What's New in Version 8.6
Several new features and miscellaneous enhancements, available now in
our latest release,
are outlined below. Click here to download.
New in 8.6.3 Released
March 23, 2007
New in 8.6.2 Released
Feb 28, 2007
New in 8.6.1 Released
January 16, 2007
New in 8.6 Released
December 22, 2006
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Market Playback
Investor/RT now offers a comprehensive Market Playback (replay)
feature. Tick data and/or bar data for one or more instruments can be
replayed into your Investor/RT workspace at a user specified playback
rate (actual, 2x, 10x, 20x, etc). The Playback feature operates with all
dynamic Investor/RT window types including traditional charts, Market
Profile Charts, Footprint Charts, quotepages, times and sales, windows,
etc. Tick data is fed into the Investor/RT workspace in proper time
sequence to provide a realistic simulation of many symbols trading in
concert. For details on this new capability, click here.
NOTE: The Version 8.6.3 Playback feature is being released in
preliminary form. Some planned features are not yet supported. Please
experiment with this new facility and provide feedback and suggestions
to support@linnsoft.com.
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Spacebar
Shortcut for Downloading Historical Data
Traditional charts, Market Profile, and Footprint Charts allow
the user to press the spacebar to request historical data for the chart.
Some clients may wish to disable this feature to avoid accidenttal data
downloading. To disable the space bar shortuct, go to Setup:
Preferences: Charts: General and uncheck the box titled "Press Spacebar
to Download". If you wish to setup an alternate keyboard shortcut for
downloading historical data, use Setup: Preferences: Keyboard Shortcuts.
Downloading Data may also be initiated from the chart's toolbar or by
clicking the Download Data button at the lower right corner of these
chart types.
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Adding Reference
Lines to Traditional Charts
In traditional charts, holding down the Ctrl key (Option Key on
Mac) and double-clicking inside the chart body or inside the price scale
area places a reference line at the mouse location. Conversely, if you
ctrl-double-click on an existing reference line, the line is removed.
These shortcuts save a trip to the chart toolbar to activate the
reference line tool when you want to add a line, and it eliminates a
step when removing lines (you can click on a reference line to select it
and press the delete key to remove). The new method for adding/removing
reference lines in traditional charts is similar to the method used in
Market Profile charts. In Market Profile charts the ctrl-double-click
must be inside the price scale area. In traditional charts it can be in
the scale area or inside the body of the chart.
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Multithreading of DTN Historical Server Requests
Investor/RT now performs DTN Historical downloads using threads.
Up to four requests can be active at a time, independent of the
real-time data reception thread and Investor/RT user interface. This
infra-structure improvement applies to both MS Windows and Macintosh OS
X platforms and to all versions of Investor/RT that employ DTN
historical services. The improvement results in an improved user
experience for all clients using DTN historical data. Quotepage
downloads for multiple symbols are now exceptionally fast, completing
downloads at the rate of up to 3 requests per second.
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Miscellaneous
8.6.3 Fixes and Improvements
A bug was corrected in Trading Orders affecting Stop Limit order
setups destined for Interactive Brokers via AutoTrader. These order
types are now sent correctly to Autotrader.
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Various problems were corrected in the TPO technical indicator,
including memory leak issues.
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The Volume Breakdown indicator has two additional result types: "Average
Buy Size" and "Average Sell Size".
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A bug was fixed in the Yahoo! Finance Current Quote downloading
function. Mutual fund prices are now captured correctly.
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Users of the IB version of Investor/RT will now see a warning message
box when connecting to TWS if one or more symbols are setup improperly
and/or are unrecognized by IB/TWS. Detailed messages can be viewed in
the "message log" immediately after connecting to TWS by choosing Open:
Message Log from the File Menu. The shortcut for opening the log is to
double-click in the main toolbar message area.
IB users who subscribe to the DTN historical service often have ticker
symbols that are valid only for DTN downloading purposes. These symbols
will typically cause an error message when you connect to IB/TWS because
the symbols are unrecognized by TWS. For such symbols, you can specify a
downloadling alias of "NO IB" (5 characters, uppercase, no quotes). This
tells Investor/RT that no IB real-time data is expected for the symbol,
thus Investor/RT will not ask for real-time market data and no error
messages will result for that symbol. A checkbox will be added to the
Advanced section of the Setup: Instruments window in a future release to
enable this declaration to be made more easily.
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Yahoo! Finance Current Quote download function is operational again.
Yahoo! revised the URL for downloading current quotes and this required
a programming change in the software.
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The Candlestick Pattern Recognition (CPR) Indicator was improved to
operate on tick/bar, range bar, change bar, and volume bar
periodicities.
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Improvements were made to the price box in the vertical scale of
traditional charts to position the box appropriately when you scroll the
window, resize the window, or adjust the scale with the mouse.
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Drawing hollow up candles with the chart's border color set to the same
color as the chart background would make the up candles invisible. This
erroneous combination of settings is detected now and the up candles are
drawn with the up color as the border color instead. As long as the
candle border color is set to something other than the background color,
that color is used to draw the border around the hollow up candles.
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Using eSignal Investor/RT, sending trading orders to Interactive Brokers
via Autotrader was not possible for the AB futures. This has been
corrected. The eSignal instrument (AB #F) must be setup with a brokerage
alias of ER2 M7 for example. Note the space between ER2 and M7 is
required so that Investor/RT can properly recognize the future code is
ER2. In earlier versions, Investor/RT would see ER2M7 and mis-interpret
the underlying future code to be ER rather than ER2. For brokerage
alias, eSignal users should specify the IB underlying future code (ER2
in this example) followed by a space, the month code, and year code.
Also, the IB future code must be setup properly in the Setup: Futures
window to enable trading orders to be composed properly.
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A bug was fixed in the Chart Setup Wizard. Entering multiple symbols for
the chart now work properly. Further, traditional charts produced with
multiple symbol are now automatically setup with multiple scaling in
effect for pane where the symbols are placed.
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Share Picture Command (Charthub) Now Available on Macintosh OS X
The Share Picture command is now available to users of the
Macintosh OS X Edition of the software. For more information on sharing
Investor/RT images and setup definitions via charthub.com, go to Setup:
Preferences: Sharing. Then press F1 to access the built-in Help topic
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New Display Format: 40ths
40ths display format has been added to Investor/RT. This format was
added specifically for the Crude Oil E-mini which trades in 0.025
increments. When this format is assigned, the prices will be displayed
to 3 decimal places, but more importantly, Market Profile charts and TPO
Indicators set to "Automatic" Price Range will properly pick up the
0.025 tick increment of the symbol (QM).
