Omnitrader by Nirvana Systems

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DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Fixed the eSignal Real Time data collection issue.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Improvement:

Fixed issue with FOLIOfn plug-in resulting from FOLIOfn website updates.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Improvement:

Updated FOLIOfn Interface to interact with FOLIOfn's new website.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Improvement:

Updated FOLIOfn Interface to interact with FOLIOfn's new website.

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DESCRIPTION

Improvement:

Added OmniData support as an additional data feed.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

FolioFN modified their website. Update to make OT work with these modifications.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

FolioFN modified their website. Update to make OT work with these modifications.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Improvement:

Improved Pring KST plugin support.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Using CSI data would error in certain cases.

Improvement:

Added support for Pring KST plugin.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

GAMS system would behave incorrectly if the Aggression value would be set to 1.

Bug Fix:

mporting commodities into the FocusList, could cause the exchange to be set wrong. Charting the futures contract would then cause the statistics to disappear from the FocusList.

Bug Fix:

Improved TradeStream RT-datafeed, related to switching between EOD and RT, and loading/reloading of historical data, and real-time statistics.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

GAMS system would behave incorrectly if the Aggression value would be set to 1.

Bug Fix:

Importing commodities into the FocusList, could cause the exchange to be set wrong. Charting the futures contract would then cause the statistics to disappear from the FocusList.

Bug Fix:

Improved TradeStream RT-datafeed, related to switching between EOD and RT, and loading/reloading of historical data, and real-time statistics.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

In RealTime adding new timeframes to vote would cause errors.

Bug Fix:

In labmode, bringing up the initial chart would display too much data.

Bug Fix:

In the NN Score block the global vs individual training option was reversed.

Bug Fix:

Using index confirmation in the filter block on a symbol which has less data than the index symbol, would cause systems to be plotted wrong in the sytems area.

Bug Fix:

If no systems are enabled for confirmation, the confirmation block would display all systems in the sytems area.

Bug Fix:

The net percent calculation in the Vote line report was incorrect.

International Bug Fix:

Running OmniTrader in Turkey would cause miscellaneous errors.

Improvement:

Improved TradeStream RT-datafeed.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Vote line report would not fill in Net percent.

Bug Fix:

Creating a new new-signal-alert would cause a runtime error.

Bug Fix:

Charts in Game/Labmode would display too much data.

Bug Fix:

TradeStream datafeed: improved reconnection mechanism, when connection is lost.

Improvement:

For NClub members, added link to the nirvana club forums.

Improvement:

ARM3: added more constraints/filters to the GA block. Added the ability to pick any combination of stops.

Improvement:

Improved advisor calculation (less 44 values).

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

FOLIOfn modified the website. Updated OT to make OT work correctly with the updated website.

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DESCRIPTION

Official Release:

Pre-Release 5L promoted to Release 5.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

In strategies with two filter blocks in series, the plotting of the filter blocks was incorrect.

Improvement:

Added TradeStream as a new realtime datafeed.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

FOLIOfn modified the website. Updated OT to make OT work correctly with the updated website.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Re-added the highest volume indicator.

Bug Fix:

When using an international symbols database, when a new symbols list has been released, OT asks every time whether you want to update.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

In chart options, when plotting indicators or systems the parameters values were too restricted.

Bug Fix:

In the flowchart editor, when filtering an indicator against a specific value, if the value would have one digit, the filtering would not work properly.

Improvement:

In the FOLIOfn interface, added an option to display the date, that a position was originally opened.

Improvement:

In the ARM3 NN Scoring block, added the ability to specify timeframe and symbol for measurements.

Improvement:

In the ARM3 NN Scoring block, improved the user interface. The first level defines the filtering. The second level defines the training settings.

Improvement:

Added three new indicators for ARM3.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

In RealTime if the computer clock is slow, the first displayed chart is not advanced properly.

Bug Fix:

In the GA signals blocks, fixed the error "Data type mismatch in criteria expression", which could happen when using normalization.

Bug Fix:

The GA Signals block stopped generating signals when editing the GA settings, and clicking OK without making any changes.

Improvement:

In the neural network, added the ability to specify symbol and timeframe.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

In RealTime if the computer clock is slow, in certain situations the chart might not advance properly.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Futures: The stops didn't work properly for futures when setting the "Unit" setting to "Percentage".

Bug Fix:

Futures, EOD - Switching between future symbols charts, the charts might not display the last bar of data available, so the user would need to scroll the chart in order to see it.

