What's New in Version 10.1
Several new features and miscellaneous enhancements, available now in
our latest release, are outlined below. Click here to download
10.1. Click here for information on
10.2 Beta.
New in 10.1, Released March 15, 2010
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Support for
Rithmic/Zen-Fire Trading Platforms
IInvestor/RT 10.1 introduces support for Rithmic and
Zen-Fire, high-speed electronic trading networks used by Mirus Futures,
Amp Futures and other brokerages. The Investor/RT platform provides
integrated access to the Rithmic and Zen-Fire networks for market data,
historical data, and brokerage execution, bringing the powerful decision
support capabilities of Investor/RT to clients using Rithmic or Zen-Fire
brokerage accounts. Trading via Rithmic and Zen-Fire is implemented
using the "Trading Order" infra-structure of Investor/RT. Trading orders
are created and saved by name using the Trading Order Desk window.
Trading orders can then be executed directly from the Order Desk window,
or by clicking trading order buttons deployed inside Investor/RT charts;
they can be triggered automatically by trading signals that fire within
a chart when user-specified market conditions occur; they can be
integrated into powerful trading systems created by the user with the
Trading System Tools (Investor/RT tools for back testing, optimization,
and deployment of automated trading systems). Initially, Investor/RT
trading orders for Rithmic or Zen-Fire support Buy and Sell order
actions for order types: market, limit, stop, stop limit. Cancel Order,
Cancel All Orders, and Open Order/Position Status Requests are also
supported via the Trading Order setups. A "Revise Order" order action is
supported; it enables the user to submit revisions to open stop orders,
limit orders and stop limit orders. Both order quantity and stop/limit
prices may be revised. The revise order works well in conjunction with
charts that contain Reference Lines that the user designates as the stop
or limit price with an associated user variable. The user can set his
stop price and limit price V# variables by dragging the appropriate
reference lines to the desired price points in the chart. Then trading
orders (e.g. a sell stop order) that reference the V# variable(s) are
submitted and become open orders. Later, the user can drag and drop
either the stop or limit line as desired and submit (e.g. via a click on
a chart button) a Revise order to adjust the stop and/or limit price.
Mouse click selection of stop and limit prices is also supported. When a
trading order with this setup is submitted, the chart prompts for the
stop or limit price. The user clicks in the vicinity of the desired
price to see a price ladder of nearby prices and picks the precise stop
or limit price from this list.
Fill reports and order status updates are handled by Investor/RT,
updating the Trade Position Size (TR_POS) and Trade Fill Price (TR_FILL)
quotepage columns and RTL variables. All order fills are recorded
automatically in the Investor/RT Portfolio corresponding to the Rithmic
or Zen-Fire account name in use. The user creates a portfolio account
with the name of their brokerage account; the portfolio window will
update in real-time as positions are opened and closed, showing
gain/loss and other data about each open position. Support for other
order types, e.g. Limit if Touched, Market if Touched orders will be
added later in the beta testing period. The trading order architecture
of Investor/RT is a foundation; it is an infra-structure for conveying
brokerage orders to a brokerage destination. We will build on this
foundation in future releases, adding user-interface components and
brokerage strategy setups to further simply various kinds of
user-directed trading. Videos will be available demonstrating how
trading orders are setup and deployed within Investor/RT.
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Direct
Brokerage Support for Interactive Brokers
Version 10.0/10.1 introduces direct-to-broker support for IB. Users of the IB Edition of Investor/RT may now create and execute
Trading Orders with destination "Interactive Brokers" and those orders
will be conveyed directly to TraderWorkstation. Fill reports and order
status updates are handled by Investor/RT, updating the Trade Position
Size (TR_POS) and Trade Fill Price (TR_FILL) quotepage columns. New to
the direct-to-brokerage implementation for IB users is that all fills
are now recorded automatically in the Investor/RT Portfolio
corresponding to your IB account. For example, you wish to "paper trade"
using an IB account DU12345, you create a portfolio account with that
name and it will update in real-time as positions are opened and closed.
Initially, Investor/RT supports Buy, Sell, and Sell Short order actions
and order types: market, limit, stop, stop limit, market on close, limit
on close. During initial beta testing deployment of these new trading
features trading orders will be permitted only on IB paper trading
account. Those interested in live trading using Investor/RT trading
orders during the beta testing period please contact Linn Software after
having thoroughly tested these trading methods using a paper trading
account.
