| Homework (RTX) | Where does price go based on where price opens? The Homework (HW) RTX Indicator is designed to compute and accumulate price-based statistic on daily data. The indicator is focused on percentages of touching or closing above key prices based on the where price opens the day session. The... | WATCH |
| VolumeScopeStats (RTX) | This VolumeScopeStats (VSS) RTX Indicator is designed to compute volume-at-price statistics that are sensitive to both time of day and periodicity of the chart. This allows users to compute and identify values of significant volume or delta at price throughout the day with statistics based on the... | WATCH |
| Homework - Opening Statistics | In this homework study, we are going to break each day into one of four categories based on the opening type. - Higher Outside Range (HOR) - Open is above the previous days high/range. - Higher Inside Range (HIR) - Open is between the previous day close and high. - Lower Insider Range (LIR) - Open... | WATCH |
| 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 tool that you may prefer to use sometimes. Some may use it most of the time. TrendTool was developed... | WATCH |
| 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 many indicators, including MA and ROC, are generally drawn with a single (closing) price value on each... | WATCH |
| Daily Bars Honoring Day Session | This video explains how to setup daily and weekly bars to honor the session of the chart as well as how to quickly toggle between Daily and 1d* periodicity and how to setup data retention for each. | WATCH |
| 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 specified colors and width. A Wrap option will draw a dotted rectangle around the bars which each... | WATCH |
| 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. OFM was original designed to focus on changes in size at each price on the book, but was expanded... | WATCH |
| 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 or from the previous price extreme. An option is available to detect gaps in day session data on intraday... | WATCH |
| 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 each session so that the first bar of any session is bar #1. This RTX is useful for easily identifying... | WATCH |
| Brackets (RTX) | The Brackets RTX Extension is designed to clearly box and identify the price action within each time-based period (bracket) with options to label, color, and extend the brackets horizontally and vertically. The term Bracket comes from the 30-minute periods typically used in a TPO Charts, most... | WATCH |
| ExportData (RTX) | The ExportData RTX 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 as well as any other tokenized strings such as ticker symbol, date/time, and more. An... | WATCH |
| ChartTradingDOM Version 6 | This video introduces ChartTradingDOM 6.0 Version 6 of the Investor/RT ChartTradingDOM is a major update to the platform’s execution DOM with many new features and refinements. Visit ChartTradingDOM Version 6 for a full description of all features and Version 6.5 for the latest... | WATCH |
| How to Rollover a Futures Contract | This video demonstrates how to rollover a futures contract in Investor/RT. | WATCH |
| TradeViewer (RTX) | This video introduces the TradeViewer RTX Extension. 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 the maximum favorable and adverse excursions of... | WATCH |
| TradeBubbles (RTX) | The TradeBubbles extension draws 3-dimensional bubbles at each price within the bar. The size and coloring of the bubbles are variable, driven by volume-at price data. The most recently touched prices are drawn in front. The extension has a horizontal positioning option and a horizontal... | WATCH |
| Chart Mini Trader (RTX) | The ChartMiniTrader is a minimalist user interface for submitting trading orders that is seen in a sidebar at the right side of the chart. | WATCH |
| Edit User Variable (RTX) | The purpose of the EditUserVariable tool is to provide one or more persistent user variable editors directly in a chart to facilitate frequent revisions to the value of V#, C#, or T# user variables. | WATCH |
| 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 custom indicator level/value (closest in value to the bar prices), where that level is still naked going into... | WATCH |
| 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. This indicators gives user flexibility to control the line color, style, width, vertical height, label, label position, and much more. This video also demonstrates how to use... | WATCH |
| 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 closing bar changes and the sum of all recent lower closing bar changes. This result is then divided by... | WATCH |
| PaintZigZag (RTX) | The PaintZigZag (PZZ) RTX Extension paints the legs of the Zig Zag indicator based on a number criteria of each leg or even each bar. PZZ provides up to 6 paint criteria with each criteria having a unique color and width. PZZ can paint each leg based on conditions such as: up sloping vs down... | WATCH |
| ATS Video 3: Multiple Exits | This thrid video in the automated trading series demonstrates a system with multiple exits: 2 targets (6 ticks and 12 ticks) and a managed stop that is moved to breakeven after 1st target. The video demonstrates how to use the NO ACTION rule to manage the position size that is sent to the broker... | WATCH |
| ATS Video 2: Position Size | This second video in the automated trading series covers the Position Size tokens: POS_SIZE, TR_POS, and POSITION. It covers the information these tokens provides in different contexts. A full understanding of the Position Size tokens is critical when making the transition from backtesting to... | WATCH |
| ATS Video 1:Orientation | This video is the first video in a series on Automated Trading in Investor/RT. This video covers some essential concepts and settings that will be built upon throughout the remainder of the video series. A basic system is used within the Trading System indicator which submits live automated trades... | WATCH |
| 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 sessions. Vertical (price) echoes are available. These echo the markers at a vertical offset in ticks from... | WATCH |
| 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 range and offset horizontally by a user-specified distance expressed in bars, pixels, or % of width... | WATCH |
| Using Chart Variable Buttons with ExtremePriceHighlighter | Using Chart Variable Buttons with ExtremePriceHighlighter | WATCH |
| ExtremePriceHighlighter (RTX) | EPH operates on the volume-at-price data within each bar and finds the extreme prices over multi-bar periods with options including Last X Days, Last X Bars, and Visible Bars. When Visible Bars is selected, EPH identifies the extreme prices within the visible bars of the chart. The highlighting... | WATCH |
| Using Buttons to Control ExtremePriceHighlighter Variables | This video demonstrates how to use the Button Indicator to dynamically control key periods in the ExtremePriceHighlighter (EPH) including number of prices highlighted as well as number of bars or days considered in the period. The video also demonstrates how to select the EPH indicator when it is... | WATCH |
| LookBackCandles (RTX) | LookBackCandles shows at a glance how the current trading price relates to various look-back periods of trading: today, this week, this month, last few weeks, etc. Up to 8 lookback periods are shown in one compact display giving the trader both short and long term perspective on price action over... | WATCH |
| Introducing Investor/RT Version 13.5 | This webinar from November 9, 2018, offers an overview of some exciting new enhancements to some of our most popular Indicators such as VolumeScope®, ZigZag, Paint Indicator, Multiple Price Highlighter, Bar Statistics, Chart Trading Dom and more. | WATCH |
| Imbalance Zones | This video demonstrates how to setup the Multiple Price Highlighter (MPH) Indicator to deliver Buying and Selling Imbalance Zones and extend them as Support and Resistance. These Zones implement a minimum Imbalance Percent, minimum Imbalance Difference, as well as a Weak Side Minimu m. Instructions... | WATCH |
| 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 of some price or computed value as compared to a specified range of values seen in the past.... | WATCH |
| VolumeScope™ Improvements in Investor/RT 13.5 | This video highlights enhancements made to the VolumeScope™ RTX Indicator in Investor/RT 13.5. These include new title options Volume Brick and Delta Percent, Button Indicator support, current price highlighting options, variable font size, inverse profile styles, smaller text size options, show... | WATCH |
| Time of Day of Session High/Low | This chart plots the time of day (minutes into session) that the high and low was made each session. It then profiles those values to accumulate the number of times that high and low was made in each time period, and identify the Mode, Mean, and Median. Chart definition is included below.... | WATCH |
| Chart Trading DOM | Chart Trading DOM overview | WATCH |
| TimeAndSales - Multiple Filters | This video demonstrates a powerful usage scenario of the TimeAndSales RTX indicator with multiple levels of filtering/coloring. Five instances of TAS are employed, each with an increasing level of filtering. Turning on audible alerts for large trades is also discussed. Chart Definition: https... | WATCH |
| 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 filtering, highlighting and alerting options and much more. Display columns are... | WATCH |
| Running Multiple Instances of Investor/RT | Please review this new procedure for installing multiple instances of Investor/RT 15 This video, which demonstrates how to configure and run additional instances of Investor/RT, is dedicated to 32 bit version of IRT (version 14 and previous build) - It is there for not fully valid for the... | WATCH |
| Chart Highligher and Crosshairs | The Chart Highlighter is a powerful feature that allows users to quickly and easily align time and price across multiple charts. This video discusses the Chart Highlighter feature or Investor/RT and how it works in combination with Crosshairs to implement a global crosshair solution. The video... | WATCH |
| Keppler Volume Tracker (KVT) | Dr. John Keppler explains the Keppler Volume Tracker (KVT) which was implemented inside the Multiple Time Highlighter of Investor/RT with his guidance. KVT helps identify high volume participation and activity in the market when it occurs by comparing volume at price at each interval of time to a... | WATCH |
| Bar Statistics - Custom Data | This video demonstrates how to add custom rows of textual data to the Bar Statistics Indicator (Bar Stats). Bar Stats can pull rows of data from any custom indicator in the chart and display that data textually. Bar Stats uses the color of the custom indicator to shade the row, the display format... | WATCH |
| Consolidated Tape | Investor/RT introduces an important new data handling option titled Consolidated Tape in version 13.2 for all users of the DTN IQFeed data services. The Consolidated Tape option not only provides users the ability to see the tape in a clean, compact, and organized fashion, but also has a variety of... | WATCH |
| Homework - Overnight High and Low Breaks | This video demonstrates how to implement a homework study which counts the number of times the day session high and low broke outside of the overnight session range, and present these values as a percentage of all days. The chart computes the number of times price broke above ONH, below ONL, Both,... | WATCH |
| Removing Bars From Chart | Removing Bars From Chart | WATCH |
| Webinar for New and Intermediate Users - Jan 4, 2017 | Covers Beginner to Intermediate level concepts including, basic Navigation, Object Manager, Chart Element Manager, Charts, Quotepages, Layouts and Sessions. | WATCH |
| Webinar for New and Intermediate Users 1-4-2017 | Covers Beginner to Intermediate level concepts including, basic Navigation, Object Manager, Chart Element Manager, Charts, Quotepages, Layouts and Sessions. | WATCH |
| Extending Naked Reference Lines | This video demonstrates a quick and easy way to drop down a reference line from any point (price and time) in a chart that will extend right from that point while naked and until it price return to touch it in the future. | WATCH |
| Identifying Large Relative Volume at Price with PVP | Ths video demonstrate how to identify large volume at price relative to the average volume at price of previous 9 bars. The Price Volume Pattern indicator compares the volume at price with a multiple of a custom indicator which in turn computes the average volume at price of previous 9 bars. A... | WATCH |
| Markers in Investor/RT 13.1 | This video highlights a number of enhancements that were made to markers in Investor/RT 13.1. Markers are used primarily by the Signal Marker Indicator but also in a variety of other indicators including Fractals, Annotations, Trading Notes, and Trading System Indicator. Markers are now rendered... | WATCH |
| SlopeLines (RTX) | SlopeLines is an RTX Extension indicator that automates the drawing of trendlines using signals and custom indicators, giving the user complete control over where the lines begin, the starting price of the lines, the slope of the lines, and how far the lines extend. Users control how far back the... | WATCH |
| POC Breakout Periodicity | This video highlights a new periodicity in Investor/RT 13.1 called the POC Breakout periodicity. This periodicity requires a bar to reach a user-specified minimum POC Volume, and then continues to form until price breaks out of the range that was achieved while building to the POC Volume to that... | WATCH |
| VolumeScope® Announcement | Linn Software is a leading innovator of market data profiling and volume analysis charting tools for professional traders, creating indicators and real-time market data displays to help traders to identify profit making opportunities and to make more timely trading decisions. Some of our most... | WATCH |
| VolumeScope® Introduction (RTX) | VolumeScope® allows the user to view each bar under a microscope and closely inspect the volume at price data with great flexibility. VolumeScope has three primary components: Background, Text, and Candle, each optional and each with a variety of data and presentation options. Volume is broken... | WATCH |
