| Accumulation / Distribution | Accumulation/Distribution is a momentum indicator which takes into account changes in price and volume together. The idea is that a change in price coupled with an increase in volume may help to... | |
| Adaptive Moving Average (AMA) | The adaptive moving average moves slowly when prices are moving sideways and moves swiftly when prices move swiftly. The basic rule is to buy when the AMA turns up, and sell when the AMA turns down. | |
| ADX Avg. Directional Movement | Average Directional Movement is a momentum indicator developed by J. Welles Wilder. The ADX attempts to measure the extent to which a market is trending. This indicator measures the strength of the... | |
| ADXR Avg. Directional Movement Rating | Average Directional Movement Rating quantifies momentum change in the ADX. It is calculated by adding two values of ADX (the current value and a value n periods back), then dividing by two. This... | |
| ADXVMA | The ADXVMA is a volatility based moving average with the volatility being determined by the value of the ADX. The ADXVMA provides levels of support during uptrends and resistance during downtrends. | |
| Alpha Indicator / Beta Indicator (ALPHA, BETA) | Beta measures the volatility of a security relative to something else, usually a benchmark index like S&P. To calculate beta, you scatter plot the bar to bar changes of the symbol (stock or fund... | |
| Andrew's Pitchfork | Andrews' Pitchfork is a line study consisting of three parallel trendlines based on three user selected points in time. This tool was developed by Dr. Alan Andrews. This upper and lower tines of the... | |
| Annotation (NOTE) | The Annotation tool is used to place text notes or markers on charts. Please review the video for a quick introduction to the main feature. There are 2 main ways to add such an annotation to a charts... | |
| Arms Ease of Movement | The Arms' Ease of Movement Value (EMV) is a momentum indicator developed by Richard W. Arms, Jr. The indicator takes into account both volume and price changes to quantify the ease (or difficulty) of... | |
| Aroon (ARN) | The Aroon indicator was developed by Tushar Chande in 1995. Aroon is used to measure the presence and strength of trends. Aroon can be drawn either as two lines, the AroonUp and AroonDown, or an... | |
| Automatic Trendlines | The automatic trend line indicator determines the current up trend and down trend line and draws them. Trend lines may also be drawn manually using the drawing tool on the charting toolbar, but this... | |
| Balance of Power (BOP) | Balance of Power, introduced by Igor Livshin, attempts to measure the strength of buyers vs. sellers by assessing the ability of each to push price to an extreme level. Livshin published this... | |
| Bands | The Bands Indicator draws a band of color between two fixed price points or two historical prices computed by an RTL customer indicator. The Professional Edition Investor/RT is required for this... | |
| Bar Lines | The Horizontal Reference line tool has an option entitled "Bar Lines". This option gives the user an automated tool that draws horizontal reference lines at 6 levels: current open, current high,... | |
| Bar Statistics | Bar Statistics is a component of the Volume Analysis package. The indicator presents cumulative volume-based textual information for each bar. Data items include Buy Volume, Sell Volume... | |
| BarNumbers (RTX) | The BarNumbers RTX displays a label for a given bar or set of bars that identifies that bar's sequence from the beginning of its session. Bars are numbered chronologically from the beginning of... | |
| Bear Power (BEARP) | Elder-Ray Method "Elder-Ray" is a technical analysis method developed in 1989 by Dr. Alexander Elder. Dr. Elder, a medical doctor by training, chose the name "Elder-Ray" as a parallel to "X-Ray",... | |
| Bollinger Bands | Bollinger Bands are volatility based bands used to help identify situations where prices are too high, or too low, on a relative bases. When prices reach or rise above the upper band, they are too... | |
| Boundaries (RTX) | The Boundaries RTX extension is designed to allow the user to manually identify and mark boundaries (bars or date/times) that can then be used effectively by other indicators such as the... | |
| Brackets (RTX) | The Brackets RTX® extension is designed to clearly box and identify price action within each time-based period (bracket) with options to label, color, and extend the brackets both horizontally and... | |
| Bull Power (BULLP) | Elder-Ray Method "Elder-Ray" is a technical analysis method developed in 1989 by Dr. Alexander Elder. Dr. Elder, a medical doctor by training, chose the name "Elder-Ray" as a parallel to "X-Ray",... | |
| BuySellMeter (RTX) | The Buy/Sell Meter RTX Extension requires the Volume Analysis Package. The BuySellMeter extension displays the buying volume versus the selling volume for a user-specified period of time... | |
| Calendar Indicator | The Calendar Indicator was designed to allow users to easily identify key events, dates, or date ranges within the bigger picture provided by a calendar. These key dates may include holidays, futures... | |
| Candle Codes | The Candle Code indicator is used to assign a numerical value to each candle based on five candlestick characteristics, including Body Color, Body Size, Upper Shadow, Lower Shadow, and Gap. Positive... | |
| Candlestick Pattern Recognition (CPR) | The candlestick pattern recognition indicator tests for any of 41 candlestick patterns of interest. When adding the indicator to a chart, choose as many patterns as you like from the list of... | |
