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[amibroker] Chart linking and cursor tracking



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Regardless of what anyone may think of eSignal's charting 
(specifically), in general, they certainly set the bar very high when 
it came to the following chart/GUI elements which just about every 
other charting package on the market has been playing catch-up on for 
the past few years.   I've been using these things for 4 years now in 
my trading and they're real timesavers:

1. Symbol linking (option embedded in the title bar, color-coded)

2. Interval linking (option embedded in the title bar, color-coded)

3. Cursor tracking.  On a per-chart basis one can set whether or not 
the X movements (tracking time), denoted by vertical lines, sync-up 
with other chart windows.  I can have a tick/volume charts, 2 min 
chart, 5 min chart, 30 min chart, etc. etc. all with cursor tracking 
turned on and each of X movements will match up with the specific price 
bar in each timeframe.  It's a fantastic way to see how the same 
futures contract/security is acting among the different timeframes -or- 
how multiple symbols are moving in comparision to one another through 
the same or multiple timeframes.

4. Title bars can be completely collapsed into just a thick-ribbed line 
to save screen space while still being able to do #1 and #2 above.

It's a good thing that none of these "inventions" were ever patented 
like that static price DOM trading ladder idea or we would all less off 
for it.

One other thing about popping charts out of the main chart window so 
they can float about onto other monitors:

eSignal still has the coolest implementation of this.  It's all managed 
from the title bar window of each chart and is super-intuitive.  Why 
all of the other charting packages just don't directly copy this idea 
is beyond me.  But, like the saying goes, if it that easy to implement, 
everyone would be doing it.  Regardless, it must have been very time 
consuming to implement and have everything so fluid for the user to 
manipulate.





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