1. Period: To specify the number of weeks used in calculating the JBCOT Buy/Sell indicator, simply highlight the current number and type in a new value.
2. Style & Color: Trend lines can be displayed as Solid, Dotted, or none. Click on the drop down menu to specify the type of line style desired. Next to the drop down menu is the color box, click on this box to open a panel and change the line color.
3. The Three Commitment of Traders: Commercial, Non-Commercial(Large), and Non-Reportable(Small).
4. Open Interest: The total number of futures, or futures and options contracts of a given commodity for all three Commitment of traders.
5. COT Graph Dataset: You can have the data be either the "Futures Only" data or the "Futures and Options" combined data.
6. COT Graph Shows: This setting will graph the COT either as a Histogram or a Line.
a. As shown in screen shot on previous page, the first option in the drop down menu is the COT indicator displayed as Bullish/Bearish histogram.7. To display the indicator in the chart window, click the check box.
b. As shown below the second option in the drop down menu displays the COT indicator as a Bullish/Bearish line.
c. As shown below the third option in the drop down menu displays the COT indicator as a Total Position Histogram. To change the color of short positions, use the slider bar labeled "Long/Short color difference shading".
d. As shown below the forth option in the drop down menu displays the COT indicator as a Total Position line. To change the color of short position, use the slider bar labeled "Long/Short color difference shading".
8. Ruler Bar: See the Ruler Bar section at the end of this chapter.
9. Preview Window: This window allows you to make changes and preview them before saving them.
10. Click on "Apply to active charts" if you would like to see your selecting settings on all the charts you open. Click on "Restore Factory Defaults" if you would like to restore original software settings.
11. Help: Information from the manual has been integrated into the software. When clicking on the "Help" button you will get specific documentation based on the location of the button. You may also press F1 on your keyboard to access this information.
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