| Homework (RTX) | Where does price go based on where price opens? The Homework (HW) RTX Indicator is designed to compute and accumulate price-based statistic on daily data. The indicator is focused on percentages of touching or closing above key prices based on the where price opens the day session. The... | WATCH |
| VolumeScopeStats (RTX) | This VolumeScopeStats (VSS) RTX Indicator is designed to compute volume-at-price statistics that are sensitive to both time of day and periodicity of the chart. This allows users to compute and identify values of significant volume or delta at price throughout the day with statistics based on the... | WATCH |
| TrendTool (RTX) | TrendTool is an RTX Extension for easily drawing and editing trendlines on instruments. TrendTool does not replace the long standing Trendline indicator in Investor/RT. Think of it as a companion tool that you may prefer to use sometimes. Some may use it most of the time. TrendTool was developed... | WATCH |
| CustomCandles (RTX) | The CustomCandles RTX Extension is designed to create candles or bars for indicators and takes four custom indicators that supply the open, close, high and low prices of the indicator. While many indicators, including MA and ROC, are generally drawn with a single (closing) price value on each... | WATCH |
| OrderFlowMetrics (RTX) | The OrderFlowMetrics RTX Extension (OFM) is a companion indicator to the DOM and provides a single column of data that can reflect change in size, size, volume, or delta over a user-specified period. OFM was original designed to focus on changes in size at each price on the book, but was expanded... | WATCH |
| GapRunner (RTX) | The GapRunner RTX Extension is designed to identify gaps between bars and between sessions and extend those gaps until price returns to fill them. Gaps can be detected from the previous close or from the previous price extreme. An option is available to detect gaps in day session data on intraday... | WATCH |
| BarNumbers (RTX) | The BarNumbers RTX displays a label for a given bar or set of bars that identifies that bar's sequence from the beginning of its session. Bars are numbered chronologically from the beginning of each session so that the first bar of any session is bar #1. This RTX is useful for easily identifying... | WATCH |
| ExportData (RTX) | The ExportData RTX extension is designed to allow the user to dynamically export key prices and other data to a .csv/Excel file. ExportData can export any User Variable (V#) or Chart Variable (C#) values as well as any other tokenized strings such as ticker symbol, date/time, and more. An... | WATCH |
| ChartTradingDOM Version 6 | This video introduces ChartTradingDOM 6.0 Version 6 of the Investor/RT ChartTradingDOM is a major update to the platform’s execution DOM with many new features and refinements. Visit ChartTradingDOM Version 6 for a full description of all features and Version 6.5 for the latest... | WATCH |
| TradeViewer (RTX) | This video introduces the TradeViewer RTX Extension. TradeViewer is a trading results visualization tool. It draws lines, markers and color coded rectangles to denote the entry price and exit price of each of your trades with optional highlighting of the maximum favorable and adverse excursions of... | WATCH |
| Chart Mini Trader (RTX) | The ChartMiniTrader is a minimalist user interface for submitting trading orders that is seen in a sidebar at the right side of the chart. | WATCH |
| Edit User Variable (RTX) | The purpose of the EditUserVariable tool is to provide one or more persistent user variable editors directly in a chart to facilitate frequent revisions to the value of V#, C#, or T# user variables. | WATCH |
| EchoMarkers (RTX) | EchoMarkers is an RTX drawing tool for placing markers at any position (price and time) in a chart with optional echoes of the marker at the same price and time on subsequent or prior trading sessions. Vertical (price) echoes are available. These echo the markers at a vertical offset in ticks from... | WATCH |
| LookBackCandles (RTX) | LookBackCandles shows at a glance how the current trading price relates to various look-back periods of trading: today, this week, this month, last few weeks, etc. Up to 8 lookback periods are shown in one compact display giving the trader both short and long term perspective on price action over... | WATCH |
| FlexMeters (RTX) | FlexMeters is an RTX extension designed to enable Investor/RT users to display customized meters of market behavior within multi-pane charts. This flexible tool draws meters showing the present value of some price or computed value as compared to a specified range of values seen in the past.... | WATCH |
