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Current Version is: Version 4.50
Current Build is: 04212009

Below are notes on recent additions made for the current upgrade. If the above upgrade does not match the one you have you may wish to click on UPGRADE CHARTSMART NOW button.

BUILDS ON OR BEFORE 04212009

04212009 - Set screen fonts on start up of ChartSmart.

03262009 - Changed chart printing so it does not print black line on edge of chart printed.

05012008 - Adjustment to Merge to compensate for ZZ NY symbol.

03122008 - For Train2invest users only there is a T2I settings button added in the QUICK WATCH LIST SUMMARY to change the values used in the export spreadsheet done with the T2I button.

12252007 - For Train2invest users there was a feature in the ZWTCH quick list summary to allow users to export their watch list to an xcel spreadsheet. This feature did not work if the user had a space in the folder name. c:\csmart would be okay but if it was in c:\program files\csmart it would not work. This upgrade resolves this.

12202007 - When you go to MAINTENANCE and CHART COLORS there is now an option to change the color of the shaft for candlestick charts also.

12182007 - Another solution created to correct the tex49 error message when merging filter files. This version may speed up the process of merging the history files. In addition in this upgrade, if ones download stops part way and all the filters are not downloaded, often users do not know and then they run filters with problems. There is now an alert if the desired filter files to be managed (checked in filter files tab of data) are not merged into the master screening database. If they are not there, an alert is displayed at the end of the update to tell the user they may want to download again.

12032007 - Working on solution to tex49 error when merging filter files during daily update.

11012007 - During the merge, on occasion it might stop at a particular symbol during the merge and the hourglass would hang. This upgrade prevents that from occuring.

10072007 - All upgrades have been included as version 4.50. All users will be give a flag on their startup menu to let them know to upgrade.

10072007 - Resorted the rollback file in the update process so that in the future we can provide the entire rollback file with the daily update. Also prevented a bug that would cause an endless loop if a rollback date is put in that is past the current date.

08202007 - Minor revisions.

08102007 - On startup of ChartSmart the daily index file is resorted. On occasion the data button would show the bars green but the daily charts did not show the data. This prevents the need from doing the repair corrupt files in the first menu in chartsmart startup.

07112007 - When the US and CDN news files get over 2 gigabytes there is a message that says they need to be reduced in size. The message has been simplified and the partial addition of news for the last day before the file is oversize, is prevented from being added.

07032007 - List of items added

1) Monthly Merge method has been changed to exclude use of temp.txt as temporary file as on occassion if users had spyware this might cause a problem. This speeds the merge substantially.
2) Cycle dates were changed when ChartSmart historical database is full.
3) Now save chart image to a file saves it to a specific file name instead of chartimagejpg.jpg.
4) QTE window made as modal like other windows.
5) FILE/SAVE IMAGE as jpg email was not working.

06292007 - In rare situations in view candlesticks charts the open might be lower than the low or higher than the high. Erroneous data situations like these, though rare, have been compensated for when viewing charts.

06292007 - When printing 2 charts on one page annotations were not showing properly.

06222007 - List of items added

1) In previous versions a number of indicator menus (eg fundamentals) and other submenus would remain displayed when not closed properly then going to a chart. This occurs when clicking outside of the menu so the menu loses the focus but stays active behind the main chart menu. When charts were redisplayed on occasion these sub menus might briefly appear. To remedy this these menus have been made modal so that they MUST be closed before another action can be taken.
2) Due to the above, when one goes to an indicator menu, such as rsi, they could select another button to display the indicator levels settings menu. One could then close and refresh chart from the indicator level settings menu. Instead, now one must close the indicator level settings menu which redisplays the indicator menu which one can the close and refresh chart.
3) A number of menus had both a dark grey background and light grey background for various objects. Most of the menus have now been changed so they all show the light grey background and color for various objects, eg text box, buttons, etc.
4) In the IMPORT FILTERED LIST TO WATCH LIST in both the filter menu and in the zwtch button the method of doing so has be changed to be more user friendly. An additional button has been added to ACCEPT to import the watch list versus just CLOSE. Also in the filter menu version there is a 3rd button that allows one to ACCEPT the filtered list to watch list then auto jump to the ZWTCH menu.

