Chart Settings Panel

Chart Settings allow you to select technical studies to overlay on the chart, determine the time frame, frequency, and style of your chart, as well as any other chart customizations.

When you save a chart, these settings are saved as well.

Symbol

Enter the symbol for the chart you wish to view. Click the arrow to select from a list of recently-viewed symbols.

Link this tab

Links the symbol in the chart to all chart symbol fields when checked. Chart will update based on any symbol field change made in other StreetSmart.com charts.

Collapse/Expand

Click Collapse to reduce to chart settings panel down to a thin bar along the side of the chart.

Reopen the settings by clicking the Expand button that displays upon shrinking the settings panel.

Time Frame

Select the overall time period for which you wish to see chart data:

• 1, 2, 5 or 10 Days

• 1, 2, 3 or 6 Months

• Year to Date (YTD)

• 1, 2, 5, or 10 Years

Frequency

Select the length of time for each price period on the chart.

• 1, 5, 15 or 60 Minutes

• Daily

• Weekly

• Monthly

Chart Style

Choose from the following chart styles:

 Candlestick

• On a daily chart, each stick is one day. On an intraday chart, each stick represents between 1 and 120 minutes.

• Green indicates the security's closing/last price for the day or interval was higher than today's opening price.

• Red indicates the security's closing/last price for the day or interval was less than today's opening price.

• Gray indicates the security's closing/last price for the day or interval was equal to today's opening price.

• The top and bottom of the line behind it represent the high and low for the day/period.

Line

• Based on bar close

OHLC (Open, High, Low, Close)

• On a daily chart, each bar is one day. On an intraday chart, each bar represents one interval.

• The left rung indicates the opening price of the stock, and the right rung indicates the closing/last price of the stock for the day or interval.

• The top and bottom of the bar represent the high and low for that day or interval.

Mountain

• Based on bar close

Price scale

The Linear and Logarithmic options allow you to change the scale of the vertical axis (price axis) of your chart.

Linear

Displays the price axis with each price an equal distance from the next.

EXAMPLE: A stock that has moved from $20 to $30 would show the same absolute change as an increase in price from $50 to $60, even though the move from $20 to $30 represented a 50% advance, and the move from $50 to $60 represented a more modest 20% advance.  

Logarithmic

The vertical axis is structured so that an equal distance along it represents an equal percentage change.  

EXAMPLE: Using the example above, the move from $20 to $30 is a larger percentage increase (50% increase) than the move from $50 to $60 (20% increase). Therefore, the axis points between $20 and $30 are farther apart than the axis points between $50 and $60.

Extended hours

Check Pre-market and/or Post-market to view before and after hours activity in your chart.

Overlays

Overlays can display another symbol or an index chart or study on top of your current chart.

Click to view your Overlay settings. Check a box for each overlays you wish to view (you can make multiple selections).  

Refer to the Chart Overlays topic for more information.

Studies

Using the study menus, you may position up to 4 technical analysis studies above or below (or both) each chart.

Click to see the list of available studies and settings.

Refer to the Chart Studies topic for more information.

Reset chart defaults

Restores the default settings for the chart.