Charting and Studies User Guide - CQG.com

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Setting Portfolio Monitor Visual Parameters
These parameters enhance the data displayed in columns and rows on the Portfolio Monitor.
You can change basic formatting, such as colors, font, and alignment; create conditions for
marking cells; add a histogram to cells; and compare cells using a heatmap.
Parameters can be applied to:
• symbol rows;
• study and condition columns when columns are grouped by chart type (when chart type
is the master heading and studies and conditions are subheadings);
• chart columns when the column are grouped by studies and conditions (when studies
and conditions are the master heading and chart types are subheadings);
• Price and Price NC columns.
When a cell meets several parameters:
• Conditional Coloring has the highest priority, followed by Heatmap, Histogram, Basic
Formatting, and preferences, which have the least priority.
• Column formatting has priority over row formatting.
When you copy the monitor to Excel, the cells retain their formatting, with the exception of the
histogram.
Parameters are reset when you close the Portfolio Monitor window. Parameters are saved when
you close CQG IC, when you import and export pages, and when you replicate the monitor.
Open the Visual Parameters window in one of three ways:
• Click a column or row heading, and then click the Params button. Please note that this
button is active only when a row or column is selected.
• Press CTRL+SHIFT+V.
• Right-click a column or row heading, and then click Modify Visual Parameters.
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