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)