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11 July 2008 - Adaptive Modeler version 1.0b
Version 1.0b has been released! This marks the end of alpha stage and in effect is meant to indicate that Adaptive Modeler has reached a more professional deployment level, including improved speed and scalability, more efficient memory usage, backwards compatibility with previous versions and more extensive testing. New features and improvements will of course continue to be added.

New features, improvements and bug fixes in this version:

Charts:
- Browsing through history of charts
- Crosshair in charts for showing values at mouse
- Charts can be linked for synchronized browsing and crosshairs

Agent-based model:
- Agent initialization options (wealth can be equal, Pareto distributed or Maxwell-Boltzmann distributed; asset allocation can be equal or Gaussian distributed)
- Configurable stepsize of agent position
- Support for zero-intelligence trading
- Uniqueness requirement for creation of new genomes is now optional
- Initial margin check before order placement

New data series:
- Forecast error
- Mean absolute error
- (Root) mean square error
- Population cash

Various:
- Choice between US or European dates
- Automatic detection of number of decimal digits in quote file
- Context-sensitive help for genes and types
- Batch exporting: random seed exported with model data
- Creation of initial population can be canceled by user (i.e. when too slow)

Improved computational performance and scalability:
- Faster creation of (unique) genomes; is now O(log n)
- Faster Virtual Market clearing; is now O(n log n)
- Faster loading of models, smaller model files
- More efficient memory use
- Faster exporting of historical bars

Bug fixes:
- Order validation was incorrect sometimes causing extreme Virtual Market prices and agent wealth values.
- Defaults counting was inaccurate in some cases.
- Agent Total Excess Return data series tried to calculate market return for bar that might not be in memory anymore. Now if agent creation bar is not in memory anymore, no value is returned.
- Agent Replacement Fitness Excess Return data series returned inaccurate value when agent creation bar is no longer in memory. Now if agent creation bar is not in memory anymore, no value is returned. In the distribution data series, the agent's return will be set to 0.
- Logarithmic scaling exceptions
- Performance window: when compounding period is longer than memory size, an exception was caused.
- Population window: exception when drawing density chart or legend and only 1 value one z-axis.
- Population window: number of gridlines drawn at bin edges could exceed maximum, causing exception.
- Some data series gave index out of range when MinBreedingAge was higher than 100.
- Batch started from command line failed to launch multiple models.
- Chart period combobox was not being repopulated when Market Trading Hours changes resulted in less possible chart periods.
- In long term chart, last bar's value was sometimes not visible.
- Unstable/alternating x-axis gridlines and labels

8 May 2008 - Adaptive Modeler version 0.99 (build 3050)
A number of bugs have been fixed, most notably:
-
application no longer starts minimized after running a batch
- very wide charts with many gridlines no longer cause errors
- extreme values in Distribution charts no longer cause errors
- multiple changes to the Market Trading Hours that occurred during a (data series) calculation period no longer cause errors

12 Mar 2008 - Adaptive Modeler version 0.99
- Creation of trading rules through genetic programming is now documented in detail
- Trading rules can now be viewed
- Selection of 'genes' (functions) to be used in trading rules is now user configurable
- Maximum size and depth of trading rules is now user configurable
- Improved Batch mode with GUI (simplifies creation of batch processes)
- Context-sensitive help system
- "Best Agents price" as alternative to Virtual Market price forecast (with adjustable groupsize)
- Agent default management and improved short positions management
- Volume data is now being used by trading rules
- Improved pseudo random number generator (uses Mersenne twister algorithm, stores seed value, seed value can be set by user)
- New data series: Right/Wrong Foreceasted Price Changes, Buy/Sell Orders in Orderbook, Spread, Margin Calls, Defaults, Volume, etc.
- Maximizing of windows
- New chart interval of "4 hours" added
- Performance Panel and Distribution charts are no longer being recalculated when not visible
- Tooltips in data series treeview with short descriptions
- Various bug fixes and minor improvements