| CCI Commodity Channel Index | The Commodity Channel Index (CCI) is a price momentum indicator developed by Donald R. Lambert in 1980. It is designed to detect beginning and ending market trends. CCI represents the position of... | |
| Center Of Gravity (COG) | COG is an oscillator based on an article by John F. Ehlers on page 20 of the May 2002 issue of Stocks and Commodities Magazine. COG has essentially zero lag and enables clear identification of... | |
| Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) | The Chaikin Money Flow indicator (CMF) is calculated by summing Accumulation Distribution over the given period and then dividing by the sum of volume over the given period, as can be seen in the... | |
| Chande Momentum Oscillator (RTX) | The Chande Momentum Oscillator (CMO) is a technical momentum indicator developed by Tushar Chande. The CMO indicator is created by calculating the difference between the sum of all recent higher... | |
| Chart Buttons | Chart Buttons enable you to add push buttons or menu buttons to any chart window to perform a variety of actions as shown in the image below. Buttons can be added to any pane of any chart just as you... | |
| Chartmill Value Indicator (RTX) | The Chartmill Value Indicator(CVI) appeared in the January 2013 issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities. The article was written by Dirk Vandycke. The CVI represents a standard... | |
| ChartMiniTrader (RTX) | ChartMiniTrader is an RTX extension available to all Investor/RT subscribers. To invoke the Mini Trader, right-click in any multi-pane chart and choose Trade > ChartMiniTrader. The ChartMiniTrader... | |
| ChartTradingDOM (RTX) | ChartTradingDOM an RTX extension available to all Investor/RT subscribers. To invoke the DOM, right-click in any multi-pane chart and choose Trade... The ChartTradingDOM is a price ladder supporting... | |
| Choppiness Index | The Choppiness Index is designed to measure the market's trendiness (values below 38.20) versus the market's choppiness (values above 61.80). When the indicator is reading values near 100, the market... | |
| Clear (RTX) | The Clear RTX Extension is an implementation of the Clear Method, a method for determining short term swing direction, described by Ron Black in his 2010 article in Stocks and Commodities Magazine... | |
| Clock (RTX) | The RTX Clock indicator provides a display of time in analog and/or digital form with extensive customization options. The RTX Clock options include shading of session hours, time zone selection,... | |
| Color Marker Indicator | This indicator provides a flexible, colorful, compact method for displaying signal markers on charts. The signals can be based on the results of either Scans, Trading Signals, or Custom Indicators.... | |
| Colors (RTX) | The Colors RTX Extension provides the Profile Indicator with custom colors and/or custom letters for drawing TPOs. Up to 50 colors and letters may be customized.When the Letters option of the... | |
| Correlation Coefficient (COR) | The Correlation Coefficient is a versatile pattern matching technical indicator. The correlation coefficient is a statistic used to measure goodness of fit of two series of data points. The... | |
| Custom Indicator | Adding a custom Indicator that has been created using the RTL language to a chart is done with the indicator named Custom Indicator. The setup of the charted indicator is where the name of the RTL... | |
| CustomCandles (RTX) | The CustomCandles RTX Extension is designed to create candles or bars for indicators and takes four custom indicators that supply the open, close, high and low prices of the indicator. While... | |
| CustomNakedLevels (RTX) | The CustomNakedLevels RTX Extension (CNL) is designed to display the closest naked levels produced by an RTL Custom Indicator. On each bar, the indicator looks back and finds the closest... | |
| Darvas Box (DBOX) | The Darvas Box is considered by some to be a trading system wrapped up into a single indicator. The indicator uses a series of five states to draw the upper and lower lines of a box by finding highs... | |
| Data Validation | The Data Validation Technical Indicator is a legacy charting or scan indicator that inspects the data for some instrument and looks for exceptional conditions. The data validation indicator when used... | |
| DayTypes (RTX) | The DayTypes RTX Extension requires the TPO Profile Package. The DayTypes RTX Extension determines the developing day type throughout the session and labels each bar with the day type in... | |
| DeMark Range Expansion Index | The DeMark Range Expansion Index is a market-timing oscillator described in DeMark on Day Trading Options, by T.R. DeMark and T.R. Demark, Jr., McGraw Hill, 1999. The oscillator is arithmetically... | |
| Detrended Oscillator (DTREND) | The Detrended Oscillator is calculated by first calculating the difference between "price" and a user specified moving average of "price" for the instrument. The price used may, of course, be the... | |
| Directional Indicator (DIPLUS, DIMINUS) | The Directional Indicator is a momentum indicator which attempts to quantify the trending or directional behavior of a market. It is one of the best trend following indicator in technical analysis.... | |
| Divergence (RTX) | The Divergence RTX indicator quantifies divergence with a numerical value between two data series using various methods. Each data series may consistent of either price data, cumulative delta... | |
| Donchian Channels | Donchian Channels were introduced by Richard Donchian, a pioneer in the field of trend following. The Donchian Channel is a simple trend following breakout system. The Donchian Channel works well in... | |
