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Changelog

What's new in ORBit Analytics — new features, fixes and quality-of-life improvements, newest first.

New Features Bug Fixes Quality of Life

Release Schedule

How updates are planned and shipped. One bigger update lands on the first of every month; smaller fixes arrive in between.

Monthly Feature Update 1st of every month

One bigger batch of new features and improvements, shipped on a fixed monthly cadence so you always know when the next step lands.

Hotfixes & Small Tweaks Between releases, as needed

Smaller fixes and quality-of-life improvements roll out in between the monthly drops — gathered into the next versioned entry below.

Critical Fixes Immediately

Anything that breaks the tool or your data is fixed and deployed as soon as it is found, ahead of any schedule.

v1.2

August 30, 2026

New Features

  • Proper documentation, at /docs. One page covering every module end to end — the markets and where the data comes from, every opening-range control, all five trade types, the full filter catalogue and every panel in the sidebar. A directory tracks where you are as you scroll. It also states plainly what the numbers are not: the equity curves are a simplified simulation, and testing hundreds of filter combinations will always turn up something that looks good by chance.
  • ORBit Observer is now “Take It to Your Chart”. Instead of a live watchlist you had to sit and watch, it puts the setup you have loaded onto the chart you actually trade: add the indicator once, paste your preset, and your opening range, SD grid, stat lines, entry-timing markers and a live condition dashboard are drawn for you. Time and place is unchanged beside it. The live watchlist and its notifications are gone; your saved edges and watchlists are untouched, and the list that fed the Observer is now an ordinary watchlist you can rename.
  • The TradingView indicator is now free on every plan. Send to TradingView used to require a paid plan. A free Nasdaq account can now export any setup and see it drawn on its own chart. The data split is unchanged — the other fifteen markets remain on Pro.
  • A fourth trade type: OR Close. Filled at the opening range's own closing price the moment the window ends — the clock triggers it, not price, so you pick the direction yourself. Its value is as a baseline: run it with the same filters as one of your breakout setups to see whether the edge belongs to the breakout, or the market simply tended to move that way on those days. Risk is a fixed fraction of the range from your entry, so R stays comparable. Every market, preset and custom ranges alike.
  • TradingView indicator: levels now stretch across the session the moment the range closes. The opening-range edges, the SD grid and your target lines used to grow one candle at a time, so a 2-SD target spent its first minutes as a stub too short to judge. Every horizontal level is now drawn straight out to the session close.
  • The TradingView indicator now draws your typical entry time. Markers sit at the typical minutes between the range closing and your trigger firing, taken from your own filtered sample, so you can see when to expect the entry before it happens. Toggleable; the median also shows on the dashboard.
  • A portfolio's trades, in one chronological ledger. A new View Trades button on the Portfolio builder's equity curve merges every edge's trades into one date-ordered list, opened in ORBit Charts with the same filters, per-trade detail and chart drill-down as the single-market ledger. A new Symbol column covers baskets spanning several markets, and each row's edge and trade type sit in its detail strip. Every R is net of your cost and risk settings. Back to Market returns to the current symbol.
  • A fifth trade type: Rebreak — a validation build. After the range breaks, price has to retrace to a fixed trigger line inside it, then break the same edge again, confirmed the same way as the first break. That second break is the entry. Days that reach the 1 SD target or break the other side first simply don't qualify. Your Stop-loss stays a separate choice, as on every other trade type. Custom opening ranges on every market — no chart or EA export yet, it is there to find out whether the idea holds up.
  • The ORBit NinjaTrader Indicator is here, included with Pro. Where the TradingView one draws what your preset froze at the moment you copied it, this asks ORBit a live question: you pick the conditions, it reads today's values off your own chart feed, and it reports what history says. It asks again as the day confirms itself — touch, then a five-minute close, then a fifteen-minute — and the numbers tighten at each step. Every figure also shows how far it sits from the baseline, the same question with your conditions taken off, so you can tell whether your filters beat an ordinary day. It also draws higher-timeframe key levels and marks the ones price has already traded back through. Pro, every market, downloaded from the Observer tab.
  • ORBit, our MetaTrader 5 Expert Advisor, is available. Build an edge, export it, and the EA trades exactly that logic on your MT5 — the same range, trigger, filters, stop and target — reporting back to your dashboard instead of a VPS. An add-on on top of Pro, €20/month until 30 September, then €30 — and whatever you join at is the rate you keep. The NinjaTrader algo is not part of it yet.
  • Pro is now €30/month, and the launch offer has ended. If you are already subscribed, nothing changes: you keep the price you signed up at, for as long as you stay subscribed. Your rate is locked the day you join.

Bug Fixes

  • Selecting an edge's name to copy it could drag the card instead, or drop stray text into the rename box. A card's own drag stayed active while its name was open for renaming. It is now switched off for as long as the rename box is open.
  • The Holiday filter was silently ignored on the 5-minute and 15-minute close entries. Holidays are shortened half-sessions, excluded by default — and on Touch they always were. On the candle-close entries the chip did nothing at all, so those counts quietly included the sessions the Touch numbers excluded (2,204 trades instead of 2,185 on Nasdaq's 15-minute range). Candle-close numbers now shift down slightly and the chip does what it says.
  • Switching back from OR Close no longer leaves its direction filtering your setup. OR Close requires a Direction pick, and switching to another trade type kept it — so your next setup ran on half the sample with a filter you never chose. It now clears on the way out. A direction you set yourself is untouched.
  • Switching Entry to a candle close could show “0 trades” instead of “loading”. Those entries read a separate statistics file, downloaded the first time you pick one, and while it was in flight every panel read zero — indistinguishable from a setup that never traded. If the request failed, nothing retried. It now says loading, and offers Try again if the file did not arrive. The statistics themselves were never wrong.
  • Every timing figure was 3× too early on the 15-minute-close entry. The tool counted the wait to your entry in 5-minute steps instead of 15-minute candles. On Nasdaq's 15-minute range the typical entry read 10 minutes after the range closed when the real figure is 30. It affected the timing charts, the entry-timing markers your chart indicator draws, and the elapsed trade-time-window filter — where “within 60 minutes” was admitting trades up to 180. Touch and 5-minute-close entries were never affected. ⚠️ A saved edge combining 15-min Close with an elapsed trade-time window now filters the window you actually asked for, so its numbers will shift — re-check those, and re-export any preset string built on 15-min Close.
  • The drawdown strip no longer drifts out of place when the window changes. Resizing the tool, or moving it to a second monitor, could leave the drawdown area riding up into the equity line or floating away from it. Every band is now derived from the measured height. Affected the equity curve everywhere it appears.
  • The equity-curve crosshair now sits exactly under your cursor. It used to appear slightly to the right of the pointer, because the cursor was measured from the edge of the whole chart rather than from where the plot starts.
  • TradingView indicator: the dashboard is no longer covered by the title watermark. The watermark reached into the top-right corner the dashboard sits in on all but very wide windows. It now steps aside automatically, and the dashboard panel is fully solid. There is a toggle if you prefer the old fixed spots.
  • Custom min/max ranges are now carried to the TradingView indicator. A setup filtered by a typed range rather than the fixed buckets — volatility, either gap, relative volume, prior-day volume or trigger distance — exported a string that left those bounds out, so the chart showed the row as not filtered while your statistics had been narrowed by it. All six now travel with the string and are verified live on the chart.
  • TradingView indicator: volatility, gap and London ranges now match the tool exactly. Volatility (ADR%) read slightly high and could land a day in the neighbouring bucket; the overnight gap was measured from the range's first bar instead of the session open, which is wrong on a custom window; and a London range drew an hour off during the weeks when European and US clocks change on different weekends. The indicator also honours the “Close at NY open” exit, and marks a filter it cannot verify instead of quietly passing it.
  • The Cross-Instrument test now applies your simulated costs. Every other validation view deducts the cost you pick under Simulate Costs; this table reported gross results, which flattered high-frequency setups and made it disagree with the equity curve beside it. It now re-prices the moment you change the setting.
  • The 0.25 SD stop has been removed. Results are measured against what you risk, so a quarter-width stop makes every winner look four times bigger while spread, slippage and commission stay exactly the same size — the simulated edge grew as the real one shrank. Gone from both the custom stop and the Failed Breakout stop. Saved edges using it still calculate as before.
  • The custom volatility range now works on candle-close entries. Typing a min/max into Volatility (ADR%) did nothing on the 5-min and 15-min close entries, or in Failed Breakout mode — it only ever filtered on Touch. It now works on any entry basis and lines up exactly with the fixed buckets.
  • The Set Builder's animations now respect the “disable animations” preference. The digital-rain backdrop and its sidebar tab checked only your operating system's reduced-motion setting, not the site's own toggle.
  • The exact-start-date and exact-time boxes could vanish with no way to bring them back. A “Mini” density setting hid them, and its only switch lived in a mobile-only layout — so on desktop there was no control left to undo it. The density setting is gone; the fields are always there.
  • The trade chart's timeframe caption said “5-minute” even when the chart was drawn on 15-minute candles. The chart already picked the right timeframe; only the caption beneath it was hardcoded.
  • Custom opening-range windows now step in 5-minute increments only. The slider already moved in 15-minute steps and typing a time already rounded to the nearest 5. The one path that could still carry an off-grid value was an edge saved or shared before that rounding existed — those now snap on load. The NinjaTrader indicator's live inputs refuse an off-grid time outright.
  • Touch entry with a custom Stop-loss was silently swapped for 5-min Close. With Stop-loss away from the default 1 SD, Touch and 5-min Close produced identical results because both ran the close basis — on Nasdaq at 0.75 SD that hid a real difference (34.8% win vs 40.6%). It reached everywhere a saved edge is resolved: the Portfolio builder, Correlation matrix, Cross-Instrument test and the exported preset string. Touch now behaves as chosen in all of them.
  • Jumping from the default range to a custom one reset Entry to 5-min Close. Moving to a custom window always landed on 5-min Close, discarding whatever Entry you had set. It now carries over.
  • Switching markets while on ORBit Charts could leave it looking empty. The ledger stayed scrolled to a position the new market's shorter list had nothing at. Switching instruments now returns to the top.
  • A handful of historical Natural Gas and Crude Oil days had a fake price jump baked into them. When a futures contract rolls to the next delivery month, the data vendor can switch contracts mid-session rather than between sessions, creating an instantaneous unreal move (this surfaced as an absurd +22R result on an illustrated NG trade). All 16 markets' full history was checked against the real underlying contracts to confirm which days were genuinely affected. Three days are corrected; nothing else changed.
  • The TradingView indicator drew breakouts in a direction your setup excludes. A Long-only or Short-only setup still drew the opposite-direction breakout — stat lines, markers and the triangle — even though that side never appears in your sample. It now waits for a breakout your setup allows.
  • The TradingView indicator's Overnight Gap measured from the wrong reference on a custom opening range. It compared yesterday's close to the price at a fixed 09:30 ET clock time rather than to your window's own session open, so the gap bucket could differ from the tool's on any range that does not start at the NY open.

Quality of Life

  • Close at NY Open now works on Failed Breakout, and the EA and NinjaTrader indicator honour it. The exit — offered whenever your custom range closes before 09:30 ET — was missing from the Failed Breakout target control, which only offered End of Day. Downstream, the ORBit EA ignored it and held to the 16:00 close, and the NinjaTrader indicator always measured to the cash close. Both follow the setup now, and the indicator gains a Session Exit setting.
  • Saved edges and portfolios can be renamed, and re-saving no longer duplicates. Loading an edge fills the save form with its existing name and watchlists, so saving again overwrites instead of creating a second copy. Portfolios can be renamed the same way, and a name you already use is blocked with a clear message.
  • The Opening-range path filter drops its third bucket. Indeterminate covered the rare day where one minute printed both the range's high and low — 16 days out of 4,785 on Nasdaq. Those days are now assigned properly by where the minute opened, leaving two clean groups. With only two, it behaves like Direction: click one, or neither. Older edges still select exactly the same days.
  • Time and place always measures against the opposite edge of the range, whatever your Stop-loss setting. A trade that gave the whole range back is counted at a full 100% retracement instead of vanishing behind a tighter stop. It still follows your Target exactly as before. One consequence: with a custom stop-loss set, the winner count here can differ from the equity panel's, because the two read different stops.
  • The TradingView indicator is breakout-only and no longer draws a stop level. It shows what your sample did, not what to do — and a stop level painted on the chart reads as an instruction, so the stop is now a dashboard row instead. The Breakout/Reversal switch is gone too: on a chart a reversal is a breakout of a slightly wider range taken the other way. Reversal setups are unchanged everywhere else in the tool.
  • Sending a setup to TradingView happens in one place. The Send to TradingView button in the Time-and-place header and its pop-up are gone; the chart-bridge button now does the whole job. Time and place's opening explanation moved behind a small i beside “Fixed stop basis”, which turns amber the moment your Stop-loss leaves the canonical level.
  • Take It to Your Chart is now two panels, side by side. Take It to TradingView and Take It to NinjaTrader are both on screen at once, each with a video, a pros-and-cons list, Set up and Use it. Both name their own limitations, so you can see which fits how you trade. The videos are placeholders for now.
  • The tool loads faster, and noticeably faster on Firefox. The 34 MB calculation engine was being downloaded twice on some browsers, the tool's script files were re-checked with the server on every visit even though they can never change, and the download progress bar was redrawing the screen on every network packet. All three are fixed.
  • The sidebar modules are grouped. Seven modules in one flat list are now split by what you do with an edge: Analysis for finding and checking it, Manual for trading it by hand, Execution for handing it to a bot. Collapsed to icons, the group names become dividers. Nothing moved out of reach.
  • The TradingView indicator no longer waits forever for a breakout that will never come. On a Long-only or Short-only setup, several dashboard rows sat on “waiting” all session whenever the day broke the other way. They now resolve off whichever direction actually broke out first, and a new Direction row says whether today's breakout matches your setup. The chart drawings are unaffected. The “Trade time”, “Breakout” and “BO Time” rows are gone.
  • The two chart indicators are now named after their platform. Both were called ORBit Analytics Indicator, which told you nothing about which one you were holding. They are the ORBit TradingView Indicator and the ORBit NinjaTrader Indicator. If you run the TradingView one, only the name on your chart changes — same script, same link, same settings.

v1.1

August 4, 2026

Quality of Life

  • Search the changelog. There’s now a search box at the top of the changelog that filters the whole history down to the individual lines that match what you type — so you can jump straight to, say, every mention of “Observer” or “portfolio” without scrolling through every release. Clearing the box brings the full history back.
  • The homepage orbit map now scales on smaller screens. On shorter or narrower displays the animated “toolkit in orbit” on the landing page used to keep its feature tiles and labels at full size even as the rings shrank, so they’d start to overlap. The tiles and text now scale down with the orbit, so it stays clean and readable on any screen.

v1.0

July 11, 2026

New Features

  • The whole toolkit is now free on Nasdaq (NQ). Every analysis feature — the custom opening range picker, custom stop-losses, saved edges, the Portfolio builder, the Prop-Firm simulator, in-tool trade charts, cross-instrument testing and the live ORBit Observer — now works for free on the Nasdaq (NQ) dataset, with no subscription. Previously most of these were paid. The idea is simple: you should be able to feel the entire tool end-to-end before you ever pay. Pro still unlocks the other fifteen markets, plus the TradingView indicator.

Quality of Life

  • A simpler, tighter market list. We retired the three micro contracts (Micro Nasdaq, Micro S&P and Micro Gold). Each one mirrored its full-size parent almost tick-for-tick, with less history and no separate positioning data — so they added clutter without adding any real insight. The tool now covers sixteen focused markets, with Nasdaq (NQ) as the free one.
  • Cache every market automatically on launch. The tool has always had a Cache all symbols button that pre-loads every market you’re subscribed to so switching between them is instant. There’s now a matching setting in Account → Preferences — Cache Markets On Launch — that runs it for you each time the tool opens, so you never have to press the button. A small progress badge appears while it works, so you can see it happening. It’s off by default (the warm-up takes ~20–30 seconds), so leave it off if you only ever look at one or two markets.
  • Test your live-edge notifications. Once you’ve turned on ORBit Observer alerts, a new Send a test notification button fires a sample push to your device right away — so you can confirm alerts actually reach you, and trust them, without waiting for one of your edges to go live.

ALPHA Now in alpha

Releases restart at 1.0 — everything below was the beta

v6.2

July 8, 2026

New Features

  • Four new markets. The tool now covers nineteen futures — we’ve added Russell 2000 (RTY), Nikkei 225 (NKD), Natural Gas (NG) and the Swiss Franc (6S), each with the same seasonality, COT positioning and expected-volatility read as every other market. The Nikkei, Natural Gas and the Swiss Franc carry the full history back to 2008; the Russell starts in 2009, the year its contract became genuinely liquid. These four were picked deliberately: of the remaining contracts, they’re the ones with the real day-trading liquidity an intraday opening-range tool needs.
  • Share a whole portfolio, not just single edges. Every saved portfolio now has a share button that copies one code for the entire basket — all of its edges, their names and the split-risk setting. Whoever you send it to pastes that code into Import and the complete portfolio is rebuilt on their own data in one step (edges on markets outside their plan are simply skipped). Until now you could only share one edge at a time.

