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Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.
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Weekly TradeZella Updates – September 15, 2026
New:
- Automated Backtesting: New entry execution model — limit orders at a level, intrabar touch fills, and next-bar-open entries instead of every entry filling at signal candle close
- Automated Backtesting: Indicator-based trailing stops (ATR, EMA)
- Automated Backtesting: HTF supply and demand zones on a selectable timeframe
- Automated Backtesting: Engine version badge with "What's new?" popover so users can see what changed
- Automated Backtesting: DXY and FTSE now supported
- Full Guidance mode in backtesting: step-by-step chart-setup walkthrough with staged events and skip controls
Improved:
- OANDA added as market data provider for more reliable symbol coverage (only for select symbols)
- Engulfing candle pattern now runs on a trader-selected timeframe with a strict definition
- Start My Day: Auto-proceed after import method selection (beta)
- Shared trade links now properly open the mobile app
Fixed:
- Fixed Mentor Mode kicking users out when mentee limit is reached
- Fixed mentors being able to accept their own invites
- Fixed Guided Backtesting congratulating trades taken against the setup instead of warning
- Fixed Zella refusing to seek replay to an unreached sample trade
- Fixed Rithmic sub-accounts displaying identical generic names instead of distinct account numbers
- Fixed TradeLocker closed trades logging as duplicate entry executions
- Fixed propfirm sync feature trailing drawdown button styling overlap
- Fixed backtesting strategy selection panel and positions table UI
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Weekly TradeZella Updates – September 8, 2026
New:
- Automated Backtesting: Custom session-range windows — define your own session high/low window instead of the 4 preset ICT sessions
- Automated Backtesting: Trailing stop loss support
- Automated Backtesting: Partial profit taking support
- Automated Backtesting: Event-based day filter / signal-based early exit concept
Improved:
- Start My Day: Sentiment analysis now runs automatically on first open
- Start My Day: Granular loading messages while agents work
- Guided Backtesting: Improved seek controls and event timing
- IBKR Sync: Fallback proxy for rate-limited connections
- Onboarding: Tags and Agents setup steps added
Fixed:
- Fixed Notebook timestamps missing from note headers
- Fixed Notebook note creation failing silently for new subscribers
- Fixed Notebook folder titles overlapping note titles
- Fixed Notebook editor formatting glitches (highlight color, CJK text, scroll-jump, dark mode)
- Fixed Notebook image caption field not accepting input
- Fixed Notebook collapsible toggle crashing after removing a section
- Fixed Start My Day daily-note date anchoring issue
- Fixed Zella AI image-only uploads failing silently
- Fixed DXtrade / Vanquish Trader account sync failure
- Fixed Guided Backtesting muting being permanent with no way to unmute
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Weekly TradeZella Updates – September 1, 2026
New:
- Guided Backtesting — Zella AI now provides real-time guidance during backtesting sessions with a replay ticker, seek controls, prep checklist, and sample-trade citations
- Start My Day redesigned — new flow, tabs, and CTAs - Beta
Improved:
- Automated backtesting strategy interpretation accuracy improvements
- Broker integration setup instructions foundation being rebuilt (content rolling out)
Fixed:
- Fixed backtesting AI chat speed toggles not working
- Fixed backtesting session becoming unresponsive
- Fixed backtesting travel-back crash hanging the replay forever
- Fixed dark mode subscription limit banner text being unreadable
- Fixed broken subscription update path
- Fixed intermittent Google sign-in 500 errors
- Fixed primary paywall issues
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Weekly TradeZella Updates – August 25, 2026
New:
- Rate My Day — rate your trading day with historical data carried over
- Automated Backtesting: Breakeven stop-loss offset + minimum stop distance support
- Automated Backtesting: Multi-bar liquidity sweep detection — sweeps over several bars are now recognized
- Automated Backtesting: Strategies now pull the exact timeframes they need instead of being limited to 4 presets
- Undo / recover deleted text restored in Notebook editor
- Hover tooltips for full notebook note titles
Improved:
- Automated Backtesting AI model upgraded — tested against 14 real strategies, correct ~9 out of 10 times vs old model
- Automated Backtesting now picks the interpretation that matches what you wrote, not what's most profitable
- Updated "Game Plan" copy in Notes and Today's Game Plan
- Onboarding checklist can now be completed at any stage
- Updated notification system design
- Data source improvements for running P&L calculations
Fixed:
- Fixed Intercom chat resetting after navigating between pages
- Fixed spacebar repeating last navigation action in backtesting
- Fixed intermittent Google sign-in 500 errors
- Fixed invalid date error in dashboard stats
- Fixed journal timeout with tag-filtered queries
- Fixed clipped toolbar in Notebook template editor
- Fixed blank backtesting session page in new design
- Fixed user deletions getting stuck as scheduled
- Fixed visual regressions from design system upgrade
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Weekly TradeZella Updates – August 4, 2026
New:
- Essential plan users now get access to Trade Replay (10 replays/month)
- Full-screen chart preview in backtesting trade details
- Filters and sorting added to backtesting Trade Log
- SMT divergence signature labels on backtesting trades