| Double Top (RTX) | The Double Top RTX extension identifies double tops and bottoms and extends the lines until they are taken out by a future bar. User parameters control the look back period (in bars) and the... | |
| EchoMarkers (RTX) | EchoMarkers is an RTX drawing tool for placing markers at any position (price and time) in a chart with optional echoes of the marker at the same price and time on subsequent or prior trading... | |
| Edit User Variable (RTX) | The EditUserVariable RTX Extension is a tool designed to facilitate changing the value of a V#, C#, or T# user variable. Chart buttons, setup with purpose Set V# Variable or Set C# Variable can also... | |
| Elastic Volume Weighted Moving Average (eVWMA) | eVWMA is a statistical measure using the volume to define the period of the moving average. It incorporates volume information in a natural and logical way. The eVWMA can be looked at as an... | |
| Elder's Force Index (EFI) | The Elder's Force Index uses volume and price change from previous close to determine the momentum behind a price move in a given direction. An increasing Force Index is indicative of strong interest... | |
| Empirical Decomposition Mode Indicator | The Empirical Mode Decomposition Indicator (EMD) helps identify whether a market is in a cycle or trend mode. This indicator is discussed in the article titled "Empirical Mode Decomposition" in the... | |
| Equi-Indicator (EquiVolume) | The Equi-Indicator creates price bars with a width based on the Indicator specified in the preferences. The most common use of the Equi-Indicator is to create bars with their width dectated by the... | |
| ExportData (RTX) | The ExportData extension is designed to allow the user to dynamically export key prices and other data to a .csv/Excel file. ExportData can export any User Variable (V#) or Chart Variable (C#) values... | |
| External Data Indicator | The External Data Indicator (EDI) allows users to import custom daily support and resistance levels from csv or text files. These files may be local or on a remote web server. Up to 12 levels may be... | |
| ExtremePriceHighlighter (RTX) | ExtremePriceHighlighter (EPH) RTX Extension requires the Volume Analysis Package and complements the order flow analysis of the VolumeScope® Package. EPH operates on the volume-at-price data... | |
| Fibonacci Arcs | Fibonacci Arcs are displayed by first drawing a trendline between two extreme points, for example, a trough and opposing peak The arcs are drawn, centered on the second extreme point, so they... | |
| Fibonacci Extensions | The Fibonacci Extensions tool is similar to the Fibonacci Retracements tool. The Fibonacci Extensions indicator requires a third point. The extensions and retracement levels are drawn from this third... | |
| Fibonacci Projections | Fibonacci Projections, or Fan Lines, are displayed by drawing a trendline between two extreme points, for example, a trough and opposing peak. Then an "invisible" vertical line is drawn through the... | |
| Fibonacci Retracements (FIBR) | The Fibonacci Retracement / Expansion study is a very flexible tool in Investor/RT, allowing for drawing of both retracement and expansion lines, based on either price (horizontal), time (vertical),... | |
| Finite Volume Elements | The Finite Volume Element Indicator (FVE) was developed by Markos Katsanos and introduced in the April 2003 issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine. It was modified for... | |
| Fisher Transform (FISH) | Fisher Transform (FISH) is based on the article "Using The Fisher Transform" by John Ehlers that will be available in the November 2002 issue of Stocks and Commodities Magazine. FISH has sharp and... | |
| Fishy Turbo | The Fishy Turbo is another name for John Ehler's "Inverse Fisher Transform of RSI" which was detailed in the May 2004 edition of TASC magazine. Resulting values range between 1.0 and -1.0 with... | |
| FlexLevels® (RTX) | The FlexLevels® Indicator facilitates the sharing of key price levels for one or more instruments among a group of Investor/RT users. An educator or trading room mentor or an individual trader first... | |
| FlexMeters (RTX) | FlexMeters is an RTX extension designed to enable Investor/RT users to display customized meters of market behavior within multi-pane charts. This flexible tool draws meters showing the present value... | |
| Footprint® Charting Tools | Investor/RT has an extensive FootPrint® charting and analysis tools, having been a pioneer in the development of Footprint charting almost 20 years ago. A history of Linn Software's role with... | |
| Fractals - Swing Highs, Swing Lows | The Investor/RT Fractal indicator is based upon the "Bill Williams Fractal" in the book "Trading Chaos" by Bill Williams, PhD. A fractal is an entry technique that is traditionally defined as "a bar... | |
| Gann Lines and Gann Angles | William Gann (1878-1955) developed a unique combination of geometric and mathematical principles, which he applied to trading stocks and commodities. The proportional relationship of time to price... | |
| GapRunner (RTX) | The GapRunner RTX Extension is designed to identify gaps between bars and between sessions and extend those gaps until price returns to fill them. Gaps can be detected from the previous close... | |
| Heiken-Ashi and Ichimoku Kinko Hyo | Below is a chart of Heiken Ashi bars with Ichimoku Kinko Hyo indicators. Use the link to access the definition and import into Investor/RT. A full explanation of chart is provided below chart image.... | |
| HolidayTree (RTX) | Got your tree up yet? You stare at your charts all day. Why not spruce them up with a little holiday cheer? Introducing Holiday Tree (RTX), a whimsical indicator written with RTX that adorns any... | |
