
February OptionWorkshop updates ⛄
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Charm and Vanna charts, what-if scenarios cloning, caching market data to database, simplifying the program settings at the first launch after installation.

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## Updates

* Showing a dialog for name editing when copying what-if scenarios (instead of adding the default suffix - "copy").
* Added market data caching to a local database. This sets the stage for new functionality, which we are already working on.
* Improved data caching: now, the data is pulled from the market date cache if there is no connection with real-time market data.
* Added notification about trial license expiring.
* Added **Charm** and **Vanna** to strategy parameters charts.
* Improved the experience for first-time users:
    * removed old first-time setup wizard
    * upon the initial launch, the following now displays: a board of instruments with futures and equities, two option desks, a strategy chart, a positions table with randomly generated items 
    * all types of connectors are added and preconfigured
* Moved our web-service for math calculations to the client's side. Now, in the list of processes, you’ll also see two processes titled **OptionWorkshop.Math.exe**. This also sets the stage for new functionality.

## Bug fixes

* Error with freezing of the **Price Range** sliders on the strategy chart.
* Authorization error in OW version 21.2.2226.
* Failures of software updates system.
* Error with placing orders in **CQG** as **GTC**. Now, orders are billed as **DAY**.
* Error linking out-of-the-money options to instruments in the CQG system (not everything fixed here, some users are still reporting issues).
* Error adding an icon to the desktop after installing or updating OW.
* Error with a gray background when connecting **IQFeed**.
* Reconnection errors with an expired license.
* Error with rounding off the price range values.




January OptionWorkshop updates ❄️
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Lots of improvements last month! We optimized charts, updated the connectors’ status bar, fixed user bugs, and much more.

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## Updates

* Optimized the volatility curve graph:
    * Removed white border from markers.
    * Filtered spikes.
    * Optimized vertical axis auto-zoom.
* Added a button for invoking the What-If manager to scenario selectors.
    ![A button for invoking the What-If manager](what-if_selector.png)

* Added the ability to use periods and commas in the names of strategies.
    ![Periods and commas in the names of strategies](name_strategy.png)

* Refactored the status bar of the connectors:
    * Different statuses for each connector have been replaced with an aggregating panel with several connectors in a specific group.
    * Connection status, connection settings button, and market data status indicators have been added to the drop-down menu.
    * All connector status icons have been replaced with a circle.
    ![The status bar of the connectors](new_connectors.png)

* Optimized selection of line colors on summary strategies charts:
    * The summary strategy is now always yellow.
    * Colors for lines of individual strategies are automatically selected from a predefined set, adopted for each color scheme.
* The mechanism for adding a position to the position manager has been improved:
    * Added the ability to add positions to any area of ​​the position manager when dragging from the options board.
    * After adding a position, the strategy in which the position was added is activated in the interface.
* Optimized the ease with which strategy charts can be rebuilt:
    * Removed the Apply Changes button.
    * For all changes, the graph is automatically rebuilt using Fit To View.
* The header of the new version notification has been changed.


## Bug fixes

* Fixed an error involving the notification of a new software version if the application runs without restarting.
* Fixed an error with the button for setting custom strikes on the options board.
* Fixed the logic of manually added fills deletion by the Clear Strategy button.
* Fixed an error that prevented the creation of a strategy with the same name as a deleted one.
* Fixed binding errors for new columns in the position table.
* Fixed a bug involving the saving settings in Delta Hedger.



# November OptionWorkshop updates 🍂

We continue to stabilize existing functionality and meticulously, step by step, implement new, useful features with a single aim: to ease the life of options traders. Take a look at what we accomplished in November.

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## New features

- Adapters list now has an edit button in each row.

  ![Transport settings](settings.png){.thumb}

- When any position in a strategy is modified, the chart's zoom (if any) will be automatically reset to the default state.
- Complicated what-if scenarios, where user can set up IV for particular strikes are now back again.
- Context menu with a list of spreads templates have a new item that invokes the templates manager window.

  ![Templates manager](temp-manager.png){.thumb}

- Position row context menu now contains the Options desk item that invokes a desk of the corresponding series.
- Positions table has a new column with realized P&L.
- Status bar now contains more information about license.

  ![License link](license1.png){.thumb}

  ![License settings](license2.png){.thumb}

- TeamViewer launch button has a blue color.
- To delete a position, the user now has to confirm the operation.

## Bug fixes

- Fixed a set of problems with launching software under some versions of Windows, including Win7 and some server builds.
- Fixed an error that prevented users from opening the commissions setting window.
- Fixed an error that prevented users from opening the log file.
- Fixed an error that was breaking the strategy chart if some specific price range was selected.
- Fixed the logic of P&L (C) and P&L (S) calculation.
- Fixed several problems with manual changing of position price and quantity.
- Fixed several problems with the process of position deletion.


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February OptionWorkshop updates ⛄

January OptionWorkshop updates ❄️

November OptionWorkshop updates 🍂

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