Stock chart: Price Trace group
The properties control the visibility and appearance of the price trace, as well as the data to which it is attached.
Trace group properties
The group includes the following properties:
priceTraceBarGainColor
Sets the color to indicate that a stock price value at market close is greater than value at market open. Select the ... button and choose a color from the palette. Close the Color Chooser window when you are done.
The default is green.
Note:
This property does not apply if you have chosen
Line for the
priceTraceType property or both
Candlestick for
priceTraceType and
None for
priceTraceFillStyle.
This property is in the Price Trace property group.
priceTraceBarLossColor
Sets the color to indicate that a stock price value at market close is less than value at market open. Select the ... button and choose a color from the palette. Close the Color Chooser window when you are done.
The default is red.
Note:
This property does not apply if you have chosen
Line for the
priceTraceType property or both
Candlestick for
priceTraceType and
None for
priceTraceFillStyle.
This property is in the Price Trace property group.
priceTraceCurrentTable
Attach your tabular data to the
priceTraceHistoryTable and
priceTraceCurrentTable properties. The
priceTraceCurrentTable property is used for viewing live data. The table in your data attachment should contain a single row that corresponds to and continually updates the last point on the graph.
Unless you attach this property to a DataView OHLC table, the table in your data attachment must contain the following five columns in this specific order:
Date: Following are the supported formats for this column are:
mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss (for example,
01/16/2010 12:30:03)
yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss (for example,
2010-01-16 12:30:03)
The number of milliseconds since midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC
Open: Value of stock price at first market open for defined time period
High: High value of stock price for defined time period
Low: Low value of stock price for defined time period
Close: Value of stock price at last market close for defined time period
This property is in the Price Trace property group.
priceTraceFillStyle
Select one of the following candlestick fill styles for from the drop down menu:
Solid Transparent Gradient Transparent Gradient None This setting has an effect only if
priceTraceType is set to
CandleStick.
The default setting is None.
This property is in the Price Trace property group.
priceTraceHistoryTable
Attach your tabular data to the
priceTraceHistoryTable or
priceTraceCurrentTable property. The
priceTraceHistoryTable property is used for viewing and analyzing historical data (data generated before the correlator first sends data to this particular chart). The table in your data attachment should contain multiple rows, each corresponding to a point on the graph.
Unless you attach this property to a DataView OHLC table, the table in your data attachment must contain the following five columns in this specific order:
Date: Following are the supported formats for this column:
mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss (for example,
01/16/2010 12:30:03)
yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss (for example,
2010-01-16 12:30:03)
The number of milliseconds since midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC
Open: Value of stock price at first market open for the defined time period
High: High value of stock price for the defined time period
Low: Low value of stock price for the defined time period
Close: Value of stock price at last market close for the defined time period
This property is in the Price Trace property group.
priceTraceLabel
Enter a label for the price trace line. This label appears in the chart's legend, as well as in the tooltip enabled by the
mouseOverFlag property.
This property is in the Price Trace property group.
priceTraceLineColor
Sets the price trace line color. Select the ... button and choose a color from the palette. Close the Color Chooser window when you are done.
Note:
This property does not apply if you chose
OHLC or
Bar for
priceTraceType.
This property is in the Price Trace property group.
priceTraceLineStyle
Select one of the following line styles for the price trace line from the drop down menu:
No Line Solid Dotted Dashed Dot Dashed This property is in the Price Trace property group.
priceTraceLineThickness
Select one of the following thickness specifications for the price trace line from the drop down menu:
Thin Medium Thick Note:
This property does not apply if you chose
OHLC or
Candlestick for
priceTraceType.
This property is in the Price Trace property group.
priceTraceType
Select one of the following trace types from the drop down menu:
Line: A line graph that shows closing price values
Bar: A bar graph that shows closing price values
OHLC: A bar extending from the low to high price for each trading day. A left flange indicates the opening price and a right flange indicates the closing price. The
priceTraceBarLossColor and
priceTraceBarGainColor properties show whether the stock closed at a higher or lower price than the opening price.
Candlestick: A bar extending from the opening to closing price for each trading period. The wicks on either end show the high and low for the trading period. The
priceTraceBarLossColor and
priceTraceBarGainColor properties show whether the stock closed at a higher or lower price than the opening price.
This property is in the Price Trace property group.
priceTraceVisFlag
Use the checkbox to control price trace visibility.
This property is in the Price Trace property group.