Help for Multi-Chart page
1. Overview
The Multi-Chart page contains a chart with up to 10 components plotted
(individual components, system totals, and/or basket totals), plus a
reference line. A sample chart is shown below. The chart page includes
a Format control bar which lets you change the Scaling, Years, or
Reference Line and redisplay the chart.
You select the components to be included on the chart from the
Summary Results display on the
Results page before you launch the multi-chart.
There, you can change the check-boxes in the "Multi Chart" column to select the
components to be charted; the first 10 checked components will be displayed on the
chart. If the basket total is checked, it will be plotted too (it does not count
toward the 10-component limit).
With modern browsers you should be able to select different combinations of
components to be charted (and different options on the Preferences bar) without
having to save the basket, but with older browsers you will have to save the basket
for each different combination.
2. Chart format control bar
This bar provides controls which you can use to select the
Scaling, Years,
and the
slope of the Reference Line. When the basket total is shown,
Percentage scaling may produce an
easier-to-read chart, because the plots
are more likely to be about the same height. Note that the Scaling selection
determines the units for the Reference Line, so the slope of the Reference Line
will probably have to be changed when the Scaling is changed.
3. Title
The chart title indicates the name of the basket, and the
User account size.
The User account size is used to calculate percentage values for the basket total.
4. The plots
The chart can contain many different plots. To help you
distinguish the different plots, each plot has a unique combination of
line color, mark shape, mark fill color, and line style (solid or dotted).
If the chart is printed in black and white, it should still be possible
to distinguish the different plots. The pattern used is as follows:
- For components, one of 5 marks is used: a red circle, a blue square,
a black diamond, a turquoise upward-pointing triangle, or a purple
downward-pointing triangle. For the basket total, a
three-dimensional-shaded gray ball (looks like a soccer ball!) is used.
For the reference line, a black "X" is used.
- For the first 5 components, the mark is outlined in black and
filled in with its color. For the second 5 components, the mark is
outlined in its color and filled in with white.
- For a given plot, the same color is used for both the line and
the mark. For the first 5 components and for the basket total, the
line is solid. For the second 5 components and for the reference line,
the line is dotted.
5. Axis scales and labels
The X-axis (time scale) has one grid-line per month, and is labelled with year
and month, e.g. "04-May". The Y-axis (cumulative profit or loss) has relatively
fewer grid-lines, and is labelled in either $K or percent (according to your
"Scaling" selection).
6. Legend
The legend is displayed at the bottom of the chart. There is one entry
for each component on the chart. Each entry shows the "mark" which is
used to distinguish the plot, plus the name of the component.
Page last updated 2006-Feb-25
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