We are thrilled to announce an enhancement to our Research Terminal, aimed at enriching user engagement across global markets. Recognizing the diverse linguistic needs of our customers, we are preparing to introduce a feature that allows Call-to-Action (CTA) text to be translated into multiple languages.
Currently, the Research Terminal and its components require users to input the specific text that will appear in the widget as the CTA value, limiting the CTA’s effectiveness to only one language. To address this, we have integrated the capability to use a phrase identifier as the value for the CTA text. This advancement will enable the automatic translation of CTA text into all languages supported by the widget, ensuring a wider and more inclusive reach.
This feature builds on the successful implementation of multilingual support in other areas of our platform, such as the AnalysisIQ and other tools primarily used in MetaTrader, and also in the Dynamic Emails CTA Text field.
By enabling multilingual translations, we aim to empower our users to communicate more effectively with their global audience, enhancing user interaction and engagement through tailored, language-specific CTAs.
Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to develop and refine this feature to meet the evolving needs of our users worldwide.
We are pleased to announce an update to the Acuity Calendar's Event History feature. Until now, the additional data popup within the Event History only displayed price changes occurring at specified intervals after an event.
With this update, we have expanded the data points to include Previous, Forecast, and Actual event values.
This enhancement is designed to provide a more comprehensive understanding of an event's direct impact on an instrument.
Users can now access detailed event metrics, facilitating deeper analysis and more informed decision-making. By providing a clearer view of how specific events have historically influenced market movements, this update empowers users to conduct more effective and efficient research.
Stay tuned for further updates as we continue to refine our tools to meet the evolving needs of our users.
We are excited to announce a significant update to AssetIQ, aimed at providing brokers with even more control and flexibility. Understanding the diverse needs of our clients, we have now enabled brokers to personalize their experience by configuring chart granularity, chart type, and default event type directly within AssetIQ charts and any other widgets that incorporate AssetIQ.
This update empowers brokers to tailor our tools to better suit their specific requirements, ensuring that our solutions not only meet but exceed the expectations of our users. By enhancing the customization capabilities of AssetIQ, we reaffirm our commitment to delivering industry-leading, user-centric solutions that adapt seamlessly to the evolving needs of our clients.
Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to innovate and enhance our offerings to better serve you.
We are excited to announce significant enhancements to the Opportunity Ranking feature in our Research Terminal (including the standalone components, such as AssetIQ and Assets Overview). This update improves the display of financial instruments, prioritising those with the highest Opportunity Scores to streamline your research process.
In our latest update, we have integrated a key customisation capability: the inclusion of user-specific watchlists in the ranking process. Now, the Opportunity Ranking feature can filter and display rankings based on the specific financial instruments your brokerage offers. This tailored approach ensures that you are viewing the most relevant and actionable data, aligned perfectly with your trading preferences and brokerage offerings.
These enhancements are designed to empower brokers and traders alike, providing a more personalised and efficient research experience that highlights the most promising opportunities in real-time.
Explore the updated Opportunity Ranking feature today and optimise your research process with unparalleled precision and relevance.
We are excited to announce significant enhancements to our MetaTrader push notification capabilities. As part of our ongoing commitment to provide highly personalized and effective trading tools, we have introduced a new feature that allows brokers to curate trade ideas based on specific instrument watchlists.
With this update, brokers can now apply restrictions to the trade ideas being pushed to users, ensuring that only the most relevant and engaging content reaches them. This is in addition to our existing confidence filters, which further refine the accuracy and relevance of the trade recommendations.
Our goal is to streamline the flow of information and make it as impactful as possible, without overwhelming our users with excessive notifications. By enabling brokers to selectively target notifications, we are ensuring that our users receive only the most pertinent trade ideas that align with their investment strategies and preferences.
This update is a step forward in our commitment to enhancing user experience and delivering value through precision-targeted content. We believe that by reducing the noise and focusing on what truly matters to our users, we can help them make more informed trading decisions efficiently and effectively.
Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to refine and expand our services to meet the needs of our dynamic trading community.
We are excited to announce recent enhancements to our Dashboard widget settings creation process that are designed to streamline the setup process for our users, making it more intuitive and efficient.
For customers new to widget customization, we've introduced a simplified starting point. Upon setting up a widget for the first time, users will encounter the "Choose Theme" page. Here, they can select between a new Light theme or the traditional Dark theme. This choice provides a foundational style upon which further customization can be built, or users can dive directly into personalizing their widgets to suit their needs.
After initial setup, users can effortlessly switch between Light and Dark themes directly from the widget settings. This feature serves as a convenient baseline for users wishing to create personalized versions of their widgets, adapting the preset themes to their specific requirements.
We understand that navigating through numerous settings can be time-consuming, especially when specific configurations are frequently used for customization or demonstration. To address this, we've added a Favorite option. This allows users to mark a preferred widget setting as a 'Favorite,' making it the default setting displayed upon opening the widget. If a new favorite is chosen, it will automatically override the previous selection, ensuring the most relevant configuration is always at the forefront.
Previously, creating slightly varied versions of the same widget setting—such as those with different watchlists but identical color schemes—could be cumbersome, requiring manual recreation. With our new duplication feature, this process is no longer a hassle. Users can now duplicate an existing setting with ease, making only necessary adjustments without the need to start from scratch.
These enhancements to the Dashboard widget settings are part of our ongoing commitment to improve user experience and operational efficiency. By simplifying the configuration process and adding flexible, user-friendly options, we aim to help our clients manage their dashboard more effectively, allowing them to focus on what's most important in their business activities.
For further assistance or to provide feedback on these new features, please feel free to contact our support team. We are here to help and look forward to making your experience with our platform as productive as possible. Thank you for choosing our services, and we hope you enjoy these new enhancements.
We're pleased to announce a recent enhancement to our Dynamic Emails template editor that significantly improves the efficiency of managing email campaigns. Understanding the complexities involved when dealing with multiple assets across various languages, we've introduced a new feature that allows users to export all asset-language-footer combinations into a single ZIP file.
In the past, our clients who handle extensive sets of dynamic email templates found the process of exporting HTML files to be quite labor-intensive. Specifically, it required selecting each asset and language pair manually within the email editor, a step that could be quite time-consuming.
With the new bulk export option, we aim to streamline this process. Now, brokers and other users with a wide array of dynamic email templates can easily export everything they need in one go, directly using the template editor. This not only saves time but also reduces the potential for errors that can occur during manual selection.
The process for utilizing this new feature is straightforward:
This method ensures that you can quickly access all your necessary HTML files without the hassle of individually exporting each component.
This update is part of our ongoing efforts to enhance user experience and operational efficiency within our platform. By allowing a bulk export of templates, we help our clients save valuable time and effort, enabling them to focus more on crafting effective marketing strategies and less on administrative tasks.
We believe this feature will be particularly beneficial for those managing large-scale email campaigns, where efficiency in communications asset management is crucial.
We encourage all users to try out this new feature and see the difference it can make in managing email campaign workflows. As always, we welcome your feedback and are here to support you in getting the most out of this new functionality.
We are pleased to announce a long-awaited enhancement to our suite of financial tools with the addition of a customizable Decimals field for all covered instruments. This new feature is designed to empower brokers with greater control over how instrument prices are displayed, ensuring precision that aligns with their specific requirements.
Key Enhancements Include:
1. Customizable Decimal Places
Brokers now have the flexibility to configure the number of decimal places for the displayed price of each instrument across all tools and platforms. This customization capability allows for consistency in price formatting, which is crucial for maintaining clarity and precision in financial data presentation.
2. Seamless Integration and Consistency
The customizable Decimals field facilitates a frictionless integration of our tools into brokers’ platforms. With this update, the data presented through our tools will uniformly match the brokers' own systems. This consistency ensures that all users see the same data representation, enhancing user experience and trust in the platform's accuracy.
