ULTRA 8 Status (as of 09/30/04)

We are maintaining this page as a measure of our goal, which is to make the ULTRA 8 upgrade series by far the most powerful and valuable in our 13-year history.

Much of the changes to ULTRA 8 are invisible to the user but were required so that we could add another 100 items of data and 100 systems. Now that these "framework" changes are complete we'll be adding systems and data very quickly.

We have mailed Version 8.1 out a CD with printed documentation to all ULTRA 8 users.

Please bookmark and check this page as we will not be sending emails to clients announcing all the releases.

The latest release is ULTRA 8.12.

Click here for detailed information on this release.
Click here to download and install this version.

Functionality

• Ability to download from three different FTP sources via Data/Download Data from Internet giving triple redundancy for the ULTRA Data Service..
• Trailing Stop Sell signal for Composite Strategies and the SFO.
• Any database item can now be used as the trading index during analysis of systems and strategies
• ULTRA can be started in various screen configurations including a size that is as small as possible to still allow the graphic analysis.
• Data/Symbols. A list of the ULTRA database symbols can be displayed at many points in ULTRA.
• Reorganization of how database records are viewed and modified via Data menu items.
• System Optimizer framework complete. Systems that can be optimized:
  PRIMAS, SNBM, CRBB, HEIB, ZBV7,RSI,FNDX9,FNDX3,CCI.MACD,ALLEN,FNDX3
  (Many more to come soon).
  
• Help/Online Documentation containing all the ULTRA documentation
• Help/Tutorials
• Help/Policies and FAQs
• Data/Pearson's Correlation Coefficient for computing correlation of two data items.
• Data/Download FREE Yahoo Historical Data
• Percent Long Filter (PLF) which creates a file containing what percentage of the ULTRA systems are on buy signals for each historical day. Can be filtered in many ways.
• Run All Composite Strategies. Allows the user to run all of their Composite Strategies, one after the other, with a detailed report of all position changes and performance.
• Ability to create an SP500 Total Return Index via Data/Export Data.
• Reorganization of system framework allowing for 200+ future systems.

Data (35)

• Added 100 blank data items in the u8data?? files.
• Added SP400 mid-cap close (MIDC) and open (MIDO)
• Added 30-Year Treasury Bond Total Return Index (GBT)
• Added 30-year Treasury Bond Price Only Index (GBP)
• Added NDX Open (NDXO)
• Added NDX High and Low (NDXH and NDXL)
• Added ARMS and ARMN.
• Added MAAA and MBAA (Moody's)
• Added WTI (West Texas Intermediate Crude)
• Added AIBU and AIBE (AAII Bullish and Bearish)
• Added OEX (SP100 cash Index)
• Added GOCL, GOCS, SICL, SICS, COCL, COCS, GBCL, GBCS, TNCL, TNCS, NDCL, NDCS, RUCL, RUCS, NICL, NICS, MICL, MICS, DJCL, DJCS.

Systems (15) and Strategies (2)

• New NDX Composite Strategy C_U8NDX1.TXT which has historically (12/31/03):
  
  Winning Trades: 65%
  Maximum Drawdown: -15.9% (vs NDX maximum drawdown of -83%)
  Annual Return: +21.4% (vs NDX of +14.5%)
  Ulcer Index: 3.6 (vs NDX of 32.7)
  
  
• New NDX Composite Strategy C_U8NDX2.TXT which has historically (12/31/03):
  
  Winning Trades: 73%
  Maximum Drawdown: -14.8% (vs NDX maximum drawdown of -83%)
  Annual Return: +21.0% (vs NDX of +12.7%)
  Ulcer Index: 3.5 (vs NDX of 33.6)
• New NDX Systems: SNBM, FNDX8, FNDX9, FNDX3
• New Gold Systems: GXR, GBT, SEASG, S-SG
• New Indicator Systems: RSI,CCI,MACD
• New General Market Systems: MA3, WROC, AIBB, MRC