NEW FEATURES:

• Balloon ToolTip Window implemented in place of Reconnection Window; the new balloon tooltip window is displayed next to the Connect Level Toolbar and is much less intrusive and more informative than the previous Reconnection Window; The user is no longer “locked out” of VT Trader while a reconnection is in progress – with the new balloon tooltip window the user can operate VT Trader normally around the tooltip window as reconnection continues. [Reconnect] button present in balloon tooltip window is active allowing the user to interrupt the reconnection process and immediately attempt a full re-login;


• Connect Level Toolbar now has 3 LED's; The LED's are Trading (has “T” in icon), Messaging (has “M” in icon, and Charting (has “C” in icon); Trading = Connection status for trading operations; Messaging = Connection status for real-time price quotes; Charting = Connection status for charting; Corresponding tooltips are displayed when the mouse is hovered over each icon; The LED's have 3 status colors: Green, Yellow, and Red; Green = Connection is OK; Yellow = Connection is UNSTABLE, potential passive reconnect in progress; Red = NO Connection; Each LED functions independent of the others -> this means that if, for example, the Charting LED becomes red (i.e.: charting is not available), but the Messaging and Trading LED's remain green that you should still be able to receive real-time price quotes to the Dealing Rates Window and place trades.


• Proxy Username and Proxy Password support added to Navigator Window>Options Bookmark>Servers>Demo Trading & Live Trading sections; Users now have the ability to specify a proxy username and proxy password when required by the proxy server


• New Server Properties icon added to Login Window; To the right of the Dealing Desk dropdown selection menu is a new icon that looks like a pencil and paper; Clicking this icon opens the Navigator Window>Options Bookmark>Servers>Demo Trading Properties Window or Live Trading Properties Windows based on the selection chosen in the dropdown menu; This allows the user to make any necessary changes to those properties without the need to go through the process of logging into VT Trader in [Work Offline] Mode, making changes to the Demo/Live Trading Properties, logging out of VT Trader, and finally logging in again. Now it's as easy as choosing the Server Properties icon from the Login Window, making your changes, and clicking the [OK] button to login into VT Trader.


• TalkBack Service Implemented; VT Trader now includes intuitive error reporting without user assistance. This feature is enabled by default. How it works: Each time VT Trader generates an entry in its ServerError log file, this information (and only this information) is sent back to a listening server in your broker's network. The information gathered by the TalkBack service will allow more sophisticated tracking and reporting of connectivity issues.


• Conditional Stop/Limit Order Labels are now displayed attached to parent PAM positions when viewing the chart in PAM Chart Mode; Along with displaying the labels there is some new functionality...
  
  PAM Position Label>Contextual Menu>Stop/Limit (No Stops or Limits Attached Yet): If not stop or limit orders are currently associated with the PAM Position Label, using “Stop” or “Limit” from the contextual menu will create the selected stop or limit orders for every individual position included in the cumulative PAM Position. The newly created Stop or Limit orders will display as 1 PAM Stop Label or 1 PAM Limit Label.
  
  PAM Position Label>Contextual Menu>Stop/Limit (Stops or Limits Already Attached): This affects ALL stop or limit orders associated with the cumulative PAM position even if the stops (or limits) are at different rates; For example, you have an open cumulative PAM position consisting of 3 positions and you add stops to the 3 positions -> If all 3 positions' stops have the same rate they will be displayed as 1 PAM Stop Label. Using the “Stop” or “Limit” option in the contextual menu when all stop or limit orders have the same rates will simply change stop or limit rates for all of the associated stop or limit orders. However, let's assume you edit 1 of the 3 position's stop rate -> Now you'll have 2 PAM Stop Labels on the chart; If the “Stop” option from the cumulative PAM Position Label's contextual menu is used at this time a warning popup window containing "PAM Position S/L orders have different rates. Do you wish to change ALL orders?" [Yes] [No] will display. Clicking [Yes] will update the stop rate for ALL associated stop orders; Clicking [No] will cancel the update request. The same stop logic as described in the example above is also used when working with any associated PAM Limit orders.
  
