What's New in Version 2.4
- Integrated Stock Watch Pro with MB Trading Navigator. Start MBT Navigator and select "Stock Watch Pro" from Host menu on Login dialog (Navigator will start up SWP). Use "MBT Navigator" menu in SWP to view orders, positions, etc.
- Identified and fixed the cause of occasional lockups
- Major Chart improvements:
- Alerts can now be setup on trendlines (right-click on segment, ray, extended line, or regression to add an alert)
- As Crosshairs are moved on one chart, they simultaneously move on all other charts to the corresponding time
- A snapshot of a Chart can now be exported into BMP or JPEG format (use "Export Image" button on Chart toolbar)
- Implemented Chart scrolling with arrows keys (press Ctrl together with arrow key for faster scroll)
- New "Go to date/time" feature allows to quickly scroll the Chart to a specific date/time
- Volume study now has 2 color settings to distinguish between up and down bars
- Cursor Y-value is now displayed in Cursor Tracking window
- Vertical Scaling is now smooth
- Cursor Tracking window now updates in real-time when crosshair is on a right-most bar
- Fixed Chart Scrolling when spacing between bars is large
- Symbol, Title, and Exchange fields are now correctly displayed in a Snapshot window
- Added an option to specify for how long Bar and Time & Sales data should remain cached
- Added an option to delete QCharts cache files from Temp folder on startup
- Fixed Level II to correctly display symbols from exchanges other than NASDAQ (e.g. AMEX:QQQ)
- Level II window is now properly resized as soon as it's created
- Fixed Backtesting to correctly interpret "All Sessions" setting from Preferences -> Misc. tab
- Level I window now stops sorting as soon as sorting column is turned off
- QCharts Symbol/Interval broadcast settings are now properly saved on exit
- Updated News Alerts to handle the new format of news headline pages
What's New in Version 2.3.1
- Integration with Interactive Brokers TWS now properly works for futures (ES, NQ) and options
- Fixed bugs causing stability issues
What's New in Version 2.3
- Integrated Stock Watch Pro with Interactive Brokers Trader Workstation (TWS). Orders can be initiated from Level I, Level II, Charts, or when alerts trigger. Click here for details
- Developed an API which allows developers to process real-time alerts and use Stock Watch Pro as a front-end for their own applications. Click here for details
- Added "All Sessions" option for all formula-based components (alerts, screeners, strategies, custom columns, etc.) allowing you to access both pre and after-market data in addition to regular session (see Edit --> Preferences --> Misc. tab).
- Major Chart improvements:
- Charts perform much faster thanks to custom study optimizations
- Added "Scale to other graphs" mode to custom studies for correctly overlaying symbols which trade in a completely different price range (e.g. overlay NASDAQ Composite over CSCO).
- Added ability to scroll the chart up and down. "Auto Scale" needs to be off to allow up/down scrolling.
- Lines and notes no longer disappear when Chart interval is changed. They are also properly placed when workspace is reopened
- Fixed calculations of upper and lower channels of Regression lines
- Lines and notes on studies below the price pane are now saved into your workspace
- Fixed an issue with Snapshot window showing data for symbols from other charts
- Cursor Tracking window displays the number of bars away from the last clicked bar
- Y-axis price labels are no longer hidden behind study labels since they are now drawn on top of all other labels
- Cursor Tracking and Snapshot window positions are now saved into your workspace
- Backtesting can be removed from a chart by removing all strategies from Strategy Wizard dialog
- Arrow keys can now be used to quickly scroll through symbols in Level I window. Charts and other windows will automatically update to the newly selected symbol from Level I (set 'Sym' buttons on Level I and Chart to different colors to disable this).
- You no longer need to have focus inside Symbol drop-down to type in a new symbol. For example, you can have focus on your Chart window and start typing the next symbol you'd like to watch
- Font color preferences are now properly saved
- You no longer need to keep entering QCharts password. It's encrypted and stored locally for your next login
- You can now use the Delete key to quickly delete symbols from Level I window
- Last 10 recently viewed workspaces are now accessible from the Files menu
- Added Help buttons to major dialogs
- Fixed an issue with Cancel option on 'Save Workspace' confirmation dialog
- Added an option to overwrite an existing formula or strategy when a name given already exists in Formula/Strategy library
- Fixed an issue with duplicate symbols in Level I window when 'Listen for changes from QCharts' option is enabled
What's New in Version 2.2
- Major Chart improvements:
- Added vertical lines between trading sessions
- Concise Time labels better reflect the Chart timeframe, and display the trading session on the 2nd line.
- Multi-Timeframe Charts enable you to have different timeframes on the same chart (e.g. 1-min, 5-min, and Daily Moving Averages together on the same chart)
- Symbol and Interval Tabs allow to conveniently combine multiple charts in one
- Custom Studies can now be omitted from scaling to allow for Price-only Scaling
- Fixed an issue with certain Chart layouts crashing on workspace loading
- Implemented Alert Columns in Level I window with ability to customize text, color, and notification method based on alert state
- Added Multi-Color Sym/Inv buttons to allow to customize synchronization between workspace components on symbol and/or interval
- Multi-Timeframe Backtesting: you can mix timeframes in Entry/Exit formulas (e.g. buy when 1-min bar is above previous one and Daily Stochastic is higher than yesterday)
- Now you can run the Screener on Hot Lists
- Added Time fields to Bar function (for example, use Bar[Hour] = 15 & Bar[Minute] = 59 to backtest end-of-day exit)
- Save toolbar layout and main window position for the next time you use the software
- If you run Stock Watch Pro and Qcharts at the same time, now you can have symbols and intervals synchronized across applications.
- Ability to toggle Market Maker Action Log on/off in Level II window
- Now you can customize the title of Level I window