What’s shipping in AO

Terminal messages stay clear of position controls

Order confirmations appear in the chart area, leaving your position controls within reach.

• FixedA confirmation message could cover the Close, Partial and Edit buttons on the lowest position rows. Terminal messages now appear in the bottom-right corner of the chart area, clear of the order ticket and position controls on desktop and phone.

A Journal for your daily review

The Journal is now on for everyone. Your closed trades arrive on their own, one card per day on the terminal's own chart, with a review page for every trade, a daily log, a lessons library and reports.

• NewClosed trades from your connected accounts arrive in the Journal by themselves, grouped by UTC day. Each day card draws its trades on the terminal's chart from your broker's 1-minute candles, with the win rate, costs, the day's high and low, and max potential profit and loss.
• NewGrade each day and each trade, record the main emotion, and keep a one-line lesson. Saved lessons go into a lessons library you can search.
• NewOpen any trade for a full review with its chart, your plan against the result, costs, every fill, up to 10 screenshots, and a grade, emotion, setup, mistakes, strategy and notes. The review queue steps you through the trades you haven't reviewed.
• NewA daily log for every day, with templates for a daily review, a trade plan, a weekly review and a psychology check-in. It saves as you type.
• NewReports group your results by emotion, mistake, grade, entry time and trades per day, and mark small groups as observations rather than patterns.
• NewShow results net, gross or in R, hide amounts for screenshots, add a closed trade by hand, and set a default risk per trade for trades placed without a stop.
• ImprovedOrders placed from the order ticket keep their stop loss and take profit with the trade, so the Journal can show its R and planned R.

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Account performance in Analysis V2 (alpha)

A new switch on Analysis opens V2, an early version that measures the account itself as well as your trades, with its return net of deposits and withdrawals, deeper risk measures, a performance score and a monthly statement.

• NewSwitch between Analysis V1 and Analysis V2 (alpha) next to the Analysis heading. V1 is unchanged and stays the default. Your choice is saved on this device, and a link you copy opens the same version.
• NewV2's Overview charts equity, balance and drawdowns, and shows the account's return net of deposits and withdrawals, gross return, max drawdown, lowest observed equity, money-weighted return and returns for each period.
• NewConfirm whether a balance operation from your broker was a deposit, a withdrawal or an account reset, so returns treat it the right way.
• NewV2's Return tab adds a monthly statement you can download as a PDF, rolling risk, the spread of daily returns, and closed-trade reports by session, weekday, hour of entry and long or short side.
• NewV2's Risk tab adds your worst drawdowns with how long each took to recover, and a Monte Carlo simulation of possible paths.
• NewA performance score out of 10, and a How we calculate page that explains every V2 figure.
• ImprovedFor now, every V2 return is marked Estimated, because it's measured on your balance until recorded equity is available. The score and the simulation show what they still need.

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A fuller screenshot editor

Each screenshot tool shows its own controls, and the editor gains a filled rectangle, text looks, Crop & Resize, a background panel with presets and wallpapers, and links you can share. The chart's Events button is gone, and the indicator list stays the way you left it.

