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bonsai

I have pulled together the various steps/instructions on how to
build your charts so they can be read in sequence instead of
appearing in random places.
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It seems a lot of people starting out feel they have to subscribe
to a charting software company.
There are many organisations to choose from but there are also
a large number of websites which provide very good information
for free.
I have started this thread in the hope it will help you to create your own free charts using a reasonable range of indicators which are freely available.

In case there are some who are unaware of the workings of the web, every chart has a 'url' or 'address' and creating your own charts involves
posting that url into Notepad adding a bit of code and saving it as an 'html' file.

After that , all you have to do is open the 'html' file and there is your chart.

So to start things off, I am posting a chart of a 1 min ftse with 2 ma's and an macd.
<img src="http://chart.neural.com/servlet/GIFChart?sym1=ls:ukx&cbcku=FFFFFF&cbckl=EBF5FF&cbc kd=cccc99&ctxtu=000000&ctxtd=000000&ctxtl=000000&c sym1=000099&csym3=000000&cbckg=FFFFFF&cind7a=FF003 3&cind7=009900&cind8=blu&cind9=6666CC&avg1=30&avg2 =60&ind7=macd&periodMACDLow=26&periodMACDHigh=12&h eight=350&width=450&source=SP&multipane=1&watermar k=splogoblue.gif&dres=min&plottype=range&ignore=12 20025226&dperiod=days&coname=1&image=PNG"></img>
Now right click on the chart and select 'properties' and you will see the chart's address.
Right click on that address, click'select all' then click and select copy.
Open Notepad and 'edit/paste'
Save Notepad file somewhere as ftse.html.
Select 'edit/word wrap'
You will see the code is quite long but dont be put off.
At the beginning of the code you need to insert
&lt img src="
at the end of the code you need to insert
"&gt
now close the file.

Find the file and click on it to open it and you should have your first chart.

bonsai

this is what should be in your notepad file which you have saved
as ftse.html.
<img src="http://web.onetel.net.uk/~gawgaw/code.gif">

bonsai

next step is to right click on file-name and 'edit'
then hit wordwrap again
you can now see the detailed code.
so you can change the ma's if you want
try changing the 'avg2' to 120.
then save/close the file

then double click on the file to show the chart again

ok ?

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bonsai

auto refresh

right click on your file and select 'edit'
at the top of the file insert the code you see here and save again
<img src="http://web.onetel.net.uk/~gawgaw/next.gif">

as they are 1 min charts, I have set the refresh to 60 seconds.

bonsai

next step
on edit, you can change the epic to pick what you want.
if its a uk stock then just change ukx for
anl - abbey national
vod - vodafone
etc
some are slightly different like
bt/a - BT
( the americans do like to be different, have you noticed ?)

if you want the dax then you have to change the exchange code as well
so ls:ukx becomes dx:dax

dont forget to save each change to a new .html file name.

You can now set up a library of your favourite stocks in
'favorites' (yanks again) and without having to go to the base website each time you can watch one or more refresh automatically.

one last point
you may want to size them so they fit on the screen to suit your own requirement.
you can insert width="300" or height="450" after the img

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Come fill the cup that clears
today of past regrets and future fears

bonsai

other epic info
for the U.S.A delete ls:xxx and replace with:-

$indu=dow
$trin = trin
$vix =vix
$spx =S&P500

and if you are really ambitious, you can put 4 charts in the one file and they will all refresh at the same time. !!!

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today of past regrets and future fears

bonsai

this is one chart that should be in everybody's library.
<img border=0 src="http://chart.neural.com/servlet/GIFChart?sym1=$vix&cbcku=FFFFFF&cbckl=EBF5FF&cbckd =cccc99&ctxtu=000000&ctxtd=000000&ctxtl=000000&csy m1=000099&csym3=000000&cbckg=FFFFFF&cind7a=FF0033& cind7=009900&cind8=blu&cind9=6666CC&avg1=60&avg2=1 80&ind7=macd&periodMACDLow=510&periodMACDHigh=60&h eight=350&width=450&source=SP&multipane=1&watermar k=splogoblue.gif&dres=tenm&dcnt=14&dperiod=days&pl ottype=range&ignore=12200379&coname=1&image=PNG">
if you dont know about vix try google or goto
<a href="http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=vix&sp-a=00010a6e-sp00000000">Chart school</a>

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Come fill the cup that clears
today of past regrets and future fears

bonsai

finally, I think, you need to know where to look for free charts
this is my recommended list but there are literally thousands of others. Well maybe hundreds.
Yahoo
Stockpoint
Bigcharts
Stockcharts

if you havent seen it before you might like this one
<img width=700 height=500 src="http://cchart.finance.lng.yahoo.com/z?s=^ftse&a=v&p=m60,m200&t=5d&l=on&z=m&q=l"></img>

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