25 Jul 2007 - Adaptive Modeler version 0.98
- Population window (visualizes model dynamics by plotting 2 or 3 agent properties simultaneously in a (colored) scatter chart including correlation and regression)
- Several new agent time & distribution data series (breeding fitness return, replacement fitness return, trade duration, volatility, beta, generation, etc.)
- Agent window to show agent details
- Customizable User Interface (moving windows, tabbed windows, maximizing charts, etc.)
- Support for multiple Charts windows/tabs
- Return distribution data series with kurtosis (for prices and forecasts)
- Up to 8 data series can be shown per chart
- Histogram bin details can be shown in data overlay
- Improved quote retrieval (incl. support for MetaTrader4 export files)
- Various minor features, improvements and bug fixes

3 Jul 2007 - Life detected in Adaptive Modeler!
Adaptive Modeler is being featured in a show case by Evil Limited, a company devoted to Electronic Virtual Intelligent Life, as an illustration of the application of simple agents interacting and evolving in a complex (non linear) way to outperform financial markets.

12 May 2007 -
Adaptive Modeler included in ACE Comp Labs and Demos

(Agent-Based Computational Economics Computational Laboratories and Demonstration Software) directory of Professor Leigh Tesfatsion (Department of Economics, Iowa State University).  

28 Feb 2007 - Adaptive Modeler version 0.97
- New return & risk indicators (alpha, beta, Sharpe ratio, VaR, Risk-adjusted return, Max Drawdown, MAR, etc.)
- Trading Simulator Performance Overview with various return/risk indicators and sub period results & statistics
- Data exporting
- Histogram charts showing agent wealth distribution, simulation return distributions, etc.
- FDA-based filter for trading signals (user configurable)
- In-chart data overlay showing current/mouse-over values
- Automatic linear/logarithmic scaling of charts
- Simple batch functionality through command line (i.e. automatic creation of models from all quote files in a directory and exporting of results)
- New data series (excess return, weighted FDA, total FDA, etc.)
- Several improvements to existing features and bug fixes

14 Sep 2006 - Adaptive Modeler version 0.96 (build 2448)
- Trading Signals are now visualized in charts with up/down arrows
- Fixed bugs and documented some issues regarding importing Yahoo CSV quote files

16 Aug 2006 - Altreva Adaptive Modeler version 0.96
- Saving and loading of configurations (model parameters)
- Improved quote retrieval (new quotes are now read whenever quote file has been updated, timezone independent)
- Faster quote file pre-processing
- Bugs fixed relating to 24h markets (forex)
- Bugs fixed relating to short intervals

24 Jul 2006 - Altreva Adaptive Modeler version 0.95
- Risk Management functions (i.e. historical/Monte Carlo simulations)
- Improved & faster charts (including bar charts)
- Selected data series and window layout can be saved separately and applied to any other model
- Several new data series (volatility, more population/agent/GP info)
- Configurable data series
- Moving Averages
- Automatic handling of missing quotes and changes in trading hours
- Trading Signals
- Logger (to keep track of notifications, warnings, etc.)
- Various other improvements and bug fixes

30 Dec 2005 - Altreva Adaptive Modeler version 0.94
- evolved sample model included with installation
- user friendly introduction screen and tooltips
- improved screen layout
- various minor improvements and bugs fixed

26 Oct 2005 - Altreva Adaptive Modeler version 0.93a
- added support for common ASCII quote file formats such as MetaStock ASCII and Yahoo CSV.

14 Oct 2005 - Altreva Adaptive Modeler version 0.92a
- toolbar added
- some improvements to agent-based model (i.e. limitation of short positions)

13 Sep 2005 - Altreva Adaptive Modeler version 0.91a
- extensive documentation added
- various improvements and bugs fixed

26 Aug 2005 - Altreva Adaptive Modeler version 0.9a
Initial pre-release version.

 

 

 

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