What's New in Version 10.4.16
Several new features and miscellaneous enhancements, available now in
our latest release, are outlined below.
Click here to download 10.4.16.
Before upgrading to from 10.3 to 10.4 it is
recommended that you backup your database.
New in 10.4.16 Released September 22, 2011
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Holiday Charting Improvements
Version 10.4 has fixed a variety of charting anomalies that
surface either when running the software on the day of a holiday or in
the days immediately following a holiday. Of particular note is the way
that holiday charting is handled for multi-pane charts of day sessions.
On the holiday date itself, day session intra-day charts (e.g. 1m, 5m,
30m) of a fix time interval are static, even if data happens to be
flowing for the symbol. Such charts are setup to display whitespace for
non-trading periods and to eliminate entirely any holiday trading
session time from the chart. Thus such charts cannot display holiday
data even if it is present. The remedy is to turn off the whitespace
option for the time interval chart (e.g. making the chart periodicity
1m*, 5m*, 30m*, the * indicating no-whitespace). For day session charts,
Investor/RT will then display data for the holiday period when present
and the chart will accept incoming real-time data if present. On holiday
dates, some futures contracts often trade in the early hours of the day
session in an abbreviated session. Multi-pane charts set to chart the
overnight session always show all trading, but when the chart is set to
display only the day session via the session override, this improvement
allows the day session trading to be viewed real-time as long as the
time interval chart is setup with no-whitespace. Toggling the whitespace
on/off has been made more convenient by a Whitespace menu item in the
Periodicity menu accessible by right-clicking in a multi-pane chart. If
you do not want day session data to be displayed for holiday dates for
time interval bars (no-whitespace), then this election can be made in
Setup: Preferences: Configuration, by setting the variable
ChartHolidayDaySessTimeBars to false.
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Improvement to Chart Download Menu for Multi-Instrument Charts
When a multi-pane chart has multiple instruments, and you
right-click in the chart and choose one of the Download menu items,
Investor/RT now considers the pane in which the right-click occurred to
determine the instrument for the ensuing download (backfill) operation.
If a particular instrument in the chart is selected before you
right-click, that instrument will be downloaded. If there is no
selection, then the instrument in the clicked pane is downloaded if
there is one. Otherwise Investor/RT finds the primary instrument in the
chart and downloads historical data for it. Thus, for example, if you
have a chart of a spread (a pair custom instrument) and additional panes
containing the two component instruments of the spread, you can now
initiate downloads on any one of them by right-clicking in the pane
holding the instrument of interest. In earlier versions, only the
selected instrument or the primary instrument in the chart could be the
subject of the download. This improvement essentially eliminates the
need to click first to select the instrument you wish to download before
using the Download menu; simply right-click in its pane.
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Historical Database Management and Importing Improvements
Version 10.4 adds a new database file for retaining
intra-day interval historical data (bar data) apart from tick data. This
change doubles the intra-day database storage capacity to 4GB.
Investor/RT 10.4 incorporates zlib compression to manage the storage of
tick data on the database. The compression ratio achieved varies from
instrument to instrument. For the S&P Emini futures contract, compressed
tick data uses about 10% of the database storage of uncompressed ticks.
Testing across a wider universe of futures and equities, compression of
tick data shows a ten-fold to four-fold improvement in storage capacity.
These two data management improvements, on average, increase the
intra-day historical storage capacity of Investor/RT significantly.
Version 10.4 can store 16GB to 20GB of uncompressed intra-day data
versus the 2GB capacity of the 10.3 database. Upon upgrade to 10.4 the
database is migrated automatically. Compression takes place
automatically as new tick data is captured from the real-time feed or as
tick data is downloaded from a historical server. The database wizard
window (Alt-U) has a new button to "Compress All Tick Data". This new
utility function applies zlib compression to all tick data stored in the
database and also compresses the tick.d01 database file to minimal size.
See the message log for output showing how much tick.d01 disk storage
was used before and after this utility is run.
