What's New in Version 10.2 Candidate 3
Version 10.2 Candidate 3 is available for downloading at:
New in 10.2 Candidate 3, Released June 7, 2010
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Volume
Breakdown and TPO Indicator Efficiency in RTL
The Volume Breakdown and TPO Indicators require seeing and processing
each tick to retain accuracy. For this reason, any RTL item
(custom indicator or signal marker) within a chart which involves VB or
TPO has been forced to recalculate every 1 tick in previous versions.
This works fine as long as VB or TPO is used alone and is not combined
with other less efficient settings or tokens. However, many users
do wish to combine these tokens (VB & TPO) with other logic. These
combinations in the past have caused some serious problems for users,
primarily causing the program to run behind due to the indicator
calculating too frequently and taking too long to compute each time.
To solve this problem, these RTL objects that contain VB or TPO now
honor the recalculation period that the user provides and does not force
"every 1 tick" recalc. In order for VB and TPO to continue to
provide accurate results, these components are added invisibly to the
chart. These invisible VB and TPO indicators recalculate
efficiently every tick. The RTL object simply grabs the the array
of values from these invisible indicators each time it does recalculate
and uses these update/accurate values. This change really opens
the door for users to combine the various results available to both the
VB and TPO indicators with other logic to create more robust and complex
signals and custom indicators.
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New Volume Price Statistics Results: Delta Above/Below Midpoint
Two new result options were added to the Price Statistics Indicator
Delta Above Midpoint and Delta Below Midpoint. These results
provide the user with the delta of all trading that occurred at prices
above or below the midpoint of each bar. The midpoint of each bar
is defined as being the price halfway between the high and low of the
bars.
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Profile
Indicator: New Results: Buy and Sell Volume
The Profile Indicator has been enhanced to add new result options.
In addition to "Price and Time" and "Price and Volume", the two options
"Price and Buy Volume" and "Price and Sell Volume" are available.
When the user chooses "Price and Buy Volume", the profile plots the
amount of buy volume (volume traded at ask price) that traded at each
price. Similarly, when the user chooses "Price and Sell Volume",
the profile plots the amount of sell volume (volume traded at bid price)
that traded at each price level.
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Profile Indicator: New
Shading Results
The Profile Indicator has now been enhanced with 11 new shading options.
A new listbox now appears when the user setups up the profile indicator
with "Draw As: Volume Shading". These include Red, Green, Blue,
Silver, Gold, Turquoise, Purple, Burgundy, Forest, Navy, Peak/Valley.
The first 10 options color the each price a darker shade of the
specified color based on the amount of relative volume traded at that
price. The last option, Peak/Valley, colors each price a shade of
red or green based on whether the price is closer to a peak (green) or a
valley (red).
Along the same lines, the border color used to paint the border of the
profile histograms was adjusted. In the past, the color specified
for the candle border color of the chart was used. This has been
changed to simply use a color that is slightly darker than the color
being used to paint the price (based on relative volume of that price).
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Profile Indicator:
"Ignore First Session"
The Profile Indicator was enhanced with a new "Ignore First Session"
checkbox which only appears when the "Time Per Profile" is set to
"Custom: 3 Sessions". This profile duration option is commonly
used to create split session profiles of the overnight session and the
day session. As a specific example many users have a chart of the
ES set to session 31, and they use a "3 Sessions" setting along with
Period 1 of 1020 minutes and Period 2 = 405 minutes. This results
in one profile for the overnight period (which is 1020 minutes in
duration) and another for the day session (which is 405 minutes in
duration). However, a number of users have expressed interest for
an option which ignores the overnight session altogether, and provides
just the day session profile on the session 31 chart, and extends the
naked POCs, Highs, Lows, etc, while ignoring the overnight data
altogether. In other words, do not terminate a naked high with
overnight data, only terminate it if touched by day session bars.
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New "Locked" Option for
Reference Lines
The Horizontal Reference Line indicator has been enhanced with a
"Locked" option. When this option is checked, the user is unable
to draw the reference line up or down, and unable to delete the
reference line by selecting it and pressing the delete key on the
keyboard. It essentially locks it into place on the chart and
prevents accidental deletion or dragging of the line due to mouse clicks
or keyboard strokes. This will be common for users who want to add
reference lines at various levels in indicator panes and lock them into
place. The user must go into the reference line preferences and
uncheck the "Locked" checkbox if they want to delete or drag the line to
a different price. The user can however modify the price within
the preferences window even when locked.
