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Why are all Windows Floating?

By design Investor/RT does not have minimize, maximize, restore buttons on the title bar, only the close button. Multipane charts typically have Minimize, Maximize and restore button available at the top right section of the button pane (see more details below). For other windows type, right-clicking in the title bar usually offers a menu of choices for Minimize, Maximize and Restore actions (with the Alt - keyboard combination also minimizing any selected window). All windows, charts, quote pages, preferences windows, object manager, etc. are floating windows.

Where is my Toolbar?

Main Toolbar invisible ? Chart Toolbar invisible ?

The default style and position of any "Object" toolbar (i.e the Chart Toolbar, the QuotePage Tool bar) is setup in the Preference > General Menu. The possible objet toolbar styles are : Large Vertical / Small Vertical / Large Horizontal / Small  Horizontal with 2 possible themes (GrayScale or Colored) while the Default Position are either Floating toolbars / Fixed Position or Pin to the Right/Left, pin to the Top/Bottom

Diagnosing Sluggish Performance

If Investor/RT seems to be running sluggishly, it may be because a particular indicator in some chart is taking an excessive amount of time to calculate. Follow these steps to diagnose further:

Volume Profiling non-Time Based Charts

When applying start and stop times or a specific number of minutes to the Profile Indicator, Investor/RT is using the begin and end times of the bars in the chart to determine when to begin and end the Profile Indicator. On a Time based chart this is easy since each bar tends to start and stop at an even minute interval.

However, when adding a Profile Indicator to a non-time based chart (Volume, Tick, Range or Change bar charts), each bar does not have an even begin and end time and these times are not known until after a bar closes and a new one opens.

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