Release Notes
Forex Strategy Builder v2.68
April 10, 2012 - The most important changes in this final release are Optimization of Permanent Stop Loss, Permanent Take Profit and Break Even. Martingale Money Management. Importing History Files from MetaTrader 4.
Full list of the new features:
- Optimization of Permanent Stop Loss, Permanent Take Profit and Break Even.
- Martingale Money Management.
- Importing History Files from MetaTrader 4. Contributed by Adam Burgess.
- Data Horizon can be set with year, month, day, hour and minute.
- Forex Strategy Builder is able to read more data file formats.
- Several improvements of the User interface of Main Screen and Optimizer.
- Installation options included in order to prevent overwriting user data and settings.
- Corrected logical rules of Previous High Low indicator. FST indicator is not updated. Please use attached below indicator Previous High Low Corrected for trade!
- Fixed different bugs and issues.
- Added Trade Distribution Chart contributed by Krog.
- Updated jForex data import.
Forex Strategy Builder v2.68 RC
Main new features are: Importing History Files from MetaTrader 4, contributed by Adam Burgess. Added Trade Distribution Chart contributed by Krog.
New Features from FSB v2.64:
- Optimization of Permanent Stop Loss, Permanent Take Profit and Break Even.
- Martingale Money Management.
- Importing History Files from MetaTrader 4. Contributed by Adam Burgess.
- Data Horizon can be set with year, month, day, hour and minute.
- Forex Strategy Builder is able to read more data file formats.
- Several improvements of the User interface of Main Screen and Optimizer.
- Installation options included in order to prevent overwriting user data and settings.
- Corrected logical rules of Previous High Low indicator. FST indicator is not updated. Please use attached below indicator Previous High Low Corrected for trade!
- Fixed different bugs and issues.
- Added Trade Distribution Chart contributed by Krog.
- Updated jForex data import.
Visit the forum for more info and download:Forex Strategy Builder 2.67 Beta.
Forex Strategy Builder v2.67 Beta
Forex Strategy Builder v2.67 Beta is published. It adds optimization of Permanent Stop Loss, Permanent Take Profit and Break Even. Martingale Money Management is also added.
New Features:
- Optimization of Permanent Stop Loss, Permanent Take Profit and Break Even.
- Martingale Money Management.
- Importing History Files from MetaTrader 4. Contributed by Adam Burgess.
- Data Horizon can be set with year, month, day, hour and minute.
- Forex Strategy Builder is able to read more data file formats.
- Several improvements of the User interface of Main Screen and Optimizer.
- Installation options included in order to prevent overwriting user data and settings.
- Corrected logical rules of Previous High Low indicator. FST indicator is not updated. Please use attached in the forum indicator Previous High Low Corrected for trade!
- Fixed different bugs and issues.
- Added Trade distribution Chart, contributed by Krog.
Visit the forum for more info and download: Forex Strategy Builder 2.67 Beta
Forex Strategy Builder v2.65 Beta
I rewrote entirely the data parsing model of FSB. Now it can determine better the date formats of files. Supported formats are yyyy-MM-dd, dd-MM-yyyy, MM-dd-yyyy. Te year can be yy. The separator can be ‘-’, ‘.’, or ‘/’.It also recognizes data files with prices without a decimal separator.
I also fixed the issue reported be ahmedalhoseny When link all slots equal to lock all slots…. Now the Generator checks if the linked slots have any changeable parameters.
The crash when we use 12 slots was fixed. Reported by Itai Error with Opening Logic Condition.
The link of the “New Versions” button was redirected to the download page.
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This version is marked Beta because the new data parsing model.Please report any issues you may encounter.
You can follow this thread in the forum
Forex Strategy Trader v1.4.8
Forex Strategy Trader v1.4.8 includes many fixes and some new indicators - Day Closing 2 and Week Closing 2 indicators. They can close positions at predefined server time.
Changes from FSB v1.4.2
- Integrated Krog’s N Bars Exit indicator in Forex Strategy Trader;
- Added Day Closing 2 and Week Closing 2 indicators. They Can close positions at predefined server time.
- Fixed continuous beeping on wrong setting of Stop Loss or Take Profit;
- Fixed expert: Stop Loss or Take Profit are > StopLevel + 1 Pips. This reduces Invalid Stops errors;
- Trailing Stop trails when the price advances minimum 1 pip in our favor. Before it trailed on advance of fraction of pip;
- Removed upper limit of Connection ID number;
- Added Go button, next to the Connection ID entry field. This is for users that want to confirm the ID with mouse instead of Enter;
- Fixed a bug when FST is continue working but becomes invisible when a user cancels program closing;
Forex Strategy Builder v 2.64
Forex Strategy Builder v 2.64 release comes with Break Even exit. Break Even can be set from the Strategy Properties screen.
