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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


  1. 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).
  2. 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 .
  3. 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.
  4. 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".
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.