Publishing

Your charts, strategies, indicators or Equilla codes do not have to be limited to your computer. All documents can be published right out of Tradesignal (as printouts or files), for example in Internet forums, print media or by E-Mail. In the other direction, it is also possible to import documents in Tradesignal from Internet forums or by E-Mail .

This way, you can exchange content with friends, colleagues and supervisors and work on Equilla code together, for example.

For exchanging complete packages, please see the chapters Export Packages and Import Packages.

Printing Charts and Tables

You can print all documents (Charts, Scanner, Watchlist, Equilla code etc.). If a PDF printer is installed, you can also generate PDF documents. Click on the Print button in the Publishing group in the Toolbar. The Print Wizard opens. Here you can either print a single document window (chart, editor etc.) or select Print the whole workspace.

After selection, a Print Preview window opens. Here you have the following options:

• Print - Start the printing. The standard Windows printer dialog opens.

• Copy - Copy the image to the Windows clipboard, for example to paste them in a MS Word document.

• Page Setup - Edit the page setup (page borders, page orientation etc).

• Zoom - Zoom the image (only for the preview).

• Previous/Next Page - Scroll between the pages, if the document has more than one.

• Header - Here you can enter a text that will appear at the top of each page in the printout.

• Color Mode - Select whether the document should be printed in Full Color (with transparency) (24 bit RGB with alpha channel), Full Color (without transparency) (24 bit RGB without alpha channel) or as Black and White. If the image is scaled on your printer (e.g. into a larger format), select Full Color (without transparency) for better results.

• Borders - If you select this option, borders are printed around each workspace element, to distinguish the areas more clearly.

For a chart, you can find additional print-out options in the toolbox, category Publish. You can change the axes' colors and the header.

Saving Documents as Images

You can save the workspace as image, e.g. to use it later in text documents or E-Mails.

Click on the Save Image button in the Publishing group in the Toolbar. The window Save Workspace Image opens. On the right-hand side, you can see a print preview.

Options for Saving as Image

• Select whether you want to save the Complete Workspace or only the currently Selected Workspace Item. The preview is refreshed accordingly.

• Select the Color Mode, either Full Color (with Transparency) (color image with 24 bit RGB and alpha channel) or Black and White (no colors).

• Enter an image size in pixels. Take care that the freely adjustable height and width of the image do not lead to distortion. The default setting is 640x480 pixels.

• You can enter a zoom factor (1 to 4 times).

• If you select Smooth Image, pixel errors in the image are reduced.

• If you select Draw Borders, borders are drawn around each element of the workspace, to distinguish the areas more clearly.

Finally, either click on of the following buttons:

• Copy ? This generates a copy of the image in the Windows clipboard. For charts, you can choose between the Bitmap format (.bmp) and the Enhanced Metafile Format (emf, scalable vector format). For all other documents, only the bitmap format is offered.

• Save ? This saves the selected areas as an image file. A new dialog opens. Choose the target folder and the file format. Six image formats are available: jpg, png, bmp, gif, tif and emf.

Sending Documents by E-Mail

You can send workspaces and single documents as E-Mail right out of the Tradesignal. To do so, your E-Mail program has to support the MAPI protocol.

1. Click on the Send by E-Mail button in the Publishing group in the Toolbar. The E-Mail wizard opens.
2. Either select a single item from the list or click on E-Mail the whole workspace. After the selection, Tradesignal starts your standard mail program.

Importing Charts, Workspages or Equilla Code From an E-Mail

When you received an E-mail with Tradesignal documents, you can import them into Tradesignal.

1. Save the E-mail attachment in a folder that is also a package in Tradesignal.
2. In Tradesignal, open the toolbox.
3. With packages displayed, right-click on the package and select Refresh from the context menu.
4. When the display is refreshed, you can find the new documents in the package. You can then open them in Tradesignal.

Posting Documents in Internet Forums

You can post documents from Tradesignal right into the Internet forum. To do so, you have to enter your user name and password in the tradeSignal Options in the Tradesignal Online area.

Create a Copy for the Internet

1. Click on the Post to Forum button in the Publishing group in the Toolbar. The Publish wizard opens.
2. Either select a single item from the list or click on Post the whole workspace. The item or workspace is copied into the clipboard of Tradesignal Online.

1. After the copying, you can open the forum either in the current or in a new workspace. Alternatively, you can also click on Close and open the forum in a new webbrowser. In all cases, the content of the Tradesignal Online clipboard is preserved.

Use the Copy

To use the copied document(s), you have to be signed on to the website "tradesignalonline.com". Then surf to the thread in which you want to publish your document.

1. Select either New Posting or reply to an existing one. In the lower area of the window, a field for text entry is displayed. To its right, you can find the contents of your tradesignal online Clipboard.
2. Click on the contents to insert it in the posting. In the text field, an entry appears such as "[EQU=2132867]", referencing the contents. This unique entry cannot be edited further.

Importing Charts, Workspages or Equilla Code From an Internet Forum

You can download charts, workspaces and Equilla Codes from the internet forum for use in Tradesignal.

1. In Tradesignal, open the web browser.
2. In the Browser group in the toolbar, click on tradesignal online. The browser opens and displays the start page of the internet forum.
3. Surf to a thread or posting that includes a Tradesignal document.
4. Click on the link Import into Tradesignal Standard Edition. If a chart was created with Tradesignal Standard Edition, you can also click on it to open it in Tradesignal. You can find more information on importing code in the chapter Downloading an Indicator from tradesignalonline.