| VolumeScope® - Background Component | This video takes a close look at the data, color, and scaling options available within the Background Component of the VolumeScope® Indicator. | WATCH |
| VolumeScope® - Text and Candle Components | This video takes a close look at the data, color, and scaling options available within the Text and Background Components of the VolumeScope® Indicator. | WATCH |
| VolumeScope™ Introduction | VolumeScope™ allows the user to view each bar under a microscope and closely inspect the volume at price data with great flexibility. The VolumeScope™ has three primary components: Background, Text, and Candle, each optional and each with a variety of data and presentation options. Volume is... | WATCH |
| VolumeScope® - Scaling and Spacing (RTX) | This video covers a variety of ways to manipulate the vertical and horizontal space required by the VolumeScope® Indicator. Because VolumeScope often displays text at each price, it has unique requirements with respect to the amount of vertical and horizontal space available for each price. The... | WATCH |
| 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 single click in the Buy or Sell column to place limit/stop orders at specific prices. Buttons are... | WATCH |
| Better Volatility | This video explains a better method of computing volatility which has several advantages over the more tradition methods such as average true range. This method computes the expected volatility at each bar based on the average range of bars at the same time of day over the previous 20 days. Instead... | WATCH |
| Advanced RTL - Sequencing Events | This video tackles a more complex aspect of RTL: Sequencing Events. How to determine when event A occurred following event B at a variable number of bars after event A. It explains how to use Signal Statistics in order to flexibly reference data from prior events or signals. Specifically in the... | WATCH |
| Spread Matrix (RTX) Introduction | 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 trading 11 contracts of ES against 6 contracts of NQ when trading an ES-NQ pair in order to maintain a... | WATCH |
| Paint Indicator 2.5 Innovations: Shapes and Labels | This video highlights new innovations in Paint Indicator 2.5 and beyond including flexible labeling and custom shapes. A number of new custom shape styles are available including: Circle, Diamond, Arrow, Triangle, Wedge, Flag, Laser, Hammer, Plus, Clock, and Label Only. Most shapes also have an... | WATCH |
| Scatter Plot (RTX) Introduction | 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-specified degree. Any two custom indicators may be used for the data set of this analysis. Each data... | WATCH |
| Paint Indicator 2.0 (RTX) New Drawing Options | This video highlights a number of exciting new drawing options available in version 2.0 of the Paint Indicator (RTX). New vertical positioning options are available including Offset from Top, Offset from Bottom, Offset from High, and Offset from Low. Six new drawing styles exist including Stack... | WATCH |
| FT71 Webinar - Investor/RT 12.7 Update | Webinar with FuturesTrader71 and Chad Payne on June 6, 2017 to provide an update on recent innovations in Investor/RT 12.7. All of the charts shown in this video can be imported directly into your Investor/RT workspace. Click on the chart name(s) below and follow the instructions provided... | WATCH |
| Colors (RTX) Introduction | The Colors Indicator is designed to feed the Profiles Indicator custom colors and/or custom letters for TPOs. Up to 50 colors and letters may be customized. When the Letters option of the Profile Indicator is turned on and lsColors is chosen for the colors, the Profile Indicator will then pull the... | WATCH |
| Boundaries (RTX) Introduction | The Boundaries indicator is designed to allow user to manually identify and mark boundaries (bars or date/times) which can then be used effectively by other indicators such as the Profile Indicator and the Price Statistics Indicator. Visually, the Boundary Indicator is a horizontal strip at a user-... | WATCH |
| Multiple Period Overlapping Profiles | This video highlights several new features in Investor/RT 12.7 which enabled overlapping profiles representing a variety of periods (30 min, 90 min, 1 day, 10 day, etc) to be scaled to a common scale horizontally and therefore comparable with the area of the profile representative of the volume in... | WATCH |
| Profiles of Zones | This video highlights the ability to automate the application of the Profile Indicator to the Zones RTX Extension. This facilitates the ability to profile consolidation zones and opens up all the functionality of the Profile Indicator to the Zones indicator including VAH/VAL/POC Lines, Naked VAH/... | WATCH |
| Zones (RTX) Introduction | This video highlights the RTX Zones Indicator. 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 consolidation zones where price remained in a... | WATCH |
| RTX Clock Overview | This video provides an overview of the RTX Clock Indicator. This indicator displays time of day in analog and/or digital form with extensive customization options. The RTX Clock options include shading of session hours, time zone selection, optional text labeling with dynamic RTL tokens, and full... | WATCH |
| Zig Zag Oscillator: Flex Statistics | This video highlights a powerful new result option added to Zig Zag Oscillator titled Flex Statistics. This result option is flexible and powerful enough to handle most of the pre-existing result options and much much more. Flex Statistics allows the user to specify a combination of statistic (Avg... | WATCH |
| Average Bars: Cumulative Bars and Moving Windows | This video highlights the Average Bars layered periodicity and explains how it can be used to build cumulative bars for the session as well as bars of moving windows over any user-specified period of time. | WATCH |
| Resting Order Candles | This video demonstrates how to plot the resting orders (full size on the book/depth) historically as candles or bars. This same concept can be used to create bars which plot the sum of resting orders on the bid or the ask, or even the total on the 3 inside bid prices, the 5 inside ask prices. A... | WATCH |
| Zig Zag 12.7: Equi-Zig and Delta/Volume Shading | This video highlights some exciting new visual presentation options available to the Zig Zag Indicator: Equi-Zig, Delta Shading, and Volume Shading. The Equi-Zig option draws each leg of the Zig Zag in a variable width reflective of the volume of the leg. The Delta and Volume Shading colors each... | WATCH |
| Volume Filtering: Studying Behavior of Large vs Small Trades | This video introduces the ability to add a trade size volume filter to any instrument in any multi-pane chart. This feature enables users to easily do comparative analysis of the volume behavior of large traders versus small traders. This volume filtering can feed and add value to a number of... | WATCH |
| Price Volume Pattern - Filtering Patterns | This video explains how to filter the patterns shown to only bars which meet a given condition. In this simple example, we identified high volume prices with PVP but only showed those patterns on up bars that closed above the previous close. | WATCH |
| Price Volume Pattern - Understanding New Drawing Options | This video explains the variety of custom drawing options available to Price Volume Pattern as well as the new grid and width options that were added to PVP 2.0. PVP provides very unique drawing options with allow users to stack many instances of PVP horizontally within the space of each bar. | WATCH |
| Using Chart Variables to Conveniently Control Imbalance Parameters within PVP | This video demonstrates the convenience of using chart variables with PVP when identifying Imbalance. The imbalance multiple as well as the minimum volume can both be specified as chart variables (C#1 and C#2) and controlled by buttons. This allows the user to quickly adjust settings within both... | WATCH |
| Identifying Buy and Selling Imbalance with Price Volume Pattern | This video demonstrates how to identify buying and selling imbalance easily and clearly with the Price Volume Pattern (PVP) RTX Indicator. The PVP indicator is a powerful tool that can identify simple or complex multi-price volume-at-price patterns within a bar or across multiple bars. PVP has... | WATCH |
| Homework #27: Studying Time Into Session Price Breached Day/Overnight High/Low | In this video, Homework #27, we look at how often price opens inside/outside of previous day session range and overnight range. From there, we explore how often it breaches the high or low and how long it takes each day, and on average, to breach that high or low. | WATCH |
| Homework #26: Studying Effectiveness and Reactiveness of Key Daily Price Levels Using Pivot Strategy Analysis | In this video, Homework #26, we explore the effectiveness of key daily price levels and study how price reacts to these key levels, accumulating reaction data over any user-specified period of time. The RTX Indicator Pivot Strategy Analysis (PSA) is an extremely powerful indicator that is custom... | WATCH |
| RTL on RTX 101: True Strength Squeeze Signals | This video demonstrates how to use RTX Indicators within RTL Signals and Custom Indicators and focuses specifically on the True Strength Squeeze (TSS) RTX Indicator. Signals are created to identify when the TSI moves above or below a given level, when the squeeze condition turns on or off, and a... | WATCH |
| Chart Hours Overview: Day and Full Session Times | This video highlights the importance of setting up each symbol with the proper Charting Hours (Day Session and Full Session Times) in 12.6 and beyond, and explain how easy it is to ensure each symbol is setup properly. It is becoming increasingly important to ensure proper charting hours as more... | WATCH |
| TrueStrengthSqueeze (RTX) Introduction | This video introduces the TrueStrengthSqueeze RTX Indicator. The TrueStrengthSqueeze (RTX) Indicator combines the True Strength Index with the Squeeze Indicator. The True Strength Index attempts to show both trend direction and overbought or oversold conditions using double-smoothing of momentum... | WATCH |
| Investor/RT 12.6 Feature Overview | This video highlights some of the exciting new functionality available in Investor/RT 12.6 including RTX for Mac, Professionally Redesigned Toolbar Buttons, Pivot Strategy Analysis and Pivot Strategy Optimizer (RTX), Divergence (RTX), Chart Hours Setup Simplified, Reference Line and Profile... | WATCH |
| Paint Indicator (RTX): Bands | This video demonstrates the next evolution in the Paint Indicator (RTX) with the ability to paint bands between any two indicators. These bands can be painted with up to six different colors based on six different conditions. | WATCH |
| Trading From Charts with Button Indicator | This video demonstrates how to use the Button Indicator to invoke limit orders with variable size and using a drawing tool to select the limit price. Another Button (indicator) is used to set the size of the limit order. A third button is demonstrated which flattens any open positions. Limit orders... | WATCH |
| Divergence (RTX) Introduction | 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 filtered, filtered cumulative delta, or any other indicator available in Investor/RT. In measuring... | WATCH |
| Holiday Correction for July 4, 2016 | This video explains how to fix a holiday issue specific to July 4, 2016. | WATCH |
| RTX Development: Accessing Built-In Indicators and Drawing Styles | This video on RTX Development discusses two important features available to RTX Developers: The ability to access the results of any built-in IRT indicators, as well as the ability to draw array results using any of the many drawing styles available to most built-in indicators. This video shows how... | WATCH |
| Painting Sessions | This video demonstrates the ability to easily paint the background of the day session, overnight session, pre-market, or post-market with the PaintBar indicator. | WATCH |
| Reference Lines in 12.6 | This video demonstrates several exciting new features added to the Reference Line Indicator in Investor/RT 12.6. First, users may now pin the start of any reference line to any given bar and drag and drop the starting point of the line to any given bar and price combination or use the mouse-wheel... | WATCH |
| Pivot Strategy Optimizer (RTX) Introduction | 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 variables within PSA, allowing the user to quickly determine the optimal combination of values which... | WATCH |
| PaintCandles (RTX) Introduction | The PaintCandles RTX Extension allows the user to decorate candles in a variety of ways. The user may choose to decorate all candles, or just candles which meet a given condition (signal). Decoration options include the width in pixels, the Position relative to the candle (in pixels offset from... | WATCH |
| Effective Use of C# Variables in Pivot Strategy Analysis | This video describes a variety of effective ways to use C# variables within the PivotStrategyAnalysis to quickly change parameters with instant feedback. It also explains how to use C# variables within a custom indicator to filter trades by day of week, and to ignore trades for the first few days... | WATCH |
| Day Session Setting: Why It's Important and How to Adjust | This video explains the importance of properly setting the day session of each symbol for certain indicators including SessionPrices (RTX), PivotStrategyAnalysis (RTX), Mixed Periodicity Data, and Session Statistics. It also describes in detail how the day session setting is adjusted for any given... | WATCH |
| Pivot Strategy Analysis (RTX) Introduction | The PivotStrategyAnalysis 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 effectiveness of that level as a pivot point during the following session or week. The indicator provides for a variety of... | WATCH |
| FlexLevels: Retaining Drawing Order | In this video we explain how to ensure the drawing order of the reference lines used for the FlexLevels export is retained when closing and reopening. It explains the importance of setting the scope of the reference lines to "This Chart, Any Instrument" in order for that drawing order to be... | WATCH |
