v5.5 [Jan 23, 2018]
-CHANGE: New and Improved Error Reporting with ability to automatically take a screenshot.
-BUGFIX: Investar used to crash on start-up.
-BUGFIX: Sound Alert sometimes stopped working.
-BUGFIX: Sometimes on install, the anti-virus blocked the running of Investar.
-BUGFIX: Clicking on a Favorite Group or Scan did not refresh data on right Scans & Favorites Pane.
-BUGFIX: Investar crashed when the Chart Theme color was changed.
v5.4 [Sep 30, 2016]
Weekly and Monthly timeframe scans, scan alerts and advisor.
New Scans: 5-yr high, 15-yr high, 5-yr low, 15-yr low, High Dividend Yield, High Beta.
Facility to customize chart theme.
Facility to remove all the bottom chart areas.
Dividend Yield % in fundamentals for TTM, MRQ, FY.
New users can register from software itself using “Sign Up Now” link provided on login screen.
Pivot Lines are allowed in Option's chart.
Facility to change ichimoku cloud colour.
Candle High/Low color customization will not be preserved in Chart View now.
Improvements in Standard Edition like increased capacity of chart views, layouts, favorite groups, favorite scrips, chart comparison etc.
Basic Edition now supports more scans, more indicators, intraday screener, increased capacity of favorite groups, favorite scrips, chart window etc.
Separate scan update frequencies for different exchanges.
Scan Timeframe is preserved separately for different exchange.
Empty favorite group will not be removed on restart of software.
Enhanced Basic and Lite Editions.
Fundamental data were not shown if PS value of Trailing Twelve Month is 0.
Sometimes Slide Show was not working properly.
In EOD subscription with fresh run, switching between exchanges for daily scans was not working.
In particular scenario, Navigation Pane width kept automatically increasing on every restart of Investar.
v5.2 [Feb 2, 2016]
- FEATURE: Automatic Support/Resistance (Can be enabled from "Tools -> Options -> Auto S/R" or "Right click on chart -> Enable Auto S/R").
- FEATURE: Intraday Scans for Risk/Reward ratio.
- FEATURE: Risk/Reward ratio and Stop-Loss based on Auto Support/Resistance displayed in chart.
- FEATURE: New drawing tool – Support/Resistance Zone.
- FEATURE: Facility to put Auto S/R level as permanent level in chart.
- FEATURE: Automatic Support/Resistance related Scans for all timeframes. (Crossing Resistance/Support, Near Resistance/Support, High Risk/Reward ratio scans).
- FEATURE: Scans based on partial candle updated on every tick.
- FEATURE: Support for all indicator and candlestick scans in Daily Intraday timeframe.
- FEATURE: Work offline with both Intraday and EOD data history.
- FEATURE: New drawing tools – Change Percentage, Parallel Line, Horizontal Band, Vertical Band.
- FEATURE: 4-month intraday history for 5-min and above intraday timeframes.
- FEATURE: 10-day intraday history for 1,2,3-min timeframes.
- BUGFIX: Multiple fixes in favorite synchronization feature.
- BUGFIX: Scan alert does not work if subscription is FO 1-Min with Screener.
v5.1 [Nov 4, 2015]
FEATURE: Investar Remote Support Tool can be downloaded / launched from Investar itself.
FEATURE: Investar now supports EOD history data of 15 years.
FEATURE: "Report a problem" dialog now allows user to add scrip name by typing scrip names.
FEATURE: Intraday scans based on Ichimoku Indicator.
FEATURE: Automatic Support/Resistance (Can be enabled from "Tools -> Options -> S/R" or "Right click on chart -> Enable S/R") .
FEATURE: Automatic Support/Resistance related Scans for Daily and EOD timeframes (Crossing Resistance/Support, Near Resistance/Support, High Risk/Reward ratio scans).
FEATURE: Import of PDF contract notes.
FEATURE: New “Price Extension” drawing added.
FEATURE: Spliced futures (i.e. unadjusted futures) are now available (e.g. NIFTY-SPLC-1M).
FEATURE: Scan filter for NSE Spliced future scans.
