Forex Tester Software

4. Added fixed graphic scale option – when this option is enabled in the chart settings (with upper and lower prices set), the chart will not change its scale.

5. Added new price field in status bar, that will show the price unger the mouse cursor.

6. After the program restart, parameters from previous session will be restored in Market Order and Pending Order dialog windows.

7. Added small icons into the terminal window, to help separate orders.

8. Added new functions to API:
- ObjectsTotal
- ObjectName
- iBarShift
- iHighest
- iLowest
- new external parameter type ot_Color

9. The buffers of indicators set in invisible colors will not be painted.

10. Fixed bug – line of period separators became thick if graphical objects were painted with thick lines.

11. Added shortcut for the switching of crosshair ‘CTRL+F’

12. After setting option “Bars over Indicators”, all the objects will be painted under the bars, and will not hide them.

13. Corrected mistake in Strategy Optimizer. After the tick’s regeneration, the list of currencies did not update in the strategy settings.

14. After selecting the invisible color for buy/sell markers, they will not be painted.

15. Added new feature – default template (<Forex Tester>\Templates\default.tem). On opening a new window this template will be applied to it automatically; you can overwrite this template with your own, and it will be applied to new charts.

1 December 2009. Forex Tester Ver 2.4

1. Added Fibonacci extension tool.

2. Added Fibonacci channel tool. When Fibonacci levels are removed it works like a standard channel by 3 points.

3. Fixed bug with the double swap calculations in Stats window.

4. Fixed bug with typing incorrect symbols in file names. Now all the file names are checked for valid symbols.

5. Fixed bug with manual inputting incorrect date in date controls.

6. Fixed bug with trailing stops when the user places 2 or more pending orders with trailing stops at the same level.

7. Added option to switch between the chart and the screen coordinates in "Text label" tool. Also this option is available in Forex Tester API.

8. There is no option to choose where to install data base during setup process anymore. For the operating systems before Windows Vista it will be installed to the program's folder. For Vista and Windows 7, if you install Forex Tester to Program Files, it will be moved to the folder C:\users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\ForexTester2\..., in other cases it will be located in the program's folder.

19 September 2009. Forex Tester Ver 2.3

1. Added new paint tools - Rectangle, Ellipse and Triangle. They are available over menu Insert -> Add Shape.

2. Fixed bug with incorrectly shown dates on the biggest chart scale.

3. When the user creates a new currency symbol, the program will check the symbol name for incorrect chars in this name (like "/" or "^") that could cause errors later.

4. Changes in History Journal: before stop losses, that closed position, were marked in red color and take profits were marked in green color regardless of profit. Now they are marked in green if the position was closed with profit and in red if it was closed with loss.

5. Fixed bug with a chart alignment to the right in auto scroll mode for invisible charts (when they are maximized and overlapping each other).

6. Added day of the week information in a current time label.

7. Corrected sorting of journals (Open Positions, Pending Orders, History) by columns (before numbers were sorted as strings).

8. Added checking of Hardware ID on program start, to prevent crashing if Hardware ID had changed by some reason. Now the program will notify about this and switch to demo mode.

9. Fixed bug with the updating current time frame on the toolbar and the chart tab after loading a template.

10. Fixed bug when after deleting the template from templates list it stayed there.

11. Now chart tabs remain in the same order as you created them and do not change this order after program restarting.

12. Added auto scrolling to History Journal (could be disabled).

13. Fixed bug when after project loading paint tools (lines, fibo) stored with the project disappeared from charts.

14. In Strategy Optimizer last strategy parameter was invisible on the left bottom panel - fixed.

18 July 2009. Forex Tester Ver 2.2

1. Added one more step to scale charts (to see bigger bars).

2. Added ability to add/withdraw money to/from deposit during testing (see menu Orders).

3. Added new option to set fixed grid size (in points) for charts (see dialog Chart Settings -> Chart Options).

4. Added new option to clear an old history before importing new bars into Import History Data dialog.

5. Now the program saves the screen shot with a project to help a user to find it easily in Open Project dialog.

6. Fixed bug with processing statements in Statement Processor tool.

7. Added auto scrolling in Journal.

8. Added web form to request a registration key in Register Program dialog. You can request a new registration key in case of changing your computer or reformatting hard drive there (when your HardwareID had been changed).

