2. Setting Up The Charts

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1 Just take your time if you find this all a little overwhelming - you ll get used to it as long as you don t rush or feel threatened. Since the UK became members of the European Union, we stopped shooting people who didn t remember everything first time around. The chart background colors may differ from yours. This makes no difference whatsoever Copyright Forex Training Works Ltd All Rights Reserved. Page 1

2 SAVING your layout Go to Tools ---> Save Current Profile. (There s a windows shortcut for this. Simply click F12 on your keyboard - and everything will be saved exactly as you have set it up.) Good Job ing A Question? Every time you a question, please tell us the lesson number and the page number trainingforex@gmail.com Copyright Forex Training Works Ltd All Rights Reserved. Page 2

3 NOTE: If you close the primary window, instead of minimizing it - you will automatically close down the whole Oanda platform Remember - you must minimize it - not close it. Copyright Forex Training Works Ltd All Rights Reserved. Page 3

4 What we have here is almost the correct chart format which we will be using throughout the course. There is one more step on the next page. Remember that you can do this as many times as you like. Whichever chart you happen to be in - all you have to do is: 1. Click anywhere on the black background, 2. Select, 'Open in New Window' from the drop down menu Try it - you can have as many charts open as you like, resize them, change currencies, change time signatures, move then around your monitor and change the details. SAVING YOUR SCREEN LAYOUT To SAVE this layout for next time simply click F12 on your windows keyboard. Copyright Forex Training Works Ltd All Rights Reserved. Page 4

5 And here s the last step for the time being. To finish setting up our chart, ready for later on - take a look at this and follow these two simple steps. Good. Now don t forget to Save this set-up by going to TOOLS >> Save Current Profile - or by clicking on F12 on your keyboard. When next we open our charts, we want exactly the same set-up that we have here, without having to go through the process again. Remember F12 is a shortcut that saves the way you have set-up your charts Copyright Forex Training Works Ltd All Rights Reserved. Page 5

6 Now, a little more set-up work, we ll be needing all of this later so make sure you carefully copy each step please. 1. Click on 'Tools' in this Primary window. 2. Then select User Preferences. (You'll remember this because 'Save Current Profile' lives here too.) 3. And when the User Preferences window comes up, click on the 'Misc' Tab on the right side at the top. 4. Copy everything exactly. Double check each box. 5. Then click on Save at the bottom and Close this window. When you return to your charts you ll see that the Buy and Sell boxes (top right of the chart) are now colored, blue for Buy and orange for Sell. Don t worry about this right now - it s information for later. Copyright Forex Training Works Ltd All Rights Reserved. Page 6

7 Now let s make it so that the charts don t keep showing a great blank screen at week-ends when the market is closed, by setting when we want to stop recording for the week-end. Let s repeat what we did on the last page by clicking on 'Tools' --> 'User Preferences' and this time click on the 'CHART' tab at the top left.. I'd like you now to make sure that your Daily Candle Start-And-End-Time is set to New York (wherever you live) and carefully copy everything else in this window - and do double check that you have copied it correctly. Now Click on Save and Close. Click on F12 to save your set up Minimize the Primary Window again, leaving you with the new chart you made previously. Copyright Forex Training Works Ltd All Rights Reserved. Page 7

8 Ok - another very short video to recap on all this - then check yourself out on the next page. Copyright Forex Training Works Ltd All Rights Reserved. Page 8

9 Please answer these questions before moving on to the next tutorial. If you don t get ALL the answers absolutely correct, you must go through the lesson again to identify your error. (Answers at the bottom of the page.) 1. Where do we click to open a menu that will open a new window? A. On the red candles. B. On the primary window. C. On the black background of a chart. 2. After setting-up our layout - how do we save it for next time? A. Clicking on F2. B. Clicking our fingers. C. Clicking on F We made our first new chart, what do we do with the primary window? A. Close it - because we re done with it. B. Double glaze it. C. Minimize it. 4. What would happen if we closed the primary window? A. We d get a new screen. B. We d close all windows.. C. We d open a secondary window. 5. Why do we set the charts specifically for the week-end? A. So that we get some time off trading. B. To give the monitors some electrical down-time. C. So that we don t keep recording nothing every hour over the week-end when the market is closed. 6. Where is the one click shortcut to produce a new chart? A. In the Tools ---> User Preferences menu. B. Behind the curtain in the primary window. C. The double square, top right of charts. Answers: (1. C.) -- (2. C.) -- (3. C.) -- (4. B.) -- (5. C.) -- (6. C.) Copyright Forex Training Works Ltd All Rights Reserved. Page 9