What's New

2.4.0 — a fixing release

Nothing new was added since 2.3.0. This is the release where things that were quietly wrong stopped being wrong, and most of them are things you would never have known to report.

• Your API key could be sent truncated, and the error could read it out loud. Several data sources put your key into the web address they call. Any key containing an & was cut off at that character, so it simply failed — and when it failed, the error message the terminal spoke contained the key. Both halves are fixed everywhere, and there is now a check that fails the build if any provider is ever written that way again.
• Kraken's History tab was empty for Bitcoin. Its busiest pair. The terminal asked for BTCUSD and Kraken answers about XXBTZUSD, so the filter matched nothing and the tab showed an honest-looking blank. Kraken Futures and Gemini had a different version of the same problem: ask for 2019 and they would hand back this morning.
• A bar could tell you two different times. Arrow to a bar and it read 14:30; ask for the full detail on the same bar and it read 18:30. One path was speaking the exchange's clock and the other yours. One piece of code now owns that conversion.
• A level could be announced as the opposite of what it was. A support break could be announced as resistance, because the code decided which was which by looking at the component's name, and a component called RESISTANCE_1 did not match the spelling it looked for. Earlier in the summer a different piece of the app decided the same question by the pitch the level was played at. Two wrong answers to the same question in three weeks, each fixed only where it was found — so there is now exactly one place in the whole program that decides it, it decides it the way the words actually mean (a level above the price is a ceiling, one below it is a floor), and a check refuses to build any future code that tries to work it out some other way. "Near resistance at X" is the most consequential thing this terminal says, and it is the one claim you have no way of checking for yourself.
• Whole-chart playback had been clipping since the day it was written. Nobody had ever measured it. A perfectly ordinary chart — eighteen voices at the default volume — was asking for five and a half times the loudest sound your speakers can make, so the peaks were being squared off into distortion. There is now a limiter between the mix and your ears that turns the whole thing down together rather than distorting any one voice, because what an instrument sounds like is carrying meaning here.
• Eight ways sound leaked past a mute. A volume slider set to zero came back at 5%. A muted series went on sounding its cloud fills. Muting a profile's only component did nothing at all.
• Undo. Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y, fifty edits deep, and each one says what it just undid.
• The Help dialog was missing 37 shortcuts, including every quick-trade key.
• Closing your browser used to make more of your alerts work than leaving it open.
• A month of daily bars was being stored a day early, and the way the cache worked meant that once stored wrongly it could never be corrected.
• Order rejections were being cut off mid-word.
• Settings → About was two venues out of date. It listed the exchanges your build can trade on, and Gemini and Kraken Futures had been missing from that list since the day they shipped — so if you went looking there to find out whether you had them, you were told you did not. The link to the project's source code on that same screen pointed at the wrong place entirely. Both fixed, and there is now a check that fails the build if that list and the exchanges actually included ever disagree again.
• Security. Changing your password now ends any session that was already open with the old one. A data source that redirected the terminal somewhere it was not allowed to go is refused rather than followed. And on the hosted terminal, sign-in records for every account had been pooling into a single shared file instead of each account's own.

Behind all of that: four audits run by deliberately breaking things rather than reading code, a new test harness that drives a real browser against the real application on every change, and an automated test suite that has grown by more than two thousand tests since 2.3.0 — every fix above was proved by putting the bug back and watching a test catch it. That browser harness could not, until this release, be run on the machine that actually serves the online demo: it quietly grabbed the same port the demo runs on, which nothing noticed on the build servers and which broke it completely on the one machine where being able to prove the site still renders matters most.

2.3.0 — the account, not just the chart

• The trading dashboard is your account now, not your chart. It used to answer every question from whichever chart happened to be in front: the Orders tab only showed orders on that exact symbol, and Cancel refused — silently — if no chart was open at all. So three resting orders on BTC/USD could be invisible behind a BTCUSDT chart, on a tab that said nothing rather than saying "not these". Open it from anywhere now, with no chart at all if you like, and it shows everything you hold and everything resting, on every venue you have connected. Each row says which exchange it belongs to, and Cancel and Close send to that one.

