1. Daily Volty Charts have been added to the Price Charts. After opening a Price Chart, you may click a new button in the upper left to add the volatility lines to the chart. Then you may click the other new button to take away the price bars. Thus the two new buttons in the upper left allow you to alternately display or hide the volatility lines and the price bars. We made the line representing SV a solid, dark red line and we made the line representing IV a solid blue line that is bolder than the SV line. We also changed the existing (weekly) Volty Charts to have the same line styles.

The new Daily Volty Charts are based on daily data that is accumulated and stored in local files along with the historical price data (in the \Hist folder). So when you update the Price Chart files you are also picking up the latest daily volatility numbers (from DataVue). Note that any existing data users may have accumulated in the \PCVol and \Volty folders is automatically drawn in and consolidated into the larger format files in the \Hist folder in an automatic conversion process. As each asset gets its historical data converted, the program no longer refers to the files in \PCVol and \Volty for that asset.

Note that the new Daily Volty Charts allow you to view data as far back as 10 years. Note that the first time that you run a batch update of Price Chart files after getting this upgrade may take longer, because the program is reaching back to request a complete history on each asset in order to fill in the daily IV and SV numbers.

2. We worked on OptionVue to make it work better in a multi-screen environment, including making it open up in the same screen where you were last running it, making forms and dialog boxes open in the center of one of the screens instead of straddling two screens, and better snapshot printing.

3. When the Agent is suspended, the program now displays the Agent icon (in the upper right corner) with a black slash mark across it.

4. Header strings in the Quotes Display can now be up to 50 characters in length (formerly 20 characters).

5. Our Australian users know that it is important to keep a fresh copy of a file named options_code_list.csv in the C:\OpVue5\Bkgnd folder. The OptionVue program refers to this file for options symbols any time the user opens the Matrix of an Australian asset. The OptionVue program now displays a notice if it is having trouble locating this file. It also displays a reminder notice if the file is more than four weeks old suggesting that the user obtain an updated copy.

6. When you sort a group in the Quotes Display by right-clicking on the group header bar within the Symbol column, the program no longer removes duplicate symbols. Clicking the “A” at the end of the header bar still removes duplicate symbols as it sorts.

7. In TradeFinder, if you have told the program to include an existing position in the underlying, the program now considers reversing, if necessary, your position in the underlying as it seeks to make the best use the capital you’ve made available for this trade. Also in TradeFinder, a new strategy Buy Married Puts is available, which considers buying one put for every 100 shares of stock.

8. In Portfolio Analysis, Reports, the program shows percentage returns with one decimal point of precision now (instead of zero decimal points of precision) at the bottom of the Performance Graph when using a wand, and in the return and annualized return fields in the inset box of the Performance Analysis report.

9. In the Properties Dialog that comes up when you right click on a symbol in the Quotes Display we added two new buttons – one for deleting the asset file and one for deleting the price chart file.

10. Support for Metastock price history files has been dropped due to lack of interest.

11. In Help | About, the Ag Module checkbox is now displayed only when it is checked.

12. For users of the Ag Module, Basis is now entered as a negative number (in accordance with industry standards) and added to the futures price, rather than entering a positive number that is subtracted from the futures price. Also, when no Basis number has been entered in the Crop Estimate dialog, the program now assumes a zero basis and puts in a price for the physical equal to the chosen futures contract. Finally, with a position in the physical, Graphic Analysis always defaults to using the physical as the independent variable, rather than a futures contract.