What's New in Version 10.3.14
Several new features and miscellaneous enhancements, available now in
our latest release, are outlined below. Click here
to download 10.3.14
New in 10.3.14, Released March 24, 2011
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Intraday Chart Day-of-Week Labeling
A new option is available for labeling day-of-week
transitions in overnight session charts. There are now two check boxes
in Setup: Preferences: Charts: General that control boundary labeling.
One for specifying that session boundaries should be drawn and a new one
that pertains to day of week transition. Check the box titled "Label
Day-of-Week Boundaries Within Overnight Session" to engage this feature;
it is "on" by default. When "on", the session boundary vertical line (if
enabled) is labeled with the session start time and the date. In
addition, a day of week boundary line is drawn at midnight and the new
day of the week is labelled there rather than at the beginning of the
session. Showing both the session start/stop boundary and day of week
boundary as separate lines make it clearer that the session passes
through midnight and the day-of-week shown will now denote the day of
the week that the session ends rather than the day of the week the
session begins. If you want only session boundaries to be labeled,
simply uncheck the box to see the same labeling as version 10.3.6.
If you want to see day of week boundaries labeled only in selected chart
setups but not others, then you can turn off this new option and instead
add a Vertical Reference Line indicator to any charts you want. Setup
the Vertical Reference Line with any date and a time of 00:00:00
(midnight) and check the box "Draw every day at the Specified Time".
Such midnight vertical lines will show the day-of-week label for
overnight session charts when trading passes through midnight. This
method might be desirable if you want more control over the line color
and style, where the label is drawn, or you wish to be selective about
which charts have such boundary lines, or if you only want these lines
to be drawn inside your instrument pane rather than through all panes in
the chart.
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Profile Indicator Volume Distribution Improvement
The Profile Indicator is commonly used to implement both
short and long term composite profiles. When tick data is available, the
Profile Indicators uses that tick data to compute true volume-at-price
information. However, for periods in the past when only 1-minute data is
available, the volume within each 1-min bar must be distributed in some
way among the prices in the bar. Invisible 1-min bars are loaded into
the chart for use by the Profile Indicator so it may provide the most
accurate volume-at-price information possible based on available data.
Prior to version 10.3.9, the volume within these 1-minute bars was
divided up equally among the prices. We have done some statistical
analysis on the average distribution of volume among the prices in
1-minute bars using tick data for the S&P Emini contract. As a result of
the studies, new distribution models were developed for allocating the
volume among the prices within bars of various ranges. Upon further
testing, these new distribution models resulted in a 35% increase in
accuracy when compared to the method of equally dividing volume among
prices. This new distribution method is in place for 10.3.9 and should
result in more accurate volume distribution, especially for longer term
composites.
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New Button
Purpose: Set V# from a List of Values
Investor/RT has for some time had a button type for setting
V# variables to an instrument price value. This button purpose
optionally submits a trading order after setting the V# to a mouse
selected value. See the topic New in 8.3, item 22. for details. Version
10.3 adds a new button purpose Set V# from a List of Values. User
Variables are sometimes used in setups for technical indicators. For
example you could have a Moving Average indicator in a chart with V#37
specified as the moving average period. This new button purpose makes it
easy to create a menu button for quickly changing the moving average
period. Add a button, set the purpose to "Set V# from a List of Values",
and use the setup string: V#37,3,9,15,30,45,60. Notice the first element
in the comma separated list is the V# you wish the menu button to set,
the second and subsequent items are the menu item choices you want for
V#37. When you click the button in the chart, a menu pops up showing
V#37 as the first menu item with the value choices listed below; select
one and the moving average will update to reflect the revised V#37
value. The first menu item can optionally have a value as well,
introduced by the equal sign, e.g. V#37 =3,5,6,15,30,45,60. In this
case, the first menu item in the resulting popup will be "V#37 =3";
choosing this first item will set V#37 to the value 3. If a value is not
present in the first menu item, you will be prompted to provide a value
for V#37. If you provide names for your user variables (using Setup:
Preferences: User Variables), your assigned name will appear in such
prompts. For example, you can assign the name "MA Period" to V#37. The
prompting message would then read something like: "...enter a value for
@ES# user variable V#37 (MA Period). The current value is 30". The setup
for the button can also contain some commentary text to make the buton's
menu more meaningful. For example, if you setup the menu button with the
string:
V#37 MA Period,3,5,9,13
then the menu you see when clicking the button will show "V#37 MA
Period" as the first menu item with the four choices for MA Period
arrayed below. You can also setup a Push Button using this Set V#...
purpose by listing the V# number followed optionally by a value (no
commas, no list of menu items). For example, if you setup the button as
a push button with the setup string "V#37", then clicking the button
would prompt for a value for V#37. If the setup string is "V#33=15" then
clicking the button will set V#33 to the value 15 for the symbol in the
chart. Push buttons may also have custom colors and titles if desired.
