CheapTrader 0.2.1

Install

• Installer (CheapTrader-0.2.1-setup.exe) or the portable zip (CheapTrader-0.2.1-win64.zip: unzip anywhere, run CheapTrader.exe).
• You need Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit). For real prices and trading, install MetaTrader 5, log in to a (demo) account and leave it open: the welcome tour finds it by itself.
• Windows may say "Windows protected your PC" because the program is not signed: click More info, then Run anyway. Compare your download with SHA256SUMS.txt (Get-FileHash <file> -Algorithm SHA256).
• Orders from the app are off until you switch them on in the MetaTrader menu. Trading carries a high risk of losing money: try it on a demo account first.

What is in 0.2.1

• No more "this page is not reachable". Closing CheapTrader and opening it again within a few seconds could leave
  a window that said 127.0.0.1 refused the connection (or, at other moments, open nothing at all for minutes).
  The program ends a few seconds after its window is closed; the second start found it still running, opened a window
  on it, and the program then ended under that window. Now the second start asks the running copy to stay for the
  window, and a copy that is already ending is waited for: the second start then begins the program afresh.
• A start that waits for a copy that is ending no longer keeps the program from opening later (it held a lock that
  only the other copy should hold).
• The program ends within a few seconds of deciding to, even when a request is still being answered (a big history
  read for a window that is gone no longer keeps it running).
• Quit in the MetaTrader menu closes the window with the program, instead of leaving a window whose page nothing
  serves. If the program's server ever stops by itself, the window is closed and a message says so (the details are
  in data\logs).
• If an open CheapTrader does not answer, a second start says so after three minutes instead of doing nothing.