| Homework (RTX) | Where does price go based on where price opens? The Homework (HW) RTX Indicator is designed to compute and accumulate price-based statistics on daily data. The indicator is focused on... | |
| Indicator Adjusted Average (IIA) | Indicator Adjusted Average computes a Moving Average whose period varies within a specified range and is determined based on the value of another indicator within that indicators range. The... | |
| Indicator Weighted Average (IWA) | The IWA is a moving average that is weighted using another indicator. The weighting can be based on any of the built-in indicators in Investor/RT or any user-defined custom indicators written in RTL... | |
| Info Box | Info Box is a chart drawing tool that provides a tabular display of an instrument's market data and optionally, the values of technical indicators present in the chart window. User preferences are... | |
| Keltner Channels (KELTU, KELTD) | The Keltner Channel is a volatility-based indicator which makes us of the "envelope theory" and uses the range of high and low. Moving average bands and channels, like the Keltner Channels, all fall... | |
| KlingerVolumeOscillator (@ES#) | Klinger Volume Oscillator. This chart was uploaded by Investor/RT 13.2.5 showing symbol: @ES#. | |
| Linear Regression | Linear regression is a statistical tool used to predict the future from past data, and commonly used to determine when prices are overextended. The Investor/RT Linear Regression tool uses a least... | |
| Linear Regression Acceleration | First, the data, based on the price selected, is smoothed using the moving average period and type. If you prefer no smoothing, choose a period of 1 here. The resulting data is then used to form... | |
| Linear Regression Forecast | The Linear Regression Forecast indicators performs regression analysis on optionally smoothed price data, forecasts the regression lines if desired, and creates standard deviation bands above and... | |
| Linear Regression Slope | The Linear Regression Slope indicator provides the slope at each bar of theoretical regression lines which involve that bar and the previous N-1 bars (N being the regression period). First, the data... | |
| LookBackCandles (RTX) | Add the LookBackCandles indicator to your chart to see at a glance how the current trading price relates to various lookback periods of trading: today, this week, this month, last few weeks, etc. Up... | |
| MACD | MACD is an acronym for Moving Average Convergence Divergence. Developed by Gerald Appel, MACD utilizes various exponential moving averages of closing price to generate buy and sell signals.... | |
| Math Lines (RTX) | The Investor/RT Math Lines Indicator is the Linn Software implementation of the popular Murrey Math Lines. The Math Lines indicator produces a series of equidistant price-based support and resistance... | |
| MESA Adaptive Moving Average (MAMA) | The MESA Adaptive Moving Average adapts to price movement based on the rate of change of phase as measured by the Hilbert Transform Discriminator. (Stocks and Commodities, Dec. 2000, p. 19).This... | |
| Mixed Periodicity Data (MPD) | The Mixed Periodicity Data Indicator (MPD) gives the user access to different periodicities of data than the periodicity of the underlying instrument or scan. The MPD preferences ask for both a... | |
| Modified Moving Average | The Modified Moving Average is an algebraic technique that makes averages more responsive to price movements. The average includes a sloping factor to help it catch up with the rising or falling... | |
| Momentum Indicator | The momentum indicator is a measure of price change velocity. It is a simple calculation. For each bar the momentum is calculated as the difference in price between that bar and the bar a fixed... | |
| Money Flow (MFLO) | A technical indicator that keeps a running total of the money flowing into and out of a security. Money flow (MF) is calculated by multiplying the number of shares traded by the change in closing... | |
| Money Flow Index (MFI) | The Money Flow Index creates a ratio of Positive Money Flow and Negative Money Flow over time and scales it to a number between 0 and 100. The MFI value can be used to evaluate overbought and... | |
| Money Flow Indicator (MF) | The Money Flow Indicator keeps a running total of the money flowing into and out of a security. Money flow (MF) is calculated by multiplying the number of shares traded by the change in closing price... | |
| Moving Average Channels | Moving average channels use a moving average of price to create an envelope above and below the moving average line at a user specified number of standard deviations. The point of this study is to... | |
| Moving Average Ribbons (RTX) | The Moving Average Ribbons Indicator allows users to set an initial Moving Average Period (Period Start) along with the desired number of Moving Average Lines (Lines) and the amount that each... | |
| Moving Averages (MA) | Moving averages provide different options for smoothing data. Data is smoothed in order to help reduce the effect of bar-to-bar price fluctuations and help identify longer term emerging trends. A... | |
| Multiple Price Highlighter (MPH) | Multiple Price Highlighter requires the Volume Analysis Package. The Multiple Price Highlighter highlights multiple prices within a set of bars the meet certain criteria set by the user. | |
| Normalized Price | The Normalized Price indicator graphs the price movement of an instrument using 100 as the base value for a user specified base date/time. The normalized value for each bar after the base date/time... | |
