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 Knowledge Base

 Prospective User FAQ's

 Licensing

 Getting Started - Initial Datafeed setup

  • Rithmic - Getting Started
  • Rithmic Market Data and Order Routing
  • CQG - Getting Started
  • DTN Market Access - Getting Started
  • IQFeed - Getting Started
  • Interactive Brokers - Getting started
  • Installing Investor/RT on Macintosh
  • Managing your linnsoft.com account
  • Using the Help Menu in Investor/RT

 Getting Started - Symbol Guide

  • All About Futures Rollover in Investor/RT
  • Rollover calendar
  • Symbol Guide
  • DTNMA Symbol Guide
  • IQFeed Symbol Guide
  • Rithmic Symbol Guide
  • CQG Symbol Guide
  • Interactive Brokers Symbol Guide
  • How do I setup a forex instrument with IB and IDEALPRO exchange?
  • How can I access Market Indices like the TICK.Z, TRIN, ADD, VIX, TYX, TNX, PREM etc.
  • Why do long term @ES# charts show different prices in prior months than other charting services?

 Getting Started - User Interface 101

  • Why are all Windows Floating?
  • Object Manager, Investor/RT "central hub"
  • Customizing the Main Toolbar
  • Where is my Main Toolbar ? Where is my Layout Toolbar ?
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Message Log
  • Arranging the sequence the tabs on the Layout Toolbar

 Database Support 101

  • Maintaining Database Restore Points
  • Moving your Database to Another Computer
  • Start over with a Fresh Database
  • Installing Multiple IRT instances
  • Installing IRT on a Solid State Drive (or any secondary drive)
  • Startup Manager
  • Tune Up
  • Send Database to Support
  • Database File Size Monitoring
  • Unable to Open Database file message
  • Error: IRTACTIVE file in use

 Multi-Pane Charts 101

  • Charts Quick Start
  • Drawing Tool Setup Using Buttons
  • Exporting and Importing Charts
  • Pane Element Menu
  • Adjust the pane Drawing Order of Chart Objects
  • Linking Charts
  • Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts For Multi-Pane Charts
  • Copy and paste Indicators (including Buttons) from one chart to another
  • Understanding Vertical Scale Preferences

 Buttons

  • Changing Periodicity with a Button
  • How do I create a button on a chart (or a keyboard shortcut) that will open a specific chart, quotepage, or layout?
  • How can I remove the row of buttons at the top of my chart? (Button Pane)
  • How would I add a chart button that toggles (adds/removes) a technical indicator with specific preferences?
  • Is it possible to copy and paste a Button indicator from one chart to another?
  • Toggle a Group of Indicators on off

 TPO Profile Charts

 Sessions

  • Adjusting for Daylight Savings Time
  • Forex Trading Times
  • What is an "INCOMPATIBLE SESSION"
  • Clock offset "N" seconds in my Message Area
  • Add or Remove Holidays

 Periodicities

  • What is a Chart Periodicity?
  • Range Bars and Change Bars in Version 12
  • What is the "Fresh Start" option and how can I access it?
  • Mixing Periodicities on Charts
  • Specifying a different PNF box size
  • Why are my Range Bars off by one tick?
  • Daily Periodicity Volumes don't match Intraday
  • The difference between Daily and 1 Day* Periodicities

 Charting

  • Chart Slide Shows
  • Diagnosing Sluggish Performance
  • Display the amount of time, ticks, or volume left in the current bar (%BARLEFT)
  • Simulating Tick Data on longer time frame Charts
  • Changing thickness of Bars and Candles without Zooming
  • Video: Customizing Multi-Pane Charts
  • Multi-Session Volume Profiling
  • Video: Moving Indicators Between Charts
  • Video: Multi-Pane Chart Spacing
  • Video: Technical Indicator Scope
  • Video: Traditional Multi-Pane Charting Overview
  • Add a Watermark to a Multi-Pane Chart
  • Volume Profiling non-Time Based Charts
  • Why don't my charts match my educators charts?
  • Printing Charts and Quotepages
  • How do I setup alarms/alerts for technical indicators?
  • How do I turn off all the alarms I have setup? Can I put them "on hold" and reactivate them all later?

 Technical Indicators

  • Text that's printed above and below the dotted rectangle of the Profile Indicator
  • Create a Moving Average of any Technical Indicator
  • Premium RTX Extensions
  • Understanding Dynamic Profiles and MPB or BOP
  • Deleting a Technical Indicator from a chart
  • Split Sessions for the Volume Profile Indicator
  • Technical Indicator Presets
  • Retracement Bands Indicator
  • Video: Painting Bars and Backgrounds in Multi-Pane Charts
  • The Annotation Indicator that contains % BARLEFT updates only when a trade occurs.
  • How do I place a box or note on a chart which shows the current value of some technical indicator?

 Quote Pages

  • Identifying Symbol Groups in QuotePages
  • How can I merge the symbols from several quotepages into a single quotepage?
  • How do I delete all the symbols in my database and start from scratch?
  • How do I globally change the formats for my existing quotepages to my desired format?
  • How do I make quotepage with all the symbols in two other quotepages?
  • I have a scan that I would like to run every 5 minutes throughout the day, but I would like a quotepage to accumulate all hits
  • The Change, %Change, and/or Prev Close columns in the quotepage are showing incorrect values.
  • Is there a way to add symbols to a quotepage without the quotepage being open?
  • What is the "QuotePage Browser"?

