Investor/RT - Video Library

Investor/RT Video Library

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Getting Started	Recommended viewing for new users of Investor/RT
Weekly Webinars	Recording of weekly webinars for Investor/RT users
Multi-Pane Charts	General Operation of Traditional Multi-Pane Bar/Candle Charts and Indicators
Miscellaneous	Instruction videos on various important aspects of Investor/RT
Market Profile	Videos on Market Profile chart setup and operation
Trading Systems	Trading system development, backtesting, optimization, and deployment

Getting Started
Title	Description	Duration
Getting Started with Investor/RT	This video guides users through the process of getting started with Investor/RT, including selecting a data feed, subscribing, installing, and activating Investor/RT, starting your data feed, and important videos for new users.	Watch Video 16 minutes
*Installing Investor/RT on Mac OS X*	This video (Apple QuickTime Movie) shows how to install Investor/RT on OS X.	Watch Video 6.5 minutes
*Where's My Data?*	This video covers all the basics of data management in Investor/RT and answers common questions such as "Why can't I see data 20 days back?" and "Do I have to manually backfill my charts each day"? This video is highly recommended for new users.	Watch Video 16 minutes
*Where's My Tick Data?*	This video explains how to setup and maintain Investor/RT to retain and display longer term tick data and how to avoid overwriting tick data with one-minute data.	Watch Video 10 minutes
*Setting up Symbols (General)*	This video discusses some important aspects of setting up symbols (particularly futures symbols), and touches on sessions and override sessions. Also see video just below on "Sessions".	Watch Video 8 minutes
*Setting up Symbols in Zen-Fire / Rithmic*	This video discusses some important aspects of setting up futures symbols for the Zen-Fire / Rithmic brokerage feed.	Watch Video 15 minutes
*Setting up Symbols in TransAct/Infinity*	This video discusses some important aspects of setting up futures symbols for the TransAct / Infinity brokerage feed.	Watch Video 17 minutes
*DTNMA Symbols with Multipliers*	This video demonstrates how to setup DTNMA symbols with multiplier for symbols whose live data has prices on a different scale from the prices of the backfill data.	Watch Video 6 minutes
*Setting up Symbols in Interactive Brokers*	This video discusses some important aspects of setting up futures symbols for Interactive Brokers. (Also: read this Q&A on IB Symbol Setup)	Watch Video 4 minutes
*Sessions*	Sessions define trading periods (times and days of week) for markets and instruments and are very important in a variety of aspects of Investor/RT. [see also Session Tour]	Watch Video 9 minutes
Managing Objects: Symbols, Quotepages, Charts	This video discusses some basics including creating quotepages, adding and setting up symbols, and creating and managing charts.	Watch Video 11 minutes
*QuotePages*	QuotePages are spreadsheets showing columns of data on user-specified lists of symbols. This video demonstrates the basics of quotepage management and manipulation, including adding/removing symbols and columns, and much more.	Watch Video 19 minutes
*Futures Rollover*	This video discusses how to rollover symbols as well as different options available at rollover, including tracking multiple contracts, changing symbols in charts, and duplicating charts. (More on Rollover and Adjusting Calendar Spread Gaps)	Watch Video 7 minutes
Signal Markers & Custom Indicators	This video discusses how to create signals and custom indicators, and a quick and easy way to add them to charts via signal markers or custom indicators. (Pro Version Required) (Also: read this RTL Tutorial and RTL 101)	Watch Video 5 minutes
*Importing Lists of Stocks/Equities*	This video discusses how to quickly to import and/or delete lists of stocks/equities in Investor/RT via Yahoo!, text files, and quotepages, and how to quickly download data on the new lists.	Watch Video 10 minutes
*Scanning for Candidates*	This video covers the process of importing lists of symbols into Investor/RT, downloading daily and fundamental data from Yahoo!, and creating and performing scans on that the imported list and data. It also discusses moving to the next level of performing intraday analysis on the candidates produced by the daily scans.	Watch Video 19 minutes

