Technical Charting – it’s a visual thing.

Visual:ProChart is a powerful, and flexible charting platform developed specifically for use by the financial services market. An OEM product, Visual:Prochart is licensed by some of the biggest names in the business, and used day in and day out by tens of thousands of traders. Our other products, ProChart Pattern Recognition (PPR), and our revolutionary strategy development, and backtest, application, ProChart Strategy Development (beta), leverage the power and functionality of the ProChart charting platform.

Why ProChart? Quite simply it’s the best technical charting application on the market. Whether targeting novice users or professional traders, ProChart scales easily to meet your needs. ProChart has been designed to be highly interactive, and so intuitive it almost anticipates your next move.

Features… check; Usability… check; Performance …. Oh yeah!

While features and usability are ProChart cornerstones no charting product is worth a trade, unless it’s fast and reliable; ProChart, scores high on both counts. Charts are the most complicated component in a trading platform; they are frequently called upon to handle many tasks simultaneously, across multiple charts, and over multiple timeframes. Imagine, orders from the chart are submitted, draw tools are used, technical indicators are applied, objects are edited, user interface events are managed, all seamlessly while prices and various calculations are updated in real-time – this isn’t software for the faint of heart, one misstep and your trading platform comes to a screeching halt. ProChart is serious software, optimized for high transaction, data streaming environments… it’s a trader’s application.

ProChart’s development roadmap? It’s the same as yours.

Beyond scalability, efficiency, functionality, Visual:ProChart has legs; it can plug into virtually any data model, be used with any language compatible trading platform (Java or .Net) and it won’t become obsolete. With its separate UI layer, its look and feel can change as your platform changes, and adding new features and functionality couldn’t be easier. Take advantage of ProChart’s API to integrate ProChart with other high value applications like our own ProChart Pattern Recognition, or Strategy Development applications, and if not ours then your own or a third party’s add-in … we know where you want to go, let ProChart help you get there.

Visual:ProChart - Selected Feature List

Chart Types:

• Time based: Line, Bar, Candle, Heiken-Ashi, Scatter, Step, Histogram, Mountain, Invisible
• Price Action based (non-time based): Point & Figure, Renko, Kagi, Three Line Break

Draw Tools:

Studies/Indicators:

ProChart currently offers over 90 technical indicators (we frequently refer to indicators as “studies”). Click here for a detailed list. Additional indicators, including custom indicators can be added upon request.

ProChart indicators are completely editable, including study parameters, color, line weight, style, fill options, and the ability to apply certain studies (meta studies) to other studies.

Trade from Chart:

ProChart’s trade from chart API makes it possible for bidirectional communication between actions originating from the chart and updates from your platform’s order processing and position management system. Implementation can be as simple as displaying buy/sell orders or as complex as tracking, and editing conditional working orders ( OCO, OTO, trailing stops, bracket orders etc.) and position tracking. Ask us about possible customizations for enhanced position tracking.

Compare:

Instruments can be compared on a percentage change basis or price basis. Comparisons can be made on historical data as well as streaming data.

Alerts:

Alerts make use of a robust condition model that can be customized easily and accessed through a variety of UI methods.

Alerts can be triggered from a simple price level, a single specified value, or values based on selected draw objects such as trendlines, support/resistance lines and channels and even price-based indicators (upper studies). Alerts can also be triggered by a set of two or more conditions. When multiple conditions are used, all conditions must be true for an alert to be triggered.

Templates, Save and Recall Settings:

Chart settings and preferences can be saved and retrieved. Preferences allow users to customized chart properties such as colors and fonts. Templates can be used to set other properties such as chart type, timeframe (duration and interval), indicators to be used, study parameters, and more. Templates can be saved, edited, and set as a default.

In addition, chart states can be saved and retrieved automatically during a session. This allows users to freely investigate different instruments without losing their work. Each chart’s properties are saved and when the user cycles back to a prior chart its entire state is recalled, including draw tools, studies, timeframe etc.

Zoom controls (multiple methods), Pan, Scale, Reset:

ProChart includes various zoom controls such as dragging the time or price axis, using a mouse wheel or zooming into a specific region. Zoom reset, panning and scale reset are all easily accessible. Adding data intelligently through zoom and pan operations is also available.

Settings:

ProChart provides quick and easy access to numerous chart settings such as gridlines, show up/down bar color, extend (move) the chart away from the price axis, display last price and attach a dynamic line to the last price, show tooltips, show values on the price axis, show information at the cursor, axis scaling (linear, percent, log), cursor options, and draw assist (close, hi to low, none).

Localization Model:

ProChart uses Properties, similar to the method used to save and recall chart states, to manage localization of the UI. Resource Bundles can be used to load these properties if appropriate for your application. ProChart has been localized (by our customers) for use in more than 40 different languages.

Email and Print Chart Images:

ProChart includes methods to save, print and email chart images. By default, chart images include a 600 X 800 pixel chart image plus a 50 pixel border for descriptive information (instrument, timeframe, and copyright message, etc).

A detailed list of supported indicators: