Overviews

Console Overview

Overview of the Console in the MotiveWave trading platform for the Strategy, Professional and Ultimate Editions.

Chart Basics

Overview on Chart Basics, including how to open new charts, navigation, adding panels and studies, different chart options including bird’s eye view and semi-log scale, time spans and more in the MotiveWave trading software.

Watch Lists Overview

Overview on Watch Lists including how to edit and change settings for Watch Lists in the MotiveWave trading software.

Repository Overview

Overview on how to use the Repository feature, including how to set up a Repository using DropBox and how to import a Repository into a Workspace in the MotiveWave trading software.

You would use the Repository feature if you wanted to store information in a file system instead of the local database or cloud, or if you want to synchronize data with other computers, or use as an alternative way to create a backup.

Repository Analysis Overview

Overview on how to use the Repository feature for automatically sharing your analysis with other MotiveWave users, including how to set up the Repository Analysis Source using DropBox and how to access a Repository Analysis Source sent from another MotiveWave user in the MotiveWave trading software.

You would use the Repository Analysis Sharing feature if you have a signal or alert service, or trading group that you want to automatically send/push your updated analysis or new alerts to within MotiveWave.

Analyses Overview

Overview on Analyses in MotiveWave, including the difference between a Primary Analysis and an Alternate Analysis, how those are tied to a symbol, and more in the MotiveWave trading platform.

Components Overview

Overview on Components, the Components Panel and the Components in the Tools Dropdown menu in the MotiveWave trading platform.

Alerts Overview

Overview on Alerts, including Price Alerts, Study Alerts and Component-based Alerts. For this video we are using an example of when a Moving Average crosses a trend line in the MotiveWave trading platform.

Account Page

Overview of the Account Page, including the Account, Orders, Positions, and Trade History sections (panels), how to set a default account, refresh information in the Account page, open additional panels (Charts, DOM, Watchlist, Positions Trade History, and more) in the MotiveWave trading platform.

Orders Panel

Overview of the Orders Panel, including the Active Orders, creating a new order or editing an existing order from the Orders table, refreshing the Orders Panel, and viewing and editing the Order Ticket in the MotiveWave trading platform.

Positions Panel

Overview of the Positions Panel, including the Active Positions table, creating a new position using the Simulated Acct (useful if you have existing positions with an external broker), adding a stop or limit order to a position from the Positions table, editing an existing position from the Positions table, and refreshing the Positions Panel in the MotiveWave trading platform.

Trades Panel

Overview of the Trades Panel, including accessing the Trades History panel, exporting your trade history to CSV, purging your trade history, and refreshing the Trades Panel in the MotiveWave trading platform.

Time and Sales

Overview of the Time and Sales Panel, including how to access the Time and Sales Panel, setting number of rows and location of the panel, setting colors, min/max trade size, the aggregated period, highlighting Big Sizes and formatting those rows, showing a grid, and refreshing and locking the Time and Sales Panel in the MotiveWave trading platform.

Scanner Overview

Overview of how to use the Pattern Recognition Scanner (using Harmonic patterns as an example) in the MotiveWave Charting Analysis and Trading Platform. Includes accessing the scanner, creating a scan, choosing the inputs (pattern, time frames, symbols, amount of data), running the scan, looking at results in a table and in a chart.

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