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 tip explains how to adjust the sensitivity of High Volumes Nodes with the latest chart buttons
This video provides several tips and shortcuts that make creating Investor/RT charts quick and easy. Version 12.5 is used for this video.
This video explains how point and figure bars are formed and why volume is often missing at the high or low prices of PNF bars (ghost or phantom prices). It also explains how to set a configuration variable, PnfConventionalHighLows, to FALSE, to avoid this situation.
This tip explains how to customize the column titles in the resulting Excel file when exporing all chart data from a multi-pane chart by right-cilcking in chart and "Export: All Chart Data".
In this video tip, Chad Payne explains how to setup Investor/RT to play an audible alert every 30 minutes throughout the regular trading session using the Schedule module.
This video demonstrates how to manage the usage of the forward-looking Zig Zag Oscillator within a Custom Indicator or Signal Marker. The Zig Zag Oscillator is unique in that it is a forward looking indicator, and as such, past values can change based on future price movement. Due to this forward-looking nature, when the ZZO token is used within RTL, special consideration must be made to accommodate the addition of any Custom Indicators or Signals that contain ZZO when adding to a chart. This video describes how to setup such Custom Indicators or Signal.