Set Your StockCharts up Like Corey
Feb 13, 2009: 3:43 PM CSTI’ve had a number of readers ask me for my settings or style on StockCharts and I posted one article entitled “How I Set-Up My Charts” but I wanted to go over it again and provide a predefined chart link to make it even easier.
Clicking the S&P 500 chart below should take you to a recreation of the settings:
To recap, on StockCharts.com (which is what I use for educational blog posts because I like the clean format), I am using the following settings:
20 EMA (Green)
50 EMA (Blue)
200 SMA (Red)
Bollinger Bands (20, 2) which are ‘faded’ to an opacity of 0.5
I like to see volume (overlay)
I often display charts to “fill the chart” on the 620 setting
Finally, I customize the MACD to input 3, 10, 16 in the box to create the “3/10 Oscillator”
And I almost always use Candle Charts except when showing some Elliott Wave Counts, in which case I’ll use line charts (I also use line charts to demonstrate relative strength or percentage changes).
Keep in mind that I do my trading with TradeStation where I’m using custom indicators and a similar set-up, but using other tools in combination. It’s easier to explain the concepts I want to show by using StockCharts.com since more people understand and have access to it than TradeStation.
As always, thank you for your questions and feedback.
Corey Rosenbloom
(I have no affiliation with StockCharts or TradeStation other than I use their software)
