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Every change to TapeSheet that a visitor could see, newest first, dated to the day it went live. Fixes nobody could notice, and changes we made and then took back, are left out. If something here does not match what you find on the site, the contact page says how to tell us.

  • Google’s advertising script no longer loads on the privacy and cookies pages. The privacy policy and the cookies page say so.

  • A new economic calendar lists the week’s rate decisions and official data releases, one line each, in your own time and in your broker’s server time, with a link to each publisher’s page. It opens on the coming week at weekends, and you can add it to your own calendar app whole, high impact only, or one currency at a time.
  • The calendar’s sources page lists every central bank and statistics office it draws on, the licence each one publishes under, and the credit each asks for.
  • The privacy policy and the cookies page cover the calendar’s saved filters and its calendar feeds, and the disclaimer covers its dates.
  • The terms cover the economic calendar and say that its dates stay under their publishers’ licences. Because the terms changed, the analyzer asks you to accept them once more.

  • The analyzer checks a file before reading it. A program, script, PDF, archive or image dropped where a statement goes is named for what it is and not read any further, and up to 50 files, 200 MB in all, can be loaded at once.
  • Journal screenshots must be PNG, JPEG, GIF or WebP, judged from the file itself rather than its name, and an image over 50 megapixels is refused before it is opened. Importing a backup checks the screenshots inside it the same way and says how many it left out.

  • The analyzer now blocks Cloudflare’s visit counter with its own security policy, so opening it and moving between its tabs send nothing at all. Until now the counter recorded a page view when the analyzer opened and, in some browsers, another each time you switched tabs.
  • The privacy policy now says what its counting switch reaches: our own counter, which is not running, and not Cloudflare’s. It, the contact page, the terms and the ethics page now all say that a statement you send after a parse failure is kept as a test fixture until you ask us to delete it, and the privacy policy adds that you can object to how we use anything we hold.
  • The terms point to the right sections again, and the market hours clock and the calculators no longer say their pages make no outside requests.
  • The terms no longer ask you to pay our legal costs if something you do leads to a claim against us, and the limitation of liability now says its ZAR 1,000 cap is an upper limit, not an amount anyone is owed.
  • When a statement only partly parses, the analyzer now asks you to tell us which broker it is, rather than to send us the file.
  • Four prop firm presets in the analyzer now follow the rules each firm publishes itself, checked today: FundedNext’s is its current Stellar 2-Step challenge, with an 8% first-phase target; Take Profit Trader’s test needs three trading days, and its drawdown stops trailing at the starting balance; Bulenox’s end-of-day drawdown is $2,500.
  • The market hours pages for South Africa, UTC, New York, Central Europe, India, Japan, Sydney and the Gulf each gained a section written for that clock: when the daily candle closes there and on which dates it moves, what a local office day covers, when the forex week shuts and reopens, and the local exchange’s hours where they could be confirmed.
  • The four session pages and the London and New York overlap each say what only that session carries, with its sources: the Australian, Japanese, British and American releases and decisions that land in it, the London 4pm fix, and the Tokyo, London and New York centres’ measured share of world turnover.
  • The eight clock pages list where the week’s fixed events land on that clock in January and July, from the Australian data at 11:30 Canberra time to the Federal Reserve’s statement.
  • The Tokyo and London session pages show the one to two hours the two sessions share, where their tables said they never met.
  • The translated pages keep pip, lot, spread, drawdown, margin, leverage, R-multiple, swap and prop firm in English, as the English pages do.
  • Trailing drawdown has its own glossary entry, with a worked example of an account breached while still above its starting balance.
  • Every blog post and export guide now says when it was published, and when it was last changed if it has been.
  • The dashed boxes that marked where an advertisement would go are gone from every page. No advertisement is served on this site, and now nothing pretends one might be.
  • Five blog posts pointed at a prop firm challenge tracker page that was never built. They now point at the tracker that does exist, inside the analyzer.
  • The analyzer describes what it does before its JavaScript has loaded, so a slow connection no longer shows an empty page.
  • This page is new.

  • Blog posts, calculators and guides link to each other in the running text, at the point where a sentence raises the question the other page answers.

  • The post on overtrading became reachable from the blog index and the navigation.

  • The home page, the calculators and the market hours clock are available in Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Simplified Chinese and Japanese, from a language picker on every page. Risk disclaimers and trading terms stay in English in every language.

  • A blog, starting with posts on reading an MT4 statement, the three kinds of MT4 drawdown, R-multiples and expectancy, what counts as a good win rate or profit factor, overtrading, revenge trading, spreadsheet journals, and how prop firm challenges and their drawdown rules actually work.
  • A lot size chart, and every instrument calculator now takes any currency pair.
  • The legal pages were rewritten to one standard, naming the operator and the one analytics service, with a cookies page of their own.

  • The market hours clock gained a countdown to the next session, reads your timezone from your device instead of assuming it, and shows the daily candle close.
  • Every clock question got its own page: one per timezone, per session and per exchange, and a broker server time page for the question of why a chart says 21:40.
  • The analyzer tags every trade with the session it was actually opened in, using your broker’s real timezone.

  • Google’s advertising script began loading on content pages, never inside the analyzer, so the site could be reviewed for advertising. The privacy policy said so the same day.
  • The analyzer’s terms screen got shorter.

  • Sharing was removed entirely: no share links, no short links, no shareable images. The analyzer now has no way to send your trades anywhere.
  • The analyzer opens only after its terms have been accepted.

  • Google Analytics was switched off and removed.
  • An About page, saying who runs the site and why.
  • Two more calculators, taking the set to ten.