Overview
- Chart
a. Price scale
b. Date scale
c. Panoramic scrollbar - Vertical bar with drawing tools
- Main bar with the main features
- Search box to pick up new instruments
- Hideable wizard bar
- Hideable toolbox with all the chart options, list of indicators and strategies
- Hideable Outputbox for alerts or strategy development outputs
Chart Navigation
- Panoramic scrollbar to scroll and zoom
- To move the chart press the right button and hold
- Use the mouse wheel to scroll in the chart
- Press and hold the left button to show the price data under the mouse-courser, including the information from trend lines, strategies or indicators
- Quick buttons to see full history, nice view and hide panoramic scrollbar are on the right button corner
- Scales are scrollable by using with left and right mouse to scroll and zoom
Drawing Tools
- Double click on a tool to duplicate it
- Holding Shift and Ctrl does magic stuff with the trend line
- Properties are in the tool box on the right hand
- Use the mouse to click or release a tool
Main Bar
- Changeable chart types
- Default periods changeable to custom periods (3 days, 7 minutes, 1500 ticks or 500 shares)
- Changeable time span will change the length of visible data
- Cursor-, zoom- and target-mode.
- Snap-mode, reset-mode
- All drawing tools are deletable by one-click
- Collapse wizard and collapse output window
- Tabs:
- Chart – the normal mode
- Editor – to create or change strategies or indicators (see below)
- Performance report – to check the major statistics of your strategy (see below)
- Help – support information like phone, e-mail adresse, web address, etc.
Search box
- Provided by Eikon
- Search the Thomson Reuters universe of market information and replace the current chart with a another product
- Link the chart with other Eikon elements or applications
Easy to use
To change the chart-type or to add a new indicator is very easy.
- Simple Drag-n-drop
- What you see is what you get
Wizard bar
- Three powerful wizards:
- “Add Instrument”
- Add another instruments to an existing chart
- Add another instrument with new data scale
- “Add Spread”
- Default spreads with the possibility to change RIC, currency or unit
- Calculation in command line (A+B, etc.)
- User can create own spreads in the editor and add them to the defaults
- “Add Forward curve”
- With a root-code RIC open quickly a forward curve
- Displacement is possible
- “Add Instrument”
Toolbox
- Properties:
- We don’t like popups or option dialogs
- Split view: On the top are the selectable elements in the chart and below are the properties of each element (periods, displacement, color and other attributes)
- Each change in the properties has a direct effect. Immediately!
- Indicators:
- Shipped with nearly 200 indicators
- Search box to find the most-fitting indicator
- Strategies:
- Shipped with nearly 550 strategy modules
- Search box to find your strategy
Formula Code Editor
- Each indicator or strategy is shipped with the code. Click the right button on the element to open the code in the editor
- Each code window is managed by tabs
- The formula language is created by us and named Equilla. Equilla is closed to Pascal and can understood “easy language” from Tradestation®
- Fully integrated development environment
- Syntax highlight, insight window with information about the function, syntax completion (Ctrl + Space)
- Help: Quick start for Equilla and searchable code reference are all online
Combine Strategie Modules
- Combine out of over 550 modules your strategy idea.
- change behavior directly in the editor
- backtest your Idea and analyse your performance directly in the chart
Performance Report
- All important statistics are available, from total net profit to percent profitable and many more.
- Returns by month, quarter and year
- List of all trades
Session information
- Click on the right button on a product/instrument to open session editor
- Overwrite existing session information with your own data
- Change week, day or time
- Change unit or other fundamental information of the instrument
Outputbox
- Alerts from indicators, strategies or drawing tools like trend lines are plotting their information in this window. In the future Tradesignal Chart uses the internal alerting mechanism of Eikon
- Scripts can use this as a output window. It is helpful to see the results while programing
- Errors from compilation can be seen in this windows too
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