When coloring bar charts, each bar is drawn in only one color, which is the color defined by the first ( Once you define a color rule, it is available to you through the parameters menu of any bar chart. To display a parameters menu, select Parameters from the Graph Menu. This displays the Edit Studies menu: When the Edit Studies menu appears, select Bar Chart. This displays the parameters menu for the current bar chart: The color definition for a bar The color menu contains thirteen selections:Coloring Bar Charts
Selection | Function |
Yellow | Renders the bar yellow. |
Green | Renders the bar green. |
Cyan | Renders the bar cyan. |
White | Renders the bar white. |
Violet | Renders the bar violet. |
Pink | Renders the bar pink. |
Orange | Renders the bar orange. |
Gray | Renders the bar gray. |
Red | Renders the bar red. |
Blue | Renders the bar blue |
Purple | Renders the bar purple |
Black | Renders the bar black. |
Rules... | Displays the Color Rule menu. |
Cancel | Returns you to the Color menu. |
The Color Rule menu contains defined color rules. To finish the assignment of a color rule, select the rule you want. Selecting a color rule returns you to the Bar Chart parameters menu and activates the color rule you selected for the high price:
To use the color rule, select Draw or Done.
Although you cannot see colors in the figure above, the chart has been drawn using a color rule. Not only are the bars drawn according to the color rule, but the cursor display window also renders bar information based on the color rule. For example, if a color rule compares the current high to the high 5 bars ago and renders bars in cyan if the current high is greater, placing the cursor on a cyan bar causes the cursor display window to render the word
High, the equal sign (=) and the high price in cyan.