---
title: "What’s new"
description: "Every change to Fincanva, dated. Each entry links to the pages that document it."
canonical_url: "https://fincanva.com/whats-new"
last_updated: "2026-09-25"
md_url: "https://fincanva.com/whats-new.md"
---

## Black-Litterman becomes its own allocation method

**2026-09-25** · strategies · 2026.09

[Black-Litterman](/glossary/black-litterman) is now an allocation method of its own in the picker, listed right after [MPT (Markowitz)](/glossary/mpt-markowitz), instead of a switch inside MPT; the MPT settings no longer show a Black-Litterman switch. It aims at **Optimal** or **Max return** and keeps every MPT setting, and moving between the two methods keeps your settings. It is still included wherever MPT is. A strategy saved with the old switch on and the **Min volatility** target is shown as MPT (Markowitz) and keeps running exactly as saved.

## The Risk estimation setting is now called Covariance matrix

**2026-09-25** · strategies · 2026.09

The allocation setting that chooses how a method estimates volatilities and correlations from history is now labelled **Covariance matrix**, because that matrix is what it sets. Nothing else changed: the same eight estimators, the same defaults, and the same plans. The chips that flag a setting different from the default now read "Covariance: …" instead of "Estimate: …", and the docs page moved with it — see [covariance matrix](/glossary/covariance-matrix). Links to the old page still land on the new one.

## The Free plan keeps more saved strategies

**2026-09-25** · billing · 2026.09

The Free plan now lets you keep more saved strategies:

Set by your plan: 2 on Free and 999 on Starter, Advanced, Ultimate and Professional. See [what each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes).

See [what each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes).

## A plan refusal now says what's wrong

**2026-09-25** · billing · 2026.09

A refusal that names a plan limit — on Backtest, Copy, Clone, Combine or Save — now names what's wrong: the limit itself, your strategy's value and your plan's, for example "it starts in 1990, Advanced starts from 2000" or "it has 6 strategies, Advanced allows 5", followed by which plan would cover it ("Switch to Ultimate"). The padlock tooltip on a strategy row and the set-aside panel list every breach this way, not only the first. See [plan compliance](/glossary/plan-compliance).

## Usage and Change plan are redesigned

**2026-09-25** · billing · 2026.09

Settings → Usage now leads with what your plan gives you and what each plan above yours adds: **What you have** lists what's already unlocked, **Still to unlock** lists what a higher plan would add, both read from the same ledger the pricing page reads. See [what your Usage page tells you](/docs/account-security/what-settings-usage-tells-you). Billing's **Change plan** dialog is now three plan cards, each with its price and what it includes, instead of one long comparison, with a line under each button saying when you'd be charged. See [what each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes).

## Three hierarchical allocation methods

**2026-09-24** · strategies · 2026.09

A strategy can now allocate with three hierarchical methods, which group instruments by how alike they move before splitting the capital between the groups: [Hierarchical risk parity](/glossary/hierarchical-risk-parity), [Hierarchical equal risk contribution](/glossary/hierarchical-equal-risk-contribution) and [Nested clustered optimization](/glossary/nested-clustered-optimization). They work inside a strategy, not across the strategies of a Combined. All three are included from Advanced — see [what each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes).

## Black-Litterman, Resampled MPT and a choice of risk estimator

**2026-09-24** · strategies · 2026.09

[MPT (Markowitz)](/glossary/mpt-markowitz) has two new options. [Black-Litterman](/glossary/black-litterman) replaces the noisy average returns with a steadier estimate tilted toward momentum, and comes with the method; [Resampled](/glossary/mpt-markowitz#what-does-the-resampled-option-do) repeats the optimisation on many resampled histories and averages the weights, and is included from Ultimate. Every method built on a covariance estimate now shows a **Risk estimation** control with eight estimators — see [risk estimation](/glossary/covariance-matrix); the basic ones come with the method and the three advanced ones start at Ultimate. What each plan unlocks is on [what each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes).

## Project a strategy forward with the Projection tab

**2026-09-24** · analysis · 2026.09

A strategy's Analysis has a new **Projection** tab that draws a cone of values the strategy could reach over the coming years, by simulating many possible paths from the returns it has already lived through — resampled days or blocks of days, or a normal curve fitted to them — a spread of outcomes, never a forecast. You choose the method, the horizon and the number of scenarios; see [the Projection guide](/docs/analysis/see-where-a-strategy-could-go-with-the-projection-tab). The tab is on every plan, Free included, and your plan sets how far ahead it projects and how many scenarios one calculation may draw — see [what each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes).

