Submitted by linnsoft on Mon, 10/20/2014 - 07:19
These are the preferences that will be inherited by newly created Multipane Charts when using "File: New: Chart". Also, if your default charts settings in the General Chart Preferences are to use "Chart Type: Multipane", then your default chart will inherit these properties.
These various preferences are now seen in a tabbed window (File > Preferences > Charts > Multipane). There are also many additional chart settings in File > Preferences > Charts > General.
- Style - Choices are Bar, Candlestick Continuous Line, Connected Line, and Histogram.
- Hollow Up-Candles - Checkmark the "Hollow Up-Candles" if you wish candlestick charts to be drawn with hollow candles for the up candles. If this box is left unchecked, the up candles are drawn solid. The hollow format is recommended for printing since the hollow up candles can easily be distinguished from the solid down candles on monochrome printers.
- Hollow Histogram - If this checkbox is checked, histogram chart types will be drawn with hollow, as opposed to solid, histograms.
- Mouse Feedback - When mouse feed back is on for a particular traditional chart, moving the mouse inside that chart window, shows feedback messages in the status message area of the main toolbar. The messages show the current date/time and the current price value at the tip of the mouse pointer. Note that the price values shown are NOT necessarily realized prices, but the price levels of the mouse pointer. This feature has largely been superceded by the crosshairs feature which now show the same information within the chart window itself.
- Grid Lines . . . - The "Draw Grid Lines..." section is used to specify when grid lines are drawn in chart windows. Some users prefer to see the grid lines in intra-day charts but not in daily/weekly/monthly charts. Check the boxes to indicate which periods should be charted with gridlines.
- Pane Titles - This checkbox allows you to specify whether or not to show the title bars in each window pane when the chart is first created.
- Default chart size - You may also specify the default size of the simple chart by entering the width and height of the window in pixels (there are approximately 72 pixels per inch on screen).
- with volume - Check "with volume" if you wish the simple chart to also show a volume histogram.
- Pixels/Bar - Width of bars, in pixels..
- Periodicity - Timeframe of the chart.
- Viewing Period - This specifies the default amount of data that will be loaded into charts, broken down into 5 periodicity ranges, including Tick, Minutes (Intraday), Daily, Weekly, and Monthly.