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Tips - Setting Alarms with Scans

This tip will cover the use of Scans to set Alarms and Alarm levels. See Alarms For additional background information on Scans, click here

There are three different alarms which can be set. The High Alarm, the Low Alarm, and the Volume Alarm. For each alarm, there are two numbers which can be set....the alarm level, and the alarm step value.

Tips - QuotePages

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This tip will cover QuotePages. QuotePages are spreadsheets in Investor/RT designed to display information for a list of securities (instruments). Each row represents an instrument or ticker symbol, and each column represents a piece of data associated with the instrument. QuotePages are powerful tools for displaying large amounts of dynamic data in one table. QuotePages are also used throughout Investor/RT to provide a way of grouping instruments. For instance, QuotePages are used as inputs for Scan, in order to communicate to the scan which list of instruments it should operate on.

Tips - Preferences: Default vs. Saved vs. Instance

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You can learn a great deal about Investor/RT by simply opening up and inspecting each of the Preferences windows. Click on the Preferences icon setupPrefsMain on the main toolbar to access any of the 31 preference windows, each one giving you ways to customize the behavior of the software to suit your needs. Remember to press F1 if you have a question about any preference window you are viewing.

Tips - An Efficient Investor/RT

When you first installed Investor/RT, it was lean and mean, but after a year or two of use, dozens of imported charts, tinkering with 100s of settings, all while volume increased 5-fold, things have become sluggish. It's always good to pause and review your setup from time to time. A minor adjustment can make a world of difference.

A more efficient Investor/RT

Tips - Not Marked Intraday

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What it means to mark a symbol for Intraday Monitoring

When the text "NOT MARKED INTRADAY" is printed in the title of an intraday chart, it means that the symbol charted is not marked for intraday monitoring.

Getting Started Setting Preferences

In the main toolbar, you will see the Setup Prefs setupPrefs button. When you click on this button, you will see a list of Preferences Windows available. This long list is an indicator of the flexibility which Investor/RT provides the user. Investor/RT is installed with reasonable defaults.

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