- You can open multiple charts at the same time. (Click on Import CSV or
menu File>Import CSV)
- You can switch from one to another. (Click on Display chart box)
- You can close each of your opened charts separatly. (Click on the red cross
in the upper right corner of your chart)
- You can scroll your charts backwards or forwards. (Click on the scrollbar
bellow your chart)
- You can choose how many bars to display on screen. (Click on Display +-
bars or enter a number of bars in the box and click OK)
- You can set the space you want in front of your charts. (Click on space
forwards box, enter a number of pixels and click OK)
- You can change the timeframe multiplier:
for example if you open a H1 chart, and if you change the timeframe
multiplier to 2, you will have a H2 chart displayed on the screen
- You can draw geometrical figures:
- trendline
- Fibonacci fan
- Fibonacci retracements
- horizontal line
- vertical line
- square
- equilateral triangle
- circle
- cross
- inverted circle
- text
- Andrews pitchforks
- Cycle lines
- Log/Exp curves
- Price/Time extensions
- sinusoids
- And many many more
- You can see x,y coordinates (pixels,price,date), angle, length (pixels) of
your geometrical figures (Windows menu>Tools informations)
- You can put indicators on your charts (Click on Indicators):
- Simple Moving Average
- Bollinger Bands
- Vegas Channel
- BB - HL
- ATR Channel
- Average Range
- Center Of Gravity
- And many many more
- You can put indicators on the separate canvas (Click on Indicators):
- Close Price
- Money Flow Index
- Average True Range
- Value Chart
- Relative Strength Index
- And many many more
You need to click on menu Windows > Canvas in order to show the
separate canvas
- You can change the indicators settings
- You can change the counted bars for your indicators (Click on the box and
enter a number of bars)
- You can make charts additions or subtractions (Click on Mixer)
- You can save your charts as BMP files (Click on Save)
- You can export charts as CSV files (Click on Export CSV)
- You can print your charts (Click on Print)
- You can change the axis type to normal,logarithmic
- You can change the chart type to candlesticks,line,point,polar,...
- You can use custom timeframes
- And many many more...
- You can create your own experts which will analyse your charts
automatically and alert you for a signal
(this is done with the use of QTGuard and some csv files gathered in the
same folder (you need to specify the csv path
first in QT menu file>settings where QT will pick charts from))
Source code of QC is fully included for multiple reasons :
- portions of code written under the GPL license belong to their respective
authors
- this will allow many programmers to contribute to the project and to improve
it strongly
- in order to include new indicators in the program, the entire source code
must be recompiled
Since QC is delivered with its entire source code, compiler, programming
guide, and IDLE, it is easy
and rapid to extend its possibilities, even for novice programmers (Basic
language).
Currently the software cannot use realtime quotes, which means that you can
only import historical data from
local files or Yahoo Finance. Maybe the use of realtime quotes will be
available in a future release.
How to open a chart?
You just need to have a .csv file correctly formatted in order to do so.
CSV file format must be like this:
date (YYYY.MM.DD),time (HH:MM),open,high,low,close,volume
QChartist uses the same csv format as in the MetaTrader 4 history center
For example, your CSV file must begin with something like:
2010.01.29,00:00,1.05242,1.05467,1.05054,1.05215,17030
You can check this with Notepad.
All fields must be present. If you don't use time in your file (for daily or more),
you need to have a time column with 00:00
for all rows in your file.
You can change the order of each column and the separator character can
be a coma (,) or anything else. When your click on
import CSV in QChartist, your can enter the position of each column in your
CSV and the separator character.
Position 1 is the first column in your file. After that, click on open file and
choose your file.
In order to format your files correctly, you can use your usual office suite to
do this.
You must not use " " delimiters in your CSV file.