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Getting Started |
Recommended viewing for
new users of Investor/RT |
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Traditional Charts |
General Operation of
Traditional Bar/Candle Charts and Indicators |
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Miscellaneous |
Instruction videos on
various important aspects of Investor/RT |
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Market Profile |
Videos on Market
Profile chart setup and operation |
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Trading Systems |
Trading system
development, backtesting, optimization, and deployment |
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Getting Started |
| Title |
Description |
Duration |
| Ordering, Installing,
Registering |
This video discusses how to order, install, and register Investor/RT. |
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Video
8 minutes |
| Setting up Symbols |
This video discusses some important aspects of setting up symbols
(particularly futures symbols), and touches on sessions and override
sessions. |
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8 minutes |
| Setting up Futures in
Interactive Brokers |
This video discusses some important aspects of setting up futures
symbols for Interactive Brokers. (Also:
read this Q&A on IB Symbol Setup) |
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4 minutes |
Managing Objects:
Symbols, Quotepages, Charts |
This video discusses some basics including creating quotepages, adding
and setting up symbols, and creating and managing charts. |
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Video
11 minutes |
| Futures Rollover |
This video discusses how to rollover futures
symbols. |
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Video
4 minutes |
Signal Markers &
Custom Indicators |
This video discusses how to create signals and custom indicators, and a
quick and easy way to add them to charts via signal markers or custom
indicators. (Pro Version Required) |
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Video
5 minutes |
| Importing Lists of Stocks/Equities |
This video discusses how
to quickly to import and/or delete lists of stocks/equities in
Investor/RT via Yahoo!, text files, and quotepages, and how to quickly
download data on the new lists. |
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Video
10 minutes |
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Traditional (Bar/Candle)
Charts
(Backtesting requires the Pro Backtester or Pro Complete version of
Investor/RT) |
| Title |
Description |
Duration |
| Traditional Charts Overview |
This video gives a general overview of the creation and operation of
traditional (bar/candle) charts. |
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Video
17 minutes |
| Technical Indicators |
This video provides instruction on adding, positioning, and manipulating
technical indicators in traditional charts. |
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Video
13 minutes |
| Coloring Lines & Histograms |
This video demonstrates how to color line
and histogram-style indicators different colors based on various
conditions. |
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Video
6 minutes |
Signal Markers &
Custom Indicators |
This video discusses how to create signals and custom indicators, and a
quick and easy way to add them to charts via signal markers or custom
indicators. (Pro Version Required) |
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Video
5 minutes |
| Signal Markers & Labeling Bars |
This video takes a
closer look at the Signal Marker preferences, and discusses how to label
Signal Markers with historical numerical values (such as each bars
change). (Pro Version Required) |
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Video
8 minutes |
| Point and Figure Charting (new in
8.8) |
This video demonstrates how to access and manipulate the new Point and
Figure Charting capability of traditional charts, added in version 8.8.
(additional
info) |
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Video
10 minutes |
| Point and Figure Alternative Drawing
Option |
This video demonstrates an alternative drawing option (9.0.8 and later)
for Point and Figure charts, which is more representative of a
"reversal" bar than traditional PNF. |
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Video
5 minutes |
| Renko Charting (new in 8.9) |
This video demonstrates how to access and manipulate the new Renko Charting capability of traditional charts, added in version 8.9.
(additional
info) |
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Video
9 minutes |
| Trendline Based Indicators |
This video provides instruction on adding, positioning, and manipulating
trendline-based indicators, including reference lines, regression, Gann,
Fibonacci, Shapes, Annotation, InfoBox, etc. |
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Video
17 minutes |
| Drawing Notes in Charts |
This video instructs users on various ways to use the Annotation
indicator in traditional charts. |
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Video
5 minutes |
| Vertical and Horizontal Scales |
This video demonstrates the options and manipulation of vertical and
horizontal scales in traditional chart panes. |
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Video
13 minutes |
| Gridlines |
This video discusses dotted vs solid gridlines and demonstrates how to
customize the gridline frequency both horizontally and vertically. |
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Video
2 minutes |
Presets &
Button Indicator |
This video discusses the concept of Presets (indicator preference
settings), how they interact with the Button Indicator, and the various
ways to use and manipulate the Button indicator. |
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Video
12 minutes |
| Labeling Current Value of Indicators |
This video demonstrates how the user can label each indicator
with it's current value while adjusting "Right Margin" of charts. |
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Video
3 minutes |
Mixing Periodicity
& MPD Indicator |
This video demonstrates various ways to mix periodicities in
traditional charts, including use of MPD (Mixed Periodicity Data)
Indicator. |
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Video
14 minutes |
| Volume Breakdown Indicator |
This video details the Volume
Breakdown indicator which breaks down volume into buy volume, sell
volume, and delta of volume. (additional
info) |
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5 minutes |
| Profile Indicator |
This video details the
Profile indicator which provides
users with the ability to plot profiles (time/tpo-based or volume-based)
on their traditional charts, of varying custom durations.
