The new features and miscellaneous enhancements outlined below were introduced in the 6.0 Version.

Product Enhancements for Version 6.0
Release Date: March 21, 2003

• New in 6.0 (March 21, 2003)
• Setting Alarms in Charts Using the Mouse
• Chart Buttons for Scaling Adjustments
• Minimized Windows in Layouts
• New Commands in Windows Menu
• New Indicator: (Logarithmic) Spirals  Tour Info
• Tick Filtering Feature Added
• Deleting All Trading Notes
• Database Cross Reference Utility
• Dynamic Instrument in Charts using Custom Profiles
• Custom Indicators - Ignore Zeroes Option
• Trading Holidays Enhancement
• Price/Time Profile Scrolling
• MACD Indicator Enhancements
• Schedules Triggered by Trading Signals
• Setup Instruments Window Improved
• New Drawing Style: Stepped Lines
• MA and EMA Indicator Enhancements
• New Technical Indicator: Profile  Tour Info
• Using "Custom Prices" in "Custom Instrument" Definitions
• Color Markers in Tick/Bar Charts
• Technical Indicator Preset Buttons and Drawing Tools
• Traditional Chart Viewing Period Enhancements
• Copying QuotePage and Portfolio Data to the Clipboard
• MPD "Bars Back" Option
• Chart Grid Lines and the Paintbar Indicator

• Intraday Data Compression
  When compressing the intraday historical database (see Control Menu), Investor/RT by default will discard all intraday data that is on the database for those instruments that are NOT marked for intraday data retention. Some Investor/RT users have requested the ability to retain intraday historical data after compression for all instruments, regardless of their intra=day monitoring/retention status. This is now an option in Setup: Preferences: Historical Data. At the bottom of the window there is now section titled "When Compressing…Delete Intraday data for all instruments not marked for intraday". This checkbox is checked by default. If you wish intraday data to be retained on all instruments when compressing, uncheck this checkbox.
• Setting Alarms in Charts Using the Mouse
  The Setup Alarms button on the charting toolbar has been enhanced to enable quicker and easier alarm level setting with a few clicks of the mouse. Click here for details
• Chart Buttons for Scaling Adjustments
  Buttons and button menus can be added to chart window panes for making scaling adjustments to that pane's vertical scale. The "text" of the button is a code that tells Investor/RT how to adjust the scale. For example, a "Change Scaling" button with a text code of "LOG" will toggle logarithmic scaling on/off when you click the button, while "Auto" will switch the chart pane to automatic scaling. The text codes are not case sensitive, i.e. a scaling button of "Auto", "AUTO" or "auto" will set the scaling to automatic. "Manual", "Man", or simply "M" will set the scale to manual and will open the vertical scaling preferences window so you can set the manual range there. 
  
  Range based scaling options take a three or four letter code followed by a colon and a number, e.g. RAR:10. All range based scaling codes begin with R (for range based). The second letter can be either A or I for automatic or instrument only ranged based. Last one or two letters indicate the type of scaling, e.g. L for "Last N bars", or "S" for slope, or "R" for range. Thus, RAR:10 means "Range-based automatic scaling with a range of 10 units on the vertical scale. RAL:50 means "Range-based automatic scaling using the last 50 bars", while "RIL:30" means "Range-based instrument only scaling using the instruments last 30 bars.".
  
  Menu buttons can be created by listing a series of scaling codes separated by commas, e.g.
  
  Auto, Man, Inst, RAR:10, RAR:20, RIL:20
  
  Here is a complete list of the scaling codes:
  
