BullCharts : Zooming around a chart

BullCharts : Zooming around a chart http://www.bullcharts.com.au/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; BullCharts : Tips and Tricks : Zooming around a chart Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:11:36 +0000 Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:04:33 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.69 360 www.bullcharts.com.au/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=61 BullCharts http://www.bullcharts.com.au/forum/http://www.bullcharts.com.au/images/bull_logo.gif http://www.bullcharts.com.au/forum/ Zooming around a chart : Zooming into and out of a chart... http://www.bullcharts.com.au/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=61&PID=237#237 Author: Peter
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Posted: 22 Nov 2004 at 12:04pm

Zooming into and out of a chart is one of the most common tasks inanalysing a chart - so here's a few tips to make this faster. Some areobvious.. others are a bit more advanced.

1. Use the + and - keys on your keyboard to quickly zoom in and out.The chart will stay anchored on the right hand side. (If it doesn'twork, click on the chart to ensure it is focused.. or try using the +/-on the keypad).

2. The

button will zoom all the way out to show the entire history.

3. There are three different ways that you can use the

zoom tool. The first and obvious is to drag across an area of thechart. A blue box will show you how far it will zoom in. The height ofthe box indicates what the price auto-scale will do.

4. If you select the

zoom tool then just click on the chart then the chart will zoom in afixed amount, but it will anchor at the point you clicked. Ie, part ofthe chart scrolls off to the left, part off to the right, but the pointyou clicked on remains stationary. So you can click multiple timeswithout loosing your place.

5. If you hold shift while the zoom tool is selected, the cursor willchange to have a minus symbol. Shift+click will zoom out (show more).Again, it anchors on the point you click.

6. Every time you zoom by dragging the zoom box, the previous view gets remembered. Press the

undo-zoom button to return to the previous view. So, a common processmay be to zoom out to see the big-picture, zoom in on a point ofinterest, then press undo-zoom to go back to the big picture again.

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