| TimeAndSales (RTX) | The RTX TimeAndSales extension (TAS) is used to embed time and sales displays into any Investor/RT chart window. TAS introduces a variety of new time and sales capabilities such as flexible filtering, highlighting and alerting options and much more. Display columns are... | WATCH |
| Identifying Large Relative Volume at Price with PVP | Ths video demonstrate how to identify large volume at price relative to the average volume at price of previous 9 bars. The Price Volume Pattern indicator compares the volume at price with a multiple of a custom indicator which in turn computes the average volume at price of previous 9 bars. A... | WATCH |
| SlopeLines (RTX) | SlopeLines is an RTX Extension indicator that automates the drawing of trendlines using signals and custom indicators, giving the user complete control over where the lines begin, the starting price of the lines, the slope of the lines, and how far the lines extend. Users control how far back the... | WATCH |
| VolumeScope® Announcement | Linn Software is a leading innovator of market data profiling and volume analysis charting tools for professional traders, creating indicators and real-time market data displays to help traders to identify profit making opportunities and to make more timely trading decisions. Some of our most... | WATCH |
| VolumeScope® Introduction (RTX) | VolumeScope® allows the user to view each bar under a microscope and closely inspect the volume at price data with great flexibility. VolumeScope has three primary components: Background, Text, and Candle, each optional and each with a variety of data and presentation options. Volume is broken... | WATCH |
| VolumeScope® - Text and Candle Components | This video takes a close look at the data, color, and scaling options available within the Text and Background Components of the VolumeScope® Indicator. | WATCH |
| VolumeScope® - Background Component | This video takes a close look at the data, color, and scaling options available within the Background Component of the VolumeScope® Indicator. | WATCH |
| VolumeScope® - Scaling and Spacing (RTX) | This video covers a variety of ways to manipulate the vertical and horizontal space required by the VolumeScope® Indicator. Because VolumeScope often displays text at each price, it has unique requirements with respect to the amount of vertical and horizontal space available for each price. The... | WATCH |
| ChartTradingDOM (RTX) | ChartTradingDOM an RTX extension available to all Investor/RT subscribers. To invoke the DOM, right-click in any multi-pane chart and choose Trade... The ChartTradingDOM is a price ladder supporting single click in the Buy or Sell column to place limit/stop orders at specific prices. Buttons are... | WATCH |
| Paint Indicator 2.5 Innovations: Shapes and Labels | This video highlights new innovations in Paint Indicator 2.5 and beyond including flexible labeling and custom shapes. A number of new custom shape styles are available including: Circle, Diamond, Arrow, Triangle, Wedge, Flag, Laser, Hammer, Plus, Clock, and Label Only. Most shapes also have an... | WATCH |
| Scatter Plot (RTX) Introduction | ScatterPlot takes two custom indicators and plots one on the horizontal (X Axis) and one on the vertical (Y Axis) and then computes a best fit polynomial regression line through the data of user-specified degree. Any two custom indicators may be used for the data set of this analysis. Each data... | WATCH |
| Paint Indicator 2.0 (RTX) New Drawing Options | This video highlights a number of exciting new drawing options available in version 2.0 of the Paint Indicator (RTX). New vertical positioning options are available including Offset from Top, Offset from Bottom, Offset from High, and Offset from Low. Six new drawing styles exist including Stack... | WATCH |
| Colors (RTX) Introduction | The Colors Indicator is designed to feed the Profiles Indicator custom colors and/or custom letters for TPOs. Up to 50 colors and letters may be customized. When the Letters option of the Profile Indicator is turned on and lsColors is chosen for the colors, the Profile Indicator will then pull the... | WATCH |
| Boundaries (RTX) Introduction | The Boundaries indicator is designed to allow user to manually identify and mark boundaries (bars or date/times) which can then be used effectively by other indicators such as the Profile Indicator and the Price Statistics Indicator. Visually, the Boundary Indicator is a horizontal strip at a user-... | WATCH |
