July 2024
Introducing Enhanced Data Insights in Acuity Calendar’s Event History
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.
July 2024
Enhanced Customisation in AssetIQ: Empowering Brokers with further options
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.
June 2024
Enhanced Opportunity Ranking in the Research Terminal
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.
May 2024
Enhanced Push Notification Functionality in MetaTrader: Tailored Trade Ideas at Your Fingertips
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.
May 2024
Enhancements to Dashboard Widget Settings: Simplifying Configuration
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.
Introduction of Preconfigured Presets
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.
Quick Selection of Presets
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.
Favorite Settings Option
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.
Duplicating Widget Settings
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.
May 2024
New Feature Update: Bulk Export Now Available in Dynamic Emails Template Editor
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.
Simplifying the Template Management Process
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.
How This Feature Works
The process for utilizing this new feature is straightforward:
- Open the Dynamic Emails template editor. Note: the template or the campaign need to be in the Active state (submitted and approved).
- Select the template you wish to export.
- Next to the Status field you'll see a "Show Code" icon, clicking which you will be able to select an option to download all templates.
- Download the ZIP file, which is now ready to be integrated into your CRM system as needed.
This method ensures that you can quickly access all your necessary HTML files without the hassle of individually exporting each component.
The Impact of Bulk Export
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.
Get Started
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.
May 2024
Introducing Customizable Decimal Precision in Our Financial Instruments
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.
May 2024
Enhanced Trading Interactivity with Event Support in AnalysisIQ and Research Terminal
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.
May 2024
Exciting Enhancements to Dynamic Emails: Configurable Multi-Footer Functionality
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.
April 2024
Introducing Time-Based Free Trials for the Research Terminal in MetaTrader
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.
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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.
April 2024
Expanding Our Reach: Hindi Language Support Now Available in Signal Centre and AnalysisIQ
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:
- Inclusive Access: Hindi language support opens up our tools to one of the fastest-growing markets in the world, ensuring that more traders can utilize our insights without language barriers.
- Localized Content: Providing content in Hindi enhances the user experience, making our tools more accessible and user-friendly for a significant segment of the trading community.
- Strengthened Presence in Asia: This update is a strategic step towards deepening our connections with Asian markets and demonstrates our commitment to adapting our services to meet the diverse needs of international traders.
April 2024
Introducing Assets Overview: Now available as a MetaTrader EA and a cTrader Plugin
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:
- Enhanced Analytical Data: Gain access to enriched data that improves decision-making processes, helping you to navigate the complexities of the market with ease.
- News Sentiment Analysis: Understand the impact of market news on trading instruments. This feature allows traders to quickly grasp the interplay between news sentiment and price trends, facilitating more informed trading decisions.
- Integrated News Articles and Calendar Events: Stay updated with the latest market news and upcoming economic events. This integration ensures that traders have all the relevant information at their fingertips, providing additional insights that can influence trading strategies.
- Opportunity Identification: Utilize advanced filters to identify the best and worst performers across various categories. This feature allows traders to spot potential opportunities by highlighting instruments that exhibit significant movements.
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.
November 2023
AssetIQ is now available as a MetaTrader Expert Advisor and cTrader Plugin
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:
November 2023
Added a Timeline-only version of the Corporate and Economic Calendars
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:
October 2023
Support for TradingView Charts in AnalysisIQ and AssetIQ
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:
October 2023
Signal Stream Freemium Assets
What is it?
This is a feature that we have received many requests for. It has the following goals:
- Allow clients (brokers) to fine tune who gets access to the full functionality of the Signal Stream EA. It could be restricted to Live users, for example.
- Increase conversion rates (from demo accounts to live) by offering clients to sign up for Live accounts or fund accounts, by redirecting them to the relevant URLs from Premium ideas.
- Simplify demo or restricted access to prospects or clients.
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.
Configuration via the Admin section of the Dashboard
Admin Perspective
1. Watchlist Configuration
The first step is to create the watchlist that is going to contain restricted instruments:
- Login to https://dashboard.acuitytrading.com with an admin account.
