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Tradesignal Options

In the Tradesignal options, you can find general settings for Tradesignal, for example
  • preferred view and chart type
  • data connections and order routing
  • timescale and scope of data backup
You can open the window Tradesignal Options
  • by clicking on the File menu in the header bar and selecting Tradesignal Options from the menu, or
  • by double-clicking on the connection icon in the status bar.
In the following chapter, you will find information about the settings or links to other chapters with detailed information.

Personalize


Tradesignal options - start view

Start Up

  • Restore all previously opened workspaces when the application starts - Select to restore all workspaces that had been open previously. This may take some time upon startup. Note that you also will be able to select/delect that option via checkbox when starting the application.
  • Automatically check for application updates - Default setting.

Look & Feel

  • Color Scheme - Here you can select a Tradesignal color scheme from the list (blue, silver, black). The new setting will take effect upon restart of the application.
  • Language - Here you can select a user interface language (English, German, Japanese). The new setting will take effect upon restart of the application.
  • Show descriptive tooltips for toolbar - Select to have tooltips displayed when hovering over toolbar items.
  • Show toolbox to the right of the workspace - Select to have the toolbox to the right (otherwise it is displayed to the left).
  • Hide workspace tabs when there is only one workspace - Select so that the workspace tab is hidden if only one workspace is available. If you like using the tab context menu, you should uncheck this option.
  • Only show the title tab of the selected workspace item - Select to have only the title tab of the selected item displayed, e.g. to tidy up the interface when using stacked documents.
Click on the Change Output Window Font button to change the font type, style, or size of the user interface. The standard Windows font setup dialog opens.

Period

  • Default Period - Here you can configure a standard period. You can combine any number with the entries for seconds/minutes/hours/days/weeks/months. The default setting is "1 day".

Data Feed

Detailed information about connecting online and offline data can be found in the chapter Data Sources.

tradesignalonline

Login Details for the tradesignalonline Website

The settings in this area are necessary if you want to publish material (such as a chart) in tradesignalonline (see the chapter Publishing).
  • Username - Enter your tradesignalonline user name.
  • Password - Enter your tradesignalonline password. For security reasons, this is not displayed.
Click on "Create a discussion forum account" to open the website account. Register as "Already registered".

Chart

Properties for new Charts

  • Default Chart Style - Select your preferred standard settings for the chart style: Candlesticks, Line or Bar.
  • Chart Style for Tick Charts - Select your preferred standard setting for tick charts: Stepped, Line, Symbol or Use the Default Chart Style to use the style selected in the line above.
  • Default Mode for the Value Scale - Select your preferred standard setting for the scale display: Linear or Logarithmic.
  • Show the symbol lists toolbox after inserting a new chart in the workspace - Select if the symbol list in the toolbox is to be automatically opened when creating a new chart. This may speed up your work.

Default History Length

Here you can change the standard history length. You can enter independent values for the three available options Daily, Intraday, and Tick.

Other Chart Options

  • Open symbols in their own subchart - Select to open symbols in a subchart when selecting Insert Symbol from the symbol context menu. Otherwise, the symbol gets added to the existing chart.
  • Automatically apply "Strategy Equity" when adding first strategy - Select to apply the Strategy Equity (in a subchart) when adding a first strategy.
  • Do not show the input mapping dialog, if all script inputs can be mapped automatically - Disable to always show the mapping dialog if you apply an indicator or strategy.

Alerts

Detailed information about the alert setting options can be found in the chapter Alerts.

Equilla

File Locations

  • PrintToFile Folder - In this folder, files are written by Equilla scripts (see the chapter Data Output via File Interface).
  • Equilla Extensions DLLs - In this folder, special Equilla interface files are saved. Do not change this path.

Equilla Scripts

Click on Compile all Scripts to (re)compile all Equilla scripts in Tradesignal. After the compilation, statistics are displayed for:
  • successful compilations
  • failed compilations (because of script errors)
  • read-only scripts (scripts delivered with Tradesignal)

Extension DLLs

These options are available in Tradesignal 6.3 and above and offer the option to enable or disable support for extension DLLs.
  • Allow C-API extensions to be used - Enabled by default, this setting allows you to control whether C-API extension DLLs may be used.
  • Allow COM-API extensions to be used - Disabled by default, this setting controls if COM-API extension DLLs may be used.

RSS Feed

Here you can configure RSS feeds. RSS feeds are added to the news displayed in the news window.
  • New - Add a new feed. A dialog opens where you can enter the URL of the feed. Make sure that it starts with "http://".
  • Edit - Edit the URL of the selected RSS feed.
  • Delete - Remove the selected RSS feed from the list.

Packages

Detailed information about the package options can be found in the chapter Package and File Management.

