AmiBroker 5.62.0 BETA Read Me

March 4, 2013 13:24

THIS IS A BETA VERSION OF THE SOFTWARE. EXPECT BUGS !!!

Backup your data files and entire AmiBroker folder first!

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

IMPORTANT: This archive is update-only. You have to install full version 5.60 first.

Just run the installer and follow the instructions.

Then run AmiBroker. You should see "AmiBroker 5.62.0 BETA" written in the About box.

See CHANGE LOG below for detailed list of changes. Note that only changes that affect end-user directly are listed here. Internal code changes/refactoring is usually not mentioned.

CHANGE LOG

CHANGES FOR VERSION 5.62.0 (as compared to 5.61.0)

• AddSummaryRows now supports also flag = 32. This flag adds standard deviation row
  
  Filter=1;
  AddColumn(V, "Volume" );
  AddSummaryRows( 63, 1.2 );
  // add Total, Average, Min, Max, and Count and StdDev rows (1+2+4+8+16+32)=63 - with two decimal places summary rows are added at the top of the list
  
• AddSummaryRows treated NULLs as zeros in averages. Now it is fixed and NULLs are not included in calculations.
• Drawing tooltip "bars" count starts from 0 (when line is pure vertical) to match status bar X distance display. Status bar coords display is hidden once drawing is done to prevent user confusion.
• Snap to price now allows snapping to Closing and Opening price, to activate snap to close hold down "C" key, to activate snap to open hold down "O" key while drawing line / moving the mouse
• When "Play" button is pressed Bar replay dialog checks if Start Date is earlier than End date and displays error message if that is not the case.
• Ticker box is updated with new full name if it is changed from symbol information
• Per-symbol UserData fields are accessible now via GetFnData("UserData0")..GetFnData("UserData99"). This feature is for implementors of custom data plugins to allow them to expose custom data
  for( i = 0; i < 100; i++ )
  printf( "UserData%g %g\n", i, GetFnData("UserData"+i) );
  
• New Analysis: In 5.61.0 Walk Forward kept old "Current symbol" until Scan/Explore/Backtest was run. Fixed
• First line in "Parallel trendlines" tool is snapped to price (if the option is turned on) as normal trendline.
• eSignal: now plugin supports EOD history for more than 40 years back
• Charting: Copy-Paste Special allows to copy entire chart pane with various options
  
  a) Entire chart pane (fully independent) - it creates a copy of chart pane, assigns new chart ID, creates duplicate of the formula file so parameters are independent and formula is private (not shared with source pane)

  b) Entire chart pane (independent parameters, but shared formula), the same as (a) but does NOT create duplicate of the formula so it shares the very same formula file with the original pane

  c) Entire chart pane (hard-wired, shared parameters, formula and drawings, same chartID) - a new pasted pane is directly hard-wired with pane being copied, so it shares the same CHART ID and every change made to it is made to the original (source) too.
  

• Backtest report now includes 'Total transaction costs' (sum of all commissions paid)
• Aux1/Aux2 fields now allow user-definable aggregation/compression mode (File->Database Settings->Intraday Settings). Available choices are last (default), first, highest, lowest, sum
  

CHANGES FOR VERSION 5.61.0 (as compared to 5.60.3)

• When using any drawing tool X and Y distance is shown in the status bar (FC #2380)
• When position can not be entered due to insufficient funds the Backtester in the "detailed mode" gives additional info such as: requested entry price, requested position size (and dollar value) and requested round lots (FC#2377)
• Time&Sales column layout persists between runs now (FC #2341)
• Running any #import command (including "Update US symbol list and categories") is preceeded by prompt for confirmation now
• Report Explorer now supports copying selected items to clipboard (Edit->Copy), Ctrl+C (FC#2288)
• Quote Editor: added "Go to selected" button that quickly scrolls to and selects the data bar marked on chart (FC#2342)
• New Analysis: parameters were not reset to default values when formula was loaded. Fixed. (#2353)
• New Analysis: "Add artificial future bar" option does not affect Exploration and Scan anymore (FC#2353)
• Max. chart rendering time of 1000 ms when multithreaded charts are turned ON can be overriden now by registry setting. See FC#2330 for details.
• Increased width of symbol combo boxes in Symbol->Merge dialog to prevent truncation of ticker names
• Floating window caption is now synchronized even if it is not active (FC#2376)
• eSignal: new version allows to select whenever EOD bars should report Settlement price or regular close
• Change PlotShapes does NOT use "shape0", "shape1" variables anymore to prevent clashing with user-defined variables (#104931)
• ASCII importer now supports $WEBID command and WEBID field in the $FORMAT command to allow importing web ID (FC#2362)
• ASCII importer now supports $ISINDEX, $ISFAVORITE commands, and ISINDEX and ISFAVORITE fields in the $FORMAT command (FC#2310)
• Apply To: Filter dialog takes less time to show up
  
  

If you experience any problem with this beta version please send detailed description of the problem (especially the steps needed to reproduce it) to support at amibroker.com