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Layout Toolbar Improvement
Layouts now be excluded from display in the layout toolbar. This is
accomplished using the layout toolbar to select the layout in question,
checkmark the "Exclude Tab from Toolbar" checkbox and then save the
layout. The layout remains defined and accessible using the menu system,
but its tab will no longer appear in the layout toolbar. The
Open-->Layout menu or the File-->Open-->Layout command can be used to
open any layout independently of the layout toolbar. When the menu
system is used to open a layout that is presently excluded from the
layout toolbar, the layout's windows will open and a tab for that layout
will be added to the layout toolbar temporarily. This enables you to
uncheck the "Exclude Tab..." checkbox and save the layout if you wish
that layout to be available in the layout toolbar thereafter. At
startup, any layouts having the "Exclude Tab..." setting will be passed
over for inclusion in the layout toolbar. This feature may be of
interest to users with a large number of layouts, many of which are
rarely needed, or when the layouts of interest might change from time to
time.
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Intraday Chart Day-of-Week
Labeling
A new option is available for labeling day-of-week transitions in
overnight session charts. There are now two checkboxes in Setup:
Preferences: Charts: General that control boundary labeling. One for
specifying that session boundaries should be drawn and a new one that
pertains to day of week transition. Check the box titled "Label
Day-of-Week Boundaries Within Overnight Session" to engage this feature;
it is "on" by default. When "on", the session boundary vertical line (if
enabled) is labeled with the session start time and the date. In
addition, a day of week boundary line is drawn at midnight and the new
day of the week is labelled there rather than at the beginning of the
session. Showing both the session start/stop boundary and day of week
boundary as separate lines make it clearer that the session passes
through midnight and the day-of-week shown will now denote the day of
the week that the session ends rather than the day of the week the
session begins. If you want only session boundaries to be labeled,
simply uncheck the box to see the same labeling as version 10.3.6.
If you want to see day of week boundaries labeled only in selected chart
setups but not others, then you can turn off this new option and instead
add a Vertical Reference Line indicator to any charts you want. Setup
the Vertical Reference Line with any date and a time of 00:00:00
(midnight) and check the box "Draw every day at the Specified Time".
Such midnight vertical lines will show the day-of-week label for
overnight session charts when trading passes through midnight. This
method might be desirable if you want more control over the line color
and style, where the label is drawn, or you wish to be selective about
which charts have such boundary lines, or if you only want these lines
to be drawn inside your instrument pane rather than through all panes in
the chart.
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Profile
Indicator Volume Distribution Improvement
The Profile Indicator is commonly used to implement both
short and long term composite profiles. When tick data is available, the
Profile Indicators uses that tick data to compute true volume-at-price
information. However, for periods in the past when only 1-minute data is
available, the volume within each 1-min bar must be distributed in some
way among the prices in the bar. Invisible 1-min bars are loaded into
the chart for use by the Profile Indicator so it may provide the most
accurate volume-at-price information possible based on available data.
Prior to version 10.3.9, the volume within these 1-minute bars was
divided up equally among the prices. We have done some statistical
analysis on the average distribution of volume among the prices in
1-minute bars using tick data for the S&P Emini contract. As a result of
the studies, new distribution models were developed for allocating the
volume among the prices within bars of various ranges. Upon further
testing, these new distribution models resulted in a 35% increase in
accuracy when compared to the method of equally dividing volume among
prices. This new distribution method is in place for 10.3.9 and should
result in more accurate volume distribution, especially for longer term
composites.
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Layout Toolbar Improvement
Layouts now be excluded from display in the layout toolbar.
This is accomplished using the layout toolbar to select the layout in
question, checkmark the "Exclude Tab from Toolbar" checkbox and then
save the layout. The layout remains defined and accessible using the
menu system, but its tab will no longer appear in the layout toolbar.
