Release Date: December 20, 2013
Last Updated: June 26, 2014 (Release x.125.657)
Features include:
- Backadjusting Raise Negative Series feature now correctly operates with Dividend Adjusted Stocks / Mutual Funds
- Selecting Chart tabs now correctly activates associated chart when windows are Tiled or Cascaded
- Charts saved to files are now opened using filename in the tab, and are no longer over written by dynamic chart saved settings
- Security issues when using the API with Option only accounts have been resolved
- Roll Days Before Expiration now allows a setting of 0, to roll on the expiration day
- Expiry Rule Settings are preserved
- Roll By Days Before Expiration more precisely rolls on the number of days specified for Nth Nearest Future ( before it rolled 1 day later )
- Horizontal scrollbar added to the Portfolio Manager
- Walk Forward Detection disabled when rolling by Date, or Strictly By Days Before Expiration, as it is unnecessary
- Directory editing w/ autofill in Portfolio Settings dialog has been improved to avoid inadvertent renaming of the target directory when specifying the desired path while editing
- P/L Trendline charting tool addition
- Advanced Adjuster now supports rolling strictly on trading days before expiration
- Excel field formatting now supports use of native Date Type
- Copy Table Results and Save Table Results To File implemented in Market Spec FactSheet
- New ASCII/EXCEL field specifier for Industry Group – ‘y’
- New ASCII/EXCEL field specifier for Enterprise Value (EV) – ‘0’
- Handles database syncronization when triggered by start date changes
- Copy/Paste of selected items with a portfolio implemented in the Portfolio Manager
- New scheduled Portfolio backup feature
- Copy Portfolio to new portfolio now supports Period and Format selection changes
- Import Portfolio now supports Period and Format option changes on all or some portfolios
- Export Portfolio interface has been enhanced to support selecting which portfolios to export
- Import Ascii file interface has been enhanced to support many different fields, and sequences
- Find in portfolio button has been added to Portfolio Manager
- Smarter Portfolio Manager handling of ASCII export file period changes, and multiple selection changes
- Improved Portfolio corruption error handling
- Charts now provides controls to easily change the years of history to view
- Charts can now have future blank records added to them all
- Chart annotations editor has been enhanced, annotation drag and drop supported
- Charting objects are saved for re-display
- Errors encountered with Charting templates have been corrected
- Holidays can now be removed from charts
- Preference setting sections have been consolidated
- ASCII export field electives added for Expiry Date (X), Sector (s), Units of Measure (/)
- Sector added to search elective in Market Spec Fact sheet
- Search By setting is preserved in the Market Spec Fact sheet
- North American and World ETF tabs have been added to the Market Spec Fact sheet
- OTC Exchanges have been broken out into NASDAQ Cap exchanges, and OTC Pink sheet exchanges
- Perpetuals Contracts are now included in the Continuous Contract Roll Schedule Report
- Continuous Contract Roll Schedule Report has been enhanced, and is now exportable to Excel
- Continuous Contract Roll Schedule Report now specifies days past roll date, & whether next contract is trading
- Continuous Contracts can now use generic ASCII file names instead of method coded names
- Gaps in Back Adjusted contracts rolling on OI handled when OI is 0 in all contracts (JTI,JY,LRC specifically)
- Market Scanner now features Data Download and Market Spec Fact sheet
- EZ Downloader now supports Excel format
- Continuous contracts of the same market, but with different settings, can now coexist in the same portfolio
- Nth Nearest Futures Contract can now roll on Vol or Oi
- Errant COM connection message eliminated when closing UA after using the API from Excel.
- Portfolios can now share the same directory, with caution ( Avoid duplicate symbol/contract entries with the same file format ).
- New chart controls to select different periods and time frames from the toolbar.
- Stock Fundamental Market Capital export field no longer includes an ‘M’, millions are implied and noted in the field description.
- Market Spec Factsheet organization improved. Last pricing is more effeciently captured for stocks.
- Add Blank Records to All Charts has been replaced by ‘Expand Right Margin to All Charts’ which adds a constant fixed space rather than only spacing when viewing the end of each data series.
- Allows weekends to be added to charts, as well as export files.
- New slide rule chart can be resized, and scrolled when grabbed by the mouse.
New Perpetual Contract features:
- OI Weighted Perpetual now supports limiting the # of monthsto include, an option to roll forward on Open Interest, Roll Days Before Expiry, and Confirmation Trigger
- A new Index Component which blends the actual contracts together over a 5 day period. This Nearest Future Contract splices contract pricing together over a specified time window using percentages determined by the size of this window. It resembles the sub-Indices used by the Dow Jones-USB Commodity Index.
- A new Proportional Liquidity Contract, an Open Interest Weighted Contract that measures contract liquidity over the span of the life of the market by weighting the price differences per day with Open Interest across specified contracts.
