Chart Options

• Bar Types – Price bar appearance.
• Show/Hide Volume – Displays or hides the volume graph.
• Unrealized P&L – Current position & unrealized P&L.
• Semi-Log Scale – Use a semi-logarithmic scale for plotting the price graph.
• Show Grid – Show or hide the grid lines.
• Scale Text – Automatically scales text as timeframe changes.
• Always On Top – Always display the chart window on top of all other windows.
• Reset Vertical Spacing – Resets the vertical spacing (space above and below the price bars) back to the default.
• Show Extended Data – Display price history outside of regular trading hours.
• Clear Local Data – Clears the local cache of price history for this instrument.

Chart options are available from the Context Menu -> Options (see below) or from View -> Options of the top menu bar (not shown).
 

Chart Options

Bar Types

Price bar display options include:

• OHLC Bars – Open, High, Low, Close.
• Candle Sticks
• Line (Close) – Closing prices graphed as a line.

Unrealized Profit and Loss

Displays a box in the bottom left corner of the price graph that contains the current position and unrealized profit / loss for this instrument.
 

Unrealized P&L

Scale Text

This feature can be very useful for showing and hiding commentary at different time scales. The font size of a comment, callout or note will automatically increase or decrease as the time frame or bar width is modified. By default this feature is turned off.
 

Clear Local Data

Price history data is dynamically loaded from your Broker/Data Service as you open and browse charts. To improve performance (and allow viewing charts offline), this data is stored in the workspace’s local database. It is possible (in rare cases) that this data can be incorrect. This can happen if you edit the data manually (using the Data Edit Feature) or if the Data Service has provided bad data.
 
Selecting this option will delete all local data for this instrument and load fresh information from your Broker/Data Service.