Technical Analysis Graph

Fund Manager Professional offers powerful technical analysis features.  When you choose the Technical Analysis graph type, you will see a graph similar to the one below:

The Technical Analysis graph is divided into an upper and lower section.  The example graph shown above is displaying Candlesticks and Bollinger Bands in the upper graph section.  The legend is showing that the price on 11/17/04 is $3.26 and it went up $0.06 from the prior day.  The ending value on 11/17/04 is $3,259.90, and the value increased by $59.90 from the prior day.  The Bollinger Bands being displayed are for a 20 period Simple moving average, and with +/- 2 standard deviations.  The lower graph is showing the MACD with a long moving average of 26 periods, a short moving average of 12 periods, and a signal line using 9 periods.  The vertical blue bars display the difference between the two lines.  As with all graphs in Fund Manager, the colors, pens, grid lines, linear/log scale, fonts, etc., are all customizable. You can also pass your mouse over the lines and the values being plotted will be displayed in the status bar.

You can customize what data is displayed in each section with the Technical Analysis Graph Options dialog.  This dialog is easily accessible by using either the F10 key, or right clicking on the graph, and choosing "Technical Analysis..." from the popup menu, or under "Graphs/Options/Technical Analysis...".

Under the "Share Price Display" your choices are:

• <None>
• Close
• Candlestick

For the "Upper Graph Indicator", your choices are:

• <None>
• Simple MA
• Simple MA (2 lines)
• Simple MA (3 lines)
• Exponential MA
• Exponential MA (2 lines)
• Exponential MA (3 lines)
• Bollinger Bands

and for the "Lower Graph Indicator", your choices are:

• <None>
• Accumulation/Distribution
• Average True Range
• Chaikin Money Flow
• Commodity Channel Index
• MACD
• Money Flow Index
• On Balance Volume
• Relative Strength Index
• Stochastic Oscillator
• Williams %R

Each indicator is completely user adjustable.

There are many resources on the web to learn about using technical analysis:

Technical Analysis Web Sites:

• Technical Analysis from A to Z
• Glossary of Indicators (1)
• Big Charts
• What is TA?
• Technical Analysis FAQ