  PAM Stop/Limit Label>Contextual Menu>Change/Remove: These options, when accessed from their respective PAM Stop or PAM Limit Label, affect ONLY the stop or limit orders associated with that specific PAM Stop or PAM Limit Label; For example, you have an open cumulative PAM position consisting of 3 positions and you add stops to the 3 positions -> If all 3 positions' stops have the same rate they will be displayed as 1 PAM Stop Label. However, let's assume you edit one of the 3 position's stop rate -> Now you'll have 2 PAM Stop Labels on the chart; If you use the “Change” or “Remove” option from the contextual menu of the PAM Stop Label that consists of 2 stop orders and change it to a new rate (or use “Remove” to remove the orders completely), only the stop rate for those 2 positions will be updated to the new rate (or removed from the chart if “Remove” was used) while the second PAM Stop Label (consisting of the remaining 1 PAM Stop order) will remain unaffected.
  
  PAM Stop/Limit Label>Drag-and-Drop Functionality in Chart Window (all Stops/Limits have the same rate): This option affects ALL stop/limit orders associated to a specific PAM position; For example, you have an open cumulative PAM position consisting of 3 positions and you add stops to the 3 positions -> If all 3 positions' stops have the same rate they will be displayed as 1 PAM Stop Label. If you click on the Stop/Limit rate line displayed in the Chart Window and drag it to a new rate, the stop rate for ALL 3 positions will be updated to the new rate.
  
  PAM Stop/Limit Label>Drag-and-Drop Functionality in Chart Window (Stops/Limits have different rates): This option affects ONLY the stop/limit orders associated to a specific PAM position if the stops (or limits) are at different rates; For example, you have an open cumulative PAM position consisting of 3 positions and you add stops to the 3 positions -> If all 3 positions' stops have the same rate they will be displayed as 1 PAM Stop Label. However, let's assume you edit one of the 3 position's stop rate -> Now you'll have 2 PAM stop labels on the chart; If you click on the Stop/Limit rate line for the PAM stop consisting of 2 Stop orders and drag it to a new rate, only the stop rate for those 2 positions will be updated to the new rate while the second PAM Stop label (consisting of the remaining PAM Stop) will remain unaffected.
  
  
• VT Trader Windows Have “Sticky” Border Option; When resizing and/or moving windows around in VT Trader, the user can hold down the [ALT] key while performing the move or resize action and in doing so the active window's borders will become “sticky”. How it works: If the user is moving the window around within VT Trader with the [ALT] key held down, when the active window comes within a certain distance of a neighboring window its border will “snap to” or “sticky” itself to the neighboring window's closest border(s). This “snap to” or “sticky” behavior can also be used when resizing one or more of the active window's borders. It works in the same fashion as moving the window around. Holding down the [ALT] key while dragging the active window's border(s) to resize it will allow the border(s) being moved to “snap to” or “sticky” to the closest neighboring window(s) closest border(s). This new feature allows the user to easily and precisely line up windows next to each other in VT Trader. Please note, there are currently some limitations with this feature: The Navigator Window does not include this new functionality. Also, when resizing windows using the “sticky” option, the left, right, an bottom borders of the active window will not “sticky” to a neighboring window's top border.


• Free space checking routine during upgrade process has been implemented; if there is not enough space the updater displays a message asking the user to free up space on the target drive to allow for an upgrade of VT Trader


• New Chart Background settings created; New default chart properties at Navigator Window>Options Bookmark>Properties>Charting>General>Spread Band Bookmark; New Backgrounds section added which includes properties to adjust: Chart Loading... screen color, Chart Loading.. screen font attributes, Chart Error screen color, and Chart Error screen font attributes; These settings can also be applied to individual charts using the Chart Window>Contextual Menu>Chart Properties>Spread Band Bookmark>Backgrounds.


• New setting in General Properties window called “Output Variables Precision Display in Inspect Window“; This setting allows the user to adjust the output variable display in the Inspect Window from 0 – 8 decimal places to the right of the decimal point in the value.


• New setting in General Properties window called “Bring Activity Log to Front on Incoming Message”; This option is disabled by default. With the addition of this setting the Activity Log will no longer take the focus from other windows when an incoming is displayed unless this option is enabled.


• New setting in General Properties window called “AutoScroll Activity Log to Incoming Message”; This option is enabled by default. This option allows each new incoming message to the Activity Log to goto the top of the list. This option is temporarily disabled when 1 or more messages are highlighted by the user making it easier for the user to review previous messages.


