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Why Investor/RT?  What are it's strengths?  What makes it unique?  In what areas does Investor/RT excel?

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How do I add a technical indicator to a chart?

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How do I remove/delete a technical indicator from a chart?

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Where can I find more information on a specific technical indicator?

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My charts are not updating (frozen).  What can I do?

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What exactly is a "Preset"?  How do I save multiple sets of preferences for technical indicators?

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Where can I access additional information on the RTL Tokens / Functions (used to build Scans, Signals, and Custom Indicators) and exactly what each one means?

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Where can I find more information on adding a Custom Column to a QuotePage?

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How would I create a "spread" or "pair" in Investor/RT representing the difference in price between two symbols/instruments?

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How do I import my own list of symbols into Investor/RT?

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How do I reference the historical 52 week high (or low) for a daily chart or backtest?

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How do I know when a new version of Investor/RT is available for downloading?

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I have eSignal as a data feed . Is the fundamental data available from eSignal? Do I need to upgrade my service or subscribe to a different service for fundamentals?

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How do I add a line to an intraday chart which displays the current open, or previous sessions closing price (or previous session high, previous session low, etc.)?

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How do I setup a schedule to automatically download data?

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How do I delete all the symbols in my database and start from scratch?

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What exactly is "Posting"?  And do end-of-day (EOD) users really need to post?

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Where can I find common chart shortcuts, like how to change the active symbol/instrument or periodicity, or how to zoom in and out, etc.?

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Is there any way for me to monitor a number of symbols above the number dictated by the symbol limit of my data services?

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Where can I learn more about the Vertical Scale preferences of each traditional chart window pane? (Multi-Scaling, Automatic, Manual, and Instrument-Only Scaling, Custom Markings, Log Scaling, etc.)

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What are User Text (T#) Variables, and how do I import text into them?

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What does it mean after I try to backup the database and get a message that the database could not be backed up because "errors were detected", and that the database needs to be fixed?

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Where can I find additional information on maintaining my Investor/RT database?

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I'm seeing discrepancies between my indicator values in a Custom Column (Scan, Signal, or Backtest) versus the values I see in my chart (or in another program).  What might account for this?

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How do I make an Scan or Signal that looks for consolidation and then break out
of say a 4-8 week consolidation period?

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How do I setup alarms/alerts for technical indicators?

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How would I setup a scan or signal to find Hammer, Inverse Hammer, or any other Candlestick Patterns (CPR)?

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Is there any way to place a box or note on a chart which shows the current value of WPR (or any other technical indicator)?

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I've noticed that in some windows in Investor/RT, certain buttons and other controls seem to be either missing, or out of place.  Is there a setting somewhere that will correct this?  I'm using Windows XP.  (Large Fonts)

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How do I eliminate errors (bad ticks) in data that are distorting indicators on a chart like moving averages or Donchian bands?

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How do I add the daily or weekly pivot point to an intraday chart?

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How would I add a button to a chart which toggles a specific technical indicator (with a specific set of preferences) on and off?

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How do you set preferences for a slide show and what is the function of the controls on the slide show toolbar?

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How do I create a button on a chart (or a keyboard shortcut) that will open a specific chart, quotepage, or layout?

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Is it possible to copy and paste a Button indicator from one chart to another?

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What exactly is "Presentation Mode"?

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What is the purpose of the "Task Window Title Text" option available in the "Setup: Preferences: General" window?

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How do I change the default Account Balance Chart that comes up as part of the output of  a backtest?

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Is there any way to export technical indicator data/values to a text file?

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How can I draw historical daily Pivot Point levels/lines on my intraday chart?

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What is the difference between Investor/RT and Investor/RT Professional?

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Where would I find additional information on the various statistical values that are shown in the title bar of the Price/Time Profile charts (TFF, TPO, POC, and Q%)?

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How would I create a scan or signal which accessed data from multiple periodicities simultaneously (1-min, 5-min, 30-min, 90-min, and Daily)?

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What are User Variables (V# Variables) and how are they used within Investor/RT?

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I'm seeing the message "NOT MARKED INTRADAY" in the title bar of some of my charts.  What exactly does this mean?  What does it mean to mark a symbol for intraday monitoring?

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How can I copy and paste indicators (including Button indicators) from one chart to another?

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Where can I find additional information on the various periodicities that are available such as Range Bars, Change Bars, Tick Bars, and Volume Bars?

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How can I paint a technical indicator line or histogram based on any given signal or condition?

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What steps can I take to keep my database size minimal?

