StockFinder® Version 5.0

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What's New in StockFinder Version 5.0

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StockFinder 5.0 Chart with conditional coloring

Chart Changes:

One-Click on Condition to instantly Paint, Scan & Sort
Redesigned Condition Wizard
Easy one-button access to ALL Indicators and Conditions in Unversal Library
Indicators that link to other indicators can now be saved without needing to save the chart
Conditions that link to other indicators/conditions can now be saved without needing to save the chart
Custom Market Indicators can be saved
Redesigned Indicator editor.
Removed old Add Rule Button, replaced with Paint Scheme button
Conditions on the bubble bar can be used to quickly paint price, sort by or both.

Version 5 is a big leap forward.
- M.K. Los Altos, CA

Combining Conditions into a combo condition will now remove the combined conditions from the bubble bar.
Conditions no longer need to remain on the chart to be used in the WatchList for sorts/scans. This reduces the overall number of conditions on the bubble bar
Conditions no longer need to remain on the chart to be used in painting indicators. This reduces the overall number of conditions on the bubble bar
Removing an indicator that is used in a condition or another indicator (difference, market indicator) will no longer remove the item that is using it.
Removing an indicator or condition from the chart no longer removes any WatchList columns that were linked to it
Removed some chart buttons that were redundant and cleaned up interface
Drawing tools in the price chart are now saved by symbol (IE they're global) and no longer saved on the chart itself.
New color options for Background gradient charts
New chart overlay options for custom overlay values
New chart rendering methods for crisp and smooth display
New default chart options allow you to apply chart settings and colors to all new charts.

Drawing Tool Changes

Drawing tools in the price pane are now saved by symbol (IE they're global) and no longer saved on the chart itself.
New Drawing Toolbar - Open by default on new layouts and charts
Drawing Button now has new drop down menu
CTL+T will toggle drawings on/off
CTL+D toggles drawing a trendline
Esc key will now clear the active drawing tool
Drawing tools now have a set as default link to set a default value for each tool
Right-Click on the chart will now clear the active drawing tool
Drawing tools now show a context menu on right click
Drawing tools no longer show the editor on left click
Using a drawing tool while the drawings are hidden will now show the tools

True Markers

CTL-Click on a condition bubble will now toggle a true marker on/off
New Marker icon on condition bubble when marker is active

New Display Options menu on conditions to control hash marks, arrows, image markers and other condition display options
Added a hover mode for hashmark legend
Added a checkbox on the hashmark editor to always show the legend
True markers now scale with the zoom
True markers now default to their last used setting
Added marker option and alt click option to click options dialog
Added show true markers and edit

Paint Schemes and Conditional Coloring

Conditions can now be combined in to savable entities called Paint Schemes
Paint Schemes can be applied to any indicator on a chart
Updating a Paint Scheme in your library will update all indicators that use that Paint Scheme
Redesigned Paint Scheme editor.
New Paint Scheme button for the Price history indicator to quickly change the active Paint Scheme on price
Conditions on the chart can now be applied directly to price history by clicking on them

Watchlist Changes

You can now scan/filter your watchlist on saved conditions
Filter or scan conditions can be set to multiple Bar Intervals
New Sort Drop down for easy WatchList sorting.
New sorting from Indicators for easy watchlist sorting
Condition Lights now sort by bars in a row, to bars since true
New Unlinking of Linked items (columns, conditions) to keep data around after the source is removed (set via the column header or by removing the linked item source)
Unlinked watchlist columns can have their own bar interval (set via the header right click menu).
Each column now supports it's own Update frequency instead of a WatchList wide setting (set via the header right click menu) which improves performance
Each column now supports it's own Sort Frequency to determine how often to re-sort (set via the header right click menu)
The Sorted column now has a shaded background color. This color can be edited from the WatchList properties
Columns that are created by the sort pull-down or by sorting from an chart indicator/condition will be replaced by the next sorted item
The sort column can be repositioned by dragging/dropping to a new location
When applying a scan or sort, the watchlist will automatically scroll to the top symbol in the list
Backspace key will now go back to the previous symbol. This can be used more than once to continue going back in history.
New Add Column button will load a column for any Library Indicator or Condition without needing to load it on the chart.
Added a tooltip for the Active watchlist, Scan and Sort to see the full name when partially hidden
Company Name and Exchange can now be toggled for the symbol column on the column header right-click menu.

RealCode

New PCF like syntax for child calculations: AVG, AVGO,AVGH,AVGL,AVGC,XAVG,XAVGH..., STOC - these can be used on Price, Volume or any imported indicator.
RealCode can now reference indicators from the Library (including your own saved indicators/RealCode) and no longer need to have the indicator loaded on a chart. This will reduce the overall number of indicators on a chart
RealCode can now reference conditions from the Library (including your own saved conditions/RealCode) and no longer need to have the condition loaded into a chart. This will reduce the overall number of conditions on a chart
RealCode now has a context variable available to determine information about the context in which it is executing. This allows you to find out information about a Market Index calculation (number of symbols in the list, first/last symbol) or information about the Chart (Start/End dates, number of bars visible)
RealCode that references indicators or conditions on a chart can now be saved without having to save the chart
Added a global memory cache for global variable access
Additional Properties and Methods are available to call from whithin your code, like chart overlay, labels and more

BackScanner

Fixed the Symbol Equity line on short sales to match the results table
You can now cancel a Backtest in progress.

General Program Changes

New Minute data bank - Intraday scanning has increased 5 fold.
Numerous performance enhancements and tweaks
You can now change the active watchlist by pressing the / key and typing the watchlist name
Redesigned many open/load dialogs to use a new Task/Recent/Library drop down.
Added News and Data sheet as toggle buttons to the toolbar
News now loads under the watchlist
Redesigned the condition palette to better organise the conditions on your chart.
Clicking on a news story will now open the article in it's own window.
General context menu changes and clean up.
Removed the Blocks.com blogging
Removed CNN and Bloomberg TV.
Users can now create and save their own browsers. It supports URLs with the active symbol tag {sym} to load stock specific web pages.
StockFinder will show scan and sort progress on the Task bar in Windows 7

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