Monday, 18 April 2016

Release 16.4.812

A lot of things have been done in this update! The new version can already be downloaded from the website or through the update system.

New charting

We’ve replaced the library which we were using for charting. The previous version had serious performance limitations and we were unable to implement some of the features that we wanted. With the new charting system, we’ll now be able to add these additional features in.

At the moment, users have the same charting functionality, but it is now more efficient, faster and more accurate. Let’s take a look at a couple of examples:

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We’ve revamped the way that users can manipulate charts. It hasn’t yet been described in the documentation, but it’s important, so as of this version, the charting manipulation techniques are as follows:

  • Mouse wheel – move the chart horizontally
  • Ctrl + mouse wheel – zoom in & out
  • Shift + mouse wheel – move the chart vertically
  • Right mouse button – zoom into the selected region
  • Left mouse double click – reset to 100% view.

Also now we save the Price range settings between program launches. Before, users had complained that it was cumbersome to restore the price range every time.

There are now ten times as many nodes in the grid which is used to build the chart, so they are now 10 times as precise.

TeamViewer as a remote support system

Before we used Ammyy Admin – it was a nice piece of software, but unfortunately most antiviruses assumed that it was dangerous. From the perspective of view of an average user, that meant that our software was dangerous, since their executable was inside our distributive.

Now, if you need our support team to help you directly through your computer, press the button in the top right corner. It will launch the TeamViewer quick support executable and our agent will be able to see your monitor (following approval).

CQG demo generation

Now user can generate a CQG Continuum demo login directly through the software, without asking our support team. This will decrease the time barrier needed to get new users experiencing our software with live data.

New columns in the positions table

  • Last price – the last traded price of the instrument
  • P&L (M) – profit/loss as shown in currency, rather than in the contracts’ quote points
  • Bid/Offer – for individual positions these columns show the best prices for corresponding contracts. For a summary row it shows the bid and offer for the whole strategy.

Options desks

  • New column – Last price
  • Reusing last used columns settings when opening new desk
  • Open option desk menu item in a context menu for instrument and position

Instruments tree

The format for the futures codes has now been changed.




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Option Workshop, version 17.6.1515

In this update, we’ve added several improvements:

  • Changes in the Positions manager:

    • Copying a strategy with all fills
    • A new Mnns (moneyness) column that shows the option status: in the money, at the money, out of the money
    • A new Risks tab. Now the tab shows only the total number of underlying contracts to be settled if in the money options expire right now. In the next updates, we plan to add more useful information about strategy in this tab
  • Changes in the Charts form:

    • The ability to bind the Charts form with the active (selected) strategy in the Positions manager. The form will show a chart for the currently selected strategy in the Position manager
    • The ability to display the P&L chart taking the commission for the fills into account
  • In the Option Desk, the bid and ask cells are now highlighted if the best bid/ask price is higher/lower than the theoretical price.

  • In the new version, you can add contracts to the market maker by dragging a position or a strategy into the market maker setting form.

You can read more about these and other changes in this article.

6 June 2017

Top dividend-paying precious-metal stocks – these dividends could triple!

Looking for protection against inflation or recession while getting paid to wait? Here are a few options to seriously consider.

The case for buying precious-metals and miners was recently made here, and now it is time to share our favorite trades.

Gold has been like a kite caught in an unrelenting storm for the past 10 years; flying to extremes ($1900) on wind streams of economic collapse, monetary expansion and Brexit then dovetailing lower on Wall Street’s sporadic hopes of normalization. For the better part of the last 4 years, Gold has been consolidating and trending lower but with Donald Trump about to usurp the throne, the glory days may soon return with a vengeance.

2 January 2017

One Easy fix for traders getting stopped out too early or cutting profits too soon

If you’ve traded actively for at least a few months or years, you’ll know all too often the agony that comes with getting stopped out of a position and immediately, the trade takes off. A similar but lesser form of agony is felt when a trade has hit your price target and you proudly sell your position. Except, it keeps going and going…

20 December 2016

How to read P&L Charts (part 1)

The question considered in this article might seem too obvious, and one might say that there is nothing to discuss. But our user support experience tells us that often people who are entirely new in options spent excessive time on trying to figure out options payoff profiles. Having a well-developed skill of reading options risk profiles (alternative terms are P&L profiles, payoff function profiles) is essential to successful options trading.

For sure, sooner or later everyone will understand all the details, but we think that with this article we may accelerate this process.

18 November 2016

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