  ·  Auto - automatic scaling, can be abbreviated with just letter "A"
  ·  Man - manual scaling, opens dialog box, abbreviated "M"
  ·  Inst - instrument only auto scaling, abbreviated "I"
  ·  Log - toggle logarithmic scaling on/off
  ·  Alt - switch to the next alternate scale
  ·  RAR:n - range-based auto scaling using range of n
  ·  RAPU:n- range-based auto scaling using n pixels/unit
  ·  RAPP:n- range-based auto scaling using n percent of price
  ·  RARP:n- range-based auto scaling using n percent of range
  ·  RAS:n - range-based auto scaling using slope of n
  ·  RAL:n - range-based auto scaling using last n bars
  ·  RIR:n - range-based instrument scaling using range of n
  ·  RIPU:n- range-based instrument scaling using n pixels/unit
  ·  RIPP:n- range-based instrument scaling using n percent of price
  ·  RIRP:n- range-based instrument scaling using n percent of range
  ·  RIS:n - range-based instrument scaling using slope of n
  ·  RIL:n - range-based instrument scaling using last n bars
• Minimized Windows in Layouts
  Investor/RT now fully supports minimized windows in layouts. If a window of any kind (chart, quotepage, etc.) is minimized when a layout is saved, Investor/RT will obtain the normal (non-minimized) rectangular coordinates of that window and save those coordinates in the layout. Investor/RT will also make note that the window was in the minimized state when the layout was saved. When the layout is opened later, e.g. at startup or using the Open: Layout command, Investor/RT will initially open each window in its normal position. Each layout window that was minimized when the layout was saved will then be minimized. When you subsequently click the "Restore" button for a minimized layout window, the window will open to it normal position. For chart windows in particular this means all saved pane sizes will appear correctly when the window is restored to its normal size and position.
  
  Layouts that have been created using Investor/RT Version 5.9.7 or earlier, will not support this new handling of minimized windows until the layout is saved again. You can open any existing layout, position the windows as you like them, then minimize any windows you like and save the layout under the same name to replace the layout definition. From that point on opening the layout will operate as described above with regard to minimized windows.
  
  There are differences in the way "minimized" windows work depending upon whether you are using the Windows or Macintosh OS X version of Investor/RT. Minimized windows are not supported in the Classic Macintosh version of Investor/RT. In the Windows environment, minimized windows appear as small rectangular placeholders at the bottom of the Investor/RT task window workspace. Under Macintosh OS X, minimized windows appears as icons on the "Dock".
  The Windows version of Investor/RT also handles "Maximized" windows in similar fashion to minimized ones, i.e. if a window is maximized when the layout is saved, upon reopening the layout, the window will initially be opened in its normal position and then maximized. Thus when you click to "Restore" the maximized window it will return to its normal position.
• New Commands in Windows Menu
  Two new commands have been added to the Windows menu in Investor/RT. The "Minimize All" command minimizes all Investor/RT windows that can be minimized. Some Investor/RT windows, like preference windows, message boxes, and the like cannot be minimized. Most content windows, e.g. charts of all kinds, quote pages, portfolios, etc. can be minimized. Here is a way to utilize this command. Create an array of chart windows, say 6 charts and tile them so they are all of equal size and cover the entire monitor (use the Tile command in the Windows menu). Then issue the Minimize All command, followed by the Save: Save as Layout command. When you open that layout later you will add six windows to your workspace all of them minimized. You can then activate the particular window you wish to view by clicking the Restore button (Windows) or clicking on the icon for the window in the "Dock" (Macintosh OS X), or you can use the Bring to Front submenu (see below). The restored window will open to its original tiled position, the position it was in before being minimized when the layout was created.
  
  A "Restore All" command in the Windows menu will restore all minimized windows to their normal positions.
  
  The Bring to Front submenu under the Windows menu has been enhanced so that when choosing a window title from the menu, if that window is minimized, it will be "restored" to it's normal position before being brought forward as the front window. This is a decided improvement over prior releases in which Bring to Front selections would have no apparent effect when the chosen window was minimized.
• New Indicator: (Logarithmic) Spirals  Tour Info
  The Spiral (also known as the "Logarithmic Spiral") provides a link between price and time analysis, and can help in forecasting both price and time. Similar to indicators such as Fibonacci Retracements, Fibonacci Arcs, and Gann Angles, the Spirals indicators is based off a trendline which connects a significant high with a significant low. The spiral can be drawn in a clockwise and/or counter-clockwise direction originating from the endpoint of the trendline. To add the Spiral indicator to a chart, use the new Spirals tool on the charting toolbar. After activating the tool, mouse down and drag a trendline to connect any two points in the chart just as with the retracement tool.
• Tick Filtering Feature Added
  Tick filtering can be turned on using Setup: Preferences: General. The format for the filtering preferences is:
  
  Ignore ticks with move >= X and percent change >= Y
  
  The values for X and Y need not be integral, e.g. X = .5 and Y = 3.3 would cause Investor/RT to filter out incoming ticks which differ from the preceding tick in price by more than 50 cents where the distance in price from the prior tick exceeds 3.3 percent.
  