The Open-->Layout menu or the File-->Open-->Layout command can be used
to open any layout independently of the layout toolbar. When the menu
system is used to open a layout that is presently excluded from the
layout toolbar, the layout's windows will open and a tab for that layout
will be added to the layout toolbar temporarily. This enables you to
uncheck the "Exclude Tab..." checkbox and save the layout if you wish
that layout to be available in the layout toolbar thereafter. At
startup, any layouts having the "Exclude Tab..." setting will be passed
over for inclusion in the layout toolbar. This feature may be of
interest to users with a large number of layouts, many of which are
rarely needed, or when the layouts of interest might change from time to
time.
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Intraday Chart Day-of-Week
Labeling
A new option is available for labeling day-of-week
transitions in overnight session charts. There are now two checkboxes in
Setup: Preferences: Charts: General that control boundary labeling. One
for specifying that session boundaries should be drawn and a new one
that pertains to day of week transition. Check the box titled "Label
Day-of-Week Boundaries Within Overnight Session" to engage this feature;
it is "on" by default. When "on", the session boundary vertical line (if
enabled) is labeled with the session start time and the date. In
addition, a day of week boundary line is drawn at midnight and the new
day of the week is labelled there rather than at the beginning of the
session. Showing both the session start/stop boundary and day of week
boundary as separate lines make it clearer that the session passes
through midnight and the day-of-week shown will now denote the day of
the week that the session ends rather than the day of the week the
session begins. If you want only session boundaries to be labeled,
simply uncheck the box to see the same labeling as version 10.3.6.
If you want to see day of week boundaries labeled only in selected chart
setups but not others, then you can turn off this new option and instead
add a Vertical Reference Line indicator to any charts you want. Setup
the Vertical Reference Line with any date and a time of 00:00:00
(midnight) and check the box "Draw every day at the Specified Time".
Such midnight vertical lines will show the day-of-week label for
overnight session charts when trading passes through midnight. This
method might be desirable if you want more control over the line color
and style, where the label is drawn, or you wish to be selective about
which charts have such boundary lines, or if you only want these lines
to be drawn inside your instrument pane rather than through all panes in
the chart.
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Improved License Activation
Investor/RT 10.3 includes upgraded software components for
license activation designed to improve the reliability of license
activation and verification. The Windows Service "ASTSRV" is superseded
by an improved service named NLSSRV32, the "NLS Service". The new
service is installed automatically the first time Investor/RT 10.3
starts up. Windows 7/Vista users will have to run Investor/RT once "As
Administrator" to install the service. The new licensing software
operates effectively when RAID disk arrays are in use.
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Transact/Infinity Improvements
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Zig Zag Enhancements
Two new options were added to the Zig Zag Indicator. The
"Minimum Change" can now be specified in "Bars" in addition to "$" and
"%". Also, a new "Trend Coloring" option was added.
When "Minimum Change" is specified in "Bars" (20 bars for instance),
this does not mean that each leg will be 20 bars in length. Instead, it
uses the bar count in respect to new highs and lows. If the last leg was
downward, then only a bar with a high greater than the high of the
previous 20 bars can establish a new pivot and a new upward leg. Once
that upward leg is established, only a bar with a low that is less than
the lowest low of the previous 20 bars can establish a new pivot and a
new downward leg. After establishing a downward leg, if we encounter a
bar with a lower low than our pivot bar, that bar replaces the pivot for
the downward leg (just like "$" and "%" currently work). This "Bar"
method allows the volatility of the market to power the Zig Zag instead
of requiring the user to supply a specific $ or % value. The "Bar"
method should also translate well among various instruments and security
types.
A new check box has been added titled "Trend Coloring". When this check
box is checked, each leg of the Zig Zag will be colored green when in an
uptrend and red when in a downtrend. When in an uptrend, our state can
only be reversed to a downtrend by a downward leg whose pivot low is
lower than the previous downward leg pivot (a lower low). When in a
downtrend, our state can only be reversed to an uptrend by an upward leg
whose pivot high is higher than the high of the previous upward leg
pivot (a higher high). This coloring options gives the user visual
feedback to reflect whether the instrument is in an upward or downward
trend.
