Investor/RT 10.7 brings a greatly simplified user interface to the product. Where possible, redundant and unnecessarily detailed menu items have been eliminated. Our objective is to simplify the menu system for every day usage while preserving access to all of the powerful functionality that is under the hood. Key to this revision is an expanded role for what we now refer to as the Object Manager, formerly known as the Object Editor in prior versions of Investor/RT. This window has been considerably enhanced to serve as a central place for creating, opening, and organizing Investor/RT objects -- charts, quotepages, custom indicators, instruments, etc. The File Menu now has simplied New and Open submenus. File: Open: Object Manager is accessible there or by its Alt+O (O for Object Manager) shortcut. The main toolbar default button set includes the Object Manager button as well - the icon looks like a folder opening to convey that this window can be used to open just about anything you have setup in IRT: Charts, Quotepage, Signals, Text Files, etc.

To open the Object Manager, click the Object Manager icon on the main toolbar or select the Object Manager menu item from the File: Open Menu. The keyboard shortcut is Alt+O. The Object Manager is a window that shows lists of all of the "objects" you have setup in Investor/RT: charts, quotepages, layouts, etc. Select the type of object you are interested in at the left; the names of the objects of that type will appear to the right. Buttons at the far right enable you to delete, rename, export or open one of more object names selected in this list. Only the action buttons that apply to the type of object select will be visible. For example, when Layout is the selected type, the New button does not appear since Layouts must be created using the Layout Toolbar.

You can select a name by clicking on it, select a range of adjacent names by clicking on a name and then Shift-clicking a name anywhere above or below it in the list. You can also select non-adjacent names in the list by Ctrl-clicking each name you wish to select. You can use the mouse wheel to scroll through the list of names. The names are listed alphabetically. You can type a letter on the keyboard to position the list of names to those beginning with that letter. After making your selection(s), click one of the action buttons to open, delete, rename, or export the list of selected names. For convenience a Select All button is available, e.g. click Charts, then Select All, then Export to export definitions of all of your charts.

To create a new object of some kind, first select the kind of object, e.g. Chart, and then click the New button. The Chart Wizard window will open for creating a new chart. The New button works in analogous fashion with other object types. Presets are a special case. Technical indicator presets are listed when you select Preset as the object type. Presets are listed by indicator, e.g. signal action presets (ACT) are listed first, followed by other presets you may have for any number of different indicators. If you wish to create a new preset, first select the kind of preset you want by choosing an existing one for that indicator, then click the New button. For example, to create a new moving average preset, first select any existing MA preset and click New. Presets can also be created directly from any indicator in a chart by opening the indicator's preferences and choosing "New..." from the Preset menu.

Double-clicking the mouse on a type of object is a shortcut for selecting that object and clicking "New". Similarly, double-clicking on the name of some object, e.g. a chart name, will open that chart. Both double-click actions will also close the Object Manager. If you wish to open more than one object of some type, Select a name, click Open, select another name, click Open, etc. Click Done to dismiss the Object Manager or press the Esc key on the keyboard.

The Object Manager may be moved and re-sized to your preference. The size and location of the window is noted when the window closed. The window will reopen at the same size and position and object type selected when you last closed it. When you resize the Object Manager narrow, the two lists (Object Types and Object Names) are stacked vertically. When stacked, you may use the mouse to adjust the portion of the window devoted to either list by dragging the divider line between the two lists.

Certain object types such as charts, quotepages, and RTL objects give you the option to check mark a Recent checkbox. When checked, Object Manager shows the most recent objects referenced for the selected type. See Setup: Preferences: Groups to control how many recent objects are maintained. When viewing sessions you may elect to view All Sessions or uncheck the All Session box to view only the sessions you have assigned to instruments.

Use File: Functions to open the Functions window. Search for functions using a key word or phrase; select a function and click "Go" to perform the function. Some items in the function list are there because they are seldom needed and do not warrant inclusion in the menu system. Others are included to make them discoverable or more accessible than they would be otherwise. Press Esc or click the Cancel button to dismiss the window without performing a function.