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Market
Profile Enhancements Limitations Removed
In prior releases, Market Profiles were limited to 29 profiles per
chart, and to 256 letters per profile. The limitation of 256 letters per
profile commonly caused problems for those that wished to merge 20 or
more days of profiles. The limitation of 29 profiles per chart was
increasingly becoming an issue for various combinations of settings,
including dynamic profiles and merged profiles. These limitation on
letters per profile has been completely removed, allowing as many
profiles to be merged as a user wishes. The limitation on profiles per
chart has been greatly expanded, to 150, which should satisfy just about
any combination of Market Profile settings. Keep in mind however that
while it is possible to load as many days/profiles into a chart, the
user should still only load what he needs, as the additional days can
slow down various aspects of the operation of the chart (calculations
and drawing).
Value Area & POC In Scale
The current and previous value areas (VA), and points of control
(POC) are now highlighted in the scales of the Market Profile charts.
The VA is highlighted in gold, while the POC is highlighted in yellow.
The left scale highlight the previous day VA & POC, while the right
scale highlights the current developing VA & POC.
Current Price Highlighter
The Current Price has always been highlighted in pink in both
the left and right scales. In 8.6.2, the current price is highlighted
across the entire chart. This was done to provide the user with a
clearer indication of where price is currently trading across all
aspects of the chart.
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Improvements to
Saving/Sharing Images
Investor/RT 8.6.2 adds a new folder named "images" inside the
installation folder. When you use the Share Picture command, PNG images
are now saved in the images folder rather than the admin folder. When
using the Save As Picture command it is recommended but not required
that the image be saved in this location. The Save As Picture command
now honors the "Output File Name" user setting in Setup: Preferences:
Import/Export. If this setting specifies "Prompt for File Name", you
will be presented with a dialog box in which to specify the name of the
file to be saved and its save location. This is how the Save as Picture
has performed prior to 8.6.2. However, if the "Use the Object Name"
setting is used, the image is saved without a prompting message using
the name of the object with .PNG appended to the file name. PNG files
saved in this fashion will be saved in the images folder.
Keyboard shortcuts are available for Share Picture, and Save Picture.
Both of these shortcuts, if defined, operate on the front window at the
instant the shortcut function key combination is pressed. Two more
shortcuts have been added. These are titled "Share Picture, No Comment"
and "Share Picture, No Definition". If these shortcuts are defined, they
perform the Share Picture command overriding the user preferences for
comments or including definitions. For example, if the Sharing
preferences call for prompting ("Ask Me") for a comment, then issuing
the keyboard shortcut "Share Picture, No Comment" will perform the Share
Picture as if the user preferences called for "Never" including
comments.
Sharing a Picture without the necessity of answering prompting message(s)
is important if the image you wish to share is sensitive to the position
of the mouse pointer when the image is created. Investor/RT creates the
images after these prompting messages are completed. These prompts are
undesirable if you wish to show a chart with a particular bar
highlighted or the info box or pane title feedback positioned at a
particular bar in the chart. If you normally include comment prompting
as your preferred Sharing setup, then adding, for example, F2 as a
shortcut for sharing with no comment will produce an image with the
mouse positioned at the desired location when F2 is pressed.
The Share Picture command now considers user preferences found in the
Setup: Preferences: Import/Export Preferences panel when sharing
pictures of charts and their associated definitions. When chart
definitions are exported, they can carry a user comment if desired. This
comment appears when a recipient imports the chart. When sharing chart
images, the Sharing Preferences can be setup to have Investor/RT prompt
for a comment as well. This comment will appear on the web page on
charthub.com where the chart image and associated definition are posted.
If the Sharing Preferences are setup to ask for a comment and the
Import/Export preferences are also setup to ask for a comment, then
Investor/RT now asks only once for the comment. The supplied comment is
used both on the charthub web page and inside the definition that goes
out with the chart. If the Import/Export preferences call for either "no
comment" or a "fixed comment", then that preference will be honored when
creating the definition to accompany the chart image. Only when both the
chart and the definition are setup to ask for a comment is the same
comment used for both purposes. This eliminates the need to respond to
two dialog boxes when sharing a chart and its definition.
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Session Statistics
Enhancement - All Bars
The Session Statistic Indicator was enhanced to allow
computation of statistics across "All" bars in the session, in addition
to the "First X" and "Last X" bars of the session. In the past, users
commonly specified "First 999 Bars" in order to accomplish this result,
but this solution will handle charts which could involve more than 999
bars per session. As an example of how this might be used, in order to
get the lowest low of the day, the user would specify "Lowest Price:
Low: of All Bars of the session". And to get the low of the previous
day, the same settings would be used in combination with "Multi-Session
Statistic: Value X Sessions Back: X = 1".
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Volume
Breakdown Indicator - Up/Down Tick Breakdown
The Volume Breakdown Indicator (VB) has been enhanced with an
option to divide up volume by "Up Tick vs Down Tick Volume". In the
past, volume was always broken down between Ask Traded and Bid Traded
volume. Now, the user has a choice of dividing up Buy and Sell volume as
either "Ask Traded vs Bid Traded Volume" or "Up Tick vs Down Tick
Volume. When "Up Tick vs Down Tick Volume" is specified, each trade that
occurs on or after an uptick is placed in the buy volume category, while
any trade that occurs on or after a downtick is considered in the sell
volume category.
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Keyboard Shortcuts for Market Profile and Footprint Toolbars
Setup: Preferences: Keyboard Shortcuts no supports setup of
function key shortcuts for any of the toolbar buttons on either the
Market Profile or Footprint Chart Toolbar. Choose "Toolbar, Market
Profile" or "Toolbar, Footprint" as the action, then pick the particular
toolbar function to be assigned to the designed function key. This
improvement also enables the user to define schedules that perform
various Market Profile or Footprint related functions since a schedule
action can execute any keyboard shortcut.
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Quotepage Column: Sector/Industry/Market Capitalization
Add the quotepage column "Sector/Industry/Cap" to see the sector,
industry group, and market capitalization for equities in the quotepage
in a single composite column. This new column combines three columns
into one, enabling two additional columns that may have otherwise not
been allowed (quotepages are limited to 30 columns). The primary benefit
however, is gained by sorting a quotepage by Sector/Industry/Cap. This
gives you the effect of a 3-column sort. Stocks are listed
alphabetically by sector with the industry groups alphabetical within
each sector. All the stocks within an industry group are listed in
descending order by market capitalization. A sample quotepage is
available for viewing on charthub.com at
http://www.charthub.com/images/2007/02/10/Some_Stocks.png
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RTL Improvements for Text
Variables
A number of improvements have been made in RTL to facilitate
the manipulation of text variables using the SET function. Each
instrument defined to Investor/RT has 32 user text variables whose RTL
tokens are T#1, T#2, ... T#32. Each of these can hold 30 characters of
text. In addition, there are several additional built-in text variables
for each instrument that have corresponding RTL tokens. RTL nows
supports SET statements of the form:
SET(target, source)
where target and source are any of the text tokens in the language. Text
tokens include all T# variables and USERDATA, ALIAS, NAME, INDUSTRY,
SECTOR, and CURRENCY. If the source token's text is empty, the target's
text does not change. If the source text begins with + the text
following the + is appended to the target's existing text. Otherwise the
source text replaces the target's former text. There are now four
special token names you can assign to any text variable to manipulate
the text of the variable. There are CLEAR, UPPERCASE, LOWERCASE, and
CAPITALIZE. Examples are shown below:
SET(T#1, SECTOR); SET(T#2, T#1);
Here's a scan formula that uses the + to append some text to the
USERDATA token conditionally.