Weekly Webinars

Title

Description

Duration

Weekly Webinar -
10/09/2009

- TPO Indicator and drawing bands (wiggle) around the DVAH and DVAL
- Using Session Statistics to draw IBH, IBL, and IB multiples
- Backtesting and use of the SHOW token
- Using the Trading System Indicator to show historical V# values in a chart
- VWAP Indicator and VWAP Bands
- DTNMA and it's importance to users of brokerage feeds
- Running two instance of I/RT on same computer
- Using "Compact" Reference Lines
- Toolbar placement and maintenance
- Database Maintenance and purging vs deleting historical data

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67 minutes

Weekly Webinar -
10/16/2009
Multi-Pane Charts

- Adding multiple symbols to a chart
- Charting multiple periodicities
- Tabbing between elements
- Keyboard manipulation of indicators and drawing tools
- Exporting indicator data
- Duplicating indicators
- Element drawing order
- Recalculation frequency and statistics
- Volume profile charting style
- Lookahead period
- Swing High/Low with Retracements

Watch Video
49 minutes

Traditional Multi-Pane (Bar/Candle) Charts
(Backtesting requires the Pro Backtester or Pro Complete version of Investor/RT)

Title

Description

Duration

Traditional Multi-Pane Charts Overview

This video discusses the important basic elements of traditional multi-pane (bar/candle) charts including creating charts, changing the symbol or periodicity, and sharing charts.

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29 minutes

Technical Indicators

This video provides instruction on adding, positioning, and manipulating technical indicators in traditional charts.

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13 minutes

Coloring Lines & Histograms

This video demonstrates how to color line and histogram-style indicators different colors based on various conditions.

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6 minutes

Signal Markers &
Custom Indicators

This video discusses how to create signals and custom indicators, and a quick and easy way to add them to charts via signal markers or custom indicators. (Pro Version Required)

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5 minutes

Signal Markers & Labeling Bars

This video takes a closer look at the Signal Marker preferences, and discusses how to label Signal Markers with historical numerical values (such as each bars change). (Pro Version Required)

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8 minutes

QuoteBoard Indicator

This video demonstrates the QuoteBoard Indicator which allows the user to display quotes, customized price levels, and daily bars on any symbol or group of symbols within a multi-pane chart. (More QuoteBoard Videos)

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19 minutes

Current Price Highlighter

This video demonstrates how to highlight current price in the scale, and how to draw a dynamically updating line across the chart reflecting the current price, in a multi-pane chart.

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5 minutes

Volume Profile Charting Style (new in 9.2)

This video demonstrates the new Volume Profile charting style along with the ability for bars to load Volume at Price data, and how this positively impacts the VWAP, Profile, and Volume Breakdown Indicators.

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13 minutes

New Periodicities:
POC Volume &
Volume Breakout

This video demonstrates two new periodicities that have been added to version 9.2: POC Volume and Volume Breakout.

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9 minutes

Point and Figure Charting (new in 8.8)

This video demonstrates how to access and manipulate the new Point and Figure Charting capability of traditional charts, added in version 8.8. (additional info)

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10 minutes

Point and Figure Alternative Drawing Option

This video demonstrates an alternative drawing option (9.0.8 and later) for Point and Figure charts, which is more representative of a "reversal" bar than traditional PNF.

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5 minutes

Renko Charting (new in 8.9)

This video demonstrates how to access and manipulate the new Renko Charting capability of traditional charts, added in version 8.9. (additional info)

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9 minutes

Trendline Based Indicators

This video provides instruction on adding, positioning, and manipulating trendline-based indicators, including reference lines, regression, Gann, Fibonacci, Shapes, Annotation, InfoBox, etc.

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17 minutes

Cloning Trendline / Labeling and Arrowheads

This video provides instruction on cloning/duplicating trendlines (with same length and slope as original), and discusses using trendlines as custom labels with arrowheads pointing to a specific bar.

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6 minutes

Drawing Notes in Charts

This video instructs users on various ways to use the Annotation indicator in traditional charts.

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5 minutes

Vertical and Horizontal Scales

This video demonstrates the options and manipulation of vertical and horizontal scales in traditional chart panes.

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13 minutes

Gridlines

This video discusses dotted vs solid gridlines and demonstrates how to customize the gridline frequency both horizontally and vertically.