| Installing and Using FT71 FlexLevels in Investor/RT | This video by Morad Askar (FT71) walks you through the process of adding the FlexLevels RTX indicator to your charts. FT71 FlexLevels are dynamically updated levels sent from my server and are shown on your chart as they are updated. Currently levels are available for a few very popular futures... | WATCH |
| MicroComposite Volume Profiles on Daily Charts | This video demonstrates how to quickly and easily draw volume profiles on daily charts. It explains the importance of setting the periodicity of the chart to "Time Per Bar: 1 Day" in order for the Volume Profile to access the required intraday data. | WATCH |
| Automated Trading Using Trading System Indicator | This video explores the use of the Trading System Indicator to automate a simple system with a single entry and one stop and one target. | WATCH |
| RTX Development: Draw Function | This video on RTX Development details the important draw() function which takes the resulting arrays of the calculation function and presents the indicator visually in the chart. In this example, we draw a simple moving average with an optional dot on each bar and optional line between each bar/dot... | WATCH |
| RTX Development: Calculation Function | This video on RTX Development details the important calc() function which takes the bar data and transforms it into an array of output data which can then be used by the draw function. In this example, the close price is converted into a simple moving average of close. Download xyzDemo3.cpp... | WATCH |
| RTX Development: Parameter Management | This video on RTX Development discusses how to create and manage the parameters of RTX indicators. Parameters are the controls such as checkboxes, listboxes, or color controls, that are provided to the user within the preference window to adjust the settings of the indicator. Functions covered in... | WATCH |
| RTX Development: Overview of Functions | In this video on RTX Development, an overview is provided for the primary functions that RTX developers will need to respond to. Functions covered include: setup(), init(), parmsLoad(), parmsUpdt(), keyboard(), mouse(), calc(), and draw(). Download xyzDemo2.cpp source file (zipped) | WATCH |
| Profile Indicator: Transferring High and Low Volume Nodes | This video presents a very easy way to take the high and low volume nodes computed by a composite Profile indicator in one chart and transfer them to any other selected chart. | WATCH |
| FlexLevels Overview: Using Shared Levels | This video explains how to add FlexLevels to your Investor/RT charts which pull key level from a server or local file that an educator or fellow trader created. The FlexLevels Indicator makes it very easy for on educator or trader to share a series of any number of price levels with a group of... | WATCH |
| FlexLevels Overview: Sharing Key Price Levels | This video explains how to easily share a group of key price levels with fellow traders using the FlexLevels indicator. This video is targeted to educators or individual traders that maintain key price levels (via Reference Lines) and want a quick, easy, and automatic way to share them with a group... | WATCH |
| RTX Development: Creating New RTX Projects From A Template | This video demonstrates how to take the project created as a result of the video RTX Project Setup in Visual Studio and use that project as a template for new RTX projects. By creating a template, we greatly simply the setup work required when creating a new project. This process will make it quick... | WATCH |
| RTX Development: The Possibilities of RTX | This video introduction to RTX Development presents what is possible with the powerful suite of software development tools in Investor/RT called RTX. Investor/RT users now have the same development power for developing indicators that Linn Software developers have had for 20 years. Complete control... | WATCH |
| RTX Development: RTX Project Setup in Visual Studio | This video demonstrates in detail how to setup an RTX project in Visual Studio. A step by step process makes it quick and easy to get started with RTX development. In this video, Visual Studio Community 2015 is used. RTX development SDK includes libraries for building RTX DLL using Visual Studio... | WATCH |
| Investor/RT Chart Setup Made Easy | This video provides several tips and shortcuts that make creating Investor/RT charts quick and easy. Version 12.5 is used for this video. | WATCH |
| Homework #25: Extracting Market Behavior Webinar | Stage 5 Trading Convergence Event - Extracting Market Behavior through Investor/RT Thursday, March 19, 2015, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM EDT. with Chad Payne, Linn Software and Morad Askar (alias FT71). In this webinar Chad Payne, Senior Software Engineer... | WATCH |
| Version 12.5 Preview | Version 12.5 is now available for beta testing prior to general release, This video highlights some of the exciting new features coming in the new version. Tick Charts with Volume Filtering, Equi-VolumeCandles (RTX), PaintIndicator(RTX), BuySellMeter (RTX), Profile Playback, QuoteBoard and InfoBox... | WATCH |
| Profile Indicator Drawing Tool for Custom / MicroComposite Profiling | This video takes a fresh look at the use of the Profile Indicator drawing tool to lay down and adjust Custom or MicroComposite profiles around any group of bars or data. Many new features of the Profile Indicator are explored as they relate to such profile. | WATCH |
| Split Session Profiling Using Profile Indicator | This video takes a fresh look at split session profiling in Investor/RT by demonstrating how to use the Profile Indicator to plot both the day session and overnight session profiles in a single chart using a single instance of the Profile Indicator. As explained in the video, Time Per Profile... | WATCH |
| Homework #24: Engulfing the Pre-30 | In this Video (#24 in Homework, Research, and Statistics series), we study the range of the 30 minute period prior to the session open and explore how often it's engulfed by the following day session as well as by the 1st 30 minute period of the day session. In our study, we learned that of the... | WATCH |
| Zig Zag Periodicity | A periodicity named Zig Zag has been added. The magnitude of the periodicity is supplied in ticks. Bar formation operates on the same principles as the Zig Zag indicator. Each bar represents a market move of at least the user specified magnitude. Each bar is an accumulation of the data of a market... | WATCH |
| Homework #23: Previous Day Retracement Study | In this video, Homework #23 in the video series Homework, Research, and Statistics, we identify the frequency with which any given retracement level of the previous day lines up with any given retracement level of the current day. For instance, how often did the 125% retracement from previous high... | WATCH |
| Trade Dots Introduction (RTX) | The Trade Dots extension draws dots at each price within each bar. The dots are sized in proportion to the volume traded at that price within the bar. The dots are drawn in two user-specified colors representing positive or negative delta at that price. Many options exist which control the size,... | WATCH |
| Volume Candles (RTX) Introduction | The Volume Candles RTX extension draws a candle, volume profile, and volume as text, for each bar, making efficient use of the horizontal space available for each bar. It is recommended to set the drawing style of the instrument to "Invisible" and then add the VolumeCandles to the instrument pane... | WATCH |
| Introduction to Investor/RT 12.4 | This video highlights some of the exciting new features that have been added to Investor/RT 12.4. VolumeCandles Indicator (RTX), PriceTimeHighlighter Indicator (RTX), DoubleTops Indicator (RTX), TradeDots Indicator (RTX), SessionPrices Indicator (RTX), Zig Zag Periodicity, Trendlines in InfoBox,... | WATCH |
| Point and Figure Highs and Lows - Missing Volume | This video explains how point and figure bars are formed and why volume is often missing at the high or low prices of PNF bars (ghost or phantom prices). It also explains how to set a configuration variable, PnfConventionalHighLows, to FALSE, to avoid this situation. | WATCH |
| Homework #22 - Filtered Distribution: Cause and Effect | In this video, Homework #22 and Lesson #6 in "Extracting Market Behavior" series, we explore how to filter distributions to help identify sequential relationships in data. Specifically, we look at the day session change, and evaluate the effect of the overnight change on the day session change. For... | WATCH |
| Audible Alert Every 30 Minutes During Session | In this video tip, Chad Payne explains how to setup Investor/RT to play an audible alert every 30 minutes throughout the regular trading session using the Schedule module. | WATCH |
| Homework #21 - Counting Frequency of Price Crossing Key Levels | This video, the 21st video in the series Homework, Research, and Statistics, is a follow-up to Video 20 and describes how to count how often price ran through key levels (ONH, ONL, pHI, pLO, etc) in addition to counting how often price bounced off these key levels. The definitions for the 2 charts... | WATCH |
| Homework #20 - Measuring Effectiveness of Key Prices as Reversal Prices | This video, the 20th video in the series Homework, Research, and Statistics, demonstrates a method for measuring the effectiveness of various key prices as reversal prices or pivot points. Key prices might be overnight high, overnight low, previous high, previous low, etc. It measures their... | WATCH |
| Homework #19 - Extracting Market Behavior Lesson 5: Profile on Indicator: Info Box Statistics | This video, lesson 5 in the series on extracting market data, focuses on the statistics available in the Info Box of the Profile Indicator and explains their relevance when applying profiles to indicators. The terms below are synonymous with respect to the Profile Info Box Volume: Sample... | WATCH |
| Using Zig Zag Oscillator in RTL | This video demonstrates how to manage the usage of the forward-looking Zig Zag Oscillator within a Custom Indicator or Signal Marker. The Zig Zag Oscillator is unique in that it is a forward looking indicator, and as such, past values can change based on future price movement. Due to this forward-... | WATCH |
| Homework #18: Extracting Market Behavior Lesson 4: Profile on Indicator: Filtering Results | This video, lesson 4 in the series on extracting market data, focuses on filtering the data that is profiled using in the Profile on Indicator concept. Expanding on the Initial Balance them, we filter the initial balances profiled to only that's that followed an previous initial balance that fits... | WATCH |
| Homework #17 - Extracting Market Data Lesson 3: Profiles on Indicators: Initial Balance Range | In this video, lesson 3 on extracting market data, we explore the powerful concept of profiles on indicators. Specifically, we extracted the initial balance range from each day and profiled that initial balance. With this profile, we were able to identify how many days the initial balance range... | WATCH |
| Homework #16 - Extracting Market Data Lesson 2: Initial Balance Multiple Study Expanded | In this video, lesson 2 on extracting market behavior, we expand on lesson one in which we learned how to extract and accumulate initial balance data from daily bars. In this video we take a closer look at the process of creating the signals and custom indicators from scratch while computing the... | WATCH |
| Homework #15 - Extracting Market Behavior Lesson 1: Initial Balance Multiple Study | This video explains how to use the Mixed Periodicity Data (MPD) Indicator to extract intraday conditions from daily bars, and how to then use signals and custom indicators to accumulate that information and present it as a percentage of all days. In this case, we look specifically at how many days... | WATCH |
| Understand PVP: Relative Prices | In this video on understanding PVP (Price Volume Patterns), we explore the concept of relative prices. Relative prices refers the the ability to compare the volume data of one price with the volume data of prices above or below that price, or in previous bars at same prices. Specifically, we'll be... | WATCH |
| Understanding PVP: Single Price and Clusters | In this video on Understanding PVP, we explore the Single Price and Clusters options of PVP. The Single Price options looks for all specified volume conditions (up to 6) at a single price. The Clusters option is only available when Single Price is checked, and looks for clusters of consecutive... | WATCH |
| AutoTrend Indicator | This video demonstrates the AutoTrend indicator. Continuing the strategy of extending the platform using our RTX development tools, Linn Software is pleased to introduce another new RTX indicator, available to all subscribers and platforms powered by Investor/RT. The AutoTrend indicator... | WATCH |
| Trail Of Intentions (TINT) Preferences | This video explains all the options available in the Preference window of the Trail Of Intentions indicator. Trail of Intentions (TINT) is an RTX Extension indicator designed to display historical snapshots of the depth of market. The market depth provides numeric insight into the... | WATCH |
| Trail Of Intentions (TINT): Introduction | Trail of Intentions (TINT) is an RTX Extension indicator designed to display historical snapshots of the depth of market. TINT provides a wealth of options to visually identify relative size and changes in sizes among prices within same snapshot or from snapshot to snapshot over time. Users may... | WATCH |
| Price Volume Pattern Indicator (PVP) - Presentation Preferences (3 of 3) | This is the third video in a series of three on the Price Volume Pattern indicator being released in version 12.3. The previous two videos covered an introduction to the indicator along with usage examples (Video 1) and Data Preferences (Video 2). This video will focus on Drawing Preferences. | WATCH |