• A position tells you what kind of position it is. The first column now reads like "BTCUSDT isolated 1x" — the symbol, how its margin is held, and the leverage, in one phrase instead of spread across the table. Beside it, Long or Short spelled out as a word, because a minus sign in front of a number is the first thing a screen reader drops.

• Buttons say what they do to what. "Cancel order" and "Close position", each announcing the side, the symbol and the exchange. The Cancel button used to be an "✕", which is read as "times", as "ex", or not at all depending on your screen reader and its settings.

• Close a position at market, or park a limit order to close it. Every position row has both buttons now, and each one says which it is — "Close position" always goes to market, "Close at limit" opens a price field and rests an order at the price you type. Neither quietly changes into the other depending on what is filled in somewhere else. The limit one tells you it is resting, not that it has closed, because until it fills you still have the position.

• Cross or isolated margin, and the paper account really does both. The choice was in the order ticket but invisible unless you were on an exchange that offered it — which the paper account did not, because it only ever did isolated. It does both now, and they behave differently rather than just being labelled differently: isolated caps the damage at that one position, cross keeps the position alive much longer by drawing on your whole balance and then takes every other cross position with it when it finally goes. New orders default to isolated, which is the safer of the two, and anything you already hold stays exactly where it was.

• You can short again, and this time the account does the arithmetic that makes it honest. Shorting was withdrawn in 2.2.0 because it was offered and did not work. It is back at 1x, modelled properly: selling something you do not own means somebody lent it to you and you owe it back at whatever it ends up costing, so the sale proceeds are locked and an equal amount of margin is locked beside them. You are told what a short costs to open, what it is worth now, and how far price can go against you before the position is liquidated — because a short that cannot say where it dies is not a short, it is a trap.

• Two new venues. Gemini — US-regulated, spot market data, order book and trading, with its sandbox reachable through Paper. And Kraken Futures, which is its own venue rather than a setting on Kraken: different host, different signing, and its own API keys minted somewhere else entirely. Folding it into Kraken would have meant one credential slot holding two credentials, and you would have met that as an authentication failure with no explanation.

• The Balances tab can say what your account is worth. It used to show quantities — asset, free, locked — and no values at all. Now: what each holding is worth, the total, what share of the account each one is, and the day's change. Those are the numbers that answer "how am I doing", and they were the ones missing.

• Deposit addresses, read out properly. Ask for a deposit address and it arrives in a read-only field with a copy button, which means your screen reader's review cursor and your braille display walk it character by character without anything special from us. The address is checksum-verified before you ever see it, and case survives the trip — which matters, because for some networks the capitals are the checksum. Kraken is the first venue behind it.

• Every control on the order ticket now answers to what your broker can actually do. The capability surface was audited against reality rather than against its own documentation, and it was wrong in both directions — claiming things providers could not do, and hiding things they could. If a control is there, the venue supports it.

• Fixed: adding an API key kept insisting you needed an API key. Add a key, activate it, and the symbol list went on saying "API key required" for the very provider you had just supplied — until you restarted the app. Found by using the terminal rather than by a test, which is its own lesson.

• An empty list stops meaning five different things. "Nothing here" and "we could not reach the venue" and "your key cannot read this" now read as what they are.

• Some strategy conditions are gone from the builder, and old strategies that used them will deliberately stop firing. A handful of indicator signals turned out to peek at bars that had not happened yet. They looked brilliant in a backtest for exactly that reason, and they are not something you can trade. Those signals are now refused as strategy conditions: they no longer appear in the builder, and a saved strategy that leans on one keeps running but that condition evaluates false at every bar — silence, not a false signal. If a strategy of yours has gone quiet since updating, this is probably why; rebuild the condition from the causal signals that remain.

• The Help dialog now lists the keys that place trades. Press F1 and 37 shortcuts were missing from it — every quick-trade chord among them, so the keys that set your stop, arm a risk tier and send the order appeared nowhere in the terminal's own help. Chart tabs, workspace save and load, Alt+I for the asset dossier, F12 for Settings, the formation keys and the whole Ctrl+Alt+Shift orientation family were absent too. They are all in there now, under three new headings: Orientation & recovery, Chart tabs & workspaces, and Quick trade. One row was not missing but wrong — F4 was described as speaking the context snapshot, which it stopped doing when the F-key layout changed; F4 toggles braille, and Shift+F1 is the snapshot. The full manual in docs/SHORTCUTS.md had all of these the whole time; it was the in-app copy that had drifted, which is the one you can reach without leaving the terminal.

