TradeStation Help
Chart Analysis Preferences - Display
The Display tab allows you to set the global settings for how element
in the Chart Analysis windows in your workspaces are displayed.
Access using the menu bar View
> Chart Analysis Preferences menu sequence and select the Display tab.
Axis
- Show year with months on time axis
- Displays both the month and the year on a time axis (for example,
July is expressed as Jul '00).
- Show months as digits on time axis - Displays months as numerical values on the time
axis (for example, July is shown as 7).
- Remove trailing zeros from price axis - Removes ending zeros from values in the price
axis (for example, 45.20 is displayed as 45.2).
- Show Pointer Update Indication - Displays
the pointer update indication on the price axis.
- Prompt for symbol Axis Scaling selection - Prompts you with axis scaling choices when adding
a symbol.
- Prompt for indicator Axis Scaling selection - Prompts you with axis scaling choices when adding
an indicator.
- Display warnings for automatic changes
to Scaling/Axis settings - Displays scaling/axis
change warnings.
Bar
Spacing
- Auto remove open tick in tight spacing
- Controls the display of bars in a chart. As bar spacing gets
smaller (when you resize the window or adjust the bar spacing), the
open ticks begin overlapping with the previous bar, cluttering the
chart. When you select this option, the open tick will be displayed
only when it does not overlap with the previous bar.
- Auto space bars when chart resizes - Controls the bar spacing when you are re-sizing
a chart. When you enable this option, the bar spacing changes to remain
in proportion with the size of the window, increasing as the window
increases and decreasing as the window decreases. Therefore, the number
of bars shown in the Chart Analysis window remains constant, regardless
of the size of the window.
- Auto-size bar and drawing object weight
when bar spacing changes - Controls the width
of the individual chart bars. Enabling this option causes the width
of each bar to increase or decrease in relation to the size of the
bar spacing.
Data Tips
- Show data tips - Toggles
the display of data tips on or off. Use the drop-down list to the right of the check box to specify the default location where the data tip will appears across all charts, either relative to the
mouse pointer or anchored to the top left corner of the chart.
- Maximum number of columns to display - Specifies the maximum number of columns to display in the Data Tip.
- Use Windows system colors for the Data
Tip - Makes the text and background colors of the Data Tip use the current windows settings for tables instead
of the chart text and background colors. This box is unchecked by
default.
- Display empty rows for plots with no value
- Eliminates the display of blank rows in the Data
Tip to improve readability and overcome negative performance issues.
This box is unchecked by default.
Candlestick
- When a study paints a candlestick bar,
paint the body and wick - Paints the entire body and wick
when using candlestick bars for the all indicators and/or PaintBar
studies used in all charts. A minimum of two plots are required within
the indicator, using BarHigh and BarLow plot types. Clear this setting
for the BarHigh and BarLow plot types to be displayed as a vertical
line over the price range that is specified. To format the vertical
line or change the plot types, see Format
Analysis Technique - Style dialog.
Click
OK to apply changes or Cancel
to exit without changes.