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2 minutes

Presets &
Button Indicator

This video discusses the concept of Presets (indicator preference settings), how they interact with the Button Indicator, and the various ways to use and manipulate the Button indicator.

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12 minutes

Bands

This video describes a new option to draw multiple bands automatically around certain indicators based on multiples of price, ticks, percent, or ATR. Convenient for drawing "wiggle rooms" around any given line.

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9 minutes

Editing Chart Button Placement

This video shows how to cut, copy, paste, and move buttons within a chart using improved methods introduced in version 9.2.

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12 minutes

Labeling Current Value of Indicators

This video demonstrates how the user can label each indicator with it's current value while adjusting "Right Margin" of charts.

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3 minutes

Red/Green Markers for Reversal Bars (PNF Bars)

This video demonstrates how to add red and green markers at the top of a Point and Figure or "Reversal" chart.

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3 minutes

Mixing Periodicity
& MPD Indicator

This video demonstrates various ways to mix periodicities in traditional charts, including use of MPD (Mixed Periodicity Data) Indicator.

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14 minutes

Using MPD Efficiently (Mixed Periodicity Data)

Anyone using MPD in any context should watch this video. This video demonstrates how to make the most efficient use of the MPD (Mixed Periodicity Data) indicator, which can be extremely inefficient without the use of the special method.

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6 minutes

More Mixing Periodicities

This video demonstrates how to plot the any indicators current value from any chart, on any other chart. In our example, we plotted the daily Volatility Stop on a 3-minute chart as a horizontal reference line.

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5 minutes

Mixing Periodicity (MPD) Revisited

This video discusses some important aspects of the Mixed Periodicity Data indicator that users should be aware of when using it, and provides some alternative methods to the use of MPD to mix periods.

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7 minutes

Volume Breakdown Indicator

This video details the Volume Breakdown indicator which breaks down volume into buy volume, sell volume, and delta of volume. (additional info)

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5 minutes

Profile Indicator

This video details the Profile indicator which provides users with the ability to plot profiles (time/tpo-based or volume-based) on their traditional charts, of varying custom durations. Especially of interest to longer term Market Profile chartists. (additional info)

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11 minutes

Profile Indicator Drawing Tool

This video demonstrates how to draw volume- or time-based profiles across any group of consecutive bars of any periodicity. It also discusses how to edit and manipulate these profiles, as well as how to add buttons that activate different profile settings. (additional info)

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16 minutes

Profile Indicator Drawing Tool - Phase 2

This video demonstrates enhancements made to the Profile drawing tool in version 9.2.8 including an option to shade each price based on volume, easier dragging and manipulation, an open/close candle body, and more. (additional info)

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9 minutes

Profile Indicator: Volume Profiling and Managing Volume at Price

This video focuses on the longer term Volume Profiling aspects of the Profile Indicator and discusses how Investor/RT divides up volume among price when tick data and 1-miute data is available. (additional info)

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9 minutes

TPO Indicator

This video details the TPO indicator which provides historical Value Area (VA) and Point of Control (POC) lines, both developing and previous day. (additional info)

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3 minutes

Session Statistics I
Average Volume of Time Periods

This video demonstrates various uses for the Session Statistics Indicator, including average volume or range of each bar or time period, and plotting the highest high / lowest low of first x bars/minutes.

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7 minutes

Session
Statistics II
Average for Day of Week & Projecting Volumes

This video demonstrates some new functionality added to Session Statistics in 9.2.13 and beyond including the ability to compare the volume of each bar or time period with average volumes over the same time periods on same day of week during previous weeks. It also discusses projecting the current bars volume when computing relative strengths of volume.

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10 minutes

Pivot Point Indicator

This video details the Pivot Point indicator and provides various methods for calculation pivot levels (day session pivots, using settlement price, weekly or monthly pivots, and more) (additional info)

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14 minutes

Weekly Pivots - Day Session Only

This video demonstrates how to calculate the weekly pivots, but using only the data within the day session. Also discusses monthly.