The External Data Indicator (EDI) now provides support for Prediction Points. Prediction Points are highly reactive price levels the market has a high probability of reacting to if it gets up to or down to a specific Prediction Point price. Prediction Points is a subscription service from Prediction Point Trading, LLC. Subscriptions are available for the E-mini S&P 500 ES and the Russell 2000 Mini (TF) futures. See Prediction Trading FAQ for more information.

For all real-time configurations, Investor/RT Version 11 automatically starts and maintains connectivity with the configured market data source and brokerage destination. If connectivity is lost due to external reasons, e.g. internet outage, Investor/RT will automatically attempt to establish connectivity until it is restored. If you stop the data connection manually or engage "working offline" mode using the Data Menu, Investor/RT will continue to perform on demand historical data downloads, e.g. from DTN MA historical service. While working offline, the main toolbar heartbeat icon will show "Off". To resume live data reception, issue the Start Data command or turn off the Working Offline check mark in the Data Menu. The key conceptual change versus. prior versions is that whenever data feed connectivity is lost, the software is now programmed to try repeatedly to reconnect without user intervention. Data connectivity is automatic at start up, is maintained continuously, restarted automatically. If you wish to use the software without connectivity to a live market data source, choose "Work Offline" from the Data Menu. Choose Work Offline again (while it is checked) to leave offline mode and resume normal automatic connectivity.

A configuration variable can be used to turn off this new automatic connectivity method. Go to Setup: Configuration... and set AutoConnectToData=false. When false, Investor/RT will start and stop data flow based strictly on user command. In this mode, a connection at startup is a user option in the Data → Setup → feed-specific settings. There will be no automatic attempts to restore connectivity in this mode of operation.

Date numbers in RTL formulas are numbers of the form YYYMMDD where YYY is the number of years since 1900, MM is the month and DD the day. Dates in the current century are hard to read, e.g. 1121115 specifies Nov 15, 2012. Version 11 now accepts date numbers in more traditional 6-digit or 8-digit form and handles them correctly internally.

When the date is a 6-digit number of the form yymmdd and mm and dd are proper month and day numbers, yy values of 30 and higher are interpreted as mm/dd/19yy. When yy is 00 thru 29, the date is interpreted as mm/dd/20yy.

When the date is a 8-digit number of the form ccyymmdd and cc is either 19 or 20 and mm and dd are valid month and day numbers, the number is interpreted as mm/dd/ccyy.

Floating windows have long been an optional feature of Investor/RT whereby selected charts, quote pages, time & sales windows, etc. could be designated floating to enable them to be positioned independently of the main Investor/RT task window. Version 11 has been enhanced to improve handling of floating windows whether they reside within the main task window or not. For example, the Window → Next Window menu item (Ctrl+Tab) shortcut may now be used to tab sequentially through all open windows, including floating ones, bringing each one in turn to the front. With these improvements it is no longer necessary to draw a distinction between floating and non-floating windows. Non-floating windows are in fact disadvantageous since they can never rise above any floating window covering them. For this reason, Investor/RT 11 now floats every window unconditionally. Any open window can be left within the IRT task window or positioned on other monitors as desired.

Investor/RT floating windows have a narrow title bar without minimize and maximize buttons, only the close button. You may double-click the title bar to alternately maximize and restore a window to normal size. You may right-click on the title bar as well to access minimize/maximize/restore functions.

A configuration variable is available to opt out of this all floating windowing model. Setting FloatAllWindows=false will cause Investor/RT to revert to using floating windows only for selected charts, quotepages, as in version 10. We do not recommend that this legacy mode be used. If you decide to change this setting you should:

1. Close all windows using Window → Close → Close All Windows.
2. Revise the setting in Setup → Configuration
3. File → Exit and then startup Investor/RT fresh in the legacy mode.

