eSignal - Multi Timeframe Charts

A lot of folks are not aware that you can load built-in indicators from different bar intervals (or symbols) into an eSignal chart. We will show you how to do it here.

Let's say you have pulled up an AAPL 5-min chart with the RSI indicator loaded (like the chart on the left), and you would also like to see the RSI plotted from the 30-min bar interval.

First, right-click anywhere in the chart and select the Insert Symbol option from the pop-up menu.

 Now you will be looking at the Insert Symbol dialog. Type in the symbol (in this case we would type in AAPL since we want the RSI plotted from the same symbol but a different bar interval) and type in the desired interval (in our case we type in 30).

Leave everything else unchecked and then click on the Insert button and then click Close.

Your chart should now look something like this.

You will see the the 30-min bars are being plotted in an indicator pane below the existing 5-min RSI pane. We will remove these once we have finished loading our second indicator.



 

Right-click anywhere inside of the indicator pane that is displaying the 30-min bars and select the Insert Study option from the pop-up menu.

In the Insert Study dialog, click on the Built-in Studies tab, scroll down until you see Relative Strength Index, click on it to select it and then click on the Apply button. Then click Close to close the dialog.  

You will see that the RSI based on the 30-min bar interval has been added to your chart.

Now we need to get rid of the pane that is plotting the 30-min bars. To do this, right-click anywhere in the chart and select the Edit Chart option.

In the Edit Chart dialog, click on the Subchart that represents the bars from the alternate interval to uncheck it. In our case we are clicking on Subchart 3 which is labelled as AAPL, 30. Now click on the Close button to close the dialog.

Back in the chart, we now have our original AAPL 5-min chart, the RSI indicator based on these 5-min bars AND a second RSI indicator based on the 30-min bars.





You can repeat this process to load additional indicators from different bar intervals, or based on different symbols, or both. Any indicator in the Built-in Studies category is a candidate for this approach and it will work with most EFS indicators as well.


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