FastTrader

FastTrader Releases

Follow new trading features, charting improvements, performance updates, and bug fixes across FastTrader for Windows and Mac.

Latest version: 1.0.3

Version 1.0.3

  • Add TI65 overlay to Overlays dropdown
  • Add Daily Patterns marker that highlights candle patterns on the daily chart (experimental)
  • Add market charts, watchlist health and economic events in Daily Brief
  • Add support for Indices (charts only) - use $ in front of symbol (example $VIX, $SPX, $TNX, $TYX, etc.)
  • Add Sign Out option in menu
  • Fix Bug where buttons to update app did not work in chart window

Version 1.0.2

  • Bug fixes and speed improvements

Version 1.0.1

  • Trading window is now fully customizable and can be disassembled into individual panels
  • Add RS Line study with stage analysis
  • Add Pocket Pivots, HVE (highest volume ever) and HVY (highest this year) to Volume study
  • Bug fix: chart may jitter if indicator label is near the bottom of chart window
  • Bug fix: RVOL was overstated by 20-40x when connected to Gateway paper trading account

Version 1.0.0

  • Added Trading Journal (click Journal button in chart window)
  • Alt + Zoom on the chart anchors zoom at the bar under the cursor
  • Add Rectangle drawing
  • Order-related IB messages now appear as a toast in trading window
  • Daily Candle marker can now be enabled on 1hr and 4hr charts and futures
  • Reduce app load time by 50%, improve cached chart load speed by ~300ms
  • Synced crosshair performance improvement
  • Do not show port selection page if TWS/Gateway is already running
  • Security improvements across the app

Version 0.9.9

  • Replace FinViz events with Nasdaq events that show expected vs actual results
  • Borrowed EMA can now be colored based on slope
  • Add Total Inverse mode on charts that inverses the chart and candle colors
  • Add "Set Chart Scale Bracket" in right click menu to manually set chart scale to bracketed values
  • Rewrite of the study engine for performance improvements
  • Bug fixes

Version 0.9.8

  • New feature: Market replay and simulated trading, including multiple-day periods
  • New feature: right-click on VWAP and set alert on cross.
  • New feature: Live Scanner with presets for Momentum Leaders, Episodic Pivots, Parabolics (requires separate Massive.com API subscription)
  • Add Volume study config
  • Bug fix: window positions may move or overlap after app restart
  • Bug fix: quote-based charts may update the prior candle when new candle exists
  • Bug fix: VWAP may move when chart is zoomed out

Version 0.9.7

  • Add option to update app through in-app popup instead of manual download
  • Fix bug that could result in a chart missing historical bars
  • Improve chart recovery after network loss
  • Show correct last price line from overnight session when chart only has extended session enabled
  • Allow pressing Alt while drawing a trendline to align it horizontally or vertically
  • Add PM Gap column to watchlist showing if today's premarket is entirely outside prior day range

Version 0.9.6

  • Fix bug that may cause charts with enabled overnight session to have missing bars
  • Add Disjoined option to Borrow EMA study so that EMA splits at session boundary instead of jumping to new session value

Version 0.9.5

  • Add bulk symbol delete to watchlist and scanner
  • Fix bug with app slowdown when many symbols have high volume of ticks simultaneously

Version 0.9.4

  • Dramatic improvement in chart load speed
  • Removed hard limit of 5 different symbols for regular charts. Up to ~50 symbols can be opened simultaneously.
  • Add ability to borrow and overlay EMA from higher timeframe chart (see Studies -> Borrow EMA)
  • Add ability to scale pixel density on the chart allowing more price history to fit
  • Add Chart Roll to watchlist and scanner that shows a roll of daily charts aggregated by symbol, group, category, industry
  • Removed Sectors section from Watchlist window as redundant

Version 0.9.3

  • Major improvements in app performance and chart loading. RAM usage reduced by 25%.
  • Allow showing extended / overnight data for the latest day only - use T toggle in session selector
  • Add symbol / company search in chart window symbol field
  • Add graph of performance by group in Daily Brief
  • Add support for 1-hour RTH chart
  • Add support for RTH preview charts
  • Switch ATR from simple average to Wilder average for consistency, simplify ATR overlay on chart
  • Persist Volume and MACD pane heights through app restarts
  • Populate VWAP for chart data older than 5 days
  • Unrealized P&L now updates in real-time instead of once per second
  • Improve Notes positioning when zooming or inverting the chart
  • Horizontal line drawing now supports start from exact point instead of extending horizontally.