Bug Fix:

eSignal, EOD - subsequent update requests for the data failed (TODO list or On Demand Download). The data only updated once a day, in most cases.

Bug Fix:

eSignal - Funds data wouldn't download properly.

Bug Fix:

Quote.com - Energy Income Trust symbols (as AVNNF, BNPUF, etc) wouldn fail to download data.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Plotting systems in a different timeframe on a chart would cause runtime error in Pre-Release 5C: object or with block variable not set in IOTDPMgr_GetTradePeriod.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Creating a new profile, and immediately viewing a performance report for this profile would error.

Bug Fix:

After creating a new strategy, and then saving it under a different name, this new strategy would not show up in the strategy list.

Bug Fix:

In labmode, after advancing a day 0 would be displayed for the advisor value, instead of the actual value.

Bug Fix:

When using delayed entries with reversing signal stops, in rare cases the voteline would not display an exit.

Improvement:

In RealTime when a stop is hit, a message is now shown, and the stops on the chart are removed.

Improvement:

In the flowchart editor, implemented copy and paste to easily duplicate blocks, or to copy blocks from one strategy to another.

Improvement:

For ARM2, the 'Train' button in the ToDo list is now only enabled when a trainable strategy exist.

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DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Bug Fix:

Improvement:

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

When symbols are removed from the FocusList, the performance reports would not be updated until the next time the profile was opened.

Bug Fix:

In the FOLIOfn interface, modifying holdings, after the order got pre-viewed would not update the submitted order. Placing the order without re-previewing would place the original order.

Bug Fix:

Internationally, the FOLIOfn Interface would not display values correctly, when a comma is used as decimal separator.

Bug Fix:

Using an apostrophe ' in a FOLIO name would cause errors.

Bug Fix:

While communicating with the FOLIOfn website, initiating an other command, like refreshing while already refreshing, would cause errors.

Improvement:

Improved the right click grid selection behaviour in the FOLIOfn Interface.

Improvement:

When the FOLIOfn interface is minimized, clicking the FOLIOfn Interface toolbar button, now restores the form.

Improvement:

When switching profiles, the FOLIOfn Interface TradePosition column is now updated to reflect the current holdings.

Improvement:

In the FOLIOfn Interface, the target percentage can now be edited regardless of whether the total is more than 100%. Instead this check is made when rebalancing or adding new holdings.

Improvement:

In the FOLIOfn Interface, removed the limitation that holdings need to have at least 1% weight.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Official Release:

Pre-Release 4D promoted to Release 4.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Improvement:

Enabled OT for integration with FOLIOfn.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Plotting systems would cause error 9 (pre-release 4B).

Bug Fix:

Profit stops would not stop out properly when 'Stop Market' is used in the orders block. They would be interpreted as 'Stop Market orders', instead of 'Limit Orders'.

Bug Fix:

In LabMode, the FocusList would not display a signal if a reinforced signal happened in the past.

Bug Fix:

Strategies which have the same name (or start with the same name) as regular columns (like adv, pos, etc) would cause error 457 when configuring the Focuslist.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

When labmode re-backtests, charting would cause error 3022 (duplicate values).

Bug Fix:

Adjusting the plot parameters for the systems, would not allow to set it to 0.

Bug Fix:

Adjusting the plot parameters for the systems using scrollbars, would not allow to set it to the minimum value, if it the minimum value is a decimal value (like 0.95).

Improvement:

Added the ability to set linestyles on stops.

Improvement:

Improvement:

Added the ability to enable/disable boosting of the CPU system priority, to increase backtest and voting speed.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

When importing future symbols into the Focus List using "User Data", signals and/or statistics may change when charting, even if the ToDo list had been run.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Official Release:

Pre-Release 3K promoted to Release 3

Bug Fix:

Creating new signal alerts in pre-release 3K would cause error 13 'Type mismatch error'.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Minimizing a chart would cause error 380 'Invalid Property Value'.

Bug Fix:

Game mode: re-starting the game with 'On-Demand Downloading' feature enabled would cause error 9: 'Subscript out of range'.

Bug Fix:

Using Turkish locales and language settings would cause error 3265 'Item not found in this collection'.

Bug Fix:

Certain click paths in the signals area of the chart would cause error 35600 'Index out of bounds'.

Bug Fix:

Resizing the chart so the with of the chart is smaller than the height would cause the cross hairs to not draw to the bottom of the signals area.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Changing test settings in ToDo list, without actually running it, would not be remembered the next time OT is started.