Bug Fixes

  • Signing in takes you straight into the tool. Clicking the link in your login email now drops you right into the app instead of back on the page you started from — so a first-time sign-up from the homepage lands where the work happens.
  • The free TradingView companion indicator now shows the current site address in its Preset box — it had still referenced the old one.
  • You can set your display timezone again from Account → Preferences. It had briefly gone missing; now it’s back, and every time shown in the tool updates the moment you change it — no reload needed.
  • Fresh market data now shows right away. After each weekly data refresh, the per-trade charts and custom opening-range view used to keep showing last week’s data (or a blank chart for the newest days) until your browser’s cache aged out. They now update on your very next visit — the moment new data is published.
  • The Portfolio builder has its time-horizon slider back. You can once again shorten the window on your blended portfolio — the combined equity curve, its metrics and the monthly table all recompute to the range you pick, with the start date following the earliest edge in your basket.
  • The exported strategy string now shows the exact same time-and-place figures as the tool. A rounding quirk could make a median in the copied string read one hundredth higher than the number on screen (e.g. 0.6 instead of 0.59); both sides now round identically.
  • The TradingView indicator no longer gives up on long charts. Paste a preset on a chart with a deep history — a spot forex pair, say — and the indicator could go completely blank: no opening range, no stat lines, not even its dashboard. It was re-reading the whole preset string on every single candle, and on a long chart that quietly exceeded TradingView’s calculation budget and killed the script. The preset is now read once, so the indicator draws on any chart and any history length.
  • Currency setups now work on the matching spot pair. Sending a currency-futures setup — Euro (6E), Pound (6B), Aussie (6A), Yen (6J) or Swiss Franc (6S) — to the free indicator and pasting it on EURUSD, GBPUSD, AUDUSD, USDJPY or USDCHF is now properly supported: the “Chart ≠ 6E” warning is replaced by a Spot pair row, and because USDJPY and USDCHF are quoted the other way round the indicator mirrors the direction for you. The Yen also carried the wrong ticker in the copied string, so it flagged a mismatch even on its own chart. And if the opening range genuinely can’t be drawn — a chart timeframe longer than the range itself means no candle ever opens inside it — the indicator now says so instead of leaving you with an empty chart.
  • Market holidays are now left out of the statistics by default. A holiday is a shortened half-session that behaves nothing like a full trading day — on the Nasdaq it breaks long only 36% of the time against 52% on a normal day — yet it was quietly counted inside every filter, so a holiday Wednesday was treated as an ordinary Wednesday. The Market Holidays filter now starts excluded: one click brings those days back in, another shows you holidays on their own. Saved edges keep whatever setting you stored with them.
  • Days with incomplete price data no longer distort the statistics. A 1-minute candle only prints when something actually trades, so on a very quiet or badly-fed morning the opening range could be built from just one or two candles instead of fifteen. That makes the opening range look absurdly small — and since every R figure is measured in units of that range, a perfectly ordinary trending day could be reported as a 129R winner. Worse, the same missing candles hid stop-outs, so the distortion always flattered the results. Any day whose opening range is missing too much of its data is now left out of every statistic, across all nineteen markets. Genuinely quiet opens with complete data are untouched — they’re real, and they stay. Nothing is hidden from you: ORBit Charts has a new Excluded Days toggle that lists exactly those sessions, each showing how many of its opening-range candles actually printed, so you can pull the date up on a chart and see it for yourself. On the Nasdaq the only two are 9 and 12 March 2020 — the days trading was halted seconds after the open.
  • Candle-close entries now work on every market. Basing your entry on the first 5-minute or 15-minute close beyond the range — rather than the first touch of it — only ever worked on the Nasdaq. On any other market it silently returned zero trades, and the Entry card itself only appeared under certain conditions (and then stubbornly stayed visible once it had). The entry basis is now available on all nineteen markets, and its card is always there.
  • The Russell 2000’s history now starts in 2009. Its 2008 data turned out to be a different, barely-traded contract stitched onto the front of the series by our data vendor — around 6% of the volume the Russell has traded every year since. Those 241 sessions were quietly dragging the Russell’s averages around, so they’ve been removed. Every other market’s history is unchanged and verified back to 2008.
  • The DAX was carrying two prices for the same minute. Since early April, our data provider had been sending us two candles per minute for FDAX — one from the exchange’s order book, and one from off-book block trades at a different price. Both were being stored, so 63 sessions had a distorted opening range. We now keep only the order-book candle, and the DAX’s recent history has been rebuilt. No other market was affected.
  • Custom opening ranges and candle-close entries now get the same data-completeness check. The check was already protecting the preset ranges; it now covers every statistic. For a custom range it adapts to the market and the time of day — a quiet market at 3am is not the same as a broken feed — so a thin session is judged against what that market normally trades in that window, never against a fixed number.
  • The prior-day volume filter was measuring against a deflated benchmark. It compares yesterday’s total volume with a rolling median of recent days — but that median was also counting the Sunday evening re-open, a six-hour stub session rather than a full trading day. With roughly one in five of its readings being a fraction of a real day, the benchmark sat too low and the multiplier too high, on every market. It now measures against complete trading days only.

Quality of Life

  • Custom opening ranges now have a 15-minute floor. The picker used to allow a range as short as 5 minutes, but a 5- or 10-minute opening range is too thin to read reliably — the breakout and its statistics turn to noise. You can still set any window from 15 minutes up to 12 hours, in 5-minute steps. Saved edges with a shorter custom range still load and compute as before.
  • The Direction filter is one click again. Long and Short are the only two options, so excluding one was simply another way of writing the other — yet the chip still made you cycle through an exclude state to get back to off. Direction (like Trading Style) is now a plain on/off: pick a side, or leave both off for no filter. Saved edges that stored an exclude are converted to the identical include, so their numbers do not move.
  • A cleaner, more consistent look for every pop-up, across both the site and the tool. Instead of darkening the page behind a dialog, the background is now gently frosted — so you keep your bearings — and every pop-up uses the exact same treatment.
  • Tidied the tool’s filter sidebar — removed a redundant explainer box now that filters are simply click-to-include, click-again-to-exclude.
  • Every hover hint now matches the rest of the site. Buttons, dropdowns, table headers and icons that explain themselves when you hover used to fall back to your browser’s plain white system bubble. They now all use the same dark, rounded tooltip as the tool — one consistent look across the site and the app.
  • Consistent capitalisation everywhere. Buttons, dropdowns, tabs, headers, chart labels and the small hover hints that explain a control had drifted into a mix of styles — “Explore this page” next to “Save Changes”. Every short label across the site and the tool now uses the same title-case style, so nothing reads like it belongs to a different app.

v6.1

July 2, 2026

New Features

  • A new ORBit Overview dashboard — one at-a-glance read on any market’s backdrop, bringing seasonality, COT positioning, expected volatility and a fundamentals snapshot together in a single tabbed view. Expected volatility reads the options market’s implied volatility (the VIX family) as an expected daily move — e.g. “options expect about ±1.9%/day” — with a calm → stressed regime gauge; fundamentals shows the macro backdrop tailored to each market: policy rate and carry for currencies, real yields for metals, CPI / jobs / yields for indices, and a European set (ECB rate, euro-area inflation, the Bund, EUR/USD) for the DAX. It works on every market you can access, free Nasdaq included, and everything is explained inline — each tile has an info tooltip, every fundamentals figure has its own hover spelling out what that number means for the market you’re viewing (and which way it’s currently leaning), and the charts are interactive with hover-scrub.
  • The Overview replaces the single ORBit Score board from the last update. Rather than compressing everything into one number, it now shows the underlying picture directly — where the big players are positioned, how the calendar has behaved, what the market expects for movement, and the macro backdrop — so you can read the lean for yourself. (Still a statistical backdrop from public data, never advice.)

Quality of Life

  • Simpler pricing. There is now a single paid plan — Pro — that unlocks every market (current and future) and every advanced feature; the old “Add 2 Symbols” bundle has been retired. The upcoming automated-trading add-on is now called Automation. The pricing page is cleaner too: Free, Pro and Automation sit side by side, each with its name in a badge on top. And when you hit a paid feature inside the tool, the full Free / Pro / Automation feature comparison is right there in the unlock panel — so you can weigh it up without leaving your analysis.
  • Filters are quicker to use. The separate Include / Mixed mode switch is gone — now you just left-click a filter tag to include it, click again to exclude it, once more to clear, or right-click to clear it instantly. Include and exclude any filters together freely, with no mode to set first.
  • The collapsed tool sidebar is easier to navigate — hovering a section icon now shows a one-line description of what it does (“ORBit Analyzer — build your edge”, “ORBit Overview — the big-picture read”, and so on), not just its name.
  • A few sections were renamed for clarity: ORBit Explorer is now ORBit Observer (watch your edges go live), ORBit Connector is now ORBit Assembler (build portfolios and connect them to automation), and Recent Trades is now ORBit Charts (the verifiable ledger where every trade opens on a chart). Same features, clearer names — your saved edges and watchlists are untouched.
  • The in-app tour is simpler. The Quick tour now gives you a fast lay of the land — it highlights each section in the sidebar with one short line on what it does — and every view carries its own “Explore this page” button that walks you through just that view, control by control, whenever you want the detail. No more single marathon tour or separate paid-features tour to sit through.
  • On the affiliate page, Program terms now open in a pop-up right where you are, instead of sending you off to the full Terms page — so you can read the affiliate rules without losing your place.

v6.0

June 30, 2026

New Features

  • A brand-new ORBit Score tab — a single bullish / bearish bias for every market you can access, ranked side by side on one board. It’s built only from public, fundamental data — never price indicators — so it answers “which way is the weight of evidence leaning” rather than drawing lines on a chart. Each market gets a composite score from −100 (strong bearish) to +100 (strong bullish) with a plain-English label, and you can open any market to see exactly which signals drive it. It’s framed throughout as a statistical bias from public data, not a trade recommendation.
  • The score blends eight signals, each shown as its own colour-coded column (green bullish / red bearish) and normalised to −100…+100 so you can see what’s pulling the bias which way: COT positioning (where the large speculators sit in their recent range), COT momentum (how fast they’re building or unwinding, week over week), Rates (currency carry differentials, and the trajectory of US yields for indices, metals and crypto), Macro (growth + inflation read from the economic releases — CPI, jobs, retail sales), Seasonality (the average move over the next four weeks, measured against each market’s own history so a currency isn’t unfairly flat next to an index), ORB behaviour (how often the market actually closes above vs below its opening range — the part unique to ORBit), and two retail-sentiment reads — small-trader positioning from the COT report and live broker client positioning — both read contrarian (when the crowd piles in one way, it counts against it).
  • Score over time. Click the chart icon on any market to open a full-page view of how its bias has moved week by week over the past year — a trend chart of the overall score plus a table showing every signal’s value each week. It lets you see at a glance whether a market’s bias has been steady or swinging, and which signal moved it.
  • A methodology panel on the tab spells out, in plain English, exactly how each of the eight inputs is calculated and weighted — so nothing about the number is a black box. Any signal without data simply drops out and the rest re-weight.
  • Two new volume filters — the long-missing piece. Relative Volume asks how busy today’s opening range was versus a typical recent session, and Prior-Day Volume asks how active yesterday’s whole session was — both expressed as a simple multiplier of a normal day (so they’re comparable across every market and right back through the history). Filter by Low / Normal / High, or type an exact threshold (e.g. only opens that traded ≥ 1.5× the usual volume). It lets you ask things like “does this breakout behave differently when the open is unusually heavy?” or “only after a quiet prior day”. Both work on your own custom opening-range windows too, not just the preset. (They’re not available in the live ORBit Explorer, where CFD volume doesn’t match the futures tape.)

Bug Fixes

  • The Prior-day break filter (inside-day) is now correct on custom and overnight opening ranges. It asks whether today’s session has taken out the previous session’s high or low by the time your opening range closes — but on ranges placed in the evening / Asian session it used to report “Inside range” on virtually every day, because the previous-day reference it compared against actually overlapped the session’s own opening hours. It now measures against the prior trading session’s true high and low (the same previous-day levels your chart draws) and against today’s running session from the open — so “inside / broke prior high / broke prior low” reads correctly on every window, preset or custom.

Quality of Life

  • The trade chart can now show volume — a per-candle volume panel under the price, toggled from the chart legend, so you can see whether a given day’s breakout came on heavy or thin participation.
  • The trade chart can also overlay the prior session’s high and low — the exact reference the Prior-day break filter uses — so you can verify the filter’s verdict for any day straight against the candles, rather than taking the label on trust.

v5.9

June 29, 2026

Bug Fixes

  • The ORBit Explorer “edge is live” alert no longer fires too early. The push notification could arrive the moment your opening range closed — saying your conditions were met — while the live filters (gap, opening trend, volatility, breakout) were still resolving. A minute later some of those could come back failed, flipping the edge to Not today. The alert now waits until every condition has fully locked in and passed before it’s sent, so a “live” push means the setup is actually good to watch — not still being checked.
  • The correct ORBit logo now shows in two more places: the home-screen / desktop app install icon and the ORBit Explorer push notifications. Both were accidentally using a partner’s logo — they now use the ORBit Analytics mark. If you already installed the app, remove it and add it again to pick up the new icon.
  • The “Loading price data…” bar no longer shoves the page around. When you switched symbols with a custom opening range, the loading bar used to appear at the top and push all the tiles down (sometimes off-screen) until it finished. It now floats as its own overlay above the page, so the tiles stay exactly where they are while it loads.

Quality of Life

  • The ORBit Explorer “edge is live” alert now arrives within seconds of the opening range closing, instead of up to a minute later. The alert used to wait on a background check that only ran once a minute — it now fires the instant the closing data lands, so you hear about a live setup right as it happens. (A couple of conditions that can only be judged from the first price move after the range closes may still take an extra moment to confirm.)
  • The tool page feels noticeably smoother. A background process was quietly doing layout work several times a second even when nothing was happening on screen — which added a low-level lag to everything, most noticeable as a small hitch when switching tabs. It now only does that work the moment something actually changes, so the page sits completely idle when you’re not interacting with it and tab switches are crisper. No change to how anything looks.
  • Setting a custom opening range no longer makes the tool lag. Applying a custom window used to quietly pre-calculate that window for every other market in the background, and because each market is millions of 1-minute bars, that heavy work bogged the tool down for up to a minute or so afterwards — most noticeable as stutters when switching tabs. Custom ranges now calculate only the market you’re looking at; the first time you switch to another market at that window it takes a few seconds to compute, once. If you’d rather have them all ready up front, the “Cache all symbols” button still does exactly that on demand.
  • The ORBit Explorer dashboard now splits its two tiles 50/50. With the leaner Time-and-place panel, ORBit Explorer and Time-and-place each take half the width instead of Time-and-place hogging two-thirds — both get the room they need.
  • In ORBit Explorer, an edge that’s still being monitored — waiting for the open or building its opening range — now shows in yellow, so the status reads at a glance: yellow while it’s being watched, green once it’s armed to trade, red once it’s ruled out for the day. When you expand an edge, a live filter value that’s still forming (e.g. the opening trend currently reading bearish before the range closes) is now also shown in yellow — so you can see which way it’s leaning before it locks in.

v5.8

June 28, 2026

New Features

  • Two new markets — Silver (SI) and the Australian Dollar (6A) — bringing the total to fifteen futures markets. Both carry the full ~18-year history back to 2008 (exchange-direct 1-minute data) and work with every tool — custom opening ranges, the analyzer, seasonality, COT positioning and the rest. They join the paid plans (any-2 or all-access), alongside the existing markets.
  • The intraday seasonality curve is back, by community request. The Seasonality tab now has a Yearly / Daily switch in the top-left: Yearly is the calendar-year seasonal curve you already had, and Daily shows the average shape of the trading day — every session rebased to its open, from the session open through to the 4pm New York close — with the same Detrend and Opening range overlays as before. In Daily view the bottom panel switches from Return by Year to Return by Weekday, and the per-window stats box (which only applies to the calendar curve) greys out. The time-horizon slider works in both views, so you can narrow the window and watch how the average trading day — and the weekday returns — developed over time.
  • The Time and place tab is much simpler to read. Where it used to show six charts (winners and losers split across three columns), it’s now two — Extension (how far moves run) and Retracement (how deep they pull back), each with its own timing chart. The extension and retracement now pick their outcome independently: extension defaults to All trades (at the moment you enter you can’t know whether it will win, so the run / target should assume every trade), while retracement defaults to Winners (where a winning trade’s pullback typically bottoms out — i.e. where a stop survives the typical winner; “All” there is dragged toward the stop by the losers and tells you little). You can still set either to All / Winners / Losers. The click-a-retracement-bar filter still works (with its precision control) — click a retracement bar to filter the extension charts to the trades that pulled back there.

Bug Fixes

  • In Failed-breakout mode the five summary tiles at the top of the ORBit analyzer no longer read zero. They were showing breakout-only stats (continuation / reversal / closed-inside / both-sides) that a fade trade doesn’t carry, so every tile sat at 0. They now describe the underlying opening-range breakout the fade is trading against — a failed breakout is just a breakout that reversed — with a short note making that clear. Your fade win-rate, R and exits stay on the equity tile.
  • The OR-to-OR gap “Flat” option no longer traps you. Picking Flat in the custom gap controls used to make the whole custom section vanish — including the dropdown you’d need to switch back — so you were stuck. Now Flat simply greys out the min/max boxes (a flat gap means the open sits inside the prior range, so there’s no value to enter) while keeping the category dropdown in place, so you can switch back to gap up / down any time.
  • The Cross-instrument test now fills in live. A re-run used to blank the whole table and sit on a “Running… 3 of 12” counter, only showing everything once the last market finished — which felt stuck (especially next to a near-instant revisit). Now every market starts as a “computing…” row and is filled in the moment its result lands, so you watch the table populate as it goes.
  • The “Send to TradingView” button is back. It went missing in the new dashboard layout — it now sits at the top-right of the Time and place tile, next to the timing toggle, so you can push your current setup to the free TradingView indicator again.
  • The copy-string button on a saved edge now includes the full stat lines. The quick “copy preset” button on each saved edge was leaving out the extension/retracement “time and place” data, so the TradingView indicator drew no stat lines from it. It now produces the same complete string as the “Send to TradingView” button does for the loaded setup.
  • Switching markets with a custom opening range is now instant. Previously every market you switched to had to re-run its opening-range calculation (a 1–2s wait each), and the “Cache all symbols” button didn’t help because it only pre-downloaded the data — not the calculation — and only for whatever window was set when you clicked it. Now, the moment you apply a custom range every other market quietly pre-computes it in the background, so by the time you switch there’s nothing left to wait for. It’s almost entirely in-browser work (no extra loading from our servers), and the active market always takes priority. The “Cache all symbols” button still works too — it now warms the calculation for your current window up front (around 20–30 seconds).

