MetaStock Real-Time (RT) v. 18.00.22027

NEW FEATURES/FUNCTIONALITY

Brand New MetaStock Chart Object

New\Updated Charting Styles

• Bars
  • Ability to change Up/Down mode coloring to Close to Close or Open to Close.
  • Ability to customize Weight.

• CandleSticks
  • Ability to change Up/Down mode coloring to Close to Close or Open to Close.
  • Ability to change Up/Down Color and Fill Color independently.  
  • Ability to set Fill mode to Always fill or Close less than open.
  • Ability to customize Weight.

• CandleVolume
  • Ability to change Up/Down mode coloring to Close to Close or Open to Close.
  • Ability to change Up/Down Color and Fill Color independently.  
  • Ability to set Fill mode to Always fill or Close less than open.
  • Ability to customize Weight.

• Line - 6 different line plot styles
  • Line
  • Stepped Line
  • Filled Line
  • Set Filled Colors
  • Stepped Filled Line
  • Set Filled Colors
  • Dot 
  • Histogram

• Heiken Ashi
  • Ability to set Up Color/Down Color and Down Fill.
  • Ability to customize Weight.

• Equivolume
  • Ability to change Up/Down mode coloring to Close to Close or Open to Close.
  • Ability to change Up/Down Color.
  • Ability to customize Weight.
• Chart Themes: 
  • Chart themes quickly apply color themes to charts.
  • Theme selector indicators and other chart colors will adapt to chart themes automatically making for easy viewing. 
  • Built in Chart Themes
    • Black
    • Black Gradient
    • Black Steel
    • Bright Spark 
    • Bright White
    • Chrome
    • Contrast
    • Dark Mode
    • Electric
    • Expression Dark
    • Expression Light
    • Gray Dark
    • Gray Dark Gradient
    • Gray Light
    • Oscilloscope
    • Print
• Scroll bar
  • The scroll bar allows for moving around the chart and highlighting the current view.
  • The scroll bar has a preview of the chart and allows for a view of all data loaded to the chart.
  • The scroll bar allows for moving back and forth selecting defined segments of time.
  • The scroll bar supports the ability to click to zoom in on an area of a chart.

• Y-Axis
  • View indicator values on Y-Axis.
  • Control Display Units. 
    • Toggle “Truncate Price Labels” on/off.
    • Specify whether to view prices in decimal and set the number of decimal places or view prices in fractions.
  • Enable/Disable Major/Minor Grid Lines and Grid Bands.
  • Adjust chart margins using “click+drag” with the mouse. 

• X-Axis
  • Improved X-Axis scale visibility for better viewing periods of time. 
  • Improved X-Axis display range and data request range data loading management. 
  • Improved X-Axis properties management.
  • Enable/Disable Grid Lines and Grid Bands.
  • Minimize/Maximize Settings within the Properties dialog box.

• Improved Charting Functionality
  • Most recently used (MRU) custom time frames will be saved to chart interval drop down for easy access.  
  • Easier identification of interval on interval selector on chart.
  • Improved tiling settings when loading multiple charts.
  • Display inactivity gaps. (MetaStock RT)
  • Time zone selection in chart options. (MetaStock RT)
  • User defined default settings can be stored for custom formulas.
  • Fields can be customized per security in the chart allowing for BID/ASK spreads (MetaStock RT\INST).
  • Improved error notification.
  • Improved undo functionality.
  • No limit on the number of inner windows within a chart.
  • Spreads can be plotted on non-base securities.

Standard\Custom Indicator Updates

• Improved properties dialog allows for all plot colors to be changed rather than having to select each line. 
• Plot style options:
  • Line
  • Stepped Line
  • Filled Line
  • Stepped Filled Line
  • Dot 
  • Histogram
• Ability to set flexible colors and fill of lines for indicators.  
• Fill options for lines for indicators range from transparent to solid. 
• Improved properties dialog allows each plot to have independent style and color settings.
• P Variable will display indicator variables automatically.
• Fill mode available between envelopes (Example:  Bollinger Bands).
• Indicators can be made invisible on charts.  (With Multiple plots different plots can be selected)
• Built-in Up/Down Volume (with 2 calc methods). 
• Built-in MACD Histogram.
• Smart built-in indicators to plot in the appropriate overlay or in inner window positions in charts. 
• All indicator values display in the chart title bar.
• Ichimoku now plots the Senkou Span A and Span B 26 bars in the future. 

