Chart indicators - overlays, oscillators and volume profile
INDICATORS opens the picker. Tick an indicator to draw it, and click its colour square to pick a colour. Everything is calculated in the browser, from the bars the desk already sends, so the trading engine does no extra work at all.
In this video
The 30-second version
The same topic in thirty seconds, made for a phone screen.
Both videos use AutoScanTrade Lite in paper mode with made-up symbols and prices.
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Pick your indicators
INDICATORS opens the picker. Tick an indicator to draw it, and click its colour square to pick a colour. Everything is calculated in the browser, from the bars the desk already sends, so the trading engine does no extra work at all. In practice, tick EMA 20 and EMA 50, then compare where price sits against each.
Overlays
Overlays are drawn on the price, and any number can be on together: EMA nine, twenty, fifty and two hundred, SMA twenty, fifty and two hundred, HMA twenty, and VWAP, Bollinger, Keltner and Donchian channels, Supertrend and Parabolic SAR, the high and low of the day, and support and resistance.
Oscillators, one at a time
Oscillators sit one at a time, in a band under the price: RSI, MACD, Stochastic, ATR, ADX with plus and minus DI, OBV, CCI, MFI, and Williams percent R. The numbers after each name are its settings, such as RSI 14. Here, RSI fourteen, with Bollinger bands on the price.
Volume profile
And under volume, the Volume Profile. A fourth group holds the chart-signal arrows, which have a video of their own.
Values, not guesses
Each active indicator's chip carries its current value, so a band with no axis is still readable. And when there are not enough bars for a long indicator, the chip says no line here, instead of drawing a misleading line. A long one, such as EMA 200, cannot draw on every timeframe. Click a chip to turn that indicator off.
Save your set
Your choices are kept by that browser. SAVE in the picker also saves them on the desk, so a new chart window opens with them, and RESET goes back to the set the desk has saved. Try a new set in paper first.