Quality of Life

  • The custom gap filters now read by size (both the overnight and OR-to-OR gap). The old “above / below” operators were measured relative to zero, which was easy to misread for a gap down — “gap down above 0.5%” actually meant the small downs near zero, not the big ones. They’re now “At least” / “At most” a given % in your chosen direction: Gap down + At least 0.5% is exactly the “Gap down (big)” chip, At most 0.5% is the small gaps, and it reads the same way for gap up and gap down. Edges you saved with the old operator still load and filter exactly as before.
  • The COT positioning filter now defaults to the 10 / 90 extremes (was 20 / 80) — a tighter starting band that targets only the most stretched positioning, where the COT signal tends to matter most. You can still set any thresholds you like.

v5.7

June 25, 2026

New Features

  • The liquid-glass dark theme now covers the whole site. Until now the new starfield-and-frosted-glass look only appeared once you switched to dark mode, so anyone landing in light mode saw a flat, washed-out version that the glass design was never built for. Light mode has been retired — the entire site (landing, pricing, features, guides, your account and the tool) now shares one dark, glassy theme, so every visitor sees ORBit the way it’s meant to look from the first page. The display/contrast options still let you sharpen the structural greys, gridlines and borders if you’re on a washed-out monitor.

Quality of Life

  • Tidied up label capitalisation across the whole tool — tab names, panel headers, metric labels, buttons, dropdown values, input placeholders and the guided-tour captions now use consistent Title Case (e.g. “ORBit Analyzer”, “Win Rate”, “Prior-Day Break”).
  • The COT report reads more cleanly as an analysis view. The price overlay now takes the active market’s highlight colour (it was a fixed blue before), and you pick which participant to study by clicking it in the chart legend — the separate participant dropdown (a leftover from when COT was a filter) is gone, so the price and positioning charts always track the same participant.
  • The in-tool Account and Contact pages now match their website versions — the Account view shows its “Your account” heading and summary line (these were missing inside the tool), and both page headers are styled consistently.

v5.6

June 24, 2026

New Features

  • A new liquid-glass look across the whole site. ORBit now sits on a deep starfield backdrop with frosted-glass cards and brighter accents — the landing page, the pricing and feature pages, and the tool itself all share one dark, glassy theme that reads as a single continuous surface. Inside the tool the big panels frost over the drifting stars while the dense tables and inputs stay crisp and fully legible. (The tool is now dark-only — its glass look has no light variant; the rest of the site keeps its light mode.)
  • A new collapsible icon sidebar reorganises the whole tool (on Full HD monitors and larger; smaller screens get a streamlined version of the same layout — see below). Every section — your saved edges, plus all the analysis views (equity curve, ORBit analyzer, Seasonality, COT, ORBit Explorer, ORBit Connector and the rest) — now lives in a slim icon rail anchored to the left edge of the screen (your filters dock right on the ORBit-analyzer dashboard instead — see below). Click an icon to open that section in the full-width area beside it; click the logo to expand the rail and show labels. At its foot are a full-screen toggle, a back-to-site button and your account (which opens right inside the tool, showing your avatar). The top bar is hidden while you’re in the tool, the rail runs edge-to-edge from the very top to the very bottom of the screen (with the ORBit Analytics logo at its head), and the whole thing reads as one continuous surface instead of separate boxed panels.
  • The ORBit analyzer is now a dashboard, so you stop hopping between tabs to see the effect of a change. Your filters dock as a tile down the left edge, right next to the results — so clicking pills and dragging sliders updates everything live, in one glance, without ever leaving the view. Beside them it shows three things at once: the equity curve (top), the full per-filter breakdown down the right, and the ORBit Dissector workbench (bottom) — out-of-sample testing, Monte Carlo and the cross-instrument test — all updating together as you adjust your filters. Each section sits in a lifted card that matches the rest of the tool, and any tile can be expanded to full width for the in-depth view, then collapsed back. Your market is now picked from a search box / dropdown in the sidebar itself (no separate Symbols screen), and the COT report drops its “last week’s change” table and tightens its legend to one row.
  • The ORBit Explorer is now a dashboard too. Time and place (your timing, extension and retracement charts) fills the right two-thirds of the screen, full height, with your live edge watchlist — ORBit Explorer — filling the left third beside it, so you read your timing stats and check which edges are in play side by side. Time and place no longer has its own sidebar entry (it lives here) and stays free for everyone — only the ORBit Explorer watchlist needs a plan. (The ORBit Explorer EA setup — downloading and connecting the live feed — lives in the ORBit Algos tab, as a sub-tab alongside Symbol mapping and the trading EA.)
  • The ORBit Dissector is renamed ORBit Connector and is its own dashboard, focused on combining edges. The Portfolio builder fills the right half (full height); Saved edges (top-left) and the Prop firm pass-simulator (bottom-left) sit beside it — so you pick the edges, watch the blended curve, and stress it against a prop-account ruleset all in one view. (The out-of-sample / Monte-Carlo / cross-instrument Dissector tools moved into the ORBit-analyzer dashboard, where they analyse the setup you’re working on.) Saved edges is no longer a separate sidebar entry — it lives here.
  • On any screen below Full HD (most laptops and tablets) the tool now shows a streamlined version of the new layout instead of the old stacked page — the multi-tile dashboards need a Full HD monitor to breathe, so below that they’re reflowed for the space you have. The site’s top bar is still hidden and the tool fills the screen; the icon sidebar becomes a slide-in menu you open with the ☰ button at the top-left, and each section — your filters, saved edges, every analysis view and your account — opens one at a time in the full width below, scrolling normally. A slim bar across the top keeps your current market and the menu button always in reach.
  • The Prop firm pass simulator now draws the simulated paths, not just the headline numbers. Below the stats it shows a spaghetti chart for each round of the challenge — every sampled attempt as an equity curve, green if it hit the profit goal and red if it breached the drawdown or daily-loss limit, with the goal and starting max-drawdown drawn as reference lines. A multi-step challenge gets one chart per phase (Phase 1 → Phase 2 → Phase 3) plus a final Funded account chart, and you can watch the survivor funnel narrow — fewer paths make it into each later round — so the pass rate is something you can see, not just a percentage. Each curve is cut off cleanly on the goal or max-drawdown line, and (matching how challenges actually work now) there’s no time limit — every account runs until it passes or fails. Every stat now explains itself on hover (pass rate, net EV, cost to get funded, the day counts and the rest), and the “How these numbers are calculated” breakdown now sits right under the numbers instead of at the foot of the panel. There’s also a new “Average days to first payout” tile — the full journey in trading days from starting the challenge to your first payout actually landing (getting funded, plus the funded account trading up to its first-payout milestone).
  • Seasonality and the COT report are now their own full-screen tabs in the sidebar — independent analysis views for the market you’re studying, rather than tiles wedged into the analyzer. In the same move they’re no longer trade filters: they don’t narrow your ORB stats, equity curve or edges any more. (We found the seasonal-window and COT-positioning filters added a lot of complexity for edges that didn’t really hold up — so they go back to being the interesting context they always were, not a filter.) Everything else about the views is unchanged: the seasonal curve, intraday curve, weekday returns, monthly table, and the full COT positioning report with its index, extremes and category breakdown.

Bug Fixes

  • The Portfolio builder no longer hangs on “Building the selected edges…” — it was still wired to the old standalone Portfolio tab id after the move onto the dashboard, so the selected edges never resolved. It builds the blended curve again.
  • The ORBit Explorer now shows an honest live / offline state. The “connected” banner and each edge’s live dot are now tied to whether your ORBit Explorer EA has actually checked in within the last ~15 minutes. Close MetaTrader 5 and the banner flips to “offline — showing cached data from HH:MM” and the green dots turn amber, instead of pulsing green forever on stale data. The freshness timestamp still tells you how old the cached readings are.
  • The risk disclaimer at the bottom of the tool now also shows on the ORBit Algos tab — it was the one tab where it had gone missing.
  • The ORBit Algos tab now reads as one clean panel, top to bottom — its heading and sub-tabs were sitting outside the tile instead of inside it.
  • Now that Seasonality and COT are no longer filters, the ORBit Explorer no longer lists a Season or COT column on each saved edge, and no longer holds an edge back over them — a leftover from the old filter set.
  • The Portfolio “Monthly overview” heatmap no longer changes colour when you toggle Split risk. Splitting risk scales every month down by the same factor, so the curve and every relationship are identical — but the colours were reading those smaller R values as weaker months. Each month is now tinted by its full-risk value, so the heatmap stays put whether split risk is on or off (the numbers still show the actual split R).
  • In the cross-instrument test, clicking Open on another market now switches to it in place — the ranked table stays on screen with the current tag moving onto the market you opened — instead of jumping you out to a full-width equity curve. It also opens with the time-horizon slider pulled all the way back to that market’s earliest data, so you see its whole record (matching how the comparison ranked it) rather than a window clamped over from the previous market.
  • Loading one of the pre-loaded example edges (or any saved edge) from the Saved-edges list now jumps you to the ORBit analyzer with that setup applied, instead of quietly loading it with nothing visibly happening. (The old NQ COT example was also retired, since COT is no longer a trade filter.)

Quality of Life

  • Every dropdown in the tool now has rounded corners and no drop-shadow, for one consistent look (the COT participant picker was the last square one).
  • Hover explanations on the sidebar icons, the expand-to-full-width buttons and the expand-sidebar control are now custom-styled to match the tool, instead of the browser’s plain bubble.
  • The Contact page now opens right inside the tool (like your account does) instead of leaving it — same channels. The Account and Contact views match the marketing pages now: each section floats as its own frosted glass tile on the starfield rather than sitting in one big panel.
  • The sidebar icons (and the market selector) now sit in a frosted glass chip with a soft outline, matching the tool’s glassy look; the selected view gets a drifting starry-night background at the same star density as the page backdrop.
  • The Quick, In-depth and Paid-features guided tours were rebuilt to match the new sidebar + dashboard layout — each step now opens the right dashboard tile and walks through the controls where they actually live.
  • The “Cache all symbols” button moved to the bottom of the market dropdown — it sits with the markets it caches, instead of in a separate header.
  • The Recent trades ledger now fills the screen top-to-bottom, so you see as many trades as your screen allows without a gap below the table.
  • The “Save edge” box now sits at the top of your filters (not buried in the Saved-edges section) — name the setup you’re working on and save it to a watchlist without leaving the analyzer. Import edge moved up with it; managing and grouping your saved edges still lives in the Saved-edges section.
  • The in-tool plan screen and the tool’s pop-ups now wear the starfield. When a paid feature prompts you to upgrade, the plan screen is now a starry-night page with frosted-glass plan cards, centred on screen — the same look as the marketing pricing page — instead of a flat panel. The tours, the share/import dialogs and the plan/symbol pickers got the same starlit glass treatment, so their text reads cleanly.
  • Hovering a tile now lights up its border instead of casting an outer glow. The old glow got sliced off where two tiles met or at the screen edge (an unavoidable side effect of the tight one-screen layout); a crisp lit border sits on the tile’s own edge, so the highlight is always clean and never cut.
  • Every “this is a paid feature” screen now looks the same. The tool had a handful of different upsell styles (some amber-outlined, some a faint wash, some missing the explanation) — they’re all unified now on the subtle one: a gold star, a one-line reason, an Unlock button and a “Why is this not free?” link. The in-tool plan screen, the Saved edges / Portfolio builder / Prop firm tiles, ORBit Explorer, the cross-instrument test and the EA add-on card all match.
  • The guided tours stay in the dashboard view now — every step keeps the multi-tile layout instead of blowing one tile up to full screen — and the highlight box hugs the tile it’s pointing at (it used to wrap the inset content, so it sat floating inside the tile). A step pointing at a sidebar icon puts its tip beside the icon (into the screen) instead of on top of the rail, with the exact icon highlighted — and every step now highlights a target (the “go deeper” step points at the icon rail instead of nothing). The tour boxes also wear a pink border so they stand out against the starfield. Starting a tour also no longer nudges the whole page down a few pixels (which had been pushing the risk disclaimer off the bottom of the screen). On a free account, a tour now visually lifts the paid-feature gates as it walks past them — so you can actually see the Portfolio builder, ORBit Explorer, prop-firm simulator and cross-instrument test it’s describing instead of a paywall card (it’s preview-only — you still need a plan to use them). Several in-depth steps that had drifted out of date (pointing at controls that had moved, or describing a now-removed seasonality view-switcher) were re-aimed and their wording refreshed.
  • The module names now read consistently as ORBit everywhere — the tile headers and in-tool copy that still said “ORBit analyzer” / “ORBit Explorer” now match the sidebar’s “ORBit” styling.
  • The Detrend control in the COT report moved up to sit with the other view controls in the top-right, instead of floating alone on the left.

v5.5

June 23, 2026

Bug Fixes

  • ORBit Explorer now checks an instrument at each of your opening-range windows. If you had two edges on the same market using different opening-range times — say a 09:30 setup and a later-session setup — only the first window of the day was being snapshotted and evaluated against live data; the later one never resolved. Each window now gets its own live snapshot, so every edge resolves correctly no matter how many you stack on one instrument.
  • The ORBit Explorer EA for MetaTrader 5 now shows a clear message when your ORBit Explorer watchlist is empty — telling you to add an edge and re-attach — instead of the misleading “couldn’t fetch your edge symbols — check your stream key” error you’d get when there was simply nothing to stream yet. Re-download the EA from the ORBit Algos tab to get it.

Quality of Life

  • The ORBit Explorer’s live-feed indicator now shows when your data was last updated (“last update 14:32 ET”), making it clear at a glance how fresh the live readings are.
  • Added a plain-English “How the ORBit Explorer EA works” explainer in the ORBit Algos tab — what happens when you attach it, when it snapshots and updates, when to re-attach, and why it needs to keep running — linked straight from the ORBit Explorer tab so it’s there when you need it.
  • The ORBit Explorer watchlist now holds up to 50 edges. You can still save as many edges as you like overall — this cap is only on the live-watched set the Explorer feed streams and alerts on, which keeps the live feed responsive.

v5.4

June 23, 2026

New Features

  • Get notified when an edge goes live. Turn on alerts in the ORBit Explorer tab and ORBit will send you a push notification the moment one of your watched edges has its opening range close with every condition met — even when the tool isn’t open. Works on desktop and Android browsers; on iPhone and iPad, add ORBit to your home screen first (notifications there need the installed app — the Explorer shows you how).

Bug Fixes

  • Custom filter ranges can now be EXCLUDED in Mixed mode. The custom-range pills — Volatility (ADR%), Overnight gap, OR-to-OR gap and Trigger distance — were the only filters you couldn’t blacklist: in Mixed mode they toggled on/off but never turned into a red “exclude” chip the way the day-of-week, volatility-bucket and other chips do. Now each one cycles the same off → include → exclude → off, so you can keep days inside a custom range OR drop them — for example, exclude every day where the opening range was 40–60% of ADR.
  • The ORBit Explorer’s “EA connected” banner now reflects whether your MetaTrader 5 instance is actually running right now, not just whether we have any cached prices from earlier in the day. If you close MT5, the banner switches to an amber “EA not running — showing cached data from earlier today” within a few minutes, so you’re never under the impression that live data is flowing when it isn’t.

Quality of Life

  • Rename your saved edges in place. A small pen icon now sits next to each edge’s name in the Saved edges sidebar — click it, type a new name, press Enter (or just click away) to save. Esc cancels. Useful when you want to tweak a name after experimenting, without having to delete the edge and rebuild it.

v5.3

June 23, 2026

New Features

  • ORBit Explorer goes live. The ORBit Explorer tab now walks each watched edge through its trading day — Waiting for opening range → Building opening range → Waiting for trigger, resetting at the next session — with a live countdown and the whole setup laid out on the row: the opening-range time (in your timezone), trade type, direction, entry, target and stop. The day-open conditions (day of week, season, scheduled news, holidays, COT) are checked for you. For live intraday confirmation — gap, opening trend, volatility and the breakout itself — connect the free ORBit Explorer EA for MetaTrader 5: a read-only add-on that places no trades and simply streams your broker's prices to the watchlist. ORBit Explorer is part of the all-access plan.
  • See price against COT positioning. On the COT report you can now open a price chart directly above the positioning chart — a single Show price toggle stacks the instrument’s price on the same timeline as the COT lines (sampled at each weekly report date), so the abstract 0–100 index finally has the price action right next to it. Scroll to zoom and drag to pan on either chart, and both move together — so you can line price up against crowded or washed-out positioning at any point in history. Isolate a participant and the price chart shades every week its COT Index sat in your chosen zone (Above / Between / Below your thresholds) — moving live as you change the numbers — and a Detrend toggle flattens the long-run trend (like the one on Seasonality) so only the swing around it shows.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the Portfolio builder could show “No trades in the selected edges” for an edge whose own equity curve clearly had trades. An empty result produced during a brief hiccup could get cached and then served on every reload — the builder now never caches an empty result and clears any stale ones.
  • COT Index filter — the green and red bands on the chart now move with the Lower and Higher inputs as you change them (they used to be stuck at 20 / 80 no matter what you typed). The two inputs are also bounded to sensible ranges now (Lower 1–49, Higher 51–99) so they can’t cross over.

