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Kuf
Posted : Thursday, December 10, 2009 4:14:50 PM


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Joined: 9/18/2004
Posts: 3,522
As of build 142:

Chart Changes:

  • Rules renamed to Conditions
  • Indicators that reference other indicators can now be saved without needing to save the chart
  • Conditions that reference other indicators/conditions can now be saved without needing to save the chart
  • Market Indicators can now be saved directly without needing to save the chart
  • Redesigned Condition Builder
  • Redesigned Indicator editor. 
  • New Universal Add Indicator/Condition button
  • Removed old Add Rule Button
  • Conditions on the bubble bar can be used to quickly paint price, sort by or both.
  • Combining Conditions into a combo condition will now remove the combined conditions from the bubble bar.
  • Conditions no longer need to remain on the chart to be used in the WatchList for sorts/scans. This reduces the overall number of conditions on the bubble bar
  • Conditions no longer need to remain on the chart to be used in painting indicators. This reduces the overall number of conditions on the bubble bar Removing an indicator that is used in a condition or another indicator (difference, market indicator) will no longer remove the item that is using it.
  • Removing an indicator or condition from the chart will no longer remove any WatchList columns that were linked to it
  • Removed some chart buttons that were redundant and cleaned up interface
  •  Drawing tools in the price chart are now saved by symbol (IE they're global) and no longer saved on the chart itself.

 

Drawing Tool Changes

  • Drawing tools in the price chart are now saved by symbol (IE they're global) and no longer saved on the chart itself.
  • New Drawing Toolbar - Open by default on new layouts and charts
  • Drawing Button now has new drop down menu
  • CTL+T will  toggle drawings on/off
  • CTL_D toggles drawing a trendline
  • Esc key will now clear the active drawing tool
  • Drawing tools now have a set as default link to set a default value for each tool
  • Right-Click on the chart will now clear the active drawing tool
  • Drawing tools now show a context menu on right click
  • Drawing tools no longer show the editor on left click
  • Using a drawing tool while the drawings are hidden will now show the tools

 

True Markers

  • CTL-Click on a condition bubble will now toggle a true marker on/off
  • New Marker icon on condition bubble when marker is active
  • New Display Options menu on conditions to control hash marks, arrows, image markers and other condition display options
  • Added a hover mode for hashmark legend
  • Added a checkbox on the hashmark editor to always show the legend
  • True markers now scale with the zoom
  • True markers now default to their last used setting
  • Added marker option and alt click option to click options dialog
  • Added show true markers and edit

 

Paint Schemes and Conditional Coloring

 

  • Conditions can now be combined in to savable entities called Paint Schemes
  • Paint Schemes can be applied to any indicator on a chart
  • Updating a Paint Scheme  in your library will update all indicators that use that Paint Scheme
  • Redesigned Paint Scheme editor.
  • New Paint Scheme button for the Price history indicator to quickly change the active Paint Scheme on price
  • Conditions on the chart can now be applied directly to price history by clicking on them

 

WatchList Changes

 

  • Filters removed, replaced with savable WatchList Scans
  • You can now scan your WatchList on saved conditions
  • Scan conditions can be set to multiple Bar Intervals
  • New Sort Drop down for easy WatchList sorting.
  • New sorting from Indicators for easy WatchList sorting
  • Condition Lights now sort by bars in a row, to bars since true
  • New Unlinking of Linked items (columns, conditions) to keep data around after the source is removed (set via the column header or by removing the linked item source)
  • Unlinked WatchList columns can have their own bar interval ( set via the header right click menu).
  • Each column now supports it's own Update frequency instead of a WatchList wide setting  (set via the header right click menu).   -Improves StockFinder performance.
  • Each column now supports it's own Sort Frequency to determine how often to re-sort  (set via the header right click menu). - Improves StockFinder performance.
  • The Sorted column now has a shaded background color. This color can be edited from the WatchList properties
  • Columns that are created by the sort pull-down or by sorting from an chart indicator/condition will be replaced by the next sorted item
  • The sort column can be repositioned by dragging/dropping to a new location
  • When applying a scan or sort, the WatchList will jump to the top symbol of the list
  • Backspace key will now go back to the previous symbol. This can be used more than once to continue going back in history.
  • New Add Column button will load a column for any Library Indicator or Condition without needing to load it on the Chart.
  • Added a tooltip for the Active WatchList, Scan and Sort to see the full name when partially hidden
  • Company Name and Exchange can now be toggled for the symbol column on the column header  right-click menu.

 

RealCode

 

  • RealCode can now reference indicators from the Library (including your own saved indicators/RealCode) and no longer need to have the indicator loaded into a chart. This will reduce the overall number of indicators on a chart
  • RealCode can now reference conditions from the Library (including your own saved conditions/RealCode) and no longer need to have the condition loaded into a chart. This will reduce the overall number of conditions on a chart
  • RealCode now has a context variable available  to determine information about the context in which it is executing. This allows you to find out information about a Market Index calculation (number of symbols in the list, first/last symbol)  or information about the Chart (Start/End dates, number of bars visible)
  • Added PCF like syntax for child calculations:  AVG, AVGO,AVGH,AVGL,AVGC,XAVG,XAVGH..., STOC - these can be used on Price, Volume or any imported indicator.
  • RealCode that references indicators or conditions on a chart can now be saved without having to save the chart

 

BackScanner

 

  • Fixed the Symbol Equity line on short sales to match the results table

 

General Program Changes

 

  • You can now change the active WatchList by simply typing the WatchList name (ala jump to symbol)
  •  Redesigned many open/load dialogs to use a new Task/Recent/Library drop down.
  • Added News and Data sheet as toggle buttons to the toolbar
  • News now loads under the WatchList
  • Clicking on a news story will now open the article in it's own window.
  • New Minute data bank -  Intraday scanning has increased  5 fold.
  • General context menu changes and clean up.
  • Removed the Blocks.com blogging
  • Removed CNN and Bloomberg TV.
  • Users can now create and save their own browsers. It supports URLs with the active symbol tag {sym} to load stock specific web pages.
  • StockFinder will show scan and sort progress on the Task bar in Windows 7


Ken Gilb (Kuf)
Chief Software Engineer - Worden Brothers Inc.
Try/Catch - My RealCode Blog
itchn2trade
Posted : Thursday, December 10, 2009 10:45:11 PM
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Joined: 8/10/2008
Posts: 30
Kuf,

When is 5.0 going from Beta to a Full release?  Would you recommend upgrading now?

Thanks,
MauiTrader
Posted : Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:49:59 AM
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Joined: 10/7/2004
Posts: 37
It is now March 16th.  How close are we to a full release?  I have limited disk space thanks to Microsoft and don't feel I can run both.  Any information would be helpful.  Not trying to pin down an exact date.
Maui Trader
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