Aspen Graphics 4.2 User Manual

1 Aspen Graphics user Manual Aspen Graphics user Manual .. 1 What Is Aspen Graphics 8 Objects in Aspen .. 8 Charts ..8 Clocks ..8 Quotes ..8 News ..8 Time and Sales .. 9 Price and 9 Other Windows .. 9 Display Options .. 9 Toolbars .. 10 Menu Bar .. 11 Status Bar .. 11 Accessing Menu Options .. 11 Managing the Desktop .. 11 Setup Options Dialog .. 12 Miscellaneous .. 12 File Management .. 13 About Aspen Pages and Aspen 13 Saving 14 Opening Files .. 16 Charts .. 21 Adding a Chart .. 21 Chart Toolbar .. 21 Chart 25 Chart Properties 26 Entering 31 Handling Futures Contracts .. 34 Continuing Contracts.

2 35 Entering Multiple Symbols .. 37 Editing 38 Copy and Paste 39 Changing 40 Timeframes and Performance .. 41 Navigating Charts .. 42 Chart Types .. 42 Bar Charts ..42 Candlestick Charts .. 43 Displaying 44 Candlesticks Colors .. 45 Point and Figure Charts .. 47 Displaying a Point and Figure 47 Point and Figure Parameters .. 48 Tic 49 Tic Over Time Charts .. 50 Zero Minute Charts .. 51 Line Chart .. 53 Equitick 54 Layer 56 59 Indicator Related Icons .. 59 Adding an Overlay .. 60 Adding a Study to a Split Window .. 61 Removing Indicators .. 63 Removing Split Windows .. 63 The Study Dialog.

3 64 Displaying the Study Dialog .. 65 Using the Study Dialog .. 66 Adding Studies and 66 Trendlines .. 67 Entering and Exiting Trend Mode .. 67 The Trend Mode Tool Bar .. 67 Freehand Mode .. 70 Drawing Horizontal 70 Drawing Horizontal Fibonacci Retracements .. 71 Drawing Diagonal Fibonacci Retracements .. 72 Fibonacci Options .. 73 Displaying the Fibonacci Options 74 Drawing Speed Lines .. 74 Drawing Gann Time/Price 76 Gann Time/Price Options .. 77 Drawing Gann Squares .. 79 Gann Squares Options 80 Drawing Andrew s Pitchfork .. 81 Drawing Thom Demark Relative 82 Qualifying Relative 84 Drawing Thom DeMark Absolute Retracement.

4 84 Drawing Thom DeMark Trend Factors .. 86 Drawing Thom DeMark Retracement Arcs .. 87 Thom DeMark Trendline Property Dialog .. 89 Manipulating Trendlines .. 89 Moving 89 Pivoting Trendlines .. 90 Extending and Retracting 90 Adding Parallel Lines .. 91 Adding Linked Parallel Lines .. 92 Deleting Lines .. 93 Deleting a Single Line .. 93 Delete a Group of Lines .. 93 Delete All Trend 94 Annotating Charts .. 94 Entering Text Mode .. 95 Adding Text .. 95 Changing Text Parameters .. 96 Displaying the Text Parameters .. 97 Quotes .. 97 Quote Properties 98 Understanding Quotes in Aspen .. 100 Quote Code Variables.

5 100 Opening Pre-Defined Quote Windows .. 101 Displaying a Quote Grid Window .. 102 Displaying a Quote Board Window .. 103 Entering 103 Creating a Free Format Quote 105 The Quote Code Dialog .. 106 Displaying the Quote Code Dialog .. 106 Using the Quote Code Dialog .. 107 The Quote Window Toolbar .. 108 Adding Formulas or Text to a Quote Window .. 111 Fill Down and Fill Right .. 112 Filling a Specified 115 Quote Code Definitions .. 116 Clocks .. 119 Clock Toolbar .. 119 Clock Properties Dialog .. 121 Changing the Time Zone .. 122 Time Zone Codes .. 123 Price/Volume .. 124 Market Profile Anatomy.

6 125 Price Volume 126 Displaying a Market 126 Market Profile Toolbar .. 127 The Market Profile 128 Profile Properties 129 Displaying the Market Profile Properties 133 Merging Profiles .. 133 Removing Merged Profiles .. 133 TPO s ..134 Old TPO Alphanumeric Assignments .. 134 New TPO Alphanumeric Assignments .. 134 News .. 135 Displaying a News Window .. 136 News Window Toolbar .. 136 News 137 Display by Category .. 137 Keyword 138 Additional News Window Tips .. 139 Time and Sales .. 140 Displaying a Time and Sales 141 Time and Sales Property Dialog .. 141 Displaying the Time and Sales Property 144 Formulas.

7 145 The Parts of a 145 Expressions .. 146 150 Study Functions .. 151 Chart Functions .. 152 Trig Functions .. 154 Special Functions .. 154 The Chart Function .. 154 The Scale Function .. 157 Writing a 159 The Formula 159 Example 161 Multi Line Formula Writing .. 166 Multi-Line Formula 168 Color Rules .. 172 Color Rule Dialog .. 173 Creating a Custom Color Rule .. 174 Edit a Color Rule .. 176 Using Color Rules in a Chart .. 176 What can Trigger an Alarm?.. 179 The Alarm List Dialog .. 181 Adding or Editing an Alarm .. 182 Alarm 188 Slow Stochastic Lines 188 Slow Stochastic Lines Crossing Above 80 or Below 20.

8 189 Price Breakouts from Bollinger Bands .. 189 Momentum Changes Direction .. 190 Option Volume 190 Moving Average Crossover .. 191 Index or Instrument Outside a Given 191 Instrument Up/Down 5 191 Auto-Print 3 days prior to 192 DDE / Exporting Data to Excel .. 192 Loading the Aspen Graphics DDE toolbar in Excel .. 193 Displaying the DDE Link Generator Dialog 195 Quote Live Links from Aspen Graphics into Excel .. 195 History Exporting Historical Data from Aspen Graphics to 197 Options - Exporting Theoretical Values and Volatility Data from Aspen 198 Formula - Exporting an Aspen Graphics Formula to the Spreadsheet.

9 199 Initiate a DDE Link from within Aspen Graphics .. 199 Creating a Symbol using 200 Importing Data from Excel to Aspen Graphics .. 202 Importing Static ( historical ) Data from Excel into Aspen Graphics .. 202 Import "Live" Data using the Aspen GraphicsTick 203 DDE 205 Displaying a Formula Value as a BAR Chart (intraday) .. 205 Displaying a Formula Value as a BAR Chart (Daily) .. 207 Creating a Database in Excel .. 208 Charting a Portfolio in Aspen Graphics Using DDE .. 211 Appendix A Custom Page Walk Through .. 213 Creating a Custom 213 Create a Quote 214 Ready the Quote Window for Formatting.

10 214 Format the Quote Window using the Code Menu .. 215 Display the Two Charts .. 217 Format the 217 Add a Symbol to the Charts and Quote Windows .. 218 Add a News Window to the Page .. 218 Add and Format the Ticker Window .. 219 Adding Symbols to the Ticker Window .. 220 Save the Page .. 221 Additional Page Building Tips .. 223 Appendix B - Description of the Studies .. 224 Trend Followers: .. 224 Overbought/Oversold Indicators:.. 224 Trend Indicators: .. 225 Activity Indicators:.. 225 Acceleration .. 225 Accumulation/Distribution (A/D) Oscillator .. 229 Average Balance Volume .. 230 Average Directional Index (ADX).