| Price Volume Pattern Indicator (PVP) - Data Preferences (2 of 3) | This is the second video in a series of three on the Price Volume Pattern indicator being released in version 12.3. The previous video offered an introduction to the indicator along with usage examples while this video focuses more on Data Preferences. Video 3 will focus on Drawing Preferences. | WATCH |
| Price Volume Pattern Indicator (PVP) - Introduction (1 of 3) | Introduction to the Price Volume Pattern Indicator. This is the first video in a series of three. PVP a new indicator in version 12.3 and was developed using the RTX development tools. It is designed to identify volume-based patterns among a sequence of one or more prices within each bar. This... | WATCH |
| Daily Price Based Statistics | This video discusses how to calculate and present various daily price based statistics. For example, how often did we open inside the previous days range. And of the days we opened in range, how often did we touch or breach both the previous day high and low, and what are the percentages of these... | WATCH |
| Chart Variables - C# Variables | This video discusses a new concept introduced in Investor/RT 12.2: Chart Variables or C# Variables. Unlike User Variables (V#1,...V#512), Chart Variables are not associated with a specific instrument (ticker) but with a specific chart. The RTL language and indicator setup dialogs support these C#... | WATCH |
| Profiles On Indicators: Profiling Significant Highs and Lows | This video discusses the technical details behind the creation of the FractalProfiles chart. This chart extracts significant highs and lows and profiles those highs and lows. The significant highs are extracted using the Fractal indicator. These highs are then accumulated with the Profile indicator... | WATCH |
| Profiles On Indicators | This video demonstrates an exciting new feature in version 12.2: the ability to apply the profile indicator to any other indicator. This functionality opens up a new world of possibilities. In this video, we demonstrate how to profile range and volume (as well as time-filtered range and volume),... | WATCH |
| Profiles on Indicators: Profiling Moves | This video discusses the technical details behind the ZigZagStudy_Ticks chart. This chart profiles the significant moves identified by the Zig Zag indicator and produces data such as the number of moves and average move. A button is available to allow easy adjustment to the minimum price change (in... | WATCH |
| Profiles On Indicators: Time Range, High, Low Completed | This video discusses the charts "TimeHighLowSet" and "TimeRangeSet" and the technical details behind them. These charts extract the time into the session that the high, low, or range was completed. The profile indicator then accumulates this information and presents the number of times the high/low... | WATCH |
| Reference Lines: Custom Positioning and Width | This video demonstrates a new option available for Reference Lines in 12.2 which allows users to customize the positioning and width of each line. The Horizontal Reference Line indicator provides a great deal of flexibility with respect to the horizontal span of the drawn line. Formerly, a "Compact... | WATCH |
| JP QuoteBoard Alt Variables | WATCH | |
| JP QuoteBoard Schedule | This video shows JP users how to import the QuoteBoard numbers with one click of an F-key. | WATCH |
| JP QuoteBoard Setup Price Levels | WATCH | |
| JP QuoteBoard Setup | WATCH | |
| JPJ Merged Profile | WATCH | |
| JPJ Trading Chart Setup | This is a video of a 70 minute chart setup session in JP's room by Linn Software. | WATCH |
| MPD - Mixing Sessions | This video demonstrates how to plot an overnight statistic on a chart that is not viewing the overnight period | WATCH |
| New User Webinar 06-03-2010 | WATCH | |
| New User Webinar 05-20-2010 | WATCH | |
| New User Webinar 05-11-2010 | WATCH | |
| New User Webinar 05-13-2010 | WATCH | |
| Fade the VWAP Part 6: Reality Check | Part 6 in a video series Fading the VWAP Bands from 2010. | WATCH |
| Fade the VWAP Part 5: Tightening Stops - Locking In Profits | Part 5 in a video series Fading the VWAP Bands from 2010. | WATCH |
| Fade the VWAP Part 4: Scaling Out - Adding a Second Target | Part 4 in a video series Fading the VWAP Bands from 2010. | WATCH |
| Fade the VWAP Part 3: Refinement and Optimization continued | Part 3 in a video series Fading the VWAP Bands from 2010. | WATCH |
| Fade the VWAP Part 2: Refinement and Optimization | Part 2 in a video series Fading the VWAP Bands from 2010. | WATCH |
| Fade the VWAP Part 1: Idea Through Trading System | Part 1 in the video series Fading the VWAP Bands from 2010. | WATCH |
| TPO Profile Chart Reference Lines | This video demonstrates how to manage Reference Lines in TPO Profile Charts, from dropping down manually to importing levels from external sources (multi-pane charts) which are automatically updated. Video also covers extending reference lines to provide access to many more than the limit of 12. | WATCH |
| Mixing Periodicity in Signals | This video demonstrates how to mix periodicities in signals using MPD (Mixed Periodicity Data Indicator). In the specific example used in this video, a signal showing the moving average crossover on a 5-minute data was displayed on a 1-minute chart. | WATCH |
| Installing on Mac OSX | Some procedures described in this video may have become outdated. The support article Installing Investor/RT on macOS covers this process in detail. If you have any questions, please open a support ticket This video shows how to install Investor/RT on macOS. | WATCH |
| Deleting Bad Ticks | This video demonstrates how to get rid of bad ticks that may come in through real time data or through downloads. | WATCH |
| Editing Chart Button Placement | This video shows improvements to traditional chart buttons. | WATCH |
| Point of Control Volume and Volume Breakouts | This video demonstrates two periodicities that were added in version 9.2: Point of Control Volume and Volume Breakouts. | WATCH |
| TPO Profile Chart Preferences | This video highlights the TPO profile preferences. | WATCH |
| Profile Indicator | This video details the Profile indicator which provides users with the ability to plot profiles (time/tpo-based or volume-based) on their traditional charts, of varying custom durations. Especially of interest to longer term TPO Profile chartists. | WATCH |
| InvestorRT Webinar - October 9th, 2009 | This webinar covers the following topics: TPO Indicator and drawing bands (wiggle) around the DVAH and DVAL Using Session Statistics to draw IBH, IBL, and IB multiples Backtesting and use of the SHOW token Using the Trading System Indicator to show historical V# values in a chart VWAP... | WATCH |
| Creating QuotePages for QuoteBoards | This video demonstrates three different methods for creating quotepages, or lists of symbols, for use in the QuoteBoard Indicator. | WATCH |
| Switching Data Feeds Tips | This video provides some tips on switching between feeds, and will be especially valuable for futures traders (for whom the symbols are different between feeds). | WATCH |
| Technical Indicators | This video provides instruction on adding, positioning, and manipulating technical indicators in traditional charts. | WATCH |
| Volume Breakdown Indicator | This video details the Volume Breakdown indicator which breaks down volume into buy volume, sell volume, and delta of volume. | WATCH |
| Switching Data Feeds | This video provides some tips on switching between feeds, and will be especially valuable for futures traders (for whom the symbols are different between feeds). | WATCH |
| Creating a Custom Tick Indicator | This video is going to demonstrate how to create a custom tick indicator, or a symbol, that tracks the tick of a group of symbols. | WATCH |
| User Variables and Reference Lines | This video illustrates how to use reference lines based on V# variables to set high and low alarms for a variety of symbols directly in a chart. This method also works well for reference lines based on High and Low Alarm levels. | WATCH |
| Creating a Custom Symbol | This video is going to demonstrate how to create a custom symbol that tracks how many symbols within this quote page are making new 20 day highs today. | WATCH |
| Custom Quotepage Columns Basics | This video illustrates how to create customized columns and add them to quotepages. | WATCH |
| VWAP Indicator with Bands | Volume Weighted Average Price. VWAP calculation options. VWAP standard deviation bands. VWAP +/- half of range bands. Transferring VWAP to MP charts. Importing volume POC into multi-pane charts. | WATCH |
| Adding Additional Reference Lines | Need more reference lines in your MP charts? This video demonstrates how to add up to 512 more using a V# variable trick.. | WATCH |
| Signal Markers & Custom Indicators | This video discusses how to create signals and custom indicators, and a quick and easy way to add them to charts via signal markers or custom indicators. (Pro Version Required) | WATCH |
| Adjusting Timezones | This video is going to discuss how to adjust your session times to compensate for the fact that many parts of the world have gone off of daylight savings time while the United States are still on daylight savings time. | WATCH |
| Floating Windows - Multiple Monitors | This video highlights the ability to float windows outside of the Investor/RT task window on multiple monitor setups. | WATCH |
| Coloring Lines & Histograms | This video demonstrates how to color line and histogram-style indicators different colors based on various conditions. | WATCH |
| Day Session Prices | This video demonstrates how to display day session prices (high, low, open) onto charts that are setup on the 24 hour session (session 31). (Pro Version Required) | WATCH |
| Importing tickdata.com Data | This video is going to demonstrate how to import data from the TickWrite program of tickdata.com into Investor/RT. | WATCH |
| Label Current Concepts | This video is going to discuss two concepts. First, there's a label current value option for all technical indicators. | WATCH |
| Vertical and Horizontal Scales | This video demonstrates the options and manipulation of vertical and horizontal scales in traditional chart panes. | WATCH |
| Sharing Charts and Layouts | Note Sharing to charthub is no longer supported. Instead, you can export your charts directly to linnsoft.com and make them either private or public using Linnsoft Chartshare. Learn More This video highlights the ability to share charts, quotepages, and layouts through charthub.com... | WATCH |
| Pivot Point Indicator | This video is going to discuss the pivot point indicator in an Investor/RT and give you a few ways to compute it. | WATCH |
| Automating Pivot, Support and Resistance Levels | This video demonstrates how to automate pivot levels, support and resistance levels and the pivot point price on the TPO profile charts. | WATCH |
| Concept of Presets Buttons | This video is going to discuss the concept of Presets in Investor/RT. | WATCH |
| Managing Different Objects | This video is going to discuss how to manage different objects in an Investor/RT, including symbols, quote pages and charts. | WATCH |
| Managing Symbols | This video is going to discuss how to manage symbols. | WATCH |
| Multiple Targets and/or Stops | This video demonstrates how to create a system that exits at multiple target and/or stop levels, as well as how to move a stop (to breakeven) after an initial target is reached. | WATCH |
| Mixing Periodicities | This video demonstrates how to plot the any indicators current value from any chart, on any other chart. In our example, we plotted the daily Volatility Stop on a 3-minute chart as a horizontal reference line. | WATCH |
| Gridlines | This video discusses dotted vs solid gridlines and demonstrates how to customize the gridline frequency both horizontally and vertically. | WATCH |
| Running an Efficient Investor/RT | This video demonstrates ways users can ensure that they are running Investor/RT as efficiently as possible based on their needs. Recommended for users having lag, slowness or unresponsiveness. | WATCH |
| Alerting to DVA Movement | This video demonstrates how to create alerts when the developing value area high or low moves up or down. | WATCH |
| Point and Figure Charting | This video is going to highlight the point and figure charting capability. | WATCH |
| Drawing Option | This video is going to demonstrate the option for point and figure charting in Investor/RT. | WATCH |
| Global Market Playback | This video demonstrates the ability to playback past data globally in Investor/RT. | WATCH |
| Importing Current Data from Excel | This video demonstrates how to import current data (such as Pivot Levels) into Investor/RT quotepages and user variables (V# variables) periodically, either manually or on a schedule. | WATCH |
| Drawing Notes in Charts | This video instructs users on various ways to use the Annotation indicator in traditional charts | WATCH |
| Renko Charting Capabilty | This video is going to demonstrate the new Renko charting capability of an Inverstor/RT. | WATCH |
| Volume Based Capabilities | This video highlights the volume-driven functionality available in Investor/RT. | WATCH |
| TPO Profile Charts in version 8.5 | This video discusses many of the recent innovations in TPO Profile charts, including Singles, Naked POCs, individual profile splitting, custom letter colors, sharing of charts, and more... | WATCH |
| Setting Up Weekly IB Numbers | This video is going to demonstrate how to set up weekly IB numbers in Investor/RT. | WATCH |
| Signal Markers Labels | This video is going to take a close look at signal markers, and specifically look at some new features to label signal markers with numerical values. | WATCH |
| Single Entry Multiple Exits | This video is going to demonstrate how to create a trading system with a single entry but once you’ve been in a position to have multiple exits. | WATCH |
| Tracking a Bid or an Ask Price | This video demonstrates how to create a custom instrument which tracks the bid or ask price of another symbol, and retains and charts the information historically. Especially useful for infrequently traded options to track their bid price regardless of whether the option actually trades or not. | WATCH |
| Cloning Trendline / Labeling and Arrowheads | This video provides instruction on cloning/duplicating trendlines (with same length and slope as original), and discusses using trendlines as custom labels with arrowheads pointing to a specific bar. | WATCH |
