Spread Charts components
Spread Charts components
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Change height of the study areas Starting with version 1.1.7 the little divider in between any study areas or between a study area and the chart area is sensitive to the mouse dragging feature. Simply hover on top of that line and you'll see the cursor change to a vertical arrowed line, then click and drag the line up or down to adjust the size of that area accordingly. Zoom in or zoom out the values scale or the time scale If you hover over the values scale and move the mouse wheel, you can zoom in or zoom out the values scale. This also applies to the time scale. Values scale actions If you press the left mouse button while the pointer is on the values scale and move the pointer up or down, the chart will move up and down. Change width of the values scale The values scale width can be changed by dragging. The font used in chart will change it's size according to values scale width. For a small width of values scale - small fonts, for a bigger width of values scale - bigger fonts. Values Scale dialog Starting with version 1.1.7 by double click on the values scale you open the "Values Scale" dialog. By disabling "Autoresize" you can change the minimum and maximum value for the scale. If "Autoresize" is selected, the scale will change it's size so the chart data will fit in graphic. |
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The chart area contains a region of the chart or the entire chart if the chart goes in the chart area. The chart data can be shown with different data views. The "Data views" used in this module are: Line, Area, Bars and Candles. You can change the current data view directly from the chart using the right click on the chart area. This will open a box from where you can choose a data view as it's shown in the picture from the right. The resolution can also be changed by choosing a resolution from "Resolutions" section. You have seven options for this: Ticks, Volume, Intraday, Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly. You can even change the chart to another contract by choosing Change Contract. For "Tick" resolution the high, low and open prices refers to the trading session. This means that the high price is the highest price for the trading session, the low price is the lowest price for the trading session and the open price is the opening price for trading session. |
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You can move from one region of the chart to another using scrollbar. While scrolling it is very useful to have some information about the time (to know what you will see when you reach there), because of that we use a tooltip that shows the time as is shown in the figure below. The tooltip is shown when you move the mouse cursor over the scrollbar or when you scroll.
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Double click on an item from the status bar will open the properties dialog for that item. For example double click on the "Lines (CL)" - in the figure below - will open the "Line Properties" dialog.
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The "info box" is an alternative for labels. The advantage of the "info box"
is that it can be moved anywhere on the chart by simply drag-and-drop to another location.
The "info box" can also be minimized. Each section of the info box has in the top of
it a button ( ) from where you can hide the section
(if there are any sections below this one it will be hidden to). The button will change into
( ) from where you can make the section
visible again. To switch from info box to labels and reversal use "switch to/from info
box" button  from the toolbar.
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