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"Label Current
Value" Honors Scale Font Size
Each indicator has an option to "Label Current Value" in the scale.
The font size of these labels now honors the font size specified for the
vertical scale. The vertical scale font size can be set to small,
medium, or large, by double-clicking in the vertical scale to bring up
the vertical scale settings. If the user would rather keep the
current value labels small regardless of scale font size, they may open
the configuration file by choosing "File: Open: Configuration File" from
the main menu and entering the following line:
LargePriceLabels=false
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Automation of "Load Volume
at Price"
A number of indicator require the underlying bars/instrument to be setup
with "Load Volume at Price" checked order to compute an accurate result.
These indicators include Volume Breakdown, Profile Indicator, and Volume
Price Statistics, among others. In the past, the user would be
required to turn on this option manually in order to result in these
indicators producing valid results. However, in version 10.2
Candidate 3 and later, Investor/RT detects the situation where one of
these indicators has been added to a chart that does not have "Load
Volume at Price" turned on, and turns it on automatically so the data
will be available to the indicators calculations. The user no
longer needs to be concerned with whether this option as been turned on.
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Database
Compression and Smart Tick Compression
The Database Compression feature has been enhanced to apply Smart
Compression of Tick Data when compressing the Intra-day Database, if
Smart Compression option is enabled. Formerly, users with long term tick
data collections who enabled smart compression, would gain the benefits
of smart compression only on newly downloaded, newly imported, or
real-time collected ticks. If Smart Compression of tick data is enabled,
performing a Compress Database on the Intra-day database will now
compress the entire tick data collection for all symbols in one step.
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RTL Improvement for PCHG() and CHG() Functions
A new numeric constant token ALLDATA has been added to the RTL
language. It can be used in conjunction with the PCHG (percent change)
and CHG (change) functions to produce a custom indicator of changes or %
changes since the beginning of the time series. The RTL formula
PCHG(CL,5) produces a moving line showing the % change in price over the
preceding 5 periods. PCHG(CL, ALLDATA) produces a line showing the %
change in price since the beginning of the entire time series of data.
When this CI is added to a chart, the plot is identical to the line you
would see if you were charting the underlying instrument as a % Change
Line (with Price set to Close). If you save the formula PCHG(CL, ALLDATA)
as a custom indicator named "Percent Change" and you use Setup:
Preferences: Prices, Custom to set Percent Change as one of the eight
"Custom Price" types, you can add technical indicators to the chart that
do analysis on this Percent Change line. Simply choose the Custom Price
"Percent Change" in any of various indicators that support price type.
Moving Averages, Keltner Bands, and scores of other indicators can be
applied to such custom price types. You can also apply other indicators
to the PCHG or CHG function easily in RTL to form compound custom
indicators. For example the RTL formula RAWK(PCHG(CL, ALLDATA)) produces
a RawK stochastic line of the % change in price since the beginning of
the time series.
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Mixing Market Data Feed and a
Brokerage Feed
In version 10.1.4 and earlier 10.x versions, brokerage
integration features are available when a brokerage data feed is the
market data feed. Users with brokerage accounts with supported brokerage
feeds who use a non-broker data feed (DTN IQFEED or eSignal) can now
setup Investor/RT 10.2 in a "dual feed" mode where market data is
supplied by the market data vendor while brokerage actions are performed
with the brokerage feed. At present, any of three brokerage feeds
(Interactive Brokers, Rithmic, or Zen-Fire) can be used by DTN IQFEED or
eSignal subscribers. This capability is new and experimental in the 10.2
Beta testing version. It is recommended that paper trading/simulated
demo brokerage accounts be used to test these new capabilities. During
the beta testing period, the mixed market data / brokerage feed
capability is "off" by default. To gain access to this feature, it must
first be enabled by setting a configuration file variable. Do File:
Open: Configuration File and add a line at the bottom of the file that
reads:
AdditionalBrokerageFeed=true;
Then press Ctrl-S (or do File: Save: Save) to save the configure.txt
file. Then, you can go to File: Reconfigure. DTN IQFEED and eSignal
users will see choices for the supported brokerage destinations. Select
your brokerage destination from the list and click the Reconfigure
button. Next check the feed setups by choosing the Setup menu item in
the data feed menu. You can also access the Setup menu item by clicking
on the heartbeat icon on the main toolbar. Notice that both market data
feed preferences and brokerage feed preferences windows will open. Setup
both windows and click OK. Then start the feed. Investor/RT will first
connect to the market data source and then establish a connection to the
brokerage feed. You can point your mouse at the main toolbar heartbeat
icon and, assuming button help is enabled, see a text tip indicating
whether both feeds are active. If you have your market data feed already
running when you reconfigure to a brokerage destination, Investor/RT
will automatically connect to the brokerage. This connection attempt may
fail if your login id and password are not setup for example. After
enter the setup information, stop and start the feed again.