3. Enhanced Trading Functionality
For brokers utilizing trade functionality within our widgets, this update offers a seamless alignment with their existing systems. The precise match in instrument data formatting between our tools and the brokers’ platforms ensures that trade executions are smooth and error-free, leveraging our enhanced data alignment capabilities.
This update reflects our ongoing commitment to providing adaptable and precise tools that meet the evolving needs of brokers and their clients. By allowing for detailed customization and ensuring data consistency, we aim to enhance the operational efficiency and user satisfaction of financial platforms.
Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to innovate and refine our offerings to better serve the financial community.
We are excited to announce a pivotal update to our AnalysisIQ and Research Terminal tools that significantly enhances user interactivity and integration flexibility. With the latest enhancement, these widgets now support JavaScript events, emitted during user interactions with the "Trade Now" call to action. This new feature empowers brokers to seamlessly trigger order ticket functionalities directly from the web widget, enhancing the trading experience.
Key Features of the Update:
1. Event Handling
The integration of JavaScript event handling allows brokers to listen actively for user interactions on the "Trade Now" button. Each interaction emits an event, which can be captured to initiate trading activities directly within the widget. This real-time responsiveness facilitates a more dynamic and engaging user experience.
2. Seamless Integration Across Platforms
This update bridges the gap between traditional trading platforms and web-based applications. Whether your users operate on established platforms like MetaTrader or prefer the accessibility of web widgets, they can now execute trades with equal ease. The new functionality ensures that our widgets are more adaptable and can fit into any trading environment, providing users with a consistent and reliable trading interface.
3. Enhanced Broker Control and Customization
Brokers now have increased control over how trading functionalities are implemented within their platforms. This customization extends the utility of the AnalysisIQ and ResearchTerminal widgets, making them more versatile and tailored to specific brokerage needs.
This enhancement is part of our commitment to continuously improve and expand the capabilities of our tools. By enabling more direct and versatile integrations, we aim to empower brokers and traders with the tools they need for a streamlined trading experience.
We are thrilled to announce a significant update to our Dynamic Emails product that introduces enhanced flexibility and customization options to better serve your diverse communication needs. With our latest release, brokers can now configure multiple email footers within a single campaign, tailored to suit various languages and legal requirements.
Here’s a closer look at what’s new:
1. Multilingual Support
Recognizing the global reach of your campaigns, Dynamic Emails now supports multiple languages for each footer. You can seamlessly integrate as many languages as needed, aligning the footer language with that of the template. This ensures that your communications are not only compliant but also culturally resonant, enhancing engagement across different regions.
2. Multiple Disclaimers for Diverse Jurisdictions
To accommodate the complexities of operating across various jurisdictions, you can now incorporate multiple disclaimers into a single email template. Whether you’re addressing legal nuances or regional norms, our flexible system allows you to tailor content without multiplying your workload. This feature simplifies the creation of compliant, effective email campaigns that respect local requirements.
3. Optional Disclaimer Integration
Flexibility remains a core principle of our Dynamic Emails solution. The new update offers you the option to attach disclaimers to templates as needed. This means that using disclaimers is not mandatory for every template, providing you with the freedom to choose based on your specific needs. If your marketing automation software already includes dynamic disclaimer functionality, you can continue to leverage those capabilities seamlessly with our system.
This update is part of our ongoing commitment to providing you with powerful, user-friendly tools that support your marketing efforts while ensuring compliance and relevance across all your email campaigns. We believe these enhancements will make your email communication processes more efficient and adaptable to the changing business landscape.
We are excited to announce a significant enhancement to the Research Terminal, our premier Expert Advisor for MetaTrader users. In our ongoing commitment to provide value and flexibility to brokers and users alike, the Research Terminal now includes a time-based free trial feature.
