VTTRADER 1.5.5 (Build 2005042800) Release Notes
New Features
+ Created “Standard Deviation Channels” Tool and its associated properties window
+ Created “Standard Error Channels” Tool and its associated properties window
+ Created “Raff Regression Channel” Tool and its associated properties window
+ Created “Gann Line” Tool and its associated properties window
+ New Indicator Sample - MESA Adaptive Moving Average
+ New Trading System Sample - Complex Trading System
+ Users can now have the Indicator Builder and Trading System Builder windows displayed/open at the same time
+ Users can now Edit or Create multiple indicators and trading systems at the same time
+ Minimize - Maximize buttons have been added to Indicator / Trading System Editor Windows
+ Created “Open New Chart” menu option in Navigator Window>File menu
+ “Open New Chart” menu option has corresponding Chart Type / Chart Interval default selections accessible using Navigator Window>Options tab>Properties>General>General Properties>General tab
+ Created “Recently Viewed Charts” menu option in Navigator Window>File menu
+ “Recently Viewed Charts” menu option has corresponding number of Recently Viewed Charts default selection accessible using Navigator Window>Options tab>Properties>General>General Properties>General tab
+ Created new “Desktop Template” sub-menu section under Navigator Window>File menu; contains the options to Save Desktop Template, Save Desktop Template As, Import Desktop Template, Remove Desktop Template, as well as viewing recently opened desktop templates
+ Tray Icon Menu is now fully user-customizable and has been enhanced to include quick access to most main VTtrader menus
+ Toolbars in Navigator Window have been redesigned and reorganized into the following new toolbars: Connect Level Toolbar, Navigator Toolbar, Drawing Toolbar, Charting Toolbar, Interval Toolbar, and Chart Type Toolbar
+ Navigator Window Toolbars now each individually fully user-customizable with Lite and Standard default configurations; right-click on any toolbar and choose “customize” to see the options available for that particular toolbar
+ Chart Window Scroll Panel Toolbar is fully user customizable with Lite and Standard default configurations; right-click on the scroll panel toolbar and select “customize” to view the available options
+ Custom Indicators now have their own menu section within the Navigator Window>Trading tab
+ Custom Trading Systems now have their own menu section with the Navigator Window>trading tab
+ Users can now re-arrange price quotes in Dealing Rates Window by using drag-and-drop mouse actions; can also move them up/down using buttons accessible from right-click menu>Instruments option
+ Added “Copy All Chart History Data” option to chart menu; this allows users to quickly copy all price data displayed in the chart to a text file
+ Created Accounts/Positions Summary Tool option to allow the user to view multiple open positions on the same chart as one summary position; right-click menu from summary position label will allow user to close all positions contained within that summary position
+ Create Endpoint Moving Average Type for use in standard Moving Average Indicator as well as custom indicators / trading systems; can be abbreviated as ‘EP’ in formula syntax.
+ Created the following internal functions for use within the Indicator Builder and Trading System Builder engines: hour(), minute(), month(), dayofmonth(), dayofweek(), year(), mama(), fama(), prev(n), highestsince(), lowestsince() … fama() is the Following Adaptive Moving Average function, mama() is the MESA Adaptive Moving Average function; prev function now equals 0 (MetaStock compatibility) and the newly created prev(n) is used to define “n” as the default value; please refer to the language reference documentation for further details.
Improvements
+ Rearranged main Navigator Window menus and sub-menus (File>Tools>Window>Help); please click through each menu within VTtrader Navigator Window to see changes.
+ Language in Navigator Window>Options tab>Properties>General>General Properties>General tab has been improved to be more descriptive
+ Language in Navigator Window>Options tab>Properties>General>General Properties>Communications tab has been improved to be more descriptive
+ Submit Activity Log error messages improvements
+ Indicator Buy/Sell order options are now disabled for main price window when no indicators are displayed within it
+ Indicator Label menu option “attach studies” has been changed to “Attach Indicators”; user will be asked by default which existing Frame (or new Frame) the additional indicator should be placed in
+ Various changes to the Activity Log Upload Window
+ Navigator Window>Tools>Activity Log Upload has been moved and
renamed to Navigator Window>Help>Submit Activity Log
+ Angled Fibonacci tool no longer requires drawing of trendline; it now functions similar to all other Fibonacci Tools
+ “Hide Frame” option in Chart Menu was renamed to “Delete Frame” and is now only active in supplemental indicator frames
+ Vertical Zoom In/Out and Horizontal Zoom In/Out buttons removed from Chart Menu
+ AutoScroll To Current Time, Show Grid, Magnify Zoom, Undo Zoom, Default Vertical Scale, Default Horizontal Scale, Default Scales, Accounts/Positions Summary buttons added to Chart Window Scroll Panel
+ Message improvements in Activity Log Window
+ Separate “Horizontal Line” and “Vertical Line” Properties
+ Create price field for "Horizontal Line" Tool in its properties window
+ Create date field for "Vertical Line” Tool in its properties window
+ Create date and time fields for begin and end points of "Trendline" Tool in its properties window
+ Chart bar date and time data have been split into separate columns when using “Copy Prices” Tool to save historical chart data
+ Volume data is now saved with price data when using Copy Price tool
+ Volume indicator is now displayed in default configuration instead of MACD indicator
+ Added color selection option for Cross Hair tool
+ Enhanced control of default column widths in Trading when windows are currently not displaying data
+ All language references in VTtrader to “Studies” have been replaced with “Indicators”
+ Frame selection dialog when adding indicators to chart has been changed from 1, 2, 3, 4 to Price Frame, Frame 1, Frame 2, Frame 3, etc.
Bugs
+ Tray Icon no longer flashes when trading system is deleted from chart without first stopping it (if running in auto-trade mode)
+ “Import Properties from XML” now correctly imports all properties
+ Activity Log Window now correctly displays BUY/SELL instead of BID/ASK when an automated trading system requests a trade confirmation
+ Activity Log Window now correctly displays the price that the open position was confirmed to close at when closing an open position
+ Chart Properties window now exits when user selects [ok] button when accessed from Navigator Window>Options tab>Properties>Charting>General
+ Magnifying Zoom Tool no longer inverts the chart window while AutoScroll to Current Time Option is selected
+ Issue causing the time scale to increase its height after Import Properties from XML has been resolved
+ Navigator Window>Trading tab>Trading Windows>Messages has been renamed to Activity Log
+ Issue causing Auto-Hide Button in Navigator Window not to function reliably has been resolved
+ Issues causing automated trading systems to not load/display/remove from chart properly has been resolved
+ Minor issue in traceroute logging corrected
+ VTtrader now correctly appears in the Add/Remove Program list
+ Update Screen name changed to reflect new VTtrader branding
+ User defined column widths for trading windows now save and restore correctly after logout/login
+ Fixed bug that allowed multiple instances of same indicator added to chart to corrupt chart/indicator frames
+ Fixed bug that allowed multiple instances of same indicator added to chart to corrupt dealing rates window
+ Fibonacci Arc Tool now resizes correctly when using zoom in/out functions on chart
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