StockMarketMirror
      Copyright (C) 2000-2011, Stefan Veres. All rights reserved.
           Version 6.8, 14 day trial, US$195 registration.
                http://www.stockmarketmirror.com/
 
 
 

                   Version development history.
 
Version 1.0  November 21, 1999
 

Version 2.0  January 16, 2000
   Changes:   - New portfolio picking algorithm
              - enhanced user interface
              - charts labeling improvements
 

Version 3.0  September 23, 2000
   Changes:   - updated program interface with pulldown menu
              - updated portfolio picking algorithm
              - updated trend groups analysis algorithm
              - added individual stock charts
              - added heuristic stock screening
              - added stock history download
 
 
 
Version 3.1  February 19, 2001
              Changes: 
              - updated stock basket export format (*csv), compatible
                with The Motley Fool portfolio tracker
              - FAQ added
              - sizable chart window 
              - new registration procedure
              - multithread stock downloader 
 
 
 
Version 4.0  April 5, 2001
              New features:
              - investment decisions timing (stock timing), capable to cope
                with investment bubbles, applicable to single stock symbols
                as well as to any list of stock symbols stored in the stock
                basket.
              - powerful tools for selecting profitable portfolio
              - comfortable download of the fundamental information,
                news and research articles about individual stocks
                with multi thread stock downloader and viewing of all
                downloaded information
              - program performance demonstration, demonstrating the
                power of the program principles especially stock timing
                algorithm, generating profit even with the randomly
                selected portfolio
 
 
 
Version 5.0  November 11, 2002
                Almost all features of previous version were redesigned and
                improved and some new features added, such as new model
                of stock market timing and stock market swings, stock ranking,
                mainstream calculations, satellite stock calculations and automatic
                program execution, which is delivering complete and up-to-date
                stock market timing analysis with stock ranking on the screen
                of your computer, without any interaction with the user.
 
 
 
Version 5.1  May 26, 2003
                Version 5.1, compared with version 5.0, has improvements in layout
                of charts and output reports. Automation support files for major world
                stock exchanges were added into the installation archive file.
 
 
 
Version 5.2  November 3, 2003
                Version 5.2 has improvements in user interface, making it more user
                friendly.
                Automation support for number of major stock markets of America,
                Asia, Australia and Europe was added.
                Two commands for test of trading were added, enabling verification
                of two trading methods on level of precision, comparable with
                real trading.  
 
 
 
Version 6.0  January 2, 2005
                Completely new algorithms of stock timing and market timing.
                New functions for stock market analysis such as group research.
                New commands for automatic portfolio selection.
                Help file revised and redesigned into *.chm hypertext help format. 
 

Version 6.1  March 10, 2005
               Improved support for creating EOD data source from local folder.
               Speeding up timing method "Market Timing recommended by software author".
               Added explanation messages for all commands of market timing submenu.
               Minor improvements in user interface and software documentation 
 
 
Version 6.2, June 12, 2005
             - Added short selling profit into stock timing and market timing calculations. 
             - Added 'FUZZY' (or 'HOLD') status of timing signal for trading decisions of user. 
             - Added timing of individual stock symbol with report.
             - Added timing of individual stock symbol with report for all symbols
               from stock basket automatically.
             - Removed some less important commands for back testing.
 
 
 
Version 6.3, October 15, 2006
             - Sophisticated timing algorithm was made more stable by excluding some
               internal parameters and by modification of the timing algorithm.
             - The concept of random stock groups was introduced to decrease volatility
               of timing signals and to enable timing calculations on the Stock Basket
               with many thousands of stock symbols.  
 
 
 
Version 6.4, May 16, 2007
             - Minor improvements in sophisticated market timing algorithm, making it
               more precise and stable.
             - Improvements in rendering charts, using green, red and blue color for
               rendering portions of curves with buy signal, sell signal or no signal.
             - Improvements in some commands in order to make them more user friendly.
             - Removing threshold parameter, because it has no relevance in current version
               of market timing algorithm.
 
 
 
Version 6.5, August 12, 2007
             - Further improvements in sophisticated market timing algorithm, making it
               more precise and stable.  
             - Market timing and stock timing made possible separately for short-term
               market swings and long-term market swings by selecting suitable timing
               parameters.
             - Demo database removed form installation package. Software functionality
               is demonstrated on real data, downloaded automatically from Yahoo! web site.
 

Version 6.51, October 5, 2007
             - Fixing error in the calculation of the winning trades percentage.
             - Default values adjustment of timing parameters.
 

Version 6.52, October 21, 2007
             - New data sources introduced in order to speed up the timing calculations
               of NASDAQ-COMPOSITE, NYSE-COMPOSITE, S&P-COMPOSITE.
             - Some modification of timing parameters default values in order to
               speed up timing calculations.
             - New concept of residual volatility ratio introduced.
             - Some modification of GroupResearch submenu commands.
            
 
Version 6.6, January 19, 2008
             - Improvements of stability for market timing calculations.
             - Some modifications of timing commands and program menu
               to make this software more user friendly.
 
 
 
Version 6.7, May 23, 2008
             - Solving Windows Vista compatibility issues. Simple internal text editor
               was created to substitute text editor notepad.exe.
             - New improved model for triggering trading signals from the bullish market
               activity curve was used, based on four internal numerical parameters.
             - Values of some internal parameters were newly adjusted.
 

Version 6.8, August 11, 2009
             - Default lists of stock symbols updated.
             - Stock symbols with stagnating price in the two latest trading days
               are automatically excluded from Stock Basket, immediately prior to timing
               calculations.
             - Minor modifications of auxiliary software location test (iexplorer.exe,
               explorer.exe, hh.exe)