Thereafter, any brokerage trading orders submissions will be done via
the brokerage feed, while streaming market data flows as it normally
does from DTN IQFEED or eSignal. Since two distinctly different data
feeds are in use, your instruments must be setup with the proper "Broker
Alias" symbol. For example, trading through Interactive Brokers using
DTN IQFEED as the market data feed, the symbol @ES# or @ESM0 will be the
instrument you see in your charts. You must setup @ES# with a broker
alias of ESM0 so that trading orders initiated on @ES# will convey the
proper symbol to IB. The @ES# symbol also must be setup with all the
required IB settings: the expiration date, currency, underlying, and
override exchange code must meet IB requirements for identifying the
symbol when trading orders are submitted.
You may return to File: Reconfigure or use the Trading Order Desk at any
time to set the brokerage destination back to the Trading Simulator. To
disable further use of dual feeds, do File: Open: Configuration File and
eliminate the AdditionalBrokerageFeed=true line or simply change true to
false and Ctrl-S to save the file. Quit and startup Investor/RT again.
Thereafter, only the market data feed will be used by the software.
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Automatic Historical
Data for New Symbols
When new symbols are added to Investor/RT, the software now
auto-detects when the new symbol starts feeding real-time data.
Reception of data validates that the symbol is valid, so a full
complement of historical data (daily, one-minute, and tick data) is
requested preemptively, before there is a request for charting. As a
result, after adding a new symbol and then opening a chart on it, you
will often be greeted with a complete chart instantly; there is no need
to initiate a download manually. This preemptive downloading of
historical data pertains to all methods of adding new symbols: importing
symbols or chart defintions, using the Setup: Instruments window, or
simply typing a new symbol into the chart setup wizard or into a
quotepage ticker cell. The data feed must be active for this to occur.
If you add several new symbols while Investor/RT is not connected to the
data feed, the preemptive downloading will be initiated when you start
the feed later. If you enter a new symbol that is invalid, then there
will be no data flow and no historical data either. If you correct the
symbol or change one or more of its properties (exchange, expiration
date, etc) and data then begins to flow, the preemptive downloading will
be initiated for the new symbol when the first valid quote or trade
report is received by Investor/RT. Users of brokerage data sources who
use DTN MA for historical backfill will also benefit from this
improvement so long as the DTN Alias Symbol is setup correctly. For most
futures contracts and for all equities, adding a new symbol
automatically creates the proper DTN alias symbol. When DTN MA is in use
and the addition of a new symbol does not yield any historical data, the
problem is likely to be the DTN Alias symbol is incorrect. Fix the alias
and perform a Full Download manually to remedy (right-click in a chart
and choose Download Data: Full Data).
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Custom Instrument Setup
Improvements
The Setup: Custom Instruments window has been improved to allow
the user to adjust the symbol selector at the left to show only the
symbols in a particular quotepage. Click the "+" button at the upper
right corner of the symbol select and choose "Show Quotepage..." from
the ensuing popup menu. A list of quotepage names will appear. Pick one
and click OK. When forming SUM type custom instruments you may now do an
"Add All" operation to add all the symbols currently listed in the
symbol selector to the new custom instrument. The Add All is performed
by holding down the SHIFT key while clicking the --> (Add) button.
