Printing multiple charts
Author: kephin
Creation Date: 10/16/2015 2:15 AM
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kephin

#1
First - I have looked for this on the previous forums and can't find anything.

When I run a Strategy monitor scan I get back a bunch of charts that fulfill my search criteria (excellent WL). To look at each chart though I have to manually click on each one and then if I try and print I get the chart in the top half of a page (in portrait) when it would look better in landscape.

In the old scanscript version there was a way for the searches to be downloaded to a folder and then you could grab all the charts in the folder and print them all out to look at. This is very helpful for eyeballing charts and breakouts and looking for patterns across several names at once. I currently can only click on one chart at a time and when I print it out is is very small as it only occupies the top half of the paper.

Is there a way to a) print in landscape and b) most importantly, print out a book of all your screened charts that are applicable?

Thanks

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kephin

#2
Figured out how to print landscape - so please ignore that bit.

How to print multiple charts at once is the key request now please. Or how to drop all your searches into a folder - that I can then print everything in.

Thx
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Eugene

#3
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a) print in landscape

This doesn't really seem to be a WL question. You can do this if supported by your printer settings (Windows printer driver).

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b) most importantly, print out a book of all your screened charts that are applicable?

A natural desire would be to use GetChartBitmap() to save charts to disk and print them later. Unfortunately, this method does not work in batch mode - be it looping through DataSetSymbols, executing a multi-symbol backtest or batch processing within Strategy Monitor. It requires that user manually clicks through each instrument's chart, or records a macro using an external app like AutoIT. If you're up to it, this should do it.

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When I run a Strategy monitor scan I get back a bunch of charts that fulfill my search criteria (excellent WL).

From Strategy Monitor, you can not get a bunch of charts because cosmetic methods are N/A in the SM.
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