| Trading System Debug | This video is going to highlight some ways you can debug a backtest or a trading system. | WATCH |
| Trend Line Based Indicators | This video is going to demonstrate how to add and manipulate trend line based indicators or drawing tools in Investor/RT traditional bar and candle charts. | WATCH |
| More Mixing Periodicities | This video demonstrates how to plot the any indicators current value from any chart, on any other chart. In our example, we plotted the daily Volatility Stop on a 3-minute chart as a horizontal reference line. | WATCH |
| Trading System Part 6: Optimization | Optimization Finding the Optimal Combination This video demonstrates the optimization of several variables in a trading system. | WATCH |
| Traditional Charts | This video is going to cover some of the features of the Investor/RT candle and bar charts, the traditional charts, and some of the keyboard shortcuts and tricks available for those charts. | WATCH |
| Trimmed Down Layout | This video is going to demonstrate how to create a trimmed down layout which can be easily and quickly opened during high volume periods. | WATCH |
| Sharing Reference Lines: Linking Lines Among Multiple Charts with User Variables | This video demonstrates how to add reference lines to multiple charts of the same instrument which are linked to a common price using User Variables (V#). Users may drag a line in one chart and the lines in the other chart will adjust accordingly. Users may also change the price to which the... | WATCH |
| Trading System Part 5: Refininig Targets and Stops | Refining Buying More Adding Targets and Stops This video adds some different twists to the trading system, including buying/shorting more, and adding profit targets. | WATCH |
| Dynamically Monitoring Proximity to Key Price or Level - Weekly VPOC | This video demonstrates how to setup a column in a quotepage which monitors the proximity of price to any key price or level. In this example, we demonstrate how to measure the proximity to the previous weeks weekly volume point of control (pWVPOC). This video brings together the features of custom... | WATCH |
| Tracking Bid and Ask Sizes Historically | This video demonstrates how to chart the changes in bid and ask size historically. In addition, the charts will display how many trades occurred while the bid or ask size remained constant. | WATCH |
| External Data Indicator - Importing Custom Levels | This video demonstrates how to import custom daily support and resistance levels from csv or text files. These files may be local or on a web server. Up to 12 levels may be imported for each instance of EDI. This video demonstrates how to properly format the csv or text file. The ability to share a... | WATCH |
| Plotting Overnight Highs and Lows on Day Session Chart | This video details how to use a combination of the MPD and Session Statistics Indicators to plot the overnight high and low historically on a day session chart. It also documents a more complex requirement of plotting the high and low of a subset of the overnight period (1am to 8:30am ET) on a day... | WATCH |
| Detecting Large Trades on Groups of Symbols | This video demonstrates how to detect large trades on a group of symbols. When large trades are detected, an audible alert sounds and an entry is appended to the alarm log detailing the trade. The large trade size is customizable for each symbol, and there may be multiple levels of detection (... | WATCH |
| Investor/RT Overview at a Glance | Investor/RT is a powerful trading platform offering advanced charting and market analytics to professional traders and active investors around the world. Continually refined for more than two decades, Investor/RT's charting and technical analysis tools offers traders a view of the market that... | WATCH |
| Indicator Essentials: Adding and Manipulating Technical Indicators | This video demonstrates how to add, edit, delete, and manipulate technical indicators in Investor/RT. This video is especially valuable for new users but experienced users may also pick up a few new tools and shortcuts in this short video. | WATCH |
| Zig Zag Profiles - Adjusting Minimum Change Globally | This video is a follow up to the video Profiling Market Moves: Dynamic Zig Zag Profiles In this video, we go a step further and describe how to centrally and globally adjust the minimum price changed used by the multiple instances of Zig Zag within the chart. By specifying a minimum price... | WATCH |
| Developing Volume Nodes | This video demonstrates how to plot the nearest 3 high and low volume nodes historically using the Profile Indicator to review how price reacted to these key levels over time. | WATCH |
| Alerts on Indicators via Reference Lines | This video demonstrates how to place alerts on indicators within charts using the Reference Line indicator. These alerts trigger when the indicators reach specific price levels. Alerts can automatically reset on each bar and can be configured to alert when crossing above, below, or both. | WATCH |
| Stepped Blocks Style for Price Bands | This video demonstrates a new Stepped Blocks drawing style for the Price Bands Indicator which allows user to draw retracements and multiples between any two prices historically. This is a very powerful feature especially when combined with the flexibilty of the Session Statistics Indicator to... | WATCH |
| Analysis Of A Move | This video demonstrates how to analyze moves by accumulating statistical data from each price move and labeling the end points of those moves with the data values. This analysis is available to both the Zig Zag indicator for automatic identification of moves as well as the Trendline indicator for... | WATCH |
| Retracement Bands | Create bands with up to 12 levels of retracements or multiples of any high/low price range including initial balance, daily, previous day, week, month, year, etc. | WATCH |
| Calendar Indicator: Seeing The Big Picture | This video highlights the 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 rollover, current day, the visibly charted period,... | WATCH |
| Custom Quotepage Columns | Custom Quotepage Columns have long been a very impressive feature of Investor/RT, empowering users to create columns of customized data with colored cells and a wealth of other functionality. But for the first decade of their existence, an underlying calculation inefficiency has greatly limited... | WATCH |
| Profiling Market Moves: Dynamic Zig Zag Profiles | This video demonstrates how to form dynamic volume profiles of market moves identified by the Zig Zag Indicator. In this case, we take moves of $5 or greater on the ES and construct volume at price profiles. Zig Zag based Signals are used to dictate the start and end of each profile, but this... | WATCH |
| Session Statistics I: Average Volume of Time Periods | This video demonstrates various uses for the Session Statistics Indicator, including average volume or range of each bar or time period, and plotting the highest high / lowest low of first x bars/minutes. | WATCH |
| Zig Zag Indicator: Simplify, Organize, and Aggregate Market Moves | This video provides an overview of the Zig Zag Indicator. Zig Zag is a very popular and powerful indicator designed to simplify, organize, and aggregate market moves. Zig Zag draws trendlines between key pivot/reversal highs and lows determined by a user specified minimum price move. Each trendline... | WATCH |
| Triangles: Using Fibonacci Extension and Zig Zag | This video demonstrates two options for drawing triangles in Investor/RT. First it demonstrates how to draw automated triangles based on price moves using the Zig Zag Indicator. These triangles have the option of being automatically labeled with the retracement of the previous move, among other... | WATCH |
| Charting Essentials: New Charts, Chart Templates, and Chart Shortcuts | This video covers the essentials for creating and manipulating charts in Investor/RT. It's packed with essential tools and shortcuts for building and fine-tuning new charts and for using those fine-tuned charts as chart templates. Every Investor/RT user should become familiar with the information... | WATCH |
| Managing historical data | This video covers techniques to manage your data mostly focusing on intra-day data and tick data. This is an important concept in Investor/RT. If you keep your historical data to a minimum, the program will run much more efficiently. | WATCH |
| Button Indicator: Customizing Your Chart Toolbars | This video explains the many purposes of the Button Indicator. The Button Indicator enables the user to create customized buttons within a chart. Each button can perform some useful function with a single click. For example: change the periodicity, symbol, session, or view period of the chart;... | WATCH |
| Advance / Decline Line for Interactive Brokers | This video details how to create an NYSE Advance / Decline line for the IB data feed. See also Symbol Guide for Interactive Brokers | WATCH |
| Exporting Price Levels | The following video from 2006 contains relevant information, however the user interface for TPO Profile charts has been substantially revised since this video was made. This video demonstrates how to transfer TPO Profile lines such as VAH, VAL, POC, etc, over to bar or candle charts... | WATCH |
| Custom Price Level Alerts | This video explains how to create custom price level alerts for one or multiple symbols, which can be updated anytime by changing a value in a quotepage, or dragging a line in a chart. | WATCH |
| User Variables V# Variables | This video illustrates the very powerful concept of User Variables or V# Variables. User Variables allows various components of Investor/RT to set and share data, including quotepages, scans, charts (annotations, ref lines), and custom indicator. (Components not covered: importing, exporting,... | WATCH |
| Setting Up Symbols (Futures) | This video discusses some important aspects of setting up symbols (particularly futures symbols), and touches on sessions and override sessions. See also Sessions | WATCH |
| Setting up Symbols (General) | This video shows how to add symbols to Investor/RT and once you add them, how to change certain properties of the symbols that are relevant for some datafeeds in order to actually receive data and also relevant for certain features and aspects of the software. | WATCH |
| Custom Symbols: Advancers / Decliners | This video discusses how to import and create custom symbols which track various statistics for large lists of symbols, such as advancers/decliners, Adv/Dec volume, up ticks, up tick volume, on SP500, NQ100, or any custom list of symbols. | WATCH |
| RTX Extensions Introduction Video | This video offers an Introduction to the new RTX Extensions feature in all versions of Investor/RT 12.1 or later. This video demonstrates the creation and compilation of a very basic indicator as well as adding it to a chart. A brief review of the RTX Setup Wizard is covered as well as an... | WATCH |
| Trading System Part 4: Evaluating Results | Evaluation Making Sense of Reports Trusting the Results This video covers the various reports that result from a backtest and discusses some different statistical results that the user should pay careful attention to. | WATCH |
| What's New in Investor/RT with FuturesTrader71 | In this webinar, Chad Payne demonstrates recent innovations in Investor/RT 11.3 while FuturesTrader71 discusses ways to apply these innovations to his trading. Areas of innovation include Profile Indicator, Session Statistics, Price Bands, Zig Zag, Custom Quotepage Columns, Object Manager, and more... | WATCH |
| Trading System Part 3: Debugging System | Debugging: Debugging Trading Systems and Verifying Results This video was made independently of the rest of this backtesting series, but is a good complement to the videos above. It goes through the complete development of another system and focuses on various ways to debug systems and verify... | WATCH |
| Trading System Part 2: Building a System | Coding: Building A System Trading System Window This video discusses the building of the system signals and rules in the trading system window and is the second video in a series on backtesting and trading systems. | WATCH |
| Trading System Part 1: Idea: Formulate a Strategy | Idea: Formulating A Strategy This video discusses the "brainstorming" phase of developing a trading system and is the first in a series of videos on Investor/RT's back-testing and trading system capability, as well as optimization. | WATCH |
| RTL Lesson 8 - Function Tokens | Experience Level - Novice This video discusses function tokens including MAX, MIN, SMAX, SMIN, ABS, STD, and more. These functions perform statistical calculations on other expressions. | WATCH |
| RTL Lesson 7 - Syntax | Experience Level - Novice This video describes how to combine RTL tokens to form syntax. Several examples of syntax are provided for both custom indicators and signals. This video also explains how to edit technical indicator token preferences within saved RTL objects. | WATCH |
| RTL Lesson 6 - Tokens | Experience Level - Novice This video discusses the various types of tokens available in the RTL Language: Historical Data Tokens, Primitive Data Tokens, Fundamental Data Tokens, Technical Indicator Tokens, Numerical Constants and Flags, User Variables, and Backtesting Tokens. | WATCH |
| RTL Lesson 5 - Signal Marker Preferences: Display & Actions | Experience Level - Novice This video details the options available in the Signal Marker Preference window. The Signal Marker Indicator is the vehicle used to mark bars or candles when a signal is true. The Signal Marker Preferences control the look of the signal on each bar within the chart. The... | WATCH |
| RTL Lesson 4 - Custom Indicator Preferences | Experience Level - Novice This video covers the preference window for Custom Indicators and details the options available with respect to how the custom indicator is displayed within a chart. | WATCH |
| RTL Lesson 3 - Creating and Managing Custom Indicators and Signals | Experience Level - Novice This video explains how to manage custom indicators and signals: creating, saving, sending to chart, editing, and deleting. | WATCH |
