Charts Data Display

The Chart display is made up of a series of up to four configurable panels, each with their own Y-axis and a common X-axis. The fifth panel is reserved for displaying Volume and Open Interest. In addition the Chart display includes an optional legend and data value display.

Panels

A chart can contain up to five panels, with each panel being displayed only when selected by the user.  

· Top: This panel is the primary panel and displays charts and all symbol fields (including bar and candlestick) except volume and open interest.  This panel can also display studies, in line and user defined formulas, trendlines, and statistic lines for the Mean and +/- 1 and 2 Standard Deviations.

· Middle Panels 2 through 4:  These panels can be used to display studies. Multiple studies can be assigned to these panes

· Bottom: This panel is used to display volume and open interest.

Legend

The legend is displayed in the upper left hand corner and can be toggled on and off from either the Chart toolbar or the Edit Dialog.

The legend contains one row for each symbol with associated field/chart types in a comma separated list.  Each item is color coded to match their chart display.  The legend also indicates which Y-axis, either left or right, the symbol is using.

Value Display Popup Window

The Value Display Popup Window allows the user to view the specific values at any point along the X-axis of the chart.  The user can toggle the display of the Value Display window by either clicking on the chart or by checking Show Value Display check box on the Display Tab of the Edit Dialog.  The Edit Dialog also gives the user two formatting options: display all fields or just the fields being charted.  The data values will update based on the mouse over of any point along the X-axis. Users can also define the background and foreground color as well as the translucency of the Value Display on the Color tab.

Panning

Users have the ability to pan the data lines in charts. This is useful when after scaling, the lines go out of the viewing area. To enable panning the user simply needs to click and drag up/down or left/right within the chart viewing area. The mouse cursor will change to a four way arrow to indicate that you are in panning mode. If there are multiple symbols in the chart (scaled to the left and right axis), panning will move the lines that are scaled to the left. Panning is disabled when the cross hair tool is on and when any of the drawing tool bar buttons are selected.

Right Click Menu

A small right click menu is available in charts. Future releases of MarketView will contain more functionality to select from.

· Crosshair Cursor: Enables the crosshair cursor tool.

· Drawing Tool: Turns on the drawing toolbar.

· Datapoint Tracker: Enables a price tracking marker that you can move over the commodity selected as an alternative to the crosshair tool.

o The Datapoint Tracker sub menu allows you to choose the contract to you want to assign the price tracking marker to.

· Value Display: Turns on the value display panel.

· Line Selection:  Line Selection allows for highlighting lines scaled to the left, right or all. Line selection is also available as an icon on the toolbar.

· Zoom: Enables the Zoom functionality that is also available as an icon on the toolbar.

· Create Table From Chart: allows you to create a table history from the chart

· Email: Email will take a snapshot of the component you have selected and open your email client and attach the file for sending. Currently the email function only works for Microsoft Outlook.