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Above is a Daily Chart of an Microsoft Corporation (MSFT).  The diagonal red line represents a trendline between two extreme points, based on the date-time ranges specified below.  The horizontal trendlines represent the Fibonacci Levels selected in the preferences below.

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• Retracement Price Source - Specifies what method will be used for identifying the beginning and ending points of the retracement trendline.

• Begin/End - The preferences labeled "Begin" or "End" have different meanings based on which Price Source checkbox is selected.  If "Use Bars" is selected, then Begin or End will represent the beginning or ending dates that will be used as endpoints to the trendline.  The extreme price of the bar will be used as the endpoint price.  If "Use Price" is selected, then Begin or End will represent the beginning or ending prices of the trendline.  If "Use Variables" is selected, then Begin and End will be a choice of variable prices, including High, Low, and the V# custom variables.  Begin and End are not used for Automatic Retracements.

• Use Bar - This option allows the user to specify the date/times of the bars that will be used for the retracement trendline.  The prices will be determined based on the high of the higher bar, and the low of the lower bar.

• Use Price - This option allows the user to use specific prices as trendline endpoints, independent of the highs and lows of the actual bar data.

• Use Variable - This option allows the user to link the trendline endpoints to different variables, including the High and Low of the day, or any of the custom V# variables.  By giving the user access to the V# custom variables, the user may set the endpoints to essentially any data accessible using RTL.

• Automatic Using Last X bars - This option provides for an auto-fib retracement capability.  If this options is checked, then a trendline will automatically be drawn from the highest high to the lowest low over the past X bars, and then the Fibonacci levels will be drawn off this.

• Price Projections - This turns the Fibonacci Tool into a Price Projection tool.  In this mode, it will use only one price, and base it's retracements off retracements from that price down to zero.  If the price is 100.0, then a 10% retracement line would be drawn at 90, while a 20% projection line would be drawn at 120.  It gives the user an ability to draw multiple reference lines all based off one common price.  More on Price Projections.

• Retracement - Retracement options include Price, Time, Both, and Neither.  Price Retracement lines are horizontal lines retracing from then ending price of the trendline back towards the beginning price of the trendline.  Time retracement lines are vertical lines retracing from the ending date/time back towards the beginning date/time of the trendline.  A 70% Price Retracement line drawn on a fib trendline going from $60 to $70 will be drawn as a horizontal line at $63.

• Expansions - Expansion options include Price, Time, Both, and Neither.  Price Expansion lines are vertical lines projecting past the ending price.  Time expansion lines are vertical lines projecting forward in time past the ending date/time.  A 50% Time Expansion drawn on a fib trendline that spans 50 bars, will be drawn as a vertical line 25 bars (50% of 50) past the endpoint of the trendline.

• - Dictates whether that retracement level will be draw in the chart.  The last and longest entry box allows the user to enter comma or space delimited numbers for additional retracement levels.

• % Levels - Fib percent levels at which to draw the horizontal lines.  These levels can also be $ levels if the "$" checkbox is checked.  See "$ (Use Absolute Dollar Retracement)" below.

• Color - Color and style of the retracement lines in the chart.  Each level can have it's own color and width.  If the "One Color" checkbox is checked, then all but one color control will be hidden, and that color will be used for all lines.

• Extend Right - Extend the retracement lines to the right edge of the chart.

• Extend Left - Extend the retracement lines to the left edge of the chart.

• Show %/$ - Show the % or $ retracement or expansion levels of each line.

• Show Price - Show the price of each line.

• Text on Right - Place the text labels on the right side of the chart.

• One Color - Allow the user to specify only one color for all retracement lines, as opposed to unique color for each.  When check, all color controls except one will be hidden.

• $ (Use Absolute Dollar Retracements) - This option changes your retracement levels from % levels to absolute $ levels.  For instance, if your trendline is drawn from 10 to 20, in the % mode, a retracement of 10(%) would bring you back to 19, while in the $ mode, a retracement of 10($) would bring you back to 10.

• Live - When this option is checked, a line is drawn at the right edge of the chart showing the actual percent retracement level of the current bar.  This value/line updates dynamically as price changes.

Fibonacci Retracements are displayed by first drawing a trendline between two extreme points, for example, a trough and opposing peak. A series of 8 or more horizontal lines can be drawn intersecting the trendline at the Fibonacci levels of 0.0 percent, 23.6 percent, 38.2 percent, 50 percent, 61.8 percent, 100 percent, 161.8 percent, 261.8 percent, or whatever custom levels you prefer.  Levels can be specified in unit of % or $.

After a significant move, (either up or down), prices will often retrace a significant portion (if not all) of the original move. As prices retrace, support and resistance levels often occur at or near the Fibonacci Retracement levels.

A new checkbox (labeled "$") in the lower right hand corner of the Fibonacci Retracement preference allows the user to setup the study to use absolute price retracements as opposed to % retracements. Typically, the Fibonacci retracement interprets the levels as % levels on which to draw retracement lines. With the absolute price retracement option checked, the retracement lines will be drawn at absolute price distances from the endpoint. This option in combination with the Price Projection option gives the user to draw multiple horizontal reference lines at specific price levels throughout the chart.

Fibonacci Retracements now maintain their high or low prices and positions properly when switching periodicities, regardless of the price sources specified. In the past, when using the "Use Bar" option, switching intraday periodicities could sometimes result in slightly altering the price of the endpoints. Now, when switching from a 10-minute chart to a 1-minute chart, for instance, the endpoints will maintain their high and low positions, and attach themselves to the proper 1-minute bars which contain those highs and lows. Switching back to a 10-minute chart will again maintain the original 10-minute prices and endpoints.

Retracement Price Source - The user has a great deal of flexible automation available in determining the endpoints of the retracement trendline.  Four options are available.  The "Use Bars" option allows the user to specify the date/times of the bars that will be used for the retracement trendline.  The prices will be determined based on the high of the higher bar, and/or the low of the lower bar.  When dragging and dropping, the endpoints will snap to the high or low of the bar on which it is dropped.  "Use Price" allows the user to use specific prices as trendline endpoints, independent of the highs and lows of the actual bar data.  This option should be specified if the user wants complete flexibility over where the endpoints can be dragged and dropped.  "Use Variables" allows the user to link the trendline endpoints to different variables, including the High and Low of the day, or any of the custom V# variables.  By giving the user access to the V# custom variables, the user may set the endpoints to essentially any data accessible using RTL.  "Automatic Retracement Using last X bars" provides for an auto-fib retracement capability and is discussed further below.

Automatic Fibonacci Retracments - If you select the "Use last X bars" option, then your Fibonacci trendline becomes automated and can then change dynamically as new prices come into the chart.  The Fibonacci trendline will be drawn from the highest high over the period specified to the lowest low, and the resulting retracement levels will then be draw respectively.  The trendline, and thus the retracement levels, can change with each new tick and each new bar.  The Begin and End date-times will be ignored in this situation, as the indicator always be based on the most recent period of bars.  As a new bar comes into the picture for consideration, an old one is no longer considered.