06202007 - Adjustments made to the EXPORT FILTERED LIST TO ZWTCH in the filter menu.

06192007 - List of items added

1) When right click on main chart menu it displays the quote window with the most recent data. Left click as before displays the data for the specific day the mouse was clicked on.
2) In the Filter Menu, when a screen is run, there is a button that enables the user to put the filtered list into a custom named watch list. Now one also has the option to directly exit this menu and display the zwtch menu showing the specified watch list matching the filtered list.

06122007 - List of items added

1) One of the 2 RSI Lines, when set on, did not display "RSI" on the volume scale to show the user it is the rsi line (remedied).
2) On closing the menus for custom calculated values to be displayed on the charts, the screen refreshes to accomodate the new value.
3) The ATR line and rsi lines have been prevented from extending to zero in the event of null values at the end of the chart.
4) T2I button added in quick list summary in watch list to enable export of watch list to export folder in xcel format. (T2I only).
5) added close button to quick watch summary menu.
6) Average volume no longer percent value.

06082007 - Average Volume Indicator added to list of indicators. Note when click on the chart it is represented as a % eg 22% of the total volume on the chart. Up to 2 standard moving average lines of the volume so that one can view crossovers. Durations customizeable.

06072007 - In the past some users have received a dialogue menu that says OPEN and lists a number of files. Upon this event they need to go to the TASK MANAGER TO close chartsmart. Instead we have suppressed the dialogue so only an error message displays which will make it easier to exit.

06062007 - Under DISPLAY there is a second option to calculate a second custom formula value to display on the screen.

06052007 - List of items added

1) Emergency backup feature added on 05172007 removed due to Vista preventing zipping of files. This will be remedied later.
2) On startup of chartsmart, FOC subfolder of csmart folder no longer created.
3) Empty button on PORT menu no longer visible.
4) Under MAINTENANCE and CHART COLORS can now change colors of bars for candlestick charts instead of just black and white.
5) Under DIALUP SETTINGS on the DATA BUTTON a CLOSE button has been added.
6) Filter alerts preliminary menu check button reworded.

05302007 - The US news previous sometimes displayed with blank lines between rows plus in some cases it was truncated. Also, a feature was put in chartsmart to prevent a possible endless loop if some date fields in the news files were blank.

05172007 - A new feature has been added so that when ChartSmart starts, it creates a subfolder of the csmart folder called backup_emergency. When ChartSmart starts it automatically saves the 12 custom back files (eg watch lists, your filters, and so on) into a zip file identified with the date and time it was created. A total of 10 zip files are created, one for each of the last 10 times ChartSmart was started. This way, if you have a problem, for example you lose your watch lists or portfolios for whatever reason, you can call a ChartSmart Technician and they can restore your last good backup. Of course, one should always go to MAINTENANCE and BACKUP OF CUSTOM DATA to do your backups regularly, but this emergency option is made available in abnormal circumstances in which case the user has lost some data and needs to restore changes from the previous time ChartSmart was started. This also is beneficial if the user has forgotten to do backups for some time.

In order to see the backups and restore from them one can go to HELP then TECHNICIAN CONSOLE. In the menu on the bottom click on BACKUP EMERGENCY RESTORATION and it shows a menu of the last 10 backups for each time chartsmart was started. Click on any one to restore.

05152007 - When the F4 key was used in order to delete symbols from watch lists, errors occured due to the process interfering with charts being displayed.

05102007 - This build has resolved 3 issues. First, when clicking on the main chart, a quote window is displayed. If the quote windows was not closed and one of the pop down menus on the top of the chart were clicked, then the resulting menu would on occassion be translucent and also other form display problems would occur. Second, when attempting to drag the quote window, if the form was dragged and not the header, then sometimes the form would be replicated on the upper left of the chart. Third, when users go to the data menu now, if they click the REFRESH SYSTEM button, either automatically or not, when they exit the data menu the last chart will be refreshed so that the currently updated information will be on the chart.