FEATURE: EOD scans based on Ichimoku Indicator.
FEATURE: Buy/Sell signals based on Ichimoku Indicator.
FEATURE: Indicator drawing customization (e.g. custom width).
FEATURE: Chart comparison can now be preserved in chart view/templates.
FEATURE: Automatic logout from first licensed machine when you login to second licensed machine.
FEATURE: Option to show/hide corporate actions in chart.
FEATURE: Keyboard friendly Add Indicator dialog.
CHANGE: Improved performance for intraday screener.
CHANGE: “Create FO Traded Group” option is now available in Standard Edition for Non FO subscriber.
CHANGE: Buy/Sell signals are displayed automatically if at least two moving averages are added in top chart area.
BUGFIX: Hourly scans were sometimes not updated after 3:00 PM.
BUGFIX: Nifty Fav Index group was not added in Favorites tree in Nifty-50 edition.
BUGFIX: Getting data problem for specific scrip.
BUGFIX: Sometimes chart request was sent twice in chart.
BUGFIX: Gainers/Losers scans sometimes still showed incorrect Gainers/Losers.
BUGFIX: Delete and set scan alert options were not enabled for FO Traded Group, Favorite Index Group, Favorite Industry Group.
BUGFIX: Investar crashed in some cased when editing buy/sell signals in comparison mode.
BUGFIX: Allowed to add same scan for same timeframe while setting scan alert.
BUGFIX: Apply, Ok, Cancel buttons in Manage scan got disabled in some situations.
BUGFIX: Look-up scrip code box appears in other applications when tab changed.
BUGFIX: Portfolio Scrips when changed, were not reflected in Favorite tree.
BUGFIX: Scans based on Favorites didn't give results as expected.
BUGFIX: Newly listed company symbols were not available even after EOD update on a day of listing.
BUGFIX: Continuous future mapping was reflected only if one login to the software.
BUGFIX: Commodity data didn’t get updated for non FO subscriber.
v5.0 [Mar 6, 2015]
Investar Release (Build : 5.0.0.2070) (5th Mar 2015)
FEATURE: Heikin Ashi Charts.
FEATURE: 28 indicators (Including Kinko Hyo, VWAP etc) with Buy/Sell signal support.
FEATURE: Buy/Sell signal support for existing indicators like (Bollinger Bands, Parabolic SAR etc).
FEATURE: 6 Drawings (Including Eilliot Wave tool, Andrew's Pitchfork etc).
FEATURE: Chart Layout (ability to save multi-window layouts with synchronization modes).
FEATURE: 3/6 horizontal & vertical windows layout for bigger screen.
FEATURE: Ability to see different stocks in different timeframes at same time (No Synchronization mode).
FEATURE: Customizable Scrolling Ticker (Horizontal scrolling bar for viewing index/stocks/fo prices).
FEATURE: 10 year EOD historical data.
FEATURE: Add chart symbol to favorite group.
FEATURE: Add scrip of predefined group (e.g. FO Traded Scrips) to user defined groups.
FEATURE: Facility to show/hide Buy/Sell signal on partial candle (by default hidden).
FEATURE: Option to set Up/Down color based on either Net Change or Open vs Close.
FEATURE: Option to change sound for Scan/Price Alerts.
FEATURE: New Scan Alert interface (allows timeframe to be specified as part of scan alert criteria)
FEATURE: Added support/fixes for HTML contract notes.
FEATURE: Ability to define and save Chart Layouts (with upto 6 chart windows and associated views & sync modes)
FEATURE: Drawing Layers (ability to specify which timeframe(s) the drawing will be drawn).
FEATURE: Drawing customizations (like color, thickness etc)
FEATURE: Fibonacci Customizations
FEATURE: 3 Days (Intraday only) and 10 Days (Intraday & EOD) periods added.
FEATURE: Auto suggest popup list of symbols in Create Favorite Group Dialog.
FEATURE: Volume stick color based on - Open vs Close or Net Change.
FEATURE: Facility to “Uncheck All” selected Scans and Search scan based on text in Managing Scans Interface.
FEATURE: Ability to search scans/scrips in Scan Alert Criteria list.
