Investor/RT 10.5 Beta 6
Version 10.5 Beta 6 is available for downloading below.
10.5 Beta 6, Released February 2, 2012
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Beta 6 (February 2, 2012)
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Continued Polish of 10.5
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Stochastic RSI Option Added to
Stochastic Indicator
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Beta 5 (February 1, 2012)
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New Options for Gann Angles (Arc,
Projections)
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Beta 4 (January 24, 2012)
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Minor polish and fixes to new
functionality in 10.5
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Beta 3 (January 20, 2012)
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Minor polish and fixes to new
functionality in 10.5
Notice: If after upgrading, you notice duplicate sets of bars
such as this, simply save, close, and
reopen the chart. This should fix the problem permanently.
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Beta 2 (January 18, 2012)
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Minor polish and fixes to new
functionality in 10.5
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Beta 1 (January 13, 2012)
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New Indicator: Multiple Price Highlighter
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eSignal
Extended Historical Data Now Supported
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Range, Change, Renko Periodicity Expressed in Tick Increment Units
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Multi-Session Intraday Periodicity
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VWAP Enhancements
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Extended Naked
Fractals
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Retracement Bands
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New
Options for Quoteboard Indicator
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Profile
Indicator Enhancements
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Developing VPOC for Composite Profiles
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Pivot
Point "Locked" Option Added
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New
Zig Zag Oscillator Result Options
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Layered Periodicities: Three Line Break, Point and Figure, Heiken
Ashi, Average Bars
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Align
With Master- Matching Instruments
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Export Trading Notes
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Floating Window Positioning Improvement
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Multi-Link Chart Scrolling and Time Synchronization
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Developing
VPOC Option for Profile Indicator
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Current Price Label Updating During Closed Session
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Miscellaneous 10.5 Fixes and Improvements
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New
Indicator: Multiple Price Highlighter. The
Multiple Price Highlighter Indicator (MPH) is designed to identify
multiple prices within any given bar that present various volume-based
characteristics. For example, the user many choose to identify the
prices in each bar for which volume traded over 1000 contracts by
specifying "Highlight Prices With: Volume: Above X: X = 1000.
Alternatively, users can identify prices with volume Below X, Highest X
Prices, Lowest X Prices, Highest X% of Prices, and Lowest X% of Prices.
When user specifies "Highest X Prices" with X = 3 for instance, 3 prices
will be highlighted in each bar which represent the 3 prices in the bar
with the highest volume.
User may also choose to highlight bars with the Keppler Volume Tracker (KVT).
This indicator was developed by Dr. John Keppler. The logic behind this
indicator is proprietary but is designed to identify relative high
volume prices taking into consideration the time of day. The two KVT
Multipliers default to 10 and 20 and are used to adjust the sensitivity
of KVT. The number of days specified tells KVT how far to consider data
when determining relatively high volume. The user must ensure that the
view period of the chart is greater than the number of days specified
and that data is present for more than that number of days.
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eSignal
Extended Historical Data Now Supported.
eSignal users who have signed up for eSignal's extended historical data
can now access longer term tick data and one minute interval data.
eSignal reports that the extended service allows users to access 12
years of minute-based bar data for North American equities and indexes,
and 2 years of North American, European and Asian futures, Forex and
treasuries. The new extended historical data will be especially helpful
to back testers who require large amounts of historical data to track
the performance of their strategies across all types of market patterns
and
conditions.
Tick data, normally limited to the most recent 10 trading days, is now
available for the last 40 trading days. Minute interval data, normally
limited to the last 120 trading days is now available for 2+ years back.
To support longer term downloading of extended historical data,
Investor/RT will download and import the data in incremental segments,
the most recent data arriving first and subsequent segments bringing in
increasingly older data. A 30 day tick download may result in say 10
segments, the first arriving fairly quickly updating the chart(s) with
the most recent 3 days or so of ticks and the next 9 segments bring in
another 3 days of older ticks. This is an improvement over version 10.4
where Investor/RT would collect all the data for the entire download
before importing any of it and updating the charts. The charts will
fairly quickly reflect the most recent trading sessions and be usable
while additional segments of data arrive incrementally. A configuration
variable kConfigUL_eSignalChunks, set to 2 by default controls how much
data is downloaded before importing a segment. The setting of 2 allows
current and prior session tick data to be downloaded as a single
segment; double the setting to 4 to increase the segment size for
example. This will increase the time it takes to get the first segment
of a long term download, but will result in fewer segments overall as
the download proceeds.
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Range,
Change, Renko Periodicity Expressed in Tick Increment Units.
Investor/RT has long supported range bars, change bars, and Renko bars.
Each of these periodicities is specified along with a numeric price
range, or change amount, or box size in the case of Renko bars. The
numeric amount specified has heretofore been expressed as an absolute
amount, e.g. a 1.0 Range Bar periodicity for the ES futures represent a
range of 5 trading prices in the ES contract. Because ES trades in .25
increments each range bar will include all trading at 5 distinct prices
(the opening price of the bar plus 4 other prices above or below that
opening price. Changing a 1.0 Range Chart from ES to some other futures
contract that trades in .01 increments would produce range bars that
span 101 trading prices due to the smaller tick increment. This is
seldom the desired result.
In version 10.5 Range and Change amounts and Renko box size can be
expressed in terms of a whole number of trading prices for the
underlying future. The range and change amount is determined from the
tick increment of the futures, i.e. changing a chart from one type of
future to another will adjust the range amount automatically based on
the tick increment of the future. For the ES contract, for example, if
you specify a 5 tick range this means that each range bar will include
trades at 5 distinct prices and will therefore include a 1.0 amount of
price range. In general, if N is the tick range/change then the
corresponding amount of range change will be (N - 1) times the tick
increment of the future. If a future has display format 99.99 a tick
increment of .01 is implied, thus a 5 tick range or change bar will
include a price range of (5 - 1) times .01 which equals .04. Version
10.5 allows you to specify periodicity in absolute terms just as 10.4
does, by including a decimal in the periodicity entry. Using the
Periodicity selection window, if you choose Range Bars and specify 1.0
you get a price range per bar of 1.0. If you specify a whole number, say
5, as the range without the decimal point, Investor/RT will give you a 5
tick range bar, i.e. a range bar that includes 5 distinct prices of the
associated instrument. When upgrading to 10.5 all existing setups will
continue to be price value range/change/box size. For example an ES
chart might show 2.0 Price Range Per Bar in the Periodicity Window. You
can replace 2.0 with 9 to get the equivalent 2.0 range expressed in tick
prices, i.e. 9 distinct prices at .25 increments from the opening price
of each range bar.
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Multi-Session
Intraday Periodicity. In the Periodicity
window, the Time Per Bar option has long been used to specify some
number of minutes and seconds, the constant duration of each bar formed
from the underlying intra-day data. Time intervals have been limited to
a span of time of at most one 24 hour trading session, e.g. 405 minutes
for a 6.75 hour day session, or 1425 for a full overnight session (1440
minutes is 24 hours, less 15 minutes for inter-session break). In
version 10.5 when Time Per Bar is selected, a units menu button is
provided. Normally it will show Minutes : Seconds and the time interval
is specified in the usual way. The units button also includes choices
for days, weeks, months, quarters, and years. When one of these units is
chosen, Investor/RT will accept a whole number of units, e.g. 1 week, or
3 days, or 3 months, or 1 quarter. These time interval periodicities,
unlike normal daily, weekly, monthly charts in Investor/RT, will use
intraday data as the source for constructing fixed time interval bars.
The use of intra-day historical data to construct multi-session interval
bars makes it possible to employ full overnight session intra-day data
to construct say a weekly chart of just the day session hours.
Investor/RT will consider only the intra-day ticks and bars within the
day session hours when the chart calla for a day session override. A 1
day chart constructed from overnight session data will show the OHLCV
for the full trading session, override to the day session to then see
OHLCV bars for each day considering only the trading that occurred in
the day session hours.