| Zones (RTX) Introduction | This video highlights the RTX Zones Indicator. The Zones Indicator is designed to automate the identification of zones between a range of prices over a series of bars/time. The primary motivation for the creation of this indicator is to identfy consolidation zones where price remained in a... | WATCH |
| RTX Clock Overview | This video provides an overview of the RTX Clock Indicator. This indicator displays time of day in analog and/or digital form with extensive customization options. The RTX Clock options include shading of session hours, time zone selection, optional text labeling with dynamic RTL tokens, and full... | WATCH |
| Paint Indicator (RTX): Bands | This video demonstrates the next evolution in the Paint Indicator (RTX) with the ability to paint bands between any two indicators. These bands can be painted with up to six different colors based on six different conditions. | WATCH |
| Divergence (RTX) Introduction | The Divergence RTX indicator quantifies divergence with a numerical value between two data series using various methods. Each data series may consistent of either price data, cumulative delta filtered, filtered cumulative delta, or any other indicator available in Investor/RT. In measuring... | WATCH |
| RTX Development: Accessing Built-In Indicators and Drawing Styles | This video on RTX Development discusses two important features available to RTX Developers: The ability to access the results of any built-in IRT indicators, as well as the ability to draw array results using any of the many drawing styles available to most built-in indicators. This video shows how... | WATCH |
| Pivot Strategy Optimizer (RTX) Introduction | The PivotStrategyOptimizer (PSO) builds upon the PivotStrategyAnalysis PSA) indicator to create an extremely powerful combination. PSO enables the optimization of any combination of a number of variables within PSA, allowing the user to quickly determine the optimal combination of values which... | WATCH |
| PaintCandles (RTX) Introduction | The PaintCandles RTX Extension allows the user to decorate candles in a variety of ways. The user may choose to decorate all candles, or just candles which meet a given condition (signal). Decoration options include the width in pixels, the Position relative to the candle (in pixels offset from... | WATCH |
| Effective Use of C# Variables in Pivot Strategy Analysis | This video describes a variety of effective ways to use C# variables within the PivotStrategyAnalysis to quickly change parameters with instant feedback. It also explains how to use C# variables within a custom indicator to filter trades by day of week, and to ignore trades for the first few days... | WATCH |
| Pivot Strategy Analysis (RTX) Introduction | The PivotStrategyAnalysis RTX Extension allows the user to specify any key daily or weekly price level such as previous high, previous close, or overnight VPOC, and analyze the effectiveness of that level as a pivot point during the following session or week. The indicator provides for a variety of... | WATCH |
| Installing and Using FT71 FlexLevels in Investor/RT | This video by Morad Askar (FT71) walks you through the process of adding FlexLevels to your charts. FlexLevels are dynamically updated levels sent from my server and are shown on your chart as they are updated. Currently levels are available for a few very popular futures contracts only. | WATCH |
| RTX Development: Draw Function | This video on RTX Development details the important draw() function which takes the resulting arrays of the calculation function and presents the indicator visually in the chart. In this example, we draw a simple moving average with an optional dot on each bar and optional line between each bar/dot... | WATCH |
| RTX Development: Calculation Function | This video on RTX Development details the important calc() function which takes the bar data and transforms it into an array of output data which can then be used by the draw function. In this example, the close price is converted into a simple moving average of close. Download xyzDemo3.cpp... | WATCH |
| RTX Development: Parameter Management | This video on RTX Development discusses how to create and manage the parameters of RTX indicators. Parameters are the controls such as checkboxes, listboxes, or color controls, that are provided to the user within the preference window to adjust the settings of the indicator. Functions covered in... | WATCH |
