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Beta Release Notes

Personal Stock Streamer 8.0 Beta

Release Notes

ChangeLog

8.0.9 beta (build 8.0.9.310, April 29, 2008)

  • Fixed: Chart blanking when selecting a different ticker.
  • Fixed: Ticker paste bug with duplicate symbols.
  • Fixed: Extended hours quotes not streaming for DTN IQFeed subscribers.
  • Added: (Charts) Option for double-click to open a historical or intraday chart instead of displaying the ticker properties.

8.0.8 beta (build 8.0.8.307, April 2, 2008)

  • Added: Option to display notes as icon or text.
  • Fixed: Bug with next/prev buttons in service selection wizard.
  • Fixed: (CollabInvest) Login state issue when logging in from offline mode.
  • Added: (Charts) Draw straight horizontal or vertical line by holding down Shift key while dragging the line endpoint.
  • Changed: The Transactions tab and Transactions menu items have been renamed Transaction Register.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Scrolling when clicking on right arrow in bottom scroll bar scrolls in the wrong direction.
  • Fixed: Usability issue when entering transactions in the Transactions view without first selecting another transaction to be associated.
  • Added: Transaction fee field in transaction dialog. Fee column in Transaction Register view.
  • Added: Sell Short and Buy to Cover transaction types.
  • Added: Accelerator mnemonics to the transaction edit dialog.
  • Fixed: Bad CSV export from Reports tab.
  • Added: Average Cost gain calculation option, under Options->Preferences->Display.

8.0.7 beta (build 8.0.7.306, February 4, 2008)

  • Added: Run Report button to the Reports tab. Reports are no longer run automatically when the parameters change.
  • Added: (CollabInvest) CollabInvest now works through proxy servers.
  • Fixed: Proxy settings not correctly passed through to streaming plugins in some cases.
  • Fixed: If DTN is selected as the data service and the client software needs to be installed, application does not exit.
  • Added: (Charts) Double-click in charts adds text annotation without changing current annotation type.
  • Added: Notes column now displays first line of text note instead of note icon.
  • Fixed: (CollabInvest) Reconnect timer bug that prevented CI from reconnecting automatically after a disconnect.

8.0.6 beta (build 8.0.6.305, December 28, 2007)

  • Added: (CollabInvest) Actions menu for easy access to all of the common actions and tasks.
  • Added: (CollabInvest) [TICKER] shorthand can be used instead of ticker://TICKER
  • Added: (CollabInvest) {TICKER} shorthand can be used instead of chart://TICKER
  • Added: (CollabInvest) Ability to select text in chat and conference windows and copy to clipboard or drag/drop into another application.
  • Added: (CollabInvest) Attempting to join a conference that does not exist now asks if you want to create it.
  • Added: (CollabInvest) When creating a conference, option to accept default configuration.
  • Added: (CollabInvest) Natural naming convention for conferences. Converts internally to XMPP convention.
  • Added: (CollabInvest) Follow upper-case force setting in ticker and chart references.
  • Fixed: Crash when moving a folder when TOTAL line was displayed.
  • Fixed: (Charts) High and low values on second-to-last tick on intraday chart change when streaming data arrives immediately after chart is displayed.
8.0.5 beta (build 8.0.5.304, November 12, 2007)

  • Added: DTN IQ data feed.
  • Fixed: Crash when moving a folder that contained streaming tickers.
  • Fixed: Crash when moving a ticker into a different folder, when there was a streaming chart open on that ticker.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Intraday chart sometimes one tick behind Active Securities.
  • Improved Windows Vista compatibility.