| RTL Lesson 2 - Custom Indicators, Signals & Scans | Experience Level - Novice This video discusses the differences between custom indicators, signals, and scans and details the format of data that results from each type. | WATCH |
| RTL Lesson 1 - The Building Blocks of RTL | Experience Level - Novice This video provides an introductory explanation of the data values within each bar upon which RTL operates. It is essential to have a firm understanding of these RTL concepts before proceeding to the creation and manipulation of RTL objects. | WATCH |
| Introduction to Volume Breakdown (VB) | This video takes a comprehensive look at the powerful Volume Breakdown Indicator. Video timeline Introduction and Overview - What this video will be working towards, including images of the charts we will create during video. What is Delta? - How is Delta Computed Tick Data - Volume... | WATCH |
| License Activation and Data Feed Configuration | This video covers initially Activating your License and setting up your Datafeed Provider. For users of Broker Datafeeds, be sure to read these related articles: All about DTN Market Access Setting up Broker Datafeeds Symbol Guide | WATCH |
| Homework #14 - Timing Of Events: New High and Low | In this video, we will look at the timing of certain events within the day. Specifically, we will look with daily bars at when the high and low of the day occurred, and color the bars based on which occurred 1st. We will also look at how to time other events such as where within the day the bar... | WATCH |
| Homework #13 - Traveling the Initial Balance | In this video, we are looking at the 30 minute period following the Initial Balance (1st 60 minutes of session). During this 30 minute period, we are looking for price to move outside the initial balance and back into it. When this occurs, we are then looking to see if price traveled the full... | WATCH |
| Homework #12 - Timing Overnight High and Low Breakouts | This video focuses on the time of day at which price breaks above the overnight high or below the overnight low during the day session. We'll look at how often these breaks occur in the 1st 10 minutes of the day session, the 2nd ten minutes, and so on for each of the 41 10-minute periods of the day... | WATCH |
| Homework #11 - Trend Days | This video looks at days where the high was made in the first 60 minutes and the low was made in the last 60 minutes, or visa versa. Of the 1900 days tested, 257 days made a high in the first 60 minutes and a low in the last 60 minutes. 372 days made a low in the first 60 minutes and a high in the... | WATCH |
| Correlation Co-efficient | This video demonstrates how to use the Correlation Coefficient Indicator in a QuotePage column to measure the correlation between a benchmark index such as the S&P 500 and a group of stocks | WATCH |
| Changing Periodicity with Buttons | This video demonstrates how to add a button to a chart that will change the periodicity in the chart. | WATCH |
| Adding Futures Contracts | Walks users through Adding Futures Contracts as well has how to request new Futures Contracts be added to the Investor/RT Symbol Database. | WATCH |
| Homework #10 - Statistical Studies via Trading System Tools | This video describes how to flexibly produce statistical results using Trading System Tools. This method can be especially beneficial when several events are required to occur sequentially within a day or session. In this specific example, we look fro price to trade above the Initial Balance High (... | WATCH |
| TPO Profile Shortcuts | This video demonstrates a number of keyboard shortcuts and popup window shortcuts available in TPO charts. | WATCH |
| Time Shaded Profiles | A playback demonstration of time shade profiles. | WATCH |
| Homework #09 - Change By Day of Week | This video compares the change in price by day of week and accumulates this data over a 600 week period. Note Over past 600 weeks, on average, Tuesday and Thursday have been very positive, Friday very negative, and Monday and Wednesday relatively flat. Change by Day of Week Chart... | WATCH |
| Homework #08 - Opening Range Trade | This video discusses the how to setup chart to monitor and track the opening range trades. Note The video and results below reflect a 10-minute opening range. In order to test different opening range durations, you must open all signals ending in "_1MIN" as shown in the video, and adjust... | WATCH |
| Plotting Time-Sensitive Prices | This video below demonstrates how to plot reference lines on multi-pane charts for various key time-sensitive prices including the previous session close, the current day session open, the overnight high and low, the opening range (OR), initial balance (IB) and several IB multiples. These concepts... | WATCH |
| Profile Indicator Drawing Tool - Phase 2 | This video demonstrates enhancements made to the Profile drawing tool in version 9.2.8 including an option to shade each price based on volume, easier dragging and manipulation, an open/close candle body, and more. | WATCH |
| Creating Pairs | This video demonstrates how to use the pair wizard to quickly build pairs from any two stocks. | WATCH |
| Painting Reversal Bars | This video demonstrates how to add red and green markers at the top of a Point and Figure or "Reversal" chart. | WATCH |
| Profile Indicator Drawing Tool | This video demonstrates how to draw volume or time-based profiles across any group of consecutive bars of any periodicity. It also discusses how to edit and manipulate these profiles, as well as how to add buttons that activate different profile settings. | WATCH |
| Volume Profile Chart Style | This video demonstrates the Volume Profile charting style along with the ability for bars to load Volume at Price data, and how this positively impacts the VWAP, Profile, and Volume Breakdown Indicators. | WATCH |
| Futures Rollover Options | This video discusses different options available at futures rollover, including tracking multiple contracts, changing symbols in charts, and duplicating charts. For more information see the helpdesk article All About Futures Rollover | WATCH |
| TPO Profile - Composite Profiles | This video demonstrates how to build automated composite profiles (weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, etc), as well as how to split or merge daily profiles. | WATCH |
| Using the Layout Toolbar | An introduction to the Layout Toolbar, a feature introduced in Investor/RT 9.2 | WATCH |
| Mixing Periodicities (MPD) - Revisited | This video discusses some important aspects of the Mixed Periodicity Data indicator that users should be aware of when using it, and provides some alternative methods to the use of MPD to mix periods. | WATCH |
| Scanning for Candidates | This video covers the process of importing lists of symbols into Investor/RT, downloading daily and fundamental data, and creating and performing scans on that the imported list and data. It also discusses moving to the next level of performing intraday analysis on the candidates produced by the... | WATCH |
| QuotePages | QuotePages are spreadsheets showing columns of data on user-specified lists of symbols. This video demonstrates the basics of quotepage management and manipulation, including adding/removing symbols or columns, and much more. | WATCH |
| Session Statistics II - Day of Week Averages and Projecting Volume | This video demonstrates some new functionality added to Session Statistics in 9.2.13 and beyond including the ability to compare the volume of each bar or time period with average volumes over the same time periods on same day of week during previous weeks. It also discusses projecting the current... | WATCH |
| Schedules | Schedules allow users to perform an action or list of actions in Investor/RT at specified times/schedule each day or using keyboards shortcuts/macros. | WATCH |
| Sessions | Sessions define trading periods (times and days of week) for markets and instruments and are very important in a variety of aspects of Investor/RT. | WATCH |
| Using MPD Efficiently (Mixed Periodicity Data) | Anyone using MPD in any context should watch this video. This video demonstrates how to make the most efficient use of the MPD (Mixed Periodicity Data) indicator, which can be extremely inefficient without the use of the special method. | WATCH |
| Importing and Exporting Historical Data | This video illustrates how to export historical tick data from Investor/RT to a text file, and how to import tick data from a text file into Investor/RT. This video is useful for users who want to....move tick data from one system to another...import tick data from an external source...or export... | WATCH |
| Multi-Pane Charts Webinar | This webinar covers the following topics: Adding multiple symbols to a chart Charting multiple periodicities Tabbing between elements Keyboard manipulation of indicators and drawing tools Exporting indicator data Duplicating indicators Element drawing order Recalculation... | WATCH |
| Multi-Pane Charting Essentials | This video discusses the important basic elements of traditional multi-pane charts including creating charts, changing the symbol or periodicity, and sharing charts. | WATCH |
| Profile Indicator - Volume Profiling | This video focuses on the longer term Volume Profiling aspects of the Profile Indicator and discusses how Investor/RT divides up volume among price when tick data and 1-minute data is available. | WATCH |
| More Pronounced Opening Line | This video describes how to create a more pronounced line separating the sessions in a multi-pane chart. | WATCH |
| Sharing QuoteBoard Levels - All Users | This video demonstrates the process of sharing key prices among a group of user. This video is for the entire group and shows how to import the values/levels each day. | WATCH |
| Sharing QuoteBoard Levels - Master User | This video demonstrates the process of sharing key prices among a group of user. This video is for the one user that will be responsible for updating the values/levels each day. This method was implemented 15 years ago prior to the creation of the flexlevel indicator which is today primary tools... | WATCH |
| Pair Correlation | This video demonstrates how to compute the correlation between the two components in a pair, both historical in a chart, as well as in a quotepage column. | WATCH |
| QuoteBoarding Manual Levels | This video demonstrates how to manually enter or import custom price levels into QuotePages that will be in turn be presented/sorted within the QuoteBoard Indicator. | WATCH |
| Dynamic QuoteBoard Levels | This video describes how to have custom price levels in QuoteBoards that update dynamically throughout the session such as VWAP. | WATCH |
| Charting Relative Performance | This video demonstrates how to plot the relative performance of multiple symbols on a percent change basis within a single chart. | WATCH |
| QuoteBoarding Pivot Levels | This video demonstrate how to use a scan to set daily, weekly, and monthly pivots on both day and overnight session. | WATCH |
| Cumulative VWAP | This video demonstrates how to easily add and manipulate a cumulative VWAP (Anchored VWAP) line beginning at any bar in a multi-pane chart, with optional standard deviation bands. | WATCH |
| TransAct-Infinity Symbol Setup | This video discusses some important aspects of setting up futures symbols for the TransAct / Infinity brokerage feed. | WATCH |
| FT71 Composite Profile Details | This video is another follow-up to the webinar, which focuses primarily on the Composite Profile of FT71 and covers various issues which can result in discrepancies between users. Included in the discussion is how to setup symbols properly for continuous contracts, and how to adjust the data to... | WATCH |
| FuturesTrader71 Webinar Summary and Answers | This video is a follow-up to the webinar, with a brief summary of each chart, instruction on how to import those charts, and answers to questions that resulted from the webinar. | WATCH |
| FT71 Chart Setup Webinar | This video is a recording of the chart setup webinar done with FuturesTraders71 from December, 2009. | WATCH |
| Painting Overnight Session Background | This video demonstrates how to paint the overnight period of the Globex session a different color from the background of the day session. While this video is still an good lesson in the user of RTL, the Paint Bars indicator has since been enhanced with a feature that makes this opeartion much... | WATCH |
| Bands | This video describes a new option to draw multiple bands automatically around certain indicators based on multiples of price, ticks, percent, or ATR. | WATCH |
| QuoteBoarding TPO Profile Levels | This video demonstrates how to plot TPO Profile Levels (VAH, IBH, etc) in the QuoteBoard. User variables are used to transfer these dynamic prices from the TPO charts to the QuoteBoard. | WATCH |
| QuoteBoard Indicator | This video demonstrates the QuoteBoard Indicator which allows the user to display 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 performance measures and the custom prices within... | WATCH |
| VB and TPO Indicator Efficiency Improvements | Major Efficiency improvements were made to the Volume Breakdown and TPO Indicators in version 10.2 Beta 5 as demonstrated in this video. | WATCH |
| Separate Current Profile | This video shows how to separate the current days volume profile and draw it to the right of the right-most bar. | WATCH |
| Profile Peaks, Valleys, Naked POCs | This video demonstrates some new features available to the Profile Indicator including auto-Peak/Valley lines, Naked POCs, and Naked Closes. | WATCH |
| DTN Adjusted Continuous Data | This video demonstrates how to activate auto-adjusted backfill data from DTN on continuous contracts. | WATCH |
| Regression With Standard Deviation Bands | This video demonstrates how to draw regression lines on Investor/RT multi-pane charts. | WATCH |
| Vertical Bands | This video explains how to draw vertical bands or strips across the entire width of multi-pane charts. | WATCH |
| Fill Lines | This video quickly covers the control of the fill line and working order reference line in the trading integration of Investor/RT. | WATCH |
| Main Toolbar | This video demonstrates the main toolbar of Investor/RT | WATCH |