- Go to Watchlists > Manage Widget Watchlists
- Select either Create “Create New Watchlist” or modify an existing one, depending on the need.
- You can also access the Manage Widget Watchlists section using this link.
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.
2. Watchlist Filling
Once the watchlist is created, use the following logic to populate it:
- Using the search functionality in the instruments list in the main area of the page, find the necessary assets,
- Once the asset is found, click the + symbol on the right side of the row
- Find the Watchlist you’ve just created or are modifying and click it to add the found asset.
- Repeat for all assets that you need to add.
After completing this step it’s necessary to enable the watchlist on the user’s account.
3. Enabling the Watchlist
To enable the watchlist on an account, you need to follow this procedure:
- Go to Admin > Users and find the user ID in question
- Go to Keys tab (the same tab where Analytics, EA prefix is configured and where one can retrieve MT4/5 download links). You will see the following:
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.
- Select the Watchlist you’ve just created or updated in this dropdown.
- Enter the MetaTrader Servers where the Freemium Watchlist should be enabled. The servers should be entered in a comma-separated format. Please ensure that no whitespace is added into the server names.
- Enter the Freemium Link – the URL the users will be redirected to when clicking the restricted asset in the widget. This could be a sign up URL or a fund account URL. It’s possible to pass a symbol in this URL so that the user would be directed to an instrument-specific page within the broker’s environment.
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.
Client (Broker) Perspective
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:
- Server list where the users should see the restricted instruments list. This could be a list of demo servers within your MT4/5 environments, or simply standalone server names in case you’d like to have some demo servers access full instrument lists as well. Note: we need the actual names of the servers as they appear in MT4/5, not their DNS or IP addresses.
- URL where the users will be redirected to when they click on the restricted instrument. Users could be taken to a page dedicated to the creation of a live account or funding an account etc.
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.
End User Experience
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:
- Different colour, both in Tile and List views
- Labeled as “Premium”
- Key values are blurred out
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.
Freemium Watchlist Improvements
Freemium Functionality on the Web
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.
Freemium Functionality by Account Balance
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.
Configuration Options
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.
September 2023
Improved the Insights data in the Research Terminal - Home Page
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:
September 2023
Simplified the process of navigating the Latest Insights section in the Research Terminal
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.
September 2023
Added Vietnamese as the supported MetaTrader installer language
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:
August 2023
Support for instrument renaming in Signal Stream Telegram Feed
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.
August 2023
Price performance metrics are now in Assets Overview
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.
July 2023
Added Analyst Ratings REST and Streaming API endpoints
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:
- Check which stocks have received a new rating in a given week
- Retrieve all the ratings for this stock for the past 3 months
- Based on the ratings received, we group them into Sell/Hold/Buy “buckets”, and based on the mean of these ratings provide a consensus (e.g., Moderate Sell if there are a few Sell and a few Hold ratings, a Strong Buy if there are predominantly Buy ratings etc).
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.
June 2023
Added a possibility to rename instruments in the Acuity Dashboard
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:
- Export all original/modified instruments
- Clear all changes
June 2023
Using MetaTrader and cTrader account type as criterion for tool customisation
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:
- MetaTrader/cTrader Server
- Account Balance
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:
June 2023
Implemented the Watchlist functionality in the Calendar tools
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:
June 2023
Improvements in linking instruments to events in Acuity Calendars
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.
May 2023
Signal Stream Telegram bot improvements
Here are the new configuration options:
- Live Trades Only – this option will only publish Live Trades to the group or the channel
- Timezone Offset – this option will change all timestamps in the message to the specified offset. This is useful if the audience of the channel is from a particular region.
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.
May 2023
AnalysisIQ – Improve the ordering of trade ideas and modify the full details layout
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:
May 2023
Added support for MetaTrader Live Prices for all Expert Advisors using the pricing data
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.
