The beta version of the Trading Station/Marketscope 2011-III (official release is scheduled @ beginning of October 2011) is available for public testing.
Important notes:
1) This beta version is installed in addition to the production version of the trading station. It does not replace the production version, so both version can be used simultaneously, in the same time.
2) The beta version is not designed to work on real accounts. It may, and, most probably does, contain defects. Please do not use it on real accounts.
3) The broker support service has not seen this version yet, so, please discuss all questions and report all problems here. Do not call your broker to ask about or to report a problem in the beta version.
Please read the beta-testing license agreement carefully before installing the beta version.
You can download the beta version using the following link:
http://fxcodebase.com/bin/FXTS2InstallDev.EXE
The new version highlights:
1) The Indicore 2.0 indicator and strategies API specification is completely supported.
2) The strategy dashboard can be used in Marketscope and Trading Station to manage and monitor all running strategies. Also, a strategy can be started, stopped or restarted directly from the chart of the instrument at which the strategy is being executed.
3) New strategy backtester and New strategy parameter optimizer. Backtest and optimize your strategies using new ultra-realistic and high-precise market simulator.
The backtesting/optimizer uses 1-minute price archives to provide the simulated tick curve which is very close to the real market and is enough for almost all applications (probably, except pip chasing strategies, which, however, can be backtested and optimized using real tick history archives in Indicore SDK 2.0 Strategy Debugger).
However, production version will have access to 1-minute archives of all supported instruments.
4) Now you can apply the indicator at any time frame which is equal or bigger than the time frame of the chart. So, no more "bigger time frame versions" of the indicator is required, just choose required time frame in the indicator parameters. See Bigger Time Frame Indicators for details.
5) Filters everywhere the instrument, indicator or strategy is chosen.
6) the limit of the candles/bars on the chart is increased to 15,000 candles from 5,000 in the previous version. Also, 300-bar hidden "tail" is loaded to make indicators which depends on previous data (such as EMA) reliable in the most cases right from the first visible bar.