How do I Compute the IB (Initial Balance) High, Low, or Range?
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Compute the IB (Initial Balance) High, Low, or Range?
This would be done with the Session Statistics Indicator (SESST). To compute the IB High, setup SESST with "Highest Price: High: First 60 Mins of the session." as seen below:
The difference lies in the context in which the two are used. Scans operate on current data, and can be used to:
A scan is sometimes called a "screen". A scan can either be run manually by the user, or be scheduled to run periodically.
Quotepage Format is not one of the preferences that can be applied globally to all quotepages via the Setup: Preferences: Quotepage window. The reason being that we felt it unlikely that a user would want the same format for every one of his quotepages. Only "colors, gridlines, and other simple appearance settings" can be applied globally in this way.
Users of the Investor/RT can do this kind of quotepage merging easily using an RTL scan. Suppose you have two quotepages named “PageA” and “PageB” and you wish to create a new quotepage that contains all symbols that reside in either PageA or PageB. Run this scan on all your symbols:
QP = “PageA” OR QP = “PageB”A tool called the QuotePage Browser has been added to the MS Windows version of Investor/RT. The browser window presents lists of quotepages (System Quotepages, User Quotepages, Recent QuotePages) and the instrument ticker symbols for each quotepage. User-defined quotepage groups and subgroups are also shown in an indented outline format. Any group can be expanded or collapsed by double-clicking on its name.
The quotepage Change value is computed as a difference in price from the Prev Close (Previous day's closing price) quotepage column. Some market data sources update this previous close value each time you log in, while others do not. Those that update it automatically should reliably show accurate Change, %Change, and Prev Close values.
If your data source does not supply this value, a custom column may be created to simulate the Change column. The Profession edition of Investor/RT is required to create a custom indicator to compute these values.
Unless you do very long term weekly/monthly charting, click “Yes” to accept the recommended settings.
"Posting" is the process of recording the current daily prices (seen in the quotepage) into the daily database as the current daily bar. Posting Time is specified in the Session Preferences and is generally setup to occur a minute or two after the session closes. This process is not really needed in the end-of-day case. If you're just downloading your daily data after the session closes, you really have no need to "post".