| RTX Development: Overview of Functions | In this video on RTX Development, an overview is provided for the primary functions that RTX developers will need to respond to. Functions covered include: setup(), init(), parmsLoad(), parmsUpdt(), keyboard(), mouse(), calc(), and draw(). Download xyzDemo2.cpp source file (zipped) | WATCH |
| RTX Development: Creating New RTX Projects From A Template | This video demonstrates how to take the project created as a result of the video RTX Project Setup in Visual Studio and use that project as a template for new RTX projects. By creating a template, we greatly simply the setup work required when creating a new project. This process will make it quick... | WATCH |
| RTX Development: RTX Project Setup in Visual Studio | This video demonstrates in detail how to setup an RTX project in Visual Studio. A step by step process makes it quick and easy to get started with RTX development. In this video, Visual Studio Community 2015 is used. RTX development SDK includes libraries for building RTX DLL using Visual Studio... | WATCH |
| RTX Development: The Possibilities of RTX | This video introduction to RTX Development presents what is possible with the powerful suite of software development tools in Investor/RT called RTX. Investor/RT users now have the same development power for developing indicators that Linn Software developers have had for 20 years. Complete control... | WATCH |
| Trade Dots Introduction (RTX) | The Trade Dots extension draws dots at each price within each bar. The dots are sized in proportion to the volume traded at that price within the bar. The dots are drawn in two user-specified colors representing positive or negative delta at that price. Many options exist which control the size,... | WATCH |
| Volume Candles (RTX) Introduction | The Volume Candles RTX extension draws a candle, volume profile, and volume as text, for each bar, making efficient use of the horizontal space available for each bar. It is recommended to set the drawing style of the instrument to "Invisible" and then add the VolumeCandles to the instrument pane... | WATCH |
| AutoTrend Indicator | This video demonstrates the AutoTrend indicator. Continuing the strategy of extending the platform using our RTX development tools, Linn Software is pleased to introduce another new RTX indicator, available to all subscribers and platforms powered by Investor/RT. The AutoTrend indicator... | WATCH |
| Trail Of Intentions (TINT) Preferences | This video explains all the options available in the Preference window of the Trail Of Intentions indicator. Trail of Intentions (TINT) is an RTX Extension indicator designed to display historical snapshots of the depth of market. The market depth provides numeric insight into the... | WATCH |
| Trail Of Intentions (TINT): Introduction | Trail of Intentions (TINT) is an RTX Extension indicator designed to display historical snapshots of the depth of market. TINT provides a wealth of options to visually identify relative size and changes in sizes among prices within same snapshot or from snapshot to snapshot over time. Users may... | WATCH |
| Price Volume Pattern Indicator (PVP) - Presentation Preferences (3 of 3) | This is the third video in a series of three on the Price Volume Pattern indicator being released in version 12.3. The previous two videos covered an introduction to the indicator along with usage examples (Video 1) and Data Preferences (Video 2). This video will focus on Drawing Preferences. | WATCH |
| Price Volume Pattern Indicator (PVP) - Data Preferences (2 of 3) | This is the second video in a series of three on the Price Volume Pattern indicator being released in version 12.3. The previous video offered an introduction to the indicator along with usage examples while this video focuses more on Data Preferences. Video 3 will focus on Drawing Preferences. | WATCH |
| Price Volume Pattern Indicator (PVP) - Introduction (1 of 3) | Introduction to the Price Volume Pattern Indicator. This is the first video in a series of three. PVP a new indicator in version 12.3 and was developed using the RTX development tools. It is designed to identify volume-based patterns among a sequence of one or more prices within each bar. This... | WATCH |
| RTX Extensions Introduction Video | This video offers an Introduction to the new RTX Extensions feature in all versions of Investor/RT 12.1 or later. This video demonstrates the creation and compilation of a very basic indicator as well as adding it to a chart. A brief review of the RTX Setup Wizard is covered as well as an... | WATCH |