  RTL token BADTK can be used to reference the number of bad ticks filtered out for any instrument. For example, run the scan formula "BADTK > 0" to see a list of tickers with one or more bad ticks and the bad tick count for each one.
• Deleting All Trading Notes
  The trading notes window has been improved by the addition of a Delete All button. This button can be used to eliminate all trading notes on file for the selected ticker symbol. Confirmation is requested if there is more than one trading note on file for the ticker.
• Database Cross Reference Utility
  A new function has been added to the Database Utilities submenu of the Control Menu. The "Cross Reference Report" command produces a text file listing the usage of all instruments and technical indicators in charts, scans, trading signals, and custom indicators. The report is in a columnar format designed to be opened using MS Excel or some other spreadsheet application. Once open in a spreadsheet, the report and be sorted by column in various ways to show, for example, all charts, scans, signals, and custom indicators that reference a particular indicator.
  
  The report contains a series of lines, each line indicating a relationship between one "object" and a referencing object. The following kinds of relationships are included in the report:
  
  ·  Technical Indicators in Charts
  ·  Instruments in Charts
  ·  Scans In Charts (via Scan/Signal Marker indicator)
  ·  Signals In Charts (via Scan/Signal Marker indicator)
  ·  Custom Indicators Graphed in Charts
  ·  Custom Indicators in Charts (referenced by the Color Markers indicator)
  ·  Scans/Signals in Charts (referenced by the Color Markers indicator)
  ·  Scans/Signals in Charts (referenced by System Simulator indicator)
  ·  Scans/Signals in Charts (referenced by Signal Statistics indicator)
  ·  Custom Indicators in Charts (referenced by PaintBars indicator)
  ·  Technical Indicators in Chart (as technical indicator preset buttons)
  ·  Instruments in Scans/Signals/Custom Indicators
  ·  Technical Indicators in Scans/Signals/Custom Indicators
  ·  V# User Variables in Scans/Signals/Custom Indicators
  ·  V# User Variables (referenced by Reference Line indicator)
  ·  Instruments in Quote Pages
  ·  Instruments in Portfolios
  ·  Instruments used in Custom Instruments
  ·  Instruments in Quick Quotes
  ·  Signals in Trading Systems
  
  Additional relationships of interest will be added in future releases.
• Dynamic Instrument in Charts using Custom Profiles
  A new feature of Custom Profile charts have allows the custom profile to dynamically feed instruments into Traditional Charts. Custom Profile charts are designed to display extreme sorted levels of data, like "highest 10 in percent change in a given quotepage" or "lowest 20 in volume in a given quotepage" or, more generally "highest/lowest X in value Y in quotepage Z", where X is any number of instruments to be displayed, Y is the value on which the instruments are to be evaluated and ranked, and Z is the quotepage from which to obtain the list of candidate instruments. In all cases, the result of the ranking is a profile of instruments, with the extreme lowest or highest value at the top of the profile. A new option within the Custom Profile preferences labeled "Substitute Instrument X into chart Y" allows the custom profile to dynamically feed the instrument which is in the Xth position from the top of the profile into any named chart. The instrument in the named chart will be updated each time the profile is recalculated. The recalculation of the custom profile is controlled by the "Recalculate Every X Minutes" option within the custom profile preferences. Recalculation can occur automatically as often as every 6 seconds (0.10 minutes).
  
  Multiple custom profile charts may be used to control multiple traditional charts. For instance, you might have 3 different custom profiles open, each calculating the same value, with one feeding the instrument #1 in to one chart, another feeding instrument #2 into another chart, and another feeding instrument #3 into a 3rd chart. So the result is three traditional charts dynamically showing the top three instruments based on your criteria. Since custom profile rankings can be performed using Custom Indicators, this new feature enables automatic charting based on custom indicator rankings.
• Custom Indicators - Ignore Zeroes Option
  With some creative use of the RTL language, this new feature with the "Custom Indicator" preferences can be very powerful. The feature is provided using a new checkbox labeled "When Drawing, Ignore Zero Values". When this option is turned on, lines will be drawn only between "non-zero" values. Bars for which the custom indicator result is 0 are ignored for drawing purposes. This provides the ability to have lines connecting data values on non-consecutive bars, skipping over the zero value bars.
  
