General Options

Brief

The article explains how to customize the chart general options.

Details

You can customize a chart's general options: select whether to show or not various confirmation dialog boxed in the process of working with different chart elements, show or hide various price data (weekend data, for example) or price gaps, customize the logic and settings of certain procedures. To customize the options

  1. Do one of the following:
  2. The Options dialog box appears.



  3. In the left-hand panel, click General Options.
  4. In the right-hand panel, customize the following options at your choice:

Template Options

Option

Description

Show Confirm Saving dialog

The option allows showing or hiding the dialog box asking whether to save or not the template changes when it is being closed (if no changes have been made, the dialog box does not appear): click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then select a value of your choice. The values are No and Yes.

Save chart on closing

The option allows saving or not template changes when it is being closed: click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then select a value of your choice. The values are No and Yes.

Chart Location Options

Option

Description

Create Chart Logic

The option allows selecting the location of a newly-created chart: click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then select a value of your choice. The available values are Last Active Marketscope window, New Marketscope window, and Trading Station Desktop window.

Create View Logic

The option allows selecting the location of a newly-created view: click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then select a value of your choice. The available values are Last Active Marketscope window, New Marketscope window, and Trading Station Desktop window.

Open Chart Logic

The option allows selecting the location of a chart created with the Open Chart command: click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then select a value of your choice. The available values are Last Active Marketscope window, New Marketscope window, and Trading Station Desktop window.
Note: The Open Chart command is available only on the Chart menu of the FXCM Trading Station.

Open Layout Logic

The option allows selecting the location of a layout: click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then select a value of your choice. The available values are Last Active Marketscope window and New Marketscope window.

Show the Open Chart confirmation dialog box

The option allows showing or hiding the Open Chart confirmation dialog box: click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then select a value of your choice. The values are No and Yes.

Other Options

Option

Description

Enable chart data tooltip

The option allows showing or hiding a data tooltip: click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then select a value of your choice. The values are No and Yes.

Magnet sensitivity

The option allows selecting the magnet sensitivity level in pixels when using the Snap to Nearest drawing mode: click in the option row, highlight or delete the original value, and then type a value of your choice. The available values are from 0 through 1000. Selecting 0 disables the option.

Lua Virtual Machine Type*

The option allows selecting the Lua virtual machine type: 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 Lua Standard, Lua Just-In-Time(Bytecode Interpretation mode), and Lua Just-In-Time.
* To apply changes, the FXCM Trading Station needs to be restarted.

Weekend data

The option allows either showing or hiding the weekend market data on the chart or merging it into the Monday prices: click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then select a value of your choice. The available values are Hide, Show, and Merge into Monday data.

Price Gaps

The option allows showing or hiding price gaps: click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then select a value of your choice. The available values are Hide and Show.

Show drag-and-drop confirmation

The option allows showing or hiding a confirmation dialog box when dragging charts windows between Marketscope and the FXCM Trading Station: click in the option row, click the arrow button, and then select a value of your choice. The values are No and Yes.

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

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