Operations > Charts > Chart Properties

The Chart Properties window can be accessed in the following ways:

1.Left mouse click the Properties button in the chart toolbar

2.Right mouse click within the chart and select the menu item Properties

3.Use the default CTRL + T Hot Key

The following chart properties are available for configuration within the Chart Properties window:

ChartProperties

General
Allow the selection or drag/drop of chart series	Enables or disables the selection of Data Series and indicators for drag and drop
Equidistant bar spacing	Enables or disables plotting bars an equal distance from each other. Please see the "Working with Multiple Data Series" section of the Help Guide for more information.
Font	Sets the font display properties for the chart
Right side margin	Sets the spacing between the Y-axis and the current bar in pixels
Chart time format	Sets the time format to 12 or 24 hour
Chart trader	Sets the chart trader display mode.
Show date range	Enables or disables showing the date range label in to the top left of chart. The date range reported are the dates that are currently visible in the chart.
Show scrollbar	Enables or disables showing the horizontal chart scroll bar
Show selected drawing markers	Enables or disables displaying markers on the x and y axis of the chart from drawing objects when placing, selecting, or modifying them
Tab name	Sets the name displayed in the tab. By default the instrument name is displayed.
Chart background image	Enables or disables the option to use an image as the background for the chart
Color
Chart background	Sets the chart background color
Crosshair label	Sets the color for the cross hair label
Inactive price markers	Price markers display the current price of bars and indicators on the Y-axis. When looking at the current bar, the price markers will take the color of the data series. When scrolling back through historical bar data, the markers are inactive (not real-time) and will be displayed by the color set on this property
Text	Sets the font display properties for the chart
Selected drawing marker	Sets the color for selected drawing markers
Lines
Axis	Sets the drawing properties for both the vertical and horizontal chart axis
Crosshair	Sets the drawing properties of the crosshair
Grid line - horizontal	Sets the drawing properties of the horizontal grid lines
Grid line - vertical	Sets the drawing properties of vertical grid lines
Panel splitter	Sets the drawing properties of the splitter drawn between panels.
Time Highlighter
Number of highlighters	Sets the number of highlighters.
Start time	Sets the start time of the highlighter.
End time	Sets the end time of the highlighter.
Color	Sets the color of the highlighter.
Opacity	Sets the opacity of the highlighter.
Window
Always on top	Sets if the window will be always on top of other windows.

Defaults for the Chart Properties window can be saved by left mouse click on the "Set Default" button. Please see the "Saving Chart Defaults" section of the Help Guide for more information.

Tab Name Variables

A number of pre-defined variables can be used in the "Tab Name" field of the Chart Properties window. For more information, see the "Tab Name Variables" section of the Using Tabs page.

General

Lines

Time Highlighter

Window

Tab Name Variables