05052007 - Introductory Help Menu on startup has been changed to be simpler.

04292007 - Windows Vista and XP tend to cause the bottom of the stock charts in ChartSmart to be displayed slightly below the windows start task bar. Under most resolutions the bottom of the stock Charts in Chartsmart have been raised so they are slightly above the windows task bar. Just a note, another option is to put the windows task bar on auto hide.

04272007 - Enabled Filter Arrow Alerts to be able to printed on charts. Installation CD's for Chartsmart now install on Vista faster. On vista the horizontal dotted lines at price levels on the scale were going off to the right. Corrected. Upper title bar of ChartSmart window slightly lower.

04182007 - Added feature to export to liveinvestor.txt file in export sub folder for custom clients.

04082007 - Enabled inputting of decimals to standardize amplitude indicator.

04062007 - - When one clicks RUN FILTERED LIST, on the resulting menu there is an option to click to go directly to the GRP button rather than have to close the filter menu first.

04012007 - Had to remove the GO TO GRP button option when running filters. Some bugs with this change. Button is temporarily made invisible till corrected version can be made.

03232007 - Under DISPLAY there is now an option, DISPLAY A CUSTOM FORMULA VALUE. This allows you to create a customized variable, eg cash/share as a percent of the close and display it on the upper left of the chart. This is an extension of the INFO bars on the top of the charts.

03232007 - When one clicks RUN FILTERED LIST, on the resulting menu there is an option to click to go directly to the GRP button rather than have to close the filter menu first.

03052007 - On occasion users may have trouble downloading with ftp protocal so a method of downloading by HTTP was built into ChartSmart. Consulting with a technician to activate this feature is required.

02192007 - When going to HELP and ABOUT CHARTSMART to do an upgrade, all the information is on one menu instead of clicking on UPGRADE CHARTSMART NOW. In addition there is a web link button to allow people to upgrade manually if they cannot upgrade through ChartSmart.

02192007 - Addition of HTTP download option. Bug fixed in SYMBOLEXPORT of textfiles under MAINTENANCE.

02092007 - Minor changes made to the trial activation procedure.

01312007 - Bollinger Bands on resolution 1280x1024 and zoom on close bars were shifted incorrectly. Fixed. Also when stocks were put in portfolios with no cost caused the red bar on the chart to be displayed by the exit button. Display is prevented if zero now. If trendlines off charts the buttons showed on top of the charts. Now these are not visible. When the "file not accessible" menu comes up a more detailed description is displayed telling users to go to HELP and TROUBLESHOOTING. Also in cases when the fundamentals graph is not displayed the PD5 button would not be displayed. There is now a FUNDAMENTALS button by the volume scale to display the fundamentals menu regardless of whether the fundamentals graph is displayed. Also fundamentals option has been added to the DISPLAY pop down menu.

01182007 - In Version 4.10 we had taken out the ability to save memdata.fpt and memdata.dbf when one would go to HELP and BACKUP THEIR CUSTOM DATA. The previous backup only saved ones watch lists, portfolios, memos, and filters whereas the memdata files also contain indicator settings.

12262006 - Problem in news went went to TOOLS, then in the US NEWS. After that if one went to SMRY and it was a cdn stock it would display the us stock news. Corrected.

11142006 - In the ZWTCH and PORT menus some users were using the F4 hot keys to delete securities from the list. This has been deactivated in these menus but you can still use F3 and F4 when you are scrolling through charts to add and take away securities from the active watch list. In addition in the ZWTCH menu when one righ clicks on the symbol column to delete a security the screen no longer refreshes and forces one to the top of the watch list. Also one is give the option now to right click on the NAME column which will allow deletion without confirmation required thereby enabling the user to delete symbols at a much faster rate.

11072006 - The menu for the PD5 button has been increased in size to display 7 periods instead of 5 periods plus also display work cap/share, cash/share, revenue/share.

11032005 - Minor upgrade. When option under SMRY for shorts was off, if one entered the window it would sometimes display the shares shorted news release instead of the one clicked on.