9. Fixed bug with Data window - it showed incorrect values for the indicators that used shifted by some bars buffers.

10. Fixed bug with the project loading when a profit chart was not restored.

11. Fixed bug with clearing Journal.

01 June 2009. Forex Tester Ver 2.1

1. New version can be installed over the previous version (2.0), all the settings, templates and projects will be saved during installation.

2. Added new option to an autoupdate program over internet (see menu Help -> Check for updates). The program also can check for updates every week automatically. This mode can be adjusted to the menu Tools -> Options -> Updates. The program will download and install updates automatically, all the current settings, templates and projects will be saved.

3. The procedures of Loading/Saving projects were reprogrammed to avoid some mistakes and provide a better speed.

4. Added new tool - Strategy optimizer (see menu Tools -> Strategy Optimizer).

5. On the double click with mouse at position in "Open positions"/"Pending orders" lists, Data window will show information about a bar, where this position was opened.

6. Indicator Pivot Points was reprogrammed to show weekly, monthly and yearly pivots.

7. Fixed error in Statement Processor strategy.

8. Added new functions to strategies' API to get current time (time of the last received tick) and to change buffer style of the created indicator.

9. Added new option to install automatic strategies without restarting program (see menu File -> Install New Strategy)

10. There are 14 major currency pairs installed in new setup with 1 month of history for each. But they will be installed only if you do clear installation (not over previous version).

06 March 2009.

Forex Tester 2 is released!

1. Multi-window-interface. You can open many windows of different currencies and different time frames of one currency at the same time.

2. Each window has its own preferences and indicators.

3. Added indicator over the indicator at the same oscillator window.

4. Added possibility to draw in the oscillator window.

5. Added "distance between two points in pips and bars tool" (in crosshair mode while pressing left mouse button and moving the mouse).

6. Added adjust right offset on the chart.

7. Added new data window. Show bars and indicators parameters under the cursor.

8. The new time frame model. Now you can edit time frame list, add new and/or delete unnecessary. Time frames is defined by number of minutes in it and can contain any values (for example 48 min, 35 min).

9. Saving of projects is changed. Now the name of the current project represented at the window title. While saving the project it is saved into the current file with the name of the current project. "Save as..." added.

10. In testing mode "Show every tick" option added. Now you can see tick by tick price change (before minimum step was 1 minute)

11. New fields added in the preferences of currency instrument:
Instrument type – currency pair/stock/CFD
- Lot currency
- Margin currency
- Margin for 1 lot
- Hedged margin (for opposite positions on one instrument)
- Minimum distance to the price, pips (minimum distance from the price on which you can place pending orders, in previous version it was equal to spread).

12. New error control system that allows to generate and send the full error log with all necessary files and screenshot.

13. In the terminal window you can sort orders by columns.

14. Text messages are processed faster in Journal, and it can not be overloaded in case of big number of messages.

15. Recoded program core and overall work speed become higher.

16. When starting testing with an option "Set starting test date" you can disable parameter of data preloading. With big data volume testing will start without delay in this case.

24 November 2007. Ver 1.0 Build 12.

1). Added new drawing style - ds_HistogramFill that allows to draw indicators as a vetical lines between two buffers (similar to Ishimoku clouds but without border lines).
2). Added new drawing style - ds_ColoredCandles that allows to draw indicators as a colored bars using 4 buffers.
3). Added new very demanded indicator - Heiken Ashi.
4). Updated documentation for indicators and strategies, now it includes Delphi and C++ examples.
5). Improved fast placing orders with Ctrl + B, Ctrl + S. Now you can define a list of up to 10 orders for buy and sell separately, including trailing stop information and after pressing Ctrl + B/S you can choose an order from the list. If it is only one order in the list it will work as before without dialog window. You can define this list in Options -> Trade.
6). Now you can change the sounds in the program at Options -> Sounds.
7). Added ability to export statistics from Stats. panel to a text file with right mouse button.
8). Improved Strategy Optimizer tool, now it can optimize strategy with more than 1 parameter (up to 5) and you can export statistical results to a text file.
9). Fixed bug with placing orders after starting test with pause option selected.

10 June 2007. Ver 1.0 Build 11.

1). API for Visual CC++ for strategies and indicators is issued.
2). Indicator CCI is corrected.
3). Option for displaying bars over indicators is added.
4). Option for displaying Bid and Ask price is added.
5). Option for displaying indicator's values on the right side of the chart is added.
6). Drawing of indicators with the "shift in the future" option is corrected. Now they are displayed after
the last price bar.
7). New functions SetBufferShift and OnParametersChange are added to API.