## Quantitative risk rules and the regime timeline

**2026-09-24** · strategies · 2026.09

The risk condition builder has a new **Quantitative regimes** group with three rules. [Hidden regimes (Markov)](/glossary/hidden-regimes-markov) and [Clustering](/glossary/clustering) learn from one series when the market has been calm or turbulent, and are included from Advanced, at the strategy level and inside a Combined; [Strategy's own performance](/glossary/strategy-s-own-performance) watches a Combined as a whole, and is included from Ultimate. Whenever a risk condition is active, the new [regime timeline](/glossary/regime-timeline) under the growth chart on **Performance Metrics** shows the days spent in Risk-On and in Risk-Off. What each plan unlocks is on [what each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes).

## A failed backtest can be re-run

**2026-09-24** · backtesting · 2026.09

A strategy whose last backtest failed can now be sent to run again: press **Backtest** to try again, from the strategy page or the results popover, which says "The last run produced no results. Press Backtest to try again." If it still can't complete, Fincanva says so — "The run didn't restart: the engine still holds a failed result for these settings. Try again later, or change the strategy's settings" — instead of leaving the failed state as final. See [what a run's status means](/glossary/run-status).

## Test how far to trust a backtest with the Robustness tab

**2026-09-24** · analysis · 2026.09

A strategy's Analysis has a new **Robustness** tab with two checks that question the backtest instead of reporting it. [Backtest reliability](/glossary/backtest-reliability) resamples the strategy's history to ask whether a result this good could be luck, and how much its figures could have varied; the [stress test](/glossary/stress-test) reweights the same history toward a scenario you set and shows how the risk figures move. Both run only when you ask — see [the Robustness guide](/docs/analysis/test-how-much-to-trust-a-backtest-with-the-robustness-tab). The tab is included from Advanced — see [what each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes).

## The sidebar is regrouped, and its plan tile shows your Live count

**2026-09-24** · getting-started · 2026.09

The main sidebar's groups now follow the order of the work: Home and Screener first, then **Strategies** — Portfolios, Single, Combined — then **Other**, with Simulation settings, Learn and Documentation. The plan tile at its foot is one card: your plan and how many strategies you have [live](/glossary/mark-live), reading, for example, "Live 3/5". Its panel lists those live strategies and, wherever a plan above yours would let you keep more live, invites you to switch. See [what your Usage page tells you](/docs/account-security/what-settings-usage-tells-you).

## Eight allocation methods for tail risk and diversification

**2026-09-24** · strategies · 2026.09

Eight new allocation methods aim at the bad outcomes rather than at average risk, or at spreading risk as widely as possible: [Max diversification](/glossary/max-diversification), [Min CVaR](/glossary/min-cvar) and its [Scenario CVaR](/glossary/min-cvar#what-is-scenario-cvar) variant, [Min MAD](/glossary/min-mad), [Conditional drawdown at risk](/glossary/conditional-drawdown-at-risk), [Entropic value at risk](/glossary/entropic-value-at-risk), [Robust worst case](/glossary/robust-worst-case) and [Stochastic programming](/glossary/stochastic-programming). Each works both inside a strategy and across the strategies of a Combined. They are included from Ultimate — see [what each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes).

## A volatility target for Combined strategies, and more room for leverage

**2026-09-24** · combined-strategies · 2026.09

A Combined's allocation profile can now carry a [volatility target](/glossary/volatility-target), which rescales the invested portion at every rebalance to keep the Combined's volatility near a yearly level you choose; it is included from Advanced. The [invested portion](/glossary/invested-portion) of a Combined can now go above 100%, borrowing the difference, within the plan's leverage ceiling. [Leverage](/glossary/leverage) above 1.00× on a single strategy now starts at Starter, and the ceiling is higher on every paid plan. The ceilings each plan sets are on [what each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes).

## Worst-days metrics and contribution analytics

**2026-09-24** · analysis · 2026.09

**Performance Metrics** has a new **Worst days · 95%** group — historical and Gaussian value at risk, and conditional value at risk — on every plan; see [what the worst-days rows show](/docs/analysis/what-every-number-in-performance-metrics-means#what-do-the-worst-days-rows-show). A Combined's **Components** tab now opens with [contribution analytics](/glossary/contribution-analytics), which splits the Combined's return, risk, Sharpe and daily VaR among the strategies inside it, with what belongs to none of them in a **Residual** row. It comes with the Combined, so it is included from Advanced — see [what each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes).