  This concept will be better understood after considering a few examples. In the following simple custom indicator:
  
       (CL > OP) * CL
  
  This custom indicator will result in either "CL" or "0" for each bar. If CL > OP is TRUE, then the expression (CL > OP) evaluates to "1", and the final result is simply "1*CL" or "CL". On the other hand, if CL > OP is FALSE, then the expression (CL > OP) evaluates to "0", and the final result is therefore "0*CL" or "0". Since approximately half (or more) bars will have a result of "0", we want to exclude those values from consideration when actually drawing the custom indicator line within the chart. In other words, we only want to connect the closing prices (CL) of the bars for which the closing price is greater than the opening prices. To provide a more general expression:
  
       (EXPRESSION) * (VALUE)
  
  Where EXPRESSION can be any logical (TRUE/FALSE) expression (including SCAN = 1), and VALUE can be any arithmetic expression (including CI). A more useful example might be a custom indicator that would connect MSH (or Market Structure Highs):
  
       (HI.1 > HI.2 AND MA < HI.1) * (HI)
  
  The token MA in this case is used to look ahead one bar. MA should be setup as a 1 period simple MA of high, shifted left 1 bar. Similar, MSLs can be connected using the following custom indicator:
  
       (LO.1 < LO.2 AND MA > LO.1) * (LO)
  
  In this case, the MA would be setup the same except for the "high" price should be changed to a price of "low".
• Trading Holidays Enhancement
  Investor/RT uses a file named Holidays.txt located in the admin directory/folder to determine which trading sessions have trading holidays on which dates. By default, the Holidays.txt file included in Investor/RT installers specifies "global" (all sessions) holidays for all U.S. Market holidays for the year or two ahead. Users who track instruments that trade on exchanges outside the U.S. must revise the Holidays.txt file to distinguish between U.S. session  holidays and trading holidays specific to international exchange sessions. This subject is discussed in detail in the Help Topic "What's New in Version 5.6", item #27 Session Specific Trading Holidays.
  
  Investor/RT update installers will install the latest default holidays.txt file each time you update to a new release. It has therefore been necessary for users who have customized their holidays.txt file to assure that they reinstate their own customized holidays.txt file after each installation. Effective with the next release of Investor/RT, users can permanently override the holidays.txt file normally used by Investor/RT by placing their own holidays file in the admin directory/folder under the filename "myholidays.txt". All users who now have customized holidays.txt file should duplicate the current holidays.txt file and name the duplicate myholidays.txt.
  
  At startup Investor/RT will first look for myholidays.txt and if present, these override holiday definitions will be used. If there is no myholidays.txt file present in the admin folder, the standard holidays.txt file will be used. This will enable Investor/RT installers to update the standard holidays.txt file as time goes on without disturbing the user's customized holiday settings. It will be the responsibility of the user to periodically inspect the myholidays.txt file contents and keep it up-to-date.
• Price/Time Profile Scrolling
  The left and right arrow keys on the keyboard will now scroll the price/time profile chart forward/backward one day (session) at a time.
• MACD Indicator Enhancements
  The MACD preferences have been enhanced to provide more flexibility over both calculation and display. Three independent moving average types are now specifiable: one for the short term moving average, the long term moving average, and the signal moving average. In the past, all three moving averages were calculated using the same moving average type. Also, the short and long term moving average now have independent "price" choices. In the past, both shared the same price type. This added flexibility provides for calculations such as the difference between the short term exponential average of the high and the long term weighted moving average of the low. To use the "classic" MACD indicator, specify the same moving average type and price.
  
