Price Overlay Options

Price Overlay Options

Brief

The article explains how to customize the options for the Price overlay tool.c

Details

With the help of the Price Overlay tool, you can overlay prices of any one instrument on a chart or in an additional area below it.
You can also customize the options of price overlays in a variety of ways: select what prices to display (Bid or Ask), their data sources (Open, Close, High, etc.), presentation colors and line widths, as well as selecting whether to show or hide labels and legends.

To customize the options:

Do one of the following:

On the File menu, click Options.

Right-click in the chart and then click Options.
* In the FXCM Trading Station, the command is available on the System menu.

The Options dialog box appears.

In the left-hand panel, click Price Overlay Options.

In the right-hand panel, customize the following options at your choice:

Price Options

Option	Description
Price	The option allows selecting the default price data source: click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then, in the list that appears, click a value of your choice. The values are Open, Close, Low, High, Typical, Median, Weighted, and Tick Volume. For more information, read the Data Source Tag section of the Indicator Properties Dialog Box article.
Bid/Ask	The option allows selecting what prices (Bid or Ask) should be displayed by a price overlay. The values are: Ask and Bid.

On-Chart Price Overlay Options

Option	Description
Show label	The option allows selecting whether to show a price overlay label by default or not: click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then click a value of your choice. The values are No, and Yes.
Show legend	The option allows selecting whether to show a price overlay legend by default or not: click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then click a value of your choice. The values are No, and Yes. Note that the option applies to price overlays displayed in an additional area, too.
Line color	The option allows selecting the default color of the price overlay line on a chart: click in the option row, click the ellipsis button, and then, in the Color palette that appears, select a color of your choice.
Line width	The option allows selecting the default width of the price overlay line on a chart: click in the option row, highlight or delete the existing value, and then type or select a width value of your choice. The values are whole numbers from 1 through 5.

In-Additional-Area Price Overlay Options

Option	Description
Ascending bar color	The option allows selecting the default color of the ascending bars when the Chart Mode is Bar: click in the option row, click the ellipsis button, and then, in the Color palette that appears, select a color of your choice.
Descending bar color	The option allows selecting the default color of the descending bars when the Chart Mode is Bar: click in the option row, click the ellipsis button, and then, in the Color palette that appears, select a color of your choice.
Ascending candlestick color	The option allows selecting the default color of the ascending candlesticks when the Chart Mode is Candlestick: click in the option row, click the ellipsis button, and then, in the Color palette that appears, select a color of your choice.
Descending candlestick color	The option allows selecting the default color of the descending candlesticks when the Chart Mode is Candlestick: click in the option row, click the ellipsis button, and then, in the Color palette that appears, select a color of your choice.
Bid line color	The option allows selecting the default color of the Bid line when the Chart Mode is Line: click in the option row, click the ellipsis button, and then, in the Color palette that appears, select a color of your choice.
Ask line color	The option allows selecting the default color of the Ask line when the Chart Mode is Line: click in the option row, click the ellipsis button, and then, in the Color palette that appears, select a color of your choice.
Low line color	The option allows selecting the default color of the Low line when the Chart Mode is Line: click in the option row, click the ellipsis button, and then, in the Color palette that appears, select a color of your choice.
High line color	The option allows selecting the default color of the High line when the Chart Mode is Line: click in the option row, click the ellipsis button, and then, in the Color palette that appears, select a color of your choice.

To enable the modified values, click OK at the bottom of the dialog box.

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