Leveraging multi-chart layouts in your analysis
The multi-chart mode is a powerful feature of Supercharts allowing you to maximize your analysis by watching several charts in one workspace at once. In this article we will learn to enable and manage multi-chart layouts.
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Enabling and managing multiple charts
You can enable this feature in the "Layout setup" menu.
The beautiful thing is that no matter how many charts you want to watch, you can easily manage each one so as not to miss any movement. Every chart in your layout has buttons allowing you to scroll and zoom. To maximize one of the charts, you need to click the 'Maximize chart' button or press Alt+Enter or Alt+Click on the chart.
To switch between charts in multi-chart layout, just press Tab.
Charts synchronization
When you choose multiple charts, all the indicators and strategies from the initial chart will apply to the additional charts. Keep in mind that chart settings from the initial chart will not be transferred to the additional charts, as they are tied to the specific chart. But you can choose to synchronize some basic settings like interval, symbol, and more in the Layout setup menu.
There's a separate workflow when it comes to drawings: they are applied only for the particular symbol. If you change symbols within the same layout, drawings will disappear.
However, you can choose to synchronize them between multiple layouts or within one layout. For that, in the drawings panel on the left toolbar, find the button with either of these two icons.
If this feature is off, drawings are local, meaning that they will be applied only for the particular symbol on the particular chart within the particular layout.
- Sync drawings in layout will make drawings appear on every new chart for the same symbol within that layout
- Sync drawings globally will save your drawings on every new chart for the same symbol, even if you create a new layout
If you turn off the global synchronization, all the drawings for that symbol from all the other layouts will be deleted.
Let's say you applied drawings to the chart with the TSLA symbol. If you change the symbol to, say, NVDA, the drawings will disappear. If you go back to the TSLA, the drawings will reemerge.
If the global sync is on, after you create a new layout and choose the TSLA symbol there, that layout will keep the previous drawings made for the TSLA on the previous chart in another layout.
Now turn on the synchronization of drawing objects using the button on the left panel.
! Note: Drawings can only be synchronized on charts that contain the same symbol.
Also, you can synchronize intervals between charts by adding them to different groups. To do this, click on the symbol/interval chart syncing icon in the status line or series context menu of the chart you want to be added to the group.
Chart synchronization is only one feature that helps you with your analysis. For more tips and ideas, explore other articles and learn the capabilities of Supercharts. Also, read our post: Watch multiple charts at once and build the perfect workspace.
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