  In addition, the Signal and MACD drawing options, presented when the "oscillator" option is unchecked, have their own independent drawing styles. One may choose to draw the MACD as a solid histogram, with the Signal as a continuous line overlaying the histogram. The drawing of the Signal or MACD lines/histograms is also optional. In the past, when "oscillator" was unchecked, both the Signal and the MACD lines would be drawn unconditionally. In Investor/RT 6.0 and higher either or both may be drawn, depending on which are checked.
• Schedules Triggered by Trading Signals
  The Scan/Signal Marker indicator has been enhanced to provide the option of running a particular schedule when the scan or trading signal is true on the current bar. Prior to Investor/RT Version 6, the user had the option to alert with a sound, or with a notification window. By allowing associating the alert with the running of a schedule, trading signals now have access to all the flexibility that schedules allow. Scheduled actions include sounding alert sounds, emailing QuotePages, opening charts, printing, running keyboard shortcuts, and much more. As with other alert options in Scan Markers, the running of the schedule will occur at most once per bar. If the signal fires multiple times per bar, the schedule will be run only the first time the signal fires for that bar.
• Setup Instruments Window Improved
  The Setup: Instruments window has been divided into basic and advanced sections. The advanced settings can be viewed by clicking a disclose button at the lower left of the basic setup window. A "Cancel" button and a "Help" button were added. Investor/RT makes note of the state of the setup window (basic or expanded with advanced settings) when you close the window and will reopen the window to the same size the next time you request it. The keyboard shortcut Alt-A (Command-A on Macintosh) will open the window. The esc key is equivalent to clicking the Cancel button to dismiss the window. The enter key is equivalent to pressing the rightmost of the four buttons in the basic setup section of the window. This rightmost button can be titled "Add" or "Modify" or "Close" depending on the contents of the ticker symbol entry box.
• New Drawing Style: Stepped Lines
  Many technical indicators have an option for drawing style. These include Continuous Line, Connected Line, Solid Histogram, Hollow Histogram, Custom Histogram, and Two Line Color. A new drawing style appears in this list in version 6.0 called "Stepped Line". A Stepped Line is composed of only vertical and horizontal lines. The small horizontal line across each bar represents the indicators value on that bar, and the small vertical lines connecting these horizontal lines represent the difference between each bars value (change). Stepped Lines have two colors, one color for the horizontal lines, and a second color for the vertical lines. This new drawing method makes it easier to visualize the change from bar to bar of an indicators value by observing the height and direction of each vertical line. Stepped lines also make it easier to pinpoint the exact price level of the indicator, via a more pronounced horizontal line segment at each price level.
• MA (Moving Average) Indicator Enhancements
  The Moving Average (MA) and Exponential Moving Average (EMA) indicators have been enhanced by providing options for drawing type. This enhancement will open up MA and EMA lines to be drawn as Two Color Lines, Stepped Lines, and Histograms. These advanced drawing type options, which already exist in a number of indicators including Custom Indicators, will be rolled out to many others in the near future. If an indicator currently does not support these drawing options, it still may be possible to implement the drawing of this indicator by first create a Custom Indicator that simply represents the indicators value. The drawing types are then available to Custom Indicators.
• New Technical Indicator: Profile  Tour Info
  A new Profile indicator has been added to the growing list of indicators available in Investor/RT. The Profile indicator is a close relative of the existing Price/Time Profile standalone chart type. Profiles allow the user to overlay a price-based profile over a traditional intraday chart. The Profile provides a "Price/Row" preference which dictates the height of each row. The width of each resulting row will represent how many bars during the session in which that row's price range was touched. If the periodicity of the chart is 5-minute, and the width of a row is 3 bars wide, then the range of three of the 5-minute bars for that session actually overlapped the price range of that row.
  
  The widest row is called the Point of Control (POC). The Value Area (VA) is commonly considered the area in which 70% of the price action transpired. This percent level is adjustable, as some prefer to use alternate VA % levels such as 80%. Options for drawing the current and previous POC and VA lines are provided in the Profile preferences. Another option dictates how many sessions for which the Profile will be computed and displayed. The Profile may be drawn as Solid or Hollow Blocks, Solid or Hollow Ovals, Dots, or Lines. A "Hide Profile" checkbox gives the user the ability to hide the actual profile and draw only current and/or previous POD and VA lines. The "Current" and "Previous" POC and VA lines are also optional, as well as VA and POC labeling.
  
  The scan token to reference the Profiles indicator results is "PROF". When the Profile is used in the context of a scan, signal, or custom indicator, a "Result" option is presented at the bottom of the preferences window, which dictates what value will result from the PROF token. The "Result" options include "Upper VA (Curr)", "Upper VA (Prev)", "Lower VA (Curr)", "Lower VA (Prev)", "POC (Curr)", and "POC (Prev)".
• Using "Custom Prices" in "Custom Instrument" Definitions
  When setting up a custom instrument, each component of the custom instrument references a "Value" of some instrument. Supported values include: last, bid, ask, high, low, and other more specialized values. The Value used can also be a particular V# user variable value of the component instrument. However, when V# values are referenced by a custom instrument, the V# values must be independently set, by a periodically run scan for example.
  
