Software Changes - Version History

07/28/2004:version 1.3.4
- Integrated instant messaging for the purpose of online customer
support and critical notifications
- Improved the chart auto-refresh mechanism
- Improvements in the P&F chart frame
- Numerous optimizations in a lot of relevant areas of the application
(not directly visible on the graphical interface)


05/28/2004:version 1.3.3
- Automated the process of fixing the chart data in case of a bad tick, the charts are
now automatically refreshing
- Added support for displaying the bid/ask/trade size for the markets that send this
information
- Added drop-down menus and customizable toolbars for easier access to various
areas of the application
- Added support for larger icons for the upper toolbar
- Added user configurable workspace templates with a re-designed auto-arrange policy
- Adedd a new indicator on charts: "Momentum"
- Re-designed the options frame to allow for symmetrical columns for calls and puts
relative to the middle strike price column
- Added the 'fair-value' column in the options frame
- For the news page: by default we are now displaying all headlines in bold and those
that have already been processed are going to be displayed in a regular font. Also
the state of the three diffent areas on this frame ( top-categorized headlines, middle:body,
bottom:combined headlines) is going to be preserved upon resizing or moving this frame
(it used to default to auto-arrange them).


04/22/2004:version 1.3.2
- New Time & Sales module providing access to 15 days worth of T&S data
- Added a notification mechanism warning users about a bad tick that has been found in the stream of updates for the contract he is looking at. This applies for any type of chart, be it regular, spread or P&F chart, also for different resolutions (daily, weekly, monthly, intraday, tick ...).
- A new re-designed Point & Figure chart module with a lot of improvements in the algorithm and support for making the box size equal to the minimum price movement for each contract (we used to support only full-point box sizes until this version).
- Added the "INFO line" module playing audio for either individual contracts or a list of contracts stored in a portfolio.
- Added compression for both upstream and downstream in the communication between the client and the server. (used to be only downstream from the server to the client).
- Fixed the problems with the weird disruptions over WiFi connections. Well, at least for the test cases we were able to work with.


11/04/2003:version 1.3.0
- News:
1. default sorting policy
2. improved support for the search functionality
3. addressed printing problems
- Application level:
1. toolbar updates
2. added 'cancel' button on the 'input' dialog
3. improved interaction between the auto-arrange feature and the 'persistent' frames.
- Charts (simple, spread, P&F):
1. ordering the templates in the dialog box for a new spread chart at the of the list.
2. improved indicators display
3. clip bounds for displaying graphical primitives (lines, channel, Fib.)
- Quote monitor:
1. improved recovery of the default settings
2. implemented new tabs layout policy
3. added sizing of the columns upon applying a theme
- Options:
1. improved printing function
2. added rate of interest
- Static quote pages:
1. improved refreshing the display
2. added “applying a theme” feature
3. new support for printing in "printable colors"
- New parameters for communication with the server


11/04/2003:version 1.3.0
- New module: static quotes pages - a set of prebuilt pages displaying data in a streaming fashion. You do not customize this, but rather let us build fixed format pages to display all pertinent contracts and contract months
- Extended formula support for Spread charts (support for oilshare and any other arithmetic expressions involving +, -, *, / (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)
- Spread chart algorithm changed - we now plot the chart for the time that all parts of the spread have chart data
- Support for saving Spread Chart Templates
- Symbol search tool
- News search tool
- New way of loading workspaces. We now display the frame contents as they are being loaded into the application.
- New and fully redesigned Point&Figure Charts
- Display OHLC for the current session in the P&F Charts' Information Box, together with the relevant information for the X and O's column underlying the cursor
- Options Calculator - activated from the toolbar once on an options page
- Support for grouping all the options that relate to colors and fonts into 'themes' which can be saved in between sessions and applied while still logged on.


