The new features and miscellaneous enhancements outlined below were introduced in the 3.0 Version.

Product Enhancements for version 3.0:
Release Date: May 8, 1998

• Drag and Drop.
• Automatic elimination of "bad ticks" in intra-day chart windows.
• Dynamic Reference Lines.
• Improved tick data editing during active trading periods.
• New Scan element and operator.
• New in 2.9.

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1. Drag and Drop
   The chart window is composed of at least one instrument and zero or more technical indicators, arrayed in one or more panes. Investor/RT now supports "selection" of one or more of these chart elements using the mouse. To select a chart element, click the mouse on the element. If the element is in a pane by itself you can click anywhere in the pane to select the element. If there are multiple elements in a pane, you must click "near" the element. For example, click on a line to select that element, or click on a candlestick to select the instrument whose candles are displayed. To select several elements, hold down the shift key as you click. Chart elements that are selected appear with hollow rectangles periodically displayed along the line. Bars and candles appear with a hollow rectangle above every few bars or candles. Volume histograms appear with each volume bar drawn hollow to indicate the volume histogram is selected.
   
   To de-select a particular element in the chart, hold down the shift key while clicking on it. Clicking the mouse in any window pane title bar de-selects all elements.
   
   The tab key may be used to cycle through each element within a chart window selecting each one in turn. Each time you press tab for former element is de-selected and the next element in the chart appears selected. The name of the item selected appears in the status message are of the main toolbar along with a count of how many items are selected in cases where the shift key is used for multiple selections.
   
   When one or more elements are selected there are three things you can do:
   
   a. Delete: Click the trash can icon in the chart toolbar or press the delete key (forward del key on Macintosh) to delete the selected element(s). Please note that if you delete an instrument, all of the technical indicators associated with the instrument will be deleted, even if they are not selected. Deleting the sole instrument in a chart window causes the window to close.
   b. Edit: Click the "Edit Chart Element" button on the toolbar or press "enter" to edit the properties of each selected element. If more than one element is selected, an edit window will open for each element in turn.
   c. Drag and Drop:You can drag and drop the selected elements into the same or into a different chart window. As you drag the selected element(s), the name of the last selected element appears with the cursor as you drag the selection with the mouse button held down. The action taken when you release the mouse depends on where you drop the element(s) and what kind of elements were selected. You can also modify the effect by holding down the cntl key (option key on Macintosh) while you drag and drop.
   
   Here are the drag and drop rules:
   
   a. When dragging within a single window, the cntl (option) key means "duplicate" the selection in the new location, otherwise the selected elements are "moved" from the former to the new location.
   b. When dragging from one chart window to another, the selected elements are always duplicated into the destination window. The selected elements will also remain in the source chart window. Technical indicators that are dragged to a different window will automatically be associated with the first instrument in the destination window, unless the instrument with which it is associated is present in the destination window. For example, if you drag a 10 period moving average on IBM into a chart window containing the instrument INTC, the 10 period moving average will become associated with INTC. If you drag a 20 period INTC moving average into a window containing IBM and INTC, the moving average will remain associated with INTC. Similarly if the selection you are dragging contains both an instrument and an indicator associated with that instrument, the indicator remains associated with the same instrument. When the window you are dragging to contains more than one instrument the first instrument in the pane in which you drop a technical indicator gets the association with the new indicator. If you drop an indicator to create a new pane, the association is with the 1st instrument in the chart (starting from the top pane downward). Similarly, if you drop an indicator into a pane that does not contain an instrument the first instrument in the chart gets the association.
   c. At present the "Reference Line" indicator and the "Trend Line" indicator are the only indicators you can drag and drop within the same pane. This is done to adjust the reference line's position within the pane or to relocate the trend line. Trend Lines are anchored at one end or the other as you move the other end of the trend line. You can duplicate a reference line or trend line by dragging with the cntl (option) key down. The original line remains the same as before the drag.
   d. If you drop the selection onto a pane's title bar, a new pane will be created "above" that pane and the selection will be placed into the newly created pane.
   e. If you drop the selection "inside" a pane, the selected elements will be added to the elements already charted in that pane.
   f. If you drop the selection into the view period area at the bottom on the chart window, the dropped elements will be added to a new pane at the bottom of the chart window.
   g. If you drop the chart selection someplace other than a chart window (not recommended), the drag and drop has no effect. While dragging between chart windows, the name of the selection is shown next to the arrow cursor only when the mouse is over a chart window.
   h. When you click to select an item for dragging, Investor/RT plays the "Object Selected" sound to give you audio feedback that an item has been properly selected. You may adjust the sound or specify no sound for this event in the Sounds Preferences panel of Setup:Preferences. The new select/drag/drop feature is extremely powerful and makes chart setup and modification a snap. Most of the work can now be done with the mouse. Dialog boxes are needed only to set indicator parameters when they differ from the default values you have set. Helpful Hint: Suppose you typically use 10 or so of Investor/RT's indicators. You can create a special chart object, call it "Favorite Indicators" or something similar and add each of the indicators you like to use in its own pane. The instrument shown in the chart doesn't matter, just pick any one at all. Now, resize "Favorite Indicators" very tall and narrow so you can see just enough of the title of each indicator in the window. Save the chart object. You now have a "pallet" of your favorite indicators already setup just the way you like them. Whenever you wish to add one or more of them to any other chart, just select, drag, and drop them onto other chart windows for quick and easy chart setup.
   