• ImprovedThe screenshot editor's top bar shows only the controls for the tool you're using. Colour opens the palette, your saved colours, a custom colour picker and, where the browser has one, a dropper that picks a colour from your screen. Thickness has six steps, also on the keys 1 to 6.
• NewArrows come in four styles, Standard, Fancy, Curved and Double. Drag the middle of a selected curved arrow to change its bend. The new Filled rectangle (F) draws a solid box with rounded corners.
• NewScreenshot text has sizes from 10 to 64 pt, which replace Heading, and seven looks, Plain, Pill, Solid, Outline, Shadow, Marker and Mono. Drag the side of a selected note to set where its lines wrap, and add an emoji while you type.
• ImprovedPixelate is now Blur (B), with three styles, Pixelate, Blur and Solid, and a strength from 1 to 10. Where blurred areas overlap, a blur never shows what a cover under it hid.
• ImprovedSpotlight can be a rounded rectangle or an ellipse, and its dimming runs from 20% to 90%. Press [ and ] to change a blur's strength or a spotlight's dimming, and Ctrl+D (⌘D on a Mac) to duplicate the selected mark.
• NewCrop & Resize (C or K) has ratios from Square to Banner, an exact width and height with a ratio lock, rotate and flip, a smaller saved size, a fill colour for room added past the picture's edges, and Snap to edges.
• NewThe background panel has presets you can save, apply, pin to start every screenshot or delete, twenty gradients, three wallpapers, your own pictures (kept on this device), blurred backgrounds made from the screenshot, and plain colours. Its layout adds inset with auto-balance, shadow strength, alignment and more ratios.
• ImprovedDone (Ctrl+S) saves the PNG and closes the editor, and Save as… (Ctrl+Shift+S) asks where to save it where the browser can. A zoom menu sits under the picture, and in Chrome and Edge, Drag me drags the picture straight into another app.
• NewLinks uploads the screenshot, once you confirm, and copies a link that works for 30 days and shows the picture in Discord and X. Your links lists the links still working, and deleting one stops it opening straight away.
• ImprovedThe Events button at the bottom left of the chart is gone. Economic release flags stay on the time axis, turned on from Chart settings as before.
• ImprovedThe indicator list at the top left of the chart stays hidden or shown when you reload or come back from another page.

Screenshot tools clear of the window buttons

In the desktop app on a Mac, the screenshot editor's tools start to the right of the window buttons, and the empty part of its top bar drags the window.

• FixedIn the AO desktop app on a Mac, the window's close, minimise and full-screen buttons sat on top of the screenshot editor's first tool, Select and move. The editor's tools now start to the right of them, as the app's other top bars do, and you can drag the window by the empty part of the editor's top bar. Every button in the bar still responds to a click.

Positions back sooner after a restart

When the service that follows your accounts restarts or reconnects an account, Positions, Orders and the account's figures come back first, and the older trade history follows.

• ImprovedAO follows your accounts through a background service. When it restarted, or reconnected an account, it reloaded the account's trade history before Positions, Orders, balance and equity were current again, which took minutes on an account with a long history. Now it brings back open positions, pending orders, the account's figures and the latest trades first, and loads the older history after them. In our tests on two demo accounts with long histories, positions were back in under 40 seconds, where they used to take between about six and eleven minutes.

Macro marks news and the calendar in development

The section at the bottom of Macro is now called More context, and it marks Live news and Economic calendar as in development instead of planned.

• ImprovedAt the bottom of Macro, the Roadmap section is now called More context. Live news and Economic calendar are marked In development instead of Planned. Their cards describe what's coming, publications from official agencies and central banks, and official release schedules with original values and revisions. Both stay off until they're released. COT and sentiment and Trade plans are still marked Planned.

Session clocks level with the symbol

The session clocks moved up to the chart's top line, level with the symbol and interval.

• ImprovedThe Asia, London and New York clocks now sit at the top right of the chart, level with the symbol and interval. They used to sit a line lower, beside the indicator names.

Screenshots you can mark up and frame

A camera in the chart toolbar screenshots the chart or the whole app, then opens an editor to mark it up, set it on a soft gradient and copy or save it.

• NewScreenshot, the camera at the right of the chart toolbar, captures the active chart, every chart in a multi-chart layout, or the whole window. It's taken inside the app, so there's no permission prompt and nothing from outside the app gets in, and it comes out sharp enough to zoom into.
• NewThe screenshot opens in an editor with arrows, lines, rectangles, ellipses, text, numbered steps, a pen and a highlighter, in eight colours and three strokes. Pixelate hides account numbers and anything else private, Spotlight dims everything but the part that matters, and Crop keeps just the area you want. Undo and redo cover every change.
• NewSet the picture on one of eight soft gradients, or none, with your own padding, corners and shadow, an optional window frame, and an Auto, 16:9, 4:3 or 1:1 shape. The background settings are remembered in this browser.
• NewCopy puts the PNG on your clipboard, ready to paste into a chat. Save downloads it, named after the symbol, the interval and the time you took it. Where your browser can share files, as on a phone, Share opens the share sheet.