Reverting to this mode may require window positioning adjustments. Position charts if necessary and save them and re save layouts. Conversely, if you run in the legacy FloatAllWindows false mode for a while and decide to return to FloatAllWindows true, close all windows, change the setting, and re start Investor/RT and adjust window positions if needed.

The Tile, Tile Vertical, and Cascade commands in the Window menu function well with the new all floating model. It is recommended that you run Investor/RT with the main task window maximized on one of your monitors and with FloatAllWindows set true. Any window can then be positioned on any monitor you wish. You could also elect to expand the main task window so that it spans multiple monitors. Moving to location of the main task window is not recommended. Your layout window locations are remembered relative to the screen location of the main task window. If you move your main task window to another monitor, your layouts may be affected.

Quoteboard indicators with "Plot Lines for Levels" checkmarked may now specify line drawing thickness and style. Access the QuoteBoard preferences and set these preferences using the provided color control. Line thickness and style apply to ALL lines for all levels. Each level may have its own unique color if desired.

Formerly, to have line levels drawn by the Quoteboard Indicator it was necessary to add the QB indicator to the same pane as the instrument and setup the QB as "hidden". This is no longer a requirement. Instead you may now add a QB indicator visibly to a chart pane other than the instrument pane. If the Plot Lines for Levels check is checked, the lines will be drawn in the pane where the instrument resides. This enables you to have a single QB Indicator in a chart to observe the visual presentation of the quoteboard and have access to the symbol selection feature of the quoteboard to update the charted symbol, while also drawing various line levels as reference lines for the charted instrument.

When a Quoteboard is setup to "Plot Lines for Levels", A checkbox titled "Compact Lines" controls how the lines are drawn. If unchecked (the default), lines are drawn across the full width of the chart. When checked, lines are drawn in a compact form, extending from the rightmost bar to the scale area at the right side of the chart.

The Investor/RT task window background color may be customized by going to Setup: Preferences: General. Click the Task Window Color control at the bottom of the window and select a background color. Prior Versions of Investor/RT used a gray background color (RGB values 170, 170, 170). Using a light to medium blue color works well, try RGB values 100,166,215 for example.

Version 11 chart buttons have a purpose "Set View Period Start". The setup for the button can be a date in mm/dd/yy (or mm/dd/yyyy) format or it can be a number of days, weeks, months, or years, e.g. use 100d to set the chart to start 100 days back from present. If you have various fixed start dates of interest, you can setup a single menu button with a comma separated list of dates, e.g. 1/1/2012,1/1,2011,1/1/2010. Clicking the button then gives you these date choices for your viewing period start date. Similarly a menu button can have a mix of dates and units back, e.g. "3 mo,6 mo,1 yr,3 yr,5 yr" setup will give you a menu of these five choices. The word day, week, month or year can be spelled in full or abbreviated, e.g. you will get a more readable menu using the setup: "3 months,6 months,1 year, 3 years, 5 years. The space between the count and the units is optional, the units are case insenstive, and only the first letter of the units is needed, i.e. 3m, 3 m, 3 M, 3Mon, 3 months all will set the viewing period three months back.

When using buttons with this purpose on intra-day charts, the view period starting date is changed and the spacing of the chart is not revised. If the chart is a daily, weekly, or monthly periodicity chart, Investor/RT will automatically adjust the pixels per bar so that the resulting bars fit into the chart window pane. This enables you to quickly click through 1 year, 3 year, 5 year buttons, for example, with no adjustment needed to show the full set of data for each button's associated viewing period.

When using the chart wizard to create a new chart window, check the check box at the bottom right titled "Change View Period" and the new chart will have a menu button with a variety of view period choices. Daily, weekly, and monthly charts produced by the wizard will have an array of common periods as push buttons (3 mo, 6 mo, 1 yr, 2 yr, 5 yr).

