Hello and welcome to the Quick Start video for the Chart tool available on Schwab's StreetSmart Edge platform.
StreetSmart Edge has advanced charting features that give you the freedom to customize your charting experience to your precise specifications. Features available include more than 30 customizable studies; the ability to draw trend, support, and resistance lines and symbol overlays; chart types, including mountain, bar, line, and candlestick; and much more. First let's open a new chart, by clicking on Launch Tools and then under the section called Research and Analyze, click on Chart.
The heart of the Chart Window is the price chart itself. It displays the main symbol's chart with your Type and Style specifications.
The Chart Settings Panel is accessible by either clicking on the arrow to open the “drawer” and view all the settings choices. Here you can set the type and style of chart, add overlays, draw trend lines and other objects, change the colors, and more from the Settings panel. You can choose from 3 views of the Chart Settings Drawer: Fully Open, Icons-Only or the default – Closed.
Across the top of the chart are Chart Keys which represent the symbol overlays, studies or drawn objects you have added to the chart from the Chart Settings panel. To Hide/Show All overlays, drawn objects, and studies, click Hide in the upper left corner of the chart. Click Show to Display again.
You have several options when it comes to Chart history control.
You can use the Sliders. Look to the timeline, there you can see the left and right slider handles, which you can drag to the date or time to which you want to isolate the chart data shown.
You can use Date Selection, where you just type or choose from the calendar the start and end dates for which you want to isolate chart data. Click Go or press Enter to apply the date selection.
You can use the Quick Jumps where time frames in a range of unit sizes are listed. The choices depend on the Type of chart you are displaying. Click any of those time periods to display only that period on the chart.
Lastly, you can also just type the number of days/years/minutes you wish to view and click Go or press Enter.
Trading is available from the Chart. The Chart Trade Ticket is available for Stocks/ETFs and allows the same actions, venues, order types, timings, special conditions and brackets as found in the All in One Trade Tool.
The versatile tab functionality is also available here in the chart. You can customize and display many tabs in each chart. You can have them all Sync to show the same symbol, set up your favorite time frames and rename the tabs any way you wish.
This concludes this Quick Start Guide for the Chart tool on Schwab's StreetSmart Edge platform.
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