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OT2003 Support

 
02/18/04 - Pre-Release 7G
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 7G:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: When HyperFeed fails to connect. Cancelling would cause error 10: This array is fixed or temporarily locked.

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10/10/03 - Pre-Release 7F
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 7F:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: In an RT profile, in certain situations the signals in the FocusList would not be updated.

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10/3/03 - Pre-Release 7E
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 7E:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: In an RT profile, reloading data on a chart would cause graphical objects (like trendlines) to disappear.
Bug Fix: Charting a symbol and then closing it while it is still being backtested, would cause an automation error in TestSystems: The Object invoked has disconnected from its clients.
Bug Fix: Fixed some TBO errors (AIQ, gamemode in RealTime).
Bug Fix: Fixed error 91 in CB_ReadSysRecord.
Bug Fix: Downloading HyperFeed data between 8 and 8.30 CET would not download yesterday's bar.
Bug Fix: When True Value exits are used, and a ProfitStop is used, the stop value was not calculated correctly.
Bug Fix: When using system confirmation, the voting tolerances were not correctly applied.
Bug Fix: Editing symbol information in the database, would not validate the new values. Changing the symbol name to another, already existing, symbol would cause an error.
Bug Fix: Creating a new position, would not validate all fields correctly. Entering invalid data (invalid dates, or prices) would cause errors.
Bug Fix: While editing a model, a specific click combination, would cause error 457: make a change in the model, select a new model in the combobox, save the changes when prompted, Click SaveAs.
Bug Fix: While printing the profile performance report, cancelling would cause an error.
Bug Fix: Importing symbols from VisualTrader, or previous version of OT, while the other product is running would cause errors.
Bug Fix: If a model used by a system is missing, Trying to edit the model for that system would error.
Bug Fix: When notification for new Releases is on, it would also notify about new Pre-Releases.
Bug Fix: While connecting to the RT datafeed (automatically after opening an RT profile for the first time),  clicking on a chartbook tab would error.
Bug Fix: The checkbox 'Don't test symbols with open positions' worked reversed.
Improvement: Running multiple copies of OT (in different directories), would cause errors.
Improvement: Activating toolbars would appear behind the toolbar form, and would therefore not be visible.
Improvement: When editing strategies, edting values in the system grids would not enable the apply button.

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9/2/03 - Pre-Release 7D (reposted)
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 7D:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: Downloading data during a holiday (like Labor Day), would cause errors ('invalid dates' error). In RT profiles the error can happen for a couple of days after the holiday.

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8/8/03 - Pre-Release 7D
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 7D:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: If system confirmation is turned on, in rare cases signals could change when more data is downloaded.

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8/7/03 - Pre-Release 7C
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 7C:
Issue Description
Improvement: Improved connection mechanism to the HyperFeed backup servers, in case of failure of the main servers.

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7/28/03 - Pre-Release 7B
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 7B:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: Profit calculation always used close price, instead of the true value (Pre-Release 7A only)
Improvement: Installed latest HyperFeed dll, to support the latest HyperFeed servers.

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7/22/03 - Pre-Release 7A
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 7A:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: In RT profiles, reloading data on a chart with chart annotations would error.
Bug Fix: Width of the symbols column in the FocusList was not retained.
Bug Fix: When configuring the FocusList for RealTime futures profiles the Bid Price was not available.
Bug Fix: While switching to automode, minimizing/restoring OT could display the FocusList, and certain toolbars.
Improvement: Updated the calculation method for average APR in reports.
Improvement: Updated the profit calculation method to use True Value exits.

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7/17/03 - Release 6
The following issues have been addressed in Release 6:
Issue Description
Official Release Pre-Release 6D promoted to Release 6.

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7/7/03 - Pre-Release 6D
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 6D:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: Holidays could not be deleted.
Bug Fix: Systems SDK: when plotting text, specifying the font would cause errors.