At present the new
direct-to-broker support for the "Interactive Brokers" destination is
limited to users running IB/TWS as their data source.
Direct-to-Broker trading order destinations will be expanded over time
to include additional data sources that support brokerage execution.
Support for mixing brokerage configurations with real-time data sources
that do not have built-in brokerage capability are also planned, e.g.
using Interactive Brokers trading order execution while Investor/RT is
configured for DTN IQFEED or eSignal. In general, future plans include
tighter integration of brokerage activity across all aspects of
Investor/RT and the addition of user-interface components and brokerage
strategy setups to further simply various kinds of user-directed
trading. We welcome feedback and recommendations from customers as we
move forward in this area.
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Efficiency
Improvement Using Invisible Instruments
The MPD Indicator within multi-pane charts runs MUCH more
efficiently when bars of the MPD periodicity and instrument are added
invisibly to the chart. MPD then uses those invisible bars without
having to load data each time it calculates. The net effect is a much
more efficient MPD. Prior to version 10.1b8, the user was responsible
for adding these invisible bars to the chart and ensuring that they were
setup properly. Now, Investor/RT will automatically add these invisible
bars to the chart with the proper setup. In short, the user now will get
the most efficient implementation of MPD each time without needing to be
concerned with adding additional bars/instruments to the chart. This is
a very convenient enhancement for user of the MPD indicator.
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New Indicator: Woodie's
CCI (RTL WCCI)
An Indicator titled Woodies CCI has been added to the library of
technical indicators. This indicator implements the WCCI as described
here: www.woodiescciclub.com.
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New Indicator:
Two Array Statistics (RTL TAS)
A new indicator called Two-Array Statistics has been added to the
library of Technical Indicators. This indicator allows the user to
compute a variety of statistics historically between any two arrays of
custom indictors, including: Slope, R-Squared, Correlation, Product,
Ratio, Difference, and Sum.
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New Indicator: ATR Stop
(RTL ATRS)
A new indicator titled ATR Stop has been added to the library of
technical indicators. ATR Stop helps define the current trend. The
indicator plots a line/dot above the prices bars when a downward trend
is detected, and a line/dot below the bars when an upward trend is
detected. These lines are commonly used as trailing stops. This
indicator is commonly used as a exit tool rather than an entry
technique. When price crosses the ATRS value, the trend reverses and
VSTOP moves to the other side of price.
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New
Indicator: Volume Price Statistics. (RTL VPS)
A new indicator titled Volume Price Statistics has been added to
the library of technical indicators. The Volume Price Statistics
indicator provides the user with a variety of statistical measures based
on the volume at price. These statistic options are described in more
detail above.
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New
Indicator: Empirical Mode Decomposition (RTL EMD)
A new indicator titled Empirical Mode Decomposition Indicator (EMD)
has been added to the library of technical indicators. The Empirical
Mode Decomposition Indicator (EMD) helps identify whether a market is in
a cycle or trend mode. This indicator is discussed in the article titled
"Empirical Mode Decomposition" in the March 2010 Issue of Stocks and
Commodities magazine, by John F. Ehlers and Ric Way. According to the
article, when the Trend Component rises above the Average Peaks, the
market is in an uptrend, when it is below the Average Valleys, the
market is in a downtrend, and when it is between the two, the market is
in cycle mode.
The EMD indicator has 4 optional components: the Bandpass Filter (or
cycle component), the Trend Component, the Average Peaks, and the
Average Valleys. The inputs include price, period, delta, and fraction.
The price defaults to High + Low / 2. The period should reflect the
cycle period (or frequency) of the market being studied and defaults to
20 bars. The delta should be set to half the bandwidth with common
values of 0.1 to 0.5. The fraction is the fraction of the average peaks
and valleys used to display the upper and lower limits for the trend
component. This value is subjective and can be adjusted to fit your
trading style. For swing trades that prefer to trade in cycle mode, a
larger fraction might be used such as 0.25.
For more information on this indicator, please refer to the March 2010
Issue of Stocks and Commodities magazine, by John F. Ehlers and Ric Way.
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New Indicator: Quoteboard
A new indicator titled Quoteboard has been added to the library
of technical indicators. The QuoteBoard allows the user to display
columns of price and volume data on multiple symbols within a multi-pane
chart. The QuoteBoard has extended capabilities including automatic
sorting of the price rows within each symbol, hot/cold color shading or
custom coloring of each row, price or tick display options, auto-sorting
of symbols based on % Change, and much more. The QuoteBoard allows users
to plot key Market Profile price values, OHLC, Pivot Levels (daily,
weekly, monthly), all in a single column with automatic sorting and
coloring. More information including videos can be found at
www.linnsoft.com/qb .