There are various way to produce an image of a chart, quote page, or any other window in Investor/RT. The File Menu has a File: Save: Save Picture menu item that operates on the front window to produce an image of that window. Right-clicking in a chart and choosing Save → Picture or Export → Picture. Clicking the + button at the upper right of a quote page window and choosing Save Picture produces an image of the quote page. Choosing any of these menu items while holding down the SHIFT key, causes the image to be opened by your web browser or by whatever program you have designated to handle PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files on your computer. Popular screen capture programs like SnagIt can be setup to handle your PNG files, in which case, your Investor/RT images will appear in the SnagIt Editor ready for annotation and printing if desired. In Version 11, the SHIFT key also applies when you click the "camera" icon on the chart toolbar (either multi-pane or TPO Profile charts). The camera button is normally used the share images and definitions but with the shift key down, clicking the button opens the image in your browser/image editor instead. The same thing applies to the Print button that may appear on the main toolbar. Hold down SHIFT while clicking the print button and the image of the front window will be produced and opened for viewing/editing in your browser or image editing software.

Go to Setup: Preferences: Import/Export and select "Use the Object Name" instead of "Prompt for File Name". With this setting, your images will be saved instantly without prompting in the images folder and will open immediately in the designated browser/image program without any intervening file name prompting. If you prefer to name each saved image and save them in some other location, use the "Prompt for File Name" option.

A number of Alt+Key shortcuts have been added for Windows users that may be useful. Alt+C is a shortcut for creating a new chart using the Chart Setup Wizard; Alt+L toggles the Layout Toolbar on/off; Alt+M opens the message log or brings the message log window to the front if the log is already open; Alt+P will print the front chart, quotepage, portfolio, or text window; Alt+P with SHIFT key down will capture a PNG image of the front Investor/RT window and open that window in your browswer/imaging editing program (see item #11 above); Alt+T and Ctrl+T do the same thing - toggle all toolbars on/off; Alt+V verifies the database.

Investor/RT Version 11 uses archive files to create Restore Points. A Restore Point is a point in time when an archive file is created to preserve the state of the database at that moment. Restore Points can be created at any time upon command by the user, or they can be created automatically using a schedule that runs daily or once a week at a specified time of day. This feature enables the user the take multiple "snapshots" of the database and easily revert the database to that point in time later.

The External Data Indicator (EDI) has been enhanced to allow users to import their own historical daily levels from a local file or from a file on a web site. Users and educators often have key daily support and resistance levels that are computed or provided from an external source. These daily levels may now be maintained in text or csv files which are in turn linked to the EDI indicator. One user may create and maintain a single text or csv file on a web server, while many users access that file automatically from the EDI indicator. The user may provide up to 24 arrays of historical levels in a single file and a single EDI instance.

The emailing subsystem built into Investor/RT has been enhanced to support outgoing mail with file attachments. This functionality has been used to extend Investor/RT features in meaningful ways. Signal Actions have long been able to send outgoing text alert messages when user-defined signals fire in real-time. Now you can setup a signal action to include an image of the chart that produced the signal along with the alert message. The Investor/RT Scheduler (see File → Functions → Scheduled Events) has an action "Email Chart" that can be used to setup Investor/RT to periodically email the image(s) of particular chart(s) to a specified email address. Finally, the Share Picture feature of Investor/RT has been extended to enable sharing of images with a specified email recipient. Choose Share Picture, and in the ensuing dialog box, choose to share by email. At present, Share Picture by email is limited to sharing just the image. Sharing of definitions is planned for a future release.

Several aesthetic enhancements were made for multi-pane charts. Two gradient background drawing styles were added: Radial Circle and Radial Square. These are available in the Colors tab of chart preferences. Formerly, solid background were the default with a gradient option, now called Linear Gradient. Radial gradient backgrounds use the two user-specified gradient colors to draw a gradient fading from the first color to the second in a radial direction starting at a location in the upper left quadrant of the chart.