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VWAP
Enhancements. The VWAP Indicator has been
enhanced to allow the user to automatically chart the weekly VWAP. In
the process of adding this option, several other custom VWAP durations
were all consolidated to a single listbox. These options include:
Weekly, Cumulative From Date/Time, Composite Average (All Data), First X
Minutes of Session and Last X Minutes of Session. With the new Weekly
VWAP options, users can now see the developing weekly VWAP historically
on their intraday charts. Also a "Time-Weighted" option has been added
to the VWAP Indicator. When this option is checked, the indicator will
give equal weighting to each price if each bar instead of using the
volume of each price. The Time-Weighting option is more of a TPO-based
approach similar to what is used in Market Profile charting.
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Extended Naked Fractals.
The Fractals Indicator identifies key relative highs and lows. A new
options has been added to the Fractal Indicator to allow users to extend
these naked highs and lows until they are touched by a future bar. The
user may specify the color, width, and style of these extension lines
with different color for the highs and lows. The user may also specify
whether to extend all fractals, the last x fractals, or all visible
fractals. The fractal indicator can also be added to indicator panes
such as the cumulative delta implementation of the Volume Breakdown
indicator. This new feature can help users identify divergence and
levels of divergence between price bars and indicator bars or values. A
check box was also added to the Fractal Indicator titled "Hide Fractal
Markers" which gives the user the ability to hide the markers while
showing the extended naked lines.
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Retracement
Bands. The Bands Indicator has a new
option for "Retracement Bands" with up to 12 retracement levels and
colors. Within the Bands Indicator is an option for "Compact Band"
style. The Compact Band draws a small band of user specified width along
the right edge of the chart between the values of two user-specified
custom indicators. The ability to specify the width of the band is also
new in 10.5. The indicators can identify key prices such as session high
and low, B high and low, previous session high and low, weekly high and
low, etc. When the compact band option is specified, a new "Retracement
Band" check box is presented. When checked, the user is then given the
option to specify up to 12 retracement levels, each with it's own color.
These retracement levels are specified in % retracement. A 100% band
would match the original band. A 150% band would extend the original
high and low by 50% of the range of the original levels. A 200% band
would be a full extension of the range in both direction. A 50% band
would draw a small line at the center of the range. Labels can be placed
over the compact band or in the scale providing either the retracement
level or price of the band. If multiple compact bands are added to the
same chart they will automatically be stacked side by side.
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New Options for Quoteboard Indicator. Two
new options have been added to the Quoteboard indicator. A "Hide
Quoteboard" check box has been added to allow the user to plot
lines/levels without the presence of the Quoteboard itself. A "Left
Align Labels" check box has been added to enable alignment of the labels
to the left edge of the label column of the Quoteboard. The color of the
Quoteboard text is also more aware of the background color of each row,
and now draws white text when the background color reach a certain
darkness instead of always printing black text.
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Profile
Indicator Enhancements. Several
enhancements were make to the Profile Indicator. Peak and Valley lines
can now be customized with color, width, and style. User may now specify
the width of time-based profiles in pixels. Peaks and Valleys are now
based on Time instead of Volume for time-based profiles.
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Developing VPOC for
Composite Profiles. Users may now plot the
developing VPOC using the Profile Indicator's RTL token "PROF". A new
result has been added to PROF titled "Developing VPOC". When this result
is selected, the developing VPOC is computed. When plotted, the result
is similar to the developing VPOC available to the TPO Indicator.
However, with this new PROF option, the user can access the developing
VPOC of any of the many durations available to the Profile Indicator
including daily, weekly, monthly, or even multi-year composites. In
addition, this implementation is much more efficient than using the TPO
Indicator. Those that are currently using TPO Indicator to plot the
developing VPOC should reconsider this new option.
