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My monthly eNewsletters were launched back in October 2008. Since then I have written no less than 25 separate articles of up to 4 pages each. These articles cover three distinct topics: Share Trading, Technical Analysis, and BullCharts.

Have a quick look at a recent Preview version, or download all of the first month's articles for free:- You can click here for more details.

Please feel free to send me feedback, or requests for specific topics.

The April edition is now being written, and will include lots of information on BullCharts Workspaces, and how to use them.

What is a BullCharts "Workspace"?

Let's say you are running BullCharts, and you have three price charts open. You might be a day trader who trades Index CFDs, and you are looking at a 1- minute chart of the XJO index (ie. the S&P/ASX 200), and an hourly chart, and a daily chart. Or you might be a longer term trader/investor, and viewing a daily, a weekly and a monthly chart for a specific stock.

This might look something like the tiny sample screen shot shown here. If you click on the picture, a larger image will display for you.

While we are looking at that chart, if you are interested in the detail, you might notice that there are various lines and text items on each of the three charts. In this situation I have turned the IntelliCharts feature on, and I have ticked the option to "Save different IntelliCharts for each time period". There are more details about IntelliCharts in the Tip Sheet #2 (see the Tip Sheet archive), and also in Brainy's monthly eNewsletter article number BC-06-100 published in February this year (see page 6 of the preview file here).

Now, exactly what is a Workspace? It is the information that describes the way the BullCharts screen looks, and which price charts are displayed. In the sample here, it is the three price charts, laid out the way they are, including the displayed security and the details on the charts. All of the information that describes this is stored in a text file on your local computer.

You can "save" the current screen layout as a new Workspace. Then if you want to view the exact same combination of charts again at some future time, simply Open the Workspace.

You can have multiple Workspaces saved. And since BullCharts version 3.8 there is a special Workspace Manager tool to manage them.

Each BullCharts Workspace that you save is stored as a separate file on your computer's disk drive. Most of the time you won't need to know about this.

Each time you "Save Workspace", you create a new disk file, and you have to give that Workspace a name, which becomes the name of the disk file. You can use "My Computer" (Windows Explorer) to navigate to these files and delete or copy them. You can even attach them to an email message and send them to someone.

With a Workspace open, it is easy to quickly close all the price charts, using the "Close Workspace" menu option. Even without actually saving the workspace, if you have one or more price charts displayed, then this is actually a Workspace whether you have saved it or not, and you can close all price charts using the "Close Workspace" menu option.

Once you have multiple charts open, the Workspace Toolbar becomes active (see the screen shot above). A detailed description of the three toolbar buttons won't fit in this Tip Sheet; but will be included in the April edition of my Monthly eNewsletters.

With BullCharts version 3.8.x, there is now a Workspace Manager. See the next section below for a brief introduction.

More details on some of the topics in these Weekly Tip Sheets are included in Brainy's Monthly eNewsletters that are available to subscribers (for a very modest amount). Feel free to click on the relevant link at right to view samples and more details.

These weekly Tip Sheets for BullCharts* users are intended to be short, quick grabs of information. They are not a replacement for the monthly detailed Brainy's eNewsletter articles, which cover these same topics but in much more detail. The eNewsletters articles also cover Technical Analysis and Share Trading topics.

Also see the BullCharts on-line help (in BullCharts, hit the F1 key), and the relevant User Guide Chapter for more details (this is supplied with the software and copied to your hard drive as a PDF file).

Note: Any screen shots shown in this newsletter are snapped from BullCharts version 3.8.

FEEDBACK? - I am very keen to receive feedback about these weekly BullCharts Tipsheets. Please feel free to email me with comments, or suggestions. Contact details are included below.

* - BullCharts is: "...an innovative charting and technical analysis system. It provides a feature rich and powerful set of tools with access to the latest strategies from local and overseas authors in analysing the dynamics of the stock market."