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7 minutes

VWAP Indicator
with Bands

Volume Weighted Average Price. VWAP calculation options. VWAP standard deviation bands. VWAP +/- half of range bands. Transferring VWAP to MP charts. Importing volume POC into multi-pane charts.

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15 minutes

Cumulative VWAP

This video demonstrates how to easily add and manipulate a cumulative VWAP line beginning at any bar in a multi-pane chart, with optional standard deviation bands.

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3 minutes

Ichimoku Kinko Hyo

This video demonstrates how to chart indicators and signals related to Ichimoku Kinko Hyo on multi-pane charts, including Tenkan-Sen, Kijan-Sen, Chikou Span and Senkou Span.

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20 minutes

More Pronounced Opening Line

This video demonstrates how to create a more pronounced line separating the sessions in a multi-pane chart.

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3 minutes

Painting Overnight Session

This video demonstrates how to paint the overnight period of the Globex session a different color from the background of the day session.

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3 minutes

Charting Relative Performance

This video demonstrates how to plot the relative performance of multiple symbols on a percent change basis within a single chart.

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7 minutes

Miscellaneous
Title	Description	Duration
*Historical Data Management*	This video discusses how to manage historical data (tick & 1-minute) in order to keep Investor/RT running as efficiently as possible based on your data requirements.	Watch Video 3 minutes
*Running an Efficient Investor/RT*	This video demonstrates ways users can ensure that they are running Investor/RT as efficiently as possible based on their needs. Recommended for users having lag, slowness or unresponsiveness.	Watch Video 17 minutes
*Volume Volume and more Volume*	This video highlights the volume-driven functionality available in Investor/RT.	Watch Video 19 minutes
*Cumulative Delta on Many Symbols*	This video demonstrates how to efficiently compute the cumulative session delta for a large QuotePage of symbols by properly managing the Ask and Bid Volume data columns.	Watch Video 10 minutes
*Schedules*	Schedules allow users to perform an action or list of actions in Investor/RT at specified times/schedule each day or using keyboards shortcuts/macros. [see also Schedule Tour]	Watch Video 11 minutes
*Floating Windows - Multiple Monitors*	This video highlights the ability to float windows outside of the Investor/RT task window on multiple monitor setups.	Watch Video 5 minutes
*Layout Toolbar: Tabbed Layouts (Workspaces)*	This video demonstrates how to use the Layout Toolbar to create and manage tabbed layouts (workspaces) in Investor/RT.	Watch Video 11 minutes
*Trim Layout during Heavy Volume*	This video demonstrates how to create a trimmed down layout for use during heavy volume periods, and how to create keyboard shortcuts to quickly toggle between the trim and full layouts. Especially useful for users who run with many charts open and have seen prices run behind during high volume periods.	Watch Video 7 minutes
*Sharing Charts and Layouts*	This video highlights the ability to share charts, quotepages, and layouts through charthub.com or through text definition files.	Watch Video 9 minutes
*Custom Quotepage Columns*	This video illustrates how to create customized columns and add them to quotepages.	Watch Video 6 minutes
User Variables V# Variables	This video illustrates the very powerful concept of User Variables or V# Variables. User Variables allows various components of Investor/RT to set and share data, including quotepages, scans, charts (annotations, ref lines), and custom indicator. (Components not covered: importing, exporting, backtesting, DDE linking)	Watch Video 16 minutes
*Importing and Exporting Historical Data*	This video illustrates how to export historical tick data from Investor/RT to a text file, and how to import tick data from a text file into Investor/RT. This video is useful for users who want to....move tick data from one system to another...import tick data from an external source...or export tick data for use in an external program.	Watch Video 11 minutes
*Plotting Time-Sensitive Prices*	This video below demonstrates how to plot reference lines on multi-pane charts for various key time-sensitive prices including the previous session close, the current day session open, the overnight high and low, the opening range (OR), initial balance (IB) and several IB multiples. These concepts can be used to plot a variety of similar time-sensitive prices on charts of any periodicity and any session. The video covers various concepts including user variables, custom columns, custom indicators, and reference lines.	Watch Video 34 minutes
