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# Bar Sizes

Bar sizes are useful for changing the resolution of a chart based on time, price or volume movements. MotiveWave™ supports several different types of bars:

* **Linear** – time interval based bars (such as 1 minute, 15 minute, 1 day, 2 week etc)
* **Range** – bars are based on price movements of a specific price range
* **Renko/Hybrid Renko** – these are special price range based bars
* **Tick** – these bars are based on a specific number of price ticks (or trades)
* **Volume** – each of these bars will have a fixed trading volume
* **Point & Figure**

There are several ways to change the bar size and type. 

You can use the Bar Size Chooser from the top tool bar: 

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The bar size displayed on the chart can be selected to call out the bar size list:

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You can also right click on the chart and select the Bar Size from the context menu:

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Alternatively, if you go to the **View** menu and enable the **Bar Size Selector**, a tool bar containing the bar sizes will show up at the bottom of the console:

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## Custom Bar Sizes

MotiveWave™ comes with a default set of bar sizes, but you can create your own bar sizes from the **Custom** tab in the **Bar Size Chooser** panel. The availability of the interval types will depend on your connection(s) and/or the MotiveWave edition you are on.

The new bar size can be added to the **Favourites** section in the **Favourites** tab for easy access by clicking on the **Add Favourites** button:

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This also adds the new bar size to the bar size list in the right click menu:

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To change the orders of the bar sizes in the right-click bar size list, you can drag and move the bar sizes in the Favourites list:

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To remove a bar size from the favourite list and from the **Bar Size** option in the right click menu, go to the **Favourites** section and right click on that bar size, then select **Remove From Favourites:**

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Settings for the Bar Size Chooser panel ( columns, font, etc) can be found via the gear icon on the top of the panel:

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## Bar Size Selector

The **Bar Size Selector** is a convenient way access common bar sizes by simply clicking on one of the tabs at the bottom of the chart. If you would like to enable this toolbar, choose ***View > Bar Size Selector*** from the top menu bar to toggle its visibility.&#x20;

Note: the default behavior can modified by right clicking on the chart > ***Chart Settings > Chart*** tab ***>*** Enable the ***Show Bar Size Selector*** option ***>*** Select the ***Defaults*** drop down list ***>*** Select ***Save Defaults >*** Click ***OK :***

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You can configure the tabs available in the ***Bar Size Selector*** by right clicking on one of the tabs and choosing ***Configure***. Alternatively, you can find the Bar Size Selector settings panel via the ***Configure menu > Settings > Chart > Bar Size Selector***. &#x20;

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The **Bar Size Selector** also has some buttons on the right hand side (configurable via ***Configure*** menu > ***Settings*** > ***Toolbar*** > ***Toolbar*** > ***Bar Size Selector***):

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&#x20;These can be convenient for the following (in order from left to right):

* **Toggle Semi-Log Scale** – Toggles semi-log scaling
* **Choose Study Template** – Allows you to choose a study template
* **Toggle Birds Eye View** – Toggles the display of the Birds Eye View
* **Display Time Frame** – Choose a specific time frame to display on the chart (ie 2 week, 1 day etc)
* **Go To Date** – Go to a specific date in history

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