| On Balance Open Interest | The On Balance Open Interest for an n-day period is defined as the sum of all Open Interest for up days minus all Open Interest for down days. An up day is one where the price closed higher or the... | |
| On Balance Volume | The On Balance Volume (OBV) for an n-day period is defined as the sum of all volumes for up days minus all volumes for down days. An up day is one where the price closed higher or the same as the... | |
| Open Interest Analysis | Add this indicator with a period of 1 to see the open interest for futures and options contracts. The open interest may be displayed as a line or a histogram. Specify a period greater than one to see... | |
| OrderFlowMetrics (RTX) | The OrderFlowMetrics RTX Extension (OFM) is a companion indicator to the DOM and provides a single column of data that can reflect change in size, size, volume, or delta over a user-specified period... | |
| Oscillator/Summation | The McClellan Oscillator and Summation Indexes were developed by Sherman and Marian McClellan in 1969. They were developed to gain an advantage in selecting entry and exit times in the stock market... | |
| Paint Bars | The Paint Bars indicator is a powerful tool for Painting the Bars or the chart background different colors based on True or False conditions. The "condition" can be tested for True or False by either... | |
| Paint Candles (RTX) | The PaintCandles RTX Extension decorates candlesticks in a variety of ways. The user may choose to decorate all candles or just those candles that meet a specific condition determined by an RTL... | |
| PaintIndicator (RTX) | The PaintIndicator RTX extension allows users to paint any indicator based on a variety of conditions and draw using some new and unique drawing styles. Up to 6 painting conditions may be specified... | |
| PaintZigZag (RTX) | The PaintZigZag (PZZ) RTX Extension paints the legs of the Zig Zag indicator based on a number criteria of each leg or each bar. PZZ provides up to 6 paint criteria. Each criterion has a... | |
| Parabolic SAR (SAR) | The Parabolic SAR, developed by Welles Wilder, is used to set trailing price stops. SAR refers to "Stop-And-Reversal". It is designed to create exit points for both long and short positions in such a... | |
| Percent Change Volume or Price | The Percent Change Indicator calculates and draws a line showing the n-period percent change in either volume or price for an instrument. The indicator oscillates around zero with positive values... | |
| PeriodCandles (RTX) | The PeriodCandles RTX Extension is designed to overlay candles of a higher periodicity over shorter periodicity bars or candles. The candles are drawn to the left of the lower period with user... | |
| Pivot Point | The Pivot Point study is one which works best in markets with a wide daily trading range (high volatility). The study uses the previous day high, low, close, and open price to generate a pivot, two... | |
| Pivot Strategy Analysis (RTX) | The PivotStrategyAnalysis (PSA) RTX Extension allows the user to specify any key daily or weekly price level such as previous high, previous close, or overnight VPOC, and analyze the... | |
| Pivot Strategy Optimizer (RTX) | The PivotStrategyOptimizer (PSO) builds upon the PivotStrategyAnalysis (PSA) indicator to create an extremely powerful combination. PSO enables the optimization of any combination of a number of... | |
| PNF (Point And Figure Indicator) | The Point and Figure Indicator calculates columns just like the Point And Figure Charts. There are however a couple of advantages to being able to add PNF as an indicator on a chart. First, you can... | |
| Polynomial Regression Channel (RTX) | Polynomial Regression Channel (PRC) is an RTX Extension indicator that draws a best fit n-degree polynomial regression line through a recent period of data. Setup parameters for the indicator include... | |
| Position Indicator (POS) | The Position indicator calculates for any bar, the position of that bar relative to the start or end of session. The calculated position can be expressed in bars, minutes, or seconds from the start... | |
| Price Statistics | Price Statistics requires the Volume Analysis Package. This indicator presents cumulative volume based information for each price over a user-specified period of time expressed in days or bar... | |
| Price Time Highlighter (RTX) | The Price Time Highlighter provides highly customizable highlighting of price (range) and bar(s) inside any chart pane with user specified color settings. | |
| Price Volume Pattern (RTX) | Price Volume Pattern (PVP) RTX Extension is included with the Volume Analysis Package. PVP complements the order flow analysis done by the VolumeScope Package and is included for all subscribers... | |
| PriceBoxProjections (RTX) | The PriceBoxProjections RTX extension (PBP) is a drawing tool that enables the Investor/RT user to draw an initial price box; the indicator then projects multiple boxes above and below with matching... | |
| Profile Indicator (PROF) | Profile Indicator requires the Profile Package. The Profile indicator enables the user to overlay a price-based profile over a multi-pane intraday chart. The Profile provides a "Price/Row"... | |
| QuoteBoard Indicator | The QuoteBoard Indicator displays quotes, customized price levels, and daily bars on any symbol or group of symbols within a multi-pane chart. The symbols can be automatically sorted based on various... | |
| QuotePage Statistics (QSTAT) | A Few Words of Caution on QuotePage Statistics Indicator This indicator is very powerful, but at the same time, can be somewhat processor-intensive. It should be used sparingly and with... | |
