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ELX exchange added to the database

ELX Futures, L.P. (ELX Futures) is a new fully regulated electronic futures exchange formed in December 2007 by leading financial institutions to establish a faster, more efficient competitive alternative for global market participants trading futures contracts. Starting July 10, 2009, with a slate of four U.S. Treasury futures contracts, ELX Futures will allow for market arbitrage, outright and spread execution and cash/futures basis trading through multiple front ends and an ultra fast matching engine.

http://www.elxmarkets.com/

The following Futures contracts were added:

csi# 1477, symbol ZTE – 2 Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures
csi# 1478, symbol ZFE – 5 Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures
csi# 1479, symbol ZNE – 10 Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures
csi# 1480, symbol ZBE – 30 Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures
csi# 1504, symbol ZUE – Ultra Long-Term U.S. Treasury Bond Futures

Unfair Advantage build x.108 available

Unfair Advantage x.108 build

Changes:

  • Excel formatter no longer rounds incorrectly when writing data in decimal format.

Unfair Advantage build x.107 available

Unfair Advantage x.107 build

Changes:

  • Handles legacy fortran computed contract limit appropriately. ( for example, eliminates freeze when updating NaturalGas Nth Nearest Contracts when using legacy option )

Unfair Advantage build x.106 available

Unfair Advantage x.106 build

Changes:

  • Updating time of portfolio exports has been signifantly reduced.
    (initial update will still take time, subsiquent updates are reduced by a factor of 4 or more )
  • Printing of the volume orientation has been corrected.
  • Better progress status when deleting portfolios.
  • Vantage Point Portfolios written with higher export file assignment integrity.
  • CRB format has been removed.
  • Intraday unqualified data inclusion in portfolios has been removed, although charting it remains.

Unfair Advantage build x.105 available

Unfair Advantage x.105 build

Changes:

  • No longer refreshes files without first prompting.

PLEASE UPGRADE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO THE LATEST BUILD!!!

Unfair Advantage build x.104 available

Unfair Advantage x.104 build

Changes:

  • Handles option data implied 1/2’s precision on 2’s and 7’s.
  • Allows extended use beyond the 2 month inactivity barrier by operating on demand, no longer requiring a new install.

Unfair Advantage version 2.10.7 build history

Unfair Advantage x.103 build was not released. (only Beta testing)



Unfair Advantage x.102 build

Changes:

  • UA Now Handles Regional Excel Number Format Dependencies When Appending I.E. German
    (1000.50 Is Translated To 1000,50).
  • UA Now Reports Literal Put/Call Vol And OI Ratios In Put/Call Requests.
  • UA Now Provides A Utility To Normalize Pit/Electronic Combined Symbol Standards (Preferences | Market Spec).
  • CSI Data Posting Status Is Now Monitored And Visible In The Status Bar.

Unfair Advantage x.101 build was not released. (only Beta testing)



Unfair Advantage x.100 build

Changes:

  • AmiBroker data is exported in maximum precision for stocks, but exports Portfolio specified data in precision defined by each portfolio’s Round to Nearest Tick setting.

Unfair Advantage x.99

Changes:

  • Restored multiple indicator per chart pane capabilities.

Unfair Advantage build x.98

Changes:

  • AmiBroker data is refreshed to handle backadjusted changes in data.

Unfair Advantage version 2.10.7

Known problems:

  • Creating large portfolios in MS Format is very time consuming relative to the compatible CSIM format.

Changes:

  • New setting: Omit C and Y in Ascii filename for Cash/Forward markets. Defaults to previous output to
    include C and Y. Edit Portfolio | Ascii Filenames.
  • New setting: Allows stock splits to be applied either when the actual split date arrives, or on the day before,
    when the split is reported. The setting is in Preferences Historical Adjustments to the right of the Adjust for
    Splits option. It defaults to wait until the next day when the actual data for the day of the split is reported when updating.
  • Requesting charts from factsheet now displays full allowable history.
  • Monthly Consolidation process has been eliminated.
  • Automatically retrieves new stock/futures history on new and exisitng markets as newly researched data
    becomes available.
  • Refreshing Price History has been optimized.
  • Portfolio columns and sort order configuration is saved.
  • Consumes 80% less RAM memory.
  • Newly Designed Fact Sheet.
  • CSI Qmasters preserved in unappended directories.
  • LME Nickel now adjusted against Sterling prior to 19880201.
  • Charts display particular adjustments applied ( Splits, Dividends, Capital Gains, Proportionately ).
  • Data Wizard works with new factsheet accordingly.
  • New XML based API calls:
    – GetFirstSubscriberMarket
    – GetNextSubscriberMarket
  • New API call GetFastMarketProfile().