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Charts with certain periodicities require tick data in order to form properly.  These include Volume Bars, Tick Bars, Renko, Point and Figure, Range Bars, and Change Bars.  These periodicities can also be formed from 1-minute data but generally they will not be as accurate.  For periods where there is tick data, Investor/RT will use the tick data to form the accurate bars.  It will then use the 1-minute data before that to form those bars as best possible.  By default, Investor/RT will form bars from 1-minute data for up to 50 days back.  For per

The INCOMPATIBLE SESSION message indicates that the Session Override of the chart is set to a session that is outside the boundaries of the session assigned to the symbol. The required course of action is to adjust the session of either the Symbol itself or the chart so that they are either the same, or, the Chart's session is fully inside of the times of the Symbols Session.

Shortcuts keys and mouse techniques are generally the same on both Windows and Macintosh OS X platforms. The Ctrl key equivalent on Macintosh keyboards is the Option Key. If you use a single button mouse (rare these days) the right-click can be accomplished by Control-Click (hold down the Control key while clicking).

A multi-pane chart can optionally have a button pane, a thin pane containing only a series of chart buttons, typically at the top of the chart. Normally the button pane is displayed without a title bar. If you right-click inside the button pane and choose Show Pane Title, the title bar will appear, telling you that this is indeed a "Button Pane"

Effective with the release of Version 12, this article is no longer applicable.

Printing of charts and QuotePages is supported only for some printers. If you cannot get the File: Print command to print a chart or QuotePage then try using the File: Page Setup command and select your destination printer. If printing still does not work, quit Investor/RT locate the file named printer preferencess inside the admin folder and delete the file. Then startup again, use File: Page Setup and select the printer.

The easiest way to do this is with a Custom Indicator. Let's take the specific example where we want to put a Moving Average of the Fisher Transform indicator in the same pane as the Fisher Transform. First, create a new Custom Indicator by choosing Setup: Custom Indicator. Then, type in the following syntax: MA(FISH) and click the Save button in the lower right corner of the window.

Default preferences for technical indicator in the past were limited to one set of default settings per indicator. "Setup: Preferences: Charts: Multi-pane Charts: Technical Indicators" was (and still is) the place to specify your default settings for each of the indicators you utilize. Now, the default preferences can be setup from any technical indicator preference window. Often it is desirable to have several sets of preferences per indicator, especially with some of the more complex indicators where there may be many useful combinations of settings that are used often.

There are two indicators which will accomplish this: Session Statistics (SESST) and Mixed Periodicity Data (MPD). Session Statistics is a more reliable and efficient method and will be discussed first. One thing to keep in mind when trying to decide between the two methods is that MPD uses the daily bars while SESST uses the actual intraday data. Thus, MPD will always reflect the data present in the daily bars (which is generally the globex session data for futures) while SESST values will reflect the session to which the chart is assigned (can reflect either day session or globex session data for futures contracts).

I suspect that these indicators may be "cumulative" indicators. A cumulative indicator us one that builds upon itself (it's own previous value). Any indicator involving an exponential smoothing fits into this "cumulative" category.. When an indicator is cumulative, its value is dependant in some respect on all previous data elements that are considered/loaded for the calculation. While the chart is loading a certain number of bars (depending on the charts viewing period), the custom column is loading a minimal number of bars for efficiency purposes.