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Strategies & Market Trends : Point and Figure Charting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: OX who wrote (24663)	2/21/2000 12:02:00 AM
From: Atin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34811

Hi, I've been meaning to get the docs together sometime, I guess I will do that next. 1. Chartcraft box sizes -- I will do them someday but they're low on my list because I really think they're sort of hokey. They were designed to handle relative volatility as prices go higher before we had serious computing power, but I think percentage based charts do that better now that we have computers. But I'll do this someday because people still seem to use them. But since I use this program for myself mostly, I think the chartcraft box sizes might be low on the priority list. Sorry. 2. The bands are bollinger bands, 3 std dev, 50 period. I tried 2 and 3 and just settled on 3 'cause they felt more right. Nothing scientific about it! Maybe I should make this customizable. 3. I will add the chart params to the new symbol dialog. For now, you can set the "default" parameters you want and save them. This saves across runs of the program now. For example, I have QPnf set to do 2.38% box sizes, 3 box reversals, high/low, so all charts I open come up with that as defaults. -Atin