Below are some important links to material found on our web site...
New Users / Beginner Level
- Charting Essentials - The basics behind creating, manipulating, and duplicating charts.
- Indicator Essentials - Adding and manipulating indicators 101.
- Here is the main resource for rollover: All About Futures Rollover. And this page explains how to Adjust Chart Prices for trendlines and reference lines after rollover.
- Symbol Guide - Symbol guidance for every supported data feed.
- Fresh Start - How to setup candles and periodicity to start a new bar on first tick of a new day or session.
- Charting Hours - How to setup the day and full session hours for each symbol.
- Running on Mac - Important information to consider before running Investor/RT on Mac OS.
Intermediate Level
- RTL Lessons - Click on the videos tab and work through Lessons 1 thru 8.
- Running an Efficient Investor/RT - Users should periodically work thru this video to ensure their Investor/RT is setup as efficiently as possible. Deleting symbols, reducing view periods, removing unnecessary indicators, etc.
- Pace of Trade - Explores various ways to plot the Pace of Trade / Pace of Tape.
- Profiling Market Moves - Extracting data from each market move of the Zig Zag indicator using the Profile Indicator.
- Custom QuotePage Columns - Create columns of customized data with colored cells and a wealth of other functionality
- Key Prices - Any Periodicity and Session - How to use MPD indicator to compute key prices like day session IBH and IBL regardless of the periodicity and session of chart.
- Bitcoin / Crypto Options - This forum post explains how to setup Bitcoin contracts and indices for 24/7 charting.
- Anchored VWAP - This video demonstrates how to easily add and manipulate a cumulative VWAP (Anchored VWAP) line beginning at any bar in a multi-pane chart, with optional standard deviation bands.
- Synching Chart Scales - This forum post explains how to setup multiple charts to that vertical scale adjustments on one chart will be reflected in another chart.
- Whitespace - How to turn Whitespace on/off in time-based periodicities.
- Highlight Big Volume At Time - This forum post explains how to highlight bars that have large volume relative to the same time period over prevoius days.
- Export VPOC to Excel - This forum post explains how to export the 5, 20, and 90 day VPOC to an Excel spreadsheet on a daily basis.
- Inverting A Chart - This forum post explains how to invert a chart / instrument using a Custom Instrument that multiplies the price by -1.
- Cumulative Tick in Candle Format - This forum post takes the cumulative tick and presents it in candle format providing the open, high and low in addition to the close on each bar.
- Forex Symbols - Trading Hours and Symbol Setup for Forex Symbols.
- Layout Toolbar - A video introduction to the Layout Toolbar.
- Synch Market Position Button - Rithmic - If you are experiencing issues with IRT periodically getting out of synch with your Rithmic position, we recommend you add a button to your chart that will get it back in synch.
Advanced Level
- Trading Systems / Backtesting - Watch the series of videos starting with Part 1: Formulating a Strategy and advancing to Part 6: Optimization.
- ATS Video 1: Orientation - Automated Trading System essential conepts and settings.
- ATS Video 2: Position Size - Position Size tokens: POS_SIZE, TR_POS, and POSITION.
- ATS Video 3: Multiple Exits - Demonstrates a system with multiple exits.
- Custom Tick - This video demonstrates how to create a custom tick indicator, or a symbol, that tracks the tick of a group of symbols - via a Custom Instrument.
- Toggle Group of Indicators with Button - This tutorial explains how to toggle a group of indicators on/off with one button.
Technical Indicators - Order Flow
- VolumeScope - VolumeScope allows the user to view per bar market order flow under a microscope,
- Price Volume Pattern - Designed to identify volume-at-price patterns within a sequence of one or more prices within each bar.
- Multiple Price Highlighter - Highlights multiple prices within a set of bars the meet various volume-at-price criteria.
- Trail of Intentions - Designed to display historical snapshots of the depth of market.
- Price Statistics - Presents cumulative volume-at-price information for user-specified period of time expressed in days or bar count.
- Bar Statistics - Presents cumulative volume-based information textually for each bar with a variety of shading options.
- Imbalance Zones - How to setup the Multiple Price Highlighter (MPH) Indicator to deliver Buying and Selling Imbalance Zones and extend them as Support and Resistance.
- Volume Filtering - This video introduces the ability to add a trade size volume filter to any instrument and any indicator (namely VolumeScope) in any multi-pane chart.
Data
- Managing Historical Data - This video covers techniques to manage your data mostly focusing on intra-day data and tick data.
- Managing Holidays - This forum topic covers various strategies for managing holidays in Investor/RT.
- Consolidated Tape - Consolidated Tape option not only provides users the ability to see the tape in a clean, compact, and organized fashion, but also has a variety of very important efficiency and performance advantages.
- Smart Compression - Smart Compression reduces tick data for typical futures contracts (number of ticks) consistently by over 85%. Users can now store approximately 7 times as much tick data in the same amount of space.
- Interactive Broker Symbol Setup - Details on futures symbol setup for IB users.
Other Popular Indicators
- Profile Indicator - Flexible volume and time based profiling on intraday charts.
- TPO Profiles on Multi-Pane Charts - By using the Profile Indicator to deliver time-based TPO Charts in Multi-Pane charts, many other options are opened up to the user.
Thank You. I will start working through these topics.
This helps a lot to get into back testing, thank you