Minute bar interval data is now kept apart from tick data and new import
methods in 10.4 ensure that minute interval downloading does not affect
the tick data retention period. If you have Historical Data preferences
setup to retain say 100 days of intra-day data overall and the last 5
days as tick data, and you perform a 100 day minute download, the
incoming minute bars will replace any minute bars on file for the period
but will not replace any tick data already present for the most recent
five days. If you decide to increase your historical intra-day retention
from 100 to 200 days, you can use the Data Download window to request
200 days of one minute bars for all symbols. Each download will backfill
the one minute data 200 days back, but will leave the last five days of
tick data as is. This is a major improvement versus 10.3 and earlier
where every minute interval download had to be followed by a tick data
download.
Backfilling intra-day charts with the last few minutes of ticks or last
session or two of ticks is now faster and efficient. The improvement
will be especially evident to users who retain many days of tick data.
The Investor/RT database is now updated directly with the incoming data.
If you have 60 days of tick data on file, a short term backfill will
update just the most recent session of ticks on the database, leaving
the prior 59 days of stored tick data in place. The improved data import
process uses very little memory and is independent of the amount of tick
data already on the database for the instrument.
Since tick and intra-day bar data are now kept in separate physical
files, initialization utilities are now provided for each in the
Database Utilities menu and in the Database Wizard (Alt-U) window.
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Revised Behavior for Buttons Using Drawing Tool Indicators
If you right-click on a trend line, reference line, Fibonacci
line, annotation indicator in a multi-pane chart and choose Add Button,
Investor/RT adds a button to the chart that uses the preferences of the
subject indicator to invoke the drawing tool associated with that
indicator. If instead, you wish to actually toggle on/off the actual
indicator, then you can right-click on the button and choose Edit
button. You will notice that the button purpose has been setup as
"Activate Drawing Tool Preset". Simply revise the purpose to "Add/Remove
Preset Indicator" and click ok. Thereafter, clicking the will
alternately remove and add back the subject indicator. This is an
improvement over 10.3 where Add/Remove Preset Indicator was not
available for drawing tool related indicators.
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Sharing
Preferences and Share Picture Improvements
Setup: Preferences: Sharing has been simplified. When using
the Share Picture command to share a window over charthub.com, a
prompting dialog will appear in which you can specify a comment and
indicate whether you want the window definition shared along with the
image.
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DTN Market Access Improvements
nvestor/RT users with no streaming market data source who use
DTN MA as their source of market data will see some improvements in
Version 10.4. Whenever historical data is downloaded, Investor/RT will
process the intra-day data for the most recent trading session and
update the values for open, high, low, close, volume, and previous close
automatically. These values will be updated in any open quote pages and
charts. User who run scans after the day session closes, can setup a
schedule to automatically download tick or minute interval data for all
symbols and follow this with a schedule step to "Post History". This
will record the newly acquired OHLVC data as a new bar into the daily
historical database so that scans on daily bars can be run immediately
on the latest daily bar.
DTN MA users will also notice that as new symbols are added into charts
or quote pages or using the Setup: Instruments window, historical
downloading is initiated automatically. Charts and quote pages will
update right away. This auto downloading can be turned off by adding a
line to the configuration file: DownloadFullDataNewSymbols=false;
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Trendline Drag and Drop
Improvement
The behavior of trendlines when dragging within charts has
been modified. In past releases, users could drag either end of the
trendline to any position on the chart while the other end retained it's
position. This behavior remains when the user drags the endpoint of the
trendline. However, when the starting end of the trendline is dragged,
the entire reference line will be dragged together, holding it's length
and slope/angle. This gives the user the flexilibity to adjust the slope
and length of the line by dragging the endpoint, or move the line
altogether while retaining the length and slope by dragging the start
point. Users may ctrl-drag the start point of any trendline to make a
duplicate of the trendline that retains the slope and length of the
original trendline. Users may still access the original behavior when
dragging the start point by shift-dragging the start point, to move the
start point while retaining the position of the endpoint. The new method
for dragging the start point allows users to drag trendlines into
positions where the endpoint protrudes into the future past the current
bar.