IF (CL > STAT) THEN SET(USERDATA, "+ New High %DATE");
The STAT token is setup to find the highest high for some period of
interest. When the scan runs and finds an instrument closing above its
long term high, the text " New High mm/dd/yyyy" is appended to the user
data. The %DATE token in the quoted string is replaced by the current
date.
SET(USERDATA, CLEAR);
SET(SECTOR, UPPERCASE);
SET(T#30, LOWERCASE);
SET(INDUST, CAPITALIZE);
SET(T#3, (USERDATA= "*BUY*") ? "+***" : "+???");
T#3 will have "***" appended to its text for all instruments having the
letters "BUY" anywhere in the user data text. Instruments without the
BUY text will have "???" appended the T#3.
IF (CURRENCY != "?*") THEN SET(CURRENCY, "USD") ELSE SET(CURRENCY,
UPPERCASE);
If the CURRENCY field for the instrument is empty (i.e. it does not
match the pattern above), then set the currency to "USD" (US Dollars),
otherwise uppercase all characters in the currency code field of the
instrument.
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Miscellaneous 8.6.2
Fixes and Improvements
A bug was fixed in the IB Version that affected clients tracking equity
and index option contracts. IB/TWS now transmits real-time updates of
"delta" and "implied volatility" for options. Investor/RT has been
enhanced to capture this information. IB users who add "Delta" and
"Implied Volatility" to quotepages will see the IB calculated
(transmitted) values.
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The File: Open menu has a new menu item "Futures File". This command
displays a text file named futures.txt which is used at startup by
Investor/RT to setup definitions for various futures contract types.
Generally, this file is updated from time to time when you install
software upgrades and user editing of this file is not recommended.
Viewing this file may be useful for diagnostic purposes.
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A bug was fixed in the Share Picture facility. When sharing chart
definitions, the software now properly handles the Sharing user
preference on whether to share "Button" setups along with the chart
definitions. Prior versions were always excluding button setups. Chart
button setups will not be included unless the user checks the box
calling for buttons to be excluded from chart definitions.
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When viewing intra-day time interval traditional charts in the days
following a trading holiday, in particular when viewing an override day
session where the underlying instrument is followed in an overnight
trading session, chart anomalies would result due to overnight session
data present on the database for the symbol. This holiday related
problem has been corrected; all ticks/bar data for the trading holiday
date are now filtered out of the day session bars when the data is
initially fetched from the IRT database. Even if overnight data is
downloaded later which contains trades that occurred on the holiday date
(e.g. for viewing other overnight session charts), that data will no
longer affect day session charts that view a period of time spanning a
trading holiday.
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On the MS Windows platform, Investor/RT is optimized for viewing at a
display DPI setting of 96 DPI (Normal Size). Users of Version 8.6.1 and
earlier who elect to use "Large Size (120 DPI)" will typically see
misplaced controls in certain Investor/RT dialog boxes, for example
those containing color setting controls, date controls, etc. While, we
continue to recommend that the Normal Size (96 DPI) Windows XP Display
setting be used, the dialog box anomalies in 120 DPI mode have largely
been corrected in release 8.6.2. For more information on this DPI
related issue see http://www.linnsoft.com/qa/a/21.htm. This issue is not
applicable to the Macintosh platform.
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A shortcut was added to enable the user to exit Investor/RT without
making a backup, a way of overriding the "Backup When Quitting" user
preference. Hold down the shift key and the ctrl key (option key on
Macintosh) as you make the File menu selection to Quit or Quick Exit.
For MS Windows user, a shift-ctrl click to close the Investor/RT task
window exits the application without making a backup.
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Setup: Preferences: Keyboard Shortcuts now has a "Save All" shortcut in
the "Save" category. The user may now setup a function key to perform
the Save All command in the File Menu. The effect is to issue a Save on
each open window, saving any changes made to each window's setup.
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Holding down the spacebar for a few seconds was causing multiple,
unintended download requests to be issued rapidly if a chart window is
the front most window. Improvements have been made for traditional,
Market Profile, and Footprint chart windows to keep such rapid spacebar
characters from setting off unintended download requests. A message will
be displayed in the main toolbar message area and a beep will sound
periodically to inform the user that spacebar characters are being
ignored by the chart. This could indicate that you are unintentionally
keeping the spacebar depressed, or perhaps that your keyboard's spacebar
is stuck in the down condition.
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When revising color controls from a preferences window associated with a
floating window, the color selector window was appearing on the main
screen for multi-monitor users, rather than one the screen where the
preferences window appears. This has been corrected.
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Investor/RT historical data importing was improved to accept dates in
the hyphenated form yyyy-mm-dd (e.g. 2007-02-17). Adding this format
fixes a Yahoo! downloading issue where historical data is sometimes sent
in this newer format. Investor/RT recognizes dates in a wide variety of
formats: 2007-02-17, 20070217, 17-Feb-07, 17-Feb-2007, 02/17/02,
02/17/2007 are all recognized as February 17, 2007. When importing data
manually, there is a user preference to specify European date format.
When this is checked, slashed dates have the month and day reversed,
e.g. 17/02/2007 or 17/02/07 are interpreted as Feb. 17,2007
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In a traditional chart window, you can click on an indicator to select
it, the issue Ctrl-C or use the Edit menu to Copy that indicator to the
clipboard, then activate another chart and Ctrl-V or use Edit Menu to
Paste the indicator into a different chart. If you click on an
instrument graph (line/bar/candle) to select the instrument, Investor/RT
simply copies the ticker symbol of the instrument to the clipboard. You
can then open a quotepage window and paste the ticker into the quotepage
or go to another application, like a web browser and paste the ticker
into a form for example.
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Portfolio windows can now show the previous days close for each
position. Right-click in a column heading and choose Add Column to add
the "Prev Close" column to any portfolio window. Along with the $Change
column you can see the actual change in price in the position since
yesterday's close and the associated increase/decrease in each
position's value since yesterday's close.