Drawing Tools Updates

• Ability to Save Defaults and Settings.
• User defined settings can be saved as defaults.

• Trendline
  • Ability to add right/left-pointing arrows.
  • Show performance information % change or Points.
  • Show number of bars across trendline.
  • Add a custom label to the trendline (with text size and font options).
  • Options for “Snap to price” or “period”.

• Semi Log Trendline
  • Options for “Snap to price” or “period”.

• Text 
  • Easy access to text properties.  
  • Improved text properties.

• Rectangle
  • Options for “Snap to price” or “period”.

• Triangle
  • Options for “Snap to price” or “period”.
  • Preview the triangle as it is drawn on the chart.

• Fibonacci Arc
  • Options for “Snap to price” or “period”.
  • Improved Color\Style management for control line(s) and arc lines.

• Fibonacci Fan
  • Options for “Snap to price” or “period”.
  • Calculate levels use percent change on a logarithmic scale.
  • Improved Color\Style management for control line(s) and fan lines.

• Fibonacci Projections
  • Ability to show both price and projection levels on chart display.
  • Calculate levels use percent change on a logarithmic scale.
  • Add/Remove projection levels and have system retain settings.
  • Change color/style/weight per line or globally.
  • Improved Color\Style management for control line(s) and projection lines.
  • Options for “Snap to price” or “period”.

• Fibonacci Retracements
  • Ability to show both price and retracement levels on chart display.
  • Calculate levels using percent change on a logarithmic scale.
  • Add/Remove retracement levels and have system retain settings.
  • Change color/style/weight per line or globally.
  • Improved Color\Style management for control line(s) and retracement lines.
  • Options for “Snap to price” or “period”.

• Gann Grid/Fan/Line
  • Options for “Snap to price” or “period”.

• Linear Regression
  • Improved Color\Style management for control line(s) and regression line.

• Quadrant Lines
  • Improved Color\Style management for control line(s) and center line. 
  • Ability to control line settings independently. 
  • Calculate levels using percent change on a logarithmic scale.

• Tirone Levels
  • Improved Color\Style management for control line(s) and center line. 
  • Ability to control line settings independently. 
  • Calculate levels using percent change on a logarithmic scale.

• Trendline by Angle
  • Options for “Snap to price” or “period”.
  • Ability to control line settings independently. 

• Speed Resistance Lines
  • Calculate levels using percent change on a logarithmic scale.
  • Options for “Snap to price” or “period”.

• Andrews Pitchfork
  • Preview as Pitchfork is being drawn/calculated.
  • Options for “Snap to price” or “period”.
  • 3 new render types (Standard, Schiff, or modified Schiff).
  • Ability to add warning lines.
  • Ability to add custom lines.
  • Improved Color\Style management for control line(s) and pitchfork lines. 

• ODDS Probability Cone                           
  • Ability to add and retain multiple probabilities.
  • Create “shade” to display multiple probability levels.
  • Option to add a drift per period.

• Crosshairs 
  • Adds new X and Y axis markers for Date/Price.  
  • Tracks Date/Price as crosshair is moved throughout the chart. 

OptionScope

• Options Sentiment
  • Includes a bar graph comparing the volume and open interest of all calls and puts to gauge investor sentiment. 
• Top Put/Top Call
  • Displays the top Option across the data set. 
  • Quickly scans options data for Top Volume/Top Open Interest.
• Risk Graphs
• Plot risk/reward based on 9 built-in strategies.
  • Bear Put Spread
  • Bull Call Spread
  • Covered Call
  • Long Call
  • Long Put
  • Long Straddle
  • Married Put
  • Short Put
  • Short Straddle
• Customizable colors for Risk Graph results.
• Shared theme settings with QuoteCenter. 

QuoteCenter

• Gainers/Losers bar.
• Retains chart settings from Power Console (Template selected in Chart section).
• Share theme settings with OptionScope.           

Power Console Updates

• Enhanced searching capability in the Chart section of the Power Console allows users to locate the folders instruments reside in, when searching by either name or instrument. 
• The All Explorations and Favorites tabs in the Explore and System Tests sections of the Power Console makes it easy to organize favorite systems.
• The New Search Function in the Explore and System Test sections of the Power Console makes it easy to search for and locate Exploration and System Tests. 
• Users can now minimize and maximize the Display Range and Data Request Range in the Chart section of the Power Console.   