• Custom indicators and script strategies stop dropping off the chart. They ran in a sandboxed helper process, and that process could be killed by the operating system partway through a session for reasons that had nothing to do with your script — leaving the indicator simply gone, with nothing said. Fixed at the cause; they now live as long as the app does.

• An order that went through could tell you it had failed. If anything listening to the order feed hit a problem of its own, the error came back to you as if the order itself had failed — after the position was already open. So you could be told a trade did not happen while holding it, which is the worst thing a terminal can say. A fault in one listener now costs that listener and nothing else, and the order reports what actually happened to it.

• Higher-timeframe candles are right whichever way the exchange sends its history. Some venues return the newest bar first, and when they did, every hourly or daily candle the terminal built from that history came out with its open and close the wrong way round — a falling bar described, and sonified, as a rising one. And because those candles are now cached, the wrong one stayed wrong. Fixed.

Not in this release, deliberately: moving funds off a venue. The withdrawal path is built and tested, but no one has yet run a real withdrawal with it, and that is the one place in this terminal where being wrong loses money directly rather than through a trade. It stays switched off until it has been driven end to end against a live venue. Everything else here has been exercised; that has not, so it does not ship.

2.2.0 — the chart describes its own shapes

• Your open trades stay live in tabs you are not looking at. Before, a resting order on any chart but the one on screen simply never filled, and an open position there showed its profit and loss stuck at zero no matter what price did. Now stops fire, limit orders fill and P&L keeps moving wherever the trade is — and a chart with money on it is watched even after you close its tab or restart the app. The trade you forget about is the one that most needs watching.

• Paper trading had six ways to reach an impossible account, and no longer does. A bracket's stop and target were not linked, so the target survived the stop closing the trade and later opened a position in the opposite direction. Selling something you did not own paid you for it. A resting buy could fill after the money had been spent, taking the balance to minus eighty-nine thousand. Your assets did not appear on the Balances tab at all.

• Trailing stops were working the whole time and the interface would not show them. Paper trading simulates trailing stops and trailing take-profits fully; the fields were hidden behind a capability the broker never declared.

• A refused order now tells you why. It used to say only "Order rejected". Now it says which — not enough balance and by how much, or nothing of that asset to sell.

• Leverage and short selling have been withdrawn from paper trading until the margin work is done, because they were offered and never actually worked. Nothing on screen now promises something the account cannot do.

• Place a trade from the chart without opening the dashboard. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+1 (or 2, or 3) to risk 0.5%, 1% or 2%. Arrow to the bar you want your stop at and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+X. Then arrow to your entry and press Shift+Enter for a limit or Ctrl+Enter to go now. Escape cancels at any point.

• The position size is worked out for you and spoken. "Armed 1 percent. $1,000.00 at risk, stop 42,100, long 0.625 units, entry 43,700." That is the sum you would otherwise do in a position-size calculator, said at the moment you need it — and it is why the stop has to come first, because until the app knows your stop, a percentage is just a budget and not a quantity.

• You are reminded you are armed on every bar you move to. Forgetting is the one thing that could cost you here, so it says so until you place or cancel.

• Formations now tell you when they are part of something bigger — "…inside a larger double bottom that began 12 March." So you can tell a setup that stands on its own from one that is a detail of a shape still in play.

• And you can pick which one leads. When several overlap, ; cycles through them and the one you choose is described first from then on. Shift+; goes back to the default. The terminal ranks by size because that is the only ordering that is not an opinion — but your setup may care about the small one, and now it can.

• The MA Cloud actually says something useful. It used to give a width in raw price units, which means nothing unless you already know what the instrument costs. Now it tells you which side of the cloud price is on and by how far, whether it just crossed, whether it is opening up or pinching shut, and how wide it is — all in percentages.

• Name your drawings. A trendline can be "Weekly resistance from the January high" instead of "Trendline 3", and that is what you hear when you move to it.

• Fixed: settings that reset every time you opened the app. Chart pattern description had to be switched on again at every launch — it was being kept in memory and never written to disk.

• Settings → About now shows a Build row. Quote it in a bug report; between releases it is the only thing that says exactly which version you are running.

• The terminal can now name chart formations as you move through them. Turn on Settings → Describe chart patterns. Twelve shapes — double top and bottom, head and shoulders and its inverse, three kinds of triangle, two wedges, two flags, and the horizontal range. You hear them the way you would read them: "Start of possible double top forming, neckline 42,100, measured target 39,400 if it breaks. Spans 22 bars."

• You are told which side of the formation you walked in from. "Start of" going forward, "End of" going back, so you always know where you are inside a shape rather than just that you are inside one.

• And you are told what price actually did. The word "completed" is gone — it could not tell you whether a pattern worked or failed, and it never meant either. Instead you hear "confirmed here: closed below the neckline at 42,100", or "ends here without confirming — the neckline held". Which side, which level. What it means is yours to decide, and the manual explains how the two readings differ.

• Comma and period step between formations. Two keys walk you through every shape on the chart in the order it happened, landing on the bar each one starts and the bar each one resolves.

• When several shapes fit at once, you hear the main one and a count — "plus 2 more formations here". Traders disagree about these; the terminal is not going to pretend otherwise by silently picking one. Alt+Shift+D reads them all.

• What is special about a bar is now spoken before the bar's value. Support zones, structure breaks, formations — they lead, and the routine value follows. When you are scanning quickly, the first few words are what you actually hear.

• Indicator signals now follow you around the chart. Previously a support zone or a break of structure went silent the moment you moved focus off price. Each indicator can opt out in its Properties if its signals only make sense inside its own pane.

• Fixed: only one thing was ever spoken per keypress. If a bar had a formation and a signal and a value, you heard one of them and never knew the others existed.

• New: Alt+I opens a dossier on whatever is on your chart. For a coin: identity, supply and dilution, whether anyone is still committing code, and whether it discloses a whitepaper, source and explorer at all. For a company: filings straight from SEC EDGAR. Where something is missing, it says so — because for a brand-new token, "nothing here can be verified" is the most useful sentence on the screen.

• Fixed: the dossier's Speak summary button did nothing. It was calling a function that did not exist, and the failure was being swallowed.

• Fixed: arrowing left into a formation said "End of" when you were at its start. The edge word now describes the bar you are on, not the direction you came from — so a formation's first bar always says "Start of" and its last always says "End of", whichever way you reached them.

• Fixed: several keys explained themselves to nobody. "No more signals in this direction", "Focused trendline has no anchors" and a handful of others were being produced and then thrown away before anything spoke them. Ten messages in total, some of which had never been heard since the day they were written.

• Fixed: comma and period jumped you around the chart with pattern description turned off, without saying why. They now tell you to turn the setting on.

• Heikin-Ashi now says what it does not change. Formations are read from standard candles even when Heikin-Ashi is displayed, because a Heikin-Ashi price is an average rather than something that traded — and a level you might put in an order has to be real. Switching it on now tells you.

2.2.0, continued — the app stops recommending strategies

• The strategy library ships empty now. A fresh install opens the Strategy Manager with an explanation and two routes — build one, or import one — instead of thirty strategies from this project's own research. If you are upgrading, nothing is removed: your library is exactly as you left it. The reason is simple. A shelf of strategies the application put there itself reads as advice, and when they were scored honestly only one of the thirty had ever beaten a real control, while six had been tested and failed. Shipping that as a starting library was an endorsement nobody had earned. (The auto-recommendation that used to highlight a "recommended" strategy per symbol went in the same clear-out.)
• Every strategy now says how far it has been tested. A new Evidence column in the library: Untested, In-sample only, Walk-forward, Control-tested, Fragile or Falsified — with what it was tested on, which controls were run, and the verdict in a sentence, alongside the description. Strategies you built read Not recorded, which is the truth about them. A tested strategy and an untested one should never look alike in a list.
• Import strategies from a file. At the bottom of the Library tab: choose a .json strategy file or paste its contents. Importing never overwrites a strategy you already have, never starts anything (everything arrives stopped), and refuses files containing program code. You hear the full outcome — imported, skipped, rejected, and how many are set to place orders rather than suggest them.
• The research catalogue lives in the Strategy Lab. All thirty specs, with their evidence, are in the command-line lab: catalogue list --verbose to read the verdicts, catalogue export to write a file you can import. A bulk export by evidence level will not hand you anything recorded as Fragile or Falsified — those have to be asked for by name.

2.1.0 — market watch, screening, and a terminal that looks like one

The big addition is market watch: a place to keep lists of symbols and to scan them all at once. Alongside it, three tools that answer "where am I on this chart?", and two chart modes. Everything below has a toolbar button and a keyboard shortcut.

• Watchlists (Alt+M, or the Watch button). Named, ordered lists of symbols that remember which provider and market they came from. Add the symbol you're looking at with one press, or pick from the provider's real symbol list through the same Market → Provider → Sub-type → Symbol cascade the toolbar uses. Type into Filter symbols to narrow a long list — it tells you how many are showing out of how many exist — and Add all shown builds a list in one go.
• A screener, and a builder for it. Screens run your conditions against every symbol on a list at once. The new Build a screen tab lets you make one: choose an indicator, a component, a condition, and any values it needs; add as many filters as you like; and decide whether all of them must be true, any of them, or enough of them by weight. Each row is restated underneath in plain English so you can check it in a single read. Results come back as a proper table your screen reader can move through cell by cell — and symbols that couldn't be checked are always shown, never quietly dropped, because "we couldn't fetch twelve of these" must never look like "nothing qualified".
• The respect report (Alt+R, or the Zones button). Which levels does this market actually hold? This measures rather than assumes: for every level near price and every standard moving average, how often price touched it and how often it held, how big the reaction was, and how long ago. Wicks through and straight back count as holds — that's a sweep, which is the level working. Thin samples are filtered out by default and labelled when you show them.
• Market Structure, on your charts by default. Swing highs and lows labelled as higher or lower, the trend state they imply, plus a Break of Structure when price continues past the last swing and a Change of Character when it goes the other way. Turn it off for good in Settings → Analysis if you'd rather add it yourself. One honest caveat, stated in the manual too: a swing mark can only appear five bars after the bar it sits on, so it shows you where you are, not where to enter.
• Value Deviation. A new indicator that marks where price reversed relative to value — value being a rolling volume profile's point of control. Reversals below it mark support zones, above it resistance zones, and five tiers per side say how far from value the zone formed, in shape, colour and pitch.
• Bar replay (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P, or the Replay button). Hides everything after the bar you're on and gives it back one bar at a time with F9, so you can practise reading a market without knowing what happens next. F10 auto-advances; stopping restores the full chart.
• Split view (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S, or the Split button). Puts a second tab's chart beside the one you're working on — the daily next to the four-hour, say — either side-by-side or stacked. Speech and sound stay with the chart you're actually on.

Chart legibility. With Market Structure and Value Deviation both on a weekly chart, the result was a mess — so: the pane legend now sizes itself against the pane instead of covering a third of the plot, names the price series and lines before markers, and folds a whole family of marks into one row (it used to list nine tier labels and never mention the candles); Market Structure's swing marks became squares and its structure events crosses, so they can no longer be confused with Value Deviation's triangles, dots and diamonds; and Value Deviation gained a Show tiers from setting, defaulting to 2, which drops the shallowest marks. That last one hides glyphs only — speech still reports every tier, so nothing you could act on has become unreachable.

The application has a look now

The chart was themed; everything around it was not. Toolbars, tabs and dialogs read a fixed dark-grey palette no matter which theme you picked, so choosing the light theme gave you a white chart inside a near-black frame. That seam is gone — a theme now covers the whole window.

• Steel Gray is the new default. The window is one vertical fade: lighter chrome at the top, the chart darkening as it goes down, the footer carrying it out. The fade is deliberately shallow so it never washes out candles near the top of the pane, which is exactly where price at the top of its range sits.
• Three new presets. Blackout — pure black, white text, lifted dark-grey dialogs; a true dark mode for OLED panels and low light. Classic — the familiar dark navy-and-teal scheme, so anyone arriving from another platform can start from something their eye already knows. And Steel Gray itself. The high-contrast and braille themes are untouched.
• Set the colours yourself. Settings → Appearance now covers up and down colours, the chart background and gradient, and a Window gradient switch that blends the toolbars, chart and footer into one continuous fade between any two colours you pick. A theme can also give those three regions completely different colours — a light header over a near-black chart is a thing you can build.
• Dialogs match the application. They were a fixed light panel in a dark app, which is why they read as a different product.
• Every dropdown and button now follows the theme. The market, provider and symbol pickers were unstyled operating-system controls; they are the single thing that most made the terminal look assembled rather than designed.

A safety note that applies to all of it: every built-in theme is checked automatically for legible chrome text, a visible focus ring, and candles that stand out against its own background at both ends of its gradient. Picking a preset is always safe. Only a hand-picked colour pair can collide with a background, and Settings warns you the moment it does rather than quietly correcting a choice you made on purpose.

Also: boolean indicator settings now work. They were silently ignored across the whole app, which had been quietly disabling a few options on Cipher SR and Cipher B, and they now appear as checkboxes rather than a box expecting you to type "true". Indicator markers follow Heikin Ashi candles when you have them on, the toolbar's market and provider now follow you when you switch tabs, and bar replay moved to F9–F11 because F4 was already the braille toggle.

2.0.1 — accessibility polish + crypto-options data (2026-07-26)

A small point release on top of 2.0.0. A handful of accessibility fixes that came straight out of live use, plus one new keyless data provider. Nothing breaks — every 2.0.0 note below still applies.

• Finish a drawing with touch alone. On a phone or tablet you could start a trend line or channel from the touch bar but couldn't set the later points without a keyboard. The touch toolbar now has a Place drawing point button: arm a tool from Drawing Tools, move the cursor, and tap it once per point — multi-point drawings complete entirely by touch. It tells you if no tool is armed yet.
• Move between series on touch. New Previous series / Next series buttons on the touch bar (the Page Up/Down equivalents), so you're no longer limited to bars and components without a keyboard.
• Sparse indicators announce a count, not "no data". On indicators whose signals are rare — Cipher B's dots, for example — landing on a bar with no marker used to say "no data", which sounded like the whole series was broken even though Ctrl+Left/Right still jumps between the signals that are there. It now says "3 signals in view" (or "no signals in view"). Only a genuinely empty series still says "no data".
• Optional gradient chart background. Settings → Appearance → Colors gains a Gradient background switch and a second "bottom" colour, fading the chart pane vertically between two colours. Purely cosmetic and off by default — audio-first users can ignore it. (Cloud fills also no longer leave a hairline gap where two lines cross.)
• New provider — Deribit crypto-options volatility (no API key). Chart the Deribit Volatility Index (DVOL) — crypto's "VIX", the options market's forward implied volatility — plus realised volatility, for BTC and ETH. Load it from the market dropdown under Derivatives → Deribit (BTC_DVOL, ETH_DVOL, BTC_HISTVOL, ETH_HISTVOL). DVOL sitting well above realised volatility means options are pricing fear — a useful mean-reversion tell, and the terminal's first window onto the crypto options side.

For the full engineering changelog see CHANGES.md.

What's New in 2.0.0

Version 2.0 is the milestone the whole "2.0 line" was building toward: a rock-solid trading core, every provider brought up to a reliable standard, and background monitoring that never fails silently. This page is the user-facing tour of what changed since 1.9.0. For the full engineering changelog see CHANGES.md.

Version note: 2.0.0 is a major milestone, but nothing breaks for you. Your saved workspaces, strategies, drawings, alerts, sound designs, shortcuts, and API keys all load unchanged. The "major" is about how much got rock-solid under the hood, not about migration pain.

Every exchange now talks to its API directly

The crypto exchanges no longer rely on heavyweight third-party SDKs — Binance and MEXC were rewritten to call their REST and WebSocket APIs directly, joining Bitstamp, Kraken, and Coinbase. The whole app now carries no shared exchange library at all, which had been a hidden source of plugin-loading conflicts.

