Changing What You've Drawn
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ChartOverlay's extensive editing features allow you to fine tune your Studies to better explore your ideas.

Once you have placed an item on the overlay, you have several ways to change it:
·Edit its properties  
·Adjust its defining points  
·Adjust secondary lines  
·Remove extra secondary lines  
·Drag it to another position  
·Move it with the arrow keys  
·Adjust all objects together to compensate for changes in the price scale  

You can select the item and then press the Edit button on the toolbar or choose Edit Selected Item from the menu. This will bring up the appropriate dialog which will allow you to change any of the options (color, style, etc).

Each item is defined by one or more points that you specified by clicking or by clicking and dragging. When you point at an item (or when it is selected), these points will be indicated by small circles. If you Ctrl-click on one of these circles and drag it, you will redefine the object. This may be a small correction, as when adjusting a Trendline or a Retracement; or it may be a significant change, as when repositioning a pitchfork.

Some objects, such as Pitchforks and Parallel Trendlines, have secondary lines (eg, Warning Lines or Action/Reaction Lines) that can be adjusted. Simply Ctrl-click on the secondary line and drag it.

If you have checked Remove Fibonacci Levels by Ctrl-Checking on Them on the Fibonacci tab of the Options dialog, you can easily remove unwanted extra levels for a Retracement or Extension you have drawn. This option also applies to extra Warning Lines for Andrews' Pitchforks. To remove a line, hold down the Ctrl key and click on it. To Remove All lines of the same type, hold down the Alt key also.

Any object can be repositioned by Ctrl-clicking and dragging it.

All objects together can be repositioned by using the arrow keys (if the ctrl key is held down, the object will be moved by an amount that you specify in the Options dialog). This is useful when new bars are added to the right edge of the chart.

All objects can be moved as a group if you hold down the alt key and click and drag on any one of them. This is useful when new bars are added to the right edge of the chart.

All objects as a group can be expanded or compressed vertically by using the + (or =) and - (or _) keys. This is useful when new highs or lows are added at the right edge of the chart or dropped from the left edge. The ctrl key can be used to increase this effect by an amount that you specify in the Options dialog.