This new functionality allows brokers the opportunity to offer new users a taste of what the Research Terminal can do, with the freedom to configure the duration of the free trial to best suit their business needs. This feature is designed to streamline the user acquisition process, enabling brokers to attract and engage potential customers more effectively.
During the free trial period, users will enjoy full access to the Research Terminal's capabilities under terms that can be customized by the broker. This could include setting a specific trial period or defining actions that users must complete to unlock continuous access.
Furthermore, we understand the importance of transparency in user experience. To that end, the Research Terminal ensures that all users are well-informed about the trial's progress and what steps are required to transition to full access. This clarity enhances user satisfaction and helps foster trust between brokers and traders.
We believe this update will make the Research Terminal even more essential for brokers looking to provide their clients with superior trading tools and support. Experience the difference today and see how the Research Terminal can transform your user engagement strategy.
We are delighted to announce a significant update to our Signal Centre and AnalysisIQ tools: the addition of Hindi language support. This enhancement is part of our commitment to broadening our reach and strengthening our presence in key markets, particularly in India and across Asia.
Signal Centre and AnalysisIQ are renowned for offering robust, easy-to-follow trade ideas crafted by expert technical analysts. By incorporating Hindi, we now cater to a broader audience, enabling millions of Hindi-speaking traders in India and around the world to access our advanced trading insights in their native language.
Key Highlights of the Update:
We are excited to announce the release of our latest product update, the Assets Overview tool, now available as a MetaTrader Expert Advisor and a cTrader Plugin. This significant enhancement is designed to empower traders with advanced analytical capabilities directly through their brokerage platforms.
Assets Overview in Action:
The Assets Overview tool integrates cutting-edge analytics with real-time trading environments, providing traders with a comprehensive analysis of market dynamics. By merging news sentiment with price trends, this tool offers a nuanced understanding of how these elements influence the price movements of various trading instruments.
Key features of the Assets Overview tool include:
Our goal with the Assets Overview tool is to provide traders with a robust platform that not only simplifies data analysis but also enhances their trading strategies through actionable insights. Whether you are a seasoned trader or just starting out, this tool is designed to help you achieve a deeper understanding of market trends and optimize your trading outcomes.
We invite all traders who have access to our tools through their brokers to explore the benefits of the Assets Overview tool and leverage its features for a superior trading experience. Elevate your trading to the next level with our comprehensive, data-driven tool designed to give you a competitive edge in the markets.
AssetIQ Standalone widget is now available as a MetaTrader Expert Advisor and cTrader Plugin.
Brokers that sign up for the undelying data (such as News Sentiment, News, and Calendar Events) are automatically entitled to use this tool in their trading platforms, and it can be enabled on demand.
Here is how it looks in MetaTrader:
Many brokers use our tools for acquisition and this use case can be catered for by showing a preview of the content with the goal of getting the traders to perform a particular action to get access to the full content.
We have now added an option for our Economic and Corporate Calendars to be displayed in the Timeline-only view, hiding all the other details, such as Event History, News Sentiment, Potential Price Ranges, News and other data from the initial view. Once traders perform the necessary action (such as a sign up or an account upgrade), they can be directed to the page with the full versions of the Calendars.
This can be easily configured via the Acuity Dashboard:
After receiving many requests from brokers we work with to support TradingView charts in our tools, we have enabled the option to use the TradingView's Advanced Charting Package in all of our charts.
The first tools that received an update are AnalysisIQ and AssetIQ, and this is how the integration currently looks.
AnalysisIQ:
AssetIQ:
This is a feature that we have received many requests for. It has the following goals:
Currently the feature depends on the servers where the brokers would like it displayed. For example, a broker might decide that only the demo server users should see the restricted instrument list. In this case we need to retrieve the list of servers the brokers want to use this feature on before enabling it.
The first step is to create the watchlist that is going to contain restricted instruments:
Note: Freemium Watchlist only needs to be created once. You don’t need to recreate it for each user, although this is certainly possible.
Note: The instruments you add to the watchlist are the ones that we want to hide for the freemium users.
