Many of the tick-based periodicities provide a Fresh Start option within the periodicity control. These periodicities include Tickbars, Volume bars, Rangebars, Renko, PNF, etc. When fresh start is available, you will see a Fresh Start checkbox at the bottom of the periodicity control as you see below:
Let's assume for our example that you would like to set the box size to $0.25 for stocks trading under $5, $0.50 to stocks trading between $5 and $20, and to $1.00 for stocks trading over $20. The following scan will accomplish this.
To display a slide show of Instruments, open a QuotePage containing those Instruments and on the QuotePage Toolbar, select the Slideshow Icon as shown below:
Manipulating Bar and Candle Width This video demonstrates the process.
Yes. Open your preference window for the chart (double-clicking in horizontal scale at bottom of chart will get you there). In the "General" tab, you’ll find the “Pixels/Bar” setting, which controls the number of pixels allocated to each bar. Instead of a single number, you can manually enter text in the following format:
X:Y
This 29 minute video discusses the important basic elements of traditional multi-pane (bar/candle) charts. Topics include creating charts, using the chart setup wizard, changing the ticker symbol or periodicity of a chart, and sharing chart setups and images with support and other Investor/RT Users.
This 12-minute video demonstrates various methods and shortcuts for managing space in Multi-Pane charts. Topics include adjusting the pixels per bar setting using the arrow keys or mouse scroll wheel, and adjusting the amount of right margin space at the right side of your charts.
This 14 minute video covers many aspects of customizing multi-pane charts. Topics include adjust various chart colors (foreground, background, gradient), chart periodicity, revising ticker symbol, scaling options, scrolling, and more.
First, add an Annotation to a chart. To do so, click on the "a" button in the chart toolbar (or right-click in the chart and choose "Draw: Annotation") and then click in the chart where you want the annotation. A text box will appear. Type in the text: %BARLEFT
The INCOMPATIBLE SESSION message indicates that the Session Override of the chart is set to a session that is outside the boundaries of the session assigned to the symbol. The required course of action is to adjust the session of either the Symbol itself or the chart so that they are either the same, or, the Chart's session is fully inside of the times of the Symbols Session.
A multi-pane chart can optionally have a button pane, a thin pane containing only a series of chart buttons, typically at the top of the chart. Normally the button pane is displayed without a title bar. If you right-click inside the button pane and choose Show Pane Title, the title bar will appear, telling you that this is indeed a "Button Pane"