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Pivot
Point "Locked" Option Added. A check box
has been added to the Pivot Point indicator titled "Locked". When the
pivot point is locked, it cannot be adjusted with the keyboard. When a
pivot point is unlocked, the left and right arrows on the keyboard
adjust the "Bars Back" setting when the Pivot Point is selected. Most
user would prefer the "Bars Back" setting remain locked at 0. This new
option is similar to the "locked" check box of the Reference Line
indicator which locks the reference line to a price and doesn't allow
the price to be adjusted with the up/down arrows on the keyboard when
selected.
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New Zig Zag Oscillator
Result Options. Five Zig Zag Oscillator
result options were added including: Bars Since X Pivots Back, Volume
Since X Pivots Back, Delta Since X Pivots Back, Volume Per Price Since X
Pivots Back, and Delta Per Price Since X Pivots Back. These results
accumulate data (volume, delta, number of bars) from a user-specified
number of pivots back to the present, and in some cases, divides that
result by the price change since that pivot.
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New Layered Periodicities: Three Line Break, Point and Figure, Heiken
Ashi, Average Bars. A new check box option
was added to the Instrument window titled "Layer" which enables new
periodicity options: Three Line Break, Point and Figure, Heiken Ashi,
and Average Bars. These periodicities are unique in that they all build
upon another underlying set
of
bars of any existing periodicity. For example, a 5-minute Point and
Figure would operate on the closing prices of the 5-minute bars instead
of inspecting every tick. A daily Three Line Break will process and
consider only the closing prices of each daily bar. For these options,
the underlying periodicity will be loaded and present invisibly in the
chart. The Point and Figure bars should be drawn with a Point and Figure
style. The Three Line Break charts can be draw either as candlesticks or
as Wickless Candles to provide the classic presentation. The Point and
Figure option that has been available for some time processes and
considers every tick while this new layered option processes only the
closing prices of the user-specified underlying periodicity. The Heiken
Ashi and Average Bars use an averaging technique to average out the
current bars with previous information. The Heiken Ashi uses a two-bar
averaging technique while the Moving Bars allows the to specify the
number of bars averaged. For example, if a user specified a 5-bar
Average Bar of 1-minute data, the result would moving 5-minute bars,
with each bar representing a moving window into the past 5-minutes. And
two consecutive bars would actually share 4 minutes of information. Be
on the lookout in our video library for videos providing more details on
these new layered periodicities.
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Aligned With Master- Matching Parent. A
checkbox titled "Align With Master" has been added to the Instrument
window. This option will line up a secondary instrument with the
timestamps of the master instrument. In the past, this has been
impossible
with
any periodicity that was not time-based, e.g. Range Bars, Volume Bars,
Tick bars, etc. Now, a user can plot a Range Bar of some master
instrument and plot bars of one or more secondary instruments below that
line up with (match) the time period spanned by the bars of the master
instrument. Within each bar of the secondary instrument will reside the
trades that transpired during the same period as the master instrument.
When the periodicity of the master instrument is adjusted, the secondary
instrument will continue to align with the data of the master. This has
many potential uses including the ability to plot a statistic or index
such as TICK or TRIN in a secondary pane below a master futures
instrument, aligned with the data of the master. The "Align With Master"
option will only be available in the Instrument dialog when adding a
second instrument to a chart. To add an instrument to a chart, use the
top left button on the chart toolbar.
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Export Trading Notes.
Within the trading notes window you can export all of the trading notes
for a symbol by selecting that symbol and choosing File: Save: Save As
Export. If the Trading Notes window is the front window and you hold
down the Ctrl key on the keyboard while choosing File: Save As Text,
Investor/RT will export all trading notes for all symbols. You may also
export all trading notes using File: Export: Trading Notes with no need
to open the trading notes window. The resulting export file is shown
after export is complete. This feature may be useful for example if you
use Investor/RT on more than one machine and you wish to export all
notes from one machine and import them using Investor/RT on the other
machine. Use File: Import: Definition File to import the trading notes.