8.0.4 beta (build 8.0.4.303, July 25, 2007)

  • Added: Detection of offline state, which would prevent proper login.
  • Added: Auto-fill number of shares for Sell transaction.
  • Added: Colorization of gain in the transaction register to make it easier to spot.
  • Updated: DDE compatibility for Excel 2007. Price and Yield fields changed to Last and Yld to remove conflict with Excel 2007 built-in functions, but formulas using Price and Yield with earlier versions of Excel will still work.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Sometimes does not request enough historical data to fill in indicators.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Zooming and unzooming causes wierd grid lines to appear.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Improved zoom behavior.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Allow multiple instances of Bollinger Bands on the same chart.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Weekly chart not updated correctly for current data.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Automatically adjust chart axis on intraday chart when incoming data is beyond current range.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Extra day displayed in intraday chart around weekday holidays that are not on a Monday.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Volume chart disappears when switching period.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Changing duration or period on intraday chart causes drawing problems.
  • Other miscellaneous fixes and improvements.

8.0.3 beta (build 8.0.3.302, February 19, 2007)

  • Added: (Charts) Optionally overwrite existing annotation set when saving to new set with same name.
  • Added: (Charts) Measurement tooltip for line annotations, absolute height change and % height change.
  • Added: (Charts) Option to show red dotted line for previous days close on last trading day of chart. This is convenient for showing daily movement relative to the last trading day.
  • Added: (Charts) Save the "follow selection in active securities" option between sessions.   Also added this option to the chart preferences dialog under Options->Preferences.
  • Added: Copy To option to copy tickers and folders into other portfolios instead of only moving. All attached transactions will be copied as well.
  • Fixed: Deleting or cutting active alert from ticker properties Alerts tab caused crash.
  • Fixed: (CollabInvest) Opening shared chart with text annotations does not show text annotations.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Updated stock market holidays through 2010.
  • Updated: Improved Windows Vista compatibility.
  • Updated: Moved default file locations for the included .stk files to user's personal application data folder because Vista will not allow writing to the program folder under normal accounts.
  • Updated: Moved bookmarks file to application data folder under Vista.
  • Fixed: Crash when application fails to start properly.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Linked charts sometimes do not work properly.
  • Added: (Charts) Copy Annotation command.
  • Updated: Limit application to only allow launching a single instance.

 8.0.2 beta (build 8.0.2.301, November 9, 2006)

  • Added: (Charts) 45, 60 days intraday chart duration.
  • Added: (Charts) Multi-line text annotations.
  • Added: (Charts) Named stored annotation sets.
  • Fixed: Service selection wizard not handling initial login correctly.

 8.0.1 beta (build 8.0.1.299, September 27, 2006)

  • Fixed: (CollabInvest) Register link not working for customers with long usernames.

 8.0.0 beta (build 8.0.0.297, September 19, 2006)

  • Updated: (CollabInvest) The conference drop-list is now filled in with any active groupchats.
  • Updated: (CollabInvest) Presence icon for peer in chat window.
  • Updated: (CollabInvest) Added option to bookmark a conference when creating or joining it.
  • Updated: (CollabInvest) Added /help command in conference to show list of / commands.
  • Added: (CollabInvest) Emoticon selection button in chat and conference windows.
  • Updated: (CollabInvest) Added company support to profile.
  • Updated: (CollabInvest) Improved rename in contact list.
  • Added: (CollabInvest) Support for multiple resources online at the same time.
  • Added: (CollabInvest) Ability to block messages from people not in your contact list.
  • Fixed: (CollabInvest) Emoticons pop-up doesn't work under Win98.
  • Fixed: (CollabInvest) Emoticons pop-up not repositioned properly within desktop bounds.
  • Updated: (CollabInvest) Save last chart share settings.
  • Added: (CollabInvest) Search for other users from within the Select Contact dialog, such as when selecting people to invite to a conference room.  This is useful if you want to select someone who is not in your roster.
  • Fixed: (CollabInvest) Chart crashing when closing shared charts after editing indicators.
  • Updated: (CollabInvest) Annotations now snap to nearest point instead of the point to the left of the cursor.
  • Fixed: (CollabInvest) Annotations not showing up on sent charts.
  • Added: (CollabInvest) New Group, Rename Group commands.
  • Added: (CollabInvest) Drag/drop moving of contacts between groups.
  • Added: (CollabInvest) Drag/drop moving of bookmarks between groups.