10292006 - Bug in plot bar display scrolling feature fixed and 2nd obv line data added to plot bar info window.

10262006 - Stochastics lines in special situations sometimes would stretch out of the scale range and this has been remedied.

10262006 - For the Canadian News Release the short positions are now included and they come out approximately every 2 weeks causing excess news bars and news releases under SMRY. Now there is a checkbox under smry which will allow one to stop the display of news bars and releases pertaining to SHORT POSITIONS.

10182006 - Under MISC at the top of the charts there is now an option for SYMBOL EXPORT. This feature will allow the user to export the symbols in the last filtered list to a text file or the clip board. The symbol format can be changed to match the symbology in other software (eg. real time software). This way user can determine customized lists with ChartSmart and easily use the lists in other software if the symbols are importable in the other software.

10182006 - In previous versions when a zero was selected for the duration for the stochastics indicator options, an endless loop would occur (never put a zero in for the duration of the indicator). This problem has been resolved so that only numbers over zero can be entered.

10142006 - A small addition has been made so that when one clicks on a plot to display the PLOT BAR INFORMATION box, there is also an option to move the red line left and right. This feature is added because sometimes it is difficult to accurately click on the correct plot bar.

04052006 - Misc internal programming updates.

04022006 - In ZWTCH there is now an option to compare stocks that are common to watch lists or only in one watch list but no in a list of others.

04022006 - At the end of RUN FILTERED LIST there is now an option to save the filtered list to a watch list.

03312006 - On occasion users were getting a message that the fundamentals file was damaged. This has been fixed.

03312006 - When in the ChartSmart Browser the REFRESH button was not refreshing the web page. Corrected.

03312006 - At the end of the REFRESH SYSTEM process there is now a message in the white box telling the user that the REFRESH SYSTEM is done.

03212006 - When using TOOLS/SELF TEACHING MODE, when annotations were on the chart they sometimes were distorted. If an annotation goes past the right side of the chart when in PARTIAL mode it is not displayed.

03212006 - When using the option under DISPLAY called LISTS OF WHICH STOCK IS A COMPONENT, a close button has been added with a hot letter C so it is easy to close without using the mouse.

03212006 - Sometimes an error when scrolling 'file accessed denied temp91.txt'. This is fixed.

03212006 - When users downloaded daily we had a message that came up immediately in the DATA menu that told them status. Now this does not come up till they click refresh system if it applies. These resolves some error messages some users were getting with 'report.txt' while downloading.

03152006 - In the past if a client tried to download and just got the daily file and not the filter files (this occurred due to our server down), it caused users to be unable to download filter fles with following updates for one day. This has been fixed plus in the fix, it causes a users downloads of the daily files to be faster. This is because during the download it no longer checks to see if the file exists which takes time. Instead it just gets the file and if it is not there it ignores the request.

02262006 - Chartsmart Browser WEB LINKS option is now in the browser not on a separate menu.

02262006 - When you click on the chart, the quote window appears with price and indicator information. You can now move the window and its position will be saved.

02262006 - There are now 2 web browser options when you click on the globe. Go to DISPLAY and MISC SETTINGS and option 13 allows you to switch. The chartsmart browser will display your default browser whereas the Internet Explorer option only displays IE. Use F5 for the web links menu.

02232006 - On the main menu there is now a globe which will display and intraday quote for the displayed chart. Other globes allow for full lists of quotes in the ZWTCH, LIST, PORT, GRP and ALERTS menus.

02192006 - Users can now go to TOOLS and turn on a self learning feature. This feature allows the users to stop the display of a chart on a specific date before the end of the chart. The user can then evaluate the chart on that date then display the remainder of the chart testing their predictions.

02152006 - Users can access intraday quote lists of their portfolios, watch lists, list button, grp button and alerts button from the web. F5 menu has been changed slightly too.

01202006 - Under the alerts you can now doubleclick on the symbol to view the chart.

01202006 - Under TOOLS there is now a PRICE ALERTS option where one can set their price alerts and run screens for those companies.