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Profile Indicator - Sharing Peaks and Valleys Among Charts
The Profile Indicator has a new option which makes it easy to
transfer peaks (or high volume nodes) and valleys (or low volume nodes)
of composite profiles to other charts easily and efficiently. This
allows the user to place the nearest three peaks and nearest three
valleys on any chart without the overhead of increasing the overhead of
expanding the viewing period of those charts and adding the Profile
Indicator to those charts. Once chart computes the peaks and valleys and
the other charts use that single calculation. This is implemented within
the Profile Indicator by checking a new check box "Store 3 Peaks + 3
Valleys Into V#x thru V#y". The user specifies the series of user
variables (V# variables) they would like the nearest three peaks and
valleys stored in. The three nearest peaks will be stored in the first
three user variables and the three nearest valleys will be stored in the
next three variables. Once this is setup, the user can make use of the
next two new features mentioned below to easily display these peak and
valley lines on other charts.
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Reference
Line - Plotting Series of User Variables
The Reference Line indicator now has an option that allows
users to plot lines for a series of user variables with a single
indicator. When the user choosing to base his reference line on "Use
V#", a new check box now appears to the right of this option labelled "+
x". If, for example, the user has chosen to "Use V#2" and then checks
the new option with "+5", the reference line will then plot a line for
not only V#2, but also the next 5 user variables of V#3, V#4, V#5, V#6,
and V#7. If applicable, these reference lines will also use the title of
the user variable as the label of the line. All lines will share the
same color and style.
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Auto Titling of User Variables
The User Variables preference window (Setup: Preferences:
User Variables) now has a new option titled "Auto Title". When this
button is pressed, user variables will be automatically titled based on
their usage for exporting values from indicators and charts. This option
currently handles peaks and valleys in Profile Indicator (HVN1, HVN2,
HVN3, HVN1, HVN2, HVN3), Pivot Indicator (S3 thru R3), and Market
Profile chart price levels (DPOCv, IBH, DVAH, etc). If a user variable
is not used to export a value from an indicator or chart, it's title
will be left alone.
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Watermark Indicator
A new Watermark Indicator has been added to allow user to
identify themselves, their organization, or the symbol in the chart with
subtle translucent text overlaying the chart. The indicator gives the
user the option to supply the text used, the position, the font and
size, along with several levels of translucence/opacity.
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Chart Time Axis Drawing
Improved
Multi-Pane charts now show the date time labels and lines
into the future ( to the right of right of current bar) for time-based
charts. This includes minute or seconds interval charts, daily, weekly,
and monthly charts. Prior to Version 10.4 the lines and labels ended at
the current bar. This makes it easy to identify the date time of future
periods when there is a lookahead period or a right margin of white
space in the chart.
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Volume
Breakdown - Indicator Access to High and Low
The Volume Breakdown indicator has been improved to allow
indicators easy access to the high and low of delta bars or cumulative
delta bars. When the user chooses "Statistics: Indicator" and specifies
an indicator to operate on the VB results, this indicator now has access
to not only the closing price of the delta bars, but also the open,
high, and low prices of those bars. So for instance, if the user choose
an indicator of "Session Statistics" and setup SESST to give the highest
high of the session, the indicator will now operate properly on the high
values of the delta bars. When this combination is now used, VB also
allows the user to specify any drawing style (Stepped Lines, Histogram,
etc) with which the result will be displayed.
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New Formats for Export of Fractals, Volume Breakdown. Fractals
When the user right-clicks on the Fractal Indicator and
chooses to "export data", the resulting data file is now formatted to
provide the respective high or low price of each fractal. In past
versions, a 1 was provided for any up or down fractal. This gives the
user quick access to these fractal prices in the exported file without
having to use alternate means (e.g. Excel) to extract that information.
