
Option Workshop, version 16.6.935
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## Get started wizard

Until now, when users first launched the main window they were greeted with a platform that was almost empty – there were no tables,
no charts and so on.
Because of this, there wasn’t any beginning point where a user could catch on and start to explore the software’s functionality.

Now, upon first launch Option Workshop will show the Get started wizard, which helps user with their initial setup.

## Positions

We’ve added a pop-up tooltip for the position row in the positions table, which appears when the mouse pointer hovers over a row.
The tooltip contains all the information from the table columns and some additional parameters.

The P&L(M) column now works for any instrument that is sending marketdata from Interactive Brokers or IQ Feed.

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The mechanism of moving positions between strategies has been changed.
Now, if you move a position to another strategy, all fills under the position will move into the destination strategy,
and the source strategy will be emptied.

## What-if Scenarios

Now users can customize their what-if scenarios line’s width and style, as well as it’s color.

## Status bar

The program now shows the current time in the status bar at the bottom of the main window.

## Pricing

When calculating an option’s theoretical prices and greeks we now try to take time up until
the end of the trading session of the last trading day for the instrument.
This information about trading hours is not always provided by our datasources, in these cases we assume that the trading session ends at midnight.

## Default prices for new position

When adding a new modelling position by drugging an instrument from the options desk,
our software now takes a default price to prefill the form from a cell, where the user started drugging.
In our previous version, the default price was always the last traded price.

## Fills routing

We have added a button for calling the form of fills routing setting onto the toolbar above the strategies list.

## Charts rendering regimes

Some users launch our software on remote virtual machines.
In these scenarios the DirectX charts rendering mechanism was not always working correct.
We added a setting which allows us to make the software use software rendering instead of DirectX.

Additionally, we have fixed several bugs.


Release 16.4.812
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A lot of things have been done in this update!
The new version can already be downloaded [from the website](http://optionworkshop.net/download) or through the update system.

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## New charting

We’ve replaced the library which we were using for charting.
The previous version had serious performance limitations and we were unable to implement some of the features that we wanted.
With the new charting system, we’ll now be able to add these additional features in.

At the moment, users have the same charting functionality, but it is now more efficient, faster and more accurate.
Let’s take a look at a couple of examples:

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We’ve revamped the way that users can manipulate charts.
It hasn’t yet been described in the documentation, but it’s important, so as of this version, the charting manipulation techniques are as follows:

* **Mouse wheel** – move the chart horizontally
* **Ctrl + mouse wheel** – zoom in & out
* **Shift + mouse wheel** – move the chart vertically
* **Right mouse button** – zoom into the selected region
* **Left mouse double click** – reset to 100% view.

Also now we save the **Price range** settings between program launches.
Before, users had complained that it was cumbersome to restore the price range every time.

There are now ten times as many nodes in the grid which is used to build the chart, so they are now 10 times as precise.

## TeamViewer as a remote support system

Before we used Ammyy Admin – it was a nice piece of software, but unfortunately most antiviruses assumed that it was dangerous.
From the perspective of view of an average user, that meant that our software was dangerous, since their executable was inside our distributive.

![OptionsWorkshop_2016-04-15_14-42-27](optionsworkshop_2016-04-15_14-42-27.png)

Now, if you need our support team to help you directly through your computer, press the button in the top right corner.
It will launch the **TeamViewer quick support** executable and our agent will be able to see your monitor (following approval).

## CQG demo generation

Now user can generate a CQG Continuum demo login directly through the software, without asking our support team.
This will decrease the time barrier needed to get new users experiencing our software with live data.

## New columns in the positions table

* **Last price** – the last traded price of the instrument
* **P&L (M)** – profit/loss as shown in currency, rather than in the contracts’ quote points
* **Bid/Offer** – for individual positions these columns show the best prices for corresponding contracts.
  For a summary row it shows the bid and offer for the whole strategy.

## Options desks

* New column – **Last price**
* Reusing last used columns settings when opening new desk
* [Open option desk](http://i.imgur.com/PhDlEir.png) menu item in a context menu for instrument and position

## Instruments tree

The format for the futures codes has now been changed.

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Option Workshop, version 16.6.935

Release 16.4.812

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