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Profile Indicator: Heat Map
A new "Heat Map" option has been added to the Profile Indicator. This
option can be found by choosing "Draw As: Volume Shading" and then
choosing "Heat Map" from the menu of colors. When this option is
selected, the profile transforms into a vertical block showing a color
gradient reflecting the relative volume at each price. The color
gradient starts at black for lowest volume price and from there goes to
blue, green, yellow, then red as the volume increases. This option gives
the user a new visual display of high and low volume areas, especially
on longer term profiles. When Heat Map is turned on, the user can check
"Right Align" to position the Heat Map along the right edge of chart, or
uncheck "Right Align" to position it along the left side. In addition,
the user may check the "Width" check box to specify the width of the
Heat Map block, in pixels. The user may stack multiple Heat Maps on
either side of the chart, one for last month, one for last week, one for
current session, etc.
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Scrolling Charts with
Scroll Wheel
Users may now scroll multi-pane charts horizontally (in time)
using the scroll wheel. Simply hold down Ctrl+Shift (hold down both Ctrl
and Shift keys together) while operating the scroll wheel, and the chart
will scroll back and forward in time horizontally. Operating the scroll
wheel alone (without Ctrl or Shift depressed) will zoom the chart
horizontally. Ctrl+scroll wheel zooms the chart vertically. Shift+scroll
wheel scrolls the chart vertically. Mac OS X users: use the Option key
instead of Ctrl key.
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IQFEED
Symbol Lookup and Equity/Index Option Chains
Users of DTN IQFEED (Windows) now have access to the DTN
lookup server for symbol lookup and listing of near month option ticker
symbols for underlying equity/indexes. To use the new built-in symbol
lookup feature, choose Symbol Lookup... from the IQFEED menu in
Investor/RT. Enter a word or partial description optionally followed by
a comma and a security type code (STK, OPT, FUT, INDX, FOPT, MUT). For
example, enter STARBUCKS and Investor/RT will show a list of symbols
(any security type) having the word STARBUCKS in the description.
GOLD,FUT will list futures contracts whose description contains the word
GOLD. AGGRESSIVE,MUT will return mutual fund symbols having the word
AGGRESSIVE in the fund name, etc. Having identified the ticker symbol of
interest you can then copy/paste or type it into the quotepage or the
Setup: Instruments window to begin following it.
The option chain feature is available via the quotepage. Right-click on
any equity or index and choose "Option Display". Investor/RT will
respond with a list of 8 in-the-money and 8 out-of-the-money option
ticker symbols with contract expirations in the nearest four months.
Calls are listed first followed by a list of puts. The list of ticker
symbols appears in a text window, one ticker per line. If you wish to
add the symbols and begin tracking them with IQFEED you can select one
or more (or all) the lines and copy the text to the clipboard (Ctrl-C),
then open a quotepage and do Edit->Paste to paste the ticker symbols
into the quotepage page, adding the symbols automatically. IQFEED will
immediately begin watching the options and data will fill in.
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New Method for
Adjusting Indicator Colors
Revising the color of an indicator line, reference line,
trendline, etc. can now be accomplished more simply and directly from
the right-click menu in multi-paned chart windows. For example,
right-click on a trendline and use the "Edit TLINE Color" submenu to
change the color, style, or thickness of the trendline. The submenu
includes some common color choices (red, green, blue, black, etc.). A
Color Picker menu item allows any color to be specified. Right-click on
any indicator and choose Edit Preferences... to view and/or edit the
full set of preference settings for the indicator. For those who plan to
use these color revision menus often, we have added a shortcut: Hold
down the Ctrl key (Option key on Mac OS X) while right-clicking on an
indicator and the menu of color choices will appear (rather than the
more comprehensive indicator popup menu). Almost all indicators present
in Investor/RT support this new color menu. For the few that do not, the
menu will be dimmed when you right-click on such indicators. Some
indicators that support multiple color settings will typically update
the primary color setting only. A few special cases such as stochastics
which have multiple lines and multiple line color settings will assign
the color change to the appropriate line based on the current settings
of the indicator. Use the Edit Preferences... menu item in cases where
the line color you need to adjust is not the one affected by this new
Edit Color menu.