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Floating Window
Positioning Improvement. For users with
multiple monitors on MS Windows, Investor/RT is designed to work best
when the main Investor/RT task window is maximized on one of the
monitors and screen real estate on other monitors is used to float
Investor/RT charts, quotepages and other windows. Investor/RT works best
when the main Investor/RT task window is kept at a fixed position and
size. The reason for this is that all floating windows reside at
positions (on other monitors usually) relative to the position of the
upper left corner of the task window. Moving, resizing, repositioning
the screen location of the main Investor/RT task window can cause ill
side-effects when floating windows are opened since floating windows
will now be positioned at the same relative offset from the new task
window location. In extreme cases, this can lead to a floating window
being positioned at a location "off screen" making it invisible to the
user. The Window/Bring to Front menu item (with Ctrl key down) was the
only way to bring such windows back to the main screen in Version 10.4.x
and earlier. Version 10.5 solves this problem by determining when
opening floating windows, whether the saved offset from the task window
would cause the window to be moved off screen. If so, the window is
automatically repositioned to a default location centered on the main
task window to ensure it remains visible. You can then drag the window(s)
to other monitors and position them as desired; there is no longer a
need to use the Bring to Front menu to retrieve off screen windows. Note
that this anomaly situation occurs if you reposition the upper left
corner of the main task window. In some cases, adjusting the multiple
monitor setup by adding or removing monitors can also manifest these off
screen side effects. Regardless, floating windows will now remain
visible when such adjustments are made.
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Multi-Link
Chart Scrolling and Time Synchronization
Overview. Investor/RT has long had the ability to Multi-Link two or more
charts so that a change of symbol in one chart is propagated to one or
more linked charts. The linkage of charts is accomplished by specifying
the same Multi-Link color for some group of charts. The Multi-Link color
for a chart is shown in the lower right corner of the chart. Clicking on
this colored rectangle displays a menu for selecting a Multi-Link color
for the chart. By convention, charts set to black are locked; they do
not participate in any Multi-Link operations. Charts set to white
Multi-Link color participate is all Multi-Link operations. When there is
a Multi-Link change of symbol in a chart designated red, for example,
the same symbol will be propagated to all other red charts plus any
white coded charts.
Introducing Synchronized Scrolling. Version 10.5 introduces the
capability to scroll and time sync charts in tandem using the same
Multi-Linking method, i.e. scrolling a red chart to a certain date time
can cause Multi-Linked charts to scroll to the same date time. This
feature has been implemented for multi-paned charts. The Multi-Linked
charts can contain the same or different symbols and the charts can be
of any mix of periodicities. Scrolling performed using a subject chart
will cause the related Multi-Linked charts to scroll so that the time of
the last displayed bar at the right side of each chart matches as
closely as possible.
How to Enable Synchronized Scrolling. To enable these features, setup a
group of charts with the same Multi-Link color, e.g. red. When you click
the Multi-Link color button at the lower right corner of a chart, you
will see menu items named Multi-Link Scrolling and Multi-Link Time Sync.
These Multi-Link menu items will display a check mark when enabled for
the chart. Choose either menu item to toggle the check mark on/off. The
Multi-Link color rectangle itself will show the letter S when Multi-Link
Scrolling is enabled for the chart or the letter T when Multi-Link Time
Sync is enabled. Thus you can see at a glance which charts have the same
Multi-Link color and which of them are enabled for Multi-Link scrolling
or time syncing. Then perform scrolling operations on any enabled chart;
observe how the related enabled charts scroll to the same date time
ending period. Using the Chart Highlighter, point the mouse at the last
bar of the subject chart and observe the corresponding bar(s) in the
related charts. To turn on the Chart Highlighter, right-click in the
main toolbar and check mark the Chart Highlighter menu item. Say you
have a 15-minute, 5-minute and 1-minute chart setup for Multi-Link
scrolling. Scroll the 15-minute chart to a specific ending time and then
use the Chart Highlighter to highlight the last (rightmost) 15-minute
bar; the corresponding three 5-minute bars and fifteen 1-min bars will
highlight at the right side of the related charts.