CHANGE: Maximum limit of chart views/templates are increased from 15 to 30.
CHANGE: EOD scan alert history is saved for last 10 days instead of 5 days before.
BUGFIX: Width of favorite tree and its column was reset on restart of software.
BUGFIX: Chart update stops due to intermittent network conditions.
BUGFIX: Report for FO view in Scans & Favorites was not working.
BUGFIX: Sometimes Investar was crashing while saving the chart.
BUGFIX: Current day Rating and Events were not shown in daily chart during market hours.
BUGFIX: Data window was not showing all values of multiline indicators.
v4.0 [Aug 26, 2013]
- 1-Min real time data for NSE Stocks.
- 1-Min/2-Min/3-Min screener for NSE Stocks.
- 1-Min/2-Min/3-Min/4-Min/10-Min/2-Hour/4-Hour timeframe/resolution in chart.
- SuperTrend indicator with Buy/Sell signal.
- Added indicators: Envelope, %B and Bollinger Bandwidth.
- Added Scans based on Supertrend, Pivot Points (PP,R1,S1), DI+/DI- Crossovers, Gainers/Losers, Close/50-MA Crossovers.
- 1M/2M/3M scan filters for NSE/Commodity futures.
- Pivot level values are displayed on the Pivot lines.
- Continuous Drawing Mode.
- Now drawing object shows selection points on mouse hover.
- Two new drawings for writing text on chart – Text and Label.
- Option in right click context menu to configure Y-axis scale (Linear/Log) for specific chart area of specific chart view.
- Default formula for Pivot Points can be configured (Classic/Camarilla/Woodie) from Tools->Options->General tab.
- Option to remove all as well as specific chart area drawing objects.
- Improved experience of adding an indicator.
- Improved experience of adding a drawing object.
- Bollinger Band with SMA line.
- Moving Average indicator with same period but different price field can be plotted in top area.
- Upto two Moving Averages can be added in bottom areas.
- Note drawing object is replaced with two different Text drawings.
- Improved tick update performance.
- Improved Cursor/CrossHair behavior.
- Option candlestick charts.
- For 5-days/15-days period in chart, history will be given for 5/15 working days.
- Histogram value is also displayed for MACD indicator.
- X - Axis labels are shown only at bottom of the chart window.
- Data Window will be visible/invisible only from the button. Now it's not dependent on the Show Pivot line option.
- Cursor adjusts automatically to nearest candle if someone clicks between two candles.
- In data window, values of Last Close, Change and Change% become blank for the first candle of the chart. Now it will show "NAN" instead of blank.
- Drawings are automatically removed while removing the Chart Area and Indicator.
- Cursor is preserved on its last location(datetime)until it is repositioned manually.
- If cursor is positioned on last candle then it will always remain on last candle regardless of date time where it was put (for better user experience).
- WMA was allowed in blank chart area.
- Sometimes Stop Loss line disappears after fraction of second.
- Wrong transaction image in chart was displaying for transaction type other than Buy.
- FO Traded Scrips group was containing some scrips for which no active F&O exists.
- “Error in initializing chart” message on 50%.
- Drawing objects could be added in blank chart area.
- In Synchronize Stock mode, if we save chart view using "Save View As" option in chart context menu, then it was being applied to all windows.
- Candles were getting selected if we click on candle when hand cursor shown and then just minimize and maximize the software.
- If parameter value is out of range in Add Indicator dialog box then it was showing improper message.
- Future symbol which starts with "OPT" was causing problem in importing CSV transaction file.
- Some time chart update does not start even if market is started.
- Improper data update if PC resumes from hibernate mode.
- In multiple charts, sometimes the chart has equal history as other chart even if it has higher period than other chart.
- On Y axis, two point precision values came for values greater than 10000.
- Multiple views could be created with same name.
- Chart with 1-Day period and Daily resolution having Overlay Volume,message like "Please Wait,Chart is Loading..."was being displayed in top area.
- Pivot lines were drawn at wrong location as per its pivot values.
- Going from offline to online mode in software,chart update did not start.
- Daily chart were not updated with EOD update.