Quality of Life

  • Bulk-manage your saved edges. Marking edges in the Saved edges tab is now a plain multi-select — tick them (or drag a box over several, or hit Select all), then Delete selected to remove the whole lot at once, or Add to portfolio to send them to the Portfolio tab. Deleting still warns you first if any of the selected edges belong to a saved portfolio. And marking no longer auto-loads edges into the portfolio basket — selecting and building a portfolio are two separate actions now.
  • The landing page now has a Common questions section at the bottom — the essentials (what the statistics are based on, why futures data, whether the curves are real returns, and more), with a link through to the full FAQ.
  • The toolkit-in-orbit animation on the landing page now starts from a fresh, random position on every visit instead of always the same spot.
  • Dark mode is now the default appearance (most of you preferred it in a quick poll). Prefer light? Flip it once from the Appearance toggle in your account menu and it sticks from then on.
  • The Prop firm simulator is simpler. The “opportunity cost of time” option is gone — almost nobody used it and it muddied the result — so net EV is now just the expected first payout minus the cost to get funded. The “Trailing locks at start balance” switch also moved up into the inputs grid to tidy the panel.
  • Tidied the top navigation — Blog moved to the end, and Recommended now lives in the footer rather than the main nav.
  • The DAX’s COT tab now explains it has no Commitments-of-Traders data (the CFTC report only covers US futures markets, and the DAX trades on Eurex) instead of implying the data is just delayed.
  • In the COT chart every participant line is now drawn at the same weight — the headline participant (e.g. Leveraged Funds) is no longer thicker than the rest, so the lines read evenly.
  • The COT report now opens on the COT Index view by default (with Net positions as the second tab) — that’s where the filter, the price chart and the extreme zones live, so it’s the more useful starting point.
  • The COT chart can now be dragged left/right to pan through history, not just scrolled to zoom — grab anywhere on the chart (or the price panel) and both move together. The COT filter’s Below / Between / Above modes also read in that order now.
  • The COT Index rolling window now defaults to 6 months (with 3 years as the other option, replacing the old 1-year). A shorter window is far more reactive — it swings the full 0–100 range and reaches extremes often, the way most COT tools show it — while 3 years stays the smoother, big-picture view.
  • A heads-up for Safari users. The whole stats engine runs inside your browser, and Safari handles that heavy number-crunching noticeably slower than other browsers — so Safari now shows a small dismissible note (and a line on the loading screen) suggesting Chrome, Edge or Brave for the fastest experience. If you’re already on one of those, nothing changes.

v5.2

June 22, 2026

New Features

  • Watchlists for your saved edges. The Saved edges tab now has watchlists across the top — the first, "ORBit Explorer", is fixed; the others you can rename to anything (click the little pencil). Click a watchlist to filter the list to just its edges, or "All" to see everything. When you save a setup, the Save button now has a dropdown where you tick which watchlist(s) it goes into — and an edge can live in several at once. Each edge card shows little chips for the watchlists it's in, so you can add or remove it right there.
  • The ORBit Explorer tab is now driven by its own watchlist. Only edges you put in the "ORBit Explorer" watchlist show up there, so you can curate exactly which setups you want to watch against today's market instead of every edge you've ever saved. (Edges you saved before this update are tucked into "Watchlist 2" so nothing is lost — add the ones you want to watch into ORBit Explorer.)

Bug Fixes

  • The Changelog link is back in the mobile menu. On smaller screens the navigation collapses into the hamburger menu, and the link to this changelog page had been dropping out of that menu — it was only reachable on desktop. It now appears in the mobile menu alongside Open the tool and Contact.
  • The "Cross-instrument testing is an All-access feature" box in the ORBit Dissector now has a solid white background in light mode instead of a faint transparent wash, so it reads clearly — matching the Premium upsell box under ORBit Algos.
  • The "Save your own filter setups" box on the Saved edges tab (shown to free users) got the same treatment — a solid white/dark background instead of the see-through one, so the text is legible in both light and dark mode.
  • The "See All-access plans" button on the cross-instrument tab now opens the pricing page directly instead of jumping to the comparison table.

Quality of Life

  • No more limit on saved edges. The old cap of five per market is gone — save as many setups as you like.
  • ORBit Explorer is now a compact table instead of big cards. Each watched edge is a single row — symbol, name, its opening-range time (shown in your timezone), trade type, entry, target and stop, a live indicator, a countdown timer and today's status — so you see the whole setup at a glance. Click any row to expand it for a column on every filter (the same full set you see in Recent trades), your setting on top and today's live value below, with a dash for the filters that edge doesn't use. There's an Expand all / Collapse all toggle and an Open setup button on each row.
  • The ORBit Explorer status now follows the trading day's opening-range lifecycle. Instead of a plain verdict, each edge moves through Waiting for opening range → Building opening range → Waiting for trigger, with a live countdown to the next step in its own column, then resets for the next session. If an edge is ruled out by something known at the open (wrong day of week, a season or news rule…) it shows Not today; weekends show Market closed. Breakout direction and the entry trigger are shown for reference but no longer decide the verdict — you place those yourself, so the screener just tells you when the rest of your setup is in play and to watch for the break.
  • Broker symbol mapping is now available on every paid plan, not just the EA add-on. The Premium tab is renamed ORBit Algos and split into sub-tabs — Symbol mapping and ORBit Explorer EA (any paid plan) and Premium (the automated-trading add-on) — so you can map your broker's symbol names whether you run the trading EA or the upcoming ORBit Explorer EA.
  • The smallest paid plan is renamed "Add 2 Symbols" (previously "Pick 2"), making it clearer that the two markets you choose come on top of the free Nasdaq (NQ + MNQ) rather than instead of them. Same price, same features — wording only.

v5.1

June 21, 2026

Bug Fixes

  • Shared-edge links now always show a preview card. When you share a saved edge, the link you post in Discord (or X, Facebook, Reddit) is supposed to unfurl into a card with the edge's equity curve and headline stats. That card is drawn in your browser at the moment you share — and some browsers (notably Safari, Firefox and a few mobile browsers) silently failed to produce it, so edges shared from those browsers unfurled with no image at all. Now every shared link always carries a preview: the full equity-curve card when your browser can draw it, and a clean branded ORBit card otherwise — so a link you post never comes up blank.

Quality of Life

  • The share pop-up now tells you when your browser couldn't generate the personalised equity-curve card (only Chrome does this reliably) — your link still shares a branded ORBit card, and the note points you to Chrome if you want the full curve.

v5.0

June 21, 2026

New Features

  • New "Trading Style" filter — one click to keep only trend-following or only mean-reversion trades. It uses the same 200-EMA the Opening-trend filter is built on: it looks at where the opening range closes relative to that moving average, then keeps trades accordingly. Trend-following keeps trades taken WITH the average (long when the range closes above it, short when below); mean-reversion keeps the trades taken back TOWARD it. It sits right under the Direction filter and works on the presets and on a custom opening range.
  • You can now see the moving average on the chart. Open any trade's chart and two new toggles let you overlay the 200-EMA line and its Bollinger bands (the exact reference the Trading Style and Opening-trend filters use) — each turns on independently, both off by default so the chart stays clean until you want them.
  • New "Opening-range close" filter — a pure price-action read of where the opening range finished within its own range (upper, middle or lower third), with no indicator behind it. It shows up as its own breakdown in the ORBit Analyzer too, so you can see how each finish behaves. Works on every instrument.
  • New "Opening-range path" filter — another pure price read: which extreme the opening range printed FIRST. High first means it topped early then sold into its low; Low first means it bottomed early then rallied (Indeterminate covers the rare day a single minute is the whole range). Like the others, it has its own ORBit Analyzer breakdown. Works on every instrument.
  • New "Prior-day break" filter — an inside-day read. By the time the opening range closes, has today's action taken out yesterday's high or low, or are we still inside yesterday's range? Filter for Inside range, Broke prior high, Broke prior low, or Broke both — inside days and breakaway days tend to behave differently after the range. It has its own ORBit Analyzer breakdown too. Works on every instrument.
  • New "Prior-day result" filter — filter today by what YESTERDAY did. It reads the prior day's opening-range breakout outcome at the same range length: Continued (held its breakout), Faded back in (broke then closed back inside), Reversed (closed out the other side), or No break (rangebound). A way to test whether the day after a reversal behaves differently from the day after a trend day. It has its own ORBit Analyzer breakdown. Works on every instrument.

Bug Fixes

  • The overnight gap and the OR-to-OR gap are now two separate filters that you can use at the same time. They used to share one block with a toggle, so picking one meant losing the other — now each has its own buckets and custom range, and both apply together. Older saved edges that used the OR-to-OR gap load straight into the new OR-to-OR block. When you expand a trade in the Recent trades tab they also show as two separate values.
  • "Cache all symbols" now actually pre-loads the intraday bars behind custom opening ranges, not just the preset data. Before, it finished in about a second because it only fetched the lightweight preset numbers — so opening a fresh custom range still had its usual short wait. It now downloads each market's bars too (so it takes around 10-20 seconds), and afterwards switching markets AND opening a new custom range are both instant.

Quality of Life

  • The ORBit Analyzer now also breaks your trades down by Trading Style (trend-following vs mean-reversion), the inside-day Prior-day break, and shows the overnight gap and OR-to-OR gap as separate rows.
  • The Opening-range close filter's buttons now read Upper third / Middle third / Lower third — clearer than the old wording.
  • When you expand a trade in the Recent trades tab, its filter-value strip now also shows Trading Style, Opening-range close, Opening-range path, Prior-day break and Prior-day result — so you can see every dimension that matched.

v4.9

June 19, 2026

New Features

  • Example edges to get you started. The Saved edges tab now comes pre-loaded with a few ready-made setups — Load any one with a single click to see the whole tool come alive on a real configuration, instead of starting from a blank slate. They work for everyone, including the free plan. Don't want them? Delete any you like and they stay gone. And right after the welcome tour, a quick "Not sure where to start?" nudge points you to them with a guiding cursor.

Bug Fixes

  • Logged-in users no longer see a brief flash of the "Sign in to use the tool" screen when opening the tool. It now waits for your session before deciding what to show, so if you're already signed in the tool loads straight away.
  • The account menu no longer stays open after you leave the page and come back. Clicking an item in the menu (which takes you to your account page) and then using your browser's Back button used to return you with the menu still open — it now closes automatically.

Quality of Life

  • Cleaner sign-in screen for the tool — the sign-in box is now centered in the middle of the screen, with shorter, clearer wording.
  • Removed the Discord button from the edge-share options. To share an edge on Discord, just copy the link and paste it into your channel; the other share buttons (X, Facebook, Reddit, the image download and the mobile share sheet) are unchanged.
  • The in-depth tour is up to date with the newer features — it now walks through ORBit Explorer, the cross-instrument test and the Monte Carlo modes in the ORBit Dissector, the Portfolio correlation matrix, and sharing/importing edges.
  • New "Paid features" tour for subscribers — a guided walkthrough of everything your plan unlocks (custom opening ranges, saved edges, the Portfolio builder, ORBit Explorer, TradingView export and more). It adapts to your subscription, so it only covers what you can actually use — All-access members also get the cross-instrument test, and Premium add-on holders get the EA. It sits as a third button next to the Quick and In-depth tours.
  • The ORBit Analytics logo at the centre of the landing-page feature map is now clickable — it opens the tool.
  • The full tool is now a clean single screen — removed the "basis of these statistics" explainer that used to sit below it (it still appears on the landing page). The data-source and disclaimer line stays pinned at the bottom.

v4.8

June 18, 2026

New Features

  • The ORBit System tool now needs a free account. Signing in is a one-time email link — no password, almost no friction — and it now covers the whole tool, including free Nasdaq (NQ) and Micro Nasdaq (MNQ). Paid markets are added on top once you subscribe; the landing-page preview stays open to everyone. This lets us save your preferences to your account and is the groundwork for more per-account features.
  • New Preferences area on your account page (at the bottom). It gathers the personal settings in one place: site Appearance (light / dark), Contrast (Normal / Medium / High), the timezone your times are shown in, and the Filters sidebar layout (Default or Mini). Appearance, Contrast and the timezone picker moved here — Appearance and Contrast out of the top-right account menu, and the timezone out of the tool's sidebar.
  • New "Cache all symbols" button on the Symbols tab. The tool loads each market's data on demand, so the first switch to a market you haven't opened yet has a short wait. Click "Cache all symbols" once and it pre-loads the data for every market you're subscribed to (just the ones you can access, not all of them) in the background — a few seconds to about a minute — after which switching between them is instant for the rest of your session. It sits top-right of the Symbols tab and shows its progress while it works.
  • New Contrast control, for anyone whose screen washes the site out. Some monitors and laptop panels render faint greys very weakly, so subtler details can be hard to see. There's a new Contrast row in the account menu (right under Appearance) — click it to step through three levels: Normal → Medium → High → back to Normal. Each level pushes the interface harder: muted text moves toward the main text colour, borders and dividers get bolder, chart gridlines and axes darken, the soft edges and shadows that lift cards off the page deepen, and the faded highlight fills — the drawdown shading, the max-stagnation band, the coloured marker/legend pills — are strengthened too. It works on top of both light and dark mode, your choice is remembered, and it applies the instant the page loads. The data colours themselves — the green/red win-loss bars, the magenta accent, each market's colour — are deliberately left alone, so your charts still read exactly the same; only the surrounding frame gets sharper.

Bug Fixes

  • The time-horizon slider no longer jumps back when you switch markets or load a setup. Previously, once you narrowed the horizon (say to 2018) it would snap back to the default last-5-years window every time you changed instrument or made certain changes — annoying when you were comparing the same period across markets. Now your chosen horizon sticks for the rest of your session (only nudged in if a market's history doesn't reach that far back). The default last-5-years window still applies on first load, and the filter reset returns it to default.
  • Fixed the in-tool pricing panel not filling the height of the results area. When a free user opened a paid tab, the unlock panel sat short instead of matching the size of every other tab. It now fills the same one-screen area like the rest of the tool.
  • The "this edge is part of a portfolio" warning when you delete a saved edge is now a proper in-app dialog in the middle of the screen, instead of a plain browser pop-up.

Quality of Life

  • The whole site is more legible by default. We strengthened the subtle greys across the board — muted helper text, borders, chart gridlines and axes, the edges that lift cards and panels, and the faded chart highlights (drawdown shading, the max-stagnation band, coloured pills). These used to wash out on some screens; now they read clearly everywhere, even on a good monitor. If you want to go further still, the new Contrast control steps it up another one or two levels.
  • Light mode is no longer flagged as experimental. It's had enough polish that the "experimental" note under Appearance has been removed.
  • Tidied the ORBit Explorer card borders. Every edge card now uses the same neutral border; whether a setup is eligible today (or not) is shown by its coloured status badge and condition pills, rather than a green-vs-grey frame.
  • In the Premium tab's broker symbol map, the "Inverted" column is now spelled out in full instead of abbreviated, and there's a new link to our recommended brokers at the bottom of the section.
  • The Seasonality tab's link to the Demeter Seasonality EA now opens the Expert-Advisor showcase with that EA already selected, instead of its standalone page — matching how the ORB Revolution link works.
  • In the Recent trades tab you can now double-click anywhere on a row to show/hide that trade's filter values, instead of having to hit the small arrow on the far left.
  • The "MT5 Algo" feature is now called "ORBit Algo" across the site and the Features menu.
  • The "Cache all symbols" button now has a hover "i" explaining what it does.
  • Polished the "Send to TradingView" popup for light and dark mode — the preset-string box now stands out as a proper card and the "Get the indicator" button is highlighted.

v4.7

June 17, 2026

New Features

  • Out-of-sample testing is now one click — no date typing. The Optimization & validation tab replaces the manual "in-sample end date" with quick split presets: 70 / 30, 50 / 50 and 20 / 60 / 20, plus an Invert toggle. Each split applies to the time horizon you currently have selected (not the whole history), so if you're looking at the last five years, those five years are what gets split. 70 / 30 trains on the first 70% and holds out the most recent 30%; 20 / 60 / 20 keeps the middle 60% in-sample and holds out a chunk at BOTH ends (very common in out-of-sample work); Invert flips which slices are in-sample vs held-out (e.g. test on the recent data, train on the older). The in-sample / out-of-sample equity curves and metrics appear side by side, and the whole tool keeps restricting to the in-sample slice while you tune. To stop you accidentally tuning against the validation data, the out-of-sample card is hidden behind a "Reveal" button by default and re-hides itself every time you change the split — so each look is deliberate. When a split holds data out at both ends, that curve marks the gap between the two periods with a divider and shows both date ranges. A short caption always spells out exactly what the active split holds back.
  • The Monte Carlo panel now has a "Monte Carlo mode" dropdown (next to Risk mode) with three ways to test your edge. Bootstrap resampling (the default, as before) draws your filtered trades at random with replacement to show the spread of outcomes a system with this trade distribution could produce. Reshuffle simply re-orders your actual trades — each used exactly once — so the final result never changes, but the path it takes (and its worst drawdown) does; it isolates pure sequence-and-drawdown luck. Stress injecting reruns the bootstrap with your best 1% of winners removed, answering "what if I miss the rare home runs." The old stand-alone "Stress" control has been folded into this single mode picker.
  • The Monte Carlo panel now reports the risk-management numbers that actually matter, and opens with 100 simulated paths by default for a smoother picture. New metrics: the 5th and 95th percentile final outcomes (a 90% confidence range — the 5th percentile is the result 95% of runs matched or beat), the 95th and 99th percentile drawdowns (a single backtest only ever shows you one drawdown; this is how deep the worst 5% and worst 1% of runs actually went — the figure to size positions against), the profit-factor range across runs (how consistent the profitability is), and Risk of ruin (in Compounded-% mode, the share of runs whose account ever halved — under ~5% is generally considered acceptable). The distribution chart now shades the 90% confidence band and can switch between the final-outcome and the drawdown distribution.
  • The Portfolio tab can now show how your edges correlate. Below the combined equity curve, the panel that holds the Monthly overview has a new "Correlation" view: a matrix of every selected edge against every other, built from how their monthly results line up. It uses the same green/red colours as the Monthly overview so the two views feel consistent: a green highlights the sweet spot — edges that move independently of each other (correlation near zero), which is the best kind of diversification; red means two edges win and lose in the same months (redundant — combining them adds little); and blue means they tend to offset (one up when the other is down). It's the quickest way to see whether your basket is genuinely spread out or just the same trade five times.
  • Run your current setup across every market at once (All-access). The ORBit Dissector tab has a new "Cross-instrument" view: it takes whatever you have configured — every filter, the opening-range window, the target — and runs it on all the non-micro markets, then ranks them by net R so you can instantly see which instruments your edge also works on (and which it doesn't). Your current market is tagged, each market uses its own statistically-resolved target over its full history, and an "Open" button on every row jumps you straight to that market's equity curve with the same setup. This is the first All-access-only feature — comparing across the whole instrument set is the entire point, so a two-instrument plan doesn't cover it.
  • Share your saved edges — and import edges other people share. Every saved strategy now has a Share button: it creates a link, and posting that link (in Discord, on X/Twitter, on Facebook, Reddit, anywhere) unfurls a preview card that looks just like the Equity-curve tab — the real equity curve with its R-axis, plus the headline stats (net result, win rate with the win/loss split, trades, profit factor, max drawdown, return-to-drawdown and the date range) and the ORBit logo. Anyone who opens the link gets the exact setup loaded straight into their own tool — every filter, the opening-range window, the take-profit, the lot — so they can explore it on their own data. The Share popup has one-click buttons for X, Facebook and Reddit, a Discord button (copies the link and opens the server so you can paste it into your channel), a "Download image" button (handy for Instagram, where you post the picture and drop the link in your caption), and the native share sheet on mobile. To pick up a setup someone sent you, there’s a new "Import edge" button right under "Save current setup": paste the share code (or open the link) and you’ll see what it contains before you add it to your saved strategies. If a shared edge is for a market you’re not subscribed to, you’ll see a clear note with a link to the plans rather than a dead end.

