Advanced Prism

Welcome to Advanced Prism

This section will show you tips and shortcuts to improve your ability to use prisms.

Customizing the Prism

Customize the look of the prism - You can customize the look of the prism if you want by right clicking and selecting table properties. 

Here you can change the colors of the main table.  If you wish to change the buy and sell colors, click buy/sell colors in the preferences window, scroll to the bottom and change table buy, sell or neutral colors.

Turn Toolbars Off/On - You can get additional space in the window by turning off toolbars, you can turn off one or both toolbars because everything is available through the right click menus.

 
Display the Prism in Card Format - There is also a card display which will organize all the signals by symbol.  Juts right click or click in the menu "Card View".

To return to the prior view click "Grid View".

Getting More Information Out of Prism

Get Reports on Prism Symbols - An easy way to look up information on any symbol is to right click on a symbol and select a report.

Clicking on one of these reports will bring up the information on the symbol.

Set an Alert - Even though you can always look to see the latest buy and sell signals you can also set an Alert by right clicking  in a cell and selecting "Add Alert". 

This will set a permanent alert to go off when the next buy or sell occurs whichever is next.  Please see "How To Use Alerts" for more information.

Group Symbols by Buys and Sells - You can also change the way the table is presented.  If you drag a column header into the gray area above the grid it will automatically organize the longs, short and neutral symbols by type

Note  that the summaries will also now total under the group you created. You can continue to add column headers to the gray area to create subgroups under the groups. Just drag the study titles around with the mouse in the gray area to change the order of the groups or drag them off the table to remove them.

Copy the Prism to Excel - You can also copy the grid to Microsoft Excel.  Right click in the grid and select "Export" ==> "Export Table to Excel".  A save dialog box will appear, just select the default file name or enter your own and click save.  You can also change the subdirectory at this point if you wish.  After the excel file saves it will launch Microsoft Excel if you have it on your computer.

Sharing a Prism

Sharing is an important part of the program and there are a number of ways to share a prism.

Share - Click share, then anyone in the chat channel can click on your chat name and get a copy of the prism.  This will only work while you are online and you have the share open.

Copy the Prism to Chat - A second way to share a prism is to right click and select copy share to chat, this will create a permanent link in chat that anyone in the chat channel can click on and get a copy of the prism.  This link will remain and can be found in chat history.

Copy the Prism to a Forum or Blog - A third way is to right click and select copy prism for forum and blog.  Now when you are writing a blog or forum and can select paste and a link will be added to the web text.   When anyone clicks on that link from within the program it will launch and show the prism. If anyone clicks on the link from a separate browser nothing will happen.

Saving Prism Information from a Shared Prism

Saving a Shared Prism - What if instead of sending your prism to others you pick up one from someone else with information you want.  Right click in the new prism and click "File" ==> "Save" and save a copy for yourself.

Saving a Study in a Shared Prism - What if the prism has a new study in a column that you don’t have.  Right click on the column with the study and select "Export" ==> "Add Study to Program".  This will add a copy of the study to your program and it will instantly available throughout your program.

Extracting the Symbols from a Shared Prism - Maybe you just want the symbols from a shared prism.  The quick way to move all the symbols is to click on the blue box if the upper left of the window menu and move them into the window you wish.  The symbols will be added to the window.  If you drop them on a chart it will popup a new watch list linked to that window.  You can also drag and drop the row header to move one symbol at a time.

Adding Symbols from Another Window to Prism

You can also do the reverse, say you want your prism to reflect what is in your watch list, Just drag and drop the watch list blue box onto the prism and now it will populate with that list.

Replace Prism Content - Hold the mouse pointer down over the blue box of the watchlist, drag it over a prism, and then release the mouse.  The list of symbols will then populate the prism.

Append to Prism Content -If you hold the shift key down while dragging and dropping from the blue square, the symbols will be appended to the prism instead of replacing the watchlist contents

Replace Prism Content with Tagged symbols Only - If you hold the ctrl key which dragging and dropping from the blue square, only the tagged symbols will be placed in the prism.

Add Symbols from a File - Just drag a comma delimited file of symbols onto the window and it will also populate the prism.