A new Scheme listbox has been added to the Colors tab to facilitate setting up color preferences from pre-defined color schemes. Additional schemes may be available in future product releases. Presently, there are six schemes:

• Dark Background, Grayscale
• Dark Background, High Contrast
• Dark Background, Low Contrast
• Light Background, Grayscale
• Light Background, High Contrast
• Light Background, Low Contrast

Users who prefer a dark background, for example, can select one of the dark background color schemes. Selecting a scheme will adjust the background, grid line, candlestick and bar colors. You can apply the scheme "as is" to your chart, or you can adjust the color hue of the background to your liking before applying the scheme. To adjust the background hue, click on the background color control. Select an alternate color hue by clicking inside the color spectrum box that appears. The grid line and scale text colors will be adjusted to contrast with the selected background color when you apply. After you select a color scheme you may wish to also choose a backgroud style. There are 4 choices:

• Solid
• Linear Gradient
• Radial Circle
• Radial Square

The background and color scheme selections operate in tandem, i.e. each of the four background choices can be used with any of the six color schemes. To facilitate testing these color scheme/background combinations, each choice you make from either list while holding down the shift key will be applied to the open chart immediately. Keep the shift key held down as you change background or color scheme and the chart will update to show the effect of each selection. Once you have a combination you like, you may then further customize color settings and click Apply or OK to update the chart.

Candlestick drawing has been improved to render the candlesticks symmetrically. Equal amounts of the candle body extend outward from both sides of the candlestick wick. Even when candles are zoomed down to 1 pixel wide, they continue to depict the open/close relationship and candle color. Formerly, the candlestick's visual portrayal of price action was lost or diminished at very small candle widths.

The MPD (Mixed Periodicity Indicator) now enables historical data analaysis using a session that differs from the session in use by the chart in which the MPD operates. This improvement enables, for example, calculating historical session highs and lows using overnight session data, with display of these overnight-based values in a day session chart.

A floating window can be maximized by double-clicking its title bar. Improvements were made for Windows users to position the maximized window based on the dimensions of the monitor on which the window resides. Consideration is given to the Windows Task Bar location and size. The task bar could be at bottom, top, left or right side of the main display, or it can be set to auto-hide to enable the monitor to be fully used. Investor/RT will maximize floating charts and other windows to fit the available dimensions of the monitor. In the special case where the main Investor/RTtask window is maximized on a particular monitor and the floating window is then maximized to that same monitor, consideration is given to the Investor/RT main toolbar state. If the main toolbar is anchored inside the task window, maximized floating windows will be positioned just below the main toolbar utilizing the full dimension of the display below. This works very well when the main toolbar is setup in "Slim" mode with the layout toolbar to its right. If the main toolbar is floating however, maximized windows will be positioned just beneath the IRT menu bar. These maximization improvements apply for floating charts, quotepages, portfolios, RTL setup windows, and text windows, e.g. the message log. This improvement will be of great value to users who have multiple displays of different sizes.

The Window menu in Investor/RT now has a Minimize menu item, keyboard shortcut Alt+Minus. The Alt Minus shortcut minimizes the front window. Windows are minimized (docked) to the main display just above the task bar. This menu item is added to compensate for the lack of a minimize button on each window. Chart windows (multi-pane charts) can have chart resizing buttons using the Button indicator. Add a button with purpose "Resize Chart". Setup the button to either minimize, maximize, or restore the chart. You can also setup a chart button to size the chart to a specific width and height, e.g. 800x600 or 640x480. If you have a button pane in your chart, any Chart Resize buttons will be aligned at the right side of the pane, apart from normal buttons. This new feature is also designed to compensate for the absence of minimize, maximize, restore buttons on chart window title bars. Version 11.1.2 also fixes an issue where some windows would not fully maximize to the display.

Automatic backfill has been enhanced to include backfill (data generation) for all custom instruments that depend upon the symbols backfilled. As the auto backfill requests downloads for each symbol, a list of associated custom instruments is constructed. After all downloading and importing of instrument data is complete, Investor/RT will initiate daily and intra-day data generation for all custom instruments that reference the updated symbols

Two options were added for Custom Indicators: Extend Naked Lines and Shifting. Extend Naked Lines allows the price of the custom indicator on each bar to be extended right with a horizontal line until it is taken out by the price of a future bar. The Shifting options allows the custom indicator values to be shifted left or right by any number of bars, and drawn into the future when shifted right.