## Switch a Combined's component off and back on

**2026-09-23** · combined-strategies · 2026.09

A [Combined](/glossary/combined)'s Strategies list now lets you pause a component and bring it back on: a paused component moves into a **Kept aside** group, and only the components still switched on count against your plan's limit. Bringing one back on is refused only where saving would already refuse it — see [what each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes). A single strategy switched off the same way shows **Switch back on** in its own settings.

## Screener results open sorted by market cap

**2026-09-23** · screeners · 2026.09

A screener's results table now opens ordered by market cap, largest first, on every tab and on both the app's workspace and the embedded screener. Where an instrument carries no market cap — exchange-traded products, crypto, index and macro series — that order has nothing to sort by; see [read your matches](/docs/screeners/read-your-matches) for what the table shows in that case.

## Equal and Clear all sit above your weights, with one rule everywhere

**2026-09-23** · strategies · 2026.09

**Equal** and **Clear all** now sit directly above the weights they rewrite — the instruments table inside a strategy, and the Strategies table inside a [Combined](/glossary/combined) — instead of on the Allocation card below. Every [relative weight](/glossary/fixed-weights) now follows one rule wherever you set it: up to ±999, decimals allowed, and a weight that sums to zero saves with a yellow warning instead of being refused. A fresh [Ranking-based](/glossary/ranking-based) strategy starts on Equal Weight. See [combined weighting](/glossary/combined-weighting) and [strategy alerts](/glossary/strategy-alerts).

## Old-platform customers sign in with the same account

**2026-09-21** · account-auth · 2026.09

If you had an account on Fincanva's earlier platform, you sign in with that same account today — there is nothing new to create. On sign-in you find the subscription you were already paying for, and your strategies, portfolios and screeners are where you left them. See [get started with Fincanva](/docs/getting-started/get-started-with-fincanva-in-five-steps) and [how to read your plan](/docs/account-security/how-to-read-your-plan).

## Every instrument shows its own logo

**2026-09-19** · data-methodology · 2026.09

Every instrument now shows its own logo wherever Fincanva has one, instead of one picture shared by every instrument on the same exchange. Where an instrument has no logo of its own, it falls back to the flag of its recorded origin, exactly as before — see [instrument logo](/glossary/instrument-logo) for the full fallback rule.

## Components is rebuilt, and Correlations gets its own page

**2026-09-12** · analysis · 2026.09

The **Components** tab of a Combined's Analysis is rebuilt: a return-versus-volatility view of each strategy against the Combined, one row-aligned comparison panel, and each strategy's profit curve — see [component analytics](/glossary/strategy-analytics). What used to sit inside it now has its own **Correlations** tab, showing how the strategies of a Combined move with each other, with the Combined itself and with the wider market — see [correlation matrix](/glossary/correlation-matrix). Correlations is included from Advanced; see [what each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes) and [find your way around the Analysis tabs](/docs/analysis/find-your-way-around-a-strategy-s-analysis-tabs).

## Choose which strategies keep running when your plan shrinks

**2026-09-11** · billing · 2026.09

When a plan change means your plan no longer covers every [live](/glossary/mark-live) strategy you follow, you are asked which ones to keep — at the moment it happens, not after. The dialog states how many live strategies you follow against how many your plan covers, and pre-selects the strategies you used most recently; the rest stop being followed but stay in your library with their history, and go live again once your plan covers them. See [what each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes).

## Two new ways to look something up in the docs

**2026-08-01** · getting-started · 2026.08

The documentation now has two lookup surfaces of its own, both reachable from the docs subject tree. **Glossary**, at `/docs/glossary`, lists every term the docs define, A–Z — [Backtest](/glossary/backtest) and [CAGR](/glossary/cagr) are two of them. **Questions**, at `/docs/questions`, indexes the questions the corpus answers, built from the pages themselves rather than maintained by hand, so it stays current as pages are written.

The hand-written FAQ is retired in the same change: its answers now live on the pages that own them, and an old `/docs/faq/<topic>` page link redirects to the question index.

## Fincanva documentation hub is live

**2026-07-21** · getting-started · 2026.07

The Fincanva documentation hub is now live on the site, replacing the previous knowledge base. It hosts guides, concepts, a glossary, FAQs, and this changelog, all authored and versioned alongside the product. New to Fincanva? Start with [Get started with Fincanva in five steps](/docs/getting-started/get-started-with-fincanva-in-five-steps).

## Single and Combined strategies are now separate sections

**2026-07-13** · strategies · 2026.07

The library now presents **Single** and **Combined** as separate sidebar sections. Building one strategy directly and combining several strategies into one book are now distinct workflows, each with its own library. To build a single strategy, see [Create a strategy and choose its instruments](/docs/strategies/create-a-strategy-and-choose-its-instruments).

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