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Volume Breakdown
Efficiency Improvements
Certain implementations (combinations of settings) of the
Volume Breakdown Indicator (VB) require an extensive amount of memory
upon initial loading/calculation of the VB. The most notable
implementation involves VB with volume filter (Consider Trades w/ Vol
>/< x). When VB involves a volume filter, then VB must go through all
the ticks/trades to evaluate if each one should be considered. In past
versions, all trades have been loaded into memory and then processed by
VB, using only the ones that pass through the volume filter. In this
release, the ticks are evaluated for meeting the volume criteria BEFORE
being loaded into memory. The net result of this change is that VB will
use much less memory when initially adding VB to a chart or opening a
chart which contains a VB with a volume filter. The difference will be
more dramatic for those that retain more tick data and who have
volume-filtered VBs in charts with extended viewing periods. This memory
issue has caused some users to run out of memory on initial
startup/backfill and this should greatly alleviate that problem.
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Label Current Value by Default
Each indicator is equipped with a "Label Current Value"
option at the bottom of the indicator preferences window. This option
can only be seen when opening the preference window after the indicator
has been added to the chart. When this option is turned on, the current
value of the indicator is highlighted and displayed in the scale to the
right. In past releases, this option has defaulted to off. In this
release, this behavior has changed to turn "Label Current Value" on for
any indicator that is newly added to a chart. It will not affect
indicators that have already been added to existing charts, only
indicators that are added to charts after upgrading to 10.3 Beta 2 or
later. For those that wish to retain the previous behavior of this
option defaulting to off, choose "file: open: configuration file", and
inset the following line on a blank line by itself, then choose "file:
save: save".
LabelPriceByDefault=false
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Pairs Historical
Data Generation - New Option
new option has been added for the generation of historical data on pairs
(custom instruments). By default, when the user performs a download or
backfill on a pair, every tick/price of each component is processed and
included in the generation of the tick data and intraday data of the
pair. For pairs of stocks, often a stock may have a bad tick (a tick
well out of line with other prices) which in turn results in the
generation of a bad tick on the pair. To help prevent this phenomenon, a
new option has been added which results in the intraday pair data only
considering the closing 1-minute prices of each component. This option
can significantly clean up not only the intraday data, but also the
daily data which is built from the intraday data. This option is off by
default. To turn it on, choose "file: open: configuration file", and
inset the following line on a blank line by itself, then choose "file:
save: save".
PairsUseCloseOnly=true
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Layout Management Improvements
Improvements were made to enable charts and other windows
that participate in layouts to be shared in multiple layouts, with each
layout possibly having the same window in a different position and/or a
different size. Even when the same window is kept open but hidden until
needed, it will appear in each layout at the size and position it was in
when the layout was last saved. In prior versions, hidden windows would
never change size or position when switching from one layout to another.
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Profile Indicator: Major
Improvements
Two major improvements were made to the software which will
have a substantial impact on the Profile Indicator, and specifically
those using the Profile Indicator for long-term composite profiles.
These improvements will substantially reduce the calculation time for
the indicator as well as substantially decrease the memory requirements
of the indicator.
First, the calculation of this indicator is now much more efficient for
composite volume profiles. In past versions, the Profile Indicator
processed all the data every time it recalculated. Now the previous
calculations are being stored and only the last minute of data is being
merged in. This results in an extremely quick recalculation where it
might have taken up to 2 or 3 seconds in the past. Many users should see
a performance boost from this change.
In addition, charts which contain the Profile Indicator should see a
great reduction in the amount of memory required. In testing, one chart
that consumed 30mb of memory before the improvements consumed less than
1.5mb after. Internally, this improvements were made possible due to a
change in how the volume-at-price data of each bar is stored. Periods
which contain only 1-minute data (no tick data) are now stored using
much less memory.
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Exporting Naked POCs
from Market Profile
The nearest naked point of control above and below current
price can now be exported from Market Profile charts to any user
variable. In order to export these values, the user would setup a
reference line with a label of "=NPOCA" (for the nearest naked POC
above) or "=NPOCB" (for nearest below), and set the refernce line value
to "V#10" or whatever user variable the user wishes to export the NPOC
to. This allows user to easily place reference lines on multi-pane
charts at the closest NPOC above and below current price. And this line
will update dynamically as NPOCs are taken out over time.
To access more information on how this is accomplished as well as how
other prices may be export to user variables, visit:
http://www.linnsoft.com/qa/a/102.htm
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Text Window Floating Option
Any text window, e.g. the message log, can be a floating
window for placement on a secondary monitor. The menu button at the
upper left corner of all text windows has a menu item, Floating Window,
that appears check marked when the window is a floating window. Choose
this menu item to toggle the state of the window between non-floating
(unchecked) or floating. Floating text windows can participate in
layouts and the state of the window is honored when you activate a
layout containing one or more text windows. Note that once you have a
text window open you can use the menu button at the upper left of the
window to view any file you like. Click the menu button and choose the
Open menu item, then select the text file you wish to view in the
window.