May 2023
AnalysisIQ as a MetaTrader EA and cTrader Bot
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:
April 2023
AnalysisIQ and Signal Stream – additional context for premium data
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.
April 2023
Added a link between AssetIQ and AnalysisIQ in the Acuity Research Terminal
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.
April 2023
Added improvements to a few tools that indicate the age of displayed information
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.
March 2023
Added several improvements to the Signal Centre and AnalysisIQ tools
- More detailed control over settings: it’s possible to modify Tile Font Colour and Background Font Colour separately, also change the colours of the Buy / Sell Label Text. This helps to customise the tools a lot better.
- Added a Tooltip to the Premium ideas. Now the user can click in the ‘i’ icon and get the information about exactly why an idea is restricted. This can be configured by an Admin in the Dashboard (by Acuity & Signal Centre employees):
- We now support CTAs in the Web version of the Signal Stream widget. We can add a button with some custom text (for example, Fund an account) and redirect the user to a particular URL when they click it.
March 2023
August 2022
August 2022
Implementation of regional failover functionality in our backend
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.
August 2022
Implemented option to modify the style of the original Signal Centre Dashboard
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.
August 2022
Improvement for discoverability of Calendar Events and News on the Asset IQ Chart
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.
August 2022
Addition of customizable CTAs to the Economic and Corporate Calendars
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.
July 2022
Addition of a possibility to add custom CTAs to the Asset IQ page
It’s now possible to add a custom CTA to a few sections in the Asset IQ page. Users can customize the following:
- CTA text (Start Trading Now, Trade Now, Open a Live Account etc)
- CTA Text and Button Colour
- URL that the user is taken to when the CTA is clicked
This should make it easier for brokers to customize this page according to their needs and increase certain metrics, like sign ups, conversions etc.
June 2022
Original Signal Stream now supports “Freemium” functionality
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.
April 2022
Several improvements for the Acuity Corporate and Economic Calendar
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.
March 2022
March 2022
Several improvements for the Acuity Corporate and Economic Calendar
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.
March 2022
Added several improvements to the new Research Terminal tool
- In the Home Page brokers can choose if they’d like to see Most Volatile Assets or Most Spoken About Assets in the Assets to Watch section, which shows the Top 10 assets by Volatility or News Volume. The users, when viewing this section, can now click View More, and be taken to the AssetIQ Overview Page with the previous filters (Top by Volatility or Top by News Volume) already applied, which makes it simpler for them to continue their research.
- Market Alerts in the Latest Insights section in the Home Page now support redirecting the user to the AssetIQ page and opening the specific Market Alert the user clicked on, making it a lot more straightforward to get to the information displayed in the Home Page:
- AssetIQ Chart saw a few modifications:
- Price Chart had smoothness removed, which makes it easier to see the changes in the price movement
- Optimized the display of Calendar Events, News, and Market Alerts on the chart so that they would load almost instantly.
February 2022
Simplification of the asset addition and charting in Signal Stream
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.
February 2022
Acuity Corporate Calendar – Add to Calendar button
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.
February 2022
Watchlist creation via File Upload
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.
January 2022
Addition of Turkish and Bahasa Malaysia languages to the Acuity and Signal Centre Dashboards
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.
January 2022
January 2022
Addition of PivotPoint endpoint to the Signal Centre Reports API
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.
November 2021
Addition of the “Documentation” menu item to the Acuity Dashboard navigation bar
This menu item hosts various guides that assist with understanding Acuity and Signal Centre services better. Currently available guides include:
- Acuity and Signal Centre MetaTrader Expert Advisor installation and troubleshooting instructions
- Signal Stream API Guide
November 2021
Improvements to the Widget Localisation processes
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.
November 2021
November 2021
Improvements to the Acuity backend to support faster and more efficient data loading
We continued improving our backend to allow better performance for our data-heavy products, such as the Economic and Corporate Calendars.
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August 2021
Improvements to the Acuity and Signal Centre Dashboard security
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.