When "Extend Naked Lines" is turned on, the user specifies whether he would like the naked value of all bars extended, or only those of the visible bars. In addition, the user may specify how many bars the value must remain naked in order for it to be drawn and extended. The "Extend Naked Values" feature naturally works best for prices that stay within the high low range of the bar, such as High, Low, H+L/2, POC, VAH, etc. This feature makes it very easy to see when price returns to a key price that was made at a previous time in a prior bar.

The Shift option allows the user to shift the custom indicator values in either direction by any number of bars. When shifting the custom indicator to the right, the values are drawn into the future past the right-most bar. Shifting has always been a feature of the Moving Average indicator, but is now available to all indicator by enabling it within Custom Indicators. Also, the Moving Average shifting has never drawn into the future past the right-most bar. This drawing into the future is available now for Custom Indicators and Moving Averages.

The Button Indicator is commonly used to toggle indicators on/off in a chart or to initiate the drawing tool of a given indicator. In previous versions, when a button was created to toggle an indicator, and then the preferences (color, period, etc.) of the indicator in the chart were changed, the indicator and the button became out of sync, the button continuing to use the former preferences. In Investor/RT 11, when the preferences of the target indicator are changed, Investor/RT will prompt whether to keep the button in sync with the revised indicator settings. Choices are to "Always" keep the button in sync or "Never" do so, to avoid further prompting for this particular button setup. The Button Indicator now has an option to reflect these synchronization enhancements so you may specify when you create a button how synchronization is to be handled. Typically however, buttons are created automatically by right clicking on an indicator and choosing Add a Button. In this common case, the synchronization preference will be set to prompt. When the Button purpose is either "Add/Remove Indicator" or "Activate Drawing Tool Preset", the user selects from three options "When Indicator Preferences are Revised": Synchronize, Do Nothing, or Ask Me.

The Button Indicator was also improved to better reflect the location of the indicator when the button is created. If a user right-clicks on an indicator in the Instrument pane, and chooses "Add Button", the indicator is identified as being in the same pane as the instrument, and the Button Indicator is setup with a position of "Instrument Pane (Back)" or "Instrument Pane (Front)", depending on whether the target indicator is currently drawn behind or in front of the indicator. This way, toggling the indicator off and on returns the indicator to the instrument pane and positions it relative to the instrument (in front of or behind) based on where it was when the button was created. The user may revise this preference by right-clicking on the button to edit its preferences.