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The (IRC) Chat window now a new toggle "Chart" toggle button at the
lower right corner to make it easy to view web page URL's that appear as
messages during a chat session. For example, when a user shares a chart
image via charthub.com, the URL of the image web page is automatically
placed on the clipboard so the user may click inside the chat input line
and "paste" the URL into the chat room to let other users in the chat
room know how to locate the image. Users interested in viewing the image
can simply click anywhere on the line containing the URL, then click the
"Chart" toggle button. The web page will then open in your default web
browser. Note that it is not necessary to precisely select the actual
URL text, just click anywhere on the chat line that contains the URL you
wish to view.
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Traditional Chart Right
Margin Setting
A new setting is available in traditional chart preferences to
allow the user to specify a right margin. The right margin, expressed in
pixels, is designed to reserve room at the right side of the chart for
annotations and reference line labels that might otherwise be obscured
by instrument and indicator graphs. In earlier versions, the "Lookahead
Bars" setting was often used to accomplish this objective, but this
technique is unsatisfactory for small values of the "Pixels Per Bar"
setting. The new Right Margin setting is independent of "Pixels Per
Bar". It reserves a fixed amount of space to the left of the vertical
axis in which bar data will not be drawn. Typically a setting of 30 to
40 pixels is ample for reference line labels shown at the right end of
the reference line. The Right Margin and the Lookahead Bars setting work
together. When Lookahead bars is zero, the Right Margin is the actual
number of pixels reserved. If both Lookahead Bars and Right Margin are
specified, Investor/RT computes the amount of margin that will be
contributed by the lookahead bars. This is function of the Pixels Per
Bar setting. Only if necessary are additional pixels reserved for the
margin. The best way to see the interplay between the two settings is to
create a simple candle chart with a reference line showing a label at
the right. Specify 10 Lookahead bars and 40 pixels of right margin. Then
use the up and down arrow keys to expand and contract the pixels per
bar. As pixels per bar rises to 4 and higher, the lookahead period of 10
bars is wholly sufficient to provide the 40 pixels margin. However, as
the pixels per bar declines to only 1 pixel, the right margin is still
maintained at 40 pixels even though the lookahead period alone would not
suffice.
The Lookahead Bars setting for traditional charts is a setting used to
provide space for extending trend lines and regression lines into the
future. For example, when viewing a daily chart with a regression line
calculated on the last 100 trading days, you may wish to see where that
regression line predicts the price of the instrument will be in say 30
periods (days). So specify Lookahead at 30 bars and setup the regression
line to "Extend Right" and observe where the line intersects the price
axis. The lookahead bars setting is also employed when you "pan" a chart
to the left or right using the "Pan" tool on the chart toolbar. Panning
enables you to adjust the Lookahead period dynamically using the mouse
so you can see reference lines or trend line/regression line extensions
that would otherwise be "off the chart".
The Lookahead bar count and the Right Margin pixel setting each have
their own purpose. These two settings can be used independently or in
combination. If you have been using the Lookahead setting to provide
white space for reference line labels, we recommend you change your
chart setup to use a suitable right margin setting instead. Doing this
will ensure that the reference line labels are not obscured by other
graphs as you adjust the pixels per bar with the up/down arrow keys.
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CQG Support for MarketDelta
Users
The CQG data feed will soon be supported in the MarketDelta
editions of the software. A CQG version will be available for beta
testing in the near future. Contact support@marketdelta.com if you have
interest in beta testing.
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NinjaTrader Trading
Order Improvement
Trading Orders destined for NinjaTrader can specify a NinjaTrader
strategy name and strategy_id with a trading order to uniquely identify
an instance of that strategy to which the order pertains. This
specification of strategy_id is especially important if the Investor/RT
user has multiple trading position in progress. Trading orders for
exiting the position or adjusting stops and targets must have a way to
unique identify which position the trading order pertains to. The
strategy id can be specified by the user as some arbitrary string of
letters and digits, or it can be specified as a T# variable or V#
variable where each instrument has a unique value. This enables the user
to have multiple positions open on difference instruments and each
instrument has it's own unique strategy_id. The V# or T# approach does
not enable you to discern between multiple open positions of the same
instrument however. To make this possible, the strategy id may now to be
specified with the syntax &V#n, where n is a valid user variable number.
The ampersand preceding the V# declaration is important. It tells
Investor/RT that the strategy_id will be a number that Investor/RT
assigns and that the assigned number should be set into the specified
V#n for the instrument. Thus if you want to execute several concurrent
trading position using NinjaTrader strategy named "MyStrategy" on an
instrument you could setup one trading order to initiate a position
using V#30 using "MyStrategy[&V#30]" in the trading order strategy
setup. You could have another trading order setup to initiate a position
using "MyStrategy[&V#40]". When open positions are working on the same
instrument, the instrument's V#30 value will then contain the unique
strategy_id for one of the positions and V#40 will have the strategy_id
of the other. You can then have trading order setup to exit those
positions using "MyStrategy[V#30]" and "MyStrategy[V#40] (no
ampersands). Use the [&V#n] syntax on the trading order that initiates
the position and use [V#n] syntax on related trading order setup that
exit or modify the position in some way.
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Market Profile Improvements
Custom Colors and 24hr Session Market Profile charts have a "Custom"
option for coloring letters. This options gives the user the ability to
customize the color of each letter by clicking on the appropriate letter
in the time line at bottom of the chart, and then choosing that letter's
color. This feature however is limited to 30 colors, and did not work
properly in prior releases for sessions that involved more than 30
letters, such as the 24 hour session (number 31). In version 8.6, if the
session involves more than 30 letters, the last 29 letters colors will
be customizable, with the first letters sharing the same color. So for
instance, session 31 involves 48 letters. The first 19 letters will
share a color, while the last 29 are customizable.
In addition, if the chart is set to Session 31, shift-clicking within
any overnight letter (the first 26 letters), results in all overnight
letters getting set to the selected color. Similarly, shift-clicking
within any RTH letter (last 14 letters), results in all RTH letters
getting set to the same color. For those using overnight session 31, a
start letter of U will resulting in the a first RTH letter of D, while a
start letter of R will resulting in a first RTH letter of A.
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TPO Indicator - Value Area
% Option
The TPO Indicator has been enhanced by giving the user the ability
to specify the Value Area Percent. The most common percent used, and the
default, is 70 %, but the user now has the freedom to change that %
level if he chooses, similar to the flexibility in Market Profile
charts.
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Market Profile:
Toggling Reference Lines
Reference
lines in Market Profile charts can now be added and removed easily
by simply double-clicking on any price in the price scale of the chart.
The double-click action will add a reference line at that price if one
does not exist, or remove an existing line. This makes it easy for users
to quickly add and remove lines on demand to MP charts without going to
the trouble of opening up the preference window and specify the price.