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7/2/03 - Pre-Release 6C
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 6C:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: Using TC2000 data without limiting the data to backtest and forward test period, would cause hangups, if the data would go back prior to 1/1/1970. Very large log files (OT.log) would be written, preventing OT to start the next time. (pre-release 6A/6B only)
Bug Fix: Chart annotations (like trendlines), which are older than three months, in realtime charts,   could cause errors.
Bug Fix: In certain cases, charting a futures symbol would scroll to the second to the last bar, instead of the last bar.
Bug Fix: In automode, printing multiple charts per page would only print one chart per page.
Bug Fix: After printing a chart with an entry-filter enabled, the entry-filter would not be visible any more in the current chart, and it would not be printed. Re-charting would make the entry-filter visible again.
Bug Fix: The assistant would only display the first five parameters of the VTL-B system.
Bug Fix: Updating HyperFeed data between midnight (central time) and 5AM, could cause gaps or duplicate bars.
Improvement: InterQuote modified the message for a wrong username and/or password. Updated to continue to report a proper message.

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6/20/03 - Pre-Release 6B
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 6B:
Issue Description
Improvement: Enabled OmniTrader for ARM2 Release 4.

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6/19/03 - Pre-Release 6A
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 6A:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: In miscellaneous cases, an 'invalid date', 'invalid TBO', or 'TBO array size too large' errors would occur (in pre-release 5B ... Release 5).
Bug Fix: Plotting a system on a realtime chart in a timeframe which is not used for signal generation, would not update the plot correctly.
Bug Fix: Editing indicator parameters would not update the caption of the indicator.
Bug Fix: Running labmode would not re-apply the FocusList filter from day to day.
Bug Fix: Changing the font in the FocusList would not apply it to intraday statistics.
Bug Fix: Adding or removing (volume-) systems would not set the checkbox in the ToDo list for backtesting, whether those systems were tested or not. Charting a symbol would always backtest. OT   recognizes now properly whether tested systems are removed/added.
Bug Fix: Plotting the same filter in two charts, and then disabling them both  would error.
Bug Fix: When editing data periods, pressing the 'x' would not validate the settings. Invalid settings (like all non voted) would cause errors. Editing the timeframe to ' minutes' using the 'Delete' button would cause errors.
Bug Fix: Displaying a modal form (like 'edit model') and then clicking 'tile vertically/horizontally' in the Windows taskbar would cause errors (Can't show non-modal form when modal form is displayed).
Bug Fix: Exiting while a modal form is shown (like the ToDo list) would cause errors (Can't show non-modal form when modal form is displayed).
Bug Fix: Editing symbol information, would not test that the 'Optional' field contained a valid value. Invalid values would cause errors.
Bug Fix: Editing FocusList filter information, did not validate the 'operand' column. Invalid values would cause errors.
Bug Fix: The apply button on the 'Edit Strategy' form did not validate backtest settings. Invalid values would cause errors.
Bug Fix: On the chart options form, entering an invalid value for an indicator parameter, and then adjusting the scrollbar would cause errors.
Bug Fix: In a new profile, editing the limit data to backtest/forward test periods, and then clicking the X on the form, would cause an error.
Bug Fix: In the FL selecting data from the A:\ drive, and then removing the diskette would cause errors.
Bug Fix: Adding a new chartbook page and cancelling it, prior to complete initialization would cause errors.
Bug Fix: Sizing the FocusList very small, with the watchlist area shown, would cause a divide by zero when the mouse moves over the FocusList.
Improvement: Modified the default for 'Don't test symbols with signals' to be off.
Improvement: Cleaned up the data editor, and improved user interface for split adjusments.

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5/14/03 - Release 5
The following issues have been addressed in Release 5:
Issue Description
Official Release Pre-Release 5E promoted to Release 5.

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5/13/03 - Pre-Release 5E
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 5E:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: In miscellaneous cases, an 'invalid date' error would occur (pre-release 5B, and 5D).
Bug Fix: Updating TC2000 multiple times during the day, would not cause OT to update price information in the FocusList.
Bug Fix: Editing the line style properties for the reversing stop, and the next pivot point stop, would show the wrong number of lines. Next pivot point stop has only 1 line to plot. The reversing stop does not plot at all.