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Trading Notes Marker
Improvements
Trading Notes Marker indicator now has marker setups for both
a "Buy Marker" (the default marker) and a "Sell Marker". Trading notes
created automatically by the Trading Simulator or during live trading
begin with the text "BOT" or "SLD". Any trading notes beginning with "SLD"
(or "SELL") will use the sell marker (marker, color, and position),
while other trading notes will be denoted with the buy marker setup. The
indicator will now show the text of the trading notes associated with
any marker displayed in the chart when the mouse pointer hovers over the
bar in question. Options are provided to show the marker text in the
main toolbar message area, the chart pane title, or as a tip window that
appears for a few seconds when the mouse hovers over the bar. When the
trading notes marker indicator is the selected indicator, the (possibly
abbreviated) text of every marker is displayed as a label centered above
or below the marker. The setup for the trading notes marker indicator
also permits the displayed note text to be trimmed in a user-specified
fashion, showing only N words of the trading note, optionally skipping
over the first M words. A "word" in this context is any span of
characters ending in one or more spaces. Users of the brokerage features
of Investor/RT, including the trading simulator, will now find the
trading notes marker an excellent tool for reviewing the trading order
fills that took place during the session. When there are multiple
trading notes that fall into the same bar on the chart, the bar will be
marked with the last of the notes that occurred during the bar's
interval. The note text display(s) will show the text of the last note
for the interval. To see all the notes, you can double-click on the
marker image and then click "View All Trading Notes". Displaying
multiple notes per bar is under consideration for future development.
The improved trading notes marker is now automatically added to charts
when a brokerage fill is received for the symbol in the chart. Similar
to the trading related annotation, fill and working order reference
lines, the trading notes marker will now automatically mark the bars
where buys and sells have occurred.
See the video at
http://www.screencast.com/t/NTA5ZDVkZG for a demonstration.
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DTN Historical Data
Compressed Downloading
Investor/RT 10.3 support compressed downloading of historical
data from DTN IQFEED and DTN MA users. Typically, the compressed data
sent by the DTN historical servers reduces bandwidth requirements by 50%
or more. Historical download times are reduced and the reduced bandwidth
improves performance of data reception for real-time data.
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Multiple
Selections from Selection List Windows
Click the Open Chart button on the main toolbar and a window
appears listing all of your chart names. This window is called a
selection list window. You can select any item in the list and click
Apply to perform the selected action (open the chart) then select
another item and Apply. This one-at-a-time select and Apply is no longer
necessary when you wish to open several charts in the presented list. In
version 10.3.4 you will notice that the selection list window title
reads: Select a Chart (1 or more). You can select individual items in
the list by clicking on them. Each time you click on an item, that item
becomes the only selected item. You can select a range of consecutive
items in the list by clicking on the first item in the range and
SHIFT-clicking on the ending item in the range. You can extend the
current selection to include non-adjacent items by CTRL-clicking on any
additional items. Once the multiple items you want are highlighted
(selected), click Apply or OK to perform the associated action, in this
case opening all the charts you have selected. Look for the (1 or more)
text in the window title when presented with a list of choice in a
selection list window. This is your cue that you can perform the action
in question on multiple items with one click of Apply or OK. For
example, multiple selections are available in chart windows when you use
the popup menu to delete one or more elements from the chart.
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Miscellaneous 10.3
Fixes and Improvements
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The Plugin Indicator now supports V# variables as parameters. For
example, the InvestorRT plug-in is programmed to accept two whole
numbers as moving average periods, e.g. 10,20. You can now setup the
parameters using %RTL tokens, e.g. %V#22,%V#23. When the plugin is
calculated, the values of V#22 and V#23 for the associated symbol will
be passed to the plugin instead. This enhancement means that plugin
indicators, including all the Jurik proprietary indicators, may now be
backtested via the optimization features of the Investor/RT trading
system tools to find optimum values for the periods.
