How to mark and write on the charts?

Hello,

Can someone please let me know how you guys mark and write on the charts?

I have seen traders charts here at FF and they have written words and sentences on charts? How they do that ?

Thanks.

You can insert Text with MT4. There is a 3rd party program that is popular called Jing that many use as well. I'm sure there are other methods, but those 2 come to mind.

Thanks to Senior Trader- LasVahGoose. I will check Jing out as i dont use MT 4.

Sr. member? Yes Sr. trader? Hardly.

You're welcome.

I use free Windows Paint. Save as jpg to save space before uploading.

I use a screen scraper to cut the relevant area of the MT4 chart (although you could just as easily use MT4's File.... Save as Picture.....), and paste it into Excel. Then I use Excel's drawing tools to add text, boxes, arrows etc. Then I scrape that area, paste it into Paint, save it as a JPG, and use FF's "Manage Attachments" button to upload it to my post.

Sounds complex but I've done it so often that I've got the whole process down to a few seconds.

I've tried (the free version of) Jing, but I've since returned to Excel. Nothing wrong with Jing, but IMO Excel has a greater number of drawing facilities.

Photoscape is what I use. It gets any region/screen/window you select, then you edit (lots of arrows, lines, baloons..). then you can save as .jpg .png .tiff .bmp


Cheers!