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What exchanges are supported by the various data services / data feeds that Investor/RT supports?  I'm specifically looking for the ASX (Australian Stock Exchange) on a realtime basis?

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Where can I find more information on the data services / data feeds that Investor/RT supports?

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Where can I find more information on Trading Systems and Backtesting?

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Where can I find more information on Trading System Optimization?

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I have symbols broken up into groups using quotepages.  When I run a scan on all my symbols, in the resulting quotepage, I would like to be able to identify which quotepages each symbol resides in.  How can I do this?

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Where can I find a very basic novice explanation of how to use the RTL language to create Scans, Signals, or Custom Indicators?

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How can I quickly view the quotepages in which a given symbol resides?

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Where can I find more information on the Quick Quote window?

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Is it possible to build the comment into the setup dialog box for charts and scans so it could be left unchanged or modified slightly when updating?

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How can I find and delete "dead" symbols or symbols that do not have sufficient historical data?

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How can I merge the symbols from several different quotepages into a single quotepage?

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Does Investor/RT work with multiple monitors?

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Is there a one-step way to shutoff all the alarms I have set or more specifically to put them "on hold" and then to be able to reactivate them all later?

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What is the best way to go about mixing periodicities on charts?  I would like to overlay a 5-minute stochastics on a 1-minute chart.

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How would I create a signal that found MSH (Market Structure High) and MSL (Market Structure Low)?

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How do I scan for the biggest gappers during the pre-market?  My symbol limit is 200 symbols but I would like to monitor 2000 symbols for gaps.  Can I do this?

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Is there any way to set certain properties (display format, security type, monitoring options, session, highlight color, user data, etc) using a scan?

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Is there any way to adjust the order of chart objects (instruments and technical indicators)?  Both the order in which they are drawn, and the order they appear in the pane title.

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Can the Investor/RT and DTN Satellite combination allow me to download historical data, either daily or intraday?

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My toolbar seems to have disappeared.  How can I recover the toolbar that corresponds to my quotepage or chart?

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In my Point and Figure (PNF) charts, and the Point and Figure indicator, can I specify different box sizes based on the price of the symbol?

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I created a chart with a 25 period Linear Regression.  Why does the Linear Regression line disappear when I switch periodicities (to weekly, or 30-minute)?

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How do I globally change the formats for my existing quotepages to my desired format?  Using "Setup: Preferences/Quotepages" does not allow me to change formats globally.

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How can I manage Investor/RT on a dual monitor setup so I can keep charts visible on one monitor while viewing web pages or email on the other monitor?  At other times I want Investor/RT to display across both monitors.

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I have a technical indicator (Exponential Moving Average - EMA) whose values in a chart, custom column, or scan does not match those of another source.  What could account for the discrepancy?

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When scanning daily data, at what time in the day do my current tokens (CL, HI, MA, RSI, etc) rollover and become previous tokens (CL.1, HI.1, MA.1, RSI.1, etc)?  At what point does TOKEN become TOKEN.1?

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Is it possible to create moving averages of specific technical indicators (Money Flow, Money Flow Index, Fischer Transform, etc.), that would be shown in the same pane as the indicator? More generally, can I see an indicator of an indicator?

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How can scans or signals be incorporated into a chart so that visual backtesting may be performed?

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How do I create a cumulative daily A-D Line for the S&P 500 (or any other custom group of stocks or symbols)?

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I've noticed that when I assign a name to a scan like" Liquidity Check "it converts the space to an underscore, like "Liquidity_Check". However, this practice is not used for quotepages. What are the rules for assigning names to scans, quotepages, and other objects?

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How do I setup a ticker symbol for the e-mini which monitors only the RTH day session?

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How do I best manage multiple databases in Investor/RT?

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How do I implement a trailing stop in a trading system?

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How do I implement a stop and/or target in a trading system?

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How do I join the Linn Software Investor/RT Yahoo! Group / Discussion List?

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What is the easiest way to share my database to Linn Software support or another Investor/RT user?

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I need a Scan/Signal that will...

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How would I write a scan to pick out symbols based on a date or word pattern?

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How do I setup a schedule action that will automatically save the quotepage that results from a "scan" schedule action?

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Is there a way to add symbols to a quotepage without the quotepage being open?

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What is the "QuotePage Browser"?

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Investor/RT is issuing a "Fatal Error" message when I try to start up the program. What should I do?

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How do I put an overall stop loss or target on a trading system that trades a basket/quotepage of stocks?

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The US time zone just made a transition between daylight time and standard time, and my charts and/or quotes are offset by 1 hour.  How can I correct this?