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Data Retention Options
Simplified
For most Investor/RT users, the Setup: Instruments (Symbols)
window no longer offers checkboxes for daily, weekly, or monthly data
retention. The recommended settings of daily data retention, no weekly
and no monthly data retention will be used. These have long been the
recommended settings, suitable for most users of Investor/RT. Weekly and
monthly charts utilize the underlying daily historical data to draw the
weekly or monthly bars. We are removing these options because they can
be confusing; some mistakenly assume that it is necessary to retain
separate weekly or monthly historical data in order to view weekly or
monthly charts.
Investor/RT is capable of producing monthly, weekly, or daily charts
from 1925 to present when there is adequate data on file. While daily
bar data is hard to come by going back that far, long term weekly or
monthly data for equities, indexes or continuous futures contracts can
be imported for analysis. The weekly or monthly data retention options
are useful for this purpose. You may want to retain only a few years of
daily bars, a decade of weekly bars and several decades of monthly bars.
This reduces data storage requirements compared with keeping many
decades of daily bars, although storage savings are insignificant except
when a very large universe of symbols is involved. Generally, the
weekly/monthly options are of little interest to futures traders. We are
simplifying the user interface while keeping these seldom needed
retention options available to any Investor/RT user who wishes to use
them via a configuration setting. Any user who has made weekly or
monthly data collection a default setting (see Setup: Preferences:
Instruments) will continue to see the three retention options in the
Setup: Instruments window.
Alternatively, you may wish employ the recommended default settings, but
utilize weekly/monthly retention on only certain symbols. This can be
accomplished by adding a setting to the configure.txt file. Add the
line:
EnableWeeklyMonthlyRetention=TRUE
to the configuration file (File: Open: Configuration File) and Save the
file (Ctrl-S or File: Save: Save). Thereafter daily, weekly, and monthly
retention check boxes will be available once again for specifying your
preferences for any symbol.
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Exporting Instrument Data
in a Chart
Instrument data of any periodicity contained in a multi-paned
chart may be exported to text now by right-clicking inside the chart
window and choosing Export: Instrument Data. The Export submenu is new
in 10.1, allowing export of any indicator data or instrument data in the
chart. If there are multiple instruments inside the chart, a list of
them will appear for selection. If there is only one instrument in the
chart or if a particular instrument is selected in the chart when you do
the Export: Instrument Data command, that instrument will be exported
without prompting.
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File: Open: Admin File...
Menu Item
The File: Open submenu now has an Admin File... menu item that
will start the file selection process at the Investor/RT Admin folder.
On Windows XP, the Admin directory is located in the installation
folder, typically named investrt, located in the Program Files
directory. On Windows 7 and Vista, the Admin folder is located in the
LinnSoft directory within the C:\Users\username directory, where
username is your Windows 7/Vista user login. The File: Open: File...
menu item starts the file selection process at the mostly recently
accessed directory, while File: Open: Admin File... simply makes the
Admin folder the starting location for opening a file. When using the
File: Open: File or the File: Open: Admin File... menu items, if you
hold down the Ctrl Key, navigation will begin at the install folder on
XP, or at the local LinnSoft folder on Windows 7/Vista. Finally, on the
main toolbar, the "Open Group" button also serves as an Open File button
if you hold down the Ctrl Key while clicking on it. File selection
begins at the install folder on XP, or at the local LinnSoft folder on
Windows 7/Vista.
These features are available to Macintosh users as well. On Mac OS X,
the Option Key is used instead of the Ctrl Key. The Admin folder is
customarily located in the Users/Username/Library/Application Support/InvestorRT/
folder, where Username is your Mac OS X user login id.
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Smart Tick Compression
Investor/RT 10.1 introduces Smart Compression of Tick Data. This
optional feature can be enabled in Setup: Preferences: Historical Data.
Check or uncheck the box titled "Use Smart Compression of Tick Data".
When Smart Compression is enabled, ticks are stored in the Investor/RT
database in a more compact form by consolidating the trading volume for
ticks which occur at the same time, price, bid and ask. The consecutive
ticks are stored as one consolidated tick having a trading volume
representing the cumulative volume of the component ticks.