- Zella AI chat now asks for feedback on responses
Improved:
- IBKR same-day sync fully live for all users — removed feature flag and outdated 24-hour delay messaging
- Updated notebook color picker for dark and light themes
- Automated backtesting template results now show loading state while generating
- Automated backtesting zero-trade runs now explain why no trades were found
- Improved cTrader connection timeout handling
- Improved futures/options import expiration validation
Fixed:
- Fixed Key Takeaway sections stuck loading or blank in reports
- Fixed identical RSI auto-backtests returning different trade counts
- Fixed take-profit R-multiple calculation inconsistent across identical backtests
- Fixed Sierra Chart file upload importing GC with wrong multiplier (10 instead of 100)
- Fixed Start My Day survey suppression issue
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Weekly TradeZella Updates – July 28, 2026
New:
- Zella AI can now draw annotations on charts
- Zella AI: Upload files directly in chat
- Zella AI: AI Settings screen
- Zella AI: In-chat model tier and smart routing selector
- Scenario Sharing — share scenarios by link or email, duplicate shared scenarios, and in-app notifications for shared scenarios
- Duplicate your own scenarios
- Automated Backtesting now rejects non-strategy input (CSV, code, gibberish) upfront with clear guidance
Improved:
- Automated backtesting Performance Improvements
- Backtesting pending-orders performance fix
- Automated backtesting trades now respect higher-timeframe bias
Fixed:
- Fixed Profit Target "Price Movement" field not accepting decimal values (unlike Stop Loss)
- Fixed notes delete/autosave race condition causing edits to disappear
- Fixed Rithmic CSV parser column, date, and format issues
- Fixed FVG strategy parsing issues in automated backtesting
- Fixed automated backtesting failing on saved draft strategies
- Fixed tick points and price movement calculation concerns
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Weekly TradeZella Updates – July 21, 2026
New:
- IBKR Trade Confirmation flow for same-day trades import - Now you can get your trades imported from IBKR Same Day
- Rithmic Sync
- MT4 Sync now supports Futures
- ICT/SMC Concept Library (Tier 1) for Automated Backtesting — more strategy concepts natively supported
Improved:
- Zella AI Analysis panel in backtesting is now collapsible instead of truncated
- Automated backtesting strategy parsing now fails gracefully with a clear error instead of an endless spinner
- MT4 sync now syncs tick size and tick value
- MT5 sync auto-closes connections on errors for better reliability
- Frontend performance improvements
Fixed:
- Fixed notebook recent edits missing despite autosave confirmation
- Fixed automated backtesting timing out for some advanced strategies
- Fixed auto-backtest feedback survey not appearing after runs
- Fixed 4H-1D timeframe default view for multi-symbol backtests
- Multiple automated backtesting bug fixes based on launch week feedback
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Weekly TradeZella Updates – July 14, 2026
New:
- Automated Backtesting now live for all users — redesigned creation flow with guided setup, strategy gallery, explainer modals, trade controls side panel, and auto-save to sessions
- New Scenarios workflow (beta) — scenario gallery, sidebar details, and improved session creation
Improved:
- Daily Journal template is now opt-in by default
- Redesigned plan experience — updated upgrade/downgrade flows, refined in-app banners, and clearer paywalls
- Backtesting time picker styling with NY market open preselected
- Scenarios UI polish — pinned filters, fullscreen gallery, mobile filter sheet
- Inactive subscription CTA now more visible
Fixed:
- Fixed Rithmic Sync not importing trade commissions
- Fixed limitation notes and reconnect notification in dark mode
- Fixed dashboard widget breakeven setting not working as expected
- Fixed Zella AI opening underneath the popup it was initiated from
- Fixed empty session dashboard after cached auto-backtest runs
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Weekly TradeZella Updates – July 7, 2026
New:
- Filters now persist across login and page refresh
- Daily and 4-hour candle speeds added to backtesting
- Default chart settings in backtesting
Improved:
- Generic importer now supports standard date formats
- Improved support message notification UI
- Zella AI: improved "check trades against my playbook" prompt
Fixed:
- Fixed notes images not saving and notes text disappearing
- Fixed PnL info not visible on calendar/strategy view
- Fixed dark mode tag labels hard to read on trade detail side panel
- Fixed manual trade upload contract multiplier field locked on second execution
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Weekly TradeZella Updates – June 30, 2026
New:
- eToro SSO Integration
Improved:
- Zella AI improvements: color-coded profit/loss values, AI usage transparency, "Write with AI" button consistency, calendar events access in chat, upload trades from previous day, inline import progress in Start My Day, and review stage for skipped days
- Backtesting order form fully keyboard navigable
- IBKR sync reliability improvements
- MT5 connection throttling for better stability
- TradeLocker deduplicator performance optimization
Fixed:
- Fixed AI tagging not refreshing trade page UI
- Fixed E*TRADE CSV parser crash
- Fixed Schwab "import not supported by syncer" error
- Fixed Quantower entry/exit timestamps off by 12 hours for PM trades
- Fixed Tradovate sync crash when user clears account mid-sync
- Fixed imports getting stuck in "already in progress" loop
- Fixed large account sync timeouts
- Fixed forex/metals import failing with "Cannot find pip size" error
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