Manipulating Bar and Candle Width This video demonstrates the process.
Yes. Open your preference window for the chart (double-clicking in horizontal scale at bottom of chart will get you there). In the "General" tab, you’ll find the “Pixels/Bar” setting, which controls the number of pixels allocated to each bar. Instead of a single number, you can manually enter text in the following format:
X:Y
This 29 minute video discusses the important basic elements of traditional multi-pane (bar/candle) charts. Topics include creating charts, using the chart setup wizard, changing the ticker symbol or periodicity of a chart, and sharing chart setups and images with support and other Investor/RT Users.
This 12-minute video demonstrates various methods and shortcuts for managing space in Multi-Pane charts. Topics include adjusting the pixels per bar setting using the arrow keys or mouse scroll wheel, and adjusting the amount of right margin space at the right side of your charts.
This 14 minute video covers many aspects of customizing multi-pane charts. Topics include adjust various chart colors (foreground, background, gradient), chart periodicity, revising ticker symbol, scaling options, scrolling, and more.
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.
First, add an Annotation to a chart. To do so, click on the "a" button in the chart toolbar (or right-click in the chart and choose "Draw: Annotation") and then click in the chart where you want the annotation. A text box will appear. Type in the text: %BARLEFT
Charts with certain periodicities require tick data in order to form properly. These include Volume Bars, Tick Bars, Renko, Point and Figure, Range Bars, and Change Bars. These periodicities can also be formed from 1-minute data but generally they will not be as accurate. For periods where there is tick data, Investor/RT will use the tick data to form the accurate bars. It will then use the 1-minute data before that to form those bars as best possible. By default, Investor/RT will form bars from 1-minute data for up to 50 days back. For per
The INCOMPATIBLE SESSION message indicates that the Session Override of the chart is set to a session that is outside the boundaries of the session assigned to the symbol. The required course of action is to adjust the session of either the Symbol itself or the chart so that they are either the same, or, the Chart's session is fully inside of the times of the Symbols Session.
Shortcuts keys and mouse techniques are generally the same on both Windows and Macintosh OS X platforms. The Ctrl key equivalent on Macintosh keyboards is the Option Key. If you use a single button mouse (rare these days) the right-click can be accomplished by Control-Click (hold down the Control key while clicking).
A multi-pane chart can optionally have a button pane, a thin pane containing only a series of chart buttons, typically at the top of the chart. Normally the button pane is displayed without a title bar. If you right-click inside the button pane and choose Show Pane Title, the title bar will appear, telling you that this is indeed a "Button Pane"