For you that means:

• MEXC charts actually stream. MEXC moved its spot data feed to a compact binary (Protobuf) format; the terminal now speaks it natively, so KAS, TAO, and other MEXC-only assets chart and update the live price in real time — verified live.
• Leaner, faster, fewer moving parts. Each exchange integration is small, transparent, and independent, so a problem with one can't take another down.

Your fills and cancels always reach your ears

This was the biggest reliability push of 2.0. A deep audit of all ~17 providers found places where the thing a blind trader most needs to hear — did my order fill? did my data actually load? — could go silent. Those are closed now:

• A filled order is never announced as "cancelled" again. Some brokers (Tradier, Schwab) don't tag their fill records with the order you placed, so the terminal used to guess — and sometimes guessed "cancelled" for an order that actually filled. It now asks the broker directly for that order's status, so what you hear is the truth.
• Bitstamp order updates were silently broken and now work. The private order feed was subscribing to the wrong channel name, so fills and cancels never arrived. Fixed — and the fill amounts and buy/sell side are now reported correctly.
• A failed data load is heard, not shown as an empty chart. Across every provider, a rate-limit, a bad key, or a network hiccup now speaks the reason instead of leaving a silent blank chart or a false "you hold nothing."
• Interactive Brokers is safer with real money. Order confirmations now read out any broker warnings before auto-confirming them, take-profit orders carry their trigger price, and a working order no longer mis-announces as a partial fill.

Background monitoring can't die quietly

If you keep charts monitoring in the background (or run the terminal headless with the tray), a feed that goes silent is now detected, announced once, and automatically restarted — the same safety net the focused chart already had. A background feed can no longer stop updating without telling you.

A correctness sweep across the providers

Dozens of smaller fixes that add up to trustworthy data and orders:

• Right times on the chart. Tradier intraday bars and FMP intraday bars were landing at the wrong timestamps (off by hours, or at "year 0001"); both now sit where they belong, with proper US-Eastern conversion.
• Alpaca crypto works. Alpaca crypto pairs were coming back empty because the symbol was formatted wrong; they chart correctly now.
• More history where the exchange allows it. Polygon no longer silently caps you at 1,000 bars when far more are available.
• Honest connection state and cleaner shutdown. Oanda now wipes your live-money token on disconnect; several providers report streaming status based on the real connection rather than just "a key is present," so the terminal falls back to polling and still announces fills when a stream is down.
• Smarter rate limiting. Failed requests that can't succeed (a bad key, a malformed request) no longer get retried pointlessly — you hear the real error sooner.

What made 2.0 "2.0" (the flagship features)

If you're coming from an older release, these are the tent-poles of the 2.0 line:

• Instant tab switches and live background tabs. The data pipeline was rebuilt around per-chart feeds, so switching tabs is instant from a warm buffer, background tabs can stream live (opt-in, in Settings → Background monitoring), and your strategies finally evaluate on live bar closes.
• Alerts that fire with the browser closed. On the hosted terminal, every user's saved alerts are evaluated server-side and delivered by email, Telegram, webhook, or browser push notifications — even when no browser is open.
• A desktop system-tray icon for the local terminal, so closing the browser leaves the server running with a screen-reader-navigable control menu (reopen, recent alerts, silence, status, exit) and the live unread-alert count in its name.
• Session resume. The terminal remembers your last session and offers to restore your workspaces and charts on launch.
• Broker parity. Native bracket orders on Tradier and Schwab, fill history across the brokers, and clear spoken handling where an exchange only supports one protective leg.

Under the hood (for the curious)

The provider system got a shared foundation so quality stays put: shared signing and symbol-formatting helpers, structured error reporting, a conformance test gate every provider must pass, and a build guard that fails if two plugins ever pull conflicting library versions. The full test suite stands at 2,109 tests, all green.

Known limitations tracked for a follow-up: Coinbase live candles don't yet report volume (historical bars do), and the Schwab real-time account stream awaits Schwab developer-app approval. Neither affects charting or order placement.