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02-02-2009, 02:21 PM
In chat tonight (excellent session) there was a question/comment about how Neal/people set up their charts. It would be interesting to see how people set up their charts and which charting packages they use.
For info, the attached shows how I've come to set up my charts. Got to admit I prefer as few clicks as possible to bring up charts and swap between them. The attached shows Ensign, but my Esignal is set up the same way. The top left has D, W, M fibs on it. Bottom left, 240, 60 top right 30, 15, 10 and bottom right 5, and down. This way the charts don't get unreadable and an overview is always available.
On the other screen is usually things like Neals updates, fx street news or Metatrader with small charts open that I may be watching or in the trades – supplied by a very nice broker on demo that doesn't seem to run out. Used to use visual trader fom CMS on never ending demo, but that's packed in for some reason.
Apart from the cost of esignal for a few currency pairs and a couple of indeces, the things that really hacks me off about it is the inability to get rid of the labels from the fibs, especially as they stretch miles to the right of the levels and the fact that alerts don't chow on the charts. (They've fixed the no sound bug).
I thought I'd try Ensign as it comes with a FXCM forex feed as standard – it's very quirky and the data refresh rate when started or between shutting down/starting up again is a bit slow (not in normal use), but is pretty flexible – jury still out! Support is excellent.
Anyone else use Ensign with IB or another feed? Any recommendations for other progs that give the flexibility of Ensign? Any other setups to see?
Ps – if anyone fancies having a go at the TRSI for Pro Realtime....as this is the charting package IG index use (cut down version) for their realtime charts, so sometimes use them. As IG carry all the major indeces, commodities, shares, currencies et al it's a good way of getting prices for instruments you may use occasionaly without the high cost. Bit like opening an account with IB, I suppose. Probably not a problem when you're really successful and rich trader:-)
Cheers.
Graham_S
For info, the attached shows how I've come to set up my charts. Got to admit I prefer as few clicks as possible to bring up charts and swap between them. The attached shows Ensign, but my Esignal is set up the same way. The top left has D, W, M fibs on it. Bottom left, 240, 60 top right 30, 15, 10 and bottom right 5, and down. This way the charts don't get unreadable and an overview is always available.
On the other screen is usually things like Neals updates, fx street news or Metatrader with small charts open that I may be watching or in the trades – supplied by a very nice broker on demo that doesn't seem to run out. Used to use visual trader fom CMS on never ending demo, but that's packed in for some reason.
Apart from the cost of esignal for a few currency pairs and a couple of indeces, the things that really hacks me off about it is the inability to get rid of the labels from the fibs, especially as they stretch miles to the right of the levels and the fact that alerts don't chow on the charts. (They've fixed the no sound bug).
I thought I'd try Ensign as it comes with a FXCM forex feed as standard – it's very quirky and the data refresh rate when started or between shutting down/starting up again is a bit slow (not in normal use), but is pretty flexible – jury still out! Support is excellent.
Anyone else use Ensign with IB or another feed? Any recommendations for other progs that give the flexibility of Ensign? Any other setups to see?
Ps – if anyone fancies having a go at the TRSI for Pro Realtime....as this is the charting package IG index use (cut down version) for their realtime charts, so sometimes use them. As IG carry all the major indeces, commodities, shares, currencies et al it's a good way of getting prices for instruments you may use occasionaly without the high cost. Bit like opening an account with IB, I suppose. Probably not a problem when you're really successful and rich trader:-)
Cheers.
Graham_S