survey for mobile users of stock charts

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starvingtrader

I was looking to get the opinion of anyone here who looks at stock charts and uses a narrow-width device (iPhone, etc - basically, anything less than 500px or so). I was wondering:

1. if you look at charts on your narrow device or simply wait to do it on a more usable device like a laptop/desktop.
2. if you do view them on a narrow device, how do you do it? do you zoom in and then scroll the chart across, or some other way?
3. is there anything a web site could do to make trading charts more compatible/usable on a narrow-width device?
 
If you get the URL of the chart from stockcharts.com, you can open it directly, scroll and zoom or do whatever.

I wrote a script a while ago that allows me to extract a preset chart choice (Normally it will reset to the default chart after some time), and then display it as 100% height and width.

First load the stockcharts page for that symbol:
1) http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=AAPL
2) Set up the chart the way you want it.
4) Copy the url of the chart by right clicking on it:
Code: 
http://stockcharts.com/c-sc/sc?s=AAPL&p=D&b=5&g=0&i=0&r=1435821645687
3) Write a script to extract the chartID (r=) from the original page source:
Code: 
<img id="chartImg" src="/c-sc/sc?s=AAPL&p=D&b=5&g=0&i=0&r=1435821645687" />

4) Use the r= variable to modify your image URL from (4)
5) Display the image as a fullscreen chart.

Notes:
  • The r= variable changes once every hour or so. I just load the page from the script and extract it.
  • You can use the "Linkable version" on stockcharts.com to load the setup page you like from a script.
Edit:
I missed the part where this was a survey.
If you work for Stockcharts.com, please allow fullscreen charts, so I don't have to load the chart page twice to extract the information.​
 
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I usually simply control the whole process when I am on mobile and nothing really more than this and that's it. For sure some serious trading I do only on desktop with ethernet internet access with 1GBPS and few monitors, that's for me.
 
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