History that keeps up after a fill

After a fill or close, the terminal rebuilds your trade history faster, so your other updates no longer wait seconds behind it.

• ImprovedAfter each fill or close, AO rebuilds your trade history for the History tab and for the closed trades it draws on the chart. It used to read each position's deals and orders one position after another. On accounts with a long history, that could take several seconds, and the terminal's other updates from AO, such as new alerts, waited until it finished. It now reads every position at once, which made it two to three times faster in our tests. Your history itself hasn't changed.

A change of typeface

At The Anomaly's request, AO now sets all of its text in Exo 2.

• ImprovedEvery screen now uses the Exo 2 typeface, from the navigation and the dashboard to dialogs and your lesson notes in the Academy. Text on charts uses it too, including the price and time scales, order and position labels, indicator labels and text you draw. Passwords, account IDs, timers and code blocks keep their fixed-width font.

A learning homepage in the Academy

The Academy now opens on your own learning homepage, with your EXODUS progress, a year of learning activity and every course in one place.

• NewThe Academy opens on a learning homepage. It shows the lessons you've completed in each course, your progress through core lessons and community recordings, a 53-week activity grid with your streaks and a weekly target, the EXODUS courses with their cover artwork, the full curriculum structure, and the courses coming next.
• NewMark complete under each lesson. A lesson counts once toward your progress, and completing one makes the day active.
• NewCourses can unlock their lessons in order. A locked lesson names the lesson to complete first, and lessons you've completed stay open to review.
• ImprovedStudy timing is optional. Opening a lesson no longer starts the timer; it runs once you click Start study session. Session history starts folded and opens into a short list grouped by day.
• NewAdministrators get an Academy settings page to set each course's type and turn on sequential learning, and can announce upcoming courses from the homepage.

Positions that catch up quickly after an update

When we release an update, the service that follows your accounts now starts once, so Positions and Orders no longer pause for a few minutes.

• FixedAO follows your accounts through a background service. When we release an update, a new copy of the service takes over your accounts from the old one. The old copy restarted as soon as it handed over and took your accounts back, so the new copy had to start again and reload every account's history. Meanwhile Positions and Orders could stop updating for a few minutes. Now the old copy waits a minute before it restarts, and the update removes it before then, so the new copy starts once. If the old copy is the one that stays, it still restarts after that minute and takes your accounts back.

Positions that keep updating after a restart

When the service that follows your accounts restarts, one failed check-in no longer stops it, so Positions and Orders keep updating.

• FixedAO follows your accounts through a background service, which restarts from time to time, for example when we release an update. If its first check-in failed after a restart, the service stopped working but never shut down, so Positions and Orders stopped updating on every account until someone restarted it by hand. Now a failed first check-in is retried like any later one. If the service can't start at all, it shuts down and restarts by itself.

Positions that come back after a dropped connection

If the live connection to one of your accounts drops and doesn't come back while your broker is still reachable, AO now reconnects that account by itself.

• FixedAO follows each account over a live connection through MetaApi. If that connection dropped and MetaApi couldn't restore it while your broker was still reachable, Positions and Orders stopped updating and could keep showing trades your broker had already closed until the service was restarted. Now, when an account's connection has been down for two minutes, AO checks that your broker still answers and, if it does, reconnects that account by itself.

A sign-in page that matches, and positions that match your broker

The sign-in page gets the hosted sign-in page’s glow and pulsing dots, and AO now sets Positions straight by itself when the live connection falls out of step with your broker.

• ImprovedThe sign-in page has the soft glow and pulsing dots of the hosted sign-in page, so the background no longer changes when you click Sign In. The dots hold still if your device is set to reduce motion.
• FixedAO compares Positions with your broker every few minutes. If a position stays listed after your broker has closed it, one is missing, or one shows the wrong volume, AO reconnects that account by itself and the list corrects itself. Before, the list could stay wrong for hours.

A steadier connection, and a live watchlist across accounts

The terminal notices when prices stop and reconnects on its own, layouts save as you work, and every watchlist row stays live whichever account the chart is on.