 Custom Columns

  • Custom Column Values are different than actual RTL Object Values
  • How Do I Add a Custom Column to a QuotePage?
  • Why Custom Column Values can Differ from Chart Values

 Custom Instruments

  • Custom Instruments Setup
  • How do I create a custom instrument to track the advancing or declining issues for a large list of stocks?
  • Can I import ticker symbols of pairs or spreads into Investor/RT from a text or csv file?

 Data Support

  • Downloading and Retaining Data
  • Where is my Historical Data?
  • Backfill Automation
  • About Interactive Brokers Historical Data
  • DTNMA and Broker's Data do not match (off by 10, 100 or 1000, etc).
  • What is Fast Market Mode?
  • Brokers Data vs. other Feeds
  • What is Posting (Post History)? Do end-of-day (EOD) users need to post?
  • Eliminating Whitespace, Gaps that Occur on Holiday Dates
  • Smart Tick Compression (Legacy feature)
  • Viewing Long term Composite Charts
  • How do I import external historical data from a text or csv file?
  • Using DDE links to get data from Investor/RT
  • Eliminating Bad Ticks
  • Data appears to be delayed

 Trading Systems

  • How do I change the default Account Balance Chart that comes up as part of the output of a backtest?
  • How do I implement a stop and/or target in a trading system?
  • Using Playback
  • How do I implement a trailing stop in a trading system?
  • How can I setup Investor/RT for automatic trading with Rithmic, CQG, Gain or Interactive Brokers? (Autotrading)

 Trading

  • Trading with Investor/RT : check list
  • OCO/OSO order management with Trading strategies
  • Enable or Disable Trading Markers

 Developers Corner

  • RTX Extensions
  • Compiling RTX with Visual Studio 2010
  • Compiling RTX with Visual Studio 2013

 Whats New

  • What's New in Version 15
  • What's New in Version 14
  • What's New in Version 13.5
  • What's New in Version 13
  • What's New in Version 12.7
  • What's New in Version 12.6
  • What's New in Version 12.5
  • What's New in Version 12.4
  • What's New in Version 12.3
  • What's New in Version 12.2
  • What's New in Version 12
  • What's New in Version 11.3
  • What's New in Version 11.2
  • What's New in Version 11.1
  • What's New in Version 10.6
  • What's New in Version 10.5

 Miscellaneous Topics

  • Using the Functions Window
  • Warning Message: Memory requirements have reached 250MB
  • Controlling the Font Size of Labels
  • How can I change the ChartScrollBackColor and other configuration variables easily?
  • How can I configure Investor/RT to automatically download adjusted data on continuous futures contracts from DTN?
  • How can I plot the level I bid/ask size information on my multi-pane charts? What is the Bid/Ask Tool?
  • How can I plot the volume (range) relative to the average of the same bar (time) over past days or session?
  • How do I add a line to an intraday chart which display the previous daily closing price?
  • When exporting RTL objects, can I specify a standard comment so I will not be prompted?
  • How do I know when new versions of Investor/RT are available?
  • How do you display bid/ask dots/lines on the chart?
  • View or Export the volume at price data of the Profile Indicator
  • How does the Volume Breakdown determine if a trade should be considered a buy (ask volume) or a sell (bid volume)?
  • I would like to be able to optimize column widths in Portfolios but, I would like to have the preference set for actual data rather than column headings as sometimes the column headings are substantially larger than the data.
  • I'm getting a message at startup that some of my symbols are setup with non-standard daily/weekly/monthly data retention. settings. What does this mean?
  • I'm having a problem upgrading to the latest version of Investor/RT. What can I do?
  • If you run two copies of IB/TWS, how to you tell Investo/RT which on to connect to when you Start Data?
  • Is there a way for me to force trendlines to snap to the high and/or low price of a bar?
  • Is there a way to plot the projected high and low of the current rangebar?
  • Is there any way to increase the thickness of the Candle Wicks from 1 pixel wide to 2 pixels wide?
  • Can I paint the background of the overnight session a different color from that of the day session for a multi-pane chart?
  • Naming conventions for scans, Quotepages, and other objects
  • Plugins Folder Warning Message
  • Track the Developing VPOC or VA
  • Understanding Groups
  • Using Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or Hotmail for outgoing Mail
  • VISTA.TAF Error Message
  • Video: Coloring Lines & Histograms in Multi-Pane Charts
  • What exchanges are supported by the various data services / data feeds that Investor/RT supports?
  • What is Presentation Mode?
  • What is the Delete Key in the Macintosh Version. How about the Alt-Key and Ctrl-Key
  • Why do I have a message STATIC CHART in the window title?
  • Why do my TPO Indicator lines (Developing VPOC) only go back 10 days?
  • Windows Stacking up on each other (Charts, Quotepages, etc.).
  • How do I setup a schedule action that will automatically save the quotepage that results from a scan?
  • Can you explain what the wicks or tails of Renko charts represent?
  • Setting up Custom Voice Alert Sounds

How Do I Add a Custom Column to a QuotePage?

See the following

  • Custom Columns (QuotePages)
  • Tutorial - Custom Columns - Linear Regression Bands
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