• When re-sizing chart windows, Trading Rule buttons are moved into the same relative position (percentage wise) within the newly sized chart window. This corrects a problem in version 10.6 where Trading Rule buttons positioned at the right side of a chart were no longer visible after re-sizing the chart appreciably smaller.
• For multi-pane charts containing multiple instruments, you may want to have a chart button that revises a particular instrument. Buttons that change the ticker symbol in a chart now consider which instrument the button itself is associated with in determining which instrument to update with the new ticker symbol. When a chart has multiple instruments, you may associate the button with any of them by right-clicking on the button and choosing Associate. As you change ticker symbols using the button, the button remains associated with the newly substituted instrument.
• Charts containing the ZigZag Oscillator indicator setup with Fresh Start enabled were being imported with Fresh Start off. This defect has been corrected.
• Setup: Configuration window support various color options. To see all configuration variable of this kind, enter the word "color" into the find box. When a color variable is selected, you may now choose "Color Picker" to pick the color you want, rather than entering RGB values or choosing one of the built-in color settings available.
• Setup: Configuration window support various color options. To see all configuration variable of this kind, enter the word "color" into the find box. When a color variable is selected, you may now choose "Color Picker" to pick the color you want, rather than entering RGB values or choosing one of the built-in color settings available.
• Alert sounds for charts that are hidden because they are not part of the active layout may be muted by setting configuration variable HiddenChartsNoAlertSounds to true. This applies only to sounds emitted by signal action setups presently.
• ZigZag and Trendline labeling options now include End Price and Change.
• A search message log feature has been added. You can access this feature from the message log window itself using the menu button at the upper left corner, or you can use File: Functions; select Search Message Log, enter a search word or phrase and click Go. IRT will then display a new window listing all of the lines in the message log that include that word or phrase. You can, for example, search for the word "warning" or "error" to see if there are any warnings or error messages in the log. You can search for a particular chart name or ticker symbol to determine if there are any messages related to the chart or instrument.
• Within the Indicator Edit window, the Presets menu at the lower left of the window may now be invoked by clicking the Presets menu button or by clicking the word "Presets" to the left of button. Users with very high resolution displays may use this work around if clicking the menu button does not bring up the Preset menu.
• Configuration variable CustColBarRequirePct controls the percentage of the requested bars must be available for RTL objects to calculate Custom Columns.
• Set configuration variable ShowCountDownInScale to true to turn on the countdown label in the scale of multi-pane charts. The label shows how much time is left in the bar for time-based periodicities, how much volume for volume bars, how many ticks for tickbars, and how much range for range bars. It will only appear when Highlight Price in Scale is turned on for the Instrument. The countdown value is the same as you would see in an Annotation indicator using the %BARLEFT token.
• Three new results were added to the Volume Breakdown Indicator. "Delta Since High" will give the delta since a new high of the price bar was achieved. Any time the price bar makes a new high, the delta resets to zero and builds from there. "Delta Since Low" will reset each time a new low is achieved on the price bar and "Delta Finish on Price" will reset each time a new high or low is achieved on the price bar.
• The VWAP Indicator has a custom duration option titled "2 Day". This option has been renamed "X Day" and opened up to allow user to supply any number of days (up to 20). This result gives the user a moving X Day VWAP on each bar. For example, if the user choose "3 Day", the VWAP would consider the data from the current day in addition to that of the previous 2 days. This window moves forward one day at end of each session.
• The "General Tab" within multi-pane chart preferences allows the user to adjust the width and height of the chart in pixels. A menu of common W x H choices is now available there as well. Holding down the shift key when selecting from this menu and the chart size will be applied immediately to the open chart window. Choosing "Golden Ratio" from the menu adjusts the width so it is 1.618 times the height, the so-called golden ratio for rectangles.
• The Fibonacci Extensions indicator has been enhanced with a new "Draw Triangle" option. When this option is checked, a triangle is drawn between the three endpoints. Users may elect to turn off all retracement levels and use this tool as a method for drawing triangles in charts. In addition, a "translucent" checkbox will transparently fill the triangle.
• Each component of a custom instrument has a multiplier, usually 1.0. Users may now specify that the multiplier value is to be obtained from a user variable. When a component has a user variable as a multiplier, the component's V# value will be used as the multiplier. This allows custom instruments that sum, spread, or ratio multiple symbols with variable multipliers. Multiplier values could be imported into the appropriate user variables each day, for example. If a referenced user variable is found to contain zero, the value 1.0 will be used instead. For example, the pair (spread) AAPL - MSFT * V#1 will be computed as AAPL - MSFT if V#1 of MSFT was not yet set, i.e. it is zero. V# variables may be entered manually into quote pages, so you can enter V#1 for MSFT of 10 and the custom instrument will begin computing as AAPL - 10 * MSFT.
