WindoViews — Carolyn

WindoTrader Subscriber Builds: Carolyn M. (WA)

This month’s ‘build’ comes from Carolyn, a full-time trader, who ‘built’ this chart based on her skills and talents as a trader and a professional artist.

The thing that drew our attention to this display was primarily how she used color and size to emphasize and de-emphasize the importance of different session objects. Why? Because based on numerous studies color, size, shape, opacity, etc. all have positives and negatives in viewing graphical displays.

“Using all the available color options in setting up and customizing my screens enhances my interpretation of what is unfolding throughout the day in the market and becomes an almost intuitive way to record information. Just as we all instinctively intuit green to mean ‘up, good, go’ and red to mean ‘down, bad, don’t go’ I am finding many other ways to internalize market information by color. Some are obvious such as background colors for various market screens, i.e, black for crude, green for bonds, red for Apple, etc.”

Chart Legend:

1. Previous Day Session displayed via a Market Profile (Collapsed) Session Object.
2. Previous Overnight Session displayed vis a Market Profile Summary Bar.
3. Current Session Histogram Session Object based on Contract Volume.
4. The same data as in #03 but displayed in a tabular format.
5. Current Session TPO Volume based Market Profile (Collapsed).
6. Current Session Period TPO’s showing Contract Volume by for each 30 minute period.
7. Current Session 30 min. Candles personalized as to width and brightness of the colors.
8. Current Session 15 minute U-Bar with narrower and muted candlesticks.
9. Previous / Current Session Reference Zone.
10. Open Point of Control.

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