Bug Fixes

  • Loading a saved edge no longer drops its COT-positioning filter. If you saved an edge with a COT filter and later loaded it, the filter was silently cleared — a side effect of the rule that clears the COT filter when you switch markets by hand (loading an edge on a different market tripped the same reset). A loaded edge now restores its own COT filter. Note: any edge you saved before this fix may have been stored without its COT filter — re-apply it and save the edge again to restore it.
  • Saved edges that use a COT-positioning filter are now honoured everywhere they get combined. Previously the Portfolio builder — and the new Correlation view and Cross-instrument test — ignored an edge's COT filter when re-running it, so two edges that differed ONLY by their COT filter resolved to the exact same trades (most visibly, they showed a correlation of 1.0). Each edge now re-applies its own COT filter against its own market's COT report (micro contracts borrow the full-size contract's), so the blended curve, the correlation matrix and the cross-instrument comparison all reflect it.
  • The orbiting feature map on the landing page now keeps gently rotating for everyone. On some setups — typically remote desktops and servers that ask the browser to reduce on-screen motion — the orbit was sitting completely still instead of slowly revolving. It now spins everywhere (it turns slowly enough that it stays comfortable to look at).
  • Fixed a rare case where the tool could sit on "Loading the tool…" forever instead of opening — most likely to happen right after a site update, on a fresh or incognito browser. The in-browser data engine now gives up if it can't start in time and shows a short "couldn't load — reload" message with a Reload button, rather than spinning indefinitely.
  • Fixed missing overnight data at the Sunday-evening open on some recent weeks. For a handful of recent sessions, the very start of the overnight session (the Sunday 18:00 ET / Monday-morning open in Europe) was missing from the data, so an opening range placed at "Midnight" started a couple of hours late. The underlying bars have been restored from the exchange data, the data pipeline now detects and repairs this automatically going forward, and — as a backstop — the recent-trades chart shows a clear note on any day whose session data still starts late, so it reads as a known data gap rather than a glitch.
  • Fixed the OR-to-OR gap reference returning no results on several markets. When you switch the gap filter to "OR-to-OR" (the move from the prior day's opening range to today's open), a handful of markets — Micro S&P (MES), Micro Gold (MGC), Euro FX (6E), Japanese Yen (6J), Dow (YM) and DAX (FDAX) — only had this value for the last few weeks, so the filter, the bucket chips and the analyzer grouping came up empty on any older dates. Their full history has been rebuilt, so OR-to-OR now works across the entire date range on every market.

Quality of Life

  • The "Optimization & validation" tab is now called "ORBit Dissector" — the home for the tools that pull an edge apart and pressure-test it (out-of-sample splits and Monte Carlo today, with more to come).
  • The five day-outcome stat cards at the top of the ORBit analyzer now sit on their own brighter surface (white in light mode, a lighter grey in dark mode) so they stand out from the panel behind them instead of blending in.
  • In the COT report tab, the "Filter ORB days by positioning" control is now greyed out while you're on the Net positions view, with a one-click hint to switch to the COT Index view. The filter works off the COT Index (0–100), so it only lines up visually with the COT Index chart — showing it over the raw-contracts Net positions chart was misleading.
  • Deleting a saved edge that belongs to one or more saved portfolios now asks you to confirm first, and tells you exactly which portfolios it affects (and whether any would be left empty and removed). This stops you from accidentally changing a portfolio you've carefully built — or one a connected tool is pulling.
  • The "Compare plans in detail" link on the home page now opens the full feature-comparison table for you and scrolls straight to it, instead of dropping you on the pricing page with the table still collapsed.
  • Tidied the explanations on the Prop firm simulator and Out-of-sample panels — the wall of text under the headings is now a hover "i" with a clear, point-by-point breakdown (pass rate, cost to funded, net EV; in-sample, out-of-sample, invert), matching the rest of the tool.
  • The "Simulate costs" control now sits right next to Risk mode, instead of tucked away in the small print below the equity metrics where it was easy to miss.
  • The Recent-trades chart now names the market by its futures contract — it leads with the ticker and says "futures" (e.g. "NQ · Nasdaq 100 futures", "6B · British Pound futures") instead of the bare index/CFD-style name. The charts are built from the underlying futures data, so the old wording could read as a CFD or cash-index price.
  • Opening the tool on a phone now shows a brief, dismissible heads-up that it's built for a desktop screen, with a "Continue anyway" button if you want to carry on. The ORBit System tool packs in a lot — dozens of filters, wide charts and side-by-side panels — so it's far easier to read on a laptop or desktop. The note appears once and remembers your choice.
  • The tool now fits a single screen on desktop. Instead of the whole page scrolling, the tool locks to one screen height — the top sits just under the navbar and the bottom rests at the edge of your screen — and the filters column and the results column each scroll on their own when their content runs longer than the space. This keeps your controls, tabs and charts in view together (it was easy, on smaller desktop monitors, for the longer tabs like Filters to push the page into a scroll and hide the rest), and there's nothing to set up — it adapts to whatever monitor you're on. As part of this, the Recent-trades list now fills the whole tab — on a big screen you see far more trades at once instead of a small fixed window.

v4.6

June 17, 2026

New Features

  • Cancel your subscription right from your account — no Stripe portal detour. The Plan & Billing section now has a "Cancel subscription" option, and if you go to cancel we'll first offer you a one-time 50% off your next month to stay — applied instantly, no code needed. If you cancel anyway, your plan stays fully active until the end of the period you've already paid for, and a "Resume subscription" button lets you undo it any time before then. Either way you can optionally tell us why you're leaving (totally optional, no strings attached) — it genuinely helps us improve the tool. The classic Stripe billing portal is still there for managing your payment method and invoices.
  • OR-to-OR gap mode. The Gap filter in the expanded tool now has two reference options: "Overnight close" (the existing mode — today's opening range start vs the prior day's 16:00 ET cash close) and "OR-to-OR" (new — how far today's opening range window open is above or below the prior day's opening range high or low). The OR-to-OR reference is useful when you want to know whether today's range opened inside yesterday's range, above it (gap up through the OR high), or below it (gap down through the OR low). The same ±0.1%/0.5% bucket labels apply. The setting saves with your edges and flows through the ORBit analyzer, the Portfolio builder and everything else — including the candle-close (5-/15-min "close") entry triggers and the Failed-breakout view, so the gap-down / flat / gap-up rows show up everywhere.
  • Custom filter ranges for volatility, the overnight gap and the trigger-close distance. The Volatility (ADR%), Gap and Trigger close distance filters in the expanded tool now have a "Custom" min/max box beneath the usual buckets, so you can pin an exact threshold — only gaps between 0.1% and 0.5%, say, opening ranges of 20–40% of ADR, or a precise trigger-close distance — instead of being limited to the preset bands. The value you enter appears as its own pill alongside the buckets, and as a comparison row in the ORBit analyzer right next to the standard buckets — so you can see how that exact band's win rate, return-to-drawdown and profit factor stack up against them. Typing a value does NOT instantly filter the whole tool; click the pill to apply it as a filter (it then narrows everything, like selecting a bucket chip), and click again to go back to comparison-only. If you enter a min above the max, the two swap automatically so the range is always valid. A range uses the same edge convention as the preset buckets — the low end is included and the high end is not (so "40–50%" means 40% up to, but not including, 50%) — so a custom range set to a bucket's exact edges matches that bucket precisely. It works in both the preset and custom opening-range modes, applies across the whole tool (equity curve, ORBit analyzer, Time and place, Recent trades, Portfolio and the rest), and is saved with your edges so a setup restores its exact range. The Gap custom range now takes a positive magnitude plus an Up / Down direction toggle, so "0.5 up" matches gaps of +0.5% or more while "0.5 down" matches gaps of −0.5% or more — previously a single value only caught gap-ups and silently ignored the equivalent gap-downs. (The trigger-close range only applies on a candle-close entry basis, where that distance exists. On the Nasdaq candle-close "close" entry triggers and the Failed-breakout view the gap range works, but the volatility range there still falls back to the buckets.)

Bug Fixes

  • Failed-breakout mode no longer blanks the Time and Place tab. Switching the trade type to "Failed breakout" used to send every chart on that tab to zero. Now nothing changes there — a failed breakout is simply a breakout that lost, so the tab keeps showing the breakout extension, retracement and timing distributions, and the "losers" column is exactly the failed-breakout set your fade trades. A short note above the panels explains the link.
  • The "Market holidays" filter now behaves like every other filter chip. Click it once (in the normal filter mode) to show ONLY market holidays; to DROP holidays instead, switch the filter mode to Mixed and click it to exclude — exactly how the day-of-week, news and other chips work. Previously it was a single on/off "exclude" toggle that didn't match the rest.
  • The "today / now" marker line on the Seasonal-curve and Intraday-curve charts is much darker in light mode. It was a pale, washed-out dotted line on the white chart; it now reads clearly. Dark mode is unchanged.
  • In the COT report chart, the "0" baseline label now matches the colour of every other axis number — it was previously highlighted in a different colour, which looked like it meant something special.
  • The quick guided tour no longer over-highlights the sidebar on step 3. The spotlight cut-out is now kept within the screen, so a tall target (like the whole filters sidebar) gets a sensible highlight instead of one that spilled off-screen and looked broken.
  • The Portfolio monthly overview table is much easier to read. The per-month and per-year R numbers were coloured green/red on top of a green/red tint, which washed them out, and every cell used a near-identical shade. The numbers are now the normal dark text and the green/red background scales with the size of the result — exactly like the Seasonality monthly table — so bigger months stand out and the figures stay legible.

Quality of Life

  • The "End of day" exit is now labelled "Time exit" in the trade ledger and chart. This reads correctly whether the trade exits at the end of the day OR at the New York open (for an overnight custom opening range that closes before the NY session), since both are time-based exits rather than a target or stop.
  • Clicking a participant in the COT report chart now auto-selects it in the COT filter dropdown below — so isolating, say, Leveraged Funds on the chart immediately points the "Filter ORB to this range" control at that same participant.
  • In custom opening-range mode, the "London" and "New York" quick buttons are smarter. If both sliders sit at or before that session's open (so the current end can't form a valid opening range there anyway), clicking the button snaps both sliders to the session's standard range — London 60 minutes, New York 15 minutes. If the end slider is already past the open, it just moves the start to the open and leaves your end where it is.
  • Light- and dark-mode surface polish. In the expanded tool, the risk-warning box at the very bottom now has a clean white background in light mode; and in dark mode the "basis of these statistics" box and the "Exit full width" button now use the darker site surface instead of the lighter grey, so they sit consistently with everything else. The Default/Mini sidebar density toggle now has its own surface background, so it no longer fades into the page in light mode.
  • The Saved edges panel is far easier to manage once you have a few saved. A new filter bar lets you search your strategies by name and narrow the list to a single symbol, and a Compact toggle collapses each saved strategy to a single line so many more fit on screen without scrolling. "Select all" now applies to whatever the filter is showing.
  • Faster first paint, especially on the landing page. The shared stylesheet is now inlined into each page instead of loading as a separate render-blocking request, and the ORBit logo is served as a tiny optimised image (a few KB instead of 50+ KB) sized for where it actually appears — so pages start drawing sooner.

v4.5

June 16, 2026

Bug Fixes

  • The footer now fills the bottom of the screen on short pages. Previously, on a page with little content (or when the site was zoomed far out), the footer showed as a band with a strip of page background visible beneath it — it now extends all the way to the bottom.
  • Nasdaq history is back to full depth on the candle-close entry triggers and the Failed-breakout view. The weekly data refresh had quietly trimmed the 5-min/15-min "close" entry data and the Failed-breakout data on Nasdaq down to roughly the last month — so switching the Entry control off "Touch" (or picking the Failed-breakout trade type) made the equity curve and every panel show only recent weeks, no matter where you set the time horizon. (Touch entry, the custom opening range and every other symbol were unaffected, which is why switching to Micro Nasdaq or applying a custom range brought the history back.) The full 2008-onward history is restored, and the refresh no longer shortens it.

Quality of Life

  • The Recommended page now links straight to the ORB Revolution EA showcase. On the Trade't section, a new "See the ORB Revolution EA" button opens the showcase with that Expert Advisor already selected, so you land directly on its details.
  • The landing page now loads noticeably faster. The Nasdaq equity-curve showcase on the homepage is pre-rendered when the site is built — its curve and headline numbers are baked right into the page — so it appears instantly with no "Loading…" pause and no heavy data download. It refreshes automatically with each weekly data update. The full interactive tool (change the symbol, time horizon, risk mode, filters and everything else) is one click away on the "Expand to full width" button or the Open-the-tool page.
  • Light-mode readability polish across the tool. On the Prop firm tab the input fields, dropdowns and number boxes (max drawdown, daily loss, min trading days, and the rest) used to be the same colour as the panel behind them, which made them nearly invisible — they now sit on a proper white field, and the little positive/negative expected-value summary has a stronger background so its text reads clearly. The out-of-sample test date field is white now, the in-tool pricing cards (Choose 2 / Premium add-on) that appear when you open a paid symbol or feature are white instead of blending into the page, and the "Exit full width" and "basis of these statistics" buttons in the expanded view are white so they stand out. The legend pills (the COT report categories, and the Q1/Q3/median/average markers in Time and place) are readable now too — their text is darkened to a legible shade on the bright background while keeping each marker's colour. Dark mode is unchanged.
  • The changelog page cards now use the darker surface colour in dark mode, instead of the older, lighter grey.
  • Dark mode is a touch lighter. The site-wide background was lifted from near-black to a slightly softer dark, so the page feels less heavy and the grey panels and tiles stand out a little more clearly against it. The panels, tiles and boxes themselves are unchanged — only the canvas behind them. Also tidied the proof-stat boxes above the pricing plans: the "100+ symbols coming" box now has the same neutral border as the other three instead of a coloured one.
  • The homepage Nasdaq equity-curve preview now calls out, prominently in the metrics area, that the curve shown is a completely unfiltered "raw edge" — so it is clear the full tool is where you narrow it down to your own setup.
  • Light mode is now the default appearance. The site opens in the light theme; dark mode is still one click away in the Appearance toggle (in the account menu) and your choice is remembered. The Prop firm tab's positive/negative expected-value summary also got the same readability treatment as the legend pills — its green/red text is darkened to a legible shade on the light background while keeping the colour.

v4.4

June 15, 2026

New Features

  • ORBit Explorer — a new tab (between COT report and Optimization & validation) that watches your whole library of saved edges at once and tells you which ones are in play today. Instead of opening each saved setup one by one, ORBit Explorer scans them all against today's market and flags the eligible ones, with a per-edge checklist of which conditions already line up. This first version checks everything knowable at the day's open — day of week, your seasonal windows, scheduled news and holidays — and lists the price-driven conditions (gap, opening trend, breakout direction, volatility) as needing live confirmation. Live intraday confirmation needs a real-time market-data feed, which is a genuine cost to run — so we'll build it if there is enough interest in the tool. A paid feature, available on any paid plan across every instrument including free Nasdaq.

Bug Fixes

  • Portfolio tab: a saved edge no longer drags its old time horizon into the basket. Previously, whatever time-horizon window was set when you saved an edge got baked in, so loading it into a portfolio could cut its history short (e.g. only showing trades from a recent date even with the portfolio slider pulled all the way back). Each edge now contributes its full history and the portfolio's own time-horizon slider controls the whole basket.
  • The guided tour no longer reappears on every visit. It now marks itself seen the moment it first opens, so it shows once and then stays out of the way (you can always replay it from the buttons at the bottom of the sidebar) — previously, leaving or reloading the page before finishing it could make it pop up again next time.
  • Removed a stray dashed box that flickered behind the candles in the Trade chart view feature icon animation.