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My time zone has shifted to Standard Time or to Daylight Savings Time one week prior to the US and it is effecting my data.  What should I do?

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How do I import fundamental data / key statistics or current qutoes from Yahoo! Finance?  (Market Cap, Trailing P/E, Price/Sales, Price/Book, Revenue Per Share, Total Cash Per Share, Current Ratio, Book Value Per Share, Beta, 52-Week High, 52-Week Low, 200-Day Moving Average, Shares Outstanding, Float, % Held by Insiders, % Held by Institutions, Shares Short, Short % of Float, Dividend)

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What is the Chart Highlighter and where can I adjust it's settings (colors, etc.)?

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Is it possible to set voice alarms or sound alarms with Investor/RT (wav files)?

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How do you display bid/ask dots/lines on the chart as shown on the screen shot in the "Day Trading Tutorial" (page 3) of the LinnSoft site (demo screen shot 1 min bar, FORE chart)?

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How can I monitor the difference between the ask volume and bid volume (AVOL - BVOL) historically on an intraday chart?

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Is it possible to change the thickness/width of bars/candles without zooming in our out on a chart?

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Is it possible in the RTL language to mix ticker symbols within the same signal, scan, or custom indicator?  For instance, a signal which detects that both MWD and MER are above their upper Bollinger band.

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How do I add or remove whitespace (lookahead period) from the right side of my chart, between the most current bar, and the vertical scale?

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How do I setup ticker symbols for futures when using the Interactive Brokers (IB) version?

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Where can I find more information on Trading System Realization?

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What is the conditional operator (? operator) in RTL, and how is it used?

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Does Investor/RT offer access to Jurik indicators?

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Does Investor/RT provide a Software Developer's Kit (SDK) so that user may write their own indicators externally to Investor/RT?

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Can I import  ticker symbols of pairs or spreads into Investor/RT from a text or csv file?  (custom instruments)

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I've got a large quotepage of stocks I monitor.  I would like to run a scan periodically (every 15 seconds) to record the difference between the current daily volume and the volume the last time I ran the scan (15 seconds back), and record these values historically so I can run moving averages and other indicators on them.  Is there any way to do this?  (V# tickers)

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I use IB with DTN Market Access. I have 2 IB accounts and a DU paper trading account. Can I use all three of these with one license for Investor/RT?

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I use Investor/RT Standard with Market Profile. Can I continue to use the Volume Breakdown Indicator if I prepay for a year at the existing rate?

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I see you are offering end-of-day licenses for Investor/RT. What about non-streaming intra-day licenses?

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I am presently using Investor/RT Pro Backtester. How does the new product line-up affect me?

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I currently use Investor/RT Standard with Market Profile. I use no indicators other than the Volume Breakdown indicator at present. Under the new product line-up (in effect 7/1/2008) I have to upgrade to the Market Profile Professional edition and pay extra for using just this one indicator. Why are you doing this?

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What do these pricing and product line changes mean to me specifically?  I currently have...

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I am seeing "MP Not Enabled". My registration (Setup:Preferences:Registration) says "Incomplete". This happens every day beginning around August 1, 2008. What should I do?

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I use Investor/RT at both home and work (on two different computers, never simultaneously).  What is the best way to manage my license between the two locations?

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My system seems to pause or freeze up every few seconds while Investor/RT is running.  What could be causing this?  (indexing service)

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I am using Investor/RT with Interactive Brokers. I do not have DTN Market Access historical services enabled. I'm having some trouble backfilling intra-day charts from IB. How do I correct this?

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I use Interactive Brokers or Infinity/TransAct with the DTN Market Access (DTNMA) for backfill.  Do I need DTNMA and how do I setup my symbols to properly backfill from DTNMA?

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I have an overnight Market Profile chart and it's labeling my current profile with yesterday's date.  How can I correct this?

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My quotepage shows a cumulative daily volume for @ES# value that is much larger than the sum of the volume of the intraday bars or ticks. What is the reason for this discrepancy?

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Can you explain the concept of "singles" in Market Profile charts, and what price is being used in their labels?

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Do you know how to setup a forex instrument with IB and IDEALPRO

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How can I plot the volume (range) relative to the average of the same bar (time) over past days or session? (SESST - Session Statistics)

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Is Investor/RT software optimized to use Quad Cores / Processing or 64-bit Processing and the ability to use the extended Memory capabilities of 128gb?

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When I add up the volume of my intraday bars for the session, that sum falls well short of the daily volume reported in the Volume column of my quotepage and the volume reported for the current daily bar.  Why is that?

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Where can I find out more about Schedules?