09/17/2003:version 1.2.9
- Address the specific month and year charts (CZ95) - both simple and spread charts (if you still get empty charts it's probably because of the time limit needs to be adjusted by the user. )
- A fix for the "loading chart" boxes that would not go away (without the option to move them) - you can now both move them by dragging with the left mouse button or close them by right-clicking on them (a simple click on the right mouse button).
- Latest version of the JRE ... v1.4.2


08/29/2003:version 1.2.8
- Right click support on the chart frames provides the ability to change chart types and resolutions
- Scaling the fonts on the upper information bar atop a chart
- Reorganized left toolbar together with a new look and feel at this level
- Introduced a tool to change the contract front month very useful upon contract rollover
- Introduced the ability to select which buttons should appear on the upper toolbar by clicking on the delimiters between those buttons
- A new feature to load the previous day's settings with a simple touch of a button, useful in case the current settings would become corrupt for some reason
- Introduced the "area chart" as a new type of chart
- Ability to show or hide the open on a chart, making OHLC and HLC the two available options at this level
- Narrowed down the gap between the bars on a chart so that more information could be displayed within that chart area
- Introduced the ability to draw trend lines that expand beyond the last chart point in case the whole chart area is used and) - or - to put it another way - to scroll in the future.
- An easier way to get a new chart: once you start typing in a chart frame the dialog for creating a new chart will pop-up and the letter you've typed is going to appear in the contract field
- Put in new defaults for the daily, weekly, monthly charts(2,10,30 years respectively)
- Upon requesting a weekly or monthly chart with a specific month-year contract, data for the continuous lifespan of that contract would be provided.


07/25/2003: version 1.2.7
- Printing support for the chart, quote monitor, options and news modules
- Support for tick charts
- Support for perpetual contracts and historical data
- Fixes for the MACD and other indicators
- Links to stored audio commentaries - Futuresline archives
- Support for MS Word DOC format
- Revised options volatility and greek formulas


05/30/2003: version 1.2.6
-Support for compressed streams. While this feature is included in this client release it has to be coordinated with a soon-to-come server release to support it.
-Right click on any chart allows you to choose a new type of chart to be displayed
-When changing chart month on an already displayed chart, the default you had in place for minute charts, days, month or the like stays as the default unless you change it.
-When dragging the scroll bar at the bottom of a chart page, the current time is now shown, making it easy to stop where you want the cart to begin/end.
-Fixes have been made to desktop management. The title bars and the auto hide delays are now configurable.<


05/09/2003: version 1.2.5
-Fixes for the news module, where now you can get the news for the past 24h with your initial request, then receive the stories as they come for all the categories you've subscribed for
-Fixes and enhancements for the new desktop management
-Changes and automated 'skin' updates for the abacast player
-Fix for the SDB indicator, plus more natural item sorting in the indicator dialog
-Option to delete indicator templates
-Valid contract months hints in the contract selector (valid months are shown bold)


05/01/2003: version 1.2.4
- Added 3 new indicators:
- BBW - Bollinger Bands Width
- PAR - Wilder's Parabolic SAR
- TRSI - Triangular RSI
- New improved window management - closer to regular windows behavior with the ability to arrange and size the internal frames independently plus the option of auto-arranging them
- Support for RealAudio links in the weather pages
- ODJ news - displayed both in different categories and in one single pane with the option of browsing through the headlines and viewing the news in a different area
- Indirectly - support for custom built news, fed from Linngroup
- Support for a new type of frames: the persistent frames. A persistent frame is an internal frame that will be displayed on the screen the whole time, even when switching between different workspaces (charts- quote monitors and so on).
This is useful specially for certain type of frames like tickers, news frames, but it's not restricted in any way, so you could have a persistent chart or quote page as well.
- The options module has been improved a lot, providing expiration dates and days to expiration for the options contracts and the values for the 'greeks' formulas:
delta, gamma, rho, theta, vega
- Also in the options module - the ability to view all the options for a certain futures contract (i.e. - serial months options)
- The ability to save your settings while still logged on , saving works either to your local machine or to the server, it happens so with a single click of a button, instead of having to log-out and back in again.
- The link for the "radio" commentaries provided through the Abacast streaming hosted on Futuresline servers.
- Support for printing the charts without the default black background
- Support for adjusting the size of the JPEG file created when saving the chart to an image file.
- The ability to choose what icons you want displayed on the toolbar on the left side of the screen, plus the option to arrange them.


