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  • #1
  • First Post: Mar 10, 2014 6:19am Mar 10, 2014 6:19am
What chart color schemes do you find to be easiest on your eyes? Dark backgrounds or light?
What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
  • #2
  • Mar 10, 2014 6:46am Mar 10, 2014 6:46am
Dark background, green candles, red lines.
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  • #3
  • Mar 10, 2014 6:48am Mar 10, 2014 6:48am
Green up, red down, black in the back, light gray ask line (change it to pink when trying to impress a girl)
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  • #4
  • Mar 10, 2014 7:44am Mar 10, 2014 7:44am
Quoting Xhale
What chart color schemes do you find to be easiest on your eyes? Dark backgrounds or light?
Like this.
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  • #5
  • Mar 10, 2014 7:46am Mar 10, 2014 7:46am
Now, bodypip, change that price line to pink, and you've got it right
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  • #6
  • Mar 10, 2014 7:53am Mar 10, 2014 7:53am
Quoting masterpiecefx
Now, bodypip, change that price line to pink, and you've got it right
Much better now, thank you
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  • #7
  • Mar 10, 2014 8:34am Mar 10, 2014 8:34am
Personally I prefer to trade with a black screen, but with recently starting to share/instruct the system its impossible to print them, so now I am using white.
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  • #8
  • Mar 10, 2014 8:52am Mar 10, 2014 8:52am
Classical black on white + white on black+color candles daily
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  • #9
  • Mar 10, 2014 12:34pm Mar 10, 2014 12:34pm
White backrounds seem to bother me much more.
What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
  • #10
  • Mar 10, 2014 3:51pm Mar 10, 2014 3:51pm
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  • #11
  • Mar 10, 2014 3:59pm Mar 10, 2014 3:59pm
We have a winner!
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  • #12
  • Mar 10, 2014 4:43pm Mar 10, 2014 4:43pm
Quoting ARTjoMS
Classical black on white + white on black+color candles daily {image}
can u please share this color indicator?
I am smart than average trader, I simply copy the best.
  • #13
  • Mar 10, 2014 5:02pm Mar 10, 2014 5:02pm
If you spend hours a day looking at the charts, then black or gray are easier to look at. Keep all indis a dull color unless you really like hot pink or yellow :-)
Try white exclusively for 1 week then switch to black or gray. You'll notice the difference.
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  • #14
  • Mar 10, 2014 5:17pm Mar 10, 2014 5:17pm
Gold for gold
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  • #15
  • Mar 10, 2014 5:19pm Mar 10, 2014 5:19pm
And this one for the rest:
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  • #16
  • Mar 10, 2014 5:37pm Mar 10, 2014 5:37pm
I use software to keep my screen resolution adjusted, but I also use black back ground.

f.lux is the software.
I am smart than average trader, I simply copy the best.
  • #17
  • Mar 10, 2014 6:29pm Mar 10, 2014 6:29pm
When choosing the color scheme for your charts, 2 things are important. 1) It has to be easy on your eyes. Face it you have to look at it up to 24 hours a day as forex is traded around the world non-stop for 5 1/2 days a week. 2) Everything has to stand out so you can spot the emerging patterns and formations easily and fast.

Personally, I find black background with the traditional green/red candle combo is the best. I find the black background is easier on the eyes as with white background, sometimes you can get awful glare from the surrounding light or the sun and it can really strain your eyes when you've stared at it for a long time. Also with the black background, everything also stands out more and you also have wider choices of colors that you can use for indicators, lines and etc. on your chart as with lighter background, many colors don't stand out well.

Hope this helps.
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  • #18
  • Mar 11, 2014 6:15am Mar 11, 2014 6:15am
love it.
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  • #19
  • Mar 11, 2014 6:19am Mar 11, 2014 6:19am
Quoting 200km
love it. {image}
wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

I want itttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

how u did it?
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  • #20
  • Mar 11, 2014 6:36am Mar 11, 2014 6:36am
Quoting I-Robo
{quote} wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I want itttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt how u did it?
put the indicator in indicators folder and the wallpaper in something like J:\metatrader\MQL4\Files\ChartWall folder.


http://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/2767





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