Volume Breakdown: When the user right-clicks on the Volume Breakdown
Indicator and chooses "Export Data", the data is now presented in a much
smarter and easy-to-understand format. If delta bars are in force, the
user will see four columns of data for VB_Close, VB_Open, VB_High, and
VB_Low. Otherwise, a single column will be displayed providing the
single array of results for each bar. If the user holds down the
shift-key during the export process, the columns for open, close, high,
and low prices of the underlying bars will also be appended to the data.
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Technical Indicator Text
Label Option
Indicators may now be labelled with a text string just left
of the current value on the vertical scale. This makes it easier to
identify what each indicator represents when multiple indicators are
present in a pane. To access this option, double-click on the indicator
to view the indicator preferences. The "Text Label" settings appear near
the bottom of the window beneath the "Label Current Value" settings.
Choose "Custom" and provide a your own label or "Automatic" to use the
default label for the indicator. If the "Use Scale Color" check box is
checked, the label will use the inverse of the scale colors. Otherwise,
the label will be drawn using the indicator colors and the background
color of chart.
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Profile Indicator
- In Range Duration Option
A new duration option has been added to the Profile Indicator titled
"In Range". This option is similar to the "All Data" option in that it
considers all bars loaded in the chart. However, the In Range option
takes an numerical period which dictates how many prices above and below
the current price are to be considered in the profile. As an example, if
a period of 100 was specified, then the profile would look at all bars
in the chart, but would only process bars which were within 100 ticks or
price increments of the current price. This allows users to limit the
drawn profile to the relevant activity in general proximity of the
current trading area.
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Latest
Rithmic R | API for Zen-Fire/Rithmic Users
Investor/RT Version 10.0 adopts the Rithmic R | API Version
4.0.0.0. All trading orders sent to the Zen-Fire/Rithmic brokerage
destination are designated as Automatic or Manual trading orders. Any
trading order that involves some user interaction that initiates the
sending of the order are sent as manual orders. Orders that are sent by
some automation, e.g. a trading system rule or a signal action will be
marked automatic unless the trading order itself requires a user
confirmation before sending the trade to the broker. Any automatically
initiated trading order that requires a user interaction to specify a
stop or limit price, e.g. via a mouse click, will be sent as a manual
trading order.
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Layout Toolbar Tab
Sequencing Improvement
Each layout now has a layout sequence number. In the Layout
Toolbar, you can view and edit the sequence number and Save the layout.
Initially all layouts will have zero sequence number. After assigning a
sequence number to each layout, the tabs will appear left to right,
ascending by sequence number, the next time you start Investor/RT. if
you have 2 or more layouts with the same sequence number, they will be
sequenced alphabetically by layout name. Formerly, the sequencing of the
tabs was done solely on the layout name; editing layout names was
necessary to affect the alphabetical order of the tabs. It is not
necessary for the sequence numbers to be consecutive. For example, if
you have five layouts you could assign the layouts number like 10, 20,
30, 40, 50. Later you may want to add a new layout in second position,
so assign it sequence number 15, now you have 6 layouts numbered 10, 15,
20, 30, 40, 50 with layout tabs appearing in that order.
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Preferences
Panel for Configuration Variables
The Setup: Preferences: Configuration window provides a
simple user interface for adding configuration variable settings to the
configuration file (configure.txt). These configuration settings can be
setup the manual way by editing and saving the configuration file
directly (File: Open: Configuration File; enter a line into the window;
press Ctrl-S) but this new preferences panel has several advantages. The
window shows an alphabetized menu of configuration variable names making
them easier to find. A search feature is available via a Find box where
you enter letters and matching configuration variables are listed. Enter
the letter "c" and only those variables that begin with that letter are
listed. Enter * followed by any series of letters to find variables
having that series of letter anywhere in the name. A menu of common
search patterns is available, e.g. choose *color from the menu to list
all of the variables with names that include the word color, or *charts
to see chart related variables. When you select a variable name, the
window shows the recommended default value and the current override
setting. If you modify the override setting and click OK or Apply, a
line is added to your configuration file to set that variable to your
specified value. The configuration file display window can open
automatically whenever you apply a change to the file by checking a box
in the window. Many configuration variables have a value of true or
false, the others are numbers, like the SimulateTickDataDaysBack=50
variable described in item #19 below. There are three configuration
variables that are used to specify a color. A color can be specified as
three 3-digit numbers representing the red, green and blue component
values of the color. Item #18 below discussed two new color
configuration variables that can be used to specify the way scroll bars
are drawn when scrolled to present versus when scrolled back in time.