Our tests with financial futures tick data show Smart Compression
reduces the stored tick count consistently by over 85%. Similarly,
actively traded equities showed a 50-70% reduction. This reduction in
tick counts leads to reduced storage requirement on the database,
reduced memory footprint for tick-based charts, and reduced processing
time when opening charts that use tick data. Smart Compression has a
widespread beneficial impact on the performance and functionality of
Investor/RT: more tick data can be stored in the database, Market
Profile and Multi-paned charts load and process much faster, databases
verify and backup faster, backtesting and optimization of trading
systems run faster, etc. For example, a futures trader having a tick
data retention setting of 3 days could retain 20 days of tick data using
less space on the database by enabling this feature.
When Smart Compression is enabled, there are some aspects of Investor/RT
that are adversely affected; this is why Smart Compression is optional.
One obvious impact is for ticks/bar periodicity, where actual tick count
is used to construct each bar. If ticks/bar charts are a part of your
analysis, such charts will reflect compressed ticks/bar and will not
reflect the actual trade count per bar. All other periodicities (Volume
Bars, Range Bars, all fixed time interval bars) will be identical
whether Smart Compression is enabled or not. Advanced volume
functionality such as the Profile Indicator (Volume at Price / Delta at
Price), the Volume Breakdown Indicator (Delta per Bar), and VWAP will be
computed correctly when Smart Compression is enabled. Some of results
choices for the Volume Breakdown (VB) Indicator are affected when Smart
Compression is enabled. This includes any VB based on Trades instead of
Volume, and any VB setup with a result that is based on tick counts.
Tick count results include: Total Trades/Ticks; Average Size; Big Trades
%; Average Buy Size; Average Sell Size; Buy Trades/Ticks; Sell
Trades/Ticks.
For more information see
http://www.linnsoft.com/qa/a/193.htm
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Keyboard
Shortcuts Added for Chart Scrolling
You may setup function key shortcuts for scrolling multi-paned
charts left or right one bar at a time. This has been a requested
alternative to having to repeatedly click the scrollbar. The Scroll Left
and Scroll Right actions are extensions to the chart toolbar. In Setup:
Preferences: Keyboard Shortcuts, choose "Toolbar / Chart" as the Action
and pick "Scroll Left" or "Scroll Right" from the list of chart toolbar
actions for your shortcut. If you setup F2 as Scroll Right, for example,
you may then scroll the chart so it is positioned at some starting date
and time in the past; then tap F2 repeatedly to bring one new bar at a
time into view.
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Layout Toolbar Improvements
The layout toolbar now offers a "Save As..." feature to save a
copy of the existing active layout under a different name. Activate any
source layout by selecting its tab on the layout toolbar. Hold down the
shift key while clicking the "Save Layout" button or icon button.
Investor/RT will prompt for a new layout name. A new layout tab with the
specified name will appear in the toolbar and become the activate
layout. You may then revise the layout as you wish. The orginal layout
remains intact. When naming layouts, the first word in the layout name
is used as the "short name" that appears on the tab face in the toolbar,
e.g. doing a Save As under the name "Test Layout" will create a new tab
named "Test". When using the shift key to perform a save as, you may
specify the name of an existing layout. Investor/RT will ask you to
confirm the replacement of the former layout having that name with the
new one you are saving.
When the layout toolbar is expanded to show the layout setup options,
there are blue ? help buttons positioned to the right of the Save Layout
and Delete Layout buttons. The Delete Layout button was revised to
request confirmation before deleting the current layout.
On the main toolbar, right-clicking in the message area reveals a more
compact popup menu. This menu has submenus for Layout Toolbar and Main
Toolbar related options. In the Layout Toolbar submenu are commands to
toggle (alternately show/hide) the layout toolbar, center the layout
toolbar in the main Investor/RT window, and a "Pin to Main Toolbar" menu
item that positions the layout toolbar to the right of the main toolbar.
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Using the Mouse
Wheel when Adding Indicators
When adding an indicator to a multi-pane chart Investor/RT
presents a dialog with all the indicators listed on the left. You can
use the keyboard to cause the list to jump to some alphabetic position.
