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Investor/RT
What's New in Version 3.3
The new features and miscellaneous enhancements outlined below were
introduced in the 3.3 Version.
Product Enhancements for version 3.3:
Release Date: September 15, 1998
- Introduction to
Investor/RT
A new document "Introduction to Investor/RT" is now available for
downloading from http://www.linnsoft.com/docs/
. This 60-page document provides a step-by-step guide for registering Investor/RT,
configuring the data feed, and setting up windows of each type. Data feed trouble-shooting
tips for each data service are also provided. The document is designed primarily for
new Investor/RT users and is provided in printed form to all new customers. The Startup
Guide is available in Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF) format. (approx. size 3.6 megabytes).
- Email directly from
Investor/RT
The Help menu has been improved to provide quick access to several useful help topics. In
addition a "New Message" command has been added to the Help menu to enable
Investor/RT users to send email messages to Linn Software without leaving the program.
Choose "New Message" from the Help menu. A message window will appear. Type in
your message and click Send. Investor/RT will use your established Internet connection to
route the message directly to support@linnsoft.com
.
- Delete Historical
Data now has "Single Instrument" option
Prior to 3.3 the Delete Historical Data window required a quote page to be selected to
indicate which instruments to process when deleting historical data. Now, to delete data
for one instrument, check the "One Instrument" box. A dialog box will appear for
selecting the instrument. Alternatively, fill in the ticker in space provided and the
"One Instrument" checkbox will be checked.
- Automatic Periodic
Sorting added to Quote Pages
New options have been added to the quote page object to enable the quote page to be
automatically sorted in a user-specified sequence when the quote page is opened.
Optionally, the quote page can be sorted periodically while the quote page remains open.
To set the global default quote page sorting option use the Setup: Preferences: Quote Page
Preferences window. Check the box "Sort quote page" and choose the data column
to sort on and the desired sequence, ascending or descending.
If desired, check the "Repeat sort" box and specify the frequency of the sorting
in seconds. To adjust the sorting option of existing quote pages, open the quote page and
click the Preferences icon on the quote page toolbar. When a quote page is sorted upon
opening and/or repeat sorted, the window title of the quote page window displays the
sorting options, for example ".Stocks (6687 issues) Sorted every 60 seconds by
Percent Change".
- Y2K Compliance
Y2K Compliance Revisions were made in version 3.2 and 3.3 to ensure proper operation of
Investor/RT under Year 2000 conditions. Charting, importing and export have all been
verified to operate properly with Y2K dates and market data in version 3.3. Various
displays have been updated to show a four digit year where appropriate. The data/time data
entry control used throughout Investor/RT works properly with dates past 1999. The year
displays as a 2 digit number in this control with 00 representing 2000.
- Wildcard Scanning on Ticker
When running a scan with the TICKER or NAME scan element, wildcard matching is now
supported. Use ? to represent any single character and use * to represent any span of 0 or
more characters. Thus the scan request TICKER = "????X" will identify all 5
letter tickers ending in X. The scan NAME = "*Put*" will match any instrument
that has the word "Put" in the security name.
- Auto Sorting of
Scan Results
The scan object has been improved to allow the quote page resulting from the scan to be
sorted automatically on any field or calculated value used in the scan request. In the
scan request window, after entering a new scan request, click the Check button to check
the syntax of the scan request for errors. Once you have checked for errors, Investor/RT
shows a list of potential sort columns in a list button. Choose ascending or descending,
then choose the sort data column. When the scan is run the resultant quote page will be
ranked (sorted) by the requested column.
- Keltner Channel
Study Added
The Keltner channel study consists of a moving average and two channel lines above and
below it. The channel lines are offset from the moving average line by a value equal to a
user-specified constant times the average "true range" of each bar. The true
range of a bar is calculated by inspecting the prices for the bar and the previous bar to
get the maximum absolute range of current high - low, current high - previous close, and
current low - previous close. Buy signals occur when the closing price of a bar breaks
above the upper band. Sell signals occur when the close breaks below the lower band. The
original Keltner study calls for an exponential moving average of (high + low + close)/3
and a single constant multiplier for both channel calculations. Investor/RT allows more
flexibility by enabling the moving average to be of any type and price indicator. The
constant multiplier for the upper band distance can be different from the lower band
constant if desired.
- Incremental (tick) Volume for Indexes
Some data feeds transmit a cumulative volume associated with an index. For example Signal
(and DBC Data Manager) sends the cumulative volume of trading on the NYSE as the volume
figure for the ticker symbol $INDU, the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Incremental tick
volume is not provided by the data feed. Investor/RT now simulates tick volume for indices
by calculating the incremental tick volume as the current volume minus the previous volume
for each tick. The result is that $INDU intra-day charts now show trading volume
underlying each minute bar (or tick) if requested.
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