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You can try Investor/RT free of charge for as long as you like.  You can download and install a fully functional version of Investor/RT, and experiment with any features of interest, for as long as you wish, free of charge.  The installation will come preloaded with a few years of daily data on the Dow 30 stocks, as well as a simulated demonstration ticker, $DEMO, that generates it's own daily and intraday data, both historically and realtime.  The demo supports up-to-date daily, weekly, and monthly charting and analysis on any of the 30 Dow stocks.  Historical and fundamental data (as well as current quotes) are available to be downloaded on demand from Yahoo! Finance.  For more information on the free data that is available from Yahoo! Finance, click here.   Intraday data is only available for the $DEMO ticker in the demonstration version.

Simply download and install Investor/RT.  When you run Investor/RT for the first time, you will be presented with a window that asks you to choose a data service.  Click the "Demo" button on this window and Investor/RT will be launched in "demo" mode.  While in demo mode, you have access to the full array of features and the simulated demonstration ticker, $DEMO.  You will find additional information on $DEMO below.  A demo tutorial will also appear the first time you start the demo version.

While this version allow you to experiment with the broad array of Investor/RT features, via the use of the simulated $DEMO ticker and daily data on the Dow 30, you will only be able to download, import, and monitor actual securities (other than the Dow 30), either on a realtime or end-of-day basis, by registering the software.  On the online order page, you can access information about pricing and data feed options.

Please visit our Support Resources to access a variety of options for obtaining answers to any questions you may have concerning Investor/RT.

$DEMO...
Simulated Data Generator /
Demonstration Ticker
Investor/RT provides a test data generator via the special ticker symbol $DEMO. $DEMO can be setup as a stock, future, index, or option, and can be assigned to whatever trading session you like. During the trading hours of its associated session, $DEMO trades once per second with random incremental price moves. When $DEMO is present in a chart, clicking the download (refresh) button in lower right corner of the chart window generates new random data for the visible viewing period. If you have automatic downloading turned on $DEMO will generate new data as needed to fill the chart window. Similarly, requesting daily, weekly, monthly or intra-day downloads of any minute interval using the Download Data window creates random sample data for the requested download period. You can use $DEMO anywhere you can use any other real ticker symbol, e.g. in charts (all types), quote pages, time and sales windows, quick quote windows, ticker tapes, portfolios, backtesting, etc. Non intra-day sample data is always generated as daily bars so that daily, weekly, and monthly charts will all reflect the same data. Similarly, downloading one minute bars will cause all minute interval charts to reflect the same data regardless of interval.

This feature operates in all versions of Investor/RT including the demonstration version and does not require an internet connection or an active data feed. Real-time ticks of $DEMO will be generated once a second. Your can turn off $DEMO intra-day ticks processing by either deleting the symbol or by setting its security type to Unknown, by reassigning the $DEMO instrument to a session that is closed. When the $DEMO security type is set to unknown, no live ticks will be generated but charting functions and data creation via the download button will still be effective. Charts will not update live unless the security type of $DEMO is set to stock, future, option, index, future option, etc.

By default the initial price of $DEMO is 100. If you adjust the trading price in a quote page, the simulated trades will pick up from there. If you reset the last price of $DEMO to zero in a quote page, the next tick starts off at 100 with $DEMO reset to security type stock. Downloading intra-day data causes all tick data to be discarded and fresh sample data to be generated using 100 as the starting price.

An effort has been made to make the tick flow realistic. Randomly, two-thirds of all trades will be unchanged ticks, 1/6 up-ticks and 1/6 down-ticks. As we receive feedback from Investor/RT users regarding this feature we expect a user preferences window for $DEMO to be added in the future so that, for example, you could simulate up trending markets, down trending, etc. When $DEMO is setup as a stock, random trading volume is assigned to each tick, bid, ask, and bid and ask sizes are also simulated.

There are numerous uses for this new facility.

  1. Generating long term sample data for testing trading systems
  2. A tool for experimentation with studies, drawing tools, trading signals, etc.
  3. New or prospective users of Investor/RT can learn to use the software using $DEMO any time of day for demonstration or educational purposes.
  4. A testing tool for literally any facet of Investor/RT that uses historical data of any periodicity.