27 February 2007. Ver 1.0 Build 10.

1). Rewritten Statement Processor strategy to provide more precise calculations.
2). Corrected mistake with saving graphical objects in projects.
3). Corrected mistake that occurred when user switches very often between Edit mode and Testing mode with ticks generation.
4). Added new commands in API that allow to work with visual objects on the chart.
5). Added new indicators: ZigZag and Parabolic SAR.
6). Added trailing stop for all orders.
7). Added ability to set pause mode after connect.
8). Now you can see information about bars (O/H/L/C/V) while you set stop loss/take profit with pipette buttons in orders.
9). When you move mouse over the indicator line on the main chart you can see its name and value of the indicator in this point.
10). Added option to duplicate order in the context menu of the Open positions list and Pending orders list.
11). In the pending order dialog error messages become more informative.
12). Extended maximum delay between tick packages to 5 seconds (before it was maximum 1 second) - it allows you to set speed of the chart really slow.

26 November 2006. Ver 1.0 Build 9.

1). Increased speed of line drawing.
2). Corrected error with control bars when they collapsed and did not restore their size.
3). Added templates (View -> Templates).
4). Corrected histogram view (on some indicators such as Volume it was shown incorrectly).
5). Added new indicators: Polarized Fractal Efficiency,
Ultimate oscillator, Demark's Range Expansion Index, Pivot Points,
Bears Power, Bulls Power, Keltner Channel.
6). Added horizontal scroll bar for the main chart.
7). Added demo strategies to the installation package.
8). Added new commands "Pause" and "Resume" to the strategies interface. Pause can
set pause mode and allows user to make decision by himself. Resume can continue execution.
9). Added new option "Show price" in Fibonacci retracements tool.
10). Added new menu options that allow you to save and restore current testing
state including templates, open positions, history and current date on the chart.
See File -> Open/Save project.

23 September 2006. Ver. 1.0 build 8.

1). Added new function SetIndexLabel to indicators interface that
defines description of visible buffer instead of BufferStyleXX.
2). Changed histogram drawing, before it was painted with lines, now it is painted with bars.
3). Added new mode of indicator drawing - ds_Section. With this style
you can paint lines between buffer values (for example ZigZag).
4). Added new parameters Comment and MagicNumber into the functions
SendInstantOrder and SendPendingOrder.
5). Added new functions OrderMagicNumber and OrderComment.
6). Added new tool - Text to add some text comments to the diagram. (Insert->Text).
7). Added new tool - Wave Symbols to mark waves on diagram with special symbols. (Insert->Wave Symbols)

25 August 2006. Ver. 1.0 build 7.

In order windows it is possible to pick up prices from price chart now.
Execution, limit and stop-order prices from order windows are visually defined as horizontal levels at price chart now.
Option to set horizontal levels to oscillators is added.
New indicators: CCI, Price Channel, Price Daily Range, Rate Of Change (ROC), AMA,
On Balance Volume (OBV), Accelerator Oscillator (AC) are added.

5 August 2006. Ver. 1.0 build 6.

New graphical instrument Andrews' Pitchfork is added.
Indicators can be selected on the charts now - they can be deleted or their properties can be changed through right mouse-click context menu.
New functions for strategy developers (programmers) are added.
Swap counting mistake is corrected.

28 July 2006. Ver. 1.0 build 5.

New indicator Alligator is added. Indicator Fractals is corrected.
Strategy optimizer (for strategies programmed by developers) is added.
New color schemes are added.
Open positions are visually defined by circle-marks on the charts now.

14 July 2006. Ver. 1.0 build 4.

New indicators Volume, ADX, ATR, Williams %R, Fractals are added.
Leverage changing option is added.

25 June 2006. Ver. 1.0 build 3.

New graphical instruments Fibonacci arcs, Fibonacci fan, Fibonacci time zones are added.
Screenshots making feature is added.

18 June 2006. Ver. 1.0 build 2.

New graphical instrument - Fibonacci retracements/extensions is added.
New indicator - Awesome Oscillator is added.

9 June 2006. Ver 1.0 beta build 2.

New indicators RSI, MACD, Ishimoku, Bollinger Bands are added.

5 June 2006. Ver. 1.0 beta build 1.

Documentation for developing indicators and strategies with examples is included.

25 May 2006. Ver.05 build 1.

Many improvements and modifications were made.