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Market Profile:
Additional Reference Lines
A new capability was added to Market Profiles to greatly expand the
number of reference lines that a user can add to the chart. This
capabilty works as follows. The user plugs in a reference line with the
following format:
Label: V#+x
Value: V#y
Where x controls the number of V# variables that will be used, and y is
the V# variable at which to start. As a specific example, suppose the
user plugged in the following:
Label: V#+3
Value: V#10
The result will actually be 4 reference lines. The V# variables used
will be V#10 plus the next 3 (V#11, V#12, and V#13). Reference lines
will be drawn at the price values specified within for those 4 V#
variables. User can add quotepage columns for each of their V# variables
to provide a way to quickly change these values (by just changing the
value directly in the qoutepage cell). To take things to an extreme, the
user could specify:
Label: V#+511
Value: V#1
And have 512 reference lines, all the way from V#1 through V#512.
In addition, users may now transfer the following MP data out to V#
variables: High of Current Profile (=DHI), High of Previous Profile
(=HI), Low of Current Profile (=DLO), and Low of Previous Profile (=LO).
For more information on this feature, please visit:
http://www.linnsoft.com/qa/a/102.htm
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Market Profile Fonts
Users can now shift-click on the "Blocks" button in the Market
Profile InfoBox to toggle through different letter fonts. The button
will toggle through all the available fonts in the operating system. The
works nicely in combination with the "Color" and "BG" buttons which
allow the user to cycle through the letter and background colors to come
up with just the right look.
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Market Profile Charts at
Session Open
Market Profile charts, prior to this release, were reloading their data
and recomputing the chart at the session open. This was causing
excessive delays for some users so now the charts will just continue
processing the data at session open without any reloading or recomputing.
This should result in a much smoother open for those with lots of MP
charts, or lots of data on symbols in MP charts.
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Market Profile: Value
Area in Info Box
The Market Profile Info Box was enhanced to show the value area high and
low (VAH & VAL).
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Time and Sales "No Trade" Color
A new color control was added to the Time & Sales window to the
right of the "Show All Bid/Ask/Size Change" check box. When this check
box is checked, this color will be used to color quotes which are
non-trades (zero volume), which involve only changes in bid size, ask
size, bid price, or ask price. This will allow the user to quickly
identify actual trades.
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New Draw Types for
Technical Indicators
A number of technical indicators are provided with several
options for drawing styles, including "Line, Continuous", "Line,
Connected", "Histogram, Hollow", "Histogram, Solid", "Histogram,
Custom", "Line, Two Color", and "Line, Stepped". Several of these
drawing styles involved two colors. Those that involve two colors are
painted based on either whether it's a rising/falling value (from
previous), or whether it's a positive/negative value. This has always
been a global option in Investor/RT, controlled by a setting in "Setup:
Preferences: Charts: General", and thus forcing all indicators to share
the same setting. Four new options have now been added to the drawing
types: "Histogram, Hollow (U/D)", "Histogram, Solid (U/D)", "Histogram,
Custom (U/D)", and "Line, Two Color (U/D)" in addition to changing four
of the existing options to "Histogram, Hollow (+/-)", "Histogram, Solid
(+/-)", "Histogram, Custom (+/-)", and "Line, Two Color (+/-)". With
these new options, the user now has independent control over how each
indicator is colored: (U/D) is colored based on whether the value is Up
or Down from the previous value, while (+/-) is colored based on whether
the value is positive or negative. User who previously used the global
"Rising/Falling" option, will have to update their indicator settings to
the new (U/D) choices for the indicators they wish to be painted based
on rising/falling values.
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Zig Zag Indicator- Hide
Trend Lines
A new "Hide Trend Lines" check box was added to the Zig Zag
indicator that allows user to hide the trend lines while the labels
remain visible. This can reduce clutter in the chart while still
displaying important information through the labels.
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Improvements to
Volume Breakdown Indicator
The Volume Breakdown indicator has been enhanced with several new
options. In the "Results" listbox at the top of the Volume Breakdown
preference window, users will now find options for:
- Buy Volume % - Percent of volume within each bar which was
classified as buy volume (traded at or above the ask).
- VWAP - Volume weighted average price of each bar. Each tick is
weighted by it's volume to produce a weighted average price of all ticks
within each bar.
- Big Volume % - Percent of volume within each bar which was
classified as "Big Volume". "Big Volume" is defined as any trade with a
size greater than a size specified to the right of the "Consider Only
Trades With Volume" check box. That Volume Box will be editable whenever
"Big Volume %" or "Big Trade %" results are selected.
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Big Trade % - Percent of Trades within each bar which was
classified as "Big Volume". This result simply deals with the number of
trades, as opposed to the size of those trades.
Also, in the Volume Breakdown indicator, the word "accumulate" has now
become a listbox with choices "Accumulate", "Average", "Maximum", and
"Minimum". WIth these options, in addition to "accumulating" the days
values, the user can also average those values, or find the highest or
lowest value of the day (or of the entire charted period). The "Average
Days Values" works especially well in concert with the "VWAP" result
option, to get a very accurate number of the volume weighted average
price of the day, built using every tick.
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Volume Breakdown:
Normalized Delta
An option was added to the Volume Breakdown indicator to allow the user
to "Normalize" the result. When the "Normalize" checkbox is checked, the
VB Result (such as Delta) is divided by the volume and then multipled by
100, to give in effect a positive or negative percent of total volume.
For instance, a normalized delta of 34 would mean that the delta was
positive, and 34% of the total volume. A result of -100 would mean that
all the volume traded in that bar was sell/bid volume (negative).
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Volume Breakdown: Delta
Momentum
Two results were added to the Volume Breakdown Indicator: Delta Momentum
and Delta Mom Count. Delta Momentum essentially sums up the delta values
while the per bar delta remains on the same side of the zero line. When
delta turns from positive to negative, the result will reset to that
negative values, and the result will continue to accumulate while the
deltas remain negative. When delta becomes positive, the result will
reset back to that positive value, and accumulate from there while delta
remains positive. Delta Mom Count works in the same way, except it
simply counts how many bars delta has remained positive or negative
consecutively. A value of -5 means we've had 5 consecutive negative
delta bars.
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Reference Line & Trend lines Alerts on Indicators
In the past, reference line or trend line alerts have been based
on instrument price crossing the line value. In version 8.6, a reference
line or trend line that is placed in a standalone (non-instrument) pane
along with a technical indicator, will alert based on the indicator's
value crossing the line, instead of the current price of the symbol.
Users can now add reference lines to panes involving CCI, RSI, MACD, and
other standalone indicators and be alerted when the indicator's value
crosses the reference lines. The line may then be repositioned for
further alerts. This provides a quick and easy method of setting up
alerts on indicator values, eliminating the need to create individual
trading signals and associated signal marker indicators for each level.
