February 2025

Expressions

While custom expressions have been available within charts for some time, now you can save them with a custom name and symbol, allowing for quick retrieval throughout the application. Access saved expressions from the chart’s symbol search menu or integrate them into portfolios, quoteboards, scans, alerts and more.

Chart Preview

Application, chart and chart tool settings are now shown on-screen as changes are made, allowing you to preview how things will look before confirming. This is helpful when considering modifications to display properties as well as studies, drawing tools and conditions, where variables can have a dramatic impact on outputs.

Expanded Intervals

Intervals have been enhanced to support customizable historical time periods. Much like custom intraday intervals can aggregate data into minute and multi-minute time series, historical intervals can now do the same across daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual charts. Intraday intervals continue to work by entering a number into the chart’s symbol search, while expanded historical intervals can be accessed by typing a number followed by that period’s abbreviation (D, W, M, Q, A).

DeMARK Breadth Indices

The DeMARK Breadth Indices are now available exclusively on Symbolik and free for all users. Aggregating the number of default Sequential®, Setup® and Countdown® readings across the S&P 500, the Nasdaq 100 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, these proprietary metrics offer unique insights into the internal strength or weakness of each benchmark to help identify areas of potential trend exhaustion.

Additional Improvements

There have been numerous additional improvements across the Symbolik platform, including:
• The quoteboard service has been improved for faster sorting and performance.
• Inactive symbols now remain retrievable within the charting feature, allowing you to analyze acquisitions, expirations and delistings long after they’ve stopped trading.
• Removing an unsaved chart tool instance from the chart serves a warning message so you can save the settings as a new preset prior to deletion.

October 2024

Symbolik Scripting Language (SLANG)

We are delighted to announce the launch of our new Symbolik Scripting Language (SLANG), which will serve as the backbone of the platform going forward. Symbolik SLANG offers advanced coding capabilities, a more robust library of technical and mathematical functions, forced symbols, the ability to nest separate studies and conditions, and an improved IntelliSense menu to facilitate the writing of scripts. You can begin utilizing Symbolik SLANG now within the Condition Builder, with additional functionality to follow elsewhere in the future.

Condition Builder 2.0

Along with the release of Symbolik SLANG, substantial upgrades have been made to the Condition Builder’s capabilities. More outputs and functions have been released, allowing you to create richer conditions with less code. The formula writing process has been greatly simplified, with dynamic suggestions as you type to make the experience faster and more intuitive. The toolbox was improved by providing a wizard to walk you through the condition building process, step by step. With these enhancements, your ability to create advanced conditions has never been easier.

Add Chart Tool Interface

An exciting new feature introduced with Symbolik SLANG is the ability to add indicators to indicators. This opens an entirely new way to view and analyze data. Indicators can be applied to instances from the new 'Add chart tool' interface. Chart tools can also be applied to studies and conditions within the Condition Builder, making your conditions even more advanced.

Additional Improvements

• Preserved Drawings:  Drawings and annotations can now be preserved when switching between symbols and intervals, allowing you to retrieve your prior work from that specific chart window. This setting is enabled by default, but you can also choose to display a prompt or discard drawings whenever a symbol is changed.
• Chart Color:  Chart text and background colors can now be customized within your theme to add more clarity and aesthetic appeal to your work. You can modify this locally from that chart's settings or globally from the "Chart" tab of the system settings.
• Unique Symbol Codes:  Symbolik SLANG's ability to specify symbols in one's conditions and scripts introduces a change to the platform symbology. You can continue typing shorthand symbols, but when specifying a distinct symbol for use within expressions and conditions, symbol codes will now begin with the full exchange name, followed by the symbol (e.g. NASDAQ:MSFT).

May 2024

Collapsible Chart Tools Menu

Chart studies, drawing tools, conditions and favorites are all available from the chart tools panel, but now you can make things more compact. In addition to the traditional expanded and hidden states, the collapsed panel can now also be displayed as a toolbar to keep all items immediately accessible while gaining more screen real estate for your charts.

Chart Cursor Controls

• Cursor Magnet pulls the mouse to nearby price outputs to select significant values with greater precision
• Draw Tool Lock persists the active tool for repeated use
• Labels and Lines integrate the display previously limited to the crosshairs and target cursors so this reference information can be utilized across all drawing tools
• Global Cursors allow you to project cursor coordinates for the active chart across a multi-chart layout

Notifications 2.0 

Notifications have been revamped to make information easier to retain and retrieve. The bell icon has been relocated to the righthand panel, allowing you to keep the menu open and cycle through notifications without losing your place. System-based notifications have also been added to share important Symbolik announcements and feature releases.

Managing & Layering Chart Tool Instances

You can now manage the layering and arrangement of Chart Tool instances and chart panes to better view outputs and further customize your layout. Access these controls using the Manage Chart Tool Instance icon in the chart menu, within the chart’s corner ellipses menu or from the right-click menu on the chart background.

You can also quickly reorder individual instances and panes from their respective Heads-Up Display (HUD) ellipses menus.

Additional Improvements

• SMS notifications are now available for Scans and Alerts
• Enhancements have been made to the scanning engine, dramatically improving the performance of complex Scans
• Settings modals throughout the application are no longer docked, allowing them to be moved as needed
• Drawing Tools have been refactored to improve rendering speed and responsiveness
• Workspaces have been rebuilt to improve performance throughout the application, including startup, tab changes and splitting charts 
• Chart outputs and settings are preserved in your local browser session to ensure stability and data retention during browser refreshes and lost connections