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Pointer Tools
Click to EnlargeTechnical traders look to their charts for key price levels to trigger buy and sell decisions. The classic approach involved plotting simple trendlines, but over time, other techniques worked their way into the chartist’s analysis method.

CQG supplies more than 20 pointer tools to aid in studying the markets. Simple trendlines, Gann lines, regression lines, the Andrews pitchfork, and a wide collection of Fibonacci-based retracements and extensions are available.

Traders can also plot elipses and rectangles on the charts.

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All of the pointer tools can be modified to adjust color and thickness. Retracement and extension parameters can be modified to include all or a select few percentage readings, and you can input percentage values that you want displayed.

To further assist your work, it is possible to add notes and labels on the charts.

CQG's pointer tools are the basis for its Alerts. Right-click on the line and the menu lists choices for modifying the line, and provides ways to set the trendline alerts window to advise you if the price breaks
the line.

Pointer Tools:

  • $ - Currency Value (measures the US dollar value between two points on the chart)
  • Cfind - Cycle Finder
  • Ellipse
  • Eras - Eraser
  • FiboC - Fibonacci Circles
  • FiboE - Fibonacci Extensions
  • FiboR - Fibonacci Retracements
  • FiboTR - Fibonacci Time Retracements
  • FiboTZ - Fibonacci Time Zones
  • Gann - Gann Lines
  • HORZL - Horizontal Line
  • LinR - Linear Regression
  • Pfork - Pitchfork (Andrews) Lines
  • PrbPrj - Probability Projection
  • Rectangle
  • ReZm - Zoom Redo
  • Speed Lines
  • Text - Chart Text
  • TrCh - Trend Channel
  • Trend - Trendlines
  • UnZm - Zoom Undo
  • VERTL - Vertical Line
  • Zoom - Zoom
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