Bug Fix:

Do not optimize symbols with open positions, did not work properly.

Bug Fix:

Advisor rating did not always stay constant when in a trade.

Bug Fix:

The ToDo list percentage would not be updated in pre-releases 3G, 3H, and 3I.

Bug Fix:

After running the ToDo list, the FocusList would not re-sort, and re-filter.

Bug Fix:

Running OmniTrader within 5 seconds after running the updater, would cause error 32811 'Element not found'.

Bug Fix:

Certain click paths would cause OT to think that all processes are being cancelled, causing OT to no longer chart.

Bug Fix:

Running OT with international settings (comma and period reversed for currency/numeric formats), would cause the portfolio and positions window not to display and calculate values correctly. Cent values would be ignored.

Bug Fix:

In the portfolio when clicking the edit account button twice, the second time the account value would display 0.

Bug Fix:

ATR value was not always updated in the FocusList, if no signals were generated.

Bug Fix:

Plotting the equity curve would not plot for the bar immediately after the backtest period, causing a gap in the plot.

Bug Fix:

Deleting a profile would not delete the results database.

Bug Fix:

Using voteprobe on a specific block, would not always work correctly.

Bug Fix:

A signal drawn in the chart on the last bar, would sometimes be partially cut off, displaying only part of the signal.

Bug Fix:

MicroPredictor would not unload after closing OT.

Bug Fix:

Removed obsolete right click menus for the statusbar panels.

Improvement:

Added the ability to modify the parameters of systems being plotted.

Improvement:

Using the Windows 'Show Desktop' button, and then restoring OT, would not restore the FocusList. Instead the FocusList would stay minimized.

Improvement:

Added the ability to train Neural networks in RealTime profiles.

Improvement:

Added ability to show all reinforced signals in the chart on the chart options tab.

Improvement:

Scrolling the chart is faster, and produces less flicker.

Improvement:

Added ability to use a country specific symbols database. Added international symbols databases for Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, The Netherlands, Singapore, South Afrika, and Switzerland.

Improvement:

Added exchange information for the Amsterdam, Swiss and Istanbul stock exchanges. Updated trading hours for the Brussels and Paris EuroNext stock exchanges.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Having more than 10 strategies which start with the same characters, and which are longer than 20 characters would cause errors on startup.

Bug Fix:

After completing a game in game mode, the start button would be disabled.

Bug Fix:

Starting a game with a profile which uses a fixed backtest period, would cause the game to re-backtest every single day. Modified to always use a floating backtest.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Plotting systems through chart options now only plot once (using default parameters), instead of once for every enabled strategy.

Bug Fix:

After running the ToDo list, the ToDo is no longer shown.

Bug Fix:

A filtered FL would not update when switching the displayed strategy.

Improvement:

Master strategy signals are implemented.

Improvement:

Added highest-volume indicator

Improvement:

Updated help file for the new candle pattern systems.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Opening profiles with large symbol lists would be very slow.

Bug Fix:

ARM2 R2 would run very slow in Pre-Release 3F.

Bug Fix:

Training ARM2 networks can now be done by running the regular ToDo list, instead of just clicking the 'Train' button.

Bug Fix:

Added holiday information for the Australian, and UK exchanges.

Bug Fix:

Editing the operator for a spread did not properly validate the input.

Bug Fix:

Using custom short date format with weekdays included (like: "ddd M/d/yyyy", e.g. Tue 1/27/2004), would cause OT inoperable with various 'type mismatch' errors.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

In pre-releases 3D, and 3E, enabling/disabling stops would not work properly.

Bug Fix:

In certain rare cases the FL statistics would display wrong information: If reversing signals are off and, if an opposing signal (e.g. short) would happen at the same time the original signal (e.g. long) would be stopped out by a stop (e.g. fixed loss stop) , the FocusList would display statistics for the original (long) signal, instead of the opposing (short) signal.

Bug Fix:

Re-added ability to specify whether stop values are calculated based on close prices, or high/low prices.

Bug Fix:

In the portfolio, editing the number of shares of an open position, would not adjust the gain/loss value properly. Instead it would continue to use the original number of shares.

Bug Fix:

Configuring the FocusList, while in the middle of downloading data or backtesting would error.

Bug Fix:

In game mode clicking the advance button, prior to game mode being completely initilialized, would error.