Print Schedule

If you want to print documents on a regular basis, e.g. an overview of important indexes every morning, you can use the print scheduling function of Tradesignal. In the schedule, you can set up the printing of any number of documents at any date and time.

To be available for this function, the documents have to be saved as a package in workspaces. If the documents are not found there, either the wrong documents or none may be printed. Therefore, we recommend that you test each print schedule after its set-up.

Click on the Print Schedule button in the Publishing group in the Toolbar. The Print Scheduling window opens.

Options for Scheduled Printing

• New - Based on workspace packages, you can create a scheduled print order. The Print Schedule window opens. In it, you can select the workspace or search one by clicking on Browse. Enter a printer (the default is your standard Windows printer) and a print time (in hours and minutes, from 00:00 to 23:59). You can also select specific weekdays and which document type to print. Finish with OK.

• Edit - Select a workspace in the list of planned prints and click the button to open the Print Schedule window for editing the settings.

• Delete - Select a workspace in the list of planned prints and click the button to delete the entry. Confirm the security alert with "Yes".

• Print Now ? Select a workspace in the list of planned prints and click the button to print a test output. This should be done after each new setup of scheduled prints.

• Color Mode ? Select whether the document is printed in Full Color (with transparency) (24 bit RGB with alpha channel), Full Color (without transparency) (24 bit RGB without alpha channel) or as Black and White. If the image is scaled on your printer (e.g. into a larger format), select Full Color (without transparency) for better results.

• If you select Draw borders around workspace items, borders are printed around each workspace element, to distinguish the areas more clearly.

• If you select Raise an informational alert when printing is complete, an alert is displayed in the bottom area of the window after each complete print.

• If you select Add workspace title and print time as page header, this information is automatically added in the printout.

Click OK to save the print schedule settings.

Copying Documents via the Windows Clipboard

If you want to transfer graphs and tables quickly to other documents, for example to further analyze the data, you can use the Windows clipboard. This way, you can copy a chart into a text document or copy the results of the Optimizer into a table. This copying also works with other tables or with Equilla codes. Instead of using the key combinations, you can also use the buttons in the Edit group of the toolbar.

Copying Charts

1. In an active chart, press the key combination Ctrl + C to copy the chart.
2. Switch to the target document, e.g. publishing software.
3. There, press the key combination Ctrl + V to paste the chart.

The chart is inserted in bitmap format.

If the target document is a table, for example in MS Excel, you can copy the price data as well as any indicators or strategies included in the chart into the Excel table. To do so, select the price data in Tradesignal and then drag the data into the Excel table with the mouse.

Copying Tables

1. Select the rows in the source table that you want to copy (the source may be a Scanner, Watchlist, Portfolio or Optimizer). To select all rows, press Ctrl + A.
2. Press Ctrl + C to copy the rows.
3. Switch to the target document, for example a Microsoft Excel table.
4. Press Ctrl + V to paste the table contents into the target document.

Copying Text

1. Select the lines that you wan to copy, either in an Equilla Editor, an HTML Editor or a News window. To select all lines, press Ctrl + A.
2. Press Ctrl + C to copy the lines.
3. Switch to the target document, for example a text editor, and press Ctrl + V to paste the contents.

Publishing with the Windows Chart Viewer

If you are often confronted with the task of creating publications with chart analysis, you can ease the work by using Tradesignal documents as Chart Viewer Object objects. This is a Windows Object that can be used in many programs, e.g. word processing.

In the following paragraphs, you can find the step-by-step instructions for MS Word (up to Word 2003) and MS Word 2007.

MS Word (up to Word 2003)

1. Open your word processor.
2. From the Insert menu, select the Object entry.
3. From the list of objects, select Tradesignal Chart Viewer.
4. Right-click on the newly appearing border in the text document. The context menu opens.
5. From the context menu, select Tradesignal Chart Viewer Object and then select Properties from the submenu to edit those.

Here you have to enter the package in which the requested workspace is saved.For example:

• Package: Tradesignal Files
• Workspace: Chart Nasdaq

You can edit the format of the graph by editing the height and width. It is possible to enter more than one chart in the new document.

Save your document, e.g. as a template for your analysis. The name and folder can be freely chosen.

When you open the document again, the following steps are necessary to update the graph.

1. Start Tradesignal.
2. Right-click in the graph in your document (e.g. in MS Word) to open the context menu.
3. In the context menu, select the Properties of the Chart Viewer.
4. Click on Update and then on OK.

The chart is now refreshed with the data given by Tradesignal.

MS Word 2007

When using MS Word 2007, the "Developer" tab has to be available. If this is not the case, proceed as follows:

1. Click on the Microsoft Office button and then click on [program] Options. The program is the name of the current program, i.e. "Word".
2. Click on Popular and check Show Developer Tab in the Ribbon.
3. Click on the tab Developer.
4. In the controls, select Legacytools. Then, under More Controls, select TradeSignal Chartviewer.

In the configuration window, enter the package in which the requested workspace is saved.

For example:

• Package: Tradesignal Files
• Workspace: Chart Nasdaq

You can edit the format of the graph by editing the height and width. It is possible to enter more than one chart in the new document.

Save your document, e.g. as a template for your analysis. The name and folder can be freely chosen.

When you open the document again, the following steps are necessary to update the graph.

1. Start Tradesignal.
2. Right-click in the graph in your document (e.g. in MS Word) to open the context menu.
3. In the context menu, select the Properties of the Chart Viewer.
4. Click on Update and then on OK.

The chart is now refreshed with the data given by Tradesignal.