Contrast Time Sync with Scrolling. Multi-Link Time Sync works in the
same fashion as the Multi-Link Scrolling feature described in the
paragraph above, but synchronizes not only the ending date/time of the
chart but the visible time range of the data. The user may scroll, zoom,
or resize one time-synced chart and any Multi-Linked chart with
time-sync turned on will update to show the data for the same visible
start and ending dates. This functionality can be useful for
synchronizing several charts of differing periodicities with the same
symbol, or several charts of matching periodicities containing different
symbols.
The key difference between Multi-Link Scrolling and Multi-Link Time Sync
is that Multi-Link Scrolling does not alter the spacing of the bars in
any of the linked charts; as scrolling occurs it positions the visible
data of each chart so that the last bar at the right side of each chart
is approximately the same time. In contrast, Multi-Link Time Sync alters
bar spacing as needed to fit the periodic data so that both the visible
starting and ending bars span roughly the same period of time.
Multi-Link Time Sync also ensures that as you use the mouse wheel or
arrow keys to adjust the bar spacing in any linked chart, that the new
time range of that chart is reflected in the linked chart. The same goes
for resizing of chart windows that are setup for Time Sync. Note that
for any chart either one or the other (or neither) of these Multi-Link
synchronization modes can be in effect at a time. When you turn on
Multi-Link Scrolling, Time Sync is turned off; when you turn on Time
Sync, Multi-Link Scrolling is turned off.
Quickly Enabling Multi-Link Scrolling or Time Sync for a Group of
Charts. Using the Multi-Link color menu you can turn on/off the
Scrolling and Time Sync options individually for each chart in the
group. You could have six charts in a multi-link group, but only four of
them with Multi-Link Scrolling on for example. Most often however, you
will want to turn on/off these options for every chart in the group.
This can be accomplished easily with a single menu selection: simply
hold down the shift keywhile changing either of these options and the
change will be made to all charts in the multi-link group. Choosing the
menu item toggles that choice on/off; the depressed shift key tells
Investor/RT to set all charts in the Multi-Link group to the same
setting. When you use the shift key you will see all of the multi-link
color buttons change their display at once, the letter T indicating that
Time Sync is in effect, S indicating that Scrolling is in effect. When
neither of these are in effect for a chart, the color button will
display a plus sign as in former releases.
Automatic Restoration of Chart Settings after Using Time Sync. As
mentioned earlier, Multi-Link Time Sync makes adjustments to the bar
spacing as needed to fit the appropriate bars into each chart in the
group. When you turn off the Multi-Link Time Sync option for a chart (or
all charts using the shift key), Investor/RT will restore each chart's
bar spacing to the state it was in when Multi-Link Time Sync was enabled
for the chart. In addtion. the chart will be automatically scrolled to
present so that real-time updating in the price scale will resume.
Synchronized Scrolling of Daily, Weekly, Monthly Charts. While these
synchronized scrolling features will typically be most useful when
applied to a mix of intraday charts, Multi-Link Scrolling of daily
charts works as expected, positioning the related intraday charts to the
same ending date as the daily chart. Similarly, you can Multi-Link
scroll a group of daily, weekly, monthly charts so that scrolling any of
them keeps the corresponding trading dates in view for all of them.
Multi-Link Time Sync applies only to intraday charts (not daily, weekly,
monthly). However it does work well (as does the Chart Highlighter) for
N-Day, N-Week, ... charts built from intraday data, a new feature of
10.5. See item 4 in the What's New in 10.5 topic, "Multi-Session
Intraday Periodicity" for details.
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Developing VPOC
Option for Profile Indicator. A check box
has been added to the Profile Indicator titled "Developing VPOC". When
enabled, the developing VPOC is plotted allowing the user to see how the
VPOC changed from bar to bar as the profile formed. This option is
available to all of the many flexible durations of the Profile Indicator
including 30-minute profiles, daily profiles, or long-term composite
profiles. The TPO Indicator has always made available the developing
VPOC of daily profiles but this addition to the Profile Indicator is
much more efficient and opens up this functionality to a much wider
array of profile durations.