7.3.4 (build 7.3.4.296, July 25, 2006)

  • Updated: (Charts) Moved annotation toolbar into a popup toolbar activated with a button from the main chart panel.  This is better with multiple charts visible to avoid having multiple floating toolbars.
  • Added: (Charts) Help topic, help button in chart window.  F1 keypress also works.
  • Added: (Charts) Tooltips for icon buttons.
  • Moved: Asset Classes command from View menu to Portfolio menu.  It seems this is a more logical place for it since asset classes are associated with the portfolios.
  • Fixed: Potential hang on exit.
  • Added: (Charts) Option to show or hide annotations.
  • Added: (Script) Added the ability to set cell colors from script.

7.3.3 (build 7.3.3.295, July 3, 2006)

  • Fixed: Crash in prophet.net plug-in when downloading lots of historical data. 
  • Added: (Charts) New indicators: Normalized ATR and Ultimate Oscillator.
  • Fixed: Bug in software update wizard when downloading updated installations.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Zooming bug introduced in 7.3.2.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Minor chart labeling bug with current price box and DOHLCV line.

7.3.2 (build 7.3.2.294, June 22, 2006)

  • Fixed: Bug that can cause a crash when displaying a chart with a ticker that is not in the portfolio.
  • Added: Tooltip and error mesage when trying to edit a folder or portfolio level alert from the ticker properties dialog.
  • Fixed: Chart layout restored before user is logged into quote service.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Memory leak when editing chart profile.

  • Added: Restore from backup now offers to load the restored portfolio.
  • Updated: Moved most historical database processing into a separate thread for improved performance.
  • Updated: Moved most prophet.net streaming data processing into a separate thread for improved performance.
  • Updated: Created faster data transfer protocol between streaming plug-ins and main application for improved performance.
  • Updated: Improved display performance when viewing Current Holdings with streaming turned on.
  • Added: (Charts) Edit Chart Properties command in right-click menu.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Crosshairs not drawn correctly in Volume chart when moving average is added.
  • Added: (Charts) MOM oscillator.
  • Fixed: Unable to open .stkx file if it is marked as read-only.
  • Fixed: (Reports) Reports were being called with current portfolio instead of current folder, so could not run reports such as capital gains just on a subfolder within a portfolio.
  • Fixed: Avg Age shows negative value for short positions.
  • Fixed: Problem where prophet.net was incorrectly handling the CNF ticker.  (Updated ProphetConnect.ocx)
  • Fixed: Go online automatically after selecting quote service.

7.3.1 (build 7.3.1.293, May 1, 2006)

  • Added: Sticky alerts.  These are alerts that do not auto-clear when the condition that triggered them no longer applies, so they must be manually cleared.
  • Added: Ability to copy a report from the Reports view to clipboard.  Adds plain text, CSV, and HTML formats so you can paste directly into Excel.
  • Added: Ability to export a report from the Reports view to a file in plain text, CSV, and HTML formats.
  • Fixed: Bug resetting default quote server when the quote server override is set for a portfolio.

7.3 (build 7.3.0.292, April 24, 2006)

  • Added: Tooltips for cells with notes or active alerts.  On by default, but can be turned off by unchecking the "data tips" option in the program Display preferences.
  • Added: (Charts) Ability to have more than once instance of some indicators, such as RSI and MACD, in the same chart profile.
  • Fixed: Position of =TOTAL line not saved.
  • Fixed: Minor colorization issues.  For selected rows, text color is now a blend of the system highlight and the desired non-selected text color.
  • Added: Just for fun, I added a little shortcut so you can see the full name of a stock in a tooltip if you move your mouse over the ticker symbol while holding down the Shift key on your keyboard.
  • Added: Check quote server overrides on login.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Improved log axis labeling.
  • Added: (Script) Ability to include named resources in the extension file as CDATA nodes.  This is particularly useful for embedding HTML code for the user interface.
  • Fixed: (RSS News) Articles prior to the purge date keep re-appearing in the feed.
  • Added: Ctrl+H, Ctrl+I keyboard shortcuts to show historical and intraday charts, respectively.
  • Fixed: No external notifications happen for changes to the Cash account balance.  This was causing a problem with getting cash value through the DDE service.
  • Added: Streaming status indicator where it usually says "Next Update: Streaming" on the bottom of the main window.  Green is good, yellow is warning.  Updated money.net and prophet.net plugins to use it.
  • Updated: Improved error handling during document save.
  • Added: Active Alerts window shows a dynamically updated list of all active alerts across all portfolios in the current document.  (Under the Tools menu.)