Version 0.9.2

  • Fix Bug: Layout would sometimes open with duplicate windows or with blank windows
  • Add new marker: Daily Candle overlay that plots daily candle on top of intraday price action on 1-30min charts

Version 0.9.1

  • Improve Note drawings on the chart - more natural resizing and editing
  • Replace Tight D/W metrics in watchlist and scanner with consecutive completed-candle counts. A streak continues while each candle body passes its individual limit and the combined body envelope remains within the configured cluster limit.
  • Add Prior Day Open price marker to Markers dropdown
  • Bug Fix: Sounds could overlay each other and play multiple times
  • Improved performance by optimizing watchlist refresh rate
  • Editing or dragging drawings stacked on top of each other is now prioritized by drawing creation time
  • Improve chart history load on scrollback

Version 0.9.0

  • Improve recovery speed after connection loss
  • Bug fix: Average Cost marker may disappear after part of position is closed
  • Bug fix: On quick symbol switch and scrollback, chart could sometimes fail to render
  • Bug fix: Symbol ATR in watchlist now matches ATR shown on chart
  • Improve candle formatting - allow hollow candles, removing border, custom bar spacing
  • Improve hot button hotkey execution - "Set SL to BE", "Close", "Buy 100%", "Sell 100%" and other hot button hotkeys now execute without having to populate symbol in trading window first
  • Add "Sync Crosshair" option in chart link color dropdown
  • Changes to watchlist/scanner:
  • Make watchlist and scanner column resizing more natural and add Autofit button
  • Change "5-9:30am as ATR %" column in watchlist to "Tight PM" which will show a checkmark when premarket range is tight within configured range
  • Add "TI65" trend intensity indicator column to watchlist and scanner (credit StockBee)
  • Add "At Low/High" column to watchlist and scanner that shows if a stock price is near Low or High of configured lookback period
  • Add "Daily Brief" summary popup to watchlist window that shows stock picks based on watchlist indicators
  • Added ability to disable hardware acceleration
  • Major performance improvement for multi-GPU setups or internal GPU + discrete GPU setups
  • Each app window can now be rendered with or without hardware acceleration
  • Use "Restart with GPU Rendering" for app windows that are on monitors connected to discrete GPU
  • Use "Restart with Software Rendering" for app windows that are on monitors connected to internal GPU

Version 0.8.9

  • Remove status spinner for watchlist updates from chart window
  • Dynamically update Quick Trade hotkey label in Hotkey Settings
  • Improve projection on weekly chart for Measured Move, Measure % and Measure RR drawings
  • Improve event bubble placement on chart time axis
  • Allow hotkey execution even when an input field in trading window is focused

Version 0.8.8

  • Improve app start time by 30%
  • Disallow trading hotkey execution in Story overlay
  • Clicking on a symbol in alerts window will open the symbol in the chart
  • Improve continuous futures history load speed

Version 0.8.7

  • Improve Time & Sales performance under extreme loads (like SpaceX IPO)
  • Fix VWAP calculation for last candle of the day when only RTH is enabled
  • Improve chart load speed for recent IPOs

Version 0.8.6 changes:

  • Improve handling of unreported ticks in Time & Sales

Version 0.8.5 changes:

  • Major improvements to Market Depth and Time & Sales performance

Version 0.8.4 changes:

  • Allow preview charts to be taller than 320px
  • Improve IBKR P&L subscription handling to avoid stale P&L values
  • Add market depth (DOM) to Time and Sales section

Version 0.8.3 changes:

  • Add ability to drag re-order preview charts
  • Improve OLHC overlays visibility
  • Improve visible range preservation on charts after app restart
  • Improve watchlist update status messaging