The Configuration window will show sample RGB values in the menus to
assist you when you wish to change any of these color configuration
variables.
Three buttons: View Configuration, Backup Configuration, Restore
Configuration enable you to view the current contents of the
configure.txt file; make a time stamped backup of the current
configure.txt file; and restore the configure.txt file from a backup.
Backups of the configure.txt file are stored in the admin folder with
time stamped names of the form: configYYMMDD_HHMM.txt. When you make a
backup file, a commentary line is added to the bottom of the file to
remind you of the date and time the backup copy was made. You can view
any backup file using File: Open: Admin File and choosing the file. You
can open any backup config file, inspect it, then do File: Save: Save As
and save it as configure.txt to update your current configuration. Note
that the new configuration settings take effect immediately when you
save configure.txt or do a Restore Configuration from the Configuration
preferences window.
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Chart Scroll Bar Color
Preferences
MS Windows users will notice that the multi-pane chart scroll
bar is displayed with the normal white background when the chart is
scrolled to present and real-time updates are being observed. When you
operate the scroll bar to look at periods of time in the past, real-time
drawing within the chart does not occur; the scroll bar dims to a gray
color. The appearance change reinforces that you are looking at data in
the past. When you later scroll back to present, the scroll bar returns
to white and real-time drawing resumes. Real-time data reception,
indicator calculation, alarm monitoring, etc. takes place within
Investor/RT charts at all times, whether scrolled to present or scrolled
back in time. When scrolled back, the chart is visually static; the
scroll bar color simply serves as a reminder that the chart is
displaying older data. Scrolling to present will make the chart dynamic
again, reflecting changes in the market as trades occur. Any new bars
formed or trades that occurred while the chart was scrolled back will,
of course, be reflected in the chart when you scroll it to present
again.
Some may prefer a different color scheme for chart scroll bars. For
example, you may want the scroll bar to be drawn in a more vibrant color
when charts are scrolled back in time as a stronger visual warning that
the values being observed are not the present market prices. Go to
Setup: Preferences: Configuration; Choose ChartScrollBackColor as the
configuration variable, then choose Yellow or Red from the menu of
Override Values; Click OK and thereafter, your scroll bars will be drawn
with the selected background color whenever you are scrolled back. You
may also adjust the color used to draw scroll bars when they are
scrolled to present by overriding the ChartScrollPresentColor variable
in similar fashion. The default white, gray, or light grey are
recommended override values for ChartScrollPresentColor. See item #17
above for more on using the Setup: Preferences: Configuration window.
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New
System quotepage .Invalids Lists Invalid Symbols
The system defined quotepage named ".Invalids" lista the
symbols that the market data provider has reported as invalid symbols.
This list is available after connecting to your real-time data provider
or after doing a "Current Quotes" download from Yahoo Finance. Opening
this quotepage may be useful in diagnosing setup problems. Users
tracking hundreds (or thousands) of symbols may use this to find symbols
that are no longer trading or those whose symbols have changed due to
exchange requirements. A single click to the Red Trashcan button on the
quotepage toolbar will delete all of the invalid symbols from your
setup.
