The Never-Ending Release

Wow, this release seemed like it would never end. But it will be out soon. Today I'll do some testing, and if all goes well (putting emphasis on those words) then it should be out tomorrow.

The first thing you're going to notice is that you can now save your password so you don't have to enter it each time. Careful though - it saves your password in plain text.

The second thing you're going to notice is the major changes in layout. Hopefully it's prettier now. I got rid of those Info boxes, with the blue writing. They kind of looked ugly, took up a lot of space, and limited me to the amount I could write. I replaced them with a scrollable field on the right hand side of those windows that need it. And you can hide that field if you don't want it. (N.b. the Login window still has the Info box at this time).

You can make the backtesting output files Excel files (2002/XP and above), or you can keep them as they are now, which is comma-separated text files.

You can vary the number of units/contracts bought during backtesting. Up until now backtesting always bought 100,000 units (1 contract) for comparing apples-with-apples purposes, but now you can choose to continue to do that, or to follow the Money Mgmt rules for the particular Trading System. It's still going to start with a bank of $100K though.

There's an Interactive Brokers proof of concept which you can muck around with. If you're bored one day.

Last but definitely not least, there's a whole bunch of new Rules and Values:

Bar Formations (existing Family)
Spread Is X Or Below

Simple Moving Averages (existing Family)
SMA Is Falling
SMA Is Rising

Bollinger Bands (existing Family)
Bollinger Bandwidth Is Above X
Bolllinger Bandwidth Is Below X

Commodity Channel Index
Commodity Channel Index In Overbought
Commodity Channel Index In Oversold

Commodity Channel Index X-Over
One CCI Is Above Another
One CCI Is Below Another

Bollinger Bands X-Over
One Upper Bollinger Line Is Above Another
One Upper Bollinger Line Is Below Another
One Lower Bollinger Line Is Above Another
One Lower Bollinger Line Is Below Another
Upper Bollinger Line Is Above Lower Bollinger Line
Upper Bollinger Line Is Below Lower Bollinger Line
Lower Bollinger Line Is Above Upper Bollinger Line
Lower Bollinger Line Is Below Upper Bollinger Line

What I mean here is, for example, the Upper Bollinger Line with period 20 is below the Lower Bollinger Line with period 100. Obviously the Upper Bollinger Line with period 20 is never going to be below the Lower Bollinger Line of the same period.

Typical Price - (H+L+C)/3
Typical Price of Last X Bars Clear of Entry
Typical Price Is Rising
Typical Price Is Falling
Typical Price Is Above X
Typical Price Is Below X
Typical Price Minus X Percent (value)
Typical Price Minus X Pips (value)
Typical Price Plus X Percent (value)
Typical Price Plus X Pips (value)

Typical Price Average
[OHLC] Above Typical Price Average
[OHLC] Below Typical Price Average
Value of TPA Is Above X
Value of TPA Is Below X
Typical Price Average Is Rising
Typical Price Average Is Falling
Typical Price Average (value)

Typical Price Average X-Over
One Typical Price Average Is Above Another
One Typical Price Average Is Below Another

Exponential Moving Averages
Close Above Exponential Moving Average
Close Below Exponential Moving Average
High Above Exponential Moving Average
High Below Exponential Moving Average
Low Above Exponential Moving Average
Low Below Exponential Moving Average
Value of EMA Is Above X
Value of EMA Is Below X
EMA Is Rising
EMA Is Falling
Exponential Moving Average (value)

Exponential Moving Average X-Over
One Exponential Moving Average Is Above Another
One Exponential Moving Average Is Below Another

Exponential Moving Average Swings
Current EMA Swing Pattern Is Higher Peak
Current EMA Swing Pattern Is Higher Trough
Current EMA Swing Pattern Is Lower Peak
Current EMA Swing Pattern Is Lower Trough
EMA Swing High Higher Than Previous Swing High
EMA Swing High Lower Than Previous Swing High
EMA Swing High Lower Than Either Previous 2 Swing Highs
EMA Swing Low Higher Than Previous Swing Low
EMA Swing Low Higher Than Either Previous 2 Swing Lows
EMA Swing Low Lower Than Previous Swing Low
Previous EMA Swing Pattern Was Higher Peak
Previous EMA Swing Pattern Was Higher Trough
Previous EMA Swing Pattern Was Lower Peak
Previous EMA Swing Pattern Was Lower Trough
Currently In Exponential Moving Average Swing Down
Currently In Exponential Moving Average Swing Up
On Or After Day X Of Exponential Moving Average Swing
On Or Before Day X Of Exponential Moving Average Swing
EMA Swing High (value)
EMA Swing Low (value)

Look out for it tomorrow... probably.