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  • User Guide
    • Welcome
    • Quick Start Guide
      • Getting Started
      • Installation
      • Customization Options
      • Advanced Features
      • Troubleshooting and Support
      • Next Steps
    • Console Overview
      • Preferences
      • Changing the Look and Feel
      • Desktops
      • Quote Sheets
      • Backup and Restore
      • Repository
      • Email Configuration
      • Docking Framework Guide
        • Introduction
        • Stations
        • Pages
        • Layouts
        • Customization
    • Accounts Panel
      • Simulated Account
      • Commissions
    • Alerts
    • Charts
      • Settings
      • Chart Spacing
      • Bar Sizes
      • Importing Data
      • Exporting Data
      • Birds Eye View
      • Cursor Data
      • Depth Of Market
      • Chart Labels
      • News
      • Watermark
      • Scaling
      • Analyses
      • Ratios
      • Time and Price Guides
      • Percent Change Charts
      • Software Development Kit
      • Lock Studies
      • Lock Scroll
      • Study Templates
      • Linking Charts
      • Working With Chart Windows
      • Ticker Tape
      • Chart Trading
      • Data Export Groups
      • Analyses Guide
        • Introduction
        • Managing Analyses
        • Sharing Analyses
    • Components
    • Depth Of Market
    • Elliott Wave
    • Hurst Cycles
      • Introduction
      • Study Overview
      • Using the Hurst Cycle Study
    • Instruments
      • Custom Instruments
    • Option Chain
    • Order Flow
      • Introduction
      • Time Price Opportunity (TPO) Study
      • Volume Imprint
      • Depth of Market
      • Time and Sales
      • Delta Volume
      • Cumulative Delta
      • Bid/Ask Volume
      • Speed of Tape
      • DOM Power
      • Order Heatmap
      • Big Trades
      • Speed Gauges
      • Components
    • Pages
    • Preferences
      • General
      • Theme
      • Chart
      • Toolbar
      • Sounds
      • Ratios
      • Elliott Wave
      • Harmonics
      • Historical Data
      • Orders
      • Alerts
      • Email
      • Trade History
      • Buy/Sell
    • Replay Mode
    • Scanner
      • Scanner
      • Creating a Scan
      • Executing a Scan
      • Editing a Scan
      • Elliott Wave Scanner
      • Harmonic Scanner
      • Study Scanner
    • SDK Programming Guide
      • Preface
      • Change History
      • Introduction
      • Fundamental Classes
      • Overlay Example
      • Study Plot Example
      • Drawing Figures
      • Signals
      • Tick Data
      • Strategies
      • Logging
      • Internationalization
      • Deployment
      • Environment Setup
    • Shortcuts
    • Strategies & Backtest
      • Strategy Back Testing
      • Creating a Strategy Analysis
      • Strategy Analysis
      • Strategies
    • Studies
    • Time and Sales
    • Tool Bar
    • Trade Report
    • Watch List
    • Workspaces
  • Release Notes
    • Release Notes
    • What's New In Version 6.5
    • What's New in Version 6.4
    • What's New in Version 6.3
    • What's New in Version 6.1
    • What's New in Version 6.0
  • Knowledge Base
    • Getting Started
      • Add a Symbol to a Watch List
      • Create a New Page
      • Create a New Workspace
      • Free Data Sources
      • Linux Installation
      • Resize Console Panels
      • Set Up a Simulated Account
      • Does MotiveWave Come With Data?
      • Can MotiveWave Be Used on Multiple Computers?
