The Main Screen
Describes the FCharts2 main screen and the various menus and toolbars it contains.
The FCharts2 Main Screen has a main menu across the top and the tool strip down the left hand side:
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Describes the FCharts2 main screen and the various menus and toolbars it contains.
The FCharts2 Main Screen has a main menu across the top and the tool strip down the left hand side:
FCharts 2 Main Menu
From left to right, the FCharts2 Main Menu contains the following options: File, Tools, Data, Companies, Prices, Settings, Window, Links, Help
The File Menu allows you to open an existing database or create a new one.
The Tools Menu gives you access to the List view, the market scanner, the trade tester and so on.
The Companies Menu allows you to add and edit news items, list all trendlines, and delete companies and/or transactions.
The Prices Menu is where you'll find options to split or consolidate price data, clean up your database, and rename tickers
The Settings Menu includes Program Settings (configuration options for FCharts2), Indicator settings, Watchlist and Index settings, Interface Language as well as the 'check for update' routine. You can also run a Diagnostic check on your FCharts 2 installation, which is useful when reporting any problems you may encounter.
The Window Menu allows you to add, delete or rearrange chart windows.
The Links Menu contains web links to sites of interest.
The Help Menu does what you'd expect.
FCharts 2 Sidebar/Toolbar
The Toolbar runs down the left hand side of the screen. If you right-click an empty area of this sidebar you can set the icon size. You can also toggle the Toolbar by clicking Settings - Show Toolbar. From top to bottom, the toolbar contains the following options:
The C icon opens the Edit Company screen for the selected ticker
The H icon displays your transactions and holdings for the selected ticker. Hold CTRL to view the same info for ALL tickers.
The Im icon opens the Import/Export screen.
The Stopwatch, arrows and countdown are related to the autoshow feature. (See below)
The Sc icon opens the Market
The Idy icon opens the Intraday data collector.
The Lv icon opens the listview, where you can sort and filter stocks for an overview.
The Tt icon displays the Trade Tester.
The Pencil icon toggles the trendline drawing toolbar.
The Spanner icon is another way to display settings (identical to FCharts 1.x).
The ? icon displays the help file.
Autoshow allows you to display all the charts in the current watchlist, one by one.
Before you start the autoshow, you can set a couple of options via the settings menu (just above the << icon):
To enable repeat (loops through all charts in the selected watchlist, then starts again), left-click the stopwatch icon above the << and >> arrows and tick 'Repeat'.
To enable saving of screenshots for each chart, tick 'Save Images' in the same menu
Next, set the countdown value. You can use 0 (for instant) or specify the number of seconds to wait before showing the next chart.
Now select the watchlist from the dropdown menu in the top-right corner of the chart window.
Finally, click the >> icon to begin
As long as 'Repeat' isn't ticked in the stopwatch menu, FCharts will page through the watchlist and display a chart for every stock. If 'Save Images' is ticked, a PNG of each chart will be saved to the 'FC2Output' folder in your FC2 data directory.