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Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.
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v3.1.52 Maintenance Release
This update includes several small bug fixes. It is a recommend upgrade if any of the changes below are relevant to your trading.
Trading New Features / Changes
- Adds support for ExpectedMoveBreach triggers (R1) for TradeStation trading.
- Adds logic for IBKR REL orders for TAT to automatically adjust the REL limit price to be $2 above the limit trigger price, if the user's configuration of the REL order resulted in a REL limit below the stop trigger price. This should prevent the situation where REL stops do not fill because of the limit price accidentally being set too low.
Bug Fixes
- This release includes updates for ES contract selection from v3.0.19 that were left out of release 3.1.50.
- Fix for Tradestation installations not resetting the trade list overnight in some situations
- Bugfix for partial profit target fill at Tradier, which in some cases resulted in re-submitting stop order for the original, full trade qty, not the reduced amount after the partial fill.
This update is recommended for all users. It adds several new features and corrects several minor bugs and it is required for trading with TradeStation or Tradier.
TradeStation & Tradier
Trading at TradeStation and Tradier are now available for all TAT users.
Trading New Features / Changes
- Added % of Net Liquidity as an option for determining the quantity for trade entries. More Information
- Ability to change Min OTM settings to target IronFly trades not centered at the money (ATM)
- Added SPXChangePts and SPXChangePct (current price compared to prior day close) as options for Trade Conditions.
Other Updates
- Updated underlying IBKR API version to hopefully support more stable connections to TWS
- Ensure webhook trades are not entered if webhooks have been disabled on the Settings page.
Bug Fixes
- New safety features to avoid ensure live data is available and stop monitoring is functioning properly.
v3.0.19 maintenance release is available now.
IMPORTANT: If you trade ES options, this update is required.
Bug Fixes:
- ES options trades not executed with non-weekly expirations
- Stop Limit offset setting lowered to .40 for high value stops (10.00 or more)
- Daily profit target not firing as expected if you have calendar trades open.
v3.0.15 maintenance release is available now.
This release corrects an issue with contract selection on dates with quarterly and weekly expirations, such as is coming up this Friday March 20th.
IMPORTANT: If you trade ES options, this update is required.
If you do not trade ES, this upgrade is is optional.
v3.0.14 is now available. This release fixes one issue that has appeared recently for some users running the newest version of TWS.
Bug Fix
- Don't replace stop orders cancelled at market close
Context
A recent behavior change in TWS has started cancelling 0 DTE stop orders immediately at 4:00pm ET. Previously, those orders remained in TWS until approx. 4:45pm. With these immediate stop cancellations happening in some cases before TAT marked the trades expired, TAT will attempt to replace the stop orders (if extended hours stops were enabled on your trade template), which TWS was rejecting.
With this update TAT, will not replace stops after market close, until the end of day expiration process marks 0 DTE trades expired.
This update is
highly recommended
for all current users. It adds several new features and corrects several rare situations that could interfere with stop order placement.Trading New Features / Changes
- Added the ability to use the short leg or long leg only as the basis for the stop price calculation.
Other Updates
- Ignore positions for stop monitoring purposes for tickers that are not enabled for trading in the TAT settings. (i.e If you don't trade SPY with TAT, then it will not provide any warning about SPY positions/order)
- Added new logic for IBKR to monitor VIX and SPX data after the market open and pro-actively restart the data stream, to avoid issues where a trigger is received but skipped due to outdated VIX or SPX condition data.
- Update logic so that TAT can split ShortStrangle trade types (similar to previous logic for IronCondor-Full and IronFly trades types)
Bug FIxes
- Better handle rare situations where IBKR TWS is slow to respond to requests to cancel an entry order after exhausting fill attempts. Previously, if the cancel notification was delayed, in rare cases TAT could end up opening a second entry order while the original order was still active, potentially resulting in a duplicate entry.
- Added additional safeguards to trade entry process to ensure stop placement logic is running properly, before allowing a new trade to be triggered.
- In the event TWS does not provide correct execution data for a trade entry order that filled, resulting in a $0 opening price, TAT will schedule the trade to be closed immediately as a safety procedure, since it would not be able to calculate a proper stop value.
We are very excited to announce that support for two new brokers is coming to Trade Automation Toolbox!
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Both TradeStation and Tradier offer aggressive commission plans starting at $0.00 + fees for TAT users and will support trading SPX, SPY, and QQQ with TAT. To take advantage of these amazing commission deals you'll need to create your account using our exclusive landing pages: Tradier TradeStation
For more information on which TAT features are supported at each broker, check out our knowledge base.
We will be slowly rolling out these new brokers to our users to ensure these new integrations work perfectly. If you would like to add your account to the beta waitlist, sign in to the TAT website and click to Join the Waitlist.
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3.0.5 - SPY, QQQ, ES trading now available
New Symbols
- SPY, QQQ, and ES futures options are now available for trading via TAT at IBKR. Select the symbol you want to trade when creating your trade template.
Trading New Features / Changes
- Early Exit Conditions - Added the ability to have TAT exit trades early based on trade or individual leg delta or distance OTM/ITM. This check runs once per minute. More Information
- Target the trade closest to a single premium/delta, similar to how backtesting tools work where you only provide a single amount. More Information
- Separated settings to enable profit target and stop loss orders during extended hours trading. This will allow you to have profit target orders active, but not stop order during extended hours.
- Ability to have TAT sell leftover longs immediately after a short leg only stop is triggered, if the long leg still has value. More Information
Other Updates
- Added ability to control how far ITM you would like to request quotes in Extended Quotes mode.
- For Max trigger execution limit, only count trades opened today (ignoring trades triggered on a prior day)
- Added additional logic to make sure SPX and VIX data are current when the market opens.
Bug FIxes
- Fixed an issue where re-entries on a ratio trade could increase the number of contracts opened.
- Fixed issue where a debit trade might enter for a price higher than the max specified in the trade template.
v2.15.24 is now available with some small updates and bug fixes.
Logic Updates
- Add new logic that runs after market open to ensure VIX and SPX data is current and attempt to restart data requests to TWS, if necessary.
- Configure Trade Trigger logic when checking for Max executions to only consider trades opened on the current day (ignoring longer DTE trades that are still open).
Bug Fixes
- Correct an issue where TAT things longer term (1+ DTE) PT and Stop orders were cancelled if found briefly missing in the order list from IBKR, causing TAT to double up the orders.
- Ensure webhook connection is not made to TAT server if webhook feature is turned off.
v2.15.20 is now available with some small updates and bug fixes.
Bug Fixes
- Correct an issue that could cause TAT and TWS to lose connection overnight.
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