A two part question:
1.
Trading Futures: What existing tools would you advice using best to get an intuitive feeling for your trade opportunities?
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Sometimes I think, it could be interesting so see how this or that calculation result would behave visually, but find it impossible to chart my results appropriately, because most chart providers don't offer the necessary options.
As simple example think of a chart comparing Volume and Price charting both figures when they really happened (see attached example) without crippling them into bars and hiding all the 'empty' time.
Realizing such individual charting jobs often requires programming the chart yourself and the most simple way to do it, to my knowledge, is Excel.
So I would like to ask the following 'part two' questions
2.
a. To program a chart yourself is there a software more simple than Excel?
b. Which values do you think worthwhile to chart them individually?
Martin
1.
Trading Futures: What existing tools would you advice using best to get an intuitive feeling for your trade opportunities?
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Sometimes I think, it could be interesting so see how this or that calculation result would behave visually, but find it impossible to chart my results appropriately, because most chart providers don't offer the necessary options.
As simple example think of a chart comparing Volume and Price charting both figures when they really happened (see attached example) without crippling them into bars and hiding all the 'empty' time.
Realizing such individual charting jobs often requires programming the chart yourself and the most simple way to do it, to my knowledge, is Excel.
So I would like to ask the following 'part two' questions
2.
a. To program a chart yourself is there a software more simple than Excel?
b. Which values do you think worthwhile to chart them individually?
Martin