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Getting Started

CQG - Getting Started
Gain - Getting Started
IQFeed - Getting Started
Rithmic - Getting Started
DTN Market Access
Rithmic Market Data and Order Routing
Charts Quick Start
Object Manager
Why are all Windows Floating?
Keyboard Shortcuts
How to manage your linnsoft.com account
Exporting and Importing Charts
Message Log
Using the Help Menu in Investor/RT

Getting Started with Macintosh

Installing Investor/RT on Macintosh
Enable the display of Price and Time based on crosshair position

Licensing

TPO Profile Charts

Multi-Pane Charts

Linking Charts
Changing thickness of Bars and Candles without Zooming
Understanding Vertical Scale Preferences
Printing Charts and Quotepages
How can I remove the row of buttons at the top of my chart? (Button Pane)
Add a Watermark to a Multi-Pane Chart
Copy and paste Indicators (including Buttons) from one chart to another
Adjust the pane Drawing Order of Chart Objects
Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts For Multi-Pane Charts
Multi-Session Volume Profiling
Pane Element Menu

Instrument Set-up

How are Forex symbols setup for the Interactive Brokers data source?
How can I access Market Indices like the TICK.Z, TRIN, ADD, VIX, TYX, TNX, PREM etc.
How do I setup a forex instrument with IB and IDEALPRO exchange?
Interactive Brokers Configuration
Identifying Symbol Groups in QuotePages
Symbol Guide
Why do long term @ES# charts show different prices in prior months than other charting services?
DTNMA Symbol Guide
IQFeed Symbol Guide
Gain Symbol Guide
Rithmic Symbol Guide
eSignal Symbol Guide
Transact Symbol Guide
Interactive Brokers Symbol Guide

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

Main Toolbar

Customizing the Main Toolbar
Where is my Toolbar?

Layouts

Arranging the sequence the tabs on the Layout Toolbar
My layout toolbar has disappeared. How do I get it back?

Data Support

Brokers Data vs. other Feeds
About Interactive Brokers Historical Data
Downloading and Retaining Data
DTNMA and Broker's Data do not match (off by 10, 100 or 1000, etc).
Backfill Automation
What is Fast Market Mode?
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
All About Futures Rollover in Investor/RT
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
View or Export the volume at price data of the Profile Indicator
When exporting RTL objects, can I specify a standard comment so I will not be prompted?
Where is my Historical Data?
Data appears to be delayed

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
Video: Customizing Multi-Pane Charts
Video: Moving Indicators Between Charts
Video: Multi-Pane Chart Spacing
Video: Technical Indicator Scope
Video: Traditional Multi-Pane Charting Overview
Volume Profiling non-Time Based Charts
Why don't my charts match my educators charts?
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?

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 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

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

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?

Database Support

Database File Limits
Eliminating Bad Ticks
Unable to Open Database file message
Installing IRT on a Solid State Drive (or any secondary drive)
Moving your Database to Another Computer
Restore Points
Send Database to Support
Start over with a Fresh Database
Tune Up
Warning Message: Memory requirements have reached 250MB
Startup Manager
Error: IRTACTIVE file in use

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 Infinity/TransAct, Interactive Brokers, or Rithmic? (Autotrading)

Trading

Trading with Investor/RT
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
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?
How do I know when new versions of Investor/RT are available?
How do you display bid/ask dots/lines on the chart?
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

License Activation/Configure Data Source and Broker

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License Activation and Data Feed Configuration

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