Improvement:

Added ability to cancel FL configuration changes

Improvement:

Cleaned up the analysis portion of the auto-mode user interface to be like the ToDo list.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Updating to pre-release 3D without ever having run OT, would cause the runtime error: "Path not found" in OT.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Fixed backtest period did not work.

Bug Fix:

Statistics for futures could be wrong when running OT in the weekend. The statistics would be reported for Friday, instead of Saturday. The 'Days in trade' statistic would be equally wrong because it would not count weekend trading days.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

After adding symbols from TC2000, OT loses the ability to exit, and switch profiles (pre-release 3A, and 3B).

Bug Fix:

Right clicking on the combined filter in a chart would error.

Bug Fix:

Plotting the HighestHigh, or LowestLow indicator on charts, which have only a few bars of data, would error.

Bug Fix:

Printing charts in automode would error.

Bug Fix:

On Windows 98 viewing and/or printing reports would error.

Bug Fix:

In game mode clicking on the end-game button while backtesting, would cause errors.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Plotting various systems (ADX, BND-C,BOL-C, BOL-T, DMI, MAC-M, RSI-D) on charts, which have only a few bars of data, would error.

Bug Fix:

Plotting the GMMA Oscillator indicator on charts, which have only a few bars of data, would error.

Bug Fix:

On Windows 98, certain plugins (like VTL-B) would not be recognized by OT.

Bug Fix:

Internationally, ARM2 R2 would cause errors if the decimal or thousands separator would not be a period.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Removing a symbol from the FL, while in the middle of downloading data or backtesting would error.

Bug Fix:

Improved user interaction related to plotting of charts (page up/down, quickchart, etc).

Bug Fix:

Right click in the FocusList to add symbols would not work if there were no symbols in the list.

Bug Fix:

Printing charts in automode would error.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Official Release:

Pre-Release 2C promoted to Release 2

Bug Fix:

Default values for commisions (for new profiles) were reversed. Slippage was set to 0.01 (should be 0.05). Exit commission was set to 0.05 (should be 0.01).

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Certain click combinations would cause an error in FindSymbol (record has been deleted).

Bug Fix:

Adding columns to the FocusList could cause errors.

Bug Fix:

Using the Confirmation block, with forward tolerance would still confirm, even if the orignal signal changed.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

When HyperFeed fails to connect. Cancelling would cause error 10: This array is fixed or temporarily locked.

Bug Fix:

While in the middle of backtesting a symbol, opening a different profile, switching modes, or exiting OT would cause errors.

Bug Fix:

Enabling 'Do no optimize symbols with open positions' would cause errors.

Bug Fix:

ARM2 R2 accuracy settings were reversed.

Bug Fix:

Duplicate systems would not show in the systems area.

Improvement:

Improved user interaction in realtime, related to repeatedly editing strategies.

Improvement:

Added 'reversing signals' option to the performance metric for systems.

Improvement:

Improved the display of the system scales, when plotting systems.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

Bug Fix:

Confirmation with multiple systems, using the 'All' option did not confirm properly.

Bug Fix:

The performance options for Strategy Voting would not be saved.

Bug Fix:

Changing the optimization metric on individual blocks would not take effect until the next time the strategy is loaded.

Bug Fix:

Adding an optimizable-block to a strategy without editing the block, would cause the symbols to re-optimize every single time the strategy is loaded.

Bug Fix:

Entry range optimization did not work properly.

Bug Fix:

Multiple filters based on the same indicator and the same parameter values, would be displayed only once in the chart.

Bug Fix:

The volume scale would not be adjusted to values less than a 1000 shares.

Bug Fix:

Using 'Save As' on a strategy would not save the enabled timeframes.

Bug Fix:

Accuracy settings for ARM2 R2 were reversed (highest vs lowest).

Bug Fix:

Editing strategies, would not always cause symbols to be re-optimized.

Improvement:

Editing the settings for Strategy Voting would cause all strategies to be re-optimized.

Improvement:

Performance summary report now displays the results for all voted strategies.

Improvement:

When multiple strategies are enabled, if a symbol is being optimized for a specific strategy all strategies after that would optimize as well.

Improvement:

Added holiday information for 2004.

Improvement:

Adjusting stops on the chart was in increments of 0.1% of the close price. Modified it to be cent based.

ISSUE

DESCRIPTION

None

Initial Release

FILE

DATE

NAME

DESCRIPTION

OT2004 Guidebook

December 30th, 2003

OmniTrader 2004 Guidebook

Guidebook for OmniTrader 2004

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