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Why are all Windows Floating?

This article applies to the Windows edition of Investor/RT. By design, Investor/RT for Windows does not have minimize, maximize, restore buttons on the title bar, only the close button. All windows, charts, quote pages, preferences windows, object manager, etc. are floating windows. The benefit of this approach is two-fold: (a) any window is eligible to be positioned on any monitor you wish; windows are not confined to the main Investor/RT window, and (b) all windows are equals; any window can be brought fully to the front and can float above other open windows.

Diagnosing Sluggish Performance

If Investor/RT seems to be running sluggishly, it may be because a particular indicator in some chart is taking an excessive amount of time to calculate. Follow these steps to diagnose further:

Volume Profiling non-Time Based Charts

When applying start and stop times or a specific number of minutes to the Profile Indicator, Investor/RT is using the begin and end times of the bars in the chart to determine when to begin and end the Profile Indicator. On a Time based chart this is easy since each bar tends to start and stop at an even minute interval.

However, when adding a Profile Indicator to a non-time based chart (Volume, Tick, Range or Change bar charts), each bar does not have an even begin and end time and these times are not known until after a bar closes and a new one opens.

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