Once the watchlist is created, use the following logic to populate it:
After completing this step it’s necessary to enable the watchlist on the user’s account.
To enable the watchlist on an account, you need to follow this procedure:
The default option in the “Freemium Watchlist” field is Do not use Freemium Watchlist. This means that the functionality is not going to be working for the broker if this option is selected.
This is it! After you hit Save, the Freemium functionality will be enabled for all users for this account, provided that they access the EA from the list of enabled servers.
The configuration is performed by Acuity & Signal Centre account administrators, so there are no changes that you need to make on your account via the Acuity Dashboard.
The Freemium Instrument functionality works based on the servers where the users are connecting from. For example, a restricted instrument list will be shown to users that connect from a Demo server (or any other server that you specify).
To enable this functionality on your account, please provide us with the following:
The URL could contain some additional parameters that would allow you to track how many users reach the sign up / fund account page from the Signal Stream EA specifically. These need to be URL parameters that you need to configure before providing to Acuity & Signal Centre admins.
When a user accesses the Signal Stream EA with the Freemium Watchlist functionality enabled, they will see the following:
Instruments that are in the Freemium or restricted watchlist have the following characteristics:
When the user clicks on one of the instruments from this list, they will be taken to the webpage that the broker provides us, that could lead the user to either open a live account or fund an account, depending on the URL itself.
As of December 2022 we support enabling the Freemium functionality in Signal Stream on the web as well.
It’s configured in a similar way to MT. The only difference is the fact that a different Watchlist type is used: Global Freemium Watchlist. It can be created in exactly the same way as the MT Freemium Watchlist (see the Admin perspective in this document above) and configured via the Global Freemium Watchlist field.
As of early February 2023, we support enabling the Freemium functionality by the MetaTrader account balance.
Brokers can restrict access to certain trade ideas if the balance on the account is below a threshold set here. The balance is in the deposit currency.
Restrict by Server AND Balance – enabling this checkbox will result in the Freemium Watchlist to be applied only on the specified servers if the balance is below the threshold.
If this checkbox is unset, we will be showing the Freemium Watchlist either on the specified server, or if the balance is insufficient.
We've received some user feedback about expanding coverage for the AnalysisIQ Trade Ideas and the High Impact Economic Events in the Latest Insights section of the Research Terminal.
In particular, we include Trade Ideas with over 80% confidence (vs. minimum 85% confidence earlier), and the High Impact Economic Events are included 24 hours before the event (vs. just 3 hours) to allow for plenty of time to prepare for the event.
AnalysisIQ:
High Impact Economic Events:
We've received some feedback from our users that the Latest Insights section can be tricky to navigate when many datasets are shown there.
To simplify the process of finding relevant insights, we've added options to filter for the Insight type and the asset class.
This update will allow the users to focus only on the data that is relevant to them, but will leave the door open to discovering new opportunities they are not usually focused on.
Many of our users accessing the Signal Stream Expert Advisor in MetaTrader are based in Vietnam, and they requested that we localize the Expert Advisor installer to Vietnamese to make it easier for them to go through the installation process.
We do value our users' feedback, so we went ahead and added Vietnamese as the supported language to the installer:
We’ve recently added an option to rename instruments in the Acuity Dashboard to ensure that the correct brokers’ versions of the instrument names are shown in all tools.
We’ve now extended this support to Telegram as well. Any Trade Idea that is sent via Telegram will first check the correct mapping with the brokers instruments and replace the name with the correct version in all relevant places.
This will ensure that users only see information they are used to seeing in all tools on the brokers’ platforms.
We’ve added several price performance metrics into the Assets Overview columns. Users can now select more fields in addition to the ones related to the Opportunity Score.
Users can also reorder the fields using the Column Selection menu. The browser will remember the user’s selection and will show the same columns on the next visit.
These columns also support sorting, which will allow users to more easily focus on top or worst performers when screening for opportunities.