Break Even is measured in pips. Be careful when setting the value. For example Break Even of 20 pips has to be set as 200 for a 5 digit broker.
When a position makes profit of the chosen value, Forex Strategy Builder sets Stop Loss at the break even price.
It also:
- closes a position at Break Even compensating spread, slippage and rollover fees.
- adjusts the exit properly on adding / reducing. (Break Even sets stops only if the aggregated position after the adding is on a profit. In the opposite case FSB doesn’t set stop. For that reason, we recommend using Stop Loss together with Break Even.)
- sets Break Even in the same bar if the floating profit was enough high to activate it till the end of the bar.
- works well with Intrabar Scanner and interpolation methods.
Break Even doesn’t set initial Stop Loss, therefore we recommend using Permanent Stop Loss together with it.
Changes in Forex Strategy Builder since v 2.62
- Added Break Even;
- Added button on the Chart that shows or hides Break Even and Permanent stops levels on the chart.
- Fixed Bar Explorer chart.
- Added additional criteria for recognizing ambiguous bars. It will not change the backtest results but will properly mark more ambiguous bars. Such bars may be interpolated differently by using pessimistic and optimistic methods.
- Improved Nearest method of interpolation.
- Some minor fixes in strategy overview.
- BBCode formatting of the strategy improved.(Strategy – Publish)
- Fixed a bug in N Bars Exit indicator. (Crash when nBars > Data bars)
- Optimized Open Once indicator. Fixed a bug in Enter once a week logic.
Forex Strategy Builder v2.63 Beta
Dear users, I’m proud to announce that we finally added the long time wanted Break Even feature in Forex Strategy Builder v 2.63.3 Beta.
Break Even works well on the beta tests.
- Closes position on Break Even compensating spread, slippage and rollover fees.
- Adjusts the exit properly on adding / reducing. (Break Even sets stops only if the aggregated position after the adding is on a profit. In the opposite case FSB doesn’t set stop. For that reason, we recommend using Stop Loss together with Break Even.)
- Sets Break Even in the same bar if the floating profit was enough high to activate it till the end of the bar.
- Works well with Intrabar Scanner and interpolation methods.
Changes since FSB v2.62:
- Added Break Even;- Added button on the Chart that shows or hides Break Even and Permanent stops levels on the chart.- Fixed Bar Explorer chart.
- Added additional criteria for recognizing ambiguous bars. It will not change the backtest results but will properly mark more ambiguous bars. Such bars may be interpolated differently by using pessimistic and optimistic methods.
- Improved Nearest method of interpolation.
- Some minor fixes in strategy overview.
- BBCode formatting of the strategy improved.(Strategy – Publish)
- Fixed a bug in N Bars Exit indicator. (Crash when nBars > Data bars)
- Optimized Open Once indicator. Fixed a bug in Enter once a week logic.
See more info in the forum: Forex Strategy Builder v2.63 Beta with Break Even
Forex Strategy Builder v2.62
Forex Strategy Builder v2.62 fixes some minor issues with drawing indicator charts like Ichimoku Kinko Hyo. This issue didn’t affect backtest or indicator calculations but caused many hours puzzling for developers who was trying to make his own custom indicators with cloud charts.
An addition to this release is the ability of Forex Strategy Builder to load dragged and dropped on the main screen strategies.
Some experienced users may notice that this version of FSB does not install config files. The program deploys the files after the first run.
Forex Strategy Builder can be downloaded for free from Download page.
Forex Strategy Trader v1.4.2 released
This release fixes an issue with the account chart which caused freezing of the chart after a period of time. Now the chart flows normally. In addition to that, the chart shows the time of beginning of the shown balance and equity lines.
FST v1.4.2 comes with new dll file. The new version of MT4-FST Library.dll is v1.2. Normally FST installs the dll file automatically, but only if MT4 was installed in local disk C and it’s switched off during the installation.
You can download FST from the Download Page.
Please report any issues you may notice.
Wish you fun and steady profit!
Forex Strategy Trader v1.4.1
We fixed a bug with Protection_Max_StopLoss option in this release. Also the way FST plots cloud charts, like this of Ichimoku Kinko Hyo, was improved.
We added a new feature to this version of FST – Drag & Drop. Now the program can open strategy file on dropping it over the program screen.
This release of Forex Strategy Trader comes with updated Expert Adviser – v1.4.1.
