RealTime Quotes charts are composed from our historical database and streamed back on-the-fly from our graphics servers to your site visitor. When you request a chart, you're really asking to have the graphic prepared with current pricing data according to your specifications.

There's a variety of options available for changing the delivered appearance of the chart, ranging from background color to overlay functions and periods. If you're unclear about how to use any of these options, or would like to see additional indicators or options, email ipc@rtquotes.com

Be sure to check our details regarding fees and usage of these graphics.

Adding a chart to your site is easy:

<a href=http://www.rtquotes.com/ad><img src=http://ipc.rtquotes.com/oem/yourid/ipc/cserver?DELL.gif border=0></a>
In the above example, DELL is the symbol being requested. Additional request switches can follow the symbol:
  • /A=arg supplies argument(s) to function
  • /B=rrggbb sets chart background color
  • /D=0,1 date style, 0: mmm-yy, 1: mm/yy
  • /F=1,2,11,21,22
    • 1: 30 day EMA
    • 2: 13 day EMA
    • 11: Bollinger bands
    • 21: 'n' period Stochastic (default:16) args: periods
    • 22: 'n' period RSI (default:10) args: periods, break
  • /P=count default: 360
  • /H=height sets chart height
  • /W=width sets chart width
  • /M=0,1 set data mode as daily or minutely
  • /V=0-100 controls the percentage of the chart height allocated to the volume area. This can be useful if you're creating a banner (/h=68/w=468) and don't want to clutter it up with volume info: /V=0
examples:

<img src="http://ipc.rtquotes.com/oem/???/ipc/cserver?MSFT.gif">

requests a 1 year chart on MSFT.

<img src="http://ipc.rtquotes.com/oem/???/ipc/cserver?MSFT/f=22/a=21/a=52.gif">

requests a one year chart on MSFT, with a 21 period RSI indicator, break drawn at 52%.

<img src="http://ipc.rtquotes.com/oem/???/ipc/cserver?MSFT/p=180/w=400/h=200.gif">

requests a 180 day chart, 400 pixels wide, 200 pixels high.