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Technical Indicator Presets Housekeeping Improvements
Technical Indicator Presets hold user defined setups for
technical indicators; they are saved under a user specified name. You
can see a list of all defined presets in the Object Editor
(Open-->Object Editor) by selecting Presets as the object type. Presets
are also used internally by Investor/RT to save setups for indicators
having special scope. Instrument-specific indicators, for example, are
internally stored; these presets are added to charts when a specific
symbol is charted. Global indicators, e.g. a button that appears in "All
Charts, Any Instrument" are stored as presets and added to every chart
when it opens. These "scope presets" are stored with internally assigned
numeric names. The Object Editor now lists them along with user defined
presets so you can view them and delete them if desired. When you view
presets in the Object Editor, Investor/RT will perform housekeeping
automatically on the presets in the database, deleting any presets that
are instrument-specific where the specific symbol is no longer defined
to Investor/RT. Similarly, presets that pertain to a specific chart
where that chart name no longer exists will be removed. This
housekeeping is also done when the Full Maintenance is performed using
the Database Wizard window (Alt-U). When viewing a scope related preset,
the window title of the settings window has been improved to describe
the scope, e.g. "All @ES# Charts", or "All Charts" or "AAPL for Chart "MyStockChart".
Scope presets may not be renamed.
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Miscellaneous 10.4
Fixes and Improvements
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At startup 10.4 checks for key sub directories inside the Investor/RT
working directory and creates them if necessary. Folders such as admin
and tickdata must exist in the working directory for Investor/RT to
operate correctly.
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Multi pane charts setup to display background as a "gradient" would
sometimes revert to a gradient color of black. This bug has been
corrected in 10.4.
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String comparisons with the empty string are now possible in RTL, e.g.
SECTOR = "" will scan for symbols having nothing for the sector field.
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A rare bug would cause instruments with volume-like values over 10
million, e.g. $VOLD on eSignal, to auto scale incorrectly. Symbols this
extremely large price values now auto scale properly.
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A bug was fixed in the eSignal version. Open interest is now properly
download when daily bar data is downloaded for futures and options
symbols.
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When DTN MA is used in conjunction with a broker feed, and the host
ticker symbol having a correctly specified DTN alias symbol contains
special characters (slashes, quotes, colons etc.) the historical
download would fail. For example, a symbol setup as TICK/Q with DTN
Alias NASTICK.Z, would get an error, while a symbol like TICKQ with the
same alias would work fine. This has been corrected.
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A memory leak was fixed in RTL scans where the PROF (Profile Indicator)
was used in conjunction with the MPD (Mixed Periodicity) token.
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The Window-->Bring To Front menu has a new menu item titled "All
Alert/Message Windows". The effect is to show any open alarm windows and
message display windows in a staggered fashion in the main Investor/RT
task window.
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All Investor/RT Preferences windows now open as floating windows
positioned initially at the top center of the main Investor/RT task
window. This enables such windows to be left open and positioned on
other monitors if desired, and it also ensures that opening a
preferences window will result in a viewable window even if you have
open floating charts or quote pages inside the main Investor/RT task
window. In version 10.3 newly opened preferences windows could not be
seen if a floating chart or quote page was occupying the main task
window.
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An improvement was made to custom instruments where a custom instrument
composed of only a single component using a multiplier and the last
price will now carry the trading volume and the multiplier adjusted bid
and ask prices of the component symbol in the custom instrument. This
was only done when the multiplier was 1 in earlier versions. This allows
the custom instrument to product a real-time stream with matching
buy/sell volume of the underlying component.
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Investor/RT 10.4 has been updated to use the latest Transact/Infinity
API (Version 3.0.0.666). This release features improved real time
streaming data in high trading volume conditions.
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Candlestick wicks are now drawn with a bolder line when the candlesticks
reach 12 pixels in width. The wicks are drawn bolder again when the
candle body is 30 or more pixels wide. There is a configuration variable
for this new feature. Add a line to the configuration file:
CandleWickIncAtWidth=10, for example. The number you specify is the
candle body width at which the wicks begin to be drawn bolder. Users who
prefer the 10.3 rendering where all wicks are drawn as a thin 1 pixel
line, set CandleWickIncAtWidth=0. Use File: Open: Configuration File;
add the CandleWickIncAtWidth line; press Ctl-S to save the configure.txt
file. The new setting goes into effect immediately.