7.2.1 (build 7.2.1.291, March 20, 2006)

  • Fixed: (Chart) Zoomed historical charts not including the current day.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Intraday charts do not properly account for US holidays.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Incorrect time offset for intraday charts causes intraday data to be displayed incorrectly for non-US timezones.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Stochastics Y axis range not set properly, causing chart drawing errors.
  • Fixed: Duplicate ticker update requests when more than one instance of a ticker exists in a portfolio.
  • Fixed: (Custom Columns) Memo columns on cash accounts can not be edited.
  • Added: (Custom Columns) Options to display memo column as numeric, option to colorize positive/negative values, option to suppress display if any field in expression evaluates to zero, option to calculate a total for the column..
  • Fixed: (Custom Columns) Custom column numeric formatting follows program settings.
  • Fixed: (Custom Columns) Editing numeric memo column gets full value instead of displayed value which may have been rounded for display purposes.
  • Updated: (Custom Columns) Sorting on custom columns now works properly for memo columns with numeric formatting.  It now correctly sorts by numeric value instead of by character code value.
  • Added: Folder column colorization when folder is closed.
  • Fixed: Slow down cell highlighting for price, bid, ask, so that multiple ticks coming in at the same time don't erase the highlighting that should be there.
  • Fixed: Tickers do not update on screen when menu or modal dialogs are being displayed.  This will produce a visible performance improvement because streaming updates will keep working while other things are going on.
  • Added: Ticker properties dialog updates dynamically as quotes arrive.
  • Fixed: Display color text and cells in selected row.

7.2.0 (build 7.2.0.290, February 20, 2006)

  • Fixed: When creating custom columns, you could not create an expression column that depends on a memo column that was created immediately before it, without first applying the changes and re-entering the preferences dialog.
  • Added: (Chart) Complete chart annotation system, including text, rectangle, ellipse, and triangle up and down annotations.  Text annotations can have associated rollover text that pops up in the tooltip instead of data.  Annotations are saved with your portfolio data.
  • Updated: (Chart) Improved selection algorithm for chart annotations.
  • Added: (Chart) Option to save chart to disk in .png format, option to copy chart to clipboard.  Charts are saved with all visible annotations.
  • Added: (Chart) TRIX and Money Flow Index (MFI) indicators.
  • Updated: (Chart) Improved historical data retrieval to avoid extraneous retrieval requests.
  • Fixed: Eliminate false positive for some unknown tickers in money.net feed.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Annotations saved in .stkx file.
  • Added: (Charts) Option to follow the selection in Active Securities, under right-click menu.
  • Fixed: Commission value not saved for Transfer In transactions.
  • Fixed: Currency value not set properly when creating cash accounts.
  • Fixed: (Charts) Unable to store historical data properly for Canadian tickers due to a character translation bug.
  • Updated: (Charts) Improved Y axis scaling when stock trades in very small price ranges.
  • Updated: Improved document loading speed, particularly for large documents.