Symbol Lists


Shared Symbol Lists FoldersOn this page you can add/remove folders containing symbol lists in XML format as exported from Tradesignal.

By having these folders on a network share, you can share symbol lists between users.

Backup

Auto Save

  • Automatically make a periodic recoverable backup of any open documents - This is the default setting. When selected, the work is saved in regular intervals (given by the parameter Frequency in minutes to save open items) and available as backup. You can edit the frequency value.

Application Backup

Here you can enter settings for the backup of your current configuration. The following information is saved:
  • Packages with all their files, including information whether they are write-protected (date and time are not saved!)
  • Symbol lists
  • Symbol settings for automatic order routing
  • User settings
  • Edited quotation data
This way you can save the current state of Tradesignal and then use the resulting backup to restore your settings on another computer - or on your computer, for example after a new installation of the operating system.

The following options are available:
  • Backup Location - This is the folder where the backups are saved to. To enter another one, click on Browse and select one in the Windows file dialog.
  • Number of recent backups to keep - This is the maximum number of backups that will be kept. When going beyond this number, old backups will be overwritten, starting with the oldest. Max. number is 100.
  • Create a backup when the application shuts down - When selected, the data is saved as backup before shutdown.
  • Create daily backup at - Here you can enter a time at which the backup will take place. Note that this only will be done as long as the application is running.
Click on Create Backup Now to create a backup for the current settings and data.

Click on Restore Backup to restore an old backup. Select one of the available backup files from the dialog. Then choose whether you want to:
  • Restore all files including settings – restore all saved data as listed above.
  • Restore all package files – restore the package files only.
In addition, you can select the option Restore exclusively missing files so that already available files are not overwritten. Confirm the warning. After the restoration, the application is closed so that the new settings can take effect upon restart.

Note that all open workspaces have to be closed before restoring a backup. This is done fastest when you select Close All Workspaces from the file menu.

Order Routing

Detailed information about the order routing options can be found in the chapter Order Routing Options.

Advanced

Command Line

  • Check symbol lists for symbols entered in the command line - When you enter a symbol in the command line, it is always checked against the data provider to see if it exists. Select this option to have the symbol lists of the user checked as well to see if there is a symbol the user has defined (e.g. a synthetic symbol or a UDC).
Click on Clear Command Line History to clear all entries in the drop-down list of the Command Line.

Scanner, Watchlist and Portfolio

  • Keep rows sorted in Portfolio and Watchlist (Secs.) - The order in the Portfolio and the Watchlist may be subject to changes depending on e.g. changing prices. This may change the order the user configured. Enter the time in seconds here after which the user's original sorting order will be applied to the rows again.
  • Portfolio Default History Length - Here you can enter the default values for the history length. Independent values can be entered for Daily, Intraday and Tick lists.

Other Options

Click the Restore Default Settings button to restore the original Tradesignal settings.
  • Maximum open workspaces (changing this value may lead to performance problems on slower machines) - Enter the maximum number of open workspaces.
  • Always prompt for confirmation when closing a workspace item - Select if a warning is to be appear when closing workspace items.
  • Automatically close a floating desktop when the last workspace has been removed - Select to close empty desktops.
  • Automatically show properties when an item is selected - Select so that the property inspector in the toolbox opens for a selected item (e.g. a document).
  • Open live support chat in an external browser window - Select to open the chat in your standard Windows browser (instead of the browser in Tradesignal).
  • Indicate if there is no data provider when the application starts - Select to notify the user when the connection to the online data provider failed.
  • Query symbol lists, if none are found when the application starts - Select to automatically start the Symbol Wizard if no symbol lists were found.
  • Use a comma as field separator when exporting CSV files - Select to use a comma as column separator in CSV files exported from the Optimizer. Otherwise, a semicolon is used.
  • Export all optimization runs in the optimization results - Select to export all runs instead of only the fastest/best (see the chapter Optimizer).
  • Prevent system suspension/hibernation while Tradesignal is running - Select to prevent your computer going into hibernation during trading
  • Generate OHLC outputs for one-line formula-based symbols - This option applies the formula to all available price fields and combines them into a Candlestick Chart.
  • Display security name for one-line formula-based symbols - If selected, the legend will show the full names of the referenced symbols.
  • Correct symbols used in formulas on the command line - If your data feed uses prefixes for different data sources, this option automatically adds the selected prefix to the symbol shortcuts entered in the command line.
  • Reduce the evaluation frequency of background charts - Select this option to reduce evaluation frequency of charts loaded in the background. This can help increasing the performance of Tradesignal, when loading multiple workspaces. When selected, use the option Evaluation interval in seconds to specify the desired frequency. Available in Tradesignal 6.3 and above.