      • Futures Symbol Table
    • Connection
      • Connection Details
      • Add a Connection to a Workspace
      • Rithmic - Connection Issues and Troubleshooting
      • Connect MotiveWave to R|Trader Pro Gateway
      • GAIN Connection
      • Indian Market Connections
      • Interactive Brokers Connection
        • Troubleshooting Interactive Brokers Connection
        • Historical Data is Slow with Interactive Brokers
      • CQG Symbology
      • TD Ameritrade Search
      • Rithmic Eurex Symbology
      • Computer Sleep Mode
      • IQFeed Data
      • Another Instance of MotiveWave Is Using License Key
    • Workspace
      • Add a Connection to a Workspace
      • Create a New Workspace
      • Create a Workspace Backup
      • Restore a Workspace Backup
      • Switch Connections in a Workspace
      • Workspaces Not Showing Up
    • Charts
      • Adjust for a Stock Split
      • Assign Trading Hours to an Instrument
      • Component and Study Visibility
      • Different Charts for the Same Instrument
      • Make Studies Stick to a Chart
      • Trend Lines Don't Line up on Different Bar Sizes
      • Use a Display Mask
      • Create Tick, Range, PnF, or Renko Chart
      • Clicking on the Tab of One Chart Changes Tab of Other Charts
      • Charts Stopped Streaming Data
      • Charts Show Incorrect Historical Data
      • Time Range Measurements Are Incorrect
      • Limited Tick Data on Charts
      • Set Start Time for Chart Bars
      • View List of Studies and Components on Chart
      • Show ETH or Extended Data
    • Trading
      • Position Average Is Changing Overnight
      • Execute Trades on Another Account
    • General
      • Change Themes
      • Define Trading Hours
      • Futures Contract Backfill
      • Reset the Console Layout
      • Set a Default Account
      • Set Up a Repository
      • Set Up Gmail for Email Alerts
      • Set Up iCloud Mail for Email Alerts
      • MotiveWave Covers Windows Taskbar
      • Limit Instruments in Quick Search
      • Can’t See My Menu Anymore
      • Trade Report Is Incorrect
    • Study
      • Component and Study Visibility
      • Order Heatmap Study Not Showing
      • Forex With Volume Related Studies
      • Add a Custom Study
      • Volume Imprint or TPO Overlap
      • Use Real Values
    • Elliott Wave
      • Elliott Wave Data Window vs Start Date
      • Elliott Wave Functionality
      • Show Multiple Elliott Wave Ratios
      • Stacked Wave Labels
    • Scan
      • What Do the Scanner Results Fair, Good, Etc. Mean?
    • SDK
      • Create a Custom Study or Strategy
    • Optimize - Backtest
      • Backtesting Limitations
    • Support
      • Access Log Files
      • Active Session Exists
      • Create a Workspace Backup
      • Find My License Key and Edition
      • Minimum System Requirements
      • MotiveWave Extensions Directory
      • Uninstall MotiveWave
      • Data Loss
      • Trendlines Shift on Nonlinear Charts
      • Slow Application Performance
    • Error Messages
      • Forex.com - Error Placing Order: 75
      • Binance - Connection Failed: Invalid API Key
      • Binance Futures - Unable to load listen keys
      • IQFeed - Error: Index 1 out of bounds for length 1
      • IQFeed - Connection Failed
      • State Error
      • Error Placing Order(s)
    • Purchase
      • Upgrade from a Lease to a Purchased License
      • Upgrade from a Lower Edition Purchased License to a Higher Edition Purchased License
      • Recently Purchased Where Is My License Key?
      • PayPal Payments
      • How Do I Cancel My Lease?
      • Are Updates to the Software Free?
    • FAQ
      • Can I Add Commentary
      • Can I Have a Simulated and a Live Trading Account
      • Can I Have More Than One Broker Account
      • Can I Save My Analysis
      • Can I Trade from the Chart
      • Can I Use MotiveWave on Multiple Computers
      • Does MotiveWave Support macOS
      • Does MotiveWave Support Multiple Computer Screens
      • How Do I Log in to MotiveWave
      • How Do I Make Point & Figure and Hybrid Renko Charts
      • How Do I Position and Size the Chart Windows on a Specific Screen
      • How Do I Save My Charts
      • How Do I Sync MotiveWave Between Two Computers
      • What Instruments Does MotiveWave Support
      • What Is Compact Mode for Chart Windows
      • Where Are the Chart Tools
  • Video Tutorials
    • Product Demos
    • Startup and Installation
    • Workspaces
    • Broker and Data Feed Connections
    • Overviews
    • General Configuration
    • Configuring Preferences
    • Charts
    • Analyses vs Alternate Analyses
    • Studies and Strategies
    • Trading
    • Alerts
    • Replay Mode
    • Scanners
    • Fibonacci
    • Harmonics
    • Elliott Wave
    • Webinars
    • Third Party Webinars
  • Studies
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    • C - D
    • E - F
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  • Console Overview
  • Chart Basics
  • Watch Lists Overview
  • Repository Overview
  • Repository Analysis Overview
  • Analyses Overview
  • Components Overview
  • Alerts Overview
  • Account Page
  • Orders Panel
  • Positions Panel
  • Trades Panel
  • Time and Sales
  • Scanner Overview
  1. Video Tutorials

Overviews

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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.