Similarly you can clear the list of components currently listed on the
right side by holding down the SHIFT key and clicking the <-- (Remove)
button. Using these new capabilities, you can form a new custom
instrument SUM of all the symbols in some quotepage very quickly with a
few mouse clicks. First use the + button to display the quotepage's
symbols on the left, then Shift-Click on --> to add them all as
components. The software now detects when an attempt is made to add a
component with identical settings for symbol, price and multiplier and
rejects any addition that would result in a duplicate in the list on the
right with an explanatory message.
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Date Format Preference
The display of dates throughout Investor/RT has historically been
done as month/day/year or month/day. Version 10.2 introduces a user
selectable date format preference, see Setup: Preferences: General.
Initially, there are three date formats available. The default is mm/dd/yyyy,
i.e. dates are shown as in the prior versions in month/day order, e.g.
5/17/2010. Alternatively, dd-MMM-yy format will show dates in day-month
form, e.g. 17-May or 29-Sep-10. A third choice is MMM dd, yyyy, which
shows the dates in this form: Apr 19, 2010 or Apr 19. Months are always
abbreviated with 3 letters. In some contexts where space is limited,
e.g. in the time scale of a chart, you may see a date shown as 3Aug or
Sep22. In rare instances where displaying the month abbreviation is not
possible, Investor/RT will display the only numbers for day and month.
You may see this, for example, the multi-pane chart time scale. If you
have choosen the dd-MMM-yy form as your preferred fromat, a date of
4-May will be shown as 4-5. Generally you will a progression of dates,
e.g. 3-5, 4-5, 5-5, 6-5 on the scale so it will be clear that the first
number is the day. It is anticipated that those who choose the dd-MMM
format will be international clients accustomed to viewing dates as dd/mm/yyyy
anyway.
When historical data is exported by Investor/RT, the date is always
expressed as mm/dd/yyyy as this is the expected date format when
importing data. To revise the date format setting, go to Setup:
Preferences: General and choose the Date Format you prefer from the menu
button. As you revise the format, a sample date/time is shown to the
right. The selected format goes into effect globally when you click
Apply or OK.
Note that this setting only pertains to displayed dates. There are
various date entry "controls" in Investor/RT that were developed to
accept the entry of a date/time in the form: mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss. When
using date entry controls, enter the month first, regardless of your
date format preference.
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Profile Indicator Enhancements
The Profile Indicator has been enhanced with several new options.
In addition to the options of "Price and Time" or "Price and Volume",
the user now has the option to base the profile on "Price and Buy
Volume" or "Price and Sell Volume". When "Price and Buy Volume" is
chosen, the profile will represent all volume of trades that occurred at
or above the offer. When "Price and Sell Volume" is chosen, the profile
will represent all volume of trades that occurred at or below the bid.
When the user chooses to "Draw As...Volume Profile", nine new colors are
now available in addition to the navy color that has been the default in
previous versions. The new choices include Red, Green, Blue, Silver,
Gold, Turquoise, Purple, Burgundy, Forest, and Navy.
Split Session profiles may now be setup so the overnight session is
ignored completely and only the day session is drawn. In addition, any
naked lines will only consider the day session data and will not be
terminated if touched by a bar during the overnight session. In order to
set this up, choose "Custom: 3 Sessions" as the "Time Per Profile".
Specify a Period 1 (under "Per 1" label) equal to the number of minutes
in overnight session (commonly 1020 for session 31). Specify a Period 2
(to right of "Per 2" label) equal to the number of minutes in the day
session (commonly 405 for session 31). Last, check the new checkbox
"Ignore First Session" in the checkbox just below the "Time Per Profile"
area. This option allows users to see the overnight data without it
affecting their day session profiles and naked lines.
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RTL Improvement
for PCHG() and CHG() Functions
A new numeric constant token ALLDATA has been added to the RTL language.
