charts-general

You can adjust the order of chart elements in several ways ways:

• Right-click on any indicator and choose Bring to Front or Send to Back. That will bring it to the front (or back) of all other elements respectively.

Vertical Scale Preferences
Traditional Charts

Overview

Toggle Whitespace

Here is how to eliminate the whitespace that can occur when a market is closed due to a holiday, abbreviated trading session, trading halt, or any other reason. If the chart has periodicity time per bar and you would like to collapse the whitespace, right click the chart and choose Periodicity-> Other; uncheck the Whitespace for Non-Trading Periods box as shown below. Keyboard shortcut Shift+8 (the asterisk key).

The macOS version of Investor/RT supports the display of crosshair price and time in the main toolbar as you move the crosshairs.

Many of the tick-based periodicities provide a Fresh Start option within the periodicity control. These periodicities include Tickbars, Volume bars, Rangebars, Renko, PNF, etc. When fresh start is available, you will see a Fresh Start checkbox at the bottom of the periodicity control as you see below:

Periodicity is defined as the character of being periodic; the tendency to recur at regular intervals. Applied to market data analysis and Investor/RT in particular, the periodicity of a chart relates to the manner by which the periodic intervals of market data are determined. All the trading within an interval is defined as a bar, each bar having an open price, high, low, close and volume of trading during the interval. This tutorial presents the extensive range of periodicities available in Investor/RT. Periodicities are grouped into three categories: time dependent, volume dependent, and price dependent.

To display a slide show of Instruments, open a QuotePage containing those Instruments and on the QuotePage Toolbar, select the Slideshow Icon as shown below:

Manipulating Bar and Candle Width This video demonstrates the process.

Yes. Open your preference window for the chart (double-clicking in horizontal scale at bottom of chart will get you there). In the "General" tab, you’ll find the “Pixels/Bar” setting, which controls the number of pixels allocated to each bar. Instead of a single number, you can manually enter text in the following format:

X:Y