This makes indicator alerts available to users that license standard
editions of the software without the RTL Language. Indicator alerts work
only in panes having no instrument. The association of the reference
line or trend line to the target indicator is done automatically to the
first indicator in the pane that is not a reference line or trend line.
In cases where you have more than one candidate target indicators in the
pane, use the Pane Ordering feature to position the indicator you wish
to monitor at the top. If you have two indicators that you wish to setup
alerts on, each should go into its own pane. Some of these restrictions
may be relaxed as we move toward a more generalized method of allowing
an indicator to be associated with another indicator elsewhere in the
chart in future releases of Investor/RT.
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New Technical
Indicator: Relative Slope (RELS)
Authored by Dimitris Tsokakis, the relative slope takes an
exponential moving average of typical price (HLC/3), commonly a 20
period EMA but the period is customizable. It then takes the resulting
values, and for each value, the previous value is subtracted and the
result is divided by the sum of the two values. These results are then
further smoothed with a 3 period EMA. The RTL Token for the Relative
Slope is RELS. A common system for trading the RELS would be to buy when
it turned positive:
RELS > 0 AND RELS.1 <= 0
and sell when it turned negative:
RELS < 0 AND RELS.1 >= 0
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Volume Breakdown
Indicator Enhancements
See
http://www.linnsoft.com/tour/techind/vb.htm
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RTL Tokens: LAST#1, LAST#2,
LAST#3
In prior versions, the LAST#1 RTL token, and the Last.1 quotepage
column, reflected the price of the previous tick or trade, regardless of
whether the price of that tick/trade was different than the current
price. In 8.6 Beta 4, this has changed. LAST#1 (Last.1) now represents
the last price that was different than the current price (LAST). So if
price changes from 1387.50 to 1387.75, then LAST#1 would be 1387.50 and
would continue to be 1387.50 as long as the current price didn't change.
Once the current price ticks up OR down, then LAST#1 would change to
1387.75. Now users may rely on the custom indicator syntax LAST - LAST#1
to give them an indication of which direction price last ticked. This
custom indicator could efficiently be added as a custom column to show
which direction each symbol last ticked (and color coded accordingly).
Similarly, LAST#2 represents the price achieved prior to LAST#1, and
LAST#3 represents the price achieved prior to LAST#2. LAST#1 - LAST#2
and LAST#2 - LAST#3 custom indicators could also be used to look at the
prior two price changes.
To provide access to the previous 3 actual trade prices (regardless of
price change), new RTL tokens TICK#1, TICK#2, TICK#3 are now available.
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Yahoo! Screener Enhancements
The Yahoo! Screener feature (Setup: Screen) has been enhanced
significantly by making a number of additional criteria available for
screening.
- Share Price
- Market Cap
- Dividend Yield
- Beta (Volatility)
- Sales Revenue
- Profit Margin
- P/E Ratio
- Price/Book Ratio
- Price/Sales Ratio
- PEG Ratio
- Estimated 1 Year EPS
- Estimated 5 Year EPS
- Average Analysts Recommendation
The user can screen for these criteria to be above a certain level,
below a certain lever, or between two user defined levels. While the
Yahoo! Finance web site screener limits you to specific values for each
criteria, Investor/RT lets the user specify the exact numbers they would
like to use. The numbers available in the menu lists are guidelines;
enter any value into the entry boxes.
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Session Override
Added to Custom Columns
A "session override" feature was added to custom columns. This
feature functions similarly to the override available in various charts
and in back testing. When a custom column is set to an intraday
periodicity, the session override may be used to dictate the session
data that is loaded for calculation of the Custom Column value. This may
be especially valuable to futures traders who keep most of their symbols
set to the 24 hour session (#31), but would like to see certain custom
columns computed only on the RTH session data (session #2).
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Correlation
Coefficient and T# Variables
Users can now add the correlation coefficient indicator to a
quotepage as a custom column, but allow each symbol to be correlated
with a different symbol. This is done using the following procedure.
First, add a new symbol to your system with the ticker symbol "T#1" (any
T# text variable can be used). Make the T#1 symbol of security type
"Cash" (so that Investor/RT will not attempt to monitor it via the data
service). Now, in the Correlation Coefficient, set it up to correlate to
symbol "T#1". Now add T#1 as a quotepage column also, and for each
symbol, plug into T#1 the ticker symbol with which the row's symbol is
to be correlated.
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Miscellaneous Fixes and
Improvements
When issuing the Save As Picture command to create a PNG (Portable
Network Graphics) image of a chart or some other window in Investor/RT,
if you hold down the shift key, the resulting PNG image is also
displayed in your web browser (or whatever program you may have setup in
MS Window to open PNG (Portable Network Graphics) images.
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The Time and Sales (T&S)window was improved to periodically free memory
resources associated with the window. This reduces the memory usage of
T&S windows that are kept open for extended periods of time. For minimal
memory usage, use the T&S setup to display "Last N Ticks". T&S windows
setup for "All Trades" also benefit, but they can consume considerably
more memory because there is no limit to the number of ticks collected
for display. If you use the new option to view bid/ask changes along
with actual trades, it is strongly recommended that you use the Last N
Ticks setting rather than All Trades. The title bar of the T&S window
tells you the number of ticks (and bid/ask changes) currently available
for display in the window. If you wish to keep an eye on the Time and
Sales of one or more instruments, it is recommended that you make
something like "Last 100 Ticks" or "Last 500 ticks" your default
setting. This will minimize long term memory usage for T&S windows, even
if the windows remain open and updating for the entire trading session.
In addition, far less CPU resource is required to manage T&S windows
when the Scroll Rate option is checked.
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Custom Indicator technical indicator preferences includes a new setup
calling for the current value of the indicator to be maintained in a
user-specified user variable.
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A bug was fixed in the DTN IQFEED (Windows) Edition having to do with
trade volume showing up in the Time and Sales window even for bid/ask
changes. The tick volume is correctly shown as zero for bid/ask changes
now.
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Industry and Sector are available for inclusion in portfolio formats.
This enables portfolios to be sorted by industry or sector. Industry and
sector are available for downloading in all editions of Investor/RT
using Yahoo! Finance as the source in the Data Download window.
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A bug was fixed in traditional charting that was causing the chart to
end prematurely if the (rare) case that the chart contained more than
32,768 ticks or bars.
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There is a new trend line labelling option titled "Prices". When this
option is selected, the trend line will be labelled the number of prices
(or ticks) covered by the trend line. What constitutes a price or tick
is dictated by the symbols "display format" (in Setup Instruments
window). For instance, a display format of 99.99 results in prices of
0.01 ticks. A display format of 4ths results in prices of 0.25 ticks,
etc. This labelling option is available for other trend line-based
indicators as well including Regression Lines and Zig Zag.
