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FCharts SE Main Screen

FCharts SE zoomed drawing window

When you double-click the main screen it will open a zoomed view like this one.

OHLC Bar Chart

This is a Bar Chart for a selected period. Along the top of the chart you can see the open, high, low and close for the most recent day, with each figure in red if they are below the previous day's close, and green if they are above. Next is the amount of change from one day's close to the next, then the volume (red for lower, green for higher) and finally the number of days currently in use to plot the Exponential moving average lines. The colours show you which line is using which number of days.

The classic candlestick chart

Line Chart - Shows a line representing the closing price

At times in the top-right of the screen you may see a 'Close Rqd for MA1>MA2' followed by a value. This is an extrapolation - the program is telling you what price the stock will have to close above for MA1 to cross above MA2. It will only display if MA1 is currently lower than MA2. The same applies to MA2>MA3.

Trend Lines

If you draw trend lines on the zoomed view they will be stored on disk and displayed on both the zoomed view AND the main chart window.

User Defined Indicators (Write your own...)

Lower window charts

Momentum
The blue momentum bars show the difference between the current close price and the close price x days ago. (X being 10, usually, but you can change it) If the bars are above the black line the closing price is higher than it was ten (or rather, x) days ago.

MACD
The blue line is the difference between two exponential moving averages of unequal lengths, the red dotted line is the exponential moving average of the blue line. The current number of days for each line is shown in the relative colour.

MACD (Zero Centre)
As above, but drawn around a zero-based centre line.

Volume
Shows historical volume, with 0 at the bottom. The red bars show the actual volume, while the purple line is an exponential moving average. By default it is 21 days, but you may change this in the settings screen.

RSI
Relative Strength Index shows the RSI plus a moving average.

User Defined Indicators

NOTE

You can also export the current chart as an image, view the raw data which went into making the chart and double-click any chart to open a zoom window where you can draw lines with built-in tools.

You can double-click on a chart to get a larger view in its own window. While zoomed in you can select a drawing colour from the pallette and cover the chart with support and resistance lines, trend lines or anything else. Click and hold the mouse, then drag to a new point before letting go. You can move whole lines around by dragging them with the mouse, and you can move end-points the same way. As the mouse passes over a line you have drawn, the cursor changes to a cross with arrows or a diagonal line with arrows - when it's a cross with arrows, hold the left button to drag the current line around. When it's a diagonal line with arrows you can hold the left button to drag the end of the line around.

In the Zoomed view you can also drag the chart to the right and left when the time-frame is six months or more. To do this, just click and hold the right mouse button on the chart window and move the mouse. When you release the mouse, the chart will stop in its new position.

If you change the time-frame using the buttons at the top of the form, it will also change the time-frame in the underlying main chart.

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