• 5 new indicators added:
    + Bollinger Bandwidth (see Notes section in indicator for more details)
    + Bollinger Percent B (%b) (see Notes section in indicator for more details)
    + Chande's Variable Index Dynamic Average (VIDYA)
    + Price Volume Trend (see Notes section in indicator for more details)
    + Stochastic Oscillator (Full) (see Notes section in indicator for more details)

• Navigator Window now participates in the arrangement of windows; If visible, it fills down the left side of the monitor at its current width when the windows are auto-arranged while the other windows use the remaining free space to the right of it; If it is hidden it will retain its previous location and size when it's made visible again; When it's hidden, other windows auto-arrange using the rest free space to the right of the flashing Navigator Window strip.


• Tile Vertically/Tile Horizontally Smart Distribution logic can be suppressed by holding down the [ALT] key when using Tile Vertically or Tile Horizontally; Suppressing the Smart Distribution logic allows the Tile Vertically option to display all windows side-by-side from left-to-right spanning the entire vertical length of the desktop on the primary monitor; Suppressing the Smart Distribution logic allows the Tile Horizontally option to display all windows stacked on top of each other from top-to-bottom spanning the entire horizontal width of the desktop on the primary monitor.


• General Properties>Communication Bookmark>Get Message Timeout(s) setting is now a slider bar; this allows the user to adjust the response time and bandwidth requirements for receiving the streaming price quotes in VT Trader


• Activity Log AutoScroll property has been changed; Now if 1 or more messages are highlighted in the Activity Log it will not AutoScroll to the most recent incoming message; this makes it much easier for the user to search and examine messages being displayed in the Activity Log Window


• Open (displayed) Indicator Editor and Trading Systems Editor windows save their size and position with the desktop template so that when exiting and restarting VTtrader (or after a disconnection/reconnection) these windows are restored to their previous size, screen position, and monitor.


• Disabled the user's ability to disable all accounts from the Accounts Information Window; now at least 1 account must be selected at any given time; Also disabled is the ability to click on the Total row of the Accounts Information Window since in clicking there all accounts were disabled; We also fixed all 'Select Accounts' popup windows shown from the 'Select Accounts' option displayed in several contextual menus (including the chart window)... If user attempts to select no accounts, the error message “At least one account must be selected!” is displayed.


• Trading System Label contextual menu change; “Start/Stop Auto-Trade Mode” and associated icons have been changed; If trading system is running in Recommendation Only Mode the menu option will read “Start Auto-Trade Mode” and the icon will appear as [ > ] (play button); If the trading system is running in Auto-Trade Mode the menu option will read “Stop Auto-Trade Mode” and the icon will appear as [ || ] (pause button).


• Confirmation Window now displays when user attempts to exit VT Trader with one or more trading systems running in Auto-Trade Mode are attached to one or more charts. The user can still exit VT Trader – nothing else has changed – this confirmation window merely serves as a reminder and a double-check for the user before allowing an exit.


• Users are no longer prohibited from using File>Account Logout while one or more trading systems are running in Auto-Trade Mode and attached to one or more charts. Now the user can freely use this option to enter into Offline Mode. However, a confirmation window will display notifying the user of which charts have trading systems running in Auto-Trade mode; the user must choose to Logout from this confirmation window before being able to proceed. Once logged out, the user is on Offline Mode and the trading systems do NOT remain running; they remain attached to the charts, but they are NOT ACTIVE. The running trading systems will only attempt to restart and become active again once the user has logged back into their trading account (File>Account Login). Once logged in, if the running trading systems detect no missed signals, they will restart and retain their settings and continue from where the left off previous to the user logging out.


• Users are no longer prohibited from closing a chart window that contains one or more trading systems running in Auto-Trade Mode. Upon attempting to close the chart window, the user will be prompted with a confirmation window allowing the user to cancel or continue closing the chart. The confirmation window will display a list of running trading systems contained within that chart. If the user chooses to close the chart window with the trading systems still running in Auto-Trade the trading systems will be stopped and deleted from the chart; they will not continue to operate once the chart window has been closed.


• When importing indicators into VTtrader, the imported indicators now appear in the Custom Indicators list in the Trading Bookmark of the Navigator Window without requiring the user to exit and restart VT Trader.


• When importing trading systems into VTtrader, the imported trading systems now appear in the Custom Trading Systems list in the Trading Bookmark of the Navigator Window without requiring the user to exit and restart VT Trader.


• When editing the name of an indicator, the name change is now properly displayed in the Navigator Window>Trading Bookmark>Indicators and/or Custom Indicators sections without requiring the user to exit and restart to VT Trader.