It can be used in conjunction with the PCHG (percent change) and CHG
(change) functions to produce a custom indicator of changes or % changes
since the beginning of the time series. The RTL formula PCHG(CL,5)
produces a moving line showing the % change in price over the preceding
5 periods. PCHG(CL, ALLDATA) produces a line showing the % change in
price since the beginning of the entire time series of data. When this
CI is added to a chart, the plot is identical to the line you would see
if you were charting the underlying instrument as a % Change Line (with
Price set to Close). If you save the formula PCHG(CL, ALLDATA) as a
custom indicator named "Percent Change" and you use Setup: Preferences:
Prices, Custom to set Percent Change as one of the eight "Custom Price"
types, you can add technical indicators to the chart that do analysis on
this Percent Change line. Simply choose the Custom Price "Percent
Change" in any of various indicators that support price type. Moving
Averages, Keltner Bands, and scores of other indicators can be applied
to such custom price types. You can also apply other indicators to the
PCHG or CHG function easily in RTL to form compound custom indicators.
For example the RTL formula RAWK(PCHG(CL, ALLDATA)) produces a RawK
stochastic line of the % change in price since the beginning of the time
series.
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Mixing Market
Data Feed and a Brokerage Feed
In version 10.1.4 and earlier 10.x versions, brokerage
integration features are available when a brokerage data feed is the
market data feed. Users with brokerage accounts with supported brokerage
feeds who use a non-broker data feed (DTN IQFEED or eSignal) can now
setup Investor/RT 10.2 in a "dual feed" mode where market data is
supplied by the market data vendor while brokerage actions are performed
with the brokerage feed. At present, any of three brokerage feeds
(Interactive Brokers, Rithmic, or Zen-Fire) can be used by DTN IQFEED or
eSignal subscribers. This capability is new and experimental in the 10.2
Beta testing version. It is recommended that paper trading/simulated
demo brokerage accounts be used to test these new capabilities. During
the beta testing period, the mixed market data / brokerage feed
capability is "off" by default. To gain access to this feature, it must
first be enabled by setting a configuration file variable. Do File:
Open: Configuration File and add a line at the bottom of the file that
reads:
AdditionalBrokerageFeed=true;
Then press Ctrl-S (or do File: Save: Save) to save the configure.txt
file. Then, you can go to File: Reconfigure. DTN IQFEED and eSignal
users will see choices for the supported brokerage destinations. Select
your brokerage destination from the list and click the Reconfigure
button. Next check the feed setups by choosing the Setup menu item in
the data feed menu. You can also access the Setup menu item by clicking
on the heartbeat icon on the main toolbar. Notice that both market data
feed preferences and brokerage feed preferences windows will open. Setup
both windows and click OK. Then start the feed. Investor/RT will first
connect to the market data source and then establish a connection to the
brokerage feed. You can point your mouse at the main toolbar heartbeat
icon and, assuming button help is enabled, see a text tip indicating
whether both feeds are active. If you have your market data feed already
running when you reconfigure to a brokerage destination, Investor/RT
will automatically connect to the brokerage. This connection attempt may
fail if your login id and password are not setup for example. After
enter the setup information, stop and start the feed again.
Thereafter, any brokerage trading orders submissions will be done via
the brokerage feed, while streaming market data flows as it normally
does from DTN IQFEED or eSignal. Since two distinctly different data
feeds are in use, your instruments must be setup with the proper "Broker
Alias" symbol. For example, trading through Interactive Brokers using
DTN IQFEED as the market data feed, the symbol @ES# or @ESM0 will be the
instrument you see in your charts. You must setup @ES# with a broker
alias of ESM0 so that trading orders initiated on @ES# will convey the
proper symbol to IB. The @ES# symbol also must be setup with all the
required IB settings: the expiration date, currency, underlying, and
override exchange code must meet IB requirements for identifying the
symbol when trading orders are submitted.
You may return to File: Reconfigure or use the Trading Order Desk at any
time to set the brokerage destination back to the Trading Simulator. To
disable further use of dual feeds, do File: Open: Configuration File and
eliminate the AdditionalBrokerageFeed=true line or simply change true to
false and Ctrl-S to save the file. Quit and startup Investor/RT again.
Thereafter, only the market data feed will be used by the software.
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Main Toolbar Customization
The main toolbar may now be customized to include
just the buttons of interest. In addition, up to eight user-customizable
shortcut buttons may be added to the main toolbar if desired. Each color
coded shortcut button can be assigned to a keyboard shortcut that has
been setup in the Setup: Preferences: Keyboard Shortcuts window. Thus,
shortcut buttons on the main toolbar can run schedules, open particular
charts or layouts, execute trading orders, add indicators to the front
chart, etc. To customize the main toolbar, choose Setup: Preferences:
Main Toolbar. If the main toolbar is visible you may right-click in its
message area and choose Main Toolbar-->Button Setup. See the Video
Library section of the Linn Software web site for a video tutorial on
customizing the main toolbar.