2. Automatic elimination of "bad ticks" in intra-day chart windows.
   The Data Validation "technical indicator" is another charting or scan indicator that inspects the data for some instrument and looks for exceptional conditions. The data validation indicator when used in a chart window now has an option to remove any data bars or ticks having a price that is outside some user specified acceptable range. The Data Validation indicator resides in the chart window and "recalculates" each time a tick arrives. If the tick is out of the user specified range, it is removed automatically from the chart. The bad tick has no effect on the chart or any other technical indicators in the chart window.
   
   Note that the data validation indicator does not delete the "bad ticks" from the database, is only removes them from the chart window. If you open another chart of the same instrument that does not have a data validation indicator in it, the "bad ticks" will be present.
   
   The Data Validation indicator also has a new checkbox titled "Auto-correct invalid bar data". When checked, the indicator will "fix" any bars where the relationship between open, high, low, and close is invalid (e.g. close less than low). The "fix" is to adjust the bar so that open, high, and low are all set to whatever the last value is. Note the these "auto" fixes will impact the calculation of any technical indicators based on the instrument. It is recommended that you first add the Data Validation indicator to the chart window with the "Auto-Correct" box unchecked to see if any invalid bar data is present in the chart, if so you may elect to fix it by turning on the "Auto-Correct" checkbox.
   
   Users tracking issues intra-day who have experienced bad data points occasionally will now be able to view "trouble free" charts for the entire trading session. By using the data validation indicator in all of your charts there should be no need to edit tick data manually any longer.
   
3. Dynamic Reference Lines.
   The reference line indicator has been enhanced to allow the reference line to adjust itself dynamically to the current trading high, low, last, etc. When adding the reference line to a chart, check the radio button "Use Current" and select the particular price value you wish the reference line to track: open, high, low, close (last), midpoint of high low range, average of high low last. Dynamic reference lines are most useful in intra-day charts.
   
4. Improved tick data editing during active trading periods.
   Improved tick data editing during active trading periods. Prior to version 3.0, editing an occasional bad tick from the intra-day data could be very fustrating when attempting this feat on a very active issue. The view/edit (time and sales) window would update so quickly that is was difficult to insert the cursor in a row long enough to press the delete key. In version 3.0, the view/edit (time and sales) window captures new ticks ONLY when there is no cell editing in progress. Once you click in a cell to edit the cell or in preparation of deleting the tick, dynamic updating of the window ceases until your editing is completed. The editing of a cell is completed when you press enter or return or when you press the delete key to eliminate the tick.
   
5. New Scan element and operator.
   The scan request language now as a new primitive scan element and a new operator. These additions make it possible to construct scan requests that pick instruments with any combination of monitoring options.