7.1.2 (build 7.1.2.288, September 28, 2005),

  • Updated: QuickLinks
  • Fixed: File selected from recently used list does not get removed if it does not exist.
  • Added: (RSS News) Option to automatically purge headlines older than a certain number of days.  Note that if you set this value too small and the headlines still exist in the feed, then they will be added again as new headlines.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Bad range calculation caused some indicators such as MACD to display incorrectly.
  • Added: Support for sorting custom columns.  Note: Expression columns are always sorted as numbers, memo columns are always sorted as letters.  This means that putting numbers into memo columns will not necessarily give the desired result when sorting.
  • Updated: Improved file saving speed.
  • Updated: SQLite (sqlite3.dll) to version 3.2.6.
  • Fixed: Commission values not saved properly.  (Thanks to J. Mabarak for helping test this!)
  • Fixed: Folder update override not taking effect.
  • Fixed: Bug in QuickLinks support that was preventing charts from getting filled in properly.
  • Fixed: Custom column extension incorrectly allowed duplicate column names.

7.1.1 (build 7.1.1.286, August 29, 2005)

  • Updated: Improved error handling in Prophet.net plug-in.
  • Added: "Manage your Prophet.net Account" link for Prophet.net plug-in, appears next to the quote server drop box in the toolber.
  • Fixed: AskSurvey window pops up behind uninstall window.
  • Updated: (Chart) Further improvements to chart log axis scaling for low-price stocks.
  • Added: Support for Windows XP themes.  Lots of updates to make legacy UI components theme-aware.
  • Removed: Update All and Update Selected icons from the toolbar.  They were left over from Personal Stock Monitor and are no longer used.
  • Changed: "SharesIn" and "SharesOut" transaction types renamed "Transfer In" and "Transfer Out".   The both old and new names will work when used in scripts.
  • Added: "Return of Capital" tranasaction type.
  • Changed: Renamed "Graph" to "Chart".
  • Added: Option to turn off the cell change border around the Price, Bid and Ask columns that indicates up/down ticks.
  • Added: (Script) Support for HTML help text in script extensions.  This way we can add more descriptive text regarding what the extension does and how to access it from the software.
  • Fixed: Ticker bookmarks not saved properly.
  • Fixed: Custom columns do not appear in the Current Holdings view.
  • Fixed: In calculated custom columns, sometimes the expression is not saved properly when there are certain punctuation characters in the expression.
  • Fixed: Column widths not restored properly between sessions.
  • Fixed: Crash on close when quotes are enabled should hopefully be fixed.

7.1.0 (build 7.1.0.285, July 25, 2005)

  • Fixed: (Scripting) Type library had an incorrect specification for a couple of return values.
  • Fixed: (Scripting) "Active" named property not accessible.
  • Fixed: Firing an alert from a plug-in doesn't work correctly.
  • Fixed: (Scripting) Firing an alert from script does not update the UI.
  • Added: Custom column support with new plug-in.  Memo and expression columns.  Scriptable columns.
  • Fixed: Deleting and updating custom columns was not handled properly in main app.
  • Added: (Scripting) ViewManager object to control custom columns.  Updated object model documentation.
  • Added: Ability to run a script function as an alert action.  The script function can come from any script or extension loaded within the software.
  • Added: (Scripting) Added optional callback parameter for Ticker::ApplyTransactionsToCurrentHoldingsUntil and Ticker::ApplyTransactionToCurrentHoldings.  Without it we could not easily implement a capital gains report in script.
  • Added: (Scripting) Added parent properties to Ticker and CurrentHoldings objects, which allows script to get the parent ticker of these objects.
  • Updated: (Chart) Improved chart axis scaling and labeling.

7.0.3 (build 7.0.3.278, June 22, 2005)

  • Fixed: (Chart) Chart is not redrawn properly after it is printed.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Drawn lines disappear when chart is zoomed and one of the endpoints is scrolled off the edge of the visible area.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Line drawing should not be allowed outside of chart boundaries.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Not updating current day's data on Tuesday after a Monday holiday.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Can not draw lines on indicators.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Lines drawn with a Daily period disappear when you switch to Monthly or Yearly.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Intraday and historical chart updates sometimes out of sync.
  • Added: (Chart) Ability to change the chart refresh interval.
  • Added: (Chart) Ability to set the intraday chart hours.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Crosshairs not drawn properly on indicators in certain cases.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Lines not drawn on printed charts.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Price Relative indicator doesn't get updated on startup if chart left open from previous session.
  • Added: (Chart) Remove stock market holidays from the timeline on daily and intraday charts.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Intraday zoom behavior.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Added exception handler to prevent rare crash when drawing axis.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Tooltip disappears too soon when streaming updates are on.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Possible crash when a chart refresh occurs in the middle of line drawing.