• When editing the name of an trading system, the name change is now properly displayed in the Navigator Window>Trading Bookmark>Trading Systems and/or Custom Trading Systems sections without requiring the user to exit and restart to VT Trader.


• Date/Time functions in programming language have been reworked for increased processing speed


• Navigator Window>Help>Video manual changed to Navigator Window>Help>Video Manual (capitalization of 'Manual')


• Navigator Window>Help>Submit Activity Log now performs a check to verify that the entered TicketID is an actual valid TicketID in their broker's database. If the entered TicketID is not valid, VT Trader will display an error message to the user and the Activity Log Upload will fail.


• Login Window resized for French, German (DEU/DES/DEA), and Italian localizations


• Chart loading speed improvements implemented


• Hi-Low zones in chart window calculated internally gained 2x speed improvement for chart loading (only when loading chart data from server).


• Navigator Window>Trading Bookmark>Reports now accesses reports via SSL in separate browser window


• Contextual Menu options and header bar display for all trading windows (Closed Positions, Open Positions, Account(s) Information, Pending Orders, Summary By Accounts) have been synced; Each have: Selected Accounts, All Accounts, Adjust Column Width, Font options; Previously each window had its own variation (text) for these options, but now they are all standardized options.


• Broken LastValue() function has been temporarily removed from the programming language; After deep investigation it has been determined that this function cannot be correctly implemented under the current programming language structure.


• Localization text for Error dialog window displayed when the user attempts to make an order request while connectivity in unavailable has been updated to be more descriptive; The Error dialog window now displays sooner and let's the user know that the trading service is unavailable and that their order request has not been sent.


• Insufficient Funds message much improved in Activity Log when user attempts to place an order with Insufficient Funds in the account; Previously, the Activity Log only displayed “Error – Error”, now the message is much more descriptive noting the order ID and the amount of shortage in the UsableMargin.


• Localization text changed in Close Chart Confirmation Window when user attempts to close a chart window that has no trading systems running in Auto-Trade Mode attached.


• Modified 27 standard VT Trader indicators (mostly cosmetic; variable inputs, renaming, revised notes sections):
    + Average Directional Movement Index (ADX)
    + Average Directional Movement Index Rating (ADXR)
    + Average True Range (ATR)
    + Chaikin's Money Flow (adjusted formula to avoid NULL values)
    + Chande's Momentum Oscillator (used faster formula)
    + Chaos Accelerator Oscillator
    + Chaos Alligator Indicator
    + Chaos Awesome Oscillator
    + Chaos Gator Oscillator
    + Double Stochastic Oscillator
    + Kaufman's Adaptive Moving Average (KAMA) (faster formula initialization)
    + MACD (renamed to Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD))
    + MACD-Histogramm (renamed to Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD) – Histogram)
    + MACD-Line (renamed to Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD) – Line)
    + Directional Movement Index
    + Directional Movement System
    + Darvas Box
    + Rainbow Charts
    + Rainbow Oscillator
    + Stochastic Oscillator (renamed to Stochastic Oscillator (Fast))
    + Slow Stochastic %D (renamed to Stochastic Oscillator (Slow))
    + Stochastic Momentum Index
    + Stoller Average Range Channels
    + Rate of Change
    + Relative Vigor Index
    + Momentum
    + Volatility (Chaikin's) (renamed to Chaikin's Volatility)

• Not all pending entry orders in a particular currency pair will be visible when using a chart window displaying data for that currency pair in PAM or Summary Viewing Mode; If you are working with pending entry orders it is advisable to keep the chart window in Position Viewing Mode. This functionality will be fixed in a future release of VT Trader.


• When using the File>Account Logout menu option, it may be several seconds or minutes before the Account Login or Exit options become available. Please be patient and do not forcefully attempt to exit or quit VTtrader during this time – the procedure is vital to ensure the proper logout of VTtrader!


• When VTtrader is launched there may be an additional ~2 seconds delay between the splash screen disappearing and the login window appearing.


• Please be aware that the Closed Position Window may display inaccurate information when Navigator Window>Options Bookmark>Properties>General Properties>Communication Bookmark>Disable SSL has a checkmark next to it


• Renko Charts – The right-most digit of the currency pair’s price will sometimes not be displayed in the vertical ruler when using certain combinations of brick size and vertical zooming.