Quality of Life

  • The "Edge finder" tab is now called "ORBit analyzer" — same tab, same per-filter breakdowns, just an on-brand name. Every mention across the tool, FAQ, pricing and feature pages was updated to match.
  • Building a portfolio is faster: in the Saved edges sidebar you can now drag a box over several saved strategies to add them all to the basket at once instead of ticking each one (click a card to toggle a single one), plus a "Select all" / "Clear all" shortcut in the section header.
  • Chart gridlines are visible in light mode now — on every monitor. The faint grey gridlines on the equity curve, portfolio, seasonality and the other charts were barely visible against the white background in light mode, and worse on a standard 1080p/1440p screen than on a 4K one (the thin lines fade out at lower pixel density). They are darker now, and the site detects a lower-resolution display and darkens them further there, so the grid reads clearly everywhere without competing with your data.
  • A reworked landing page that opens with the interactive orbit map. The first screen is now the live "toolkit in orbit" — the seven tools circling the ORBit Analytics core; hover any one to preview it, click to dive in — so you see what the product does at a glance, and it keeps you engaged just long enough that the live Nasdaq tool below has loaded its data by the time you scroll to it. As you scroll down, the equity view unrolls like a papyrus scroll between the two "Expand to full width" buttons, which sit fixed top and bottom. It feels faster and no longer jumps in as it loads. On the teaser the tool presents the equity curve and headline numbers full-width — no filter sidebar to crowd it — over the complete 18-year history, and it opens on a 1%-compounded view (a relatable "what would my account have done") rather than the raw R curve. To keep it clean we removed the cost-simulation control and the little "i" explanation tooltips from the teaser (all still there in the full tool), and stopped the big equity panel from flashing a glow as the mouse passes over it while the page unfolds.

v4.3

June 15, 2026

Bug Fixes

  • Easier to read in light mode. A few elements that washed out on the light theme are fixed: the All access pricing card and the "basis of these statistics" box now have solid, legible backgrounds instead of blending into the page, and the small amber "heads-up" notices — the early-bird badge, and chart messages like "limited intraday data for this day" — now sit in a proper contrasting box so they read clearly in both light and dark.

Quality of Life

  • The feature showcase moved to the front page. The interactive "orbit map" — the seven tools orbiting a central core, hover any one to preview it, click to dive in — now lives right on the landing page, between the live Nasdaq tool and the pricing, instead of on its own separate page (most people clicked straight through to the tool they wanted anyway). It fills the width of the page so it reads as a proper showcase, and on phones it falls back to a tidy tier-grouped card grid.
  • Light mode is now the default look. The site opens in the light theme for new visitors; if you prefer dark, flip it once from the Appearance toggle in your account menu and it sticks from then on.
  • The TradingView feature now wears the actual TradingView logo. Its little icon used to be a generic upward line chart — practically identical to the portfolio and analysis icons — so it's now the recognisable TradingView mark itself, easy to spot at a glance.
  • Sharper on every monitor — thin lines like the orbit map's rings looked crisp on a high-resolution (4K / retina) screen but faded out on a standard 1080p or 1440p monitor. The site now detects a lower-resolution display and thickens those fine lines a touch so they stay clearly visible, while high-resolution screens keep the finer look.

v4.2

June 15, 2026

New Features

  • Micro Nasdaq (MNQ) is now free for everyone. The Micro Nasdaq contract joins Nasdaq (NQ) on the free tier — full statistics, every analysis tool, no account needed. Previously it only came bundled on top of a paid plan; now anyone can study it, the same way as NQ.
  • The TradingView indicator export is now part of the paid plans. Sending your setup to the ORBit Analytics TradingView indicator — the "Send to TradingView" preset export — now needs any paid subscription. It is included on every paid plan and works on every symbol, including free Nasdaq. The indicator itself stays free to add on TradingView.
  • TradingView indicator, upgraded — the ORBit Analytics indicator that draws your ORBit setup live on any TradingView chart got a round of improvements. Failed-breakout (fade) setups now just work: paste a fade preset and the indicator automatically shows the matching statistics. A failed breakout is a winning fade, so its run / heat lines are drawn for you without hunting through the toggles. The on-chart verification dashboard now also flags your trigger-distance filter in real time (red when the break candle's distance is outside your setup), shows the name of the saved edge you're trading, and the win-rate and sample size behind it. The old bars-until-entry row — replaced by the trade-time window — was retired.
  • New TradingView feature page — /features/tradingview now leads with a live, interactive demo, like the analysis, portfolio, trade-chart, seasonality and COT pages. See the bridge in action on a real one-minute Nasdaq chart: click Send to TradingView, paste the string, and your opening range, the extension and retracement statistical lines, the breakout-timing guide and the live verification dashboard all draw onto the chart — then toggle any layer. Exactly what the free indicator does on your own chart.
  • Guided tours — the full tool now has a built-in walkthrough, in two flavours (buttons at the bottom of the sidebar). The Quick tour is a short, skippable overview of the essentials — pick a market, slice the data, read your equity curve — and starts automatically the first time you open the tool. The In-depth tour goes chapter by chapter through every tab (equity curve, edge finder, time & place, seasonality, COT, optimization, portfolio, prop firm, recent trades, saving & sharing) with pointers for what you can do on each; a chapters menu lets you jump straight to the part you care about — e.g. from the equity curve right to the COT report.

Bug Fixes

  • Restored the "Close at NY open" exit. For a custom opening range that closes before the New York open — an overnight or European-session range you would hold into the US open — the Target mode → Time dropdown again offers a second exit that closes the trade at the 09:30 New York open, not only at end of day. It had quietly disappeared when the London session was removed.
  • The Contact page cards no longer use an old background shade — they now match the rest of the site in both light and dark mode.
  • The trade chart now opens for the most recent trading week. The weekly Nasdaq data refresh updates the stats and the 1-minute price history together, so a trade from the latest week charts correctly instead of coming up empty.

Quality of Life

  • The Features page is now a one-screen interactive "orbit map" — the seven tools orbit a central core, hover any one to preview what it does, click to dive in. No more scrolling through a long list. The tools move at distinct, planet-like speeds (the inner ring noticeably faster than the outer), the orbit rings are clearly visible (especially in light mode, where they were almost invisible), the tiers are renamed to Core / Feature / Premium (clearer than the old price-based labels, since most tools are only free on Nasdaq), and the whole map fits on one screen with the footer right at the bottom.
  • A new Mini sidebar mode — a Default / Mini switch lays the filters out in two columns (controls stay full size), so once you know your way around you can see the whole filter stack at once with far less scrolling. Mini is slider-only (the exact date/time type-in boxes are hidden, leaving just the sliders for Time horizon, Opening range and the Trade-time window), and the Default / Mini switch lives in the sidebar tab bar (Filters tab only) so the filters start flush at the top. Your choice is remembered.
  • The plan options now keep your place — opening a paid market or feature no longer takes over the whole tool. The results tabs (equity curve, edge finder and the rest) stay visible and only the panel below switches to the plan options; clicking another tab brings you straight back.
  • A cleaner COT chart — the Commitments-of-Traders chart now shows one trader category at a time. Clicking another category switches the line instead of stacking several on top of each other, so the chart stays easy to read.
  • Light and dark polish — the pricing page, the broker comparison, the landing-page stat boxes and the Contact page cards now use the new deeper dark-mode colour and read clearly in light mode; several feature-page demo controls (buttons, the analysis slider and its drag hint) that were too faint in light mode are fixed; the Trade type filter section no longer vanishes in light mode (its nested Entry / Target / Stop controls are flattened to match the other filter sections); and the navbar account menu dropdown now uses the new card colours.
  • The "Send to TradingView" button moved to the right end of the results tabs; the candle outlines and the Entry/Exit labels in the trade chart view are now thinner so the price action reads more clearly; and the navbar Features dropdown now lists the tools in the same order as the orbit map.

v4.1

June 13, 2026

New Features

  • Intraday seasonality — a new view in the Seasonality tab that plots the average shape of the trading day. Every day from the session open (midnight your time / 6pm New York) through to the 4pm New York cash close is rebased to its open and averaged together, so you can see the path the market typically traces — the overnight drift, the cash-open drive, the midday lull, the afternoon trend into the close. A “Detrend” toggle strips out the day’s overall drift so you can read the pure shape — where the market tends to sit above or below trend through the session — and a one-click “Opening range” overlay marks where your selected range sits in the day. Times display in your own timezone. Free on Nasdaq, and on every symbol you’re subscribed to.
  • Light mode — the whole site now has a light theme alongside the dark one. Flip between them from the Appearance toggle in your account menu (top right); your choice is remembered and applied instantly on every visit. Every page, panel and chart re-themes, with the numbers staying just as readable on the light canvas.

Quality of Life

  • A sharper look for the tool — the stats engine has a cleaner, darker “data-terminal” style with its own identity. Panel backgrounds are deeper, the numbers and labels use a crisp monospace typeface so columns line up and read like a trading screen, and every panel now lifts off the page. The performance stats — across the Equity curve, Monte Carlo, Portfolio, Prop firm and the edge summary — sit in tidy bordered tiles, the chart has its own framed panel, and the sidebar filters are boxed into neat groups. The background glow was toned right down.

v4.0

June 12, 2026

New Features

  • Feature pages redesigned to sell, not document — each /features/<name> page is now a tight problem-versus-solution layout: the pain point a trader actually has, then exactly how ORBit fixes it. Five of the pages now lead with a live demo: drag the slider on the analysis page from 1 to 18 years of data and watch a weekday win-rate chart settle from noise to truth; click strategies in and out of a basket on the portfolio page to watch the combined equity curve climb without piling on drawdown; click the OR box, entry, stop, day close and SD grid chips on the trade-chart page to see exactly how the tool annotates every trade for you; on the seasonality page, click two points on a real 18-year gold curve to measure any recurring window — average return, win rate, year-by-year breakdown; and on the COT page, click any trader category to layer its real 18-year COT Index line (0-100, three-year rolling normalisation) onto the chart — Dealer is on by default; Asset Managers, Leveraged Funds and the others wait one click away. The numbered how-it-works walkthroughs were retired; the existing guide already covers the manual.
  • Recent trades — the ledger no longer caps at the last 12 months. Every trade behind the current filter setup is now in the table, even when that's thousands of rows. Smooth scrolling thanks to row virtualisation: only the rows in the viewport actually live in the DOM, so you can drag through 18 years of NQ trades without the panel slowing down. A new search box in the Date column lets you jump to a specific year, month-year, or full date — type "08.05.2026" and the table jumps straight to that one. Dates now also display in proper DD.MM.YYYY format across the whole column instead of the technical YYYY-MM-DD.
  • Profile avatars — upload a profile picture from the Account menu (the pencil button on your avatar). It shows up next to your name on the testimonials wall, so the reviews feel less anonymous. PNG, JPG or WebP, cropped to a square automatically.

Quality of Life

  • Site copy reads as proper sentence case — headings still in all-caps but everything else (descriptions, leads, tooltips) is back to normal capitalisation so longer paragraphs are easier to read. Trailing periods stripped from page headlines.
  • Navbar, footer and dropdown menus are now solid (much less see-through) so menu items don't blur into whatever is behind them; each item now also carries its own border so it reads as a button even before you hover. The Account menu got the same treatment.

v3.9

June 12, 2026

New Features

  • Portfolio builder — loading a basket of saved edges is now much faster on a cold open. Each resolved edge is cached locally; on the next visit, the basket loads from cache instead of re-running the engine. Combined with a live progress bar (counts edges as they resolve, with the current edge name), the wait that used to be silent is now visible and short.
  • Save portfolios — you can now name and save a basket of edges as a Portfolio. The Portfolio tab has a Save portfolio input that snaps the current basket (including the split-risk toggle); saved portfolios live in the Saved edges sidebar under their own Portfolios section, where you can reload them with one click. An edge can belong to multiple portfolios — each single-strategy card now shows small chips listing the portfolios it's part of.
  • New /account page — your plan, billing, Discord, refer-a-friend (coming soon) and leave-a-review now live on a proper page instead of all squeezed into the navbar popup. The popup still opens from the navbar Account button, but each item now jumps you straight to that section of the page.

Quality of Life

  • Portfolio builder — edge selection moved to the Saved edges sidebar tab. Tick the edges you want in your basket, and they show up on the Portfolio tab automatically. The duplicate inline list is gone, so the Portfolio results sit front-and-centre.
  • Portfolio time-horizon — the slider is now independent of the chart symbol. A basket of NQ + MNQ no longer clamps to 2019 when MNQ is the active chart; it follows the earliest edge in the basket.
  • Saved edges sidebar split into Single strategies + Portfolios sections, with per-card download buttons that export the setup as a .txt file alongside the existing copy-to-clipboard.

v3.8

June 12, 2026

New Features

  • Micro contracts added — Micro Nasdaq (MNQ), Micro S&P (MES) and Micro Gold (MGC), the contracts most prop firms and retail traders actually run. Each one shares its parent's tile as a split “Mini | Micro” pill — NQ|MNQ, ES|MES, GC|MGC — so the micro sits right next to its full-size contract. They're paid, but they ride along free on top of your plan: MNQ comes with any paid plan, MES whenever you hold ES, MGC whenever you hold GC — and all-access includes all three. So a pick-2 of ES + GC quietly becomes five symbols. History runs from the micros' 2019 launch. Their COT report shows the full-size contract's positioning (micros have no separate CFTC report), with a banner saying so.
  • Features section redesigned — the nine UI-tab pages have been replaced by seven product-feature groupings: The analysis engine (markets, filters, edge-finder and distributions in one), Equity & portfolio, Trade chart view, Seasonality, COT, TradingView indicator, and MT5 algo. Each is a proper landing page with a problem-first section, numbered how-it-works steps and a “What you get” card grid. Old URLs redirect automatically.

Quality of Life

  • Roadmap now focuses on upcoming symbols — and you can join the Discord to vote on which come next. Opening the Portfolio builder when you're not subscribed goes straight to the plan options instead of an extra “unlock” click.
  • Login emails: the “link sent” message now reminds you to check your spam folder, in case it lands there.
  • Telegram handle updated to @tlfxorbit — the new ORBit-specific username — everywhere it appears across the site.
  • Admin: subscriber records now show monthly price (respecting grandfathered rates), subscription start date, and cumulative lifetime spend — populated from Stripe automatically going forward and retroactively via a one-click sync.

v3.7

June 11, 2026

Bug Fixes

  • Failed breakout — corrected a scoring bug that overstated win rates. When a fade filled and then ran straight through to its stop inside the same one-minute bar, it was being counted as a win instead of a loss. It hit hardest where the target sits close to the entry — the broken-edge target especially — and on shorter ranges, where the fill and target are near each other. Win rate, average R and equity for Failed-breakout setups are now accurate; a few broken-edge setups that looked profitable turned out to be the bug, not a real edge.
  • Failed breakout now works on every market — the incorrect "Nasdaq-only test" note has been removed (it already ran on all symbols).
  • Trade chart: custom opening ranges shorter than 15 minutes now draw on 1-minute candles instead of 5-minute, so a small range isn't squashed into one or two bars.

Quality of Life

  • Trade-time window: switching the filter on now starts from your current opening range (OR close → session close) instead of a fixed 09:30–16:00 New York window, so under a custom range it shows the right times straight away. The trade chart's Entry/Exit labels were also moved clear of the candle and the connecting line slimmed down for readability.

v3.6

June 11, 2026

New Features

  • New trade type — Failed breakout: rather than trading the opening-range breakout, you FADE it, betting it fails and price snaps back across the range. Choose the entry level (the edge, or +0.5 / +1 SD beyond it), the stop, and the target (the opposite edge, the midpoint, or the broken edge). Live on Nasdaq to start — and like the rest of the tool, the edge comes from filtering for the conditions where breakouts actually reverse (counter-trend days, big ranges, and so on). Rolling out to more markets once it's proven.
  • Entry trigger now free on Nasdaq — picking how the entry is detected (Touch, the moment price first pierces the edge; 5-min close; or 15-min close) was previously only available inside the paid Custom range feature. It's now a standalone control for Breakout & Reversal on the free NQ data, with Touch the new default. Earlier triggers give more trades at a lower win rate; later closes give fewer, higher-quality entries. (The rarely-useful 1-min close was removed.)

Bug Fixes

  • Trade chart: the Entry and Exit markers now sit exactly on the candle where the trade actually happened (an intrabar fill could previously land the Entry dot a bar early), and their labels have a dark outline so they stay readable over the candles.

Quality of Life

  • Removed the "Combined" trade type — to blend setups, save them as separate edges and combine them in the Portfolio builder, which is far more flexible.
  • Time and place: the loser charts now split failed breakouts by how far they reversed — broke the opposite side, reached mid-range, or stayed breakout-side — so you can read the run and timing for each (a failed breakout is, after all, a winning fade).
  • Simplified Target mode to two choices — Time and Fixed SD. The Statistical target (median / average / quartile run) was removed: it never beat a plain time or fixed-SD exit, so it only added clutter.
  • Collapsed the Session + OR-duration controls into one "Opening range" control. Free on Nasdaq is the New York 09:30 → 09:45 15-minute range (the one most people trade) and it loads instantly; a paid plan unlocks any custom window — with Midnight / London / New York quick-anchors for the start. The little-used London session and the 30/60-minute presets were retired.
  • Filter cleanup: the Trade-time window now has two modes — Clock time (a time of day) or Minutes after the OR (the first N minutes after the range, which adapts to any window) — and it absorbed the old "Bars until entry" filter. Also dropped the Exclude filter mode and the "No news days" chip (Mixed mode covers both), and evened the Trigger-distance steps to 0.25 SD.
  • The index markets (Nasdaq, S&P, DAX, Dow) now use the site's magenta highlight instead of blue, and the "Expand to full width" bar was toned down. Trade chart candles got a crisp black border and wick so they read clearly.

v3.5

June 10, 2026

New Features

  • New symbol — Euro FX (6E), the 10th market: opening-range statistics for the CME Euro FX future, with the full toolset (sessions, equity curve, edge finder, time & place, seasonality, COT report, custom ranges). A paid symbol like the other non-NQ instruments.
  • Seasonality: you can now apply up to five separate calendar windows at once instead of just one (they can't overlap). Each applied window stays shaded on the seasonal curve with a number, so you can see exactly where they sit and slot new ones into the gaps — handy for combining several seasonal periods into one filter.
  • Edge finder: the Trade-time window now appears as its own breakdown — Before, During and After your chosen window — so you can see at a glance how the trades outside your window would have performed, not just the ones inside it.

Quality of Life

  • Pricing page: the plan buttons now take you straight to secure checkout — or your billing portal if you're already subscribed — instead of opening the tool first. Choose all-access or pick your two markets right there and you're at Stripe in one step.
  • The Trade-time window can no longer start before the opening range ends (there are no breakouts before then), so the filter always makes sense.
  • Reviews now ask for a star rating and at least a sentence or two (100 characters), so the testimonials that go up are genuinely useful to other traders.

v3.4

June 9, 2026

New Features

  • Custom opening range now has start and end time sliders (15-minute steps), the same way the time-horizon slider works — drag to set your window, with exact type-in fields kept below for to-the-minute control.
  • Portfolio tab: a new monthly overview table for the combined portfolio — one row per year with each calendar month's result in R and a yearly total, colour-tinted like a heatmap. It reacts to the time-horizon slider and every portfolio setting, just like the curve above it.
  • Prop firm simulator: a "Trade source" toggle in the top right runs the whole pass simulation on your active portfolio (your blended saved edges) instead of just the symbol you're on — so you can see how a diversified book would clear a challenge.
  • Prop firm: added The 5%ers 100K Bootcamp — their three-step program. The simulator now supports 3-phase challenges, not just one- and two-step ones.
  • The COT positioning report now goes back to 2008 (it previously started in 2010) — two extra years of weekly Commitments-of-Traders history on every symbol.
  • New in-depth Features section — a dedicated page for each part of the tool, reachable from a Features dropdown in the navigation — plus this public Changelog page, which opens with the planned release schedule (a bigger update on the 1st of each month, smaller fixes in between).

Bug Fixes

  • Trade chart: the most recent day or two can have the daily statistics before their 1-minute bars have landed. Opening such a day used to show a blank chart with no explanation — it now shows a clear note that the intraday bars aren't stored yet, so the empty chart is never a mystery.

Quality of Life

  • The portfolio equity curve now reacts to the time-horizon slider, exactly like the single-symbol curve: shorten the window and the blended curve, its metrics and the monthly table all recompute — no matter which symbol you currently have open.
  • The Trade-time window filter now has the same start/end sliders (15-minute steps) as the custom opening range, with the exact type-in fields below.
  • Time and place: "Minutes after entry" is now the default timing view and sits first in the switch — it answers "how long did the trade actually run" regardless of when it broke out, which is what most people want first. "Time of day" is one click away.
  • The default view now includes market holidays (the "Exclude market holidays" toggle starts off), so the at-a-glance numbers cover every session by default.
  • Returning visitors who are signed in (any plan, paid or free) now land straight on the tool when they reopen the site, instead of the marketing landing page.
  • Clearer pricing and explainers: the Pick-2 and All-access plans now spell out the real features you get (custom opening ranges, trade charts, saved edges and the portfolio builder), and the "basis of these statistics" box now leads with how the numbers are actually computed before defining the opening range.
  • New "Recommended" page — the brokers, tools and partners worth using, opening with a side-by-side Fusion Markets vs BlackBull Markets broker comparison.

v3.3

June 9, 2026

New Features

  • New symbol — the Dow Jones future (YM): opening-range statistics for the CBOT E-mini Dow ($5) going back to 2008, with the full toolset (sessions, equity curve, edge finder, time & place, seasonality, COT report, custom ranges). A paid symbol like the other non-NQ instruments. Added by request from the Discord.

Bug Fixes

  • Login reliability: clicking your magic-link sign-in could leave you shown as logged out even though the link worked. Fixed — signing in (and your premium data) now loads correctly again; if you were affected, just reload and you should be back in.
  • Magic-link sign-in now also completes when the link is opened on a phone or narrow window, instead of landing you on the Free EAs page still logged out.

v3.2

June 8, 2026

Bug Fixes

  • Custom opening ranges now use the full price history again. After a data-update issue, Custom-OR mode had quietly been limited to roughly the last three months of data; the complete multi-year history is restored, so custom windows, the trade chart and every custom-mode panel cover the full range once more.

Quality of Life

  • Saved edges: each saved edge now has a "copy preset string" button, so you can grab its TradingView / algo setup string straight from the list without loading the edge into the tool first.

v3.1

June 4, 2026

New Features

  • New symbol — the Japanese Yen future (6J): opening-range statistics for the CME yen contract going back to 2008, with the full toolset (sessions, equity curve, edge finder, seasonality, COT report, custom ranges). A paid symbol like the other non-NQ instruments.

Bug Fixes

  • Prop firm simulator: changing your risk-per-trade no longer kicks a chosen preset back to "Custom", and switching presets now keeps your risk %. You can finally tune risk on a named preset.
  • Prop firm simulator: the "opportunity cost of time" option is now off by default, and when on it no longer over-counts the grind — it values only the trading days of a passing run (the failed-retry days are already paid for by the challenge fees), so a sensible setup is no longer pushed to negative expected value everywhere.
  • Time & place timing charts now show correctly for custom opening ranges placed in the evening / overnight (e.g. an Asian-session range on the yen). Previously the chart collapsed to a single giant bar holding only a handful of trades; the timing window now spans the full post-range session correctly.

Quality of Life

  • The symbol selector is now grouped by asset class — Indices, Commodities, Metals, Currencies and Crypto — with each group tinted in its own colour. Keeps the list clear and readable as more instruments are added.
  • The time-horizon slider now has a "year to date" snap (the start of the current year), sitting between the 6-month and 3-month marks, so you can jump straight to this year's data.

v3.0

June 3, 2026

New Features

  • New symbol — the DAX 40 (FDAX): opening-range statistics for the German index future going back to 2008 (~18 years of data), with the full toolset (sessions, equity curve, edge finder, seasonality, custom ranges). The opening range anchors to the 09:00 Frankfurt cash open via the tool's London session. A paid symbol like the other non-NQ instruments.
  • The Opening-trend filter now scales to your opening-range size: it reads the 1-hour Bollinger band for opening ranges of 30 minutes or less, and the 4-hour band for longer ones. It also works in Custom opening-range mode now — the trend chips and the Edge-finder trend breakdown are no longer hidden there.
  • The Prop firm pass simulator is now free for everyone. Open the Prop firm tab (expanded view) to see how often a setup would pass a prop-firm challenge (Topstep, Apex, FTMO, The5%ers…) and whether it comes out net positive — on any symbol.

Bug Fixes

  • The Opening-trend filter now works when a custom stop-loss is active on a preset opening range, where it was previously an inactive control.

Quality of Life

  • The tool loads faster on first visit: the data engine and dataset now start downloading immediately, and you see the real headline numbers right away instead of a loading box while the interactive tool finishes booting.
  • Custom opening-range loads are faster and no longer freeze the page while computing: the price-data decode was optimised, the work now yields so the interface stays responsive, and a window you've opened before reloads instantly from a local cache.
  • Equity curve and Portfolio: a new "Total cost" metric in the metrics grid shows the total R that the Simulate-costs setting deducts across the curve's trades.
  • The Simulate-costs dropdown now highlights (coloured border and text) when a non-zero cost is selected, so it's visible at a glance that a cost is applied.

v2.9

June 2, 2026

New Features

  • New "Saved edges" tab in the filter sidebar (expanded view, a paid feature): save the current filter setup as a named "edge" and reload it any time — synced to your account, so your edges follow you across every device. Up to 5 per instrument. Any paid plan unlocks it on every symbol, including free NQ.
  • New "Portfolio" tab (expanded view, a paid feature): tick several saved edges — even across different instruments — and the tool blends them into one combined equity curve with its own metrics (final R, win %, profit factor, drawdown, return-to-drawdown, streaks, stagnation), cost simulation and drawdown / stagnation / time-divider overlays. A "Split risk" toggle spreads one risk unit equally across the selected edges (each trade risks 1/N), modelling a real fixed-risk portfolio — so you can see how diversifying across setups lowers the blended drawdown.

Bug Fixes

  • Full-width view: the top navigation bar no longer stays shifted to the right — it now lines up centred with the tool, like the rest of the page.

Quality of Life

  • Equity curve: added two metrics — "Avg winner" (the average size of your winning trades in R, separate from overall expectancy) and "Profit factor" (gross profit ÷ gross loss; above 1 is profitable) — and reorganised the metrics grid into a cleaner five-column layout (outcome · averages & drawdown · streaks).
  • Recent trades: clicking "Show fewer" now scrolls you back to the top instead of leaving you at the very bottom of the page.

v2.8

June 2, 2026

New Features

  • The free ORBit Analytics TradingView indicator is now available to everyone. Filter a setup here, click "Send to TradingView" at the top of the filter sidebar, copy the preset and paste it into the indicator — it draws that setup's opening range, run / retracement / timing lines and a dashboard that flags when the live chart falls outside your filters. A new step-by-step guide covers it.
  • New "Optimization & validation" tab (expanded view) with two sub-tabs. Out-of-sample: set an in-sample end date and compare the equity curve + key metrics (final R, win %, drawdown, return/drawdown) for in-sample vs out-of-sample side by side, so you can see whether an edge holds on data it never saw. A banner clears the window from any tab. Monte Carlo moved here as the second sub-tab.
  • New "Trade-time window" filter (expanded): count only trades whose breakout falls inside an after/before window of the day — every panel recomputes for it (times in your timezone). Lets you isolate, say, only the morning breakouts.
  • Time and place: a new "Breakout timing" chart shows when the breakout that triggers your entry tends to fire, across every trade in your filter (it tracks your trigger — a tighter touch / 1-min trigger fires earlier than a 15-min close).
  • Time and place now follows your Target mode: set a take-profit (e.g. 1 SD) and a "winner" becomes a trade that actually REACHED that target. The "how far winners run" chart now caps the run at your target (it won't show winners running past where you'd have taken profit), and the extension timing marks when the target was reached, not the later peak — so both reflect your actual exit. End-of-day exit works as before (full run).
  • New Custom stop-loss (paid): move your stop from the opposite OR edge (1 SD) to the OR midpoint (0.5 SD) or any fraction — and which trades stop out, the R, win rate, equity curve and time-and-place all recompute for it. Works on New York and Custom windows; like Custom OR it re-simulates from 1-minute bars.
  • Prop firm: added a Lucid Trading 50K Flex preset.

Bug Fixes

  • Trade chart: a take-profit or stop that price ran or gapped straight through is now marked on the candle where it was actually reached, instead of occasionally jumping to the last candle of the day (which made entry and exit look like the same bar).
  • "How deep winners retrace": the top bar was twice as wide as the rest (it covered 0.90–1.00 SD), which overstated the deepest-retrace band. The bands now step evenly by 0.05 SD up to 0.95, so the deep tail shows at its true height; the "how far it runs" charts were extended to match.

Quality of Life

  • Prop firm: the opportunity-cost-of-time setting is now a simple on/off toggle instead of a dollar amount to guess — when on, every day spent getting funded is valued at what an already-funded version of your exact setup would earn (derived from your own filtered edge), nothing to hand-tune.
  • Every paid-feature paywall now has a "Why is this not free?" link (next to the unlock option) that opens the FAQ explaining the cost/speed reason the feature is gated.
  • Prop firm: fixed the paid-feature star alignment on the tab.

v2.7

June 1, 2026

New Features

  • New "Prop firm" tab (expanded view, a paid feature): a pass simulator for trading this setup on a prop-firm account. Pick a firm/account (Topstep, Apex, FTMO, The5%ers) or set your own — drawdown, targets, trailing rules, risk, and the fees (a per-attempt challenge fee plus a one-time activation fee you pay once you pass, like Topstep) — and thousands of resampled challenge attempts show your pass rate, the expected cost to get funded and the net expected value. It also factors an opportunity-cost-of-time input, so a slow low-risk path that passes more often but ties up far more time is penalised, not rewarded. Those fees are small next to a funded payout, so even a break-even setup can come out positive. Any paid plan unlocks it on every symbol.
  • Seasonality: once you mark a window on the seasonal curve, a new "return by year" bar chart appears below it — one green/red bar per year in your time horizon — so you can see how reliable the seasonal edge was each individual year, not just on average.

Bug Fixes

  • In a Custom opening range with a 1- or 15-minute candle-close trigger, the Time-and-place timing charts ("minutes after entry") were scaled from the wrong candle size, so the median / Q1 / Q3 markers collapsed onto the wrong bars. They now use the correct candle size, so the timing reads right.

Quality of Life

  • The Time-and-place distance charts (how far winners run, how deep they retrace, how far losers run) now show a "Total" row above the bars with the summed percentage and day count, so you can see at a glance that every trade is accounted for.
  • Removed the "most traded" marker from the four Time-and-place charts and the matching "Most traded" statistical take-profit target — it only ever pointed at the obviously tallest bar, so it added clutter without information. The median, average, Q1 and Q3 markers stay.

v2.6

May 31, 2026

New Features

  • The Recent-trades chart now draws candles that match your breakout trigger (a 1 / 5 / 15-minute custom trigger shows 1 / 5 / 15-minute candles; falls back to 5-minute if the OR is shorter). It also draws the active take-profit — a Target line for an SD / statistical target, or a vertical exit-time line for an end-of-day exit — so you can verify the take profit, not just the stop.
  • The Volatility (ADR%), Overnight gap and Bars-until-entry filters now work in a Custom opening range too, not just the presets. (Opening trend stays preset-only for now.)
  • The Edge finder gains a Return / DD (return-to-drawdown) column on every block — each category's own equity curve final R divided by its worst drawdown — plus a "Sort each block by" control to rank every block's rows by trades, win %, profit factor, total R or Return / DD.

Bug Fixes

  • Deep links into a specific FAQ / help question now work every time: open a question via a link, close it, click the same link again — it re-opens and highlights as expected. Previously the second click did nothing.
  • Trade-chart fixes: a long or overnight Custom opening range (~10h+, or any evening start) no longer renders blank, and the rare day where the futures data source has a gap is now flagged so a short chart reads as a known gap, not a glitch.

Quality of Life

  • Free preset breakouts (15 / 30 / 60-min) are measured on a 5-minute candle close again — the first 5-minute candle to CLOSE beyond the opening range; every number is recomputed on this basis across all symbols. Touch and the 1 / 5 / 15-minute closes stay as Custom-OR triggers; the 30-minute close was removed.
  • The default view is a cleaner snapshot: Filter mode and the Custom opening range now live in the expanded view only.
  • The Volatility (ADR%) filter now uses even 10-point steps (under 10 → over 50).
  • New "how do I get my Discord Paid role" help, linked from the account panel.
  • Upgrading your plan in the tool (e.g. a 2-symbol bundle to all-access) now updates your existing subscription with proration — one click, no second subscription, no double-billing.

v2.5

May 31, 2026

New Features

  • Breakouts are now measured on a "touch" basis. The preset 15 / 30 / 60-minute windows register the breakout the instant price touches beyond the opening range — even a single tick — and assume you enter with a stop resting right at the edge, exactly how you'd trade it live. (Before, a breakout needed a 5-minute candle to CLOSE beyond the range, which only confirms in hindsight and enters later at a worse price.) Every number — continuation / reversal rates, equity curves, extensions, win rates — is recomputed on this basis across all symbols.
  • Time-and-place timing charts get a switch: "Time of day" (when the move peaked) or "Minutes after entry" (how long the trade actually ran, regardless of when it broke out). The new view answers "how long did it run in my favour" — e.g. most losing trades peak at 0 minutes (they fail immediately).

Bug Fixes

  • The Time-and-place timing charts were silently dropping trades that never ran in your favour, so the Q1 / median / Q3 markers were computed over a hidden subset and could land on a tiny bar. Every trade is now counted (a no-run trade sits at its entry time, or at 0 minutes after entry), so the markers line up with the bars.
  • In a Custom opening range the timing charts' time axis was stuck on the preset session open instead of following your custom range — now it (and the underlying time buckets) start from your custom OR end.
  • The COT report no longer shrinks with the time-horizon slider — it always shows the full multi-year history (positioning only makes sense against the whole picture; use the scroll-wheel zoom to focus).
  • On the timing charts, the median / average markers could vanish when they landed on an empty slot (common on small or even-sized samples). They now always show a visible tick.

Quality of Life

  • "Bars until entry" now reads as which 5-minute bar the break happened in. "Trigger close distance" only appears where it means something — a Custom range with a candle-close trigger — since a touch entry always sits exactly on the edge.
  • Custom opening ranges now default to the same Touch trigger (the 1 / 5 / 15 / 30-minute candle-close options stay if you prefer a confirmed close), and can now be as short as 5 minutes (was 15).
  • The equity curve's Win rate now also shows the raw win and loss counts (e.g. "1560W · 2471L") in the expanded view, so you can line the equity numbers up against the Time-and-place charts.

v2.4

May 31, 2026

New Features

  • Custom OR breakout trigger: a 1- / 5- (default) / 15- / 30-minute candle close beyond the range, or "Touch" — any wick, entering with a stop on the edge. Coarser closes suit long ranges where a single short poke shouldn't count. Preset 15/30/60 windows are unchanged.
  • Monte Carlo upgrades: pick how many paths to draw (1 / 10 / 50 / 100); median-outcome and average lines with R / % on the Y-axis; more stats (win rate, avg/trade, % of paths profitable, return-to-drawdown) beside a bell-curve of the outcomes (one bar per path, median + average in a legend); and a "Drop top 1% winners" stress test.
  • New Volatility (ADR%) breakdown in the Edge finder, alongside direction, day, trend, bars-to-entry, trigger distance, gap and news.
  • Recent trades: click the arrow on any row to unfold the exact filter values behind that trade — direction, day, volatility, opening trend, overnight gap, bars-to-entry, trigger distance and news.

Bug Fixes

  • The "Both sides broke" percentage (and its day count) could shoot far past 100% — sometimes into the hundreds — when a COT positioning filter was active. It now counts only the days kept by the filter, so the rate stays correct.
  • Recent-trades chart: the opening-range box no longer includes the first candle after the range, the entry marker now sits on the exact candle that broke out, and the chart keeps breathing room to the right of the exit even on early-close days (so it no longer looks cut off).

Quality of Life

  • The paywall now spells out what every paid plan includes — not just the symbols, but Custom OR and the in-tool trade charts.
  • When you isolate one line in the COT report legend, it now stays isolated when you leave the tab and come back — matching the Time-and-place legends.
  • COT chart: scroll your mouse wheel over it to zoom into recent weeks (down to the last 3 years) and back out to the full history. The zoom is remembered for the session.

v2.3

May 30, 2026

New Features

  • New "Long / Short breakout" headline card on the Edge finder and the default view: at a glance, which way the breakout is more likely to go on your filtered days (e.g. 52% long · 48% short), sat next to Continuation / Reversal / Closed inside / Both sides broke.