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Math Lines Indicator
Under construction. Details coming soon.
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Improved Drawing of Time Bars
Investor/RT users are able to create pseudo-daily bars using only the
day session data by creating a chart assigned to session 2 (day session)
with 405 minute bars. Since there are 405 minutes in the day
session 2, each bar will represent a full sessions activity, but is
limited to only the day session. When this method is applied the
horizontal scale will now draw as if the chart is a daily chart,
resulting in the display of much more meaningful labels and lines on
month boundaries.
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Volume Breakdown
Efficiency Improvement
Due to the nature of the Volume Breakdown Indicator (VB) calculations,
it is required to see and recalculate on every tick or trade. In
general, VB recalculates very quickly and efficiency.
However, certain combinations of settings, including the application of
Statistics or Indicators within the VB preferences, can reduce the
efficiency of this calculation. In version 10.2, VB was made much
more efficient on this front, limiting the calculations of the statistic
or indicator portion of the VB to every 1 second while still processing
every tick into the underlying data of the indicator. Heavy users
of the VB indicator, which use VB in this fashion, should see a big
boost in performance in 10.2.
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Profile Indicator
Efficiency Improvements
The Profile Indicator, when setup to display longer term composite
profiles, can take longer than most indicators to process the extended
data using the method involved to divide volume and time among prices.
In addition, since these composite profiles are profiling such an
extended period of time, it's not as important to recalculate the
Profile Indicator frequently. Some additional measures have been
put in place to keep the Profile Indicator from recalculating too
frequently.
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Market Profile Playback
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When operating the playback that is built into the Market Profile charts
(buttons at bottom of Info Box), the user now has two new convenient
shortcuts. The + button is used to step forward one increment
(price change, TPO, etc) based on the settings the user has provided for
playback in the Options tab of the Market Profile preferences.
However, if the user shift-clicks on the + button, the chart will
advance to the first letter of the next session. This allows users
to quickly skip forward to the start of a day of interest. In
addition, the user can Ctrl-Shift-click on that + button to advance to
the first TPO of the current (last) session. This allows the user
to quickly advance to the current session or the session that just
completed and playback the most recent profile.
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Volume Price Statistics:
New Results
Several New Results were added to the Volume Price Statistics Indicator.
The user can now access the following information: Volume Above or
Below the Volume POC, Delta Above or Below the Volume POC, Buy Volume
Above or Below the Volume POC, and Sell Volume Above or Below the Volume
POC.
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Time and Sales: New Options
The Time and Sales window was enhanced with two new options.
First, the user can now check the "Aggregate Similar Ticks (Live)"
checkbox and then all live ticks that trade at the same price, bid, and
ask, will all aggregate on a single line. The volume of that
line/entry will continue to build while price continues to trade at the
same price, bid price, and ask price. In addition, a "Color Basis"
entry was added with options of "Bid/Ask" or "Up/Down". Prior to
version 10.2, each row in the Time and Sales window was always colored
based on the price of the trade relative to the price of the bid and
ask. If the price traded at or above the ask, the row was given
the Buy Color. If it traded at or below the bid, it was given the
Sell Color. In version 10.2, the user still has the Bid/Ask
coloring option, but also has a new "Up/Down" option. The Up/Down
color basis will paint rows in the Buy Color for all trades that follow
an up tick in price. The Sell Color will be used to paint trades
that follow a down tick in price.
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Miscellaneous 10.2
Fixes and Improvements
A long standing bug was causing multi-paned charts that were setup with
"Look Ahead Bars" to draw without the look ahead period when the chart
updated in real-time. This has been corrected. While the "Right Margin"
chart setting is now the recommended method for specifying white-space
to the right of the last bar, the look ahead bars alternative may be
desirable for those who wish to see trendlines or regression lines
extended some fixed number of bars into the future to observe where the
line extension intersects the vertical price axis.
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Duplicating a multi-paned chart while one or more indicators were
selected was producing a fatal error. This has been corrected. The
selection is released before the chart is duplicated.