| Random Walk Index | The Random Walk indicator is used to determine if an issue is trending or in a random trading range. It attempts to do this by first determining an issue's trading range. The next step is to... | |
| Rate of Change (ROC) | Rate of change is a price momentum indicator. It is a simple calculation of the current price divided by the price some number of periods ago. For example, if the current price is 50 and the price 30... | |
| Rectangle Drawing Tool | The Rectangle tool is a chart drawing tool used to highlight a user-specified range of time in the chart by enclosing that portion of the chart inside a rectangle. Rectangles may be drawn in chart... | |
| Reference Line | The Reference Line indicator draws a horizontal line on the displayed chart according to the preferences of the user. The line can be drawn according to a trading value on a particular day, an alarm... | |
| Relative Slope (RELS) | Authored by Dimitris Tsokakis, the relative slope takes an exponential moving average of typical price (HLC/3), commonly a 20 period EMA but the period is customizable. It then takes the resulting... | |
| Relative Strength (RS) | Relative Strength indicates the movement of a symbol relative to a base instrument. It tends to be flat. If the base instrument has stronger movement than the monitored instrument, the Relative... | |
| Relative Strength Index (RSI) | The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a popular price momentum oscillator developed by J. Welles Wilder and introduced in his 1978 book New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems. The RSI oscillates in... | |
| Relative Vigor Index | This indicator was developed based the January 2002 Stocks and Commodities article entitled Relative Vigor Index. This indicator is an oscillator built on the basic equation (CL - OP) / (HI - LO).... | |
| Renko | See Also Renko Charts A Renko Indicator has been added for use in traditional charts. It provides a way for the Renko boxes to be viewed and stretched across a time based chart. This allows the... | |
| Reverse Engineer | The Reverse Engineer indicator answers the following question: "What current price would be required to attain an indicator value of X". For instance, you may want to know what closing/last price (on... | |
| Risk Reward Indicator (RTX) | The Risk Reward Tool makes it possible to drag and drop a potential long or short trade to analyze the following: The entry and exit price. Risk associated with the trade. Reward associated... | |
| SampleRTX (RTX) | A sample RTX extension that draws a trendline showing the maximum price excursion within the visible portion of the chart. Zoom the chart in/out using mouse wheel and the trendline will redraw for... | |
| ScatterPlot (RTX) | ScatterPlot takes two custom indicators and plots one on the horizontal (X Axis) and one on the vertical (Y Axis) and then computes a best fit polynomial regression line through the data of user-... | |
| Session Prices (RTX) | The Session Prices RTX extension calculates common price levels of interest on up to three different sessions independent of the session used by the chart. These types of calculations have been... | |
| Session Statistics (SESST) | The Session Statistics Indicator computes historical statistics for an instrument or an indicator. The The Session Statistics preferences use the general format: [Statistic] of [Price] of the [First/... | |
| Shape Indicator | The Shape indicator is a drawing tool indicator with a button on the chart toolbar to faciliate drawing shapes at the desired location in the chart. The button depicts a red square and a blue circle... | |
| Signal Action Setup | A Signal Action is a user-defined and named specfication for actions to be performed when the named signal action is executed. Various indicators in Investor/RT can trigger the execution of a named... | |
| Signal Markers | The Signal Marker indicator tests a user specified RTL signal or a specified Plugin Indicator that produces a signal using the periodic data in the chart. The purpose of the indicator is to mark all... | |
| Signal Statistics (SSTAT) | The Signal Statistics indicator (SSTAT) allows for statistical calculations on signals, including summation, consecutive signals, frequency, bars since last signal, change since last signal, and more... | |
| Sine Wave (RTX) | The SineWave RTX extension is the RTX implementation of the Ehlers Sine Wave indicator. See Cybernetic Analysis for Stocks and Futures by John Ehlers. Two forms of the indicator are supported, known... | |
| SlopeLines (RTX) | Trendlines are one of the basic trading tools used to follow trends in market data. They are easy to draw in Investor/RT using the trendline drawing tool: click on a starting point; drag and drop on... | |
| SMI Ergodic Indicator | Trading Ergodics with the Trend - Rules Enter or hold position only when slope of Ergodic Signal line has the same direction as the trend Stand aside when slope of Ergodic Signal Line is in... | |
| Spirals (Logarithmic Spirals) | The Spiral indicator (also know as the "Logarithmic Spiral") provides a link between price and time analysis, and can help in forecasting both price and time. Similar to indicators such as Fibonacci... | |
| Spread Matrix (RTX) | The Spread Matrix RTX extension is designed to automatically compute the optimal number of contracts or shares for each component of a spread or pair. For example, the Spread Matrix may recommend... | |
| Statistics Indicator (STAT) | The Statistics Indicator computes statistical measures (MIN, MAX, AVG, STD DEV) on a price types for a specified period, e.g. 100 period standard deviation of closing price. 1. Minimum - Lower... | |
