How Does it Work?
We would like you to enjoy the versatility of our Charting service by joining our beta registration. After joining, log-in and get charting.
- Set-up
- The initial charting screen will have a large workspace area and a series of icons along the top
First thing will be to select a stock to analyse using the smart-selector tool and pin-in 
our tools; the workspace bar on the left, the annotation tool 
andstock chart options 
In the workspace bar are options for
- Indicators
- Trend Lines
- Support/Resistance Lines
- Channels
stockCharts default to one year, but you can use thestock Chart Options to select for 6-, 3-, 2-months and 1-month time frames. The Previous and Next buttons allow you to jump years or months forwards or backwards. Alternatively, the time can be set using the slider along the bottom:
stockCharts can be either a line, or a more specialised "Candlestick" chart.
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- Adding a Price Overlay
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- 1. Select 'Indicators' drop down
- 2. Scroll to 'Simple Moving Average'
- 3. Leave the source price as 'Close' - this refers to the closing price of the stock. Butoptions are available to use 'High', 'Low' and 'Open'
- 4. Select the length of the moving average, line thickness, and colour
- 5. Add Indicator
- 6. If you plan to add additional moving averages repeat the same steps as above
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- Adding a Technical Indicator
- Indicators which are not price overlays will appear in an additional window located below the price chart (but above the volume information)
- 1. Select 'Relative Strength'
- 2. Again, there are options to use open, high and low price data – but closing price is typical
- 3. Default time frame is 14 days
- 4. Choose a colour and line thickness
- 5. Add Indicator
Adding new indicators will create a series of tabs. Selecting each tab will allow indicators to be shared on the one window. To remove an indicator from the display window select the tab gain. To remove an indicator completely select [x]
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- Adding a Trend line
- Adding a trend line requires two inputs
- 1. Set the sensitivity slider; the lower the number the greater the number of trends which can be identified
- 2. Find Trends
Trends, where available, will appear as an overlay on price. If no trends are available for a given setting then the chart will remain clear and a ‘No trends found’ message will appear
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- Adding Support and Resistance
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- 1. Select the sensitivity of the search; the lower the number the greater the number of support and resistance lines returned
- 2. Find support / resistance
Support and Resistance, where available, will appear as an overlay on price. If no support or resistance areas are available for a given setting then thestock chart will remain clear.
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- Adding Channel lines
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- 1. Channel lines are derived from trend lines
- 2. Select sensitivity for search; the lower the number the greater the number of channels returned
- 3. Find channels
Channels will appear as an overlay on price. If no channels are found then a message will be given and thestock chart will remain clear.
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- Adding an annotation
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- 1. Select either Note, Line, Region or Angle
- 2. Select colour
- 3. Select stroke
- 4. Click onstock chart and adjust as necessary
- 5. Use Clear to remove all annotations
- 6. Save yourstock Chart View and/or Chart Image
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- Saving and emailing
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- 1.stock Charts can be emailed and saved as a either a Chart View or Chart Image
- 2.stock Chart Views can be shared with friends
- 3.stock Chart Images can be imported into a blog or message board
- 4. When emailing astock Chart View or Chart Image it is possible to attach more than one chart
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