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Formatting the Style of the ActivityBar Study Cells

Formatting the style of an ActivityBar study cells enables you to change the way in which the ActivityBar study cells are displayed on your chart.

For instance, you can display cells with or without borders, as solid cells with varying colors to signify different time periods, or only with cell notations (letters or signs inside the cells). You can also specify whether or not to display the ActivityZone, as well as whether or not you want to display the open and closing prices on the chart.

 Activate a Chart Analysis window containing an ActivityBar study. Access using the menu bar Format > Analysis Techniques menu sequence. The Format Analysis Techniques & Strategies dialog is displayed.

1. From the Analysis Technique tab, select the desired ActivityBar study you want to format.
2. Click Format. The Format ActivityBar:[study] dialog is displayed.
3. Click the Style tab.

Activity Cells

• Select the Display Cell check box to display gridlines between each cell. If this check box is cleared, the gridlines for each cell will be filled with a solid color.
• Select the Display Symbols check box to display symbols in each cell. If this check box is cleared, the symbols in each cell will be filled with a solid color.
• Select the Display ActivityZone check box to display the zone around the cells of your ActivityBar study. Zones will not appear if they are not part of the ActivityBar study. See the ActivityBar Study Library for a detailed description of each built-in ActivityBar study.

 A zone highlights specific cells of each ActivityBar study on the chart by enclosing them in a box, the dimensions and location of which is specified by the specific ActivityBar study. For most ActivityBar studies, the zone is drawn around all the cells that fall between the open and close of the bar. However, the Price Distribution ActivityBar study draws the zone around the most frequently occurring price in the bar, one standard deviation above it and one standard deviation below it. You can change the number of standard deviations used to draw the zone. For specifications on the zone in each study, refer to the description of the applicable ActivityBar study.

• Select the Display open and close markers check box to display the arrows marking the open and closing prices for each bar on your chart.

Click Default to use the selections as the default settings for that ActivityBar study in the future.

 Click OK or click Close to apply changes.