| Scheduled DTN MA Backfill | This video demonstrates how to schedule periodic backfills from DTN MA for symbols which are not supported live with the brokerage feeds. | WATCH |
| How to create an infobox | This video was a response to a few user requests. First off, the video covers in depth how to create and use infoboxes within panes in Investor/RT. Additional topics include well as how to create two basic custom indicators and leverage them to demonstrate divergence. | WATCH |
| Manipulating Multi-Pane Charts | This video covers many aspects of customizing multi-pane charts including colors, periodicity, symbol, scaling, scrolling, and much more. | WATCH |
| Customized Sessions | This video demonstrates how to create new sessions with user-specified start and stop times and assign them to symbols. | WATCH |
| Cumulative Delta - Multiple Symbols | This video demonstrates how to efficiently compute the cumulative session delta for a large QuotePage of symbols by properly managing the Ask and Bid Volume data columns. | WATCH |
| Importing Adjusted ES Data | This video not only demonstrates the how to import the adjusted 1-minute ES data, how to link the import process to a keyboard shortcut, and discusses several factors you should be aware of when deciding if this process is right for your need. | WATCH |
| DTN MA Symbols with Multipliers | This video demonstrates how to setup DTN Market Access (DTN MA) symbols with multiplier for symbols whose live data has prices on a different scale from the prices of the backfill data. Some brokers feed real time data at a price level that is different from the back fill data received from... | WATCH |
| Current Price Highlighter | This video demonstrates how to highlight current price in the scale, and how to draw a dynamically updating line across the chart reflecting the current price, in a multi-pane chart. | WATCH |
| Where's My Tick Data... | This video explains how to setup and maintain Investor/RT to retain and display longer term tick data and how to avoid overwriting tick data with one-minute data. | WATCH |
| Horizontal Line Between Bars | This video demonstrates how to draw a horizontal reference line between any two bars and how to easily move the line or vary the length using the mouse. It also discusses creating buttons to initiate these lines and how to force these lines to snap to high or low of bar. | WATCH |
| Sequencing Layout Toolbar Tabs | This video shows how to arrange the tabs in the layout toolbar in some user desired sequence. | WATCH |
| Day Session Daily Bars | This video explains how to create daily bars of the ES which only reflect the day session data (session 2). While the contents of this video are still vaild, there is no an easier way to create daily bars which conform to the session of the chart. Simply specify the periodicity as "Time... | WATCH |
| Investor/RT Tune Up | This video demonstrates several steps users can take periodically to keep Investor/RT running as healthy, lean, fast, and efficient as possible. Users are recommended to perform a tune-up every 1-2 months if not more frequently. The steps taken in the video are reviewed below, but users are... | WATCH |
| Trendlines on Cumulative Delta Bars | This video demonstrates new functionality for trendlines for maintaining their relative position as the cumulative delta data changes from day to day. | WATCH |
| DPOC Shift Alert | This video demonstrates how to trigger an audible alert when the developing point of control (DPOC) shifts up or down. | WATCH |
| Highlighting Area on Multiple Charts | This video demonstrates how to highlight a rectangular region on one chart and have that same region (price range and date/time range) highlighted on other charts containing the same symbol. | WATCH |
| Maintaining Adjusted Data Thru Rollover | This video demonstrates how to best approach maintaining your adjusted data on continuous futures contracts through rollover. | WATCH |
| Changing Indicator Colors | This video demonstrates how to quickly change the color, width, or style of indicator lines quickly from a pop-up menu. | WATCH |
| Alerting New Highs and Lows From Chart | This video demonstrates how to add signals to charts which identify new highs and new lows for the day. | WATCH |
| RTL Lesson - Repeating Alerts At Price Levels | This video demonstrates how to create alerts for price reaching certain levels which reset every bar. | WATCH |
| Drawing Horizontal Bands | This video demonstrates several methods for drawing horizontal bands between specific prices in multi-pane charts. | WATCH |
| Signals, Scans, Custom Indicators, and Signal Actions | This video demonstrates the differences between Signals, Custom Indicators, Scans, and Signal Actions. | WATCH |
| Moving Indicators Between Charts | This video demonstrates how to quickly and easily move indicators from one chart to another while retaining the indicators settings. | WATCH |
| Extending Naked Lines | This video demonstrates how to extend time-sensitive prices, such as IB high, until the line is taken out by a future price. | WATCH |
| Ten Point Profile | This video demonstrates how to use the Zig Zag Indicator to identify ten point moves and label them with the delta of each move. It also shows how to use the Profile Indicator to plot volume profiles of each of these moves and extend the naked VPOC, High, and Low of those profiles. | WATCH |
| Trading Notes | This video demonstrates some improvements made to trading notes and the trading note market indicator. The Trading Notes Indicator discussed in this video has been superceded by the RTX extension TradeViewer. See this support article for more. | WATCH |
| Accessing Prices of Cumulative Delta Bars | This video demonstrates how access and plot the open, high, low, and closing prices of the cumulative delta bars. | WATCH |
| Export All Chart Data | This video demonstrates how to export all or selected indicator/bar data to a spreadsheet with one command. | WATCH |
| Count Small Initial Balance | How to count the number of days where the IB was less than 4 and how to quickly compute the average daily range of those small IB days using a new Signal Statistics result. This video is a supplement to Homework #3. For the full list of homework related videos visit Homework | WATCH |
| What's New in 10.5 with Fari Hamzei | This webinar covers many topics including Multiple Price Highlighter, Smoothed Profiles, Streamer Profile Drawing Style, Chart Time Sync, Layered Periodicities, Multi-Session Periodicities, Align with Master Periodicity, Retracement Bands. | WATCH |
| Naked Fractals | This video demonstrates how to add the extend a line from the naked high and low prices of the Fractals indicator until they are touched by a future bar. | WATCH |
| Manipulating Custom Indicators and Signal Markers | This video discuss how to manipulate custom indicators and signal markers within charts including: moving between charts, changing color and style, changing parameters or syntax. | WATCH |
| RTL Lesson - Apply Indicator To Another Indicator | This video demonstrates to use RTL to apply an indicator to another indicator. In this case, we took the RSI of a Stochastic Slow %D as well as a Moving Average of the same Stochastic Slow %D. | WATCH |
| Continuous Contracts, Rollover, and DTN Gap-Adjusted Data | This video discusses how the DTN continuous contracts are handled in Investor/RT. It covers how data is automatically gap-adjusted, how to turn adjustment off, and how to follow only the front month contract. | WATCH |
| Info Box Labels | This video demonstrates how to customize the text labels for each indicator shown by the Info Box indicator. | WATCH |
| Cumulative Delta Fractal Prices | This video demonstrates how to access the price of the last up and down fractal of the cumulative delta bars. Warning, this is a relatively advanced usage of RTL. | WATCH |
| Duplicating FT71 Charts | This video demonstrates how to duplicate FT71's composite and intraday charts and how to set them up properly for other symbols such as Crude Oil. | WATCH |
| Homework #07 - Gap Statistics | How often does price gap up or down on the ES? And when it does, how often is that gap closed. Gap Statistics Chart Definition Gap Statistics Plus Chart Definition (This chart also shows how many days the gap was recovered by 50%. It also requires the user to set C#2 to the number of days to... | WATCH |
| RTL 101 - Plotting Key Prices with Session Statistics and MPD | This video demonstrates how to plot the IB High and Low, Overnight High and Low, Previous (Globex) High and Low, Previous Close, and Day Session Open using a mixture of the Session Statistics Indicator and the MPD Indicator. The video also demonstrates how to paint the background of the day session... | WATCH |
| Replicating Reference Lines | This video demonstrates how to add a reference line to one chart and have it reflected in another chart or charts automatically. | WATCH |
| Day Session Pivots on Globex Charts | This video demonstrates how to calculate the daily pivots levels using just the day session data, and how to transfer those pivots to charts showing the overnight globex data. | WATCH |
| Profiles in 10.5 | Profile Indicator Enhancements in 10.5 including: Peaks and Valley colors, width of time-based profiles, developing VPOC, Streamers, Smoothed Profiles, Custom Gradient and Blend. | WATCH |
| Align To Master Periodicity | This video demonstrates the ability to plot multiple symbols in a chart for any periodicity, allowing the primary symbol to serve as the master while all other symbols line up properly with respect to time. | WATCH |
| POC To Excel | This video demonstrates how to export the point of control, the valuary high and valuary low for a specific group of symbols to a spreadsheet. | WATCH |
| Session Statistics - Week, Month, Year, Chart Statistics | This video demonstrates the expansion of Session Statistics to enable statistics on weekly, monthly, yearly, and full chart durations. | WATCH |
| Trendlines | This video gives a comprehensive overview of trendlines in Investor/RT: how to add and manipulate trendlines, adjusting preferences, scope, parallel and mirrored trendlines, alerts, labels, and much more. NOTE: This video was produced in 2015. Effective Version 14.1.6, there is a minor change in... | WATCH |
| Referencing Data on Specific Dates - Part I | This video demonstrates how to create a quotepage column that references past indicator or price values, from a specific date, for multiple symbols at once. | WATCH |
| Multiple Price Highlighter | This video demonstrates the ability of the unique new MPH Indicator to identify a variable number of prices based on volume-at-price level in a variety of ways. | WATCH |
| Quoteboarding Weekly and Monthly Prices - Day Session Only | This video demonstrates how to quoteboard the weekly and monthly high, low, close, and midpoint for current and previous week and month. | WATCH |
| Manipulating Bar and Candle Width | This video demonstrates how to manipulate the width of each bar, as well as independently controlling the width of the bar/candle and the space allocated for each bar/candle. | WATCH |
| RTL - Identifying First Crossover | This video demonstrates how to identify a stochastic crossover as well as how to only identify the first crossover after moving above the 50 line. | WATCH |
| Texting Price Alerts | This video demonstrates how to send a text to your mobile device when price alerts occur within Investor/RT. | WATCH |
| HVN and LVN Alerts | This video demonstrates how to easily create audible alerts when price touches a high or low volume node (HVN/LVN). | WATCH |
| Referencing Data on Specific Dates - Part II | This video is a follow up to Referencing Data on Specific Dates - Part I and covers the process of importing dates from excel and then exporting the resulting date-specific data back to excel. | WATCH |
| Advanced RTL Q and A | This video covers several advanced RTL-based questions and answers, including how to access tokens for ticker symbols and periodicity, sending parameters to a custom indicator or signal, expanding the size restrictions on RTL syntax, and more. | WATCH |
| Ichimoku Kinko Hyo | This video demonstrates how to chart indicators and signals related to Ichimoku Kinko Hyo on multi-pane charts, including Tenkan-Sen, Kijan-Sen, Chikou Span and Senkou Span. See the related Chart Definition | WATCH |
| Day Session Daily Bars for Intraday Data | This video demonstrates how to create daily bars from intraday data, and in the process, limit the data considered for the daily bar to a specific session. The video also demonstrates how to create multi-session, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly bars from intraday data and limited to a... | WATCH |
| Auto Scan and Transfer to Excel | This video demonstrates how to run a scan at days end to set the VAH, VAL, previous settlement, settlement, high, low, and open into User Variables which are then automatically transferred over to an excel spreadsheet via DDE. In this video, the data is limited to day session data and run on... | WATCH |
| IRT Version 11 Preview | A preview of What's New in Investor/RT Version 11.Topics include the new Object Manager, the enhanced Chart Wizard and menu system | WATCH |
| JPJ Webinar 4-7-2013 | Webinar from April 4, 2013 with JPJ Trading. | WATCH |
| Coloring Lines and Histograms | This video demonstrates how to color line and histogram-style indicators different colors based on various conditions. | WATCH |
| Data Management Webinar | This webinar was produced on 11/30/2012. Downloading and managing data is one of the most powerful aspects of Investor/RT. This video discusses the topic of how to set up different types of data, download methods, how to retain downloaded data, dealing with gaps, auto-backfill, managing sessions... | WATCH |
| Shapes Vertical Zone | This video demonstrates how to create a horizontal band of any height that extends from any given bar to the present, using the Shapes Indicator. | WATCH |
| Webinar with FT71 - Highlighting Investor/RT Version 10 | This is a video of a 2012 webinar with FuturesTrader71 highlighting many of the new features in Investor/RT Version 10.5 and 10.6. Note that the menu system of Investor/RT has been considerably simplied in Investor/RT Version 11 after this legacy video was produced. | WATCH |
