • If using the override setting, and not retrieving enough bars to cover the length of a trade, would sometimes close trades prematurely.
  • Removed the need for the user to decide how many bars to retrieve, in the case that they are using an indicator which has a memory. Now just adding 250 bars onto everything. This will get rid of the indicator memory problem, and will not noticeably detract from performance. Backtesting still uses the From and To dates as specified by the user.
  • Now using Rule Type field on Alerts window properly.
  • The prices in trading alerts were being rounded to 2 decimals. Should be 4.
  • If TS puts a long order below the current price, it cancels it when it realises. However, there is also a situation when the high of the bar happens before the order is placed, and then drops below where the order wants to be put. In this case there is no need to cancel the order.
  • Fixed inserts of paper trades.
  • 'Trade Entered' alerts not being sent when using market orders.
  • Create a trading system, and have the rules which determine entry use a longer interval, e.g. Daily, and the rules which determine the stop loss management use a shorter interval, such as Hourly. If the stop loss is taken out quickly, the system will place a new limit order based on the same Daily bar. It should wait until the next Daily bar.
  • Let the user decide if a trading system can re-enter a trade using a bar that was used for an entry previously.
  • New Money Mgmt option - Variable Fractional Percent (VFP). That is, the % of bank used for each trade varies, depending on the outcome of previous trades. A variation on Morley's technique.
  • Oanda's start of day is at midnight GMT, but when creating interval data for Oanda it was setting the start of day to 4AM. You should re-create your data for the following intervals: 3-Hour, 8-Hour, 12-Hour, Daily, Weekly, Monthly. The other intervals will be correct.
  • Changed how Accounts & Currencies are attached to trading systems.
  • No Trading Long:
    • There must be X or more Short trades in a row before allowing Long trades or orders.
    • Allow up to and including X Long trades in a row.
    • Stop trading Long if X consecutive non-profit long trades in a row.
    • Stop trading Long if the last X long trades were all winners.
  • No Trading - Short:
    • There must be X or more Long trades in a row before allowing Short trades or orders.
    • Allow up to and including X Short trades in a row.
    • Stop trading Short if X consecutive non-profit short trades in a row.
    • Stop trading Short if the last X short trades were all winners.
  • New Rules:
    • ADX In Range
    • ADX Not In Range
    • Toss A Coin

posted @ Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:30 AM by Sharky

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