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The Zig-Zag indicator was producing a fatal error if the turning points
were setup to show total delta and there was no tick data on file to
compute the delta values. This has been corrected.
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RTL formulas using WCCI indicator token were not working properly when
the WCCI token was setup to use the CCI Turbo method. This has been
corrected.
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A bug was fixed in the Database Wizard (Alt-U Window). The Compress
Before Backup checkbox was not being considered properly. This is fixed
now so that checking this box runs all of the checkmarked compressions
marked in the Database Compression section of the wizard when you use
the wizard's Backup Database button. A Windows 7/Vista specific bug was
fixed to permit compression of Trading Notes. Windows 7/Vista was
blocking this utility because of a disk write permissions issue.
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Two additional keyboard shortcuts were added under the "Open" Action.
Open Object Editor and Open Market Profile Chart are now eligible for
function key shortcuts in Setup: Preferences: Keyboard Shortcuts. The
Open Chart keyboard shortcut enable the specfication of a particular
chart name to open. Open Market Profile Chart shortcut will show a list
of available Market Profile chart names for selection at the time you
invoke the shortcut.
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A new Better Volume letter coloring option was added to the
Market Profile charts.
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The periods of the Woodies CCI Indicator were made optimizable (will
accept User Variables, V#s).
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A new popup menu item was added to the Market Profile chart popup menu
titled "Undo Last Split/Merge". This option will remove the last
split or merge that the user applied to a chart while retaining any
prior splitting or merging.
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A new checkbox was added to the Gann Angles Indicator preferences titled
"Show Inside Angles Only". When this checkbox is checked, only the
lines below the primarily trendline will be shown when the trendline is
upsloping, and only the lines above the primary trendline will be shown
when the trendline is downsloping. In the past, all lines were
shown unconditionally. In addition, another angle entry option was
added so users may also draw the x 16 angle.
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Fixed the user of left/right arrow keys for the Profile Indicator on
tick-based periodicities to work properly and move the profile right or
left. Shift left/right adjusts the left edge of profile while
Ctrl-left/right adjusts the right edge.
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The Profile Indicator export data function now provides two new rows at
the bottom which both average and total each column. The exported
data can be accessed by right-clicking on the dotted rectangle that
borders the profile (or the right-most profile if multiple are present)
and choosing "Export Data". In addition, a new column was added
which provides a weighted TPO count. This weighted TPO count takes
the TPOs at each price and multiplies them by a +1 if the delta of that
price is positive or -1 if the delta of that price is negative.
These weighted TPO values are also summed and averaged in new rows at
the bottom.
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Version 10.2 checks the database backup location at startup to determine
whether the backup_f folder in the current data_f (database) folder is
setup as the backup location. This the recommended setting for most
users. If the backup s specified as some other location, a prompt will
appear at startup alerting you to this fact and requesting permission to
change to the default backup location. Click OK to reset the backup
location to the backup_f folder in the current data_f folder, click
"Setup" to review the backup preferences, or click "Cancel" to do
nothing. If you have some reason for specifying a non-standard backup
folder location, these prompting messages can be eliminated by setting a
configuration variable: CheckBackupLocAtStartup=false;
The checking for non-standard backup locations is aimed at preventing
accidental running of two instances of Investor/RT, both using the same
backup location. By using the recommended setting, each database data_f
folder will contain its own backup_f folder so there is no confusion
about which backup goes with which database.
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Version 10.2 adds efficiency measures when RTL objects in the chart
reference the VB or Profile Indicator. Investor/RT detects this usage
and automatically inserts a hidden VB and/or Profile Indicator into the
chart. This hidden indicator will efficiently track the real-time data
and keep the VB or Profile data up to date. The RTL objects within the
chart will then use the resident VB or Profile results directly instead
of having to compute them. This has a major positive impact in reducing
resources requireed for signals and custom indicators that relly on VB
or Profile analysis.
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Brokerage support for Interactive Brokers was improved in 10.2 to better
synchronize the Investor/RT Portfolio with the prior trade executions
reported by IB to Investor/RT when connecting. All working orders and
all previous fills for the day will now appear automatically in the
Order Status window, and the net position in the portfolio will match
that shown in TWS as it should.
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