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The built-in help window opens taller and wider. The window typically
needed manual resizing in earlier versions; this should no longer be
necessary.
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Vertical lines in multi-paned charts are drawn to denote the beginning
of trading sessions and day of week transitions. A configuration
variable can be set to cause these lines to be drawn at a fixed height
rather than from bottom to top of pane. To adjust this setting do File:
Open: Configuration File; add a line to the file reading, for example:
ChartBoundaryLineHeight=16
Press Ctrl-S (or do File: Save: Save) to save the configure.txt file.
Boundary lines will now appear as short 16 pixel lines at the bottom of
the pane. To turn off boundary line drawing completely, use
ChartBoundaryLineHeight=0.
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Chart periodicities range bar, volume bar, change bar, ticks per bar,
Renko bar and others require underlying tick data to compute precisely.
If a chart with any of these periodicities has a View period that falls
within the tick data retention period of the symbol, then the chart is
rendered 100% with tick data. However, if the chart begins at some date
in the past where only interval bar data is available, Investor/RT must
in effect simulate tick data from the bars you have on file before your
tick data actually begins. By default, Investor/RT will produce
placeholder session bars for any bar data more than 50 trading days ago,
and will produce simulated tick data from the interval bars for the
period spanning 50 days ago up to the beginning of actual tick data on
the database. For example, if your tick data retention is 10 days and
your intra-day retention is 1200 days and you open a 1200 day range bar
chart, the resulting chart will have precise range bars for the most
recent 10 days, simulated range bars (produced from one minute data) for
the 40 days before that, and one bar per session for any periods older
than 50 days back. The default value of 50 can be adjusted by the user
by going to Setup: Preferences: Configuration and setting the variable
SimulateTickDataDaysBack to a larger or smaller number of days. The
default setting is ample for most users and charts load very quickly
with this setting at 50 or lower. Note that this setting is only for
"tick bar" periodicities that rely on tick data to load the bars. Time
interval charts are not impacted by this setting.
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The Full Data download function in multi-pane charts, market profile and
classic Footprint chart windows deletes all tick data on file for the
symbol before initiating the Full Data download. This is done because
otherwise Version 10.4 would not permit 1-minute data to replace tick
data that is already on file (as earlier versions did). Removing tick
data as part of the Full Data download function will result in Full Data
download behavior similar to Version 10.3 and earlier, i.e the tick data
retention period of the symbol will contain a fresh mix of one minute
and tick data returned from the download data source. The tick retention
period will contain 100% tick data if the tick data returned from the
Full Download covers the entire period. If the tick retention period is
longer than the period for which tick data can be downloaded, the
1-minute interval data will be retained for that period older than the
tick data delivered to Investor/RT.
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Chart annotations can include either the %START or %STARTDATE token to
note the starting date/time of the data in the chart. Both tokens show
the date of the first bar in the chart. For intra-day charts, %START
shows both the date and time of the first bar.
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Monthly charts update dynamically as trades occur. Prior to 10.4, only
daily, weekly, and intra-day charts were dynamic.
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The Edit-->Copy User Profile menu item no longer prompts the user with a
message; the profile text is copied to the clipboard and a message to
that effect appears in the main toolbar message area. If you wish to see
the text on the clipboard you can use Edit-->Show Clipboard, or if you
hold down the Ctrl Key while choosing Copy User Profile, the profile is
copied and is then shown in a text window.
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Chart definitions can now be copied to the clipboard by right-clicking
inside a chart and choosing Save-->Definition to Clipboard. This may be
useful if, for example, you are running multiple instances of
Investor/RT and wish to copy a chart definition from one instance to
another. After copying the definition, go to the other instance and do
File: Import: Definition from Clipboard.