  In Investor/RT Version 6, the notion of "Value" has been extended more generally to include custom indicator formulas expressed in the RTL language. The formula must be formed by references to instrument properties or the current OHLC prices. No references to historical value, e.g. CL.1, or technical indicators is supported.
  
  This is accomplished using one of the "Custom Prices", P1 through P8 as the Value choice when setting up a custom instrument. Each custom price P1 – P8 is associated with a custom indicator which provides the formula for computing the custom price (value). For example, a simple custom indicator such as:
  
  (CL + CL + HI + LO)/4 ; (close weighted average price)
  
  might be used as the custom price value when computing the sum, difference, or ratio between two instruments. First create the custom indicator and save it. Then go to Setup: Preferences: Prices-Custom and setup one of the eight custom prices with the name of this custom indicator. Then use that Pn custom price as the value choice when defining the components of any custom instrument.
  
  Only current properties and the current values of OP, HI, LO, CL, and VO can be used in the formula. References to current prices of specific instruments can be included, e.g.
  
       (CL(IBM)/CL(MSFT) * CL); (a dynamic ratio multiplier)
  
  is a custom price value that computes the current ratio of the current price of IBM and MSFT and uses that ratio as a multiplier times the current price of the component instrument.
• Color Markers in Tick/Bar Charts
  The color marker indicator can now be used in traditional charts having periodicity tick or N ticks per bar (Tick Bar Charts).
• Technical Indicator Preset Buttons and Drawing Tools
  Buttons can be added to traditional charts with a purpose of "Add/Remove Preset Indicator". Such buttons provide a convenient way to "toggle" an indicator on and off using a predefined setup. The Preset name specified in the button setup provides all of the indicator settings. This feature of Investor/RT works very well for most indicators, those with instrument independent settings, e.g. Moving Average, MACD, RSI, etc.
  
  A few indicators, however, have date/time or other settings that are very specific to an instrument. For example consider a trendline from some significant high to a significant low. Since the trendline setup needs the specific dates to use when drawing the trendline, a preset which specifies those date in advance is of little. All of the technical indicators that are date/price dependent have a drawing tool on the chart toolbar. To draw a trendline, for example, you click on the trendline drawing tool, use the mouse to connect two significant points in the chart, and the default trendline preferences are used to draw the trendline with the color and line width and other options.
  
  Investor/RT 6.0 incorporates improved behavior of indicator preset buttons for those indicator presets that have drawing tools on the chart toolbar. When you click on a Preset Button in the chart for such an indicator, Investor/RT will first attempt to find an indicator with that identical setup and if present, the indicator will be deleted. If no matching indicator is found, Investor/RT will determine if the preferences of the preset are sufficient to draw the indicator. If so, the indicator will be added to the chart. If not IRT will activate the corresponding drawing tool for the indicator and will set the drawing preferences so that upon completion of the drawing activity using the mouse, the preset settings of the button will be used to add the new indicator to the chart. This new method opens up the possibility of have several "trendline" preset buttons for example. You could have one button for drawing red trendlines, another for drawing green trendlines. When you click either preset button, the trendline drawing tool is activated. After drawing the line connecting the two points in the chart, the trendline will be drawn using the setup (red or green) of the preset button you used to initiate the trendline drawing tool.
  
  There are three indicators (Reference Lines, Linear Regression, and Fibonacci Retracements) that have setup options that "automate" the drawing of the indicator. For example, a regression line setup may have the "Automatic Using Last N Bars" option turned on. This preset will cause the regression indicator to be added immediately to the chart, whereas a regression preset with the "Automatic…" option turned off would invoke the regression line drawing tool. A similar option exists for an automated Fibonacci Retracement indicator using the "Automatic Using Last N bars" option. For Reference Lines, the line drawing tool is activated only when the reference line preset calls for a "Specific Price" level. Other options that peg the reference line to a particular price value such as high, or low price will cause the reference line to be added immediately when you click the preset button.
  
  There are rare cases where a "non-automated" setup for some indicator may in fact be saved as a preset and assigned to a button. In such cases it would be unnecessary (and even inconvenient) to invoke a drawing tool rather than adding the indicator immediately. In such cases, the user can "force" a preset to be added immediately to the chart by holding down the ctrl key (option key on Macintosh) when clicking on the preset button. The ctrl key tells Investor/RT to add the preset indicator to the chart immediately regardless of the indicator type and settings of the preset. Some users might use the ctrl-click method to quickly add some indicator and then use the keyboard or mouse to adjust it, for example.
  
