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Today's tip will show you how to create a quotepage format that will allow you to quickly check the setup properties for all instruments in your quotepage by adding them as quotepage columns. The Setup Properties are the properties that can be found in the Setup Instruments window (Setup:Instruments) as seen below. It will then show you how to edit those properties directly from the quotepage. Then it will show you how to do a bulk edit of the following properties using a scan:

This tip will cover the use of Scans to set Alarms and Alarm levels. See Alarms For additional background information on Scans, click here

There are three different alarms which can be set. The High Alarm, the Low Alarm, and the Volume Alarm. For each alarm, there are two numbers which can be set....the alarm level, and the alarm step value.

This tip will cover QuotePages. QuotePages are spreadsheets in Investor/RT designed to display information for a list of securities (instruments). Each row represents an instrument or ticker symbol, and each column represents a piece of data associated with the instrument. QuotePages are powerful tools for displaying large amounts of dynamic data in one table. QuotePages are also used throughout Investor/RT to provide a way of grouping instruments. For instance, QuotePages are used as inputs for Scan, in order to communicate to the scan which list of instruments it should operate on.

You can learn a great deal about Investor/RT by simply opening up and inspecting each of the Preferences windows. Click on the Preferences icon on the main toolbar to access any of the 31 preference windows, each one giving you ways to customize the behavior of the software to suit your needs. Remember to press F1 if you have a question about any preference window you are viewing.

When you first installed Investor/RT, it was lean and mean, but after a year or two of use, dozens of imported charts, tinkering with 100s of settings, all while volume increased 5-fold, things have become sluggish. It's always good to pause and review your setup from time to time. A minor adjustment can make a world of difference.

A more efficient Investor/RT

What it means to mark a symbol for Intraday Monitoring

When the text "NOT MARKED INTRADAY" is printed in the title of an intraday chart, it means that the symbol charted is not marked for intraday monitoring.

This tip explains how to use some new options on the Reference Line indicator to produce a nice dynamic current price text representation on your charts.

First, use the Reference Line Tool on the chart toolbar to add a reference line to your chart (anywhere will do for now). Then double click on the line to bring up the Reference Line Preferences. Now, make sure you have the following checkboxes checked...

This tip will cover some hidden features of Traditional Charts. Most of the tips involve shortcut keys for accessing certain charting features.

(Also See: Database Backup And Recovery) (Also See: Tip: Database Utilities)

You can potential reduce the size of your database by following the steps below. By reducing the size of your database, you will also reduce the time it takes to verify and backup your database.

This tip was taken from a question addressed to support via email. The tip touches on Chart Annotation, Default Charts, Layouts, and Multi-Link.