FX platform provider Spotware has announced a number of updates and upgrades to its cTrader and cAlgo platforms. cTrader is Spotware’s full STP trading platform, employed by brokers such as FxPro, MB Trading, and ThinkForex. cAlgo lets traders build trading cBots and custom technical indicators using C#.
The updates include:
Timer API
If your strategy requires to perform some actions more often than OnTick happens, you may want to use Timer. Specify Interval in Timer.Start method and put your code to the OnTimer method.
Equity extremums
Extremum points have been added to the Equity line in Backtesting. Now you can see the exact value of Equity Drawdown.
Refresh Data
Between invocations of user’s handlers cAlgo automatically updates MarketSeries, Positions, Pending Orders, etc. If your algorithm performs long computations, you may want to refresh data explicitly. Now you can do it by executing RefreshData() method.
GAC References
We have added “.NET Framework” tab to the Reference Manager. Now you can reference assemblies from Global Assembly Cache.
New Account properties
Properties Account.Number and Account.BrokerName have been added to the Account object.
cTrader ID
cTrader ID stores all your cTrader Trading accounts and gives you access to Mirror trading in addition to other features like Email Alerts and Cloud Workspaces. Sign Up for free. cTrader ID is not a trading Account.
Email Alerts
You can now receive Email alerts for various events, like a pending Order that has been Filled. Emails will be sent to the Email account you used when registering your cTrader ID