Subsequent repeats of the same single letter takes you down the list of
indicators starting with that letter, e.g. press the letter m five times
moves you to the 5th indicator having a name beginning with m, Money
Flow in this example. You may also tab the space bar when you are
scrolled down to snap back to the top if the list where "Choose
Indicator" is displayed and the rolodex of indicator names appears on
the right. For those that like to use the mouse wheel to scroll, a few
new twists have been added. Rolling the wheel up or down selects and
displayed the indicator as your scroll one at time thru the indicator
names. If you hold the SHIFT key down as you move the mouse wheel, each
click of the wheel advances you 5 forward or backward, i.e. you scroll
faster. Then there is the Ctrl key for alphabetic jumps. With Ctrl key
down each wheel click jumps to the top of the list of names beginning
with the next or prior alphabetic letter. You can use the keyboard and
scroll wheel in tandem of course, e.g. press m to go to the 1st
indicator in the M's, Moving Average then move the wheel to move down
thru the M's. If you want MPD and you remember that MPD is the last
indicator in the M's then press N and wheel up one. You can also use the
up/down arrow keys to scroll thru the list one item at a time. Shift and
Ctrl only modify mouse wheel effects.
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Handling of Indicator
Exceptions
Investor/RT for Windows now uses MS Structured Exception Handling
for all technical indicator calculations. Sometimes an indicator
calculation can cause a fatal error. This could be due to a defect in
the software itself, or perhaps some user specified preference setting
was entered incorrectly, or perhaps the indicator was a user-developed
indicator running in Investor/RT as a PLUGIN indicator and there is a
defect in the plugin (Investor/RT SDK required). In prior versions, such
exceptions would be handled by stopping the data feed, closing the
database, reporting the fatal error and requiring Investor/RT to be
restarted. Now, these exceptions are handled in a manner that enables
Investor/RT to continue running, only the particular indicator that
failed is marked as having caused an exception and there will be no
further attempts to calculate the errant indicator. The user will see no
drawing for the indicator because it could not compute its results. If
you revise the preferences for the indicator, IRT will try again to
calculate the indicator using the revised preferences. If another
exception occurs, it will be disabled. Sometimes a preference change
will "fix" the problem and computation will resume normally for the
indicator. This kind of exception handing will be especially welcome to
users of the Investor/RT SDK where defects in programming plugins can
now be detected without causing Investor/RT to terminate.
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Profile
Indicator: Naked POCs/Closes/Extremes
The Profile Indicator has been enhanced with an option to draw lines for
naked POCs, naked closes, and naked high/lows. The naked POC lines will
extend forward in time past the profile period until a bar takes it out
(touches it). Naked closes work the same way but use the closing price
of the profile period. Naked highs and lows similarly extend the highs
and lows of the profile period until they are touched by a future bar.
Video Demo
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Profile Indicator:
Automatic Peaks/Valleys
The Profile Indicator has been enhanced with an option to automatically
draw reference lines at peak and valley prices. A peak is defined as a
price whose volume exceeds that of the prices surrounding it. A valley
is defined as a price whose volume is lower than that of the prices that
surround it. The user is given then option of selecting the Peak/Valley
"Sensitivity". A sensitivity of 10 would require a peak price's volume
to be higher than the 10 prices above and below it. A sensitivity of 20
would require a valley's volume to be lower than the 20 prices above and
below it. Video
Demo
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Session Statistics
- Ignore First x Minutes
A new option has been added to the session statistics titled
"Ignore the first x minutes of the session". This option can be
especially useful to those trying to get the high or low of the day
session (session 2) while looking at a chart set to the full GLOBEX
session (session 31). In this instance, setup session statistics to
ignore the first 1020 minutes of the session. It would then begin to
compute the highest high or lowest low on the first bar of the day
session.
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Miscellaneous 10.1
Fixes and Improvements
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Layout Toolbar now permits empty layouts to be saved.
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Fundamental data items "Short Interest" and "NAICS" (industry
classification code) are now available on IQFEED for display in quote
pages. Either column may also be used in RTL formulas.
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Configuration variables were added. Use "AutoAddTempInvisInstruments=false"
to turn off automatic addition of temporary invisible instruments. The
default is true, the invisible instruments improve multi periodicity
efficiency, when the Profile indicator and/or MPD indicator is used. For
IB users, use "IBHistoricalPacingInterval=15" to allow 15 seconds
between each IB backfill request. Default is 10 seconds. IB users with a
DTN MA subscription have no pacing restrictions.
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Various tweaks for Windows 7/Vista were made. Pinned toolbars now align
perfectly with their associated windows (as they long have on Windows
XP). The position, size, and maximized state of the main Investor/RT
task window is now properly re-instated at startup.
