Current Release Notes - VT Trader 2.0.1

New Features:

• wc() function is now included as a price constant; it’s listed as “Weighted Close”


• MACD() function added; Please see the Help Manual>Programming Language>Functions section for details


• PeakBars() function added; Please see the Help Manual>Programming Language>Functions section for details


• TroughBars() function added; Please see the Help Manual>Programming Language>Functions section for details

Feature Improvements:

• Margin Use Level(s) window now has a set of default properties at Ribbon>Environment>Options>Options>Trader’s Guardian Windows>Margin Use Level(s)


• Margin Use Level(s) window -> contextual menu now has the following account selection options: Selected Account(s), All Accounts, Select Account(s)...


• Currency Portfolio window now has a set of default properties at Ribbon>Environment>Options>Options>Trader’s Guardian Windows>Currency Portfolio


• Currency Portfolio window -> contextual menu now has the following account selection options: Selected Account(s), All Accounts, Select Account(s)... instead of the Calculation Mode command and submenu


• The various trading windows in the Options window have been reorganized into the following groups (format: + = group name | - = group option):
  
  + Charting
  - Chart Patterns
  - Data Inspection
  
  + Account(s) Summary Windows
  - Account(s) Information
  
  + Dealing Rates Windows
  - Advanced Rates
  
  + Trading Windows
  - Open Positions
  - Closed Positions
  - Pending Orders
  
  + Trader’s Guardian Windows
  - Margin Use Level(s)
  - Instruments Exposure
  - Currency Portfolio
  
  + Messages Windows
  - Broker Announcements
  
  + News Windows
  - Dow Jones News


• Active Price Alerts Summary window improvements -> “I” icon in Instruments column has been removed; Date/Time column has been added; Bid/Ask column has been added; cyan row highlight color has been changed to light gray


• Price Alerts dialog window that displays alerts messages has been improved -> The message format has been changed to: Date/Time, Instrument, Price (Bid/Ask), Message (example: 8/27/2008 17:56:20, EUR/USD, 1.4715 (Bid), Warning text for message...)


• Renaming an indicator’s or trading system’s “Short Name” and then saving the file renames the indicator’s or trading system’s ‘actual’ file name to match the new “Short Name”; if another indicator or trading system with that “Short Name” already exists, the client is warned and asked to choose a different “Short Name” before saving the file


• BLines() function has been renamed to BBands(); its required parameters have also been changed to the following: BBands (DATA_ARRAY, PERIODS, METHOD, DEVIATIONS, SWITCH); This function calculates the Bottom Bollinger Band and Top Bollinger Band components of the Bollinger Bands indicator of DATA ARRAY using METHOD calculation method and shifted upwards or downwards DEVIATIONS standard deviations based on SWITCH. SWITCH=0 calculates the Top Bollinger Band. SWITCH=1 calculates the Bottom Bollinger Band.


• cum() (Cumulative) function has been optimized


• The “Enter valid file name” dialog window shown when an alert sound file is incorrect for the active drawing tool has been changed to be more informative. The new text is, “Warning! The selected alert sound file does not exist. Please choose a different sound file for the alert."


• Some Ribbon icons do not have "hints". The following icons should have hints and do not (icon -> hint text)
  
  - Skin -> Skin
  - Language -> Language
  - Reports -> Reports
  - Closed Positions -> Closed Positions
  - Chart Patterns -> Chart Patterns
  - Recently Viewed -> Recently Viewed Charts
  - Selection Tool -> Selection Tool (currently "Pick Tool", so should be changed)
  - Lines -> Lines
  - Channels -> Channels
  - Shapes -> Shapes
  - Fibonacci -> Fibonacci Tools
  - Gann -> Gann Tools


• VT Trader’s logging has been modified to reduce (dramatically) their file sizes; Incoming price quote updates (prices) are no longer written to the log files


• A confirmation dialog window has been added to the Ribbon>Environment>Desktop Workspaces>Restore Default command


• A confirmation dialog window has been added to the Ribbon>Environment>Windows>Close All Windows command


• A confirmation dialog window has been added to the “Delete All” command in the contextual menu of the following drawing tools:
  
  - Comments
  - Symbols
  - Trend Line
  - Vertical Line <- broken in 2.0.4.1
  - Horizontal Line
  - Regression Line
  - Standard Deviation Channel
  - Standard Error Channel
  - Raff Regression Channel
  - Equidistant Channel
  - Andrew’s Pitchfork
  - Triangle Shape
  - Ellipse Shape
  - Rectangle Shape
  - Fibonacci Retracement
  - Fibonacci Time Extension
  - Fibonacci Channel
  - Fibonacci Fan
  - Fibonacci Arc
  - Gann Line
  - Gann Fan
  - Gann Grid


• Czech localization updated (some words were incorrect)