| Stochastics | Stochastic is a momentum or price velocity indicator developed by George C. Lane. Stochastic measures the position of a stock compared with its most recent trading range over the period specified... | |
| Stock Split Finder | The Split Finder may be added to a chart window or used in a scan to locate stocks with abrupt price changes indicative of stock splits. You may specify a percentage price change from one day to the... | |
| System Simulator (SSIM) | An indicator named "System Simulator" (SSIM) has been added to Investor/RT. SSIM gives the user the ability to quickly chart a simple trading system. SSIM has settings for Entry and Exit (a group box... | |
| T3 | T3 is an adaptive moving average. It tracks the time series more aggressively when making large moves. It is discussed in the Stocks and Commodities article "Smoothing Techniques For More Accurate... | |
| Three Line Break Indicator (TLB) | The Three Line Break Indicator calculates columns just like the Three Line Break Charts. There are however a couple of advantages to being able to add TLB as an indicator on a chart. First, you can... | |
| Three Line Break Oscillator | The Three Line Break Oscillator (TLBOSC) was designed to give Three Line Break users an indicator on traditional charts that clearly shows all relevant TLB information (reversal price, current price... | |
| Time Series Forecast (TSF) | This technical indicator performs linear regression analysis. The value of TSF for each bar is based on a regression analysis of the preceding N bars. N is called the regression period in the setup... | |
| TimeAndSales (RTX) | The RTX TimeAndSales extension (TAS) is used to embed time and sales displays into any Investor/RT chart window. TAS introduces a variety of new time and sales capabilities such as flexible... | |
| ToTheTick.com Power Zones | ToTheTick.com Power Zones is the Investor/RT implementation of the daily Power Zones offered by ToTheTick.com. This indicator is implemented via the External Data indicator which is specailly... | |
| TPO Indicator (TPO) | TPO Indicator requires the Profile Package. The TPO Indicator computes and displays historical values for TPO Profile price levels: POC, Value Area High (VAH), Value Area Low (VAH),... | |
| TradeBubbles (RTX) | TradeBubbles RTX Extension is a component of the Volume Analysis Package. The TradeBubbles extension draws 3-dimensional bubbles at each price within the bar. The size and coloring of the... | |
| TradeDots (RTX) | Trade Dots RTX Extension requires the Volume Analysis Package. The Trade Dots extension draws dots at each price within each bar. The dots are sized in proportion to the volume traded at that... | |
| TradeViewer (RTX) | TradeViewer is a trading results visualization tool. It draws lines, markers and color coded rectangles to denote the entry price and exit price of each of your trades with optional highlighting of... | |
| Trading Note Markers | Similar to News Markers, the trading notes marker indicator places markers on the chart for each bar that has an associated trading note. When you enter trading notes for an instrument you can... | |
| Trading Order Setup | The Trading Order is a named object that specifies the properties of an order that can be sent to the brokerage (or the Investor/RT trading simulator) in various ways. Trading Orders can be executed... | |
| Trading Rule Indicator | The Trading Rule Indicator operating inside a chart tests a user-specified trading signal. When the trading signal fires true, the trading rule indicator executes a user-specified trading order.... | |
| Trading System Indicator (TSYSI) | Trading System Indicator requires the Trading Systems Package. The Trading System Indicator (TSYS) charts the actions of a Trading System built using the Investor/RT Trading System Tools. The... | |
| Trail of Intentions (RTX) | Note: TINT requires access to market depth from your data provider. Market depth is available from these feed providers: IQFEED, Gain, CQG, Rithmic. TINT requires the Market Depth Analysis add-on... | |
| Trend Continuation Factor | The Trend Continuation Factor (TCF) identifies the trend and its direction. TCF was introduced by M. H. Pee. Positive values of either the Positive Trend Continuation Factor (TCF+) and the... | |
| Trend Detection Index (TDI) | The Trend Detection Index (TDI) was introduced by M. H. Pee. TDI is used to detect when a trend has begun and when it has come to an end. The TDI can be used as a stand-alone indicator or combined... | |
| Trend Intensity Index (TII) | Trend Intensity Index (TII) is based on an article by M. H. Pee that will be available in the June 2002 issue of Stocks and Commodities Magazine. TII is used to indicate the strength of the current... | |
| Trend Lines | The Trendline Indicator is a tool for drawing lines from a starting price and time to another price and time in the chart. To draw a trend line, activate trend line drawing by depressing the Trend... | |
| TrendTool (RTX) | TrendTool is an RTX Extension for easily drawing and editing trendlines on instruments. TrendTool does not replace the long standing Trendline indicator in Investor/RT. Think of it as a companion... | |
| Triple Smoothing (TRIP) | The triple smoothing indicator can be used to compute and graph either a double or triple smoothing of the price data for an instrument. Each smoothing moving average has its own period and type... | |
| TRIX Triple Smoothed Exponential Oscillator | The TRIX is a momentum indicator that calculates the percent rate of change of a triple smoothed exponential moving average of closing price. It is a leading indicator, in that it is designed to... | |
