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There are several useful features of ChartOverlay that might escape your notice. Here are a few:
·by selecting Always On Top (Options: General) you can keep the overlay on top of your charting program even while you are working with the charting program  
·the Hot Key (Options: Hot Key) allows you to temporarily Hide and then Restore ChartOverlay; this is useful when you have it Always On Top but want it out of the way for awhile; by default the Hot Key is (ctrl-alt-F) but you can change it in the Options dialog  
·if you have drawn a Fibonacci Retracement and it is now selected, the title bar will display the current cursor position as a (time, price) Retracement or Extension of the movement represented by the selected object (where <-1, -1> is the beginning and <0, 0> is the end of the move); in other words, for any point on your chart, you can immediately see how much of a Retracement or Extension it would be simply by pointing at it  
·you can hide the text on the toolbar (Options: Toolbar) to make it smaller  
·you can hide the toolbar (Options: Toolbar) altogether and use the menu instead  
·you can save what you're working on and open it later; this is helpful when you're working on more than one symbol or timeframe  
·you can save an image of your analysis and share it with others (the overlay and the underlying chart are blended)  
·if you accidentally erase everything, you can undo it  
·both logarithmic and arithmetic scaling are available; logarithmic requires that you enter price information  
·if any object you have drawn contains price information, that information is available to other objects  
·after you've drawn an object, you can still change its properties  
·you can change the shape of the objects you have drawn  
·you can change the position of the objects you have drawn (individually or as a group)  
·you can specify individually the color(s) of the objects you draw or you can have colors you choose assigned automatically (Options: Colors)  
·in some cases (eg, Action/Reaction Lines, Andrews' Pitchforks), you can move some of the secondary lines that are drawn; this allows additional fine-tuning of what you have drawn