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How can I measure divergence between price and an indicator, or between two indicators?

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Where can I find more details on the information displayed in the Market Profile InfoBox?

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How would I go about installing and running two instances of Investor/RT on the same computer?

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What is the best process for transferring my setup (charts, symbols, data, etc) from one machine to another?

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How would I add red and green markers at the top of a Point and Figure or "Reversal" chart to signify up or down bars?

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What is the configure.txt file and where can I find a list of the options available in the configure.txt file?

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Is there a way to add a button to a chart that toggles a group of indicators together?

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I cannot get Investor/RT to connect to the eSignal Data Manager.  I'm seeing an error 112 and message "Tick server refused connection.  User Name or Password is incorrect".  What can I do?

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Can you explain the changes the CME made as of 10/04/2009 regarding how transactions are report and how it will effect tickbar charts and other aspects of Investor/RT?

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How can I plot two or more symbols in the same pane in a multi-pane chart? (multi-symbol charting)

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How can I add a button to a chart that will toggle multiple indicators with one click?

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Is there a way to create a "split session" Market Profile chart where the overnight session and the day session are split into separate profiles?

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How can I import historical data (tick data or otherwise) into Investor/RT from an external source?  How can I export historical data from Investor/RT to a text file?

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How does Investor/RT work with multiple monitors? (floating windows)

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Where can I find general information on Market Profile Charts?

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I use Zen-Fire / Rithmic as my live datafeed.  I would like to run Ninja and Investor/RT at the same time, but when I log onto one, it kicks me off the other.  What can I do?

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How can I make the line that separates session in multi-pane charts more pronounced? (Vertical Reference Line)

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Is there any way to paint the background of the overnight session a different color from that of the day session for a multi-pane chart I have set to session 31? (Paint Bars / Paint Background)

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I am unable to start Investor/RT.  The program terminates or crashes every time I attempt to start up.  What can I do?  (IRTACTIVE)

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I want to clear out many symbols in my .All Symbols quotepage but I want to keep the symbols that are in two of my user-defined quotepages.  How can I do this?  (Deleting Symbols)

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I imported a chart and I need to change the symbol to the correct symbol for my data feed.  How do I do this?  (Where's my data?)

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Where's My Intraday Data?

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How do I open a text file "as administrator" in order to revise and save it on Windows Vista or Windows 7?

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I'm using DTNMA and would like to periodically backfill data on a certain list of symbols.  How would I accomplish this?  (DTNMA Backfill)

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I keep seeing the message "clock offset 8 seconds" in the message area below my main toolbar.  What does this mean and how can I correct it?

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How can I account for the gap left when a contract rolls over? (Calendar Spread Gap)

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How do I ensure that Investor/RT never backfills historical data beyond a certain date and time? (retaining data).

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I'm using a brokerage feed (IB, Zen, Infinity, etc) and using DTNMA for backfill.  I'm still confused regarding what symbol to use in charts and where to specify the DTN symbol.  Can you please clear that up?

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How can I eliminate the whitespace on my charts that are left as a result of holidays?

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My layout toolbar has disappeared and I can't seem to bring it back.  What can I do?

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Today is a holiday but certain markets are trading and I would like to see today's data on my day session charts.  How can I accomplish this?

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I changed the chart's background color and now the crosshairs tool appears to be nearly transparent. How do I change the color of the crosshairs tool so that it's more visible?

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When I quit Investor/RT and restart, my charts and other windows are not coming back like I left them when I last quit.  What can I do to correct this?

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Can Investor/RT automatically send an alerts to my email or cell phone when a signal is triggered in a chart? (email alerts, cell phone alerts)

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How do I setup my Market Profile Charts so I can access the buy (ask) and sell (bid) volume within each TPO/letter?

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I am seeing a warning message that memory requirements have reached 250 MB. Is this a problem?

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I'm getting a message at startup that some of my symbols are setup with non-standard daily/weekly/monthly data retention settings.  What does this mean?

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Is there any way to view as text or export the volume at price data of the Profile Indicator?

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I when startup Investor/RT and try to activate my license, I get a message that says I must be running as administrator to activate my license. How do I do that?

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Can you explain the concept of Smart Compression of Tick Data?

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How can I control whether or not the letter O is printed at the opening print/TPO of each bracket in Market Profile charts?

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Where can I find the Cumulative Delta study in Investor/RT?

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I'm using a brokerage feed with DTNMA.  The backfill data I'm getting from DTNMA is not in line with the live data.  How can I resolve this?  (DTNMA Multiplier)

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What is the "Fresh Start" option and how can I access it?