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5/5/03 - Pre-Release 5D
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 5D:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: An 'invalid date' error would occur using TC2000 (pre-release 5B).
Bug Fix: OT would see only the first 2000 symbols in a MetaStock folder.
Bug Fix: On some systems, error 5 in StringFromWChar would occur.
Bug Fix: In RealTime profiles, reloading daily or weekly data would cause the data to be shifted by 1 bar.
Bug Fix: Continuous contracts would not work on weekly bars.
Bug Fix: Sizing the portfolio window, and then switching to a different tab would cause the buttons to appear in a wrong location. Switching to the portfolio (from another program) would cause it to switch to the 'Accounts' tab.
Bug Fix: In rare situations, InterQuote would cause crashes.
Improvement: The Rule of Eights exit now also stops out when the price moves immediately against the trade.
Improvement: Some forms did not properly size on Windows XP. The size would be off a by a few pixels.
Improvement: Some texboxes and labels on some forms used a wrong background color on Windows XP.

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4/24/03 - Pre-Release 5B
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 5B:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: Resizing charts would not redraw indicators with multiple lines like MACD.
Bug Fix: MV2C system used simple moving averages instead of exponentional moving averages.
Bug Fix: For certain datafeeds, positions in a RealTime profile would automatically close, if OT is left running after market hours in a RT profile.

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2/12/03 - Pre-Release 5A
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 5A:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: In certain cases when switching timeframes, the chart would scroll back in time causing the last bar not to be visible.
Bug Fix: When using the 'Systems Only' voting method, the entry filters were not applied.
Bug Fix: AIQ data would not display the last day.
Bug Fix: When using user data, in certain cases the symbols in the MetaStock folders were not shown.
Bug Fix: Repair database would not work on profiles.
Improvement: Annotations can now be drawn in the indicator areas.

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2/3/03 - Release 4
The following issues have been addressed in Release 4:
Issue Description
Official Release Pre-Release 4E promoted to Release 4.

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1/17/03 - Pre-Release 4E
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 4E:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: HyperFeed data: The bar for the current day will not be retrieved or updated after 8:00 PM Central Standard Time.
Bug Fix: Runtime error (Error 9: subscript out of range) when using indicators or system plots with ARM2 profiles.
Bug Fix: The holidays information has been corrected. The holiday on January 20, 2003 was missing.
Bug Fix: The chart books will not be saved/restored (pre-releases 4A, 4B, 4C and 4D).

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12/31/02 - Pre-Release 4D
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 4D:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: Using the next pivot point stop, like in ARM2 models, would overwrite signal-exits in certain cases. In those cases, the signals would not exit correctly, but would exit at the next pivot point.
Bug Fix: After submitting a log, with an error which has already been fixed, the 'OT Quality Feedback' program would send you to a wrong URL to update to a newer release.

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12/26/02 - Pre-Release 4C
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 4C:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: Opening a profile, which has the watchlist displayed would error in RestoreGridSelectionEx (pre-releases 4A and 4B).
Bug Fix: International symbols databases which would not have the proper format would error in GetContentNumber.
Bug Fix: If LabMode was never run before, it would not start.
Bug Fix: Eights exit would not properly adjust stop levels (pre-releases 4A and 4B).

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12/23/02 - Pre-Release 4B
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 4B:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: Fixed runtime error in 'RestoreGridSelectionEx' (occurred only in pre-release 4A).
Bug Fix: Deleting a symbol from the FocusList, with the symbol charted in the FocusList would error subsequently when collecting data, or re-adding the symbol using the QuickChart feature.
Bug Fix: Editing the parameters for indicator plots would error when the second parameter is changed, while the first parameter is non-numeric.
Bug Fix: While switching to game mode, clicking on the 'advance day' button too quickly, would error.

