AutoTrader Software - Release Notes

Release Notes

1.25.144

Monday, 07 November 2005

Release Notes for Version 1.25.144

This version contains new features as well as bug fixes. Unregistered users are required to upgrade to this version. Registered user may continue to use older verisons in registered mode. However if your registration has already expired, installing this version will make it run in Unregistered mode, and you will need to renew your registration in order to use this version in registered mode. The previous version can be reinstalled and registrations that were valid for the previous version will remain valid after reinstallng the previous verison.

Added feature to download historical data to a text file for any IB symbol that you have market data subscription for that supports historical data. Data is available for any trading day within the last six months. Data can be downloaded for regular trading hours, or including extended trading hours. Unregistered users are restricted to downloading data for GOOG only for demonstration purposes.
Added feature to playback text file containing market data. The user can define the format of the text file. Both delimited and fixed length formats are supported. The text file generated using the historical data download tool in AutoTrader can be played back using this new feature.
Added All or None order option in AT Preferences Order setup. The default value for this is false. If you select this option, your order will not get a partial fill. Not all symbols support this option.
Added Override Percentage Constraints option in AT Preferences Order setup. The default value is false. This only applies if you have specified a percentage constraint in TWS and you want centain symbols to override this constraint.
Added a workaround to orders placed on ECBOT using TWS version 853. There is a TWS bug that returns an incorrect order status for ECBOT orders. Using this verison of Autotrader will bypass this problem and will work even if you are using TWS 853. IB has mentioned that they will fix this bug in 854.
Added a workaround to orders placed for EOE options on FTA exchange. TWS is unable to recognize this symbol's localSymbol and is not accepting orders placed for this symbol. Using this version of AutoTrader will bypass this problem. IB has not mentioned if they will fix this problem or not.
Executions tab prices are now formatted according to the format specified in AutoTrader Contract preferences. This is mainly intended for bond futures symbols where prices are displayed in fractions.
Http placeOrder commands received while AutoTrader is not yet ready will now retry the command for 50 times at 50ms interval before returning an error. If you place two commands too close to each other, like sending a closeposition and placeorder command one right after another, AutoTrader may not be ready (due to time exchange confirms an order fill) to perform the placeOrder command. This fix will cause the placeOrder command on a retry loop and will only return an error if it exceeds the retry limit.
Fixed a bug that causes Sell buttons to be disabled when an order submitted to TWS encounters an error and TWS returns (or does not return) and interderminate status.
Fixed bug that causes values typed in to any text field to not be saved when clicking on the Save button.

Last Updated ( Monday, 07 November 2005 )

1.24.177

Monday, 10 October 2005

Release Notes for Version 1.24.177

This is a mainly a bug fix release. Some of the new features intended for 1.25 are also included here. Non-registered users are required to upgrade, registered users are recommended to upgrade but is not required. To upgrade, simply run the installer and install over the previous version.

Fixed a problem in the Reverse function. Previously, a reverse action will modify the target order by doubling the quantity and the price is adjusted for immediate fill. This will achieve the reverse function in one step (close the current position and open the reverse position). However, since IB introduced the new ocaType parameter for orders, this feature stopped working becuase IB "incorrectly assumes" that OCA orders "always" have the same quantity. The fix for this problem for now is to make the reverse action as two steps, close the current position and place a new order for the reverse position. This problem has been reported to IB already.
AutoTrader now allows user defined playback symbol in the playback setup dialog window. When you setup your playback, you can now specify the symbol that will be used for playback. For instance, if you are playing back an ensign data file for ES, you can enter ES as the playback symbol. In order to protect the data file of your charting program, any user specified playback symbol will have ".R" added to the symbol name. So ES will become ES.R. When you view the playback in Sierra, you need to open an intraday chart for ES.R. If you use the TWS API Proxy server for playback, then your client needs to request market data for symbol ES.R. This has been tested to work on SierraChart and AmiBroker.
Fixed the AutoConnect on startup function. This stopped working in the previous release.
AutoTrader data collection now remembers the location where you last saved the data file. In the playback setup, if you select AutoTrader data, it will use the same path that was last used when you save the data file.
TWS API Client updated to use the latest 8.6 client code. This is in preparation for the new features to be added in the next version.
Http interface now supports trading Financial Advisor accounts. Two new http interface commands were added, getManagedAccounts and getAllocationProfiles. The placeOrder command is also updated to accept a new parameter "account" where you can specify the Finalcial advisor subaccount or allocation profile you want to direct a trade to.
Playback using TWS API proxy server now allows multiple client connections for registered users.
Http interface passthru orders now requires you only specify the localsymbol for the contract if the contract is already defined in the AutoTrader symbols list. Previously, you will get an invalid contract error if the contract specification is incomplete.
Http interface non passthru orders will now automatically create a new symbol entry if the contract parameters contains at least localsymbol, exchange and security type.
QuoteTracker linked symbols will now automatically create a new symbol entry if the symbol selected in QuoteTracker is not defined in AutoTrader.

Last Updated ( Monday, 10 October 2005 )

1.24.163

Thursday, 01 September 2005

Release Notes for Version 1.24.163

This is a bug fix release. Non-registered users are required to upgrade, registered users are recommended to upgrade but is not required. To upgrade, simply run the installer and install over the previous version.

Fixed bug in Target and Stop OCA order pair that is causing the cancelled leg of the OCA pair to get an invalid order id error.
Improved the program responsiveness when QT Link feature is enabled. I have moved the polling routine that polls for a change in QT Linked symbol to a separate thread. QT is polled once every second.
Added FWB, SWB, AEB, SWX exchanges for Stocks and IPE exchange for futures. You can now define contracts that trade on these exchanges.
Fixed bug in autoincrementing of TWS client id when it gets a Client id already in use error. If you get this error, simply click on the Connect button again until you get a connection, AutoTrader will automatically increment the TWS client id used on the next connection attempt.
Non-registered users are allowed to run one instance of AutoTrader program.
Registered users now can run an unlimited number of instance AutoTrader program on the same computer. Note that only the first three instances will have market depth display. As a caveat, it is the user's responsibility to make sure that each instance will be trading a different symbol.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 01 September 2005 )

1.24.158

Monday, 01 August 2005

Release Notes for Version 1.24.158

This is a minor bug fix release. Non-registered users are required to upgrade, registered users are recommended to upgrade but is not required. To upgrade, simply run the installer and install over the previous version.

Fixed bug in Classic and Breakout section where each notch on mousewheel is changing the price value by two ticks. The Qty field also has this problem and is also fixed.
Restored the QuoteTracker Symbol link feature. If you use QuoteTracker for chart display, you can enable Link QT Symbol option in AT Preferences so the symbol in AutoTrader and QuoteTracker are automatically synchronized. Changing the symbol in AutoTrader will change the chart symbol in QuoteTracker to the same symbol and vice versa.
Fixed display problem when using AutoTrader with certain video cards on Windows.
Fixed order simulation bug when simulatiing orders on forex (cash) symbols. Forex symbols do not provide last price data and some order simulation functions rely on the last price value (such as determining the fill price). If last price is not available, the ask price is used for buy orders and the bid price for sell orders.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 01 September 2005 )

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