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Windows users will see a warning message if memory usage reaches an
abnormally high level. The default warning level is 250MB, far beyond
the memory footprint normally required by Investor/RT. Users with memory
intensive workspaces can increase this threshold if the warning is
bothersome. Use the configuration file variable "MemoryUsageWarningMB=300"
for example to set the threshold to 300. If you see this warning consult
with support to diagnose the cause of such abnormally high memory usage
requirements.
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A bug was fixed in the Layout Toolbar. The Layout in effect when
quitting was being retained as the startup layout only if the
"Automatically Save Layout Changes" option was on for the layout. When
this option was off, the "Last Session Layout" was mistakenly
established as the active layout the next time Investor/RT is started.
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Clicking on a ticker symbol inside a chart quoteboard indicator will
change the current chart to that symbol. This makes it very convenient
to use the quoteboard as quickly changing symbols in the rest of the
chart. If you set the multi-linking color of the chart to black using
the color box at the lower right corner of the chart window, the chart
becomes locked; symbol substitutions from multi-link operations or
quoteboard clicks are disabled.
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A configuration variable was added to allow Windows users to specify
whether the crosshairs show the price level near the intersection point
of the crosshair, the new default behavior, or show the price level at
the far right of the horizontal crosshair line near the price axis as in
prior versions. Users who prefer to see the price at the vertical scale
can open the File: Open: Configuration File; add this line to the bottom
and save the file (Ctrl-S).
ShowPriceAtCrossHair=false
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A configuration variable was added for limiting the size of historical
data arrays. The configuration variable, MaxMemoryArraySize, defaults to
zero, meaning no limit. If MaxMemoryArraySize is set to a number, this
number is multiplied by 1 million to set the limit on the size of
historical data arrays. In prior versions of Investor/RT, a limit of 10
million could be imposed by checking a box in the Historical Data
preferences window. Setting MaxMemoryArraySize=10 in the configure.txt
configuration file has a similar limiting effect. When a limit is
specified, attempts to open charts that call for millions of ticks to be
loaded will fail if the tick data collection size exceeds the limit. The
recommended setting is 0, no limit. If you are experiencing out of
memory conditions, setting a limit of say 10 (million) will alert you to
the chart that may be requesting too much memory before the out-memory
condition actually arises.
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Layout Toolbar asks for confirmation when deleting a layout.
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The contextual menu when right-clicking in the message area of the main
toolbar has an enhanced Layout Toolbar submenu. Menu items are provided
for Enabling the toolbar, pinning the layout toolbar to the main toolbar
at the right, and centering the layout toolbar in the main Investor/RT
window.
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When symbols are deleted, e.g. using the red trash button on the
quotepage toolbar or setup instruments window, any open windows
containing the symbol are notified. Quotepages, for example respond by
removing the affected row(s) from the quotepage. Multi-paned chart
windows will remove the instrument from the chart and will close
automatically if there are no remaining instrument(s) in the chart. Time
and Sales windows will close automatically if they showing data for the
now deleted symbol.
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System added temporary invisible instruments no longer appear in the
pane title bar. User added invisible instruments are listed by ticker
and periodicity only. The pane title displays drawing tool indicators
(trendlines, ref lines, fibs, etc) after first listing all instruments
and other indicators. Ref lines are listed last if present.
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Price labeling in the vertical scale area for instruments is now enabled
when your scroll back in time, the value displayed is typically the
close of the last bar displayed, not necessary the current price of the
instrument. Value display is also enabled when the charting reflect
percentage and not actual trading price. For example, an instrument with
a drawing stype of Histogram and a price type of %Change will now the
%Change value of the last histogram block numerically.
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A bug was fixed in 10.1.3 where indicators associated with invisible
instruments would not draw.
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A bug was fixed where intraday time interval charts expressed in minutes
and seconds (not an even number of minutes) would not show a time scale
on the horizonal axis.
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The Database Utilities Wizard (Alt+U) can now perform database
initialization of the portfolio section of the Investor/RT database. All
portfolios, positions, and historical position data are destroyed and
the sytem starts with a clean slate with the Simulated portfolio setup
for use with the Investor/RT trading simulator. The Control-->Database
Utilities-->Initialize submenu also includes this new utility function.
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Versions 10.1.3 and later now support the most recent TransAct API. In
doing so, the "TransAct: Setup" menu now provides an option to "Connect
to Demo Server". If the user has a demo account with TransAct, they
should check this checkbox. Otherwise, if this checkbox is unchecked,
the user will connect to the live TransAct server.
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