• A memory leak was fixed in the Statistics indicator (RTL Token STAT). Users who routinely use STAT in RTL formulas, or refer to the STAT indicator in the Volume Breakdown indicator or MPD indicator, will notice a major reduction in memory usage by Investor/RT. This defect did not affect Investor/RT Version 10.6.
• When a chart has scale settings that call for Medium or Large font size, Investor/RT will expand the size of the price scale area by an incremental number of pixels. If you wish to control this incremental width, go to Setup: Configuration and set ChartScaleWidthIncrement to a value between 0 and 25. A value of zero will retain the same scale area regardless of font, as in Version 10.6. The default value is 8 pixels. Increasing this to say 12 will cause the axis area to expand by 12 pixels when the Medium font size is used, or 24 (twice the increment) when Large font size is selected.
• Two results were added to the Volume Breakdown Indicator: "Max Ask Size (Live Only)" and "Max Bid Size (Neg) (Live Only)". These results will get the maximum bid or ask size achieved within each bar. These options can be especially useful in 2-tick range bars in which all ask trading occurred at the upper price and all bid trading occurred at the lower price. The Max Bid Size is presented as a negative number so it can be combined within the same pane with the positive Max Ask Size. These results work in live trading only as there is no history of the bid and ask sizes. When a chart is initially opened, there will be no data for these results. However, the data will form in the chart as fed by live action.
• Two results were added to the Volume Price Statistics indicator: "Price of Upper X % of Volume" and "Price of Lower X % of Volume". These results compute the price at which X % of the volume of the bar is above or below that price. The user customizes the value of X.
• Version 11.1.4 for Interactive Brokers has a correction that enables downloading of historical data from DTN Market Access when Investor/RT is not connected to IB/TWS.
• Version 11.1.4 for DTN Market Acess has a correction that enables auto backfill of charts at startup.
• Version 11.1.6 Corrects a problem with auto backfill of custom instruments and a problem with the Paint Bars indicator.
• Version 11.1.7 fixes a bug in auto backfill that was skipping backfill of some symbols when "Backfill Symbols in Open Charts" was specified.
• When viewing lists of recent charts, quotepages, or RTL objects, the list of recently referenced objects updates dynamically as references are made to objects of the type in view. For example, if you are viewing recent Charts and you click New to create a new chart, or use File: New: Chart, when you save and/or close the new chart, the Object Manager will immediately show that chart as the most recent one.
• Version 11.1.7 fixes a bug that was preventing outgoing email alerts from being sent.
• Multiple scaling was improved for custom indicators and plugin indicators to allow each custom indicator or plugin indicator in a pane to have its own scale. Former behavior was that all plugins or custom indicators shared same the scale. This allows a group of custom indicators and/or plugin indicators to be put into a single pane. Each one will fully utilize the dimensions of the pane with its own unique scale per indicator. See configuration variables UniqueScalePerPlugin and UniqueScalePerCustInd to opt out of this improved handling of scales.
• DTN Historical Server downloading has been operating in a substandard fashion in recent releases due to revisions made to auto-backfill custom instruments when their component instruments are backfilled. These issues have been resolved in version 11.1.8.
• We continue to add new functions to the File: Functions window to provide more convenient access to features that may not be readily available via a menu item or a toolbar button. Items have been added for quick access to Market Depth and Level II windows for futures and equities. An Email Restore Point function has been added. The File Function window may now be resized, e.g. for show the full list of functions without scrolling.
• A labeling option was added for Trendline and Zig Zag Indicators: Dollar Value Change. For futures contracts, this value represents the dollar change of each trendline based on the point move of the line and dollar value per tick.
• A "Transparent" check box has been added to the Shapes Indicator. It is available when the shape is setup to draw a Rectangle. This setting enables elements (bars, grid lines, etc) drawn behind the rectangle to be seen through the transparent shape.
• A "Transparent" check box has been added to the Price Bands Indicator. Is is available when the band is set to draw a Historical Band. This setting enables elements (bars, grid lines, etc) drawn behind the band to be visible through the transparent band.
• Version 11.1.10 for Macintosh OSX corrects some stability issues arising from downloading historical data for many hundreds or thousands of symbols.
• EDI Indicator now supports sharing of remote files using dropbox.com file sharing.
• Processing of downloaded historical data for a large number of symbols is now much faster in version 11.1.10
• New Result "Average Price" is available in the VPS (Volume Price Statistics) indicator.
• New Result "Pivot Bar" is available in the ZZO (ZigZag Oscillator) indicator. The result for any bar is 1 if that bar is the first bar of a new leg of the zigzag, zero otherwise.