Especially of interest to longer term Market Profile chartists. (additional
info) |
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Video
11 minutes |
| TPO Indicator |
This video details the TPO indicator which provides
historical Value Area (VA) and Point of Control (POC) lines, both
developing and previous day. (additional
info) |
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Video
3 minutes |
| Pivot Point Indicator |
This video details the
Pivot Point indicator and provides various methods for calculation pivot
levels (day session pivots, using settlement price, weekly or monthly
pivots, and more) (additional
info) |
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Video
14 minutes |
| Weekly Pivots - Day Session Only |
This video demonstrates
how to calculate the weekly pivots, but using only the data within the
day session. Also discusses monthly. |
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Video
7 minutes |
VWAP Indicator
with Bands |
Volume Weighted Average Price. VWAP
calculation options. VWAP standard deviation bands. VWAP +/-
half of range bands. Transferring VWAP to MP charts.
Importing volume POC into traditional charts. |
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Video
15 minutes |
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Miscellaneous |
| Title |
Description |
Duration |
| Historical Data Management |
This video discusses how to manage historical data (tick & 1-minute) in
order to keep Investor/RT running as efficiently as possible based on
your data requirements. |
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Video
15 minutes |
| Volume Volume and more Volume |
This video highlights the volume-driven functionality available in
Investor/RT. |
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Video
19 minutes |
| Floating Windows - Multiple Monitors |
This video highlights the ability to float windows outside of the
Investor/RT task window on multiple monitor setups. |
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Video
5 minutes |
| Trim Layout during Heavy Volume |
This video demonstrates how to create a trimmed down layout for use
during heavy volume periods, and how to create keyboard shortcuts to
quickly toggle between the trim and full layouts. Especially
useful for users who run with many charts open and have seen prices run
behind during high volume periods. |
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Video
7 minutes |
| Sharing Charts and Layouts |
This video highlights the ability to share charts, quotepages,
and layouts through charthub.com or through text definition files. |
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Video
9 minutes |
| Custom Quotepage Columns |
This video illustrates how to create customized columns and add them to
quotepages. |
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Video
6 minutes |
User Variables
V# Variables |
This video illustrates the very powerful concept of User Variables or V#
Variables. User Variables allows various components of Investor/RT
to set and share data, including quotepages, scans, charts (annotations,
ref lines), and custom indicator. (Components not covered:
importing, exporting, backtesting, DDE linking) |
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Video
16 minutes |
| User Variables and Reference Lines |
This video illustrates how to use reference lines based on V# variables
to set high and low alarms for a variety of symbols directly in a chart.
This method also works well for reference lines based on High and Low
Alarm levels. |
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Video
10 minutes |
| Global Market Playback |
This video demonstrates the ability to playback
past data globally in Investor/RT. |
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Video
7 minutes |
Custom Symbols:
Tracking the Bid/Ask |
This video demonstrates
how to create a custom instrument which tracks the bid or ask price of
another symbol, and retains and charts the information historically.
Especially useful for infrequently traded options to track their bid
price regardless of whether the option actually trades or not. |
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Video
5 minutes |
Custom Symbols:
Advancers / Decliners |
This video discusses how to create custom symbols which track various
statistics for large lists of symbols, such as advancers/decliners, Adv/Dec
volume, up ticks, up tick volume, on SP500, NQ100, or any custom list of
symbols. |
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Video
13 minutes |
Custom Symbols:
Custom TICK |
This video discusses how to create
a custom symbol which tracks the TICK value of any custom group of
symbols, and chart that symbol historically. |
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Video
9 minutes |
| Advance / Decline Line for
Interactive Brokers |
This video details how to create an NYSE Advance / Decline line for the
IB data feed. |
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Video
4 minutes |
| Custom Price Level Alerts |
This video explains how to create custom price level alerts for one or
multiple symbols, which can be updated anytime by changing a value in a
quotepage, or dragging a line in a chart. |
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Video
12 minutes |
| Deleting Bad Ticks |
From time to time, a bad tick might creep into your data, and a
download/refresh of data may not solve the problem. This video
explains a quick and easy way to get rid of that tick. |
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Video
2 minutes |
| Day Session Prices |
This video demonstrates how to display day session
prices (high, low,
open) onto charts that are setup on the 24 hour session (session 31).
