Applying Built-in or Saved Strategies
Several common strategies are provided with your software to get you
started. Using these at first can help you learn the tools as well as
learn to create your own strategies.
TIP: The following steps apply to any of the Strategy
Tools. The only difference is that the Chart window only allows one Strategy
to be applied at a time, whereas the other tools allow multiple strategies
at once. Exceptions for this difference are noted below.
- In the strategy tool of
choice, click Settings
> Strategy Center... in the menu (for Charts, click Tools
> Strategy Center...)
- The Strategy Center opens
showing a list of Available Strategies,
Selected Strategies (the strategies
that are currently being used in that tool), and buttons allowing you
to manage these two lists.
- To see what an individual
strategy does, click on it and a description of the strategy will display
at the bottom of the window.
- To apply the strategy,
click the strategy in the Available Strategies
list and then click Add.
The strategy will be added to the Selected
Strategies list (for Charts, click the strategy and check Show selected strategy
on chart).
- Click OK
to apply the changes to the tool.
- Refer to the topics for
each individual Strategy Tool to learn about the information the strategy
is returning:
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