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FILL, STOP, TARG as Market Profile Reference Line Values. Users may now
enter the text "FILL", "STOP", or "TARG" in any Market Profile reference
line's value field, and that reference line will be drawn at the
corresponding symbol's TR_FILL, TR_STOP, or TR_TARGET price.
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New Display Formats: Fives and Tens. Two new display formats, "Fives"
and "Tens" were added. These formats should be used for Instruments that
trade in $5 or $10 tick increments.
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Market Profile Button Shortcut. A new shortcut is available for the
Market Profile "OR" button. The OR button (Opening Range) can be
shift-clicked to change the opening range to a 1-min opening range, and
it can be ctrl-clicked to change to a 5-min opening range. A regular
click toggles the OR lines ON/OFF.
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When adding or modifying symbol setups in the Setup: Instruments window,
shift-click the "Add" or "Modify" button will apply the changes made
without clearing the window for entry of a new instrument.
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The Save As Picture and Share Picture commands (Windows Version) now
produce PNG graphic files that include the subject window's frame and
title bar.
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Display Format 128th price data is now shown in the format xxx^yyy where
the ^ symbol indicates the number following is the number of 128ths.
Formerly, 128ths display format caused price values to be shown as
reduced fractions.
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Setup: Preferences: General has a user check box titled "Disable Bring
to Front Menu". Many Investor/RT users seldom if ever use the Bring to
Front menu. Checking this box eliminates the overhead associated with
keeping the list of open windows available for selection. Some users who
routinely keep 50 to 100 or more windows open at all times, and/or those
who have well over 1000 charts, quotepages, and RTL objects setup will
benefit by checking this box. A large number of open windows coupled
with a large number of defined objects (whose names appear in various
menus) makes for considerably more memory usage and processing overhead
associated with opening and closing windows due to the requirement to
adjust the menu hierarchy each time. This new feature has been added to
reduce resource requirements under very demanding conditions to increase
product stability. When the Bring to Front menu is available (enabled),
you may disable it by choosing "Disable This Menu" from the menu itself
(the second menu item). Once the menu item has been disabled, it can be
enabled from the General Preferences window.
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A bug was corrected in the TPO Indicator, where the indicator would not
properly reset at the session open, but would instead continue with the
previous days VA & POC values.
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The Profile Indicator now works properly on tick-based period charts
(tickbars, volume bars, range bars, change bars).
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DTN.IQ (Legacy) and IQFEED (Windows Only) data feed support was improved
to use DTN provided time stamps for the time of each trade. At present
only the hour and minute of each trade is supplied by DTN. Investor/RT
reports the time stamp as HH:MM:01. DTN plans to introduce HH:MM:SS time
stamps in the next few months, adding SS seconds to more precisely stamp
the time of the trade. Prior versions of Investor/RT use the local
computer clock's time to timestamp each trade as it is received. This
method has the advantage of reporting the hours/minute/second each trade
was received, but can sometimes result in a trade being mis-recorded
into the incorrect minute interval. When historical data is downloaded
from DTN IQFEED the ticks and/or bar data supplied are based on the
trade times, not the "reception time" as recorded by Investor/RT.
The change to use the DTN supplied HH:MM time stamp will improve the
overall integrity of the resulting data. However, trade times will no
longer reflect seconds, at least for a few months; this means that
periodicities that are not whole minute intervals (e.g. 30 secs) will
not be possible using IQFEED until the HH:MM:SS timestamp transmission
begins in 2007. When timestamps are transmitted in HH:MM:SS form, DTN
will also begin tagging each trade with a unique tick sequence number.
This additional information will enable Investor/RT to more precisely
synchronize downloaded ticks with the realtime transmitted trades when
tick data downloads are requested during live trading sessions. At
present, Investor/RT synchronizes as best it can using the HH:MM time
stamps, but a small number of ticks that happen to occur while a tick
data download is being requested may end up being replicated twice in
the resulting data after the download completes. Once the tick sequence
number transmissions begins, these redundant ticks will no longer be an
issue. These minor imperfections are typically invisible to most users
but those using Footprint charts or Volume Breakdown indicators, or
tick/bar periodicities may be affected by the presence of a few
redundant ticks in charts after a download. Again, these imperfections
will ceased to be an issue once the tick sequence numbers begin
transmission in 2007.
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Traditional chart buttons with purpose "Change Scaling" were ineffective
if the button belonged to the "button pane" at the top of the chart
window. Such buttons work fine when they are placed inside the pane
whose scale is to be adjusted. When such a button resides in the button
pane, the scaling revisions are now applied to pane beneath the button
pane.
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Market Profile/Footprint Charts, Toolbar/Multi-linking Improvements
The Market Profile chart and Footprint Chart now has a download button
and a multi-link color button in the lower right corner of the window.
These corresponded precisely to the identical buttons present in
traditional chart windows. This improvement means that Market Profile
charts and Footprint charts can now participate in color coded groups of
charts that multi-link together. For more information on the use of the
multi-linking feature of Investor/RT see this help page.
The Market Profile floating toolbar has been expanded to include buttons
for activating chart features formerly available only inside the "Info
Box". This will facilitate access even when the info box is closed.
Showing and Hiding the Market Profile toolbar is available by
shift-clicking on the multi-link color box at the lower right corner of
the window, as you can do with traditional charts. The toolbar includes
button help for each icon as you point at them. Activate button help if
necessary, by right-clicking in the message area of the main toolbar and
choosing Button Help to "checkmark" that menu item.
The Footprint floating toolbar has been expanded to include buttons for
adjusting the background color, turning on/off grid lines, session
override, TPO Style, and Profile display. Just as in the Market Profile
toolbar, the background color button cycles through a series of colors.
Hold the shift key down while clicking this button to move in the
reverse direction through the color series.
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Rate of Change, ROC
Summation Indicators
These indicators have been enhanced to permit
specification of periods with V# variables. This enables these
indicators to be optimized by the trading system optimizer in the Pro
Complete edition of the software.
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TPO Indicator:
Bands and Auto Tick Increment
The TPO Indicator has several new options. First, an option for
"Automatic" Tick Increment was added. It works just like the automatic
"Price per Row/Letter" option in Market Profile charts. When "automatic"
is chosen, the tick increment is deduced from the display format of the
symbol (0.01 for 99.99, 0.25 for 4ths, etc). This allows the user to
change symbols in the chart without having to change tick increment. The
user has the option of plugging in a "Custom" increment if desired.