  Here is a list of indicators for which preset buttons activate the corresponding drawing tool (unless the ctrl key is held down when clicking the button)
  
  ·  Andrews Pitchfork
  ·  Fibonacci Arcs
  ·  Fibonacci Extensions
  ·  Fibonacci Projections
  ·  Fibonacci Retracements (with the "Automatic" option unchecked)
  ·  Fibonacci Time Zones
  ·  Gann Angles
  ·  Reference Lines, Horizontal (with Price Source set to "Specific Price")
  ·  Regression Lines (with the "Automatic" option unchecked)
  ·  Spirals (Logarithmic Spirals)
  ·  Trendlines
  ·  Vertical Reference Lines
  
• Traditional Chart Viewing Period Enhancements
  Improvements were made in Version 6.0 to enable traditional charts with view periods ending on a specific date/time to be dynamically updated during market hours IF the specific ending date/time is "in the future". For example, you can setup a chart with a viewing period of "1 day ending mm/dd/yy hh:mm", where the mm/dd/yy specifies the current date and hh:mm specifies the session ending time. Such charts will show blank space, as you would expect, for all bars beyond the current time of day. The current bar will update dynamically, new bars will fill the chart from left to right as time passes. This contrasts with charts that have viewing periods of "Last N days" or "Begin to Present", where the current bar is positioned at the right and data shifts to left as time passes. The look ahead bars setting does not apply to charts that have a specific ending date time. Charts that have a specific ending date time "in the past" are, by definition, static charts, i.e. the arrival of new trades does not affect them since all data lies in the past.
• Copying QuotePages and Portfolios to the Clipboard
  A new Save menu item and some new keyboard shortcuts now make it possible to quickly copy the entire textual content of a quotepage or portfolio to the clipboard. Use the File: Save: Save to Clipboard command from the menu bar. Two new "Save" actions were added to the Setup: Keyboard Shortcuts window: "Save: Object as Text" and "Save: Object Text to Clipboard". The "Save: Object as Text" shortcut function prompts the user for the output file name where the text will be saved. Save Object Text to Clipboard displays the clipboard showing the textual content of the front window. At present the "Save: Object Text to Clipboard" function (and the new menu item) only operate on quotepage and portfolio windows. The text of the quotepage or portfolio cells is placed on the clipboard in "tab-delimited text" format. This means that the clipboard contents can be pasted directly into MS Excel spreadsheets with a Ctrl-V (Paste) command.
  
  These new features will be especially useful as a means of quickly transferring the results of a scan to MS Excel. Suppose F2 is setup as the "Save: Object Text to Clipboard" shortcut. A scan runs and a quotepage opens showing the data for the instruments found by the scan. Press F2 to populate the clipboard, then Alt-Tab to switch to the MS Excel application and press Ctrl-V to paste the list of tickers and other data into a spreadsheet.
• MPD "Bars Back" Option
  A new option has been added to the MPD (Mixed Periodicity Data) indicator to allow the user to access data any number of bars in the past. The preference is implemented via a checkbox labeled "Bars Back" and an edit box where the number of bars back is specified. As an example, a user may wish to access the previous day (session) high on an intraday, 5-minute chart. In the past, in order to do something like this, it was necessary to first create a custom indicator with the syntax "HI.1", and then use the custom indicator as the data source within the MPD preferences. In and effort to eliminate the need for this extra, time-consuming, step of creating a custom indicator, the "bars back" option was added. Now, the previous day's high can be accessed by simply specifying "Mix Periodicity: Daily", "Data Source: Instrument Data: High", "1 Bars Back", and "Stretch" checked. No more need to create a custom indicator. This new method is not only less time consuming during setup, but also more efficient internally. This method could be use to access the low two days ago, yesterday's moving average, yesterday's close, the CCI three days ago, etc., all without the use of an intermediate custom indicator.
• Chart Grid Lines and the Paintbar Indicator
  Traditional charts containing a Paintbars indicator will display grid lines properly in Investor/RT 6.0. In prior releases, one of the disadvantages of using the Paintbars indicator for chart background painting was that grid lines were overlaid by the background painting. For more information on using Paintbar indicator, click here.