April 23rd, 2012· Added Break Even.
· Added button on the Chart that shows or hides Break Even and Permanent stops levels on the chart.
· Fixed Bar Explorer chart.
· Added additional criteria for recognizing ambiguous bars. It will not change the backtest results but will properly mark more ambiguous bars. Such bars may be interpolated differently by using pessimistic and optimistic methods.
· Improved Nearest method of interpolation.
· Some minor fixes in strategy overview.
· BBCode formatting of the strategy improved.(Strategy ? Publish)
· Fixed a bug in N Bars Exit indicator. (Crash when nBars > Data bars)
· Optimized Open Once indicator. Fixed a bug in Enter once a week logic.
August 3rd, 2011· Bar Explorer - navigation improved, representation of position's lots improved, cancelled orders plotted on the chart.
· Journal by Positions without Transfers mode added.
· Exporting statistics to xls file without transfers added.
· JForex checks for correct file names before importing data files.
· Copy Strategy and Paste Strategy functions added to Edit menu.
· Russian translation corrected.
November 16th, 2010· Logical groups
· True charts
· better Generator
October 4th, 2010· Corrected bug when Save As command of Overview window saves an empty page;
· When “Account percent entry” is activated, the entry % may be greater than max entry lots;
· Changed default values of all Stop Loss and Take Profit indicators to 200 pips;
· Added 1/500 leverage in the Account Settings dialog window;
· Data files updated from Alpari (UTC-2H time zone), 5 / 3 digits quotations;
· Instrument properties set to 5 / 3 digits quotations;
· Using the latest Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 3.5 for compilation the program. (It remains .NET 2.0 compatible.);
· Correction of the data file parser. It correctly read years 24/6/10 as 2010.06.24. (The old version read it as 0010.06.24.);
· Corrected formula for calculating the “Account percent entry size”;
· Improved error report of the data parser;
· Added a “Play Sounds” option in the Tools menu. From there one can stop the beep of the Generator and Optimizer;
· New option to the “Export” menu - “Data File”. It can export data files in CSV. It is useful when you want to save the data file in correct format or cut bad data.
· Bar Explorer plots all cancelled orders within a bar range.
· Added button Show / Hide FSB in the Generator.
· Generator catches exceptions from buggy indicators and displays debug info.
· Generator accept a 0 working minutes setting, which means no time limits.
· Optimizer and Generator play sound when finish calculations.
· Optimizer and Generator show OOS balance when using OOS.
· Optimizer shows optimized parameters in real time.
· Intrabar scanner loads data automatically. Automatic scan option included.
· Charts was improved, a button strip was added.
· True Indicator Charts added.
· Added “Max equity drawdown” statistic parameter in the account statistics.
Added evaluation criteria to the Optimizer:
· Maximum number of ambiguous bars;
· Maximum number of trades;
· Minimum number of trades;
· Maximum drawdown as percent of the current equity;
· Maximum drawdown in currency;
· Minimum Win / Loss trades ratio;
· The Optimizer can save its options in the config file;
· Generator and Indicator dialog catch exceptions display debug info.
· Fixed backtesting bug with scanner where the back-tester shows straight, rising balance line when TP is near to the entry price.
· Keltner Channel can be based on Close price only. The other options for the base price were removed. (Thanks to Lorenz Vauck)
· Fibonacci indicator was removed from the indicator list.
· Logical groups added. They can be activated from Strategy menu. The logic is OR between groups and AND in a group. Indicators assigned to “All” group participate in each group.;
· Changeable number of slots from “Strategy” menu;
· Indicators can show a warning message in the Indicator Dialog. Example - Trailing Stop
Generator:
· Generating a new strategy or a more profitable strategy;
· Generator saves all better strategies in a history list. Called from the main menu Edit ? Previous Generated Strategy, Next Generated strategy. Fast keys Ctrl - H (H from History) and Ctrl - J
· Maximum number of trades;
· Maximum drawdown as percent of the current equity;
· Maximum Win / Loss trades ratio;
· Generator saves its options in the config file;
· Directional Indicators and ADX can be based on Close price only, which is it's usual calculation method. “Use previous bar value” parameter fixed.
· Many other smaller changes.
February 25th, 2010· Backtester can determine ambiguous bars during scannig due to two orders in a single intra bar. (Reported by Doncello)
· "Indicator Parameters" - return same dir signal to its previous state as before "Close and Reverse" was activated (Reported by Footon)
· Historical rates updated from Alpari, time zone GMT.
· Repaired Permanent SL sign in Strategy Overview.
February 7th, 2010· A bug with the generator was fixed.
January 16th, 2010· Changed indicators.
November 2nd, 2009· Permanent Take Profit, Trading part of a lot. Automatic loading of intrabar data.
May 29th, 2009· Custom indicators, Out of sample testing, multicurrency and multiperiod strategies.
March 3rd, 2009· The program recognizes greater variety of ambiguous bars and incorrect logic. More indicators and logic rules added. Several issues fixed.
June 16th, 2008· Ross Hook and Bar Range added.
· Localization issue fixed.
May 3rd, 2008· New indicators, autoscanning, strategy description