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Formatting a Symbol in the Chart Analysis Window

The Format Symbol dialog has four tabs - Settings, Style, Scaling, and Properties - which allow you to format a symbol to your specifications. You can format the symbol as you create the chart or once you've created it. If you create the chart without formatting the symbol, the chart will be created using the default symbol formatting settings.

For the Format Symbol dialog to automatically open after the creation of a chart, use the menu bar View > Chart Analysis Preferences menu sequence. From the General tab, check the Prompt for format when creating new Chart Analysis windows setting and click OK.

Following is a brief description of what each tab contains:

Settings - Select a symbol and choose the data interval, date range, subgraph, and time zone for the selected symbol. You can also access and modify session information for the exchange on which the selected symbol is traded.
Style - Modify the symbol's bar type and bar components as well as the bar colors representing the regular session and outside the regular session. You can also choose whether to display an update indication for the chart.
Scaling - Used to set axis type, scale type, scale range, and other scale display settings.
Properties - This is a display-only tab that contains detailed information about the symbol such as price scale, session, big point value, and minimum move.

Formatting a Symbol in the Chart Analysis Window

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