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Graph Screen
1.13 Graph Screen
Left-hand Toolbar
There are 11 icons in the left hand toolbar. The first three icons control the type of chart you want to show--
bar, line and candlestick. The next two control the amount of space between each data point in the analysis
(the spacing always being equal between data points).
These two icons controlling data point spacing can be used in conjunction with three buttons below the
graph (e.g., 4 years of Data; 1 year of Data; 7 months of Data) to control the number of data points to be
plotted and seen on the screen display.
The next four icons (triangle shapes) are used to shift an individual cycle or the synthesized cycle plot (not
the data) to the right or left. The double triangles shift the plot 10 data points at a time, and the single
triangle shift s the plot one data point at a time.
The next icon is shaped like a magnifier and creates a full chart in a new screen. This enlarged chart is for
easier display and has no active buttons, but the right click feature accesses a drop down box with quite a
number of customizable features. The esc key returns you to the previous graphical screen analysis. You
may wish to spend some time on the full screen right click feature to familiarize your self with the
customizable features.
The last icon is a plot button, and since this button will be used frequently, it is duplicated on the right-hand
tool bar as well, for easy of use. They are identical. This icon plots any cycle(s) you selected from the
cycles and statistics grid below the graph.
Once a cycle is plotted, you can adjust the amount of screen space devoted to displaying a separate cycle
and a separate price plot. If you selected the Overlapping option in Plot Style, both the cycle(s) and the
price data appear on the same plot and no adjustment is possible. To adjust the relative space between the
display of the cycle(s) plot and the price plot, place the cursor on the lower part of the graph and slowly
move the cursor up until a double arrow is seen, and then, holding down the left mouse button, drag the
double arrow (dividing line between the cycle plot and price plot) up or down. Hitting the Clear Technicals
button on the lower right will return the relative display positions of the cycle(s) and price plots to their
starting positions.
There are times when you will want to look at Cycle plots, and select individual cycles, and view each cycle,
unsynthesized, in a separate display area (some refer to this area as a sub-graph) so you can see the
relative influence of a particular cycle over another.
Right Hand Toolbar
There are 15 icons in the right-hand toolbar. The first icon allows you to open the text editor Notepad, for
convenient editing of any ASCII file.
The next five icons are traditional technical studies to be used with the cycle plots. They are respectively
Stochastics, MACD, RSI, an Oscillator, Seasonal and Moving Average. These are standard technical tools
and the parameters that are used in these studies can be changed from their current default values by
selecting the Graph Defaults button on the lower right; the default values are also shown there as well. Not
all studies have the same parameters, so NA as a default value means not applicable. The default values
shown are respectively (the option choices follow in parentheses) Stochastic slow 14 3 3 (fast); MACD 26
12 9 (positive numbers); RSI 14 (a positive number); Osc 35 5; Seasonal 14 1992 (Richard ask); Mov Avg
displaced EXP (simple NA).
The next two icons are proprietary Techsignal™ Price Projection tools, the first one a Price Projection tool
and the second a Fibonacci Retracement tool. Detailed discussion about the use of these two tools is found
below in section 2.3.3 on Price Projections.
The next icon is a standard Regression Channel tool.
The next icon allows you to send a graph and its cycles and studies to a file, the clipboard or to a printer,
including capture by a third party printer driver for translation into a file type you select. You can choose the
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