| Multi-Pane Charts | This video offers novice and intermediate level users of Investor/RT a tutorial on Multi-Pane Charts. Here is a list of Topics covered along with the time within the video that the topic is covered: Topics Creating a New Chart :36... | WATCH |
| Profile Indicator | This video takes a comprehensive look at the many features and applications of the Profile Indicator to implement time and volume-profiles of any duration. Video timeline Introduction and Overview - What this video will be working towards, including images of the charts we will create... | WATCH |
| Webinar with FT71 - Highlighting 10.5 and 10.6 | This is a video with FuturesTrader71 highlighting many of the new features in 10.5 and 10.6. Here is the original Day types chart definitions discussed in this webinar. Since, the DayTypes RTX indicator has been released. | WATCH |
| Merged and split profiles | This video demonstrates how to use the Profile Indicator to create merged and split profiles as an alternative to the TPO Profile chart for both volume and time based profiles. | WATCH |
| RTL Lesson - Initial Balance Multiples | This video demonstrates how to add the Initial Balance as well as Initial Balance Multiples (IBH1.5, IBL2.0, etc) to multi-pane charts. It discusses how to add these both to day session and Globex session charts, as well as how to add to rangebar, volumebar, and tickbar charts. | WATCH |
| RTL Lesson - Volume Price Relationship | This video demonstrates how to write signals that find higher price during lower volume and lower price during higher volume. It also shows how to quickly move these signals to other charts or create buttons to toggle the signal markers on/off. | WATCH |
| RTL Lesson - Shooting Star Candlestick Pattern | This video describes how to code a signal which identifies the shooting star candlestick pattern. | WATCH |
| Accessing Prices and Applying Indicators to Cumulative Delta Bars | This video explains how to access the open, high, low, and close prices of cumulative delta bars (volume breakdown). It also explains how to add indicators such as moving averages to the cumulative delta bars and how to create custom indicators that involve multiple volume breakdown tokens. | WATCH |
| Out of Memory at Startup | What you can do if you find if the program is running out of memory.In cases where increased volatility is present in the market, depending on how many charts you have open and the limitations of your computer, the memory required for Investor/RT to start can exceed the memory available from your... | WATCH |
| IOAMT VWAP Bands | This video explains how to implement the IOAMT VWAP Bands. This video will explain how to import and utilize the chart definitions below. Chart Definitions VWAP_Master VWAP_Bands | WATCH |
| VPOC Shift Alerts | This video details a chart which provides alerts when the daily VPOC shifts or is about to shift. | WATCH |
| Opening Range System | This video documents how to create a trading system which enters when price breaks outside of opening range. A chart definition which implements a very similar system to one discussed in video can be found here: https://www.linnsoft.com/charts/openingrangesystem-es | WATCH |
| Editing Reference Line Colors | This video covers reference line colors and band colors and how to customize them. | WATCH |
| Indicator Text Labels | Indicator text labels help users keep track of the multiple lines in a chart pane with custom text labels just left of the scale for each indicator. | WATCH |
| Transferring Volume Nodes | How to quickly and efficiently transfer peaks (high volume nodes) and valleys (low volume nodes) to other charts. | WATCH |
| Homework #06 - IOAMT Webinar - May-13-2011 | Chad Payne of Linn Software and Bill Duryea of IOAMT discuss tools and strategies for statistical analysis in Investor/RT. Day Session / IB Range Ratio: In this chart we determined that the average ratio between the Day Session Range and the IB Range was 2.15. And on average, the Day Session... | WATCH |
| IB and Day Range as Text | This video demonstrates how to plot the Initial Balance and Day Ranges as text on charts using the Annotation Indicator. | WATCH |
| FT71 - Changing Composite Start Date | This video demonstrates the changes that followers of FT71 need to make when he adjusts the start date of his composite charts. | WATCH |
| Developing VPOC - Hiding Vertical Line | This video demonstrates how to hide vertical lines when showing the developing point of control. | WATCH |
| FT71 Fast Market Playback 03-17-2011 | WATCH | |
| FT71 Fast Market Playback 03-09-2011 | WATCH | |
| FT71 Fast Market Playback 03-08-2011 | WATCH | |
| FT71 Fast Market Playback 03-07-2011 | WATCH | |
| FT71 Playback 03-04-2011 | WATCH | |
| TPO Profile Playback Demonstration | This video demonstrates how to use the TPO Profile playback feature to quickly jump to the current day and play it back at various rates. | WATCH |
| TPO Profile Playback 03-03-2011 | Playback of the day session on ES on March 3, 2011 using the TPO playback feature. | WATCH |
| TPO Profile Playback | Playback of the day session on ES on February 2, 2011 using the TPO playback feature. | WATCH |
| Effective Volume Indicator | This video demonstrates the Effective Volume Indicator which provides a longer term view of the cumulative delta bars or cumulative delta candles commonly provided by the Volume Breakdown Indicator. With the Effective Volume Indicator, we use 1-minute bars to simulate the cumulative delta for... | WATCH |
| Price Bands Indicator | This video demonstrates a variety of ways to use the Price Bands indicator for drawing historical bands between two prices or custom indicators | WATCH |
| Indicator Scope | This indicator the various options users have for the scope of indicators in multi-pane charts | WATCH |
| Homework #05 - Opening Statistics | What is the maximum distance that price moves from the open of the day session each day? What is the average max move? What is the median max move? How often does price open in previous days range? When opening opening in range, how often does it touch both the previous days high and low? How often... | WATCH |
| Transferring Composites | How to easily transfer indicators, and specifically the composite profile implementation of the Composite Indicator, from one chart to another. | WATCH |
| FT71 Quick Start Guide | Please review first the FT71 Key resources webpage for the most recent information about FT71. This video (produced in 2011) is highly recommended for any user who wishes to replicate FT71's charts in Investor/RT or apply his methods to other markets. The video covers the essential and... | WATCH |
| Indicators on Cumulative Delta Bars | This video demonstrates how to add indicators to Cumulative Delta Bars (Volume Breakdown Indicator) including Moving Averages | WATCH |
| Reference Line Bands | This video demonstrates how to use the horizontal reference line bands feature, combined with the button indicator, to quickly drop down horizontal strips of specific heights in multi-pane charts. | WATCH |
| Zig Zag of Cumulative Delta | This video describes how to add the Zig Zag Indicator to the Volume Breakdown indicator configured with cumulative delta bars. | WATCH |
| Custom Alarms Sounds | This video demonstrates how to give each symbol it's own unique high and low alarm sound. | WATCH |
| Profile Management and Clean-Up | How to better manage and clean-up overlapping profiles and bars in multi-pane charts. | WATCH |
| Micro-Composite Profiles | This video demonstrates how to add micro-composite profiles to a chart. | WATCH |
| Secrets of Success for New Users | This video covers the ten topics listed below in detail. Watch The Videos Start with the Getting Started Video Find The Right Data Service Learn How to Setup Symbols for that Service Learn Where and How To Find Answers. Videos Search Linnsoft Forum Support Do Your Homework.... | WATCH |
| Homework #04 - VPOC Statistics | How do I export daily VPOC (Volume Point of Control) to excel along with open, high, low, close and volume for further analysis? How far on average was VPOC from previous day VPOC? How often did price open below/above previous days VPOC? What days had a VPOC very close to previous days VPOC? How... | WATCH |
| VPOC Shift Alert | This video demonstrates how to create a chart which alerts the user to pending VPOC shifts and actual VPOC shifts. | WATCH |
| Volume Nodes and Tick Data | This video addresses why composite Profiles can exhibit different volume nodes based and different forms depending on the amount of tick retention. Smart compression is also covered. | WATCH |
| Homework #03 - Average Range Volume and Other Tendencies | What is the average range and volume of the initial balance, the overnight period, the day session, the 24hr session? How often does price open above/below previous day session range? What is the relationship of overnight direction to day session direction and visa versa? See the follow up video... | WATCH |
| Homework #02 - HOD and LOD Counts | How frequently does the high of the day or low of the day occur within each 30 minute bar/bracket? within each 5 minute bar? Chart Definition Terminology HOD - High price traded for the day / session. LOD - Low price traded for the day / session. Results are based on 1,000 days of... | WATCH |
| Chart Spacing | This video demonstrates various methods and shortcuts for managing space in Multi-Pane charts. | WATCH |
| Current Price Brackets | This video demonstrates how to put a reference line in the chart that follows the current price and draws multiple bands at certain price increments above and below current price. | WATCH |
| Shape Indicator | This video demonstrates a variety of ways to use the Shapes Indicator including highlighting key areas, painting indicator panes with different background color, and drawing repeating and concentric shapes. | WATCH |
| Changing Indicator Color Settings | This video demonstrates how to quickly change the color, width, or style of indicator lines from a pop-up menu. | WATCH |
| Alarms - Automating Alerts for New High and Low | This video demonstrates the Alarms functionality in Investor/RT and explains various ways to set and use alarms, including alerts for new highs and lows. | WATCH |
| Mixed Periodicity Delta | This video demonstrates how to access the delta of larger timeframes or periodicities from charts and signals. Specifically, it explains how to access the 10-minute delta from a 2-minute chart. | WATCH |
| Audible Alerts - Follow-Up Video | This video is a follow-up to the first Audible Alerts video and discussions some alternate, efficient and dynamic methods for implementing these audible/visible alerts for key price levels. | WATCH |
| Multi-Linking | This video demonstrates the various uses of multi-linking charts in Investor/RT. Multi-linking allows users to change the symbol or periodicity of multiple charts at once. | WATCH |
| Audible Alerts for Key Levels on Multiple Symbols | This video demonstrates how to setup audible alerts (and logging) for price approaching key levels such as the previous day session high or low. Below are some videos and links that were references in the video above as good supplemental information: Custom Columns Plotting Time-... | WATCH |
| Painting Bars and Background | This video demonstrates how to paint the bar or background of a bar based on the value of a technical indicator using the Paintbar Indicator or the Color Marker Indicator. | WATCH |
| Railroad Tracks QuoteBoard Technical Details | This video provides more extensive details on how the Railroad Tracks QuoteBoard was setup including the creation of the custom indicators and the configuration of the user variables. It is NOT required that you watch or understand this video in order to make effective use of the Railroad Tracks... | WATCH |
| Railroad Track QuoteBoard Setup | This vides explains how to quickly and easily pull the RRT QB into your Investor/RT system. It is highly recommended that users watch this video before using the RRT QB. | WATCH |
| Homework #01 - IB Breakouts | How frequently does price break above the IB high, below the IB low, to both side, or stay inside the IB for the duration of the session? Terminology IB - Initial Balance - Range in which price traded for the first hour of the day session, typically 9:30am ET to 10:30am ET for the ES. IBH =... | WATCH |
| Adding and Removing Chart Lines | This video shows techniques for quickly adding and removing multiple reference lines and trendlines in charts. Updated for version 10.3. | WATCH |
| FT71 QuoteBoard | This video/chart is used to help automated the overnight numbers (VPOC, High and Low), provide labels for all price levels, and to present the levels in a sorted QuoteBoard, in the FT71_ES_Intraday chart. | WATCH |
| FT71 October Webinar Chart Changes | This video explains some minor changes/additions that Chad and FT71 made to the charts shortly following the October 2010 webinar. Here are the chart definition as per November 2010 : FT71Comp FT71_QuoteBoard FT71_QB_QP FT71_Overnight ... | WATCH |
| Info Box Indicator | This video demonstrates how to add and manipulate the Info Box indicator to provide the user with both instrument and indicator data for each bar. | WATCH |
| Bar Counts | This video will answer a questions asked on the Yahoo discussion list regarding starting a bar count on a specific date and time and chart bars from that time. | WATCH |
| Exporting DVPOC | This video address some questions asked on the Yahoo group discussion list. | WATCH |
| Data Adjustment Correction | This video documents a correction that was made to the data adjustment/split function in 10.1c10. | WATCH |
| Woodie's CCI - Pair Trading | This video covers the process of importing Woodie's layout (charts and symbols) for pairs trading. Woodie trades using range bar charts of pairs along with the Woodie's CCI indicator and other key price indicators. | WATCH |
| Session Statistics | This video provides an overview of the versatile Session Statistics Indicator. Session Statistics allows the user to compute price of volume based statistics of various durations: day, week, month, 6-month, year, or chart. Examples include the low of the week, the high of the 1st 60 minutes of the... | WATCH |