*Creating Pairs*	This video demonstrates how to use the pair wizard to quickly build pairs from any two stocks.	Watch Video 9 minutes
*Pair Correlation*	This video demonstrates how to compute the correlation between the two components in a pair, both historical in a chart, as well as in a quotepage column.	Watch Video 7 minutes
*Woodie's CCI - Pairs Trading*	This video covers the process of importing Woodie's layout (charts and symbols) for pairs trading. Woodie trades using range bar charts of pairs along with the Woodie's CCI indicator and other key price indicators.	Watch Video 30 minutes
*FuturesTrader71 Webinar*	This video is a recording of a webinar hosted by Chad Payne and FuturesTrader71 in which FuturesTrader71's 4 primary charts were created and shared. For more information, click here.	Watch Video 1 hr, 37 mins
*FuturesTrader71 Webinar Follow-up*	This video is a follow-up to the webinar, with a brief summary of each chart, instruction on how to import those charts, and answers to questions that resulted from the webinar. For more information, click here.	Watch Video 30 minutes
*FuturesTrader71 Composite Profile Details*	This video is another follow-up to the webinar, which focuses primarily on the Composite Profile of FT71 and covers various issues which can result in discrepancies between users. Included in the discussion is how to setup symbols properly for continuous contracts, and how to adjust the data to account for the calendar-spread gap created at rollover.. For more information, click here.	Watch Video 28 minutes
*User Variables and Reference Lines*	This video illustrates how to use reference lines based on V# variables to set high and low alarms for a variety of symbols directly in a chart. This method also works well for reference lines based on High and Low Alarm levels.	Watch Video 10 minutes
*Global Market Playback*	This video demonstrates the ability to playback past data globally in Investor/RT.	Watch Video 7 minutes
Custom Symbols: Tracking the Bid/Ask	This video demonstrates how to create a custom instrument which tracks the bid or ask price of another symbol, and retains and charts the information historically. Especially useful for infrequently traded options to track their bid price regardless of whether the option actually trades or not.	Watch Video 5 minutes
Custom Symbols: Advancers / Decliners	This video discusses how to create custom symbols which track various statistics for large lists of symbols, such as advancers/decliners, Adv/Dec volume, up ticks, up tick volume, on SP500, NQ100, or any custom list of symbols.	Watch Video 13 minutes
Custom Symbols: Custom TICK	This video discusses how to create a custom symbol which tracks the TICK value of any custom group of symbols, and chart that symbol historically.	Watch Video 9 minutes
*Advance / Decline Line for Interactive Brokers*	This video details how to create an NYSE Advance / Decline line for the IB data feed.	Watch Video 4 minutes
*Custom Price Level Alerts*	This video explains how to create custom price level alerts for one or multiple symbols, which can be updated anytime by changing a value in a quotepage, or dragging a line in a chart.	Watch Video 12 minutes
*Deleting Bad Ticks*	From time to time, a bad tick might creep into your data, and a download/refresh of data may not solve the problem. This video explains a quick and easy way to get rid of that tick.	Watch Video 2 minutes
*Day Session Prices*	This video demonstrates how to display day session prices (high, low, open) onto charts that are setup on the 24 hour session (session 31). (Pro Version Required)	Watch Video 9 minutes
*Switching Data Feeds*	This video provides some tips on switching between feeds, and will be especially valuable for futures traders (for whom the symbols are different between feeds).	Watch Video 6 minutes
*Importing Current Data from Excel*	This video demonstrates how to import current data (such as Pivot Levels) into Investor/RT quotepages and user variables (V# variables) periodically, either manually or on a schedule.	Watch Video 8 minutes
*Market Profile & Pivot Point Levels*	This video demonstrates how to transfer Pivot Levels (S3, S3, S1, PP, R1, R2, R3) automatically to Market Profile charts (and to V# variables). This video also demonstrates how to force Pivots to calculate off the day session intraday data only (and be independent of daily data). It covers several topics including V# variables and schedules.	Watch Video 16 minutes
*Importing tickdata.com data*	This video demonstrates how to export data from the TickWrite program of tickdata.com and import into Investor/RT.	Watch Video 5 minutes