(Pro Version Required) |
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Video
9 minutes |
| Switching Data Feeds |
This video provides some tips on switching between feeds, and will be
especially valuable for futures traders (for whom the symbols are
different between feeds). |
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Video
6 minutes |
| Importing Current Data from Excel |
This video demonstrates
how to import current data (such as Pivot Levels) into Investor/RT
quotepages and user variables (V# variables) periodically, either
manually or on a schedule. |
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Video
8 minutes |
| Market Profile & Pivot Point Levels |
This video demonstrates how to transfer Pivot Levels (S3, S3, S1, PP,
R1, R2, R3) automatically to Market Profile charts (and to V#
variables). This video also demonstrates how to force Pivots to
calculate off the day session intraday data only (and be independent of
daily data). It covers several topics including V# variables and
schedules. |
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Video
16 minutes |
| Importing tickdata.com data |
This video demonstrates how to export data
from the TickWrite program of tickdata.com and import into Investor/RT. |
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Video
5 minutes |
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Market Profile
(more on MP) |
| Title |
Description |
Duration |
| Market Profile Overview |
This video gives a general overview of the
Market Profile chart interface. |
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6 minutes |
Market Profile
Chart Preferences |
This video discusses the
various options in the 5 tabs of the Market Profile preference window. |
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Video
22 minutes |
What's New in MP
January 2006 |
This video discusses many of the recent innovations in Market Profile
charts, in versions 8.5 and 8.6, including toggle reference lines,
additional ref lines, toggling fonts, space between letters, new letter
color options, and more... |
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Video
9 minutes |
What's New in MP
August 2006 |
This video discusses many of the recent innovations in Market Profile
charts, including Singles, Naked POCs, individual profile splitting,
custom letter colors, sharing of charts, and more... |
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Video
7 minutes |
| Market Profile Playback |
This video demonstrates the ability to playback the current session,
or previous sessions, in Market Profile charts. |
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Video
3 minutes |
Market Profile
Shortcuts |
This video explains
various keyboards shortcuts associated with the Market Profile chart,
along with discussing the options in the right-click pop-up menu. |
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4 minutes |
Market Profile
InfoBox |
This video discusses the various information available in the
Market Profile
InfoBox. |
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Video
4 minutes |
| Exporting Price Levels |
This
video demonstrates how to transfer Market Profile lines such as VAH, VAL, POC, etc,
over to bar or candle charts, and have them automatically update on a
tick by tick basis. [see also Q&A] |
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Video
4 minutes |
| Importing Price Levels |
This video demonstrates how to transfer price values from other
sources, such as bar or candle charts, to Market Profile reference lines. |
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Video
7 minutes |
| MORE MP Reference Lines |
Need more reference lines in your MP charts? This video
demonstrates how to add up to 512 more using a V# variable trick.. |
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Video
5 minutes |
Market Profile &
Pivot Point Levels |
This video demonstrates how to transfer Pivot Levels (S3, S3, S1, PP,
R1, R2, R3) automatically to Market Profile charts (and to V#
variables). This video also demonstrates how to force Pivots to
calculate off the day session intraday data only (and be independent of
daily data). It covers several topics including V# variables and
schedules. |
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Video
16 minutes |
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Trading Systems and Backtesting |
| Title |
Description |
Duration |
Signal Markers &
Custom Indicators |
This video is posted in the miscellaneous
section above, but is good prerequisite viewing for the trading system
videos. |
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Video
5 minutes |
1) Idea:
Formulating A Strategy |
This video discusses the "brainstorming" phase of developing a trading
system. |
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Video
7 minutes |
2) Coding:
Building A System
Trading System Window |
This video discusses the building of the system signals and rules in the
trading system window. |
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Video
15 minutes |
3) Testing:
Backtesting A System
Backtest Setup Window |
This video discusses the different options in the backtest setup window
and demonstrates an actual backtest. |
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Video
10 minutes |
3b) Debugging:
Debugging Trading Systems and Verifying Results |
This video was made
independently of the rest of this backtesting series, but is a good
complement to the videos above. It goes through the complete
development of another system and focuses on various ways to debug
systems and verify results. |
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Video
19 minutes |
4) Evaluation
Making Sense of Reports
Trusting the Results |
This video covers the various reports that result from a backtest and
discusses some different statistical results that the user should pay
careful attention to. |
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Video
16 minutes |
5) Refining
Buying More
Adding Targets and Stops |
This video adds some different twists to the trading system, including
buying/shorting more, and adding profit targets. |
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Video
13 minutes |
6)
Optimization
Finding the Optimal
Combination |
This video demonstrates the optimization of several variables in a
trading system. |
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Video
14 minutes |
7) Implementation
Trading / Automating
the System |
Coming Soon... |
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8) Futures
Applying Backtesting Concepts to Futures |
Coming Soon... |
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9) Syntax
Common Signals for
Crossovers, Reversals, etc. |
Coming Soon... |
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