01162006 - In the INFO button it showed the open, high, low, close to 3 decimal places under stock prices of 10 cents but it should show 3. decimal places under $1.00. fixed. Also applies to the change in price for stocks under $1.00.

01092006 - In the Port and Zwtch buttons the quick summaries have a checkbox option to view the stocks in the list with red (down on the day) and green (up on the day) backgrounds.

01092006 - Under FILE when in the Charting or Filter Menu there is a an option to save screen to a bmp file and a jpg file. This brings up a menu to save screenshots of ChartSmart charts and filters then send then via email to a specific address as an attachment.

12292005 - Manual sorting in zwtch was not working properly after selecting a different watch list.

12162005 - Scale for Williams % R changed to negative.

12112005 - Under the INFO button the new data for close, open, high, low, change were to 2 decimals but now under $.10 they show to 3 decimals.

12032005 - Added PREVIEW buttons when you go to PRINT FILTERED LIST. This is so one can view the filtered list they will be printing before starting the print job.

12032005 - Some indicators were slightly shifted to the left of the price bars as the screen resolution was higher. All indicators are in line with the price/volume bars now.

12032005 - For arithmetic and candlestick charts, when there were 2 indicator bars on the bottom of the chart, the price scale sometimes displayed prices that would overlap. Fixed.

12032005 - Under the PORT button there is now an option to sort portfolios alphabetically.

12032005 - In the annotiations when one ran screens of breaking up or below trendlines, or just clicking VIEW CHARTS then an error window might display. This is repaired.

12032005 - When doing cdn news filters under the special tab or under VIEW CHARTS under TOOLS and IN THE CDN NEWS the resulting filtered lists did not include symbols with . in them such as CVE.P or BBD.MV.B. This is fixed.

12032005 - We had many comments that to run a screen with IN THE CDN NEWS or in MEMOS doing VIEW CHARTS, one was limiited to just that screen. Anywhere there is a button VIEW CHARTS in ChartSmart the screen was limited to that group. In order to do further screens on the group one had to import the last filtered list to a watch list then go to the filter menu and make a new screen including the watch list in the screen with the other criteria. Now there is a new criteria tab in the filter menu called STOCKS IN YOUR LAST FILTERED LIST. This way if you run a screen with VIEW CHARTS you can simply create a filter set in the filter menu with STOCKS IN YOUR LAST FILTERED LIST then any other criteria you want.

11252005 - In Backtesting, a VIEW THEM button was added so one can view the charts that are deleted from the backtest because they are stocks that may have been trading at the time the backtest was done but they no longer trade now. If left in they would skew the returns downward.

11232005 - Screen size emulation has been adjusted slightly so 640x480 is not longer an option as ChartSmart Screens exceed this plus the screen has been adjusted slightly to adjust for chart sizes.

11232005 - In the backtesting menu (pro users) a checkbox has been added on the bottom left so that one can backtest their watch lists, portfolios, etc by placing them in ones last filtered list. In addition one can backtest the stocks in the last filtered list that also meet other technical screen criteria.

11202005 - Under the INFO butto a few boxes have been added to include trading information including change for the last update. Also eps and div decimals have been increased to 3 places from 2.

11202005 - When a user is using 800x600 resolution the charts have been raised slightly so they display above the task bar.

11192005 - When a user is on trial, when they click on the EXIT button it allows them to email us comments whether they choose to subscribe or not.

11192005 - When entering criteria for a screen, for example under the FUND tab, there sometimes is a buton that CLICK HERE FOR INFO ON HOW THIS SCREEN IS DISTRIBUTED FOR VARIOUS COMPANIES. Sometimes this gave errors or the chart was inaccurate. Fixed now.

11182005 - In the export of historical data there were some problems selecting the format eg. dbf but corrected.

11172005 - For ChartSmart pro users, under the backtest downloader under tools, one could select to automatically download the backtest files daily. If one had custom formulas then backtest files required would be included in the daily download for them to which could slow the daily download. We added a check box to give the user the option to include the formulas requiring historical variables (hence backtest files) in the daily download or not.

11172005 - When in ZWTCH and importing data from a text file, if the text file was in a folder that had a blank in it like [my documents], the import would not work. Now fixed.