Market Profile (more on MP)
Title	Description	Duration
*Market Profile Overview*	This video gives a general overview of the Market Profile chart interface.	Watch Video 6 minutes
Market Profile Chart Preferences	This video discusses the various options in the 5 tabs of the Market Profile preference window.	Watch Video 22 minutes
*Composite Profiles, Splits and Merges*	This video demonstrates how to build automated composite profiles (weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, etc), as well as how to split or merge daily profiles.	Watch Video 11 minutes
What's New in MP January 2006	This video discusses many of the recent innovations in Market Profile charts, in versions 8.5 and 8.6, including toggle reference lines, additional ref lines, toggling fonts, space between letters, new letter color options, and more...	Watch Video 9 minutes
What's New in MP August 2006	This video discusses many of the recent innovations in Market Profile charts, including Singles, Naked POCs, individual profile splitting, custom letter colors, sharing of charts, and more...	Watch Video 7 minutes
*Market Profile Playback*	This video demonstrates the ability to playback the current session, or previous sessions, in Market Profile charts.	Watch Video 3 minutes
Market Profile Shortcuts	This video explains various keyboards shortcuts associated with the Market Profile chart, along with discussing the options in the right-click pop-up menu.	Watch Video 4 minutes
Market Profile InfoBox	This video discusses the various information available in the Market Profile InfoBox. [see also Q&A]	Watch Video 4 minutes
*Exporting Price Levels*	This video demonstrates how to transfer Market Profile lines such as VAH, VAL, POC, etc, over to bar or candle charts, and have them automatically update on a tick by tick basis. [see also Q&A]	Watch Video 4 minutes
*Importing Price Levels*	This video demonstrates how to transfer price values from other sources, such as bar or candle charts, to Market Profile reference lines.	Watch Video 7 minutes
*Alerting to DVA Movement*	This video demonstrates how to create alerts when the developing value area high or low moves up or down.	Watch Video 18 minutes
*MORE MP Reference Lines*	Need more reference lines in your MP charts? This video demonstrates how to add up to 512 more using a V# variable trick..	Watch Video 5 minutes
Market Profile & Pivot Point Levels	This video demonstrates how to transfer Pivot Levels (S3, S3, S1, PP, R1, R2, R3) automatically to Market Profile charts (and to V# variables). This video also demonstrates how to force Pivots to calculate off the day session intraday data only (and be independent of daily data). It covers several topics including V# variables and schedules.	Watch Video 16 minutes

Trading Systems and Backtesting
Title	Description	Duration
Signal Markers & Custom Indicators	This video is posted in the miscellaneous section above, but is good prerequisite viewing for the trading system videos.	Watch Video 5 minutes
*Multiple Targets and/or Stops*	This video demonstrates how to create a system that exits at multiple target and/or stop levels, as well as how to move a stop (to breakeven) after an initial target is reached.	Watch Video 13 minutes
1) Idea: Formulating A Strategy	This video discusses the "brainstorming" phase of developing a trading system.	Watch Video 7 minutes
2) Coding: Building A System Trading System Window	This video discusses the building of the system signals and rules in the trading system window.	Watch Video 15 minutes
3) Testing: Backtesting A System Backtest Setup Window	This video discusses the different options in the backtest setup window and demonstrates an actual backtest.	Watch Video 10 minutes
3b) Debugging: Debugging Trading Systems and Verifying Results	This video was made independently of the rest of this backtesting series, but is a good complement to the videos above. It goes through the complete development of another system and focuses on various ways to debug systems and verify results.	Watch Video 19 minutes
4) Evaluation Making Sense of Reports Trusting the Results	This video covers the various reports that result from a backtest and discusses some different statistical results that the user should pay careful attention to.	Watch Video 16 minutes
5) Refining Buying More Adding Targets and Stops	This video adds some different twists to the trading system, including buying/shorting more, and adding profit targets.	Watch Video 13 minutes
6) Optimization Finding the Optimal Combination	This video demonstrates the optimization of several variables in a trading system.	Watch Video 14 minutes
7) Implementation Trading / Automating the System	Coming Soon...
8) Futures Applying Backtesting Concepts to Futures	Coming Soon...
9) Syntax Common Signals for Crossovers, Reversals, etc.	Coming Soon...