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Current Price Label Updating During Closed Session.
Multi-Pane charts provide an option to "Highlight Price In Scale" in the
Options tab of each chart's preferences. This option draws the current
price as highlighted text in the scale at the right. Prior to 10.5, the
price updated only when the session of the chart was open. In version
10.5, the price will update even if the session of the chart is closed.
This allows users to see price updating in a day session chart prior to
session open, or after the session closes.
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Miscellaneous 10.5
Fixes and Improvements
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When opening the Setup Instruments from a floating window, e.g. a chart,
the Setup: Instruments window will now become a floating window so it
appears above the requesting window. Note that checking the box titled
"Floating Window" inside the Advanced section of the Setup: Instruments
window will cause all Setup: Instrument to be opened as floating windows
if desired.
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At startup Investor/RT deletes temporary files from the Admin folder.
Backtesting reports are considered temporary files but these are now
deleted only after they are 30 days old. A configuration variable can be
used to keep backtesting reports for a longer time. Go to Setup:
Preferences: Configuration and override the variable BacktestReportsDays
to the number of retention days desired, e.g. set BacktestReportsDays=365
to keep the reports files around for year for future reference.
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You may now provide color/style/width of peak/valley lines in the setup
for the Profile Indicator. This indicator is available only in the
Market Profile editions of Investor/RT.
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A new result, "Delta Above/Below Close/Last Price", is available in the
VPS (Volume Price Statistics) indicator. When added to a chart of full
session periodicity (e.g. 405 minute, or 1425 minutes), this new result
shows cumulative delta for each trading session.
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Transact/Infinity clients can do File: Open: Admin File and select the
file named TransactContracts.txt to see a list of all futures and index
symbols available to them. The format of this file has been improved to
show the future type and the actual ticker symbol to enter into
Investor/RT to track each contract or index, e.g.
6A: 6AZ1
6B: 6BZ1
6C: 6CZ1
6E: 6EZ1
6J: 6JZ1
6M: 6MZ1
6N: 6NZ1
6S: 6SZ1
EMD: EMDZ1
ES: ESZ1
NQ: NQZ1
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Exported definitions of scans, trading signals and custom indicators
will now include only the export of token setups for tokens that are
actually referenced within the RTL formula syntax. If export of
unreferenced tokens is desired, go to Setup: Preferences: Configuration
and set:
RTLExportUnreferencedTokens=true
Note that you may eliminate unreferenced (unused) tokens from any RTL
setup by right-clicking on a column heading in the token list on the
right and choosing Remove Unused Tokens.
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Investor/RT has an extensive list of setup information for various types
of futures contracts. See Setup: Preferences: Future Types to
view/edit/add future types. When you add a new instrument (symbol) to
Investor/RT with security type future, it is important that the software
know the characteristics of that type of future, e.g. its trading hours,
the display format (tick increment), the name of the future type, etc.
When you use the Setup: Instruments window to add a new futures symbol,
e.g. ESZ11, Investor/RT determines ES is the type and fills in various
information automatically. If you enter a symbol for a type of future
that is presently unknown to Investor/RT, the new future type is now
setup automatically. When this occurs the first time for some new future
type, the new future type setup will appear in a window to enable you to
verify, revise and ok the new setup. The new future type name will
include the words SETUP NEEDED. Replace this with the actual name of the
future type. Investor/RT will setup the tick increment based on the
display format you entered for the new futures contract symbol. We
recommend that you determine and fill in the dollar value of this price
move. Click OK to save any changes. You can edit the future type at a
later time via Setup: Preferences: Future Types.
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When a reference line, setup to "Use Current Close" is placed in a pane
that contains another indicator (and no instrument), the reference line
will consider the current value of the indicator as the close. This
enables reference lines to show the present indicator value across the
full indicator pane for comparison with historical values of the
indicator.