11152005 - Under the zwtch menu if one clicks on ISSUED they can move symbols in the zwtch list manually as long as the symbol sorting feature is off.

11122005 - Search engine database for custom formulas format improved.

11122005 - Was a problem with filter files required if did not have them..

11082005 - Fixed export probem with daily and historical. They export text files fine to directory names with a space in them (eg. my documents) but other formats like dbf, xl5, and wks did not.

11082005 - MAJOR FEATURE - Alert put in when entering custom formulas if characters entered has exceeded the 254 max.

11082005 - MAJOR FEATURE - Added checkbox option to auto click REFRESH SYSTEM button after a successful download.

10272005 - MAJOR FEATURE - When one would enter the filter menu or switch screens the hourglass would display for a few seconds. This process has been cut down by at least 80%.

10272005 - When in EXPORT FILTER TO TEXTFILE it did not work if the installaton directory for ChartSmart had a blank int he name such as "program files". It would work if it was c:\csmart for example. Remedied now.

10262005 - The menu for the INFO button is now in the upper left like other menus on the Chart Screen rather than auto centered.

10262005 - There was a problem that if in ZWTCH the sorting of the lists was set to something other than SYMBOL then when one would go into the LIST or PORT button the names of symbols listed might not be displayed, just the symbols. Corrected. Also if the sorting order in ZWTCH was set to NONE then this caused an unviewable sorting error.

10262005 - There was a problem when running screens using YOU SPECIFY custom calculated lists. If other criteria are in the list where the criteria resulted in a null set (eg price>10000000), which should result in an empty filtered list, if there were also a custom calculated list, it would get calculated independently of the previous null set and the screen results would be for the custom calculated list which might not be a null set.

10262005 - MAJOR FEATURE - Changed Size of menus (ZWTCH, LIST, MEMOS, GRP, and PORT buttons) so that they extend to the bottom of a 600x800 resolution screen setting. On higher resolutions they extend down less, the higher the resolution. This allows more data to appears in the menus.

10252005 - Enabled charts to come closer in line at the bottom with the top of the Windows Start Menu bar for resolutions with height of 768 and 1024.

10252005 - Increase height of menu for smry button and next buttons.

10242005 - In the backtesting option, in the 2 combo boxes that allow selection of the ranges of dates for backtesting, the dates were not sorted which has now beend corrected.

10242005 - Adjust timing of dates for split adjustment in backtesting. Was missing our deleting stocks by 1 day.

10222005 - When click on maintenance and fixing bad custom data, it deleted the daily data, deleted the filter files, zapped the master file, but now it also deletes the backtest file if it is there so a correction can be made.

10192005 - When adx was on the qte window showed highs and lows when there was no volume.

10192005 - In Port, List and Zwtch you can now dblclick on name or symbol to display chart.

10192005 - MAJOR FEATURE - When zooming weekly or daily charts the news bars widen so they are easier to click on.

10192005 - Added new alternate search engine. To turn on go to DISPLAY then MISC DISPLAY SETTINGS then turn on option 12.

10192005 - Problem with Fibonacci retracement and fan when reversed has been fixed.

10192005 - Problem with MACD not displaying fixed.

10192005 - MAJOR FEATURE - Changed update menu in ChartSmart so shows build and go to web for current version info.

10192005 - Made it so when someone goes to custom formulas specify and customformulas.zip is in the directory it will unzip it and delete it. Note that this will also delete the customformulas.zip in the edge2000 directory when going to the custom formulas area.

10192005 - Added the second obv line to the on balance volume options.

10192005 - MAJOR FEATURE - There was a problem printing the filtered list for the 10 headings for non filter lists like watch lists. Should print all fields now.

10192005 - MAJOR FEATURE - Feature put in so that when you are in YOU SPECIFY and go to CREATE FORMULA, you can click on a button to download a database of custom formulas. Upon doing so you can then click on a button to see the search engine for all custom formulas.

Current Version is: Version 4.50Current Build is: 04212009

Current Version is: Version 4.50
Current Build is: 04212009