monitoring

Tutorial - Monitoring Data 'Completeness'

This Tutorial will demonstrate how to create two custom columns that will allow the user to quickly identify any holes in daily or intraday data. In our particular case, we are going to look at the last 100 daily and intraday bars, and see how many are missing. If you would prefer to check more (200, 300) or less (50, etc), just change the 100 to whatever number you choose throughout the tutorial.

First, create the a custom indicator with the following simple syntax:

BARS

Data Retention, Symbol Monitoring Options

Submitted by linnsoft on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 20:46

This is one of the least understood yet most important aspects of Investor/RT. Each symbol that you add to Investor/RT has monitoring properties and data retention properties that control how Investor/RT collects and retains historical data on the symbol. You may choose to collect every tick (trade) that comes in on your symbol and maintain them all for later analysis, or you may just choose to view the prices as the ticks come in, and then discard the data.