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Trading Notes import is now supported via the File: Import: Definition
File or File: Import: Clipboard command. Trading note definition files
look like this:
BEGIN Investor/RT TRADING NOTE DEFINITION
<ticker>,<timestamp><note>
<ticker>,<timestamp><note>
END Investor/RT TRADING NOTE DEFINITION
Each line between the BEGIN and END lines must contain a recognized
symbol being followed by Investor/RT, followed by a date in the form mm/dd/yyyy
optionally followed by a space an the time in hh:mm:ss form. Seconds (ss)
are optional. The <note> is any text up to 255 characters long. Ticker,
timestamp and note can be comma or tab separated. Trading notes,
imported this way from external sources, can be viewed in the Trading
Notes window in Investor/RT or you may add a Trading Notes Marker
indicator to a chart and Investor/RT will mark the bars that have
associated trading notes. When the mouse pointer hovers over a marker in
the chart, the text of the associated trading note appears in the main
toolbar message area.
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Custom Columns can be setup to show numeric values as percentages by
checking the Show Value as a Percentage check box in the Format tab of
the custom column setup window. When checked, the result value of the
custom column is multiplied by 100 and shown with a percent sign suffix
using the user specified display format. For example a custom column
setup to show as percentage having a display format of 99.99 whose
result is 0.1234 will display this value in the quotepage cell as
12.34%.
In a related improvement, when editing V# variables in a quotepage a
numeric value with a trailing percent sign will be divided by 100 when
storing the edited the value. For example if you edit 12.34% where a
custom column is showing a V# variable's value, the actual value of the
V# variable being edited is .1234. If you then edit the value to 12.99%
and press tab or enter, Investor/RT will adjust the V# variable to
0.1299. In other words, the % suffix indicates that the internal value
has been multiplied by 100 to display the result as a percentage.
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The File: Reconfigure menu item has been renamed File: Configure Data
Source/Brokerage. The Configure menu item is now present in the data
source specific menu adjacent to the Help Menu, and is present in the
menu that pops up when you click on the Heartbeat icon on the main
toolbar. The Configure window has been simplified, eliminating rarely
used database location setups. Users can change database location using
Setup: Preferences: Database, or add AllowDBLocConfigure=true to the
configuration file to enable the database location setups in the
Configure window as they were in version 10.2 and earlier.
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Renaming custom columns no longer impacts the association of the newly
renamed column with the quotepages in which it resides.
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When importing text files containing historical data, current quotes or
other data, fields in each line of data can be separated by either
commas, tabs, or semicolons.
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Investor/RT users of the OS X version can now utilize the Archive
Database utility. This utility makes a compressed archive of the data
files in the data_f folder. These compact archives can be used as
secondary backups and can also be emailed to support when
troubleshooting unique setup related issues that are difficult to
replicate without a comprehensive picture of your Investor/RT workspace.
To archive your database, use the Control Menu (Control/Database
Utiltiies/Archive Database), or use the Database Wizard (Command-U) then
click the Archive Database button.
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When importing chart definitions containing indicator presets,
Investor/RT will not replace existing presets having the same name as
those being imported. This precaution prevents changing of presets
unknowingly when importing charts exported by other users. For example,
Signal Actions and Trading Order setup are stored as presets so the
default behavior is protective of existing setups of these kinds. A
configuration variable has been added for those who want presets to be
updated when importing chart definition. This may be useful to a client
who is importing his own definitons created on another machine for
example. Use File: Open: Configuration File and add a new line:
OnImportReplacePresets=true; then press Ctrl-S to save the configure.txt
file. Remove this line to return Investor/RT to the default behavior.
When importing presets, the message log will show a message for each
preset added or updated.
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Fixed issues that was causing
QuoteBoard lines to disappear during first minute of a new bar for certain
charts.
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Fix to ensure that view period
is retained when switching between tick- and time-based periodicities.
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Fix to Profile Indicator
Hollogram drawing option that was causing a random vertical line to get
drawn in certain situations.
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Fixed Volume Breakdown to enable
Custom Indicator to be used as an embedded indicator when "Statistic: Indicator"
was chosen.
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Changed how the auto-scaling
handles zero-slope trendlines. Only considers them if the start of the
trendline is in view. This prevents old trendlines from obscuring the
current auto-scaling.
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Fixed an issue with the
"Multi-Link Periodicity" purpose of Button Indicator that was causing
problems with multi-linked charts which involved the Profile Indicator (and
thus invisible 1-minute bars)
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Fixed date-only vertical
reference lines to allow them to draw into the future.
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Esc key no longer dismisses
chart windows. Use Shift-Esc to dismiss a chart window.
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