What's New in Version 10.6
Investor/RT Version 10.6 Release Notes
Released: Sept 25, 2012
Released: Sept 25, 2012
| General Program Keyboard Shortcuts | |
| Keyboard Shortcut | Result |
| Alt + O Key | Opens the Object Manager |
| Alt + P Key | |
| Shift + Alt + P Key | Takes Picture of Front Window |
| Alt + C Key | Create New Chart (Chart Setup Wizard) |
| Alt + R Key | Opens the RTL Editor Window |
| Alt + G Key | Start Data |
| Alt + K Key | Stop Data |
| Alt + N Key | Open Window Manager |
| Alt + 6 Key | Opens a Data Download Window |
| Alt + 4 Key | Opens the Data Status Window |
| Alt + 5 Key | Opens the System Status Window |
| Alt + V Key | Verify Database |
| Alt + B Key | Backup Database |
| Alt + U Key | Opens the Database Wizard |
| Ctrl + E Key | Opens Export Data Window |
| Alt + 7 Key | Opens the Import Data Window |
| Alt + 9 Key | Opens the View/Edit Data Window |
| Alt + 8 Key | Opens the Playback Window |
| Alt + A Key | Opens an Instrument Setup Window |
| Shift + Alt + A Key | Opens Alarms Window |
| Alt + Y Key | Opens a list of Preferences |
| Alt + ] Key | Next Layout |
| Alt + [ Key | Prior Layout |
| Alt + M Key | Open Message Log |
| Alt + L Key | Show/Hide Layout Toolbar |
| Alt + T Key | Show/Hide Active Toolbars |
You can adjust the order of chart elements in several ways ways:
Right-click on any indicator and choose Bring to Front or Send to Back. That will bring it to the front (or back) of all other elements respectively.
There are two ways to remove technical indicators from a chart window. The easiest way is to just select the indicator, by clicking on it or tabbing to it, and then hitting the "delete" key on your keyboard. Alternatively, you can click on the green trashcan icon 
on the charting toolbar, select the element you would like to delete from the list that presents itself, and then click "OK".
Vertical Scale Preferences
Traditional Charts
Here is how to eliminate the whitespace that can occur when a market is closed due to a holiday, abbreviated trading session, trading halt, or any other reason. If the chart has periodicity time per bar and you would like to collapse the whitespace, right click the chart and choose Periodicity-> Other; uncheck the Whitespace for Non-Trading Periods box as shown below. Keyboard shortcut Shift+8 (the asterisk key).
The macOS version of Investor/RT supports the display of crosshair price and time in the main toolbar as you move the crosshairs.
Many of the tick-based periodicities provide a Fresh Start option within the periodicity control. These periodicities include Tickbars, Volume bars, Rangebars, Renko, PNF, etc. When fresh start is available, you will see a Fresh Start checkbox at the bottom of the periodicity control as you see below:
Released: May 21, 2012
Let's assume for our example that you would like to set the box size to $0.25 for stocks trading under $5, $0.50 to stocks trading between $5 and $20, and to $1.00 for stocks trading over $20. The following scan will accomplish this.