- Investar was incorrectly starting with only EOD addons for intraday users who went offline.
- If we enable secondary Y-axis for overlay volume in multiwindow layout, it was being enabled only for active window.
- If we change Buy/Sell signal color in multi window layout, it was being applied only for active window.
- Export to Metastock was not working for NSE Options and Commodity futures.
- If we remove any of bottom chart areas which contain drawings, then its drawings were shifted to top chart area.
- In multi window layout with synchronize view mode, deleting a view from any window caused other window’s views to change unnecessarily.
- Sometimes Investar was hanging if someone tried to add drawing in an area having log scale with indicator like “Stochastic RSI”.
- In multi window layout with synchronize view mode, clicking on "Remove All indicator(s)" from one window sometimes caused the Indicator to be removed from all windows but buy/sell signals would incorrectly remain the same.
- Sometimes scan alerts were not in proper order after restarting Investar.
- Double-clicking on “Hide Sidebar” button would cause Investar to crash.
v3.0 [Dec 10, 2011]
FEATURE: Buy/Sell signals in Chart.
FEATURE: Support for World Indices.
FEATURE: Support for MCX & NCDEX EOD data (with Commodities Add-On).
FEATURE: Improved user-interface with easy access to most functionality through toolbars.
FEATURE: User Interface Persistence across sessions (Re-starting Investar will bring up the same pane and UI that was there in the previous run).
FEATURE: Split Quick Start Tutorial into 6 parts for easier understanding.
FEATURE: Comparison of Multiple Scrips.
FEATURE: Moving Averages (SMA, EMA, WMAetc) can now be placed on High, Low and Open also.
FEATURE: Support for Gann Studies (Gann Fan and Gann Angle).
FEATURE: Improved Data Updation with automatic data updates supported for multiple markets according to their trading schedules.
FEATURE: Improved Price Alerts with many more criteria.
FEATURE: 24 New Technical Scans.
FEATURE: New Technical Indicator (Relative Strength � Comparitive).
FEATURE: User-friendly multi-asset symbol lookup in both chart & fundamentals.
FEATURE: Explicit option to save Investar settings in toolbar to avoid loss of settings in case of power/system failure.
FEATURE: Realized Gain/Loss in Portfolio Holdings View.
FEATURE: Asset filters in Trading Diary and Profit/Loss Analysis.
FEATURE: In Portfolio Holdings view, asset-wise grouping for each portfolio.
FEATURE: Facility to create Favorite group of F&O traded scrips.
FEATURE: Optional popup alert notification for scan and price alerts.
FEATURE: Facility to add bonus and dividend payout transaction for stocks.
CHANGE: Removed redundant Y-axis when Price and volume are displayed in same chart area.
CHANGE: Improved Portfolio Performance Report.
CHANGE: Support of 5 portfolios and 10 accounts in Basic edition.
CHANGE: Allow to reduce initial cash balance while editing margin account.
CHANGE: Added two more (23.6 & 78.6) ratios for Fibonacci Retracements and Fibonacci Extensions.
CHANGE: Value for drawing Stop/Loss Line in chart for portfolio symbols can be customized now.
CHANGE: Y-Axis for volume in top area is optional now.
CHANGE: PSAR has two parameters now instead of 3 in Investar 2.0.
CHANGE: Improved performance for AsOf and Portfolio performance report.
CHANGE: Now Scan Alert can be set on any scan scrip also.
BUGFIX: Improved performance in Parabolic SAR.
BUGFIX: Fixed formula for Fast Stochasitcs.
BUGFIX: Newer candle was not invisible in zoom mode. One hasd to scroll or press end key to get it in Investar 2.0.
BUGFIX: updating data due to corruption in portfolio settings. (Portfolio big size issue).
BUGFIX: Investar was getting hanged if someone click on any scrip in Scan Alerts to view its chart.
BUGFIX: Performance improvement in Scan Alert window when there are too many alerts.
BUGFIX: Portfolio backup cannot be restored successfully in some scenarios.
BUGFIX: Fixed formula for Fast Stochasitcs.
BUGFIX: Fixed formula for Fast Stochasitcs.