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A bug was fixed relating to chart slide shows and floating chart
windows. When initiating a slide show from a chart's toolbar, the slide
show was incorrectly using the first floating chart window for the slide
show if there was one. The slide show now begins using the chart from
which the slide show was initiated.
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Investor/RT Final Release Candidate #6 fixed a bug having to do with
exporting tick data to a file. The fix adversely affected the Volume
Breakdown indicator if the VB was setup to "Consider Trades with Volume
< N". This has been corrected.
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The Periodicity Menu accessible by right-clicking in a multi-pane chart
was improved: choices for 60 minute and 405 minute periodicities were
added and a new menu itemed titled Whitespace enables the user to
quickly toggle time-based charts between whitespace and no-whitespace
drawing mode.
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Tranact/Infinity customers using Investor/RT can chart $TICK, $TRIN, $TQCX,
$TRIQ indexes. You must be enabled by your broker for these symbols. To
see if you have these symbols available to you, do File: Open: Admin
File and select the text file named TransActContracts. This file lists
all symbols that can be watched by Investor/RT.
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A bug, introduced in 10.4.3, that caused problems with the configuration
file (configure.txt), has been fixed in 10.4.4
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Chart Buttons purposed for toggling a preset indicator on/off in a chart
can now specify in the pane setup option whether to add the indicator to
the instrument pane in front or at the back of the list of indicators in
the pane. Most overlay indicators by default go to the front when adding
them. You can now override this behavior to force an indicator to always
be added behind the instrument and other indicator if desired. A few
overlay indicators such as the Profile and TPO indicators by default are
added to the back if you use "Default Pane" as the positioning choice.
You can now override this create a button that adds the profile
indicator on top of the instrument and other indicators in the pane.
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The RTL token YEAR has been added. When backtesting, this token can be
used is signals that need to test when the market entered into a new
trading year for example.
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The token %RETENTION can be used in annotation indicators to display the
tick and/or intra-day retention settings for the associated instrument
in a chart.
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Instrument selection lists used in various contexts in Investor/RT allow
you to type the first few letters of a symbol to locate a symbol
alphabetically in the selection list. As you type letters, the ticker
symbol cell in the selection list updates to show you the characters you
have matched thus far in the particular matching row. For example, if
you have AAPL and ABT in the list and you type the letter A, the
instrument selection will find the AAPL row and show the ticker as A|APL.
The vertical stroke character separates the letter(s) you have typed
thus far from the rest of the symbol. If you enter AB you see AB|T since
the 2 letters typed match the first two letters of ABT. Some users have
indicated that the vertical stroke character looks too much like the
letter I. A configuration variable is available for changing the
separator character that Investor/RT will use. Go to Setup: Preferences:
Configuration and pick InstSelectorSeparator and change its value from 1
to 2. Thereafter the ^ character will be used as the separator
character, e.g. IB^M indicates you have typed IB thus far and have
matched the symbol IBM. Values 1 though 9 will use punctuation
characters | ^ ~ > , & % * and + respectively as the separator
character. Setting InstSelectorSeparator to 0 or to a value greater than
9 tells Investor/RT to use a new method of displaying the letters typed
thus far in brackets followed by the actual symbol matched. For example,
when you enter the letters AA, the selected row in the instrument
selector will show [AA] AAPL to indicate you have typed AA thus far and
matched AAPL. If you then add a letter P, the cell will show [AAP] AAPL.
If you fully complete the symbol by entering an L, only AAPL will be
shown, i.e. the [bracket] notation is used only to indicate a partial
match. Note that it is not necessary to type further letters after the
symbol you want is selected by a partial match. Click OK or press the
return/enter key on the keyboard to complete the selection. For example,
when viewing a chart of IBM, type the letter A, observe [A] AAPL as the
selected row in the instrument selector, press enter and AAPL will
replace IBM in the chart.
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