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The Object Editor has been improved to allow you to inspect the details
of a chart (which instruments and indicators it contains) without
actually opening the chart. This feature is designed as a diagnostic
tool for inspecting a problematic chart in cases where opening the chart
may cause an out-of-memory condition or some other fatal error
exception. To inspect the setup details for a chart, call up the Object
Editor from the Open menu; select Charts as the object type; select a
chart name in the list; and click the View button while holding down
both the SHIFT and CTRL keys. A report window will appear showing
information about the selected chart: how many panes it has, what
instruments and indicators reside in each pane, etc. Note that exporting
the definition of a chart involves opening the chart internally. If
exporting the chart definition is not possible, this chart inspector may
be useful in diagnosing the problem.
Sometimes exporting a chart definition was not possible in 10.4 and
earlier because the export process opens the chart with historical data
invisibly in order to export the setup information. This process has
been improved in 10.5 so that charts are opened without loading any
historical data into them. This enables many chart setups to be exported
for diagnostic purposes that otherwise might have caused an
out-of-memory error for example due to an incorrect or corrupted setup.
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Weekly VWAP option was added to the VWAP Indicator.
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"Extend Naked Highs/Lows" Option was added to the Fractals Indicator.
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The Send Email window (File: New: Email Message...Alt-M) has a button
titled Insert Msg Log; clicking it will insert the text of the message
log into the message body. This may be useful when sending the log to
support to report a problem.
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Quotepages containing custom columns and only a single symbol were not
calculating the custom columns while the quotepage is minimized. This
has been corrected.
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The Import Current Data schedule action (See Setup: Schedules) has been
extended to support scheduled imports of files containing definitional
text. A use of this automation could be a regularly scheduled import of
a defintion file containing trading notes listing the trades taken using
some other trading platform.
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By default Investor/RT has long ignored trading holiday dates when
charting overnight session instruments (typically futures contracts)
because typically there is at least some trading perhaps in the early
a.m. or late in the day of most trading holidays. Charting time interval
periodicities without white space is often used around holidays so that
all non-trading periods are simply not shown in the chart. You can elect
to show the non-trading periods as white space or not by right-click in
the chart and toggling Periodicity-->Whitespace on/off. This setting for
overnight session instruments is a configuration variable (see Setup:
Preferences: Configuration) with default value:
NoHolidaysOvernightSessions=true;
Version 10.5 offers a similar configuration variable:
NoHolidaysDaySessions=false. This one defaults to false, meaning that
any holiday date specified in the holidays (or myholidays) file is
effectively removed from charts. This setting works well for day session
instruments, e.g. equities assigned to the U.S. Stocks session 0, on
holidays. International users may wish for example to set
NoHolidaysDaySessions=true when charting day session instruments that
continue trading on international markets on trading holiday dates that
pertain only to the U.S. markets. Setting NoHolidaysDaySessions=true
means that holiday dates will be present in intra-day charts whether
there is data or not. Turning off whitespace will eliminate the
non-trading periods from charts for instruments that are not trading,
while allowing those instruments that are trading to properly show the
market data for those days. Using this setting may be more convenient
than assigning U.S. equities to one session and non-U.S. equities to
another.
In short, if you use the configuration settings...
NoHolidaysOvernightSessions=true;
NoHolidaysDaySessions=true;
...Investor/RT will ignore any holiday dates that may be specified in
the holidays.txt file or the user override myholidays.txt file, for all
sessions, all instruments. When charting intra-day time intervals with
white space on, non-trading periods will appear as a gap of white space.
To eliminate the whitespace and show all trading data continuously, turn
off the whitespace in the periodicity setup. Note that time independent
periodicities, e.g. range bars, change bars, volume bars etc. are
inherently "no whitespace" periodicities. Fixed time interval
periodicities can be rendered in the chart with our without whitespace
indicating non-trading periods.
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