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Question

I use myTrack data feed. I would like to practice buying currencies (EUR/USD). Can I do it with IRT; and do you know what the mytrack symbol would be?
   

Answer

Use your myTrack menu and choose Chat to ask for help on data feed content issues. We maintain a web page of commonly used indexes and futures contracts for each of the data services supported by Investor/RT. Bookmark this page:

http://www.linnsoft.com/symbols/

and go there as a starting point when you have a ticker symbol question for futures and indexes. If you don't find what you are after there, the myTrack chat is your best bet. We deal with so many data vendors we cannot possibly provide email support on ticker symbol questions. The myTrack personnel in chat room are very helpful and almost always can give you an instant answer on data content related issues.

Regarding the "practice" part of your question, you can setup a practice portfolio and create trading orders that buy and sell to this portfolio. The trading orders can be executed by chart buttons you place in your chart(s), or by signal actions that trigger automatically when some trading signal you have setup occurs in real-time. To learn more about using Trading Orders and Signal Actions in Investor/RT, go to Setup: Technical Indicators, pick Trading Order as the indicator and then press F1, or click the help button on the main toolbar. To learn more about creating buttons that execute trading orders, pick the Button indicator and press F1.