7.0.2 (build 7.0.2.277, May 30, 2005)

  • Fixed: Copy to clipboard function not allowing all plugins to participate.
  • Fixed: Charts stop updating when portfolio is switched.
  • Fixed: Copy/paste with transactions fails during paste operation.
  • Added: RSS reader notification when there are unread articles outside of the current filter setting.
  • Added: (Chart) 50 line for RSI indicator.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Renaming chart profile sometimes changes selected duration.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Prevent color re-assignment for moving averages.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Lines drawn on top of chart do not move when chart is resized.
  • Added: Ability to scroll chart horizontally when zoomed, but limited to the range selected before zoom.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Zooming across a weekend boundary on an intraday chart does not work properly.
  • Fixed: Notes field losing line breaks.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Hit testing for tooltips and selection is off by about half the width of a candlestick.
  • Added: (Chart) DMI indicator (+DI, -DI).
  • Added: (Chart) 30-day duration for intraday charts.
  • Added: (Chart) Toggle button to show/hide the settings panel.
  • Changed: (Chart) Removed minimum window size limits.
  • Changed: (Chart) First three indicator colors are now permanent: purple, red, green.
  • Added: (Chart) Change from previous data point added to tooltip.
  • Added: (Chart) Options to hide data tips and crosshairs, under the right-click menu.
  • Fixed: (Chart) 1-day chart doesn't backfill properly on Mondays when indicators are selected.
  • Added: (Scripting) "Active" named property for ticker and folder objects to determine whether they are currently active or have been marked as inactive.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Support for charting stocks with values less than a penny.
  • Added: Internal hooks to allow plug-ins to add menu items to context menus created by other plug-ins.
  • Added: (Chart) Chart options screen in program preferences.
  • Updated: Added CPU, memory, hard disk info to crash dump and technical support info copied to clipboard.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Tooltip between candles when zoomed.
  • Added: (Chart) +/- buttons next to scrollbar for zoom/unzoom.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Keyboard navigation not working for context menu.
  • Improved: Connection/reconnection handling for prophet.net and money.net data feeds.
  • Updated: Main application will no longer start up minimized so that you can see the Login window.
  • Fixed: (Chart) When a minimized chart is closed, the next chart that is opened can not be displayed properly.
  • Fixed: Commission history not updating in transaction edit dialog.

7.0.1 (build 7.0.1.275, April 18, 2005)

  • Fixed: (Chart) Drawing bugs with several indicators, rare crashing bug with CMF.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Losing default profiles when upgrading from a Personal Stock Monitor .stk file.
  • Fixed: Asset classes not being reloaded properly from .stkx file.
  • Added: (Scripting) GetAssetClassPct() method in Ticker object.
  • Added: (Scripting) AssetClassManager object. See updated object model documentation for details.
  • Fixed: RSS headlines would sometimes display an incorrect publication time.
  • Fixed: Historical data from money.net not processed correctly.
  • Fixed: Prophet.net plug-in not adjusting timestamp properly for the time zone, causing the charts to not stream properly for some time zones.
  • Added: Enclosure support to RSS reader so you can view or listen to attached media files in a feed.
  • Fixed: (Chart) Tickers that are present in an inactive portfolio will not update.

