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Data Management Webinar

Data Management Webinar

This webinar was produced on 11/30/2012. Downloading and managing data is one of the most powerful aspects of Investor/RT. This video discusses the topic of how to set up different types of data, download methods, how to retain downloaded data, dealing with gaps, auto-backfill, managing sessions and holidays, and overall how the product manages data.

Tutorial - Monitoring Data 'Completeness'

This Tutorial will demonstrate how to create two custom columns that will allow the user to quickly identify any holes in daily or intraday data. In our particular case, we are going to look at the last 100 daily and intraday bars, and see how many are missing. If you would prefer to check more (200, 300) or less (50, etc), just change the 100 to whatever number you choose throughout the tutorial.

First, create the a custom indicator with the following simple syntax:

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Downloading Data

In addition to downloading directly from an open chart, you can also download long time periods or history for an entire quote page from the Download Data screen.

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