charts-general

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.  Using a proprietary algorithm that simulate a full tick by tick trade distribution from a 1 min bar data, it will then use the information derived from this 1-minute data set 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

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).

Periodicity is defined as the character of being periodic; the tendency to recur at regular intervals. Applied to market data analysis and Investor/RT in particular, the periodicity of a chart relates to the manner by which the periodic intervals of market data are determined. All the trading within an interval is defined as a bar, each bar having an open price, high, low, close and volume of trading during the interval. This tutorial presents the extensive range of periodicities available in Investor/RT. Periodicities are grouped into three categories: time dependent, volume dependent, and price dependent.

Overview

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.

Vertical Scale Preferences
Traditional Charts

Toggle Whitespace

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: