Sterling Web Trader® Guide

Building Your Charts

To graphically display stock data:

Open a Chart widget window (shown below), if it’s not already displayed. The Chart window is one of the default widgets that is displayed on the opening desktop. An example is shown below.

In the above example, note the basic window toolset and selections:

• Symbol select – Enter (or search for) a stock symbol. The selected symbol is immediately displayed on the graph. Above, GOOG is selected.
• Sample interval – Use the pull-down list to select the data sample display interval to be displayed on the graph.
• X axis range – Use the pull-down list to select the time range of the data to be displayed. This effectively defines the starting boundaries of the X axis on the graph.
• Graph/table display – Use the pull-down list to select the method (Line, Table) for data display. A typical line (i.e., graphic) display is shown above. The table selection displays the graphed date in tabular format.

• Indicator – When a single symbol is displayed on the chart, various indicators can be added to the displayed chart. Note that when a single symbol is displayed the Indicator pull-down list (shown below) is displayed, where you can select multiple metrics and variables from the pull-down list for display on the graph.

  

  In the example below, the Volume and the Standard Deviation indicators have been selected from the list for display beneath the GOOG stock price chart. Note as well that each displayed indicator has control buttons for modifying/deleting its appearance.

  

• Compare symbols – Use the Compare field to add multiple symbols to the graph for comparison. In the example below, three symbols (GOOG, PEP, TSLA) have been added, and the Compare field is open for adding a fourth symbol.

  

  Note the delete icon in each symbol name, which is used to delete the symbol from the chart.

  Note as well the settings icon for each symbol. Clicking it allows you to adjust the display settings for that symbol on the chart, as shown:

  

• Mouse over – When mousing the crosshair over any segment of a graph line the underlying data for that point is displayed. In the example below, the orange-colored symbol (TSLA) is moused over on 4/18/23. Note the display of the meta data, as well as the percent price change (-2.65%) in the right margin.

  
• Download chart data – Click on either to download an Excel worksheet containing the data currently displayed on the chart. Or click on to download an image file showing the currently displayed chart.
• X axis reposition sliders – On the bottom of the graph, the sliders on the left and right allow you to quickly decrease the displayed date/time interval using your mouse to “drill down” into the displayed data.