A "Draw Bands" option was added. It causes the Value Area to be shaded
(from value area low to value area high). Options are available to draw
bands for the current VA, the previous VA, or both. When both are drawn,
the current VA band will be drawn on top of the previous VA band,
however, a line at the previous VA high and low will be drawn over the
current band so the user can still see both values. Drawing "Both" bands
has a very nice visual effect, especially combined with solid POC lines
set to 3 pixels or larger.
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Market Profile: Height x Width
The InfoBox of the Market Profile chart was enhanced to show the
"Height" (in prices) and the "Width" (in TPOs) of each profile. When
pointing at any profile, the "RNG" line of the InfoBox will now show
something similar to this: "RNG: 11.50 (46x9)". This means that the
range of the profile was $11.50, and it covered 46 prices (TPOs)
vertically, and it's POC was 9 TPOs wide. This can help give the user a
good indication of when the profile is becoming "mature".
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New Display Format: 320ths
(1/64)
A display format named "320ths (1/64)" was added. It displays
price in a format of 1420`080 where the 080 represents a fraction of
320ths (180/320) but the underlying symbol ticks in 1/64 increments. The
existing "320ths" display format now appears as "320ths (1/128)" and is
used for symbols that tick in 1/128 increments, but are commonly
displayed also as a fraction of 320ths. The proper display format is
important for aspects of the program like the Market Profile charts, and
TPO indicator, where the "tick increment" can be set to "automatic".
With an automatic tick increment, the display format will be used to
determine the increment. An increment of 1/128 will be used for symbols
with "320ths (1/128)" as the display format, and an increment of 1/64
will be used for symbols with the "320ths (1/64)" format. These display
formats tend to be used by some Interest Rate Futures of the CLOT. The
10 year US Treasury Note futures (ZN), for example, use "320ths (1/64)"
while the 2 Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures (ZT) is a symbol that would
use "320ths (1/128)".
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Tick-Based
Charts and Volume Breakdown Indicator
Over the last few releases, refinements have been made to ensure that
tick-based charts (tickbars, volbars, rangebars, changebars), and the
corresponding Volume Breakdown indicator values, remain consistent when
reloading and refreshing charts. The volume breakdown indicator has been
an instrumental tool for identifying and diagnosing areas that needed
improvement. Minor defects have been corrected in a number of areas
including: (1) the handling of ticks at the session open, (2) merging
ticks into the database when downloading, (3) time stamping of ticks,
(4) real-time reception/accumulation of tick data. Users of the Volume
Breakdown indicator will see improved consistency when refreshing
(downloading) tick data in version 8.6.1. Please provide feedback to
support if you notice any change in tick-based bars, Volume Breakdown
values or related signals with this release.
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Interactive
Brokers Data Downloads (Backfill)
Investor/RT for Interactive Brokers users without a DTN Market
Access historical server account have reported numerous problems with
data download requests directed to IB/TWS. When a data download
(backfill) request has been submitted to IB/TWS and is "in progress",
additional download requests for the same or other symbols are queued;
they wait for the in progress request to complete. Sometimes, Investor/RT
does not get a response to a download request and the end result is that
pending requests remain pending. The only solution to the logjam up
until now has been to Stop Data to disconnect from IB/TWS then Start
Data and reissue the data download requests. Version 8.6.1 adds a menu
item to the IB menu to enable the user to cancel a backfill request in
such situation, when IB/TWS is non responsive. This enables other
pending requests to proceed without having to disconnect/reconnect to IB/TWS.
We hope that this "Cancel Download" command will provide a solution
while we further investigate the underlying causes for this problem and
continue to improve the reliability of the software in this area.
The Feed Status window has been enhanced in the IB version to display
the status of backfill requests in progress, including the number of
backfill requests waiting. If you make a download request and the
request does not complete as expected in a few seconds, right-click in
the Heartbeat button on the main toolbar to view the data feed status.
If the request remains pending for an extended period of time, issue to
Cancel Download command from the IB menu to allow other waiting requests
to proceed.
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Toolbar Style Adjustment
Improvement
Object toolbars all have a button titled "Change Toolbar Style"
to facilitate changing the global preference for toolbar style directly
from any toolbar rather than having to use the Setup: Preferences:
General window. The "Change Toolbar Style" button has been improved to
adjust not only the button size and orientation of the toolbar but also
the "pin" preferences, if applicable. For example, open any traditional
chart (or Market Profile or Footprint chart) and press the "Change
Toolbar Style" button repeatedly. Each time you click, the toolbar will
change size and/or orientation (horizontal or vertical). If you have
your toolbar position set to any one of the "pin to" settings, the
toolbar will transition from pin-to-left, to pin-to-top, to pin-to-right
and finally to pin-to-bottom as you click.
Since the screen position of the toolbar changes when you click, you
have to move the mouse to click on "Change Style" again. To make mouse
movement unnecessary for chart windows, you can instead shift-ctrl-click
repeatedly on the "multilink color" button in the right corner of the
chart to advance through the various toolbar style combinations. Note
that the toolbars for all object types are adjusted to the new settings.
For example, if you use this method to adjust your Market Profile
toolbar to "small, horizontal, pin-to-top", and then open or activate a
traditional chart window, the traditional chart toolbar will have the
same style and pin position as the Market Profile chart toolbar,
relative to its associated window.
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Miscellaneous
8.6.1 Fixes and Improvements
The use of T# Variables introduced in 8.6 for the correlation
coefficient indicator has been extended to the Relative Strength, Alpha,
and Beta Indicators. See Item #15 above for details.
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A bug was fixed in the Equity and Index Options Generator. The generator
now works properly under the DTN IQFEED version (non-legacy).
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Traditional Charts containing more than one instrument were
unnecessarily recalculating technical indicators when trades arrived for
either symbol. This has been corrected so that only the indicators for
the traded symbol are updated. This bug was problematic for the Volume
Breakdown indicator which does analysis of trading volume each time a
trade occurs.
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The Share Picture command was not working properly on some technical
indicator setup windows in cases where the window title happened to
contain a double quote characters. This has been corrected. Share
Picture (Windows only at present) should be able to share an image of
any Investor/RT window on the ChartHub.com web site.
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Shift-click on the traditional chart download button was mistakenly
closing the chart window. This has been corrected. Shift-clicking the
download button is a shortcut that causes all indicators in the chart
window to be recalculated.
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The File->Open submenu has a new menu item titled "Holidays File". This
command opens the holidays.txt file for viewing. If the user has created
an override myholidays.txt file, it is displayed also.
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Shift-clicking the X checkbox at the left edge of any traditional chart
pane title bar will eliminate all technical indicators from the entire
chart. Buttons will remain. Ctrl-clicking the X check box will remove
all indicators, including buttons, from the chart window.
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Re sizing the message log or alarm log windows will scroll the window to
the bottom now. Formerly, a resize would position the log text back at
the top requiring the user to scroll down to the bottom to see the most
recent alarms or messages.
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