Changing a Chart Symbol – In the current chart, just start typing the symbol you want to display.
Adding a Symbol to an Existing Chart– You can add a Symbol to an existing chart window and place it in a new stack or overlay it on an existing one.
Right-click Chart Selections – Most of the attributes you can apply to a chart are done with a right-click in a blank area of the chart.
Add Study to a Chart – A chart study is a function attached to the base chart of your window that uses markers, text, graph coloring, and alerts to indicate when conditions you have specified are met.
Chart Data Window and Crosshairs – Adding a Chart Data Window and Cross Hairs to a chart lets you more accurately determine values at any point in it. These are independent displays and can be used together or separately.
Horizontal Scrolling – You can view data in a chart window by moving the x-axis in three different ways
Chart Types – The quickest way to change what style you want represented on your chart.
Chart Intervals – The quickest way to change the time interval represented in a chart is to use your Context toolbar.
Selecting Chart Instruments – Symbols on the chart can easily be selected so that various functions can be applied to all the activated instruments at the same time.
Chart Undo / Redo – Undo and Redo up to the last 5 major actions taken on a chart.
Chart Properties
Chart Colors Overview – To customize chart colors, right-click on the object you wish to change, then select Properties.
Chart General Properties – The basic chart properties page is shown below. Some chart types have specific properties and will be described on a separate page with the appropriate dialog box for those properties.
Chart Grid Lines – You can add or remove the vertical and/or horizontal grid lines in your chart.
X-Axis Properties – When creating a chart, the data will fill the screen. As you move backward in time the quote server will continue populating the chart until all the data has been retrieved. We call this History on Demand.
Y-Axis Properties – To Change the Y-Scale Properties, right-click on the Y-Scale, and select Y-Scale Properties.
Tool Tip Properties – The Tool Tip Window pops up when you hover over a price in the chart.
Chart Tools
Line Studies
Drawing Tools – Add Rectangles, Ellipses, and Arrows to a chart. To add a Rectangle, Ellipse, and Arrow to a chart window, first display the Context toolbar.
Trendlines – A variety of Line Studies (also called Trend Lines, are offered to help you visualize and forecast trends.
Trendline Properties – The Trendline Properties consist of the Position tab, the Line tab and the Advanced tab (if applicable).
Fibonacci Line Study Properties – Fibonacci fans, arcs, extensions and retracements are based on a study line that you draw.
Cycle Finder – Identify a deviation in a cycle pattern and forecast the next cycle into the future on a chart.
Gann Lines – Selecting the Gann fan icon will give you this base study line plus fans at nine other significant Gann angles. Gann lines extend to the edge of a chart.
Andrew’s Pitchfork – Three Parallel lines drawn from three points on your Charts. The lines make up the two tines and a handle of a pitchfork.
Volume Profile – An advanced charting study that displays trading activity over a specified time period at a specified price level.
Speed Resistance Lines – Are a tool in the technical analysis used for determining potential areas of support and resistance in the market. Also know as speed lines, these are trendlines based on 1/3 and 2/3 retracements.
Anchored VWAP– As compared to the standard VWAP Study, the Anchored VWAP can now be plotted between two points and/or fixed to X-axis values.
Linear Regression Channels – A line study version of the chart study that can be anchored to specific X-axis values.
Parallel Line Study – This line study as 3 anchors. The first 2 clicks establishes a trendline/angle. The third click duplicates the trendline but slide across the Y-axis to create a parallel channel.
Chart Time Intervals – The Chart Time Interval is located in the lower right corner of the chart.
Constant Volume Bars/Lines – Constant Volume Bars draws a new bar or candle when a specified number of futures contracts are traded.
Zooming in on Charts – The Zoom icons on your Context Toolbar let you quickly magnify any section of a chart.
Chart Comments– You can easily customize comments that you have added to charts with the text icon.
Chart Density – You can change the density of information in a chart window in several ways. Many of the features described below are found on the Context toolbar.
Chart Advanced Features
Comparison Charting – Comparison charting compares two or more instruments and/or expressions.
Base Symbol – The Base symbol is the one you added as the first symbol in the chart. If you want a different one to be the base symbol, just right click on the chart line or bar and select Set as Base Symbol.
Chart Templates – Chart window templates let you design a format for charts that you can overlay on windows opened later.
News on This Date – News of This Date is a feature of charting that will obtain the scrolling news on a specific day.
Add/Edit Notes – Notes provides a mechanism in which some event or note can be recorded and reflected on charts.
Chart Filters – ProphetX comes packaged with several default chart filters.
Studies, Signals and Filters
Studies – ProphetX has many different studies that can be added to charts.
Session Filter – ProphetX comes packaged with several default chart filters.
Element Filter– Element filters let you customize the type of data presented in a tick/intra-day chart.
Holiday Filter– Most holiday and weekend are automatically filtered and there is a data range option in the charting dialog, but there may be times when you will need to create your own filters.
AutoPublish – Allows the user the ability to save a ProphetX chart to an External document and update automatically.
Seasonal – A seasonal chart shows a year over year view of an instrument and compares day by day throughout the season.
Tabular – A tabular display provides chart data in table format.
Time and Sales – A Time and Sales display shows all transactions that have occurred on an individual instrument during the trading day.
Market Profile – The Market Profile is a statistical display of price activity over a specified time interval.
Forward Curve – Unlike historical charts, Forward Curves display all of the selected forward contract months along the X-axis.
Crop Condition – The Crop Conditions charting module displays both a text and graphic version of previous, current, and normal crop conditions for a select number of growing areas within the United States.
Price Distribution – The Price Distribution chart displays the percentage of time an instrument trades at or above a range of prices using inter-day history (daily or weekly).