Overlaying Charts?

[Soultrader]

Hi Chad,

Just saw your post on Volume Breakdown. You mentioned you plotted it 3 times? How do I overlay the indicator on top of each other? Thanks

[LS_Chad]

	Quote:	Soultrader
	Hi Chad, Just saw your post on Volume Breakdown. You mentioned you plotted it 3 times? How do I overlay the indicator on top of each other? Thanks

You can actually simply drag and drop indicators between panes. That's really the easiest way to do it. However, when adding indicators, you'll also see a choice in the lower left corner of the "Add Indicator" window which allows you to choose which pane the indicator is added to. Standalone indicators like VB will default to "new pane" but you can change that to the pane of existing bars or indicators.

There is a 13-minute video at www.linnsoft.com/videos which covers many different aspects of technical indicators, including this one. Here is the direct link:

http://www.linnsoft.com/videos/techind/index.html

[Soultrader]

Thank you Chad.

[mister ed]

	Quote:	Soultrader
	Just saw your post on Volume Breakdown. You mentioned you plotted it 3 times? How do I overlay the indicator on top of each other? Thanks

ST - when you want to add another indicator to the chart but you want to overlay it on an already existing indicator (so for example putting two variants of the VB in one pane) specify the pane in which you want to place the new indicator as being the same pane the existing indicator is in - see attachment.

[Soultrader]

Still playing around with it to get the same format as Chad. Attached is my chart so far. I feel like I am missing something?

[mister ed]

Hmmmm Yes you are - check for the Selling VB (the red negative bars) you have not specified some minimum trade size?

[Soultrader]

Thanks mister ed, I will play around with the settings to see what I get.

[mister ed]

In that bottom pane, to reproduce Chad's chart in the VB thread add in:

Buy Volume
Sell Volume (Negative)
Delta (Buy - Sell Volume) <------- this one will need to have its colours changed

[LS_Chad]

James,

I can't tell exactly how you have that setup unless you share definition, or you share to charthub. However, a few things that could be going on there...you might have the Delta bars drawing behind the Buy and Sell Volume bars...and therefore getting covered up. You can either right-click in the pane title, or shift-click in the horizontal scale to the right, to bring up the element order prefs window. Try adjusting the element order. You can also right-click on any histogram and choose "send to back".

Other problem could be that you just have the colors set the same for both the buy volume and the positive delta. Try adjusting the colors of the different VBs so they stand out.

If none of this works, share your chart def and I'll take a look.

Here are instructions on sharing a chart if you're not familiar with that:

http://www.linnsoft.com/qa/a/124.htm

[mister ed]

See attachment - put all 3 of these in the one pane