Thread: Best color combinations for charts

Hello, thought I would begin this thread to get a few different perspectives on chart designs and color combinations.

My charts at the moment have a light pink background. I find white to white and black to dark but what else in the centre seems like crap.

I just need something nice to check at that is clear, so that I feel more professional.

Do you have any opinions on this?

Figured out it. Right click and eliminate grid. Easy.

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Oh c'mon! It is not that bright!! LOL

Alright, okay, perhaps a little exaggeration on my part...

Yep, that's an improvement already. I'll use it. Thanks

I'd still like to see anybody elses set up if you feel like sharing the Most Recent trading style style

I like the red and green as well.

Me too. In addition, I like the dotted fib rings because softcolor, my red ones were starting to get on my nerves.

I would like to get rid of my grid too, however for some reason I lose the current price.

My suggestion is do a quick search on google, or comparable, for the word http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_therapy. After my study almost a year past here is what I have been using, and I am taking a look at charts about 9 hours a day performing TA and these. Very calming and I am happy and chipper all day

Cheers,
Thom

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Heres my suggestion, its nice and easy to look at and I think it looks rather professional. What I like most about it is it's possible to use the colours to make lines stand out or be subtly at the rear ground based on relevance or importance.

If you like the combination this how it functions:

Background Dark Grey
Foreground Midnight Blue
Grid Cadet Blue
Bar Up Black
Bar Down Black
Bull Candle Lime Green
Bear Candle Coral
Line Graph Black
Volumes White
Ask Line Red
Stop Degrees Red

Additionally, I keep the chart on the foreground

Fibs are dotted lines (see period colours)
SAR levels are strong purple
MA's. Are solid different shades

For long, medium and short term I use shades of Blue, Red Yellow respectively, the darker the shade the longer the timeframe.

This seems to work for me.

Lyndon

I like red and blue candles on black... but not real red, a more subdued red.

Bull Candle: Blue
Bear Candle: FireBrick
Bar Up/Down: Lime

black is the best for all... charts, programming, etc..

It is not hard on the eyes because there is no conflict between the background and the foreground colors and the background is not bright like white and it looks really cool too

except metatrader has what I consider a bug... it does not enable you to not print a black backdrop. Thus if you're big on printing, it is going to cost you a lot of ink and toner.

Colours are a big problem for me personally but for another reason, Im colorblind, thats a b****. I see the primary colors of the rainbow but the second you speak about colors, bam.

Mix 2 colors to get a third, trouble. For me personally I must adhere to the primary colors of the rainbow.