Acuity Analyst Ratings API service includes the Analyst Consensus data that we retrieve about global stocks and update on a daily basis.
We collect this information programmatically from a large number of news oriented websites, press releases and other resources that publish the analyst ratings principally through news stories (provided by brokers, banks, and other financial organizations).
Having a large number of ratings with these data points allows us to aggregate them. For the ratings that we retrieve, we:
It’s possible to retrieve this data on-demand using a REST API, and also to subscribe to updates in real-time via the Streaming API.
Very often brokers have their own naming convention for instruments. The instrument names could include suffices or just be named slightly differently from the usual naming convention. If the instrument names are not modified in the tools later, this can cause confusion to the users.
To solve the problem, we’ve added an option for brokers to rename both the symbols and the instrument names in the dashboard to ensure that users see exactly the same information as is offered elsewhere in the brokers’ platforms.
It’s possible to rename individual instruments, as well as upload CSV files and rename instruments in bulk.
Here’s how this looks like in the Acuity Dashboard:
Once the renaming and import is done, it’s possible to perform the following actions:
We have been supporting the Freemium functionality within Signal Stream and AnalysisIQ for some time now. This functionality helps brokers control which content appears for certain groups of their users.
To date we’ve been able to offer the Freemium functionality based on the following account parameters:
We’ve received some feedback from our brokers that it would also be useful to restrict access by account type, for example, Demo or Live, and we’ve enabled this now.
It’s now possible to create various combinations of the above parameters. For example, it’s possible to show full trade ideas only to Live accounts with over $500 balance.
As a reminder, this is how the Freemium functionality appears within our tools.
AnalysisIQ:
Signal Stream:
Economic events affect a variety of instruments and we note them down in the relevant sections of the Economic and the Corporate Calendars that we offer.
Brokers, however, don’t always offer all of the instruments that we mention in the events.
To avoid a situation where we display instruments in the calendars that brokers don’t offer, we’ve added a Watchlist functionality to the tools. Now it’s possible to limit the Calendar to show only the offered instruments as part of the Affected Assets list, which helps avoid any confusion on the brokers’ sides.
Here’s how this looks in the Economic Calendar:
When Economic Event data is released, it affects various instruments to varying extent. Previously we usually attached affected instruments to the events using the instrument country, for example, if there is US Economic Data released, it would affect US indices, currencies with US Dollar etc.
We have received feedback from our users that they are missing certain instruments when viewing the data for certain High and Medium impact events. In particular, metals and energy commodities were missing from the list of affected instruments.
We’ve taken this feedback on board and reviewed how we identify affected instruments for each event. Metals, energy, and agricultural commodities are now attached to more events that affect their prices and that traders are closely monitoring when viewing the event data.
Here are the new configuration options:
As for the new data points, each message now includes the Expiry date & time for the trade idea to indicate how much time the users have left to act upon the trade ideas.
The original version of AnalysisIQ had trade ideas grouped by asset classes by default. We’ve received some feedback that it can be inconvenient, especially if the user is interested in a particular asset class which is not immediately visible.
To resolve the concerns, we’ve implemented a more natural publication time based ordering in the dashboard. Additionally, we’ve implemented a filter that allows users to display trade ideas related to a single asset class should they wish to do so.
Original layout:
Improved layout:
As part of the same update, we looked at how the information is structured inside the full trade idea view. Previously, a large portion of the tool was occupied by the chart and the important details, such as the trade idea justification, were hidden from the users. We’ve now made sure that the prominent details are immediately visible.
This is how the details appear after the update:
Some of our tools, like AnalysisIQ or Signal Stream, need to have access to live pricing data in order to deliver the most value to the users, as the content heavily relies on it.
Previously, we used our own pricing data in the tools, including their Expert Advisor form. This meant that sometimes the latest price value or the chart wouldn’t match what the users could see in MetaTrader directly.
We’ve now added logic that fetches live pricing data from MetaTrader and displays it in the relevant sections.