New Systems

• Inclusion of Performance Systems Plus - 54 additional systems and strategies
  • 54 Indicators
  • 54 Expert Advisors
  • 54 Explorations (signal and perf versions)
• Daryl Guppy
  • Traders ATR Long Indicator 
  • Traders ATR Short Indicator 

DownLoader

• Option to Insert empty rows above or below within a datasheet. 
• Add a Remove All button to the download tab in DownLoader Console.
• Display file type in the DownLoader and MetaStock datasheet.
• Use Shift+click to select a range of instruments in the DownLoader Console.
• Retain the long name of the CSV file when converting in DownLoader.      

BUG FIXES

• Candlestick price style does not always fill candlesticks properly with expert advisors attached to charts.
• MetaStock reports "failed to open document" first time the chart is opened.
• The open dialog window does not remember the last folder a chart was opened from.
• When selecting "Apply the Default template" from the Power Console MetaStock will opens a smart chart.
• MetaStock crashes when typing in the correctly formatted symbol (FB.O), from the chart that was opened using the incorrect instrument. (FB.o)
• Y-axis properties will be set to a negative number if set to 0.
• MetaStock changes Equidistant Channel values slightly and/or removes one of the lines when saving/re-opening.
• Chart rendering issues.
• If there are more than 10 columns of formulas in the Explorer the Sort button options are empty.
• Periodicity is not kept when scrolling through a folder of instruments.
• Trendline Slope changes when it is moved around a few times in a zoomed out chart.
• Expert commentary is not automatically updated when the chart is changed to another instrument.
• Inner window in multi-chart template shift when next instrument is selected.
• Turning the title bar off from display and closing the chart leaves the inner window title bar open.
• Line studies + compressed data discrepancies between MetaStock 11 & 15.
• Open dialog not using proper registry entry to remember the last folder path.
• Expert ribbon ends up displaying in other inner windows that are maximized.
• Display base instrument should be grayed out when base instrument is displayed in chart.
• Trendlines not transferring between daily & intraday intervals.
• MetaStock will crash when changing to a invalid or partial symbol not in the source list.
• Tick charts and Y-Axis do not appear to scale properly.
• MetaStock overrides end time adjustment when making first date adjustment in x-axis properties.
• Favorites are getting overwritten during upgrade.
• OptionScope sometimes minimizes itself if overloaded and when maximized again, the process has completed.
• Glyphs in column header are sorting for each exploration based on column location.
• Gann line leaves shadow after clicking to move to new location on chart. 
• In MetaStock 6.52 the cycle lines could be started past the last bar.
• Add instrument and instrument search in QuoteCenter have different grid behavior.
• Downloaded instrument list from Metastock.com is not updating.
• Downloader is crashing when shift+click is used to select a large number of instruments from the multiple instrument lookup.
• Special trading session on Saturday is being posted to the wrong week.
• Collection report will show "Invalid Symbol" errors even when this status option is unchecked.
• Choose Instrument > Options coloring is inconsistent.
• Datasheet pasting discrepancies.
• Deleting report from System Test Reports... button does not refresh window.
• OptionScope crashing with certain column button actions.
• Using Load Max with 1-minute data drops a large amount of data when new tick arrives into the chart.
• OptionScope Restore column order is both restoring columns and restoring column order.
• Inner Window Title Bar does not display the color of plot on the price data for all expert highlights defined.
• FX Multiple Timeframe Template is not working correctly. 
• Close All and Save when several layouts open crashes MetaStock.
• Explorer shows 100% rejected but nothing was rejected.
• Cycle lines spacing value does not seem to have a factory default.
• Inner windows change size after maximizing/restoring chart.
• Inner window will slowly resize as the user scrolls through instruments.
• Typo in FmlVar() function page.
• Apply button stays grayed out when the interval is changed more than once in the x-axis properties.
• Mouse-over tooltip gets truncated within the inner window.
• The research and quotes menu should be grayed out for a chart that is opened from OptionScope.
• When running an exploration with the interval set to "weekly" on daily local data the time to complete the exploration is slow.

Thank you,

MetaStock