• NewIf live prices stop updating during market hours, the terminal restarts the price feed by itself and tells you while prices are delayed.
• ImprovedNew orders pause while the terminal reconnects or the broker link is down, and a market order on a price more than 10 seconds old asks you to confirm. Closing, editing and cancelling still work. They wait up to 10 seconds for the broker and send nothing if it can’t be reached.
• ImprovedIf the broker doesn’t confirm an order in time, the terminal checks it against your account and shows Order not confirmed instead of a failure, so you know to look at Positions before trying again.
• ImprovedRenewing the connection no longer pauses trading every 40 to 55 minutes, and a failed connection retries by itself.
• ImprovedChart layouts save themselves a moment after you change a symbol, interval or arrangement, and switching layouts or accounts saves first instead of asking you to save or discard.
• ImprovedWatchlist rows from your other broker accounts quote live, with last price, change and change %, for up to four accounts at once. Moving the chart to another account keeps the rest of the list live, and a row whose account is still connecting reads Waiting.
• FixedSymbols saved in the wrong letter case, such as EURUSD.Z on a broker that lists EURUSD.z, get live prices again.
• FixedStop and target changes made in quick succession no longer undo each other.

Multi-chart layouts, bar replay and trading from the chart

Put up to 16 charts on one screen, replay past price action with simulated trades, and stage orders straight from the chart.

• NewArrange up to 16 charts side by side, stacked or in a grid, each with its own symbol, interval and studies. Sync the symbol, interval, crosshair, time or date range across them, and save, rename and duplicate layouts.
• NewChart settings → Status line chooses what the line above each chart shows, from OHLC values and price change to bid, ask and spread.
• NewBar replay plays past price action from a date or bar you pick, on the current chart or on all of them. Play, pause, step one bar at a time or change speed, then return to live.
• NewPractise against the replay with simulated market, limit and stop orders, stop loss and take profit, commission and slippage, and follow balance, equity, P&L and maximum drawdown. Real orders are blocked while replay is on. Results stay in the browser tab, so export the trades as CSV to keep them.
• NewRight-click the chart, or use the + on the price scale, to stage a buy, sell or pending order at that price. The ticket opens filled in and nothing is sent until you confirm. The × on a staged line takes it off the chart.
• ImprovedDragging a staged entry, stop or target updates the ticket and its risk as you move it, and moving a pending entry carries the stop and target with it. Every line label has grip dots, and the R:R magnet is on by default unless you turned it off.
• NewSeconds charts return on MT5 accounts, with 5s, 10s, 15s and 30s, plus 20s as a custom interval. Bars build from live ticks from the moment you open the chart, so there’s no earlier history. MT4 accounts and AO Market Data don’t offer seconds.
• ImprovedSymbiote opens from a small tab on the right edge of the screen. Drag it up or down and it stays where you leave it. ⌘J or Ctrl+J still opens it.

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Account setup you can follow from any page

Connecting a MetaTrader account now runs straight through to live data, and its progress stays on screen wherever you go.

• ImprovedSetup moves on as soon as your broker accepts the login, instead of waiting for a background check that ran every two minutes.
• NewA progress notice shows each stage, from login accepted to syncing trading data, and stays with you on every page until the account is connected. Open setup takes you back to it.
• FixedSetup no longer reports an account as connected before live data can reach it, and later changes in a connected account’s status don’t restart the setup notices.
• FixedSymbiote now answers on Claude Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1. Both models rejected the way Symbiote asked them to use its tools, so every message to them failed. Other models are unchanged.

The trade copier and Symbiote

Copy a master account into followers without leaving AO, and ask Symbiote, the AO assistant, which cites its sources.

• NewCopy a master account into follower accounts, each with its own sizing and symbol mappings.
• NewCopier templates, and a log of every copied trade.
• NewEvery copied trade passes the follower account’s own risk checks.
• ImprovedIf a broker’s response is unclear, the copy waits for confirmation instead of retrying, so it can’t open a duplicate.
• NewSymbiote works across AO on EXODUS lessons, charts and account analysis, with numbered citations to the original material.