Following a successful launch of AnalysisIQ in its web widget form, we’ve implemented a version suitable for Trading Platforms.
It’s now possible to access AnalysisIQ as an EA (in MT) or a cBot (in cTrader) and be able to execute trades based on the signals provided.
Here’s how the EA appears in MetaTrader:
Here is its cTrader appearance:
Analysisiq and signal stream both offer a freemium version that enables brokers to choose which trade ideas are publicly visible and which ideas are only accessible to a specific group of customers (such as live accounts or accounts with a particular balance).
We have received some feedback indicating that the action associated with these Premium data points is not clear to the users – it’s not immediately known that a user needs to sign up for a live account or fund an account.
To resolve this, we added tooltips with customisable text to the Premium data points. The tooltips can be displayed both in the web versions of the tools, and in the Trading Platforms (such as MetaTrader or cTrader). In trading platforms, they can dynamically populate relevant values, such as the required account balance.
Here is how they appear in the tools.
AnalysisIQ:
Signal Stream:
The goal of this feature is to make it easy for brokers to control the content that various user groups see, and clarify to the users what action they need to take to enable the full experience in the tools.
The research terminal offers a variety of data elements that assist traders and investors in identifying opportunities. It may be difficult to connect these data points at times to create a clearer picture of what is happening with the instrument because they are sometimes found on different pages.
We combined the analysisiq data with the assetiq data (the opportunity score, which is derived from the price trend, volatility, news sentiment, and news volume scores) in order to make this easier to understand. If there is an active trade idea for the instrument displayed in assetiq, we will display all of the pertinent information on one page:
By doing this, we give traders and investors a more complete view of what’s happening with the target instrument, enabling them to decide more quickly and with greater knowledge.
Based on feedback from some users, who were sometimes reporting not being able to know exactly how old the information displayed in our widgets is, we added a few sections into the tools that provide these details.
Here’s how this looks in the Economic Calendar:
Based on feedback from some users, who were sometimes reporting not being able to know exactly how old the information displayed in our widgets is, we added a few sections into the tools that provide these details.
Here’s how this looks in the Economic Calendar:
The goal of including this information is to make it clearer to the users when a particular data point update occurred to allow them to plan their trades or perform research with a bit more precision.
Prior to this change we were showing all EAs in MetaTrader, for which the customers have permissions. Now it’s possible for Sales and Account Management teams to choose which EAs to display, which gives brokers more control over what their users see in the trading platforms, whether they need to prepare any marketing materials for the tools, and allow to do that at their required pace.
Customers who are given the “Acuity Calendar” and the “Can access MT4”/”Can access MT5” permissions will now received a new EA, called Acuity Events, in MetaTrader. This will allow them to benefit from the new calendars in MetaTrader directly.
We now support automatically failing over to a different region, in case the SQL database services become unavailable in our main region. This will prevent our customers from having problems with most of our retail-oriented tools if the database goes down. In addition to that we now support our service replicas in Asia, which makes it a lot quicker for our Asian customers to use our tools.
We supported the style modification for the new Technical Analysis widget, but we did not allow colour modification for the original version. The original version is still widely used, and after multiple feedback items received from clients requesting this change, we finally implemented it. It’s now possible to modify the styling fully for the original Signal Centre dashboard.
When users added Calendar Events or News onto the chart, it was not clear that the events could be clicked to get more information. We’ve now added a CTA (Find out more) to the events that allows to view the full news item or the event.
It’s now possible to add a CTA to the Economic and Corporate Calendar with customizable text, so clients can add “Open a Live Account”, “Start Trading” etc links to our tools.
It’s now possible to add a custom CTA to a few sections in the Asset IQ page. Users can customize the following:
This should make it easier for brokers to customize this page according to their needs and increase certain metrics, like sign ups, conversions etc.
