Text Problem

Text, like every other drawing tool, stays where it's put.

If I understand you correctly, what you want is a kind of date-marker that is positioned on a particular date, but whose text floats vertically so that it's always visible on-screen?

Out of curiosity, what period chart is this, where your entire screen is only a few days wide?

Thanks - I'm just trying to be as specific as possible.

I guess if you don't need the text to be anywhere in particular (as long as it's visible), could you use a 'notes' field appearing in a side-bar or similar? I'm envisioning some kind of panel like the Security Manager or BullCharts that you could bring up, and it would store whatever notes you wanted about whatever security was in the current chart. As you changed from one symbol to another, the panel would load whatever notes you'd made about that particular symbol.

I'm not promising anything - I don't know how difficult such a scheme would be to implement - but if such a thing were possible, would it suit you?

Chart Rider - Jump in, that's what makes a great forum.

Tim, i am sure your idea is excellent, but in the short term i would be happy if.

1) For small notes eg. Loan margins. "Man5%" i use on a yellow background and have on every stock, Thus when flicking through the top 100 and i see someething that takes my fancy i know exactly what loan requirements are available instead of looking it up elsewhere. For a day trader very important. I also put little notes also highligted, takeover speculation, Joe blogs holds x% etc.

I like my charts to be of the same format, thus put them in the same place on everychart, eg Left hand corner, but want them to stay there, permantley, regardles of flicking from daily to weekly or when extra data is loaded. When typing the text i would like an option box that allows this to happen, otherwise it will move when extra data is loaded.

 

For larger text documents I just minimise the document, but would like the document also to have the above function.

For me this system would be fine, but i am very basic in my needs.

 

Cheers

Scalper

 

 

Tim, i understand that i am not good at explaining myself.

However, i did not ask for some half baked information-manager, and we seem to be going around in circles.

1) I am very happy with the text set-up.

2) Can you look into having the same option that metastock has regarding being able to save the text in the same position.

That's all, an optionable box that you check, or uncheck when you type your text, nothing more.

If it can't be done that's fine, to me it would be extremly beneficial.

Scalper

 

I was also trying to think of something myself here, notes are a great idea.

My thoughts are: why not use the existing BullCharts Security Manager with another column added to write notes, as the dialog box can be stretched out and read from there. One thing I guess, from a programmers perspective is how to use the space most effectively and efficiently. MSOutlook was mentioned, specifically in Outlook2003 there is a coloured flag system, and using this idea in the security manager would be awesome [maybe me only ??] as you could flag stocks in a watchlist from the security manager by colour of importance. Hence, using in combo with a notes list and hopefully the new alerts coming would make the security/bullscan manager a more clever multifuntional masterpiece.

cheers etrader