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| Chart Properties |

The Chart Properties Dialog lets you customize the chart window. The Chart Name field contains the saved chart name or an * (if this is a temporary chart). The Symbol field contains the stock symbol as specified at the appropriate exchange. The Symbol Name is the company name of the stock symbol. The Time Span can be either daily, weekly, monthly, or an intraday time (tick, volume,1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes). Scaling is either Linear or Percent. Percent scaling shows the change in % from the first data point visible in the window. Chart Type by default is the Japanese Candlestick format; it's Western equivalent is OHLC (Open, High, Low, Close). A simple line chart is also available in which case Line Width can be used to set the width of the line. The Date Range can be specified as a specific date range to override the default specified in the User Preferences Dialog. This is only used when fetching historic daily, weekly, or monthly charts, and specifies the range of dates the program requests data for. Its best to leave this blank and change the default settings if you want more or less data. # Units per Candle is the number of ticks per candle or tick charts, or the number of contracts or shares per candle for volume charts. This is only applicable when TIme Span is set to tick or volume. Setting time span to tick specifies the chart is to be a tick chart of the specified ticks per point. This is the base tick count which which also be saved to a file. If you set your tick count to 1 you will get a large amount of data saved to the file. Setting time span to volume specifies that a new bar/candle is started each time the specifed volume has been traded. Each candle represents a fixed unit of volume for this type of chart. The volume field for tick charts is used to store the number of trades rather than volume since the volume is always the same. The Window Layout area of the dialog can be used to change the visibility settings for each pane. The default settings for each pane are as shown above. Studies are assigned to one of three study groups. See the write up of each study to find out the default study group assignment.

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