7.0 (build 7.0.0.274, April 4, 2005)

  • Added: Extensive scripting support for the main application and charts. For more information see the developers section at http://www.personalstockstreamer.com.
  • Fixed: Force RSI axis range to 0-100; force labels at 30 and 70.
  • Added: Ability to zoom in on date range in charts, using Ctrl+drag to select the range.
  • Added: Ability to create custom reports in script.
  • Fixed: Ignore zero values when loading historical data, since they were throwing off the charts.
  • Changed: Save historical data in a database instead of individual files.
  • Updated: Prophet.net streaming code.
  • Fixed: Too many chart fixes to mention, including labeling, scaling, automatic retrieval of historical data, multiple time intervals for end of day and intraday, zooming down to 1-hour, optional high/low tick removal, and more.
  • Updated: FOREX plug-in.
  • Changed: Completely new, more robust XML-based document format.
  • Changed: File suffix has been changed from .stk to .stkx. PSS can still open the old .stk files and will convert them to the new format upon saving.
  • Changed: Stronger document password protection.
  • Added: Ability for plug-ins and extensions to store custom attributes on a per-ticker basis.
  • Fixed: Drag/drop ticker from document into chart.
  • Added: More robust file saving algorithm to prevent data loss in case of a crash.
  • Changed: Migrated online help to HTML help.
  • Updated: Added extensions page to product tour.
  • Updated: User's Guide has been updated for Personal Stock Streamer.
  • Added: Extension manager to list, browse, and install new extensions.
  • Added: RSS news plug-in with support for RSS 0.9, 0.91, 1.0, 2.0, Atom 0.3 feeds.
  • Added: Aroon, Aroon Oscillator, TSF, ADXR, T3, TEMA, DEMA indicators.
  • Added: Portfolio list plug-in that lists all portfolios in a docking window, for our customers with lots and lots of portfolios.
  • Added: Pre-populate RSS feeds database with Personal Stock Streamer feeds and a few recommended financial news feeds.
  • Added: Chart printing support.

6.0.3 (build 6.0.3.265, July 27, 2004)

  • Fixed: Volume chart range not recalculating when date range is changed.
  • Added: Current value labels on moving averages.
  • Fixed: OHLCV not displaying at top of chart if ticker has not been updated in document.
  • Fixed: Force 80/20 labels on stochastics.
  • Added: Show last trade value in little box on historical chart same as intraday chart.
  • Fixed: Display correct ticker in chart window header if manually changed.
  • Fixed: Chart ticker entry now forces ticker to upper case if that option is selected in the main application.
  • Fixed: Colorization on candlestick chart. Added filled/hollow candles to indicate close below or above open for the current day.
  • Fixed: Chart tooltip Y value not formatted properly when >= 1000.
  • Fixed: Volume bars too thin when charting small date ranges.
  • Fixed: Log axis scale for range starting at 1.0.
  • Added: Draw crosshairs across all charts.
  • Fixed: Indicators on intraday charts, starting with SMA, EMA, and BBANDS.
  • Fixed: EMA indicator can not be added when Main chart is selected in list.
  • Added: ATR indicator.
  • Fixed: Percent change not calculated properly in prophet.net plug-in.
  • Fixed: Fibonacci item in context menu set improperly, fibonacci retracements not cleared for deleted lines.
  • Fixed: Big GDI resource leak in chart redrawing code. Caused problems on Windows 9x/Me which have limited resource space.
  • Fixed: Login credentials from quote services not saved properly between sessions.

6.0.2 (build 6.0.2.263, June 23, 2004)

  • Added: Numerous chart improvements, including better range calculation for historical chart, more intraday ranges and the ability to configure the type and axis for the Main chart.
  • Added: MACD with Histogram, Chaikin Money Flow, ADX indicators.
  • Fixed: Intraday volume was not being properly calculated.
  • Fixed: Cancelling out of service selection wizard exits the software instead of displaying warning.
  • Added: Online tour link.

6.0 (build 6.0.0.261, April 27, 2004)

  • Minor fixes.

6.0 beta 1 (build 6.0.0.259, January 15, 2003)

  • Changed: Historical data and ticker lookup servers are changed automatically when a different quote service is selected.
  • Added: Login manager for quote services.
  • Added: Prophet.net quote service plug-in. Supports real-time streaming, historical data.
  • Added: Money.net quote service plug-in.
  • Added: Advanced charting with real-time streaming intraday charts, technical analysis, multiple chart profiles.
  • Rename to Personal Stock Streamer.


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