The following discussion applies to both the relative strength and delta relative strength databases; however, for simplicities sake, we will refer just to a relative strength database.
When you create a relative strength database, the resulting files will be placed in the directory you specify during the relative strength generation. Since relative strength databases can be large, this gives you the advantage of selecting a hard disk that has lots of space on it.
This also gives you the advantage of creating multiple relative strength databases with different financial instruments in the database. For example, you can create one relative strength database of stocks and another of commodities by first creating two separate directories on your hard disk. (We’ll call the first directory Stocks and the second directory Commodities.) When you generate the relative strength values for stocks, make sure that when you generate the values, you select the Stocks directory. Later, when you generate your commodities relative strength database, make sure the Commodities directory is selected during value generation.
When you view relative strength values on a particular chart, the values will not appear on the chart unless the current relative strength directory points to the directory that contains that chart’s relative strength information. For example, using the above paragraph’s information, if you have opened up a stock chart and the current relative strength directory is pointing to the Commodities directory, the relative strength information for the stock chart will not be seen. Click here for information on how to tell Investigator to add a relative strength directory or change the current relative strength directory.