Instant timeframe switching

Changing timeframe now shows current candles straight away.

• ImprovedSwitching timeframe paints up-to-date candles in one step instead of three.
• FixedLive data renews in the background, so the recurring expiry warning is gone. If the connection drops, prices and chart history stay on screen while it recovers.
• FixedHeavy chart use no longer runs into a daily loading limit.
• FixedThe Academy note editor loads its fonts correctly.

Drawing tools, account rules and roles

A much larger drawing toolkit, risk profiles for connected accounts and permissions for your team.

• New25 drawing tools, up from 13, each with its own settings. Existing drawings carry over.
• NewFund admins can pick a trader’s connected MT4 or MT5 account, assign managers and apply account rules or reusable risk profiles.
• NewRoles and permissions for the AO team: give a person more than one role and review exactly what each can do.
• ImprovedSettings has its own navigation.
• FixedA clean-up pass across Accounts, Settings, Community and the terminal.

Performance analysis and a new dashboard

See how you trade, then review the trades behind the numbers.

• NewAnalysis: net P&L, win rate, average R:R, drawdown, streaks, profit factor, expectancy and a P&L calendar.
• NewReview any trade with setup and mistake tags and a comment.
• NewColour gains and losses to match your candles, in monochrome, or in green and red.
• NewThe dashboard is now a board with a lane per module: portfolio and P&L, your chart and watchlist, currency strength and recent lessons.

Custom intervals

Chart the intervals you actually trade, and see history before the live feed connects.

• NewCreate custom chart intervals and star your favourites.
• ImprovedSaved candle history appears immediately while live data connects.
• FixedWeekly and monthly charts load reliably.

A rebuilt watchlist

More on every row, in the layout you choose.

• NewLogos and flags for currencies, metals, crypto and indices.
• NewLast, change and change % columns against the previous daily close.
• NewChoose which columns show, including bid, ask and spread.
• FixedBroker symbols with lower-case suffixes load correctly.
• FixedConnecting a broker from the macOS app opens the secure sign-in in your browser.
• FixedThe macOS app keeps you signed in when it sits idle.
• FixedIf your session expires, AO asks you to sign in again instead of waiting on “Loading workspace…”.

Macro

A read on the currency market, built from your own broker’s prices.

• NewStrength for the eight major currencies, with a transparent directional bias and cross-asset confirmation.
• NewCalculated from closed hourly candles on your broker’s symbols.
• ImprovedMissing or stale data is labelled as such, never filled in with made-up values.

Drawing tools and a live watchlist

Mark up the chart, and follow several markets without leaving the terminal.

• NewDrawing on the chart: a tool rail, a floating quick-tool bar and a right-click menu for every drawing.
• NewA watchlist with live prices and a symbol switcher, to follow several markets and jump between them.
• ImprovedEach connected account keeps its own symbols, prices and orders, so one broker’s quotes never drive another’s trades.
• FixedConnect Account always starts a new connection instead of reopening one you already finished.
• NewYouTube video lessons, grouped in nested curriculum sections.

Faster timeframe switching

Flicking between timeframes no longer means waiting on each chart.

• ImprovedRecent candles are kept per timeframe, so a chart you just left reappears straight away.

Trade history on the chart, and the EXODUS library

Review closed trades where they happened, and study the full course in the Academy.

• NewClosed trades drawn on the chart as entry-to-exit lines with their P&L.
• NewPartial exits grouped under the original position, in a history pane you can resize.
• NewThe full EXODUS course in the Academy library, with first-page previews in card and list views.

The terminal

Chart and trade your connected accounts inside AO.

• NewLive candlestick charts with symbol and timeframe switching, in resizable panes.
• NewMarket, limit and stop orders, with stop loss and take profit, from the order ticket.
• NewManage open positions and pending orders: move stops and targets, or close in part or in full.
• NewEntry, stop and target drawn as price lines on the chart.
• ImprovedThe dashboard charts your own journal, account and strategy data.