This feature allows brokers to show a restricted Trade Ideas list to the users that are connecting from demo accounts. Some trade ideas will be disabled and shown with a “Premium” label, clicking which will take the user to a preconfigured URL to fund an account. Additional documentation is available here.
We’ve added a few features making it smoother to use the Calendars. In particular, we now have a “Today” button in the datepicker, that allows navigating to today’s date if you are reviewing events in the past or in the future. We’ve also added support for zoom, so changing the zoom levels on the tool does not reset the day you were previously researching.
Brokers requested the possibility to rename the Acuity Expert Advisors to include the brokers’ names. It’s now possible to configure the EA prefixes via the Admin dashboard, so Admirals could for example have “Admirals Research Terminal” and “Admirals Market Alerts” instead of “Acuity Research Terminal” and “Acuity Market Alerts”. This should improve the user experience for the brokers and make their platforms more personalized.
We’ve added a few improvements that make the content in the calendars richer. In particular, the news queries were expanded to include the sectors and we’ve expanded the configuration options to support disabling either economic or corporate calendar, to improve how they are displayed on the brokers’ sites.
We’ve simplified the process of adding new assets and replaced the custom chart with Trading View chart in case the pricing data is incomplete.
We’ve added a button that allows the user to add a certain event to their calendar (Apple, Google, Outlook, Yahoo, or an individual file) to ensure they don’t miss important corporate or economic events.
Acuity Dashboard supports creating Watchlists to use in specific widgets, such as the Corporate Calendar or the Sentiment Complex. If the Watchlists are large, it’s a painful experience to add assets individually. We’ve now added an option to upload a file with Acuity Asset IDs to create a watchlist. If the clients have a limited set of assets to display in the Corporate Calendar, this will improve the workflow significantly.
Both the Acuity and the Signal Centre Dashboards and APIs support additional languages now. This feature will primarily benefit the users of Signal Stream. This feature aims at increasing the richness of the services that Signal Stream includes.
It is now possible to create Watchlists via the https://dashboard.acuitytrading.com/WidgetList/Watchlists interface and do the following:
This will allow restricting the EAs to the list of certain assets. This feature aims at improving customer experience (broker side) with the configuration of the widgets and tailoring the content of the widgets exactly as needed.
This feature allows retrieving the latest (current) pivot points, and support/resistance values (S1/R1, S2/R2, S3/R3) for a given asset for a given frequency.
This menu item hosts various guides that assist with understanding Acuity and Signal Centre services better. Currently available guides include:
As part of the efforts to automate many functions within the Acuity platform, we have upgraded the localization processes, allowing us to automatically add, correct, remove translations for widgets without having to make any code deployments, making the localization process a lot quicker.
It is now possible to configure a custom disclaimer that is shown to the users, when they open the Signal Stream dashboard in Metatrader. Users are requested to either accept or decline the disclaimer, and the Trade Ideas are only shown to the users that accept it. The disclaimer functionality is configurable and can use the language the Metatrader instance is running in to change the text language accordingly.
We continued improving our backend to allow better performance for our data-heavy products, such as the Economic and Corporate Calendars.
Following the early adopter feedback, we have added the following improvements to the Signal Centre Dashboard and the MetaTrader Expert Advisor:
To support various security configuration options in Windows and Internet Explorer, we now have added an option to automatically populate the Trusted Sites with the websites that are required to run the Acuity Expert Advisors.
We continued improving the user experience based on the feedback provided by users. The changes include the following:
We continued improving the user experience based on the feedback provided by early adopters. The changes include the following:
We’ve launched the Expert Advisors for both MT4 and MT5 that give access to the Signal Centre Dashboard via the metatrader platform. The initial launch includes trade functionality and functionality allowing users to see their own symbol names within the EA.
Following early adopter feedback, we have added these improvements:
Following feedback from Acuity Expert Advisor users, we have added the following improvements:
The dashboard now supports configuring whitelists and blacklists for domains where customers would like to display the widgets. This makes it easy to control where exactly the widgets can and cannot be displayed.