Release Notes

Track the latest StratTrade Engine releases, new features, improvements, security updates, and important fixes.

Update & Security

• Improved reliability of the in-app update process.
• Updated public release signing and trusted publisher validation.
• Improved installer signature verification before an update is launched.
• Strengthened update package integrity validation.
• Improved handling of invalid, corrupted, or untrusted update packages.
• Improved reporting when update package verification cannot be completed.

Maintenance

• Improved compatibility with the current StratTrade public release infrastructure.
• General stability and maintenance improvements.
• Updated internal release components for the 1.5.x update channel.

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StratTrade Engine 1.5.0

September 26, 2026 · Strategy, Execution & Risk Management Update

Version 1.5.0 is a major StratTrade Engine update that expands strategy creation, execution protection, Strategy Script capabilities, and runtime reliability.

Strategy Designer

• Added configurable Price Source support for supported indicators.
• Added Close, Open, High, Low, HL2, HLC3, and OHLC4 price sources.
• Added a minimum slope percentage setting for Moving Average Slope conditions.
• Improved Moving Average and KAMA source handling while preserving compatibility with existing strategies.
• Improved nested ALL / ANY strategy logic handling.

Profit Protection & Trailing Profit

• Added Profit Protection controls to Risk & Exit Management.
• Added configurable Activation %, Lock %, and Giveback % settings.
• Added Trailing Profit protection that can move the protected profit level upward as price advances.
• Improved validation of protection settings and Take Profit relationships.
• Protection state resets correctly when the average entry price changes.
• Profit Protection and Trailing Profit settings are preserved when strategies are saved and loaded.

Protective Exit Execution

• Stop Loss, Take Profit, Profit Protection, and Trailing Profit are no longer delayed by On Candle Close execution settings.
• Protective SELL actions are evaluated independently from BUY-only market filters.
• Market Filter cannot block Stop Loss or Trailing Profit exits.
• Candle Guard cannot block Stop Loss or Profit Protection exits.
• BUY risk guards cannot prevent protective Take Profit exits.
• Improved deterministic handling when multiple exit protections trigger during the same execution cycle.
• Prevented duplicate SELL execution when a strategy SELL signal and a protective exit occur together.
• Restored trailing protection state begins monitoring immediately after runtime recovery.
• Backtesting continues to preserve Stop Loss First behavior when exit conditions overlap.

Strategy Script

• Added Strategy Script support for creating strategies from structured text.
• Added parsing and validation for supported strategy indicators and conditions.
• Added recursive nested ALL / ANY condition groups.
• Added validation for unknown indicators, invalid properties, and malformed strategy syntax.
• Added Strategy Script import directly from Strategy Designer.
• Added validation and preview before importing a strategy.
• Strategy imports are transactional and roll back safely if validation fails.
• Imported strategies are marked as modified and are not automatically saved.

Strategy Script Export & Round Trip

• Added Strategy Script export support.
• Preserves indicator settings and configured Price Sources.
• Preserves MA Slope minimum percentage settings.
• Preserves nested ALL / ANY strategy structure.
• Preserves Profit Protection and Trailing Profit settings.
• Preserves DCA, execution, and order settings.
• Preserves strategy name and description.
• Improved UTF-8 and invariant decimal handling.
• Improved Import → Export → Import semantic consistency.

Backtesting

• Added Profit Protection behavior to backtesting.
• Added Trailing Profit behavior to backtesting.
• Improved conservative handling when protection activation and exit occur within the same candle.
• Preserved Stop Loss priority when multiple protective exits overlap.
• Improved consistency between backtest protection logic and live strategy execution.

Execution & Runtime Reliability

• Improved execution state handling for protective exits.
• Improved strategy isolation so protection state is maintained independently for each strategy.
• Improved behavior after DCA changes the average entry price.
• Improved runtime restoration of active protection state.
• Improved duplicate execution prevention.
• Improved runtime logging and execution diagnostics.

TradingView Strategies

• Improved TradingView strategy runtime handling.
• Improved signal processing reliability.
• Improved protection against duplicate TradingView signal execution.
• Improved runtime handling of TradingView strategy state and signal sources.

User Interface

• Improved Execution Settings layout for the new protection controls.
• Improved Strategy Script import and export dialogs.
• Improved theme and DPI compatibility for Strategy Script tools.
• Improved visual representation of nested strategy branches.
• General Strategy Designer layout and usability improvements.

Compatibility

• Existing strategies remain compatible with safe legacy defaults.
• Disabled protection features do not change the behavior of existing exit logic.
• Existing strategy settings continue to load without requiring manual migration.
• Improved validation to prevent invalid protection configurations from being saved.

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Note: Release notes summarize customer-facing changes. Internal implementation details, security-sensitive information, and development-only changes are intentionally omitted.