Instrument Monitoring Status
What does it mean to "mark" a symbol for intraday monitoring?
When a symbol is marked for intraday monitoring, it has 2 main consequences :
When a symbol is marked for intraday monitoring, it has 2 main consequences :
On futures markets, settlement prices are the official closing prices for futures and options contracts, reflecting the fair market value at a specific point in time, typically the end of the trading day. These prices are used for daily marking-to-market to calculate profits and losses, as well as to determine final contract values and margin requirements.
This support page, starting with a quick reminder of key notions about individual future contract specifications, discusses the different types of continuous contracts and how they are built and accessible within Investor/RT.
Here are a few reminders about futures contract specifications
1.1) Future Contract symbol
This support page discusses how “Full Session” and “Day Session” are being defined in the instrument setup window, which is important to know when later used within specific indicators (Session statistics, Session Prices, Mixed Periodicity Data etc) for generating key market levels and statistics. Sessions are also used as key input for selecting chart display viewing periods.
This video demonstrates how to create daily bars from intraday data, and in the process, limit the data considered for the daily bar to a specific session. The video also demonstrates how to create multi-session, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly bars from intraday data and limited to a specific session.
When the text "NOT MARKED INTRADAY" is printed in the title of an intraday chart, it means that the symbol charted is not marked for intraday monitoring.
When a symbol is marked for intraday monitoring, Investor/RT will ALWAYS monitor that symbol tick by tick, and retain the collected data (along with any other downloaded intraday data) as you are connected to your main source of live data (IQ Feed, Rithmic account, etc).