Installed QuantShare today and it gives a pleasantly warm feeling. I started with download of NSE (India) symbols and data -- it went off smoothly.
Have some questions related to basic usage & charting:
1. The symbol list seems to be a grid with two columns. What is the second column for?
2a. It is difficult to navigate through symbols with the keyboard. If a symbol 'cell' is selected, the up/down arrow can be used once. Subsequently the keyboard focus shifts to the Indicators panel.
2b. Similarly, if a letter is pressed, say 'R' to go to to symbols beginning with 'R', the focus seems to shift to the search box in the Indicator pane.
3a. Drew a trendline on a monthly chart. Dates for the bars are shown as 01/06/10 and 01/09/10
3b. Changed to weekly. The anchor points of the trendline are on 14/06/10 and 13/09/10. Guess the monthly mid points are used.
3c. Changed to daily. The anchor points are on bars of 01/06/10 and 01/09/10. How is one to understand this?
4. Is there a way to move the time axis to view more of the right hand side? Say one would like to see when two trendlines meet in the future. It is understood that calendars/holidays will not be marked.
5. How does 'Save Settings' and 'Default' work for trendline properties? Does Default not apply to line color/thickness?
6. Is there a way to view more of the Y axis such as to view nearby support/resistance that is currently not visible?
1- If you are referring to the watchlist, then the second column allow you display pre-calculated values (Values calculated when quotes are saved in your database). Right click on the grid and select Sort to display the available fields.
Pre-calculated values also include the latest values of your custom database. Image you create a fundamental database with the PER ratio of each stock, then if enabled, the application will create a pre-calculated field corresponding to the last PER ratio of each stock.
2- Everything is ok here, I couldn't reproduce this strange behavior. Please tell me exactly the windows/tools that are open in your workspace.
3- Thank you for reporting this. The weekly chart offsets the trendline by one bar. We will fix this.
4- It is not possible to move the time axis that way. However, if you want we can implement this in a next release.
5- For default color/thickness/dash, there are three buttons in the drawing tool control near the "Horizontal line" and "Support/Resistance".
6- Yes, it is possible to scale the chart to expand the high-low range.
In the formula editor (right click on a chart then edit formula), you can use one of the following functions:
SetScale
SetPercentScale
SetMaxScale
SetMinScale
1. This is neat. Will investigate it deeper later.
Having tried some of the available presets, how does one reset the second column to 'blank'?
2. Funnily, this works as expected today. For the record, the main workspace was as installed -- watchlist pane docked left, graph in center, indicator pane docked right.
Not nitpicking but the old editor-like issue is there. Assuming current symbol is 'E', if 'R' is pressed, the first symbol beginning with 'R' is highlit. If the up/down arrow key is used, the symbol next to 'E' becomes active.
Again not nitpicking, but the popup comes up under the arrow. If the border of the popup is clicked, the symbol is not activated; this occurs for me about 20% of the time. Have to move the mouse arrow a bit left or right and click.
3. There are problems when moving from daily to monthly as well. A trendline anchor point on 21/05/10 shows as 01/07/10 on the monthly.
4. Will leave it to you to decide at this point.
5. Thanks for clearing this.
6. Okay.
Is there an option for the Y-axis in a log scale?
TIA - Not the moniker but a TLA for 'Thanks in advance' :-)
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