Bug Fixes

  • British Pound trade charts were unusable — its prices were rounded too coarsely, collapsing the opening-range box, entry and stop onto one line. Prices now keep full precision for FX, so its charts render correctly (data regenerated).
  • Some trade charts (mostly London-session days around the spring clock change) drew the opening-range box and entry/exit on the wrong candles, looking shifted up or down. They now use the correct London open for that specific day.
  • The lock icon on the Recent-trades "Chart" button now matches the one on the Custom-OR control.
  • The hover descriptions on the losing-trade extension charts no longer talk about "winners" — they correctly describe losers.

v2.2

May 29, 2026

New Features

  • Trade chart (paid): open any trade in the Recent-trades ledger to see that exact day on a candlestick chart — the opening-range box, a line from your entry to the exit, and standard-deviation steps (1 SD = one OR width) in the instrument's colour, on 5-minute candles. Any paid plan unlocks it on every symbol, including free NQ.
  • Recent-trades filters: narrow the ledger by direction (long / short), exit type (take profit / stop loss / end of day), entry-time range and R result (at least / at most / between) — handy for hunting specific setups to pull up on the chart.
  • Time and place now shows losing trades next to the winners — how far losers first ran in your favour before reversing, and when — with a toggle between all losers and only the ones stopped out at the opposite side of the range.

Quality of Life

  • The "Filter precision" control on the two retracement charts is now independent per chart — changing one no longer moves the other.
  • The Time-and-place marker legends fit on a single row again, and their plain-English hover descriptions are back.

v2.1

May 29, 2026

New Features

  • New retracement → extension cross-filter on the Time and place tab: click a bar on either retracement chart — "how deep winning trades retrace" OR the now-clickable retracement timing chart — to filter both extension charts to just those winners. See how far, and when, trades that pulled back a certain amount (or at a certain time of day) went on to run. A "Filter precision" control (Precise / Medium / Relaxed) widens the match to neighbouring bars.

Bug Fixes

  • Paid symbols (S&P 500, Gold, Crude, Bitcoin, British Pound) were coming up blank after the v2.0 Gap-filter update — their data files were a column behind the code. Fixed so every symbol loads again, and their data was regenerated so the Gap filter now works on them too.

Quality of Life

  • Time-and-place timing charts now start right after the opening range completes (where trades actually begin), and the bar width adapts to the window — so longer sessions like London stay readable instead of cramming in too many thin bars.
  • The Time-and-place legend is reordered to first quartile · median · third quartile · average · most-traded (the median now sits between the two quartiles), and the retracement and extension panels line up with each other again.

v2.0

May 29, 2026

New Features

  • New Gap filter — study how the opening range behaves after an overnight gap (the move from the prior day's cash close to the session open): Gap up / down / Flat, with a "big" tier, plus a matching "Overnight gap" table in the Edge finder. Preset OR windows for now.
  • Time-and-place charts now mark five points — median, average, first quartile (Q1), third quartile (Q3) and the most-traded bar — on all four charts, with a clickable legend (click to isolate one, hover for a definition).
  • Target mode is now three dropdowns: Time (cash-close / NY-open exit), Fixed (1 / 2 / 3 SD — 3 SD is new) and Statistical, which sets the take-profit to the winners' median, average, Q1, Q3 or most-traded run distance, recomputed live for your filters. The equity curve, Edge finder and Recent trades all react.

Bug Fixes

  • The Time-and-place distance charts were stacking each winning trade into every level below the one it reached, which made every instrument look almost the same and pinned the average and median to the same spot. They are now a true distribution — each winner counts once, in the band it actually reached — so the real per-symbol shape shows through.

Quality of Life

  • Markers now round to the nearest bar instead of always dropping to the lower one (an average of 2.4 SD now sits on the 2.5 bar). Marker colours are also fixed, so the average highlight no longer blends into the instrument's own colour (it used to be blue on the Nasdaq).
  • Faster target switching: clicking an inactive Target-mode dropdown selects what it's showing in one click, and each category remembers your last choice. Recent trades also gained an "Exit" column (take profit / stop loss / end of day).
  • Paywall wording now says "paid feature / paid plans" instead of "premium" (reserved for a later add-on). The tool is branded "ORBit Analytics" in the navbar + launch banner, and the Edge finder tab was tightened to fit the new filter.

v1.9

May 28, 2026

New Features

  • COT Index rolling-window selector — pick 3-year (156-week, default) or 1-year (52-week) normalisation. Drives both the chart shading and the COT-based ORB filter, so positioning extremes on screen and the day-selection rule stay in lockstep.

Bug Fixes

  • COT-filter form: the inactive Lower / Higher input no longer mirrors the active threshold after a tab unmount + remount. Applying Below 20 used to leave Higher stuck at 20 (and symmetrically for Above); the dim box now retains its sensible default.
  • COT Net / COT Index sub-tab pill row is now pinned to lg:w-64 (the COT filter side-panel width) on both sub-tabs — the year-window dropdown slot is reserved with `invisible` so the pill row never reflows across sub-tab changes.

Quality of Life

  • Custom OR memoizes the per-day simulation per (symbol, OR-start, OR-end, session-exit). First build of a window runs the bars decode + simulation; every later day-level or trade-level filter toggle is a microsecond JS pass over the cached map. A red note in the picker calls out the first-load cost.
  • Applied-filter banners (Seasonal window, COT filter) moved from the results column into the expanded sidebar. Rendered only when a filter is active; identical remove behaviour.
  • COT sub-tab (Net / COT Index) and Seasonality view (Curve / Weekday / Monthly) persist in sessionStorage — survive tab hops, reset on browser close.
  • COT Index year-window picker switched from a native <select> to the site's custom pill dropdown, height-matched to the Net / COT Index sub-tab control.
  • "How to use the ORBit System" guide rewritten — 10 steps instead of 6 — with new sections for Custom OR, Mixed filter mode, Edge finder, Time and place, Seasonality, COT and the equity-curve overlays.

v1.8

May 28, 2026

New Features

  • New name: the tool is now called "the ORBit System" instead of "Orb Statistics" — same product, clearer branding. Everything in the system orbits around the opening-range breakout: the statistics, the COT report, the custom OR window, the seasonality scanner, the equity curve. A new logo, a new headline, and a tidier home for the guides that go with each feature (see below).

Quality of Life

  • COT filter redesigned to match the seasonality "Filter ORB to this window" picker — it now lives in a side panel attached to the COT chart instead of as a separate section under everything. Both Lower and Higher number boxes are always visible; the Above / Between / Below mode picker just changes which one(s) glow. Above highlights the Higher box, Below highlights the Lower box, Between highlights both. The dimmed box stays interactive so you can adjust it before switching modes.
  • Navbar trimmed: the standalone "Guides" dropdown is gone. EA guides (install, backtest, tick data) now hang directly under the Free Expert Advisors dropdown; ORBit-System guides (the full reference + the ORB Dashboard indicator walkthrough) hang under the ORBit System dropdown. Each has its own small "Guides" sub-header so the structure stays obvious. Less crowded bar, fewer clicks to reach the right help.
  • The thin recompute progress bar that shows when the page is busy now lives at the very top of the filters sidebar instead of above the results column, so its appearing and disappearing no longer jiggles every card below it. Same animation, same width as the data-loading bar in the custom-OR picker.
  • COT legend behaviour now matches what feels natural: all categories visible by default; click any one to isolate it; click again to bring the others back. The separate "Show all" link is gone — clicking the soloed chip again is the obvious way to undo it.
  • Removed the "Where do positions sit in their recent range" panel from the COT tab — the COT Index sub-tab already shows that picture (each category normalised 0-100 against its 3-year window), so the duplicate panel was just noise.

v1.7

May 28, 2026

New Features

  • New COT report tab in the expanded view — the weekly CFTC Commitments of Traders breakdown for every symbol. Two views you can flip between: Net positions over time (raw long-minus-short contracts per trader category) and COT Index (each category normalised on a 0–100 scale against its rolling 3-year window, with the <20 and >80 extreme zones shaded). Plus, where each category currently sits inside its 1-year and 3-year range, and which way every category shifted in the latest report. The "smart money" line is highlighted thicker — Leveraged Funds on financial futures (NQ / ES / BTC / 6B) and Managed Money on commodities (GC / CL). Click any legend entry to isolate that category on its own; click again or "Show all" to bring the others back. Hover the legend for plain-English explanations of who each category is and why traders watch them. Public CFTC data, refreshed every Friday afternoon, free on NQ and included with every premium subscription.
  • New COT-based ORB filter that turns trader positioning into a real ORB day filter — pick a category (e.g. Leveraged Funds), pick a COT Index range (e.g. 80–100 for crowded longs), click Apply, and the whole page recomputes against only the ORB days whose latest weekly COT report had that category sitting in your chosen positioning zone. A banner at the top of the results column shows the active filter on every tab so you always know whether you're looking at filtered data, with a one-click remove. Like the seasonality window before it, every panel and the equity curve react in lockstep.

Bug Fixes

  • Custom OR data is now genuinely cached between symbol switches. The cache was being silently bypassed for premium symbols by a missing cross-origin header, so even after the "Cached after the first load — next time it's instant" message you were re-downloading the full ~25 MB of 1-minute bars on every switch. Switching between symbols you've already loaded is now actually instant.

Quality of Life

  • Custom OR now waits for an Apply button before recomputing. Editing the start or end no longer fires a 5-second recompute on every keystroke — set both values, then click "Apply window" once. The button highlights when you have unsaved changes so you always know whether the displayed numbers match the picker.
  • Clearer Custom OR paywall copy — the old wording suggested free visitors could study every symbol (only NQ is free) and that any subscription unlocked Custom on every symbol (only on the ones you actually subscribe to). Now reads accurately: "NQ is free with the preset windows; any paid subscription unlocks Custom OR on the symbols you subscribe to, plus free NQ as a bonus."

v1.6

May 28, 2026

New Features

  • New Custom OR window — beyond the preset 15/30/60-minute openings, you can now pick your own start and end times for the opening range, anywhere from 15 minutes up to 12 hours within the trading day. Every statistic recomputes for your window in seconds. Available on every symbol, including free NQ, with any paid subscription — the feature follows the user.
  • Custom mode lives inside the Session group (London / New York / Custom) so picking it is one click away from the standard sessions, and the OR Duration chips step out of the way so the start/end time fields are the only thing you see.
  • A second Expand to full width button now sits at the bottom of the default view. Clicking it from anywhere on the page smoothly scrolls you up to the top of the expanded layout, so the deep-insight panels are always one click away whether you scrolled past them or not.

Bug Fixes

  • Switching to Custom mode used to silently 404 if the data for that symbol had not been generated yet. You now see a clear "Custom OR data isn't available for X yet" notice instead of an empty results panel.
  • The early-bird banner at the top no longer ignores clicks when you're already on the ORB statistics page.
  • The Reset button when triggered by Custom mode no longer kicks you to the all-access purchase screen — clicking any preset (15/30/60) drops the paywall on the spot.

Quality of Life

  • Trimmed the default view sidebar to just the essentials — time horizon, filter mode, session and OR duration — so the at-a-glance overview stays clean. Trade type, target mode, day-of-week, direction, trend, ADR, bars-until-entry, trigger distance and news still live in the expanded view sidebar.
  • New thin progress stripe at the top of the results column whenever the browser is recomputing over millions of rows — so you can tell the page is working when a slider tweak or symbol switch takes a beat instead of wondering whether anything is happening.
  • In Custom mode the time fields are now plain 24-hour HH:MM inputs (no AM/PM picker, regardless of your operating system locale) — midnight is just 0, and you can type a two-digit hour normally.
  • Custom-OR data downloads now show a real progress bar with megabytes loaded — first time you switch to Custom on a symbol you see exactly how much is left, and every subsequent visit serves the cached copy with no download at all (it's stored locally in the browser for next time).
  • The early-bird launch banner now jumps to the gold view + paywall when clicked from anywhere — including from the homepage itself, where it used to do nothing because you were already on that page.
  • When the Custom OR paywall opens, a clearer "Custom OR window is a premium feature" headline explains exactly what is locked, with a "Back to the free preset" button so you can return to the standard view in one click.
  • Logging in on a development / preview deployment now keeps you on that domain instead of bouncing you to the live site (developer convenience — only relevant if you ever test the site from a branch preview URL).

v1.5

May 27, 2026

New Features

  • New Edge finder tab — break the filtered trades down by each filter (direction, day of week, opening trend, bars until entry, trigger distance, and news & holidays) and see the number of trades, win rate, profit factor and total R for every category, plus an overall summary. It reacts to all your other filters, so you can hunt for exactly where the edge is.
  • New “Mixed” filter mode — instead of one global include-or-exclude switch, click any tag to cycle it through include → exclude → off. You can now keep some tags and drop others across different filters at the same time (e.g. include Mondays but exclude FOMC days), which the old single switch couldn't do.
  • The extension and retracement charts now mark the median as well as the average (median in white), so you can see the typical trade and not just the mean — on both the distance charts and the timing charts.

Bug Fixes

  • An empty bar no longer shows a sliver of colour — a bucket with zero days is now drawn truly empty.

Quality of Life

  • Moved the Target mode (end of day / 1 SD / 2 SD exit) out of the equity curve and into the trade filters, since it now shapes the Edge finder and the Recent trades too — not just the equity curve.
  • Timing charts now use 15-minute intervals (was half-hour) for a finer read on when moves happen — without making the charts any wider.
  • The timing charts now label only the average and median bars; hover any other bar to read its exact percentage and day count.
  • Added a “0 SD” row to the run and retrace charts — the share of winners that barely ran (under 0.5 SD) or effectively didn't retrace — so the picture adds up.
  • Replaced the Overview tab: the four day-outcome stats (continuation, reversal, closed inside, both sides broke) now sit in the default view and at the top of the Edge finder, and the duplicate average cards were dropped since those figures now live on the Time-and-place charts.
  • Removed the standard-deviation hit timing chart.

v1.4

May 27, 2026

New Features

  • The two distance charts now mark the average — the bar closest to the average extension / retracement is highlighted, with a legend showing the exact figure.

Bug Fixes

  • Extension and retracement timing now measure from your entry forward — when the move actually peaks, or pulls back deepest, after you are in the trade — instead of the session's overall high/low time. A stopped trade's deepest pullback is timed at the stop.
  • Standard-deviation hit timing no longer counts a level as “hit” for trades whose entry already closed beyond it (there is no valid target there) — so it reflects the real reach rate among trades that could reach it.

Quality of Life

  • Combined the “Run & retrace” and “Timing” tabs into one “Time and place” tab, laid out as Retracement (left) and Extension (right).
  • The whole Time-and-place tab now looks at winning trades only — losing trades tell you nothing beyond that they didn't work out, so they are excluded and this is noted at the top.
  • Both distance charts are now labelled in standard deviations with finer steps (retracement every 0.05 SD, extension every 0.5 SD).
  • Hover any timing bar to see the exact number of days behind it.

v1.3

May 27, 2026

New Features

  • New “Avg extension (losses)” overview stat — for full −1R losses (trades that hit the opposite side of the opening range), it shows how far they first ran in your favour before turning around. Losses that simply closed back inside the range are excluded.
  • New “Standard-deviation hit timing” chart in the Timing tab — see what time of day trades first reached the 1 SD and 2 SD targets, with each line topping out at that level's hit rate.

Quality of Life

  • Timing charts now use half-hour intervals instead of one-hour, for a finer read on when moves happen.
  • Added an “All trades / Winners only” selector to the Timing tab that filters every timing chart at once.
  • Dropdown menus (cost, target mode, risk mode, timezone, …) now open upward automatically when they sit near the bottom of the screen, so you no longer have to scroll to pick an option.
  • Renamed the “Faded back in” outcome to “Closed inside” for clarity.
  • Removed the long-vs-short trade-direction breakdown — it added noise without helping you analyse an instrument.
  • Spelled out the “Direction” and “Entry price” column headers in the Recent trades table.

v1.2

May 27, 2026

Bug Fixes

  • Switching to a premium instrument (S&P 500, Gold, Crude Oil, Bitcoin, British Pound) now always loads that instrument's own data — it could briefly keep showing the previously selected symbol's numbers.
  • The Recent trades table keeps its columns lined up when you switch instruments, instead of shifting around as prices change length.

v1.1

May 27, 2026

New Features

  • Recent trades list — see the last 12 months of the trades behind the statistics (entry time and price, the opening range, the stop and the result) so you can pull any date up on your own chart and verify it.
  • Equity-curve crosshair — click and hold anywhere on the equity curve to read off the exact date and value at that point.
  • Time dividers — overlay yearly or monthly calendar lines on the equity curve to see when each stretch of performance happened.

Quality of Life

  • The equity curve now shows Y-axis labels (in R, or in % when compounded) plus labels on the drawdown chart, so magnitude is readable at a glance.
  • The seasonality chart marks today's date and uses cleaner, consistent month dividers.
  • Tidier, smaller chart labels throughout, and the filter panels are no longer see-through.
  • Switched to a clear zero everywhere — the old font's dotted zero could read as an 8.
  • Clearer wording on the equity-curve risk-mode selector.

v1.0

May 26, 2026

New Features

  • Monte Carlo simulation — project a range of possible equity outcomes by resampling your filtered trades, with best / worst / median results and drawdowns.
  • Seasonality scanner — explore how each instrument tends to behave across the calendar: an averaged seasonal curve (with detrend and a “remove COVID” option and a current-year overlay), weekday returns, and a full monthly-returns table. Click any window on the curve to measure its average return and win rate — and optionally filter the whole tool to that recurring seasonal window.

Quality of Life

  • Compare the strategy against a buy-&-hold benchmark, and overlay drawdown and the longest stagnation stretch directly on the equity curve.
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