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12/19/02 - Pre-Release 4A
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 4A:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: Fixed memory leak when running the ToDo list or Auto mode.
Bug Fix: Improved checking, merging and fixing of exchange information.
Improvement: Running Norton Utilities would delete registry information, causing several issues:
- Inability to connect to HyperFeed.
- Inability to run the updater.
- Version checker information is incomplete.
Added workarounds to restore the missing information.
Bug Fix: In RealTime, models using moving averages would error with 'Subscript out of Range'.
Bug Fix: While exiting, clicking the 'x' again would error.
Bug Fix: Plotting pivot point stops, would error if no pivot points were established yet (like a symbol with a small amount of data).
Bug Fix: Plotting pivot point stops, would error if another exit would happen after the first valley (or peak), and the next peak (or valley) has not been established yet.
Bug Fix: Editing an existing trendline alert, prior to adding any new trendline alert, would reset the timeframe to ' 0 minutes'. This would cause a runtime error the next time the alert is checked.
Bug Fix: Editing the strategy, and then exiting OT without closing the form, would error.
Bug Fix: Plotting of moving averages would use the high price, instead of the close price.
Bug Fix: ARM2 advisor information would not always show, when system entry/exit confirmation is enabled.
Bug Fix: In LabMode, the Volatility column would not be updated. The SigType column would not be reset to 'None'.
Bug Fix: While switching to LabMode, cancelling the backtesting, and then switching back to RealMode, would cause an error if the next time the 'continue' option for LabMode was choosen.
Improvement: Increased speed of advancing a day in LabMode.
Improvement: Improved the speed of all stops, which will result in shorter  backtesting and signal generation times.
Improvement: Removed the vertical lines plotted for the 'Next Pivot Point' exit.
Improvement: In case of a missing portfolio, OT would error, instead of warning the user.

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12/13/02 - Release 3
The following issues have been addressed in Release 3:
Issue Description
Official Release Pre-Release 3C promoted to Release 3.

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12/02/02 - Release 3C
The following issues have been addressed in Release 3C:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: Partial trading days were missing in the chart.
Improvement: OmniTrader guidebook (Adobe Acrobat format) is now included.

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11/26/02 - Release 3B
The following issues have been addressed in Release 3B:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: Fixed the error EXCEPTION in OTUtil2003.dll at address 0x1A1073DD.
Bug Fix: Importing symbols from an invalid profile, would result in errors.
Bug Fix: If there is no COT data for a commmodity, the Subcript out of range error would occur.
Bug Fix: In rare cases loading AIQ data could result in crashes.

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11/22/02 - Release 2
The following issues have been addressed in Release 2:
Issue Description
Official Release Pre-Release 2A promoted to Release 2.
Bug Fix: Fixed compatibility issues between OT2002 and OT2003 related to Volume Systems.

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11/19/02 - PreRelease 2A
The following issues have been addressed in Pre-Release 2A:
Issue Description
Bug Fix: Opening the VolumeSystems profile would error.
Bug Fix: Fixed memory leak related to Volume Systems.
Bug Fix: Copying OT2001 profiles to OT2003, and then opening them would result in errors.
Bug Fix: When plotting indicators, restoring to the default settings would error.
Improvement: Improved the speed of several stops, which will result in shorter  backtesting and signal generation times.
Improvement: When confirming positions, the checkbox marked 'Confirmed' is now automatically set.

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11/14/02 - Release 1
The following issues have been addressed in Release 1:
Issue Description
Official Release OT2003 R1 Official Release

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Downloads
The following downloads provide specific files to use with OT2003.

File Date Name Description
ContinuumClient June 24th,
2003
ContinuumClient Updater Updater for ContinuumClient.dll. Download the ContinuumClient setup.exe file and run it.
msvbvm60.dll May 19th, 2003 VB Runtime Fix for ISAM error on U.S. Installs.
OT2003_GB.PDF February 28, 2003 OmniTrader Guide Book Guide book in PDF format for OmniTrader 2003
vb6de.dll February 24, 2003 vb6de.dll Localized Visual Basic runtime for Germany.
vb6fr.dll February 24, 2003 vb6fr.dll Localized Visual Basic runtime for France.
vb6es.dll February 24, 2003 vb6es.dll Localized Visual Basic runtime for Spain.
vb6jp.dll February 24, 2003 vb6jp.dll Localized Visual Basic runtime for Japan.
vb6it.dll February 24, 2003 vb6it.dll Localized Visual Basic runtime for Italy.
OT.OTD January 22, 2003 OT.OTD Only use this download if directed by support to do so. This is a clean replacement file for the OT.OTD file and meant to be used when user settings become corrupt.

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