Chart Studies Toolbar

This post is about the slideshows and demo videos related to the Chart Studies Toolbar in ChartAlert that can scan and display patterns on a chart in a matter of seconds

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The pattern recognition algorithms in the Chart Studies Toolbar can scan and display the following patterns on a chart in seconds . . .

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Window Layouts

This post is about the slideshows related to the Window Layouts features such as cascading and tiling and saving in ChartAlert

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This is a WindowsOS-driven UI/UX feature in ChartAlert that allows for the following . . .

  • Store multiple charts and/or reports as a Window Layout
  • Remember window locations and sizes and restore them when opened
  • Remember the state of the Chart Studies, Line Studies, Price Overlays
  • Customizable with different charts, reports, windows, etc
  • View favourite charts or reports without having to repeatedly open/ resize/ move windows to the locations you are accustomed to
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Trading Systems Builder | Backtester

This post is about the slideshows related to ‘writing’ and creating your own Trading Systems and backtesting them in ChartAlert

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Custom Trading Systems – based on your own custom algorithms – can be written and backtested to study the current technical status and/or overall trading performance of a symbol.

The custom trading systems can be run on any time-frame . . . daily or weekly, short- or medium-term, etc. , and the custom trading system mask can also display automated Buy and Sell signals on the chart.

Backtesting these custom trading systems will also generate a lot of performance stats that can be used to help tweak your custom trading systems.

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Advanced Scanner

This post is about the slideshows and demo videos related to the Advanced Scanner in ChartAlert that lets you write your own text-based scanning/screening algorithms to scan for bullish and bearish signals

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In the image above, the ‘User Scans’ node holds all the custom scans written by the end-user. Multiple scans can be combined into a single Screener. The ‘Run Multiple Scans’ node holds all the screeners created by the end-user.


The Advanced Scanner in ChartAlert is an advanced scanning engine that is powered by CASL, a text-based powerful scripting language that provides straightforward methods to write scanning algorithms to scan stocks or futures or commodities for bullish and bearish signals.

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Basic Scanner

This post is about the slideshows and demo videos related to the Basic Scanner in ChartAlert that offers customizable but menu-driven scanning/screening algorithms to scan for bullish and bearish signals

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The Basic Scanner in ChartAlert is a menu-driven scanning engine that ships with several Factory Scans across diverse schools of technical analysis such as . . .

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Other Features

This post is about the slideshows related to (i) working with multiple instances of a chart, (ii) creating custom charts (a.k.a. MyCharts), and (iii) sync’ing X-axis of multiple charts for analysis in ChartAlert

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Open multiple instances of the same chart for a variety of ways of analyzing that same chart.

The following is possible . . .

  • Create and view (simultaneously) the same symbol – say, ACC – with different templates — say, Moving Averages, Technical Analysis Studies, etc — plotted on multiple instances of the same symbol
  • Tile multiple charts of the same symbol vertically or horizontally for analysis
  • Synchronize x-axis of multiple charts for left-and-right scrolling
  • Save multiple charts to a single Workspace
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