04/03/2003: version 1.2.3
- Better detection of lost connectivity to the server
- Added weather module
- Added options module
- fixed some loading issues
- added four indicators:
LR - Linear Regression
RLS - Regression Line Slope
SDB - Standard Deviation Bands
WADX - Wilder's ADX
- Synchronized with a server-side upgrade, expected to fix:
- Gaps between sessions
- Zeroed out volume and open interest for some contracts
- Incorrect strike price formatting for some contracts
- Also starting with version v1.2.3 the audio alarms are going to be available as a separate download


03/17/2003: version 1.2.1b
- Loading settings percentage monitor added
- Speed improvement at loading settings from server
- Fixed "congestion while loading settings" issue


03/14/2003: version 1.2.1
- Added support for basic printing functionality
- Added support for saving charts as JPEG images
- Added the OBV indicator (Grainville's On Balance Volume)


03/05/2003: version 1.2.0
- Support for saving settings both locally and on the server
- Fixed the quote-monitor link to the charting module to use
The new chart format introduced by v1.1.9


03/04/2003: version 1.1.9
- Added support for plotting spread charts
- Added support for more flexible intraday charts (User specified intervals)
- Fixed the percentage display under the Windows Envelopes


02/13/2003: version 1.1.8
- Color coding for different sessions;
- Support for minimizing the information box to a toolbar
- Improved re-connecting procedures
- Trying to fix the issue with users randomly losing settings
- Better handling for auto/manual chart scaling


02/05/2003: version 1.1.7
- Modified indicator selection dialog (study area grouping/preview)
- Added resizing capabilities for study areas
- Support for user specified value ranges (double-click on the vertical axis value scale)


01/14/2003: version 1.1.6
- Fixed weekly and monthly charts
- Added a progress indicator for loading/unloading settings
- Added an alternate way for managing alarms
- Improved support for non-decimal alarms
- Improved contract lookup selector
- Added RSI, DPO, WPR, Volatility indicators


12/13/2002: version 1.1.5
- Fixed some symbology issues
- Support for allowing single logins at a time on one account
- Support for access based on client release version numbers
- Fixed a bug related to color and font handling in the label drawing primitive


11/26/2002: version 1.1.2
- Fixed options support
- Added the quick workspace access feature
- Fixed open interest displayed with the volume
- Modified the default for new chart frames to vertical from horizontal
- Made the available options unselected as a default
- Added the CCI (Commodity Channel Index) indicator


11/22/2002: version 1.1.1
- Workspace tabs can now be moved by dragging
- Integration between ticker, snapshot and chart modules
- Fixed chart keyboard scrolling issue
- Added WAD indicator


11/18/2002: version 1.1.0
- Custom behavior for the indicators having 2 branches (colors)
- Custom behavior for the last point on the viewport
- Added the following indicators: TMA, ROC, TRIX, MACD
- Support for different builds
- Support for detecting multiple logins


11/08/2002: version 1.0.9
- Added the 'pointer' as a separate drawing primitive
- Merged the frame toolbar within the application toolbar


11/04/2002: version 1.0.8
- Added the Fibonacci lines drawing primitive
- Added the news frame basic setup
- Added the TMA indicator
- Fixes for the frame handling mechanism with different screen resolutions


11/02/2002: version 1.0.7
- Added support for placing text labels on the chart area
- Alarm feature tweaks


10/28/2002: version 1.0.6
- Added support for horizontal trend lines displaying their value
- Added support for custom builds based on a company ID


10/25/2002: version 1.0.5
- Added the "clear chart" feature (remove all the graphic primitives from a chart)
- Support for saving graphic primitives and their parameters across different login sessions
- Fixes for the online quote range issues (across trading sessions)


10/24/2002: version 1.0.4
- Fixes for price updates
- Changed access to drawing primitives to right click instead of double-click until this point
- Integration between the quote monitor module and the others (charts, options on futures)


10/22/2002: version 1.0.3
- Added support for drawing parallel lines (channel)
- Added support for removing drawing primitives from the chart


10/21/2002: version 1.0.2
- First glance at the line drawing capabilities
- Fixes for price updates across sessions


10/15/2002: version 1.0.1
- Made application level logging optional
- Fixed the 'new chart' dialog, pressing ENTER after the contract name loads the chart directly
- Added a splash-screen to warn about saving user settings upon logout/exit
- Added support for compact and detailed views in the ticker module


10/11/2002: Started versioning systems, on the main screen, go to the Help->about


10/07/2002: Fixed the price formatting for the contracts trading in units other then decimal - 32nds, etc.


10/07/2002: Fixed the current session data, was displaying the range only from the login time forward


10/04/2002: Fixed the problem with indicators not updating with the new trades coming in


10/04/2002: Fixed the current session data not being included with all the charts