Primitive Elements

Primitive properties are properties of an instrument for which Investor/RT has only the "current" value.

Token

Description

AGE Age of the instrument (in minutes).  How long it has existed in the system.
ASK Current Ask
ASKZ Ask Size
ASSETS Assets (m)
AVGCL Average Close
AVGVOL 20-day Average Volume - Calculated daily by Investor/RT at end of session
BARNO Bar number being tested (Trading Signals)
BARS Number of bars of historical data on file for the chosen periodicity
BARSOPEN Number of bars in position (Trading Signals)
BAS Bid - Ask Spread (Ask minus Bid)
BID Current Bid
BIDZ Bid Size
BOX Box Size (Point and Figure)
CH Today's Change in Price - Calculated as CL minus PREV
CNUM User Custom Number
COLOR QuotePage Highlight Color
CUSTOM Custom String - Any user-defined character data that can be added as a column to quotepages (Additional Info)
CYRHI Year-to-date high
CYRLO Year-to-date low
DAY Day of Week (0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday .... 6 for Saturday)
DAYHI Daily session high price
DAYLO Daily session low price
DAYM Day of Month
DAYOP Daily session open price
DAYPCT Elapsed percent of session ( = 0.0 at session open, and = 100.0 at session close)
DAYS Days until Expiration for an option or futures contract
DAYSOPEN Days in position (Trading Signals)
DAYVO Daily session total volume
DEBT Long Term Debt (m)
DELTA Delta - Greek value of an option - (Additional Info)
DISP Instrument Display Format
DIV Dividend Amount
DNTV Down Tick Volume
ENTRY Entry Price (Trading Signals)
EXCHR Requested Exchange (Additional Info)
EXCHT Exchange of Trade (Additional Info)
FLAG Alarm Flags
GAMMA Gamma - Greek value of an option - (Additional Info)
GAP Gap Open (PREV - OP)
GL Dollar gains (loss) in position (Trading Signal)
GLPCT Percent gains (loss) in position (Trading Signal)
HIALARM High Alarm Level
HISTEP High Alarm Step 
HITS Number of hits so far that triggered TRUE in the scan
IEPS Interim Earnings Per Share
IEPSLY Interim Earnings Per Share Last Year
IV Intrinsic Value of an option
IVOLAT Implied Volatility of an option - (Additional Info)
IVOLATA Ask Implied Volatility of an option - (Additional Info)
IVOLATB Bid Implied Volatility of an option - (Additional Info)
LAG CPU time minus feed time.
LAMBDA Lambda - Calculated greek value of an option - (Additional Info)
LEN Length of the ticker symbol (for stocks, LEN > 3 implies NASDAQ stock)
LIAB Liabilities (m)
LOALARM Low Alarm Level
LOSTEP Low Alarm Step    eg. SET(LOSTEP, CL*0.03)
MINOPEN Minutes in Position (Trading Signals)
MON Monitoring Flags
NAME Security Name (Additional Info)
NOW Time of day (hhmm)
NUM Count to be scanned (Number of instruments in source quotepage)
PCHO % change from open ( (CL - OP) / OP )
PCHY % change from yesterday ( (CL - PREV) / PREV )
PFO Portfolio
POS_COST Dollar cost of position (Trading Signals)
POS_SIZE Size of position (Trading Signals)
POS_STATE Backtest state (1=long, 2=short)
PREFIX Option Prefix
PREV Yesterday's Close
PSHARES Preferred Shares
QP QuotePage (QP = "myStocks" is true if the issue is in the "myStocks" quotepage) (Additional Info)
QTAGE Quote Age - Elapsed time in seconds since last quote or trade
RHO Rho - Calculated greek value of an option - (Additional Info)
SECTYPE Number code representing Security Type (Stock, Future, Options, etc...)
SEQ Sequence Number (row number of instrument being scanned)
SESSION Session Number (See Setup:Preferences:Sessions)
SETTLE Settlement Price
SIC Standard Industry Classification (SIC) Code
STOP Stop Price (Trading Signals)
STRIKE Strike Price of an option
THEO Calculated Theoretical Value of an option - (Additional Info)
THETA Theta - Calculated greek value of an option - (Additional Info)
TICKD Number of Down Ticks in the current trading session
TICKER Ticker Symbol (Additional Info)
TICKS Number of ticks (trades) in the current trading session
TICKU Number of Up Ticks in the current trading session
TICKUNITS Tick Units
TIME Backtest Time (hhmm)
TNC Trading Note Count
TVAL Time Value of an option - Price of the option minus the intrinsic value
TVOL Volume of last trade
ULPRICE Price of the security underlying the option
UPTV UpTick Volume
USERDATA User Data Text
UTICKR Underlying Ticker
VALTICK $Value Tick
VEGA Vega - Calculated greek value of an option - (Additional Info)
VOLALARM Volume Alarm Level
VOSTEP Volume Alarm Step
XAVGVOL Times Average Volume (VO / AVGVOL)
YRCL Prior Year Close
YRHI Yearly High
YRLO Yearly Low