| True Range (TR) | Welles Wilder described these calculations to determine the trading range for a stock or commodity. True Range is defined as the largest of the following: The distance from today's high to... | |
| True Strength Index (TSI) | True Strength is a variation of the Relative Strength indicator. It uses a double smoothed exponential moving average of price momentum to eliminate choppy price changes and spot trend changes. This... | |
| True Strength Squeeze (RTX) | The TrueStrengthSqueeze (RTX) Indicator combines the True Strength Index with the Squeeze Indicator. The True Strength Index attemps to show both trend direction and overbought or oversold... | |
| Ultimate Oscillator (ULT) | The Ultimate Oscillator was designed by Larry Williams in an attempt to improve on the premature buy and sell signals he observed in other available oscillators. It is documented in the April, 1985... | |
| Up/Down Volume Ratio (UDVR) | The Up/Down Volume ratio compares the representation of buyers vs. sellers over a period of time. The assumption is that if a stock closes UP for the day, the attributable volume was induced by... | |
| Up/Down Volume Ratio Slope (UDVRS) | Although the U/D Ratio is a powerful indicator, it is actually the change or slope of this ratio that signals a change in the stock price trend. If the slope of the U/D Ratio over n periods is... | |
| Value Area Indicator (VAU, VAD) | The Value Area Indicator provides an automated band representing the volume-weighted Value Area. The Value Area bands represent the prices between which a certain percent of the volume was traded.... | |
| Vertical Reference Line | The Vertical Reference Line is a drawing tool that can be used to draw labelled lines at any data/time in the chart. Click on the "Vertical Line" tool on the chart toolbar. Then position the mouse... | |
| Vervoort Oscillator (RTX) | In his article "The Quest For Reliable Crossovers" (Stocks and Commodities Magazine, May 2008) author Sylvain Vervoort explains a trading method using the crosses of two moving averages: a zero-lag... | |
| Volatility Indicator (VOLAT) | The volatility indicator is based on the same calculation used by Investor/RT in the options analysis feature of the program. The volatility is calculated historically for each bar. Volatility can... | |
| Volatility Profit Indicator (VPIH, VPIL) | The Volatility Profit Indicator had it's origins in a February 2005 Article in TASC titled "The Truth About Volatility" by Jim Berg. This article was geared toward longer term (weekly) charts, but... | |
| Volatility Stop (VSTOP) | The Volatility Stop Indicator helps define the current trend. The indicator plots a red line above the prices bars when a downward trend is detected, and a blue line below the bars when an upward... | |
| Volume Analysis (VMA) | The Volume Analysis Indicator computes a moving average of volume. It provides a more detailed look at volume trends than can be observed using the default volume histogram below price charts. You... | |
| Volume Breakdown (VB) | Volume Breakdown Indicator requires the Volume Analysis Package. The Volume Breakdown is a powerful and flexible indicator used to gauge buying and selling pressure. It looks inside each bar... | |
| Volume Candles (RTX) | The Volume Candles RTX Extension requires the TPO Profile Package. This Volume Candles Forum Topic provides some good documentation of Volume Candles 2.4 and beyond. Volume Candles draws a... | |
| Volume Price Statistics (VPS) | Volume Price Statistics requires the Volume Analysis Package. The Volume Price Statistics indicator provides the user with a variety of statistical measures based on the volume at price. | |
| Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAPI) | VWAP is the ratio of the value traded to total volume traded over a particular time horizon (usually one session). It is a measure of the average price a stock traded at over the trading horizon.... | |
| VolumeScopeStats (RTX) | Compatibility Note that VSS requires Investor R/T version 15.1.8 Build 33544 or higher. Support for version 14 will follow. Requirements VSS requires the VolumeScope® add-on... | |
| VolumeScope® (RTX) | See VolumeScope FAQ VolumeScope is the best in class footprint charting available, allowing the user to view per bar market order flow under a microscope, closely inspecting the volume... | |
| Williams %R (WPR) | The Williams %Range (%R) Study, is the exact inverse of Lane's Stochastic Study. You may see the relationship between the stochastic and %R very clearly by charting the same symbol in two chart... | |
| Williams Accumulation/Distribution (WAD) | This indicator measures market pressure by comparing the relationship between Closing price and daily range to quantify accumulation, or buying pressure, and distribution, or selling pressure. The... | |
| Woodie's CCI (WCCI) | Woodie's CCI is a proprietary indicator developed by Ken Wood. WCCI is a derivative of the Commodity Channel Index (CCI). For more information on trading with Woodie's CCI indicators, visit www.... | |
| Zig Zag Indicator (ZIG) | The Zig Zag Indicator is a series of trendlines that connect significant tops and bottoms on a price chart. The Minimum Price Change parameter specifies the percentage that the price must move in... | |
| Zig Zag Oscillator Indicator (ZZO) | The Zig Zag Oscillator indicator provides a way of viewing the Zig Zag Indicator information in a different form, oscillating about 0. The indicator represents the percent change at each bar of the... | |
| Zones (RTX) | The Zones Indicator is designed to automate the identification of zones between a range of prices over a series of bars/time. The primary motivation for the creation of this indicator is to identfy... |