Released: Spot price and volume trends faster with improved mini charts

21st Mar '22 by Ben Hobson

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Getting an instant view of price & volume technicals just got much easier with the release of improved Mini Charts. You can now see traded volume and smart moving averages for stocks instantly right across the platform - including StockReports, the Today page, Screening and Folio Table Chart Views and even on blogs in Discuss.

Mini Charts are already a popular way of viewing basic chart trends without having to click away or launch full scale charts. They’re a huge time-saver and an essential component in the Stockopedia toolbox. You don’t need to be a technical analyst to benefit from Mini Charts, but these new upgrades should help those looking for quick ideas that can be taken further in the main charts area. Here’s what’s new:

Instant technicals - spot trends quickly without disruption

The two new technical indicators on Mini Charts are the moving average and traded volume. These metrics play an important role in understanding price and trading trends.

Moving averages smooth out the noise of daily price moves to give you a clearer view of trends over time, as well as potential points of support and resistance in up or down trends. Traded volume is a measure of the total volume of shares that have changed hands, and can be a confirmatory signal in securities that appear to be breaking out or falling sharply. You can read more about Moving Averages and how to use them in the Guide

By having this detail on Mini Charts, it’s much easier to see technical breakouts and trend setups. By setting a table of securities to Chart view, you can now breeze through long lists to get an instant view of what to ignore and what to explore:

Chart flexibility - see technicals over your preferred timeframes

Mini Charts have always had adjustable timeframes, and we’ve kept that flexibility with the new technical data - giving you the option of seeing short and long term trends. In Screener and Folios tables, the date displays can be adjusted from anywhere between 1 week and six years using the menu at the top of the table.

As part of the adjustable chart timeframes, the moving averages are dynamic, which means that chart views of up to one year show the 50-day moving average. But when the chart view is greater than one year, it defaults to the 200-day moving average. This simplifies the chart and shows the most appropriate moving average without distracting from the price line.

Quickly access full charts with one click

Along with extra data on Mini Charts, we’ve also made it clearer how you can switch to more powerful main charts with just one click. Previously this was not as obvious as it could have been, so we’ve made it more intuitive.

Hover over any Mini Chart in Screens and Folios lists and you’ll now see the option to view the main chart:

Likewise, the Mini Charts that you can find next to articles in Discuss all now have a button to open the main chart:

Enhanced charts available across the platform

As well as individual securities, we’ve also enhanced the MiniCharts for main indices - which you can find on the Today page and the main Indices pages. Again, this provides useful extra insight about trading volumes and price trends for each index - giving you a greater snapshot assessment of market action.

More technical data at your fingertips

Overall, the new Mini Chart enhancements provide extra technical detail for anyone wanting to see essential trends in an instant - without disrupting your research experience.

Other fixes and updates

Folio transactions for today can now be added without error. We have fixed an issue that was causing problems for some users when entering portfolio transactions when the date was today.
Print improvements to Folio, Screener and Compare pages. We’ve resolved some of the formatting issues that were causing problems when printing tables. Site menus, check-boxes and cog icons no longer appear on printed pages. In addition, when printing Compare pages, all the securities will now print.
Historical StockReports (available via the Print button on Stock Reports) are now being generated for all geographical regions. This has not always been the case over the past year, but will be from now on.
NAV and News updates for Investment Trusts are fixed. We had reports that regular updates were not appearing in the news section of StockReports, and this is now resolved.
In portfolios, news and discussion posts are respecting the toggle for closed portfolio positions. Previously, news and posts were showing for both ‘open’ and ‘closed’ positions even when ‘show closed positions’ was unticked, which created a lot of unnecessary noise in folios, which we have now fixed.

Sunny350

21st Mar '22

Volume and moving averages is a great improvement. It would also be good to have candle stick charts and the possibility to add more moving averages.

Daniel Smith

Hi,

Thank you so much for getting in touch and for your enthusiasm regarding the improvements to the chart. The incremental approach that we are presenting here can be re-evaluated later on but does represent an important step in the future development of customising these charts. During the interim, candlestick and multiple moving averages are just one click away in the full-screen charts.

Kind regards
Daniel

Kieranj077

Hi Ben,

Good updates so thanks for that.

Question: When will it be possible to view the different StockRanks on charts?

The overall StockRank on the stock report is good but it would be great to have quality, value, momentum, QM, QV, VM ranks available too.

Thanks,

Greg Morgan

Can you please consider separating the Momentum into it's price and earnings components as well as continuing using the combined. It would be helpful for screening purposes, thanks.

Could you also add the Sloan Ratio and Olshem Ratio as options to screen on, thanks.

Antehelion

thanks Dan, I was going to ask just the same thing; appreciate there is more in the pipeline then, cheers!

Edward Croft

Greg - we do have the Sloane Ratio - it's called the "Accrual Ratio" and you'll find it in the screener and can use it in tables.

Guybrush

The mini-charts is an amazing tool for the chartist and the volume indicator is an important addition. I use mini-charts with screens as the first step in my research to scan through hundreds of charts for specific chart patterns. For the trained eye, the mini- chart contains valuable information condensed. I can see chart trends, breakouts, pullbacks, and now volume, all from this tiny chart - the line chart is the best for this. For charts of interest, I'll analyse further by opening a full chart in a new tab and drawing trendlines on top of my saved chart template. And finally, I'll do a StockReport to check for financial health before I make a purchase.

All this literally takes minutes . Trading has never been this easy. I'm up 10 percent already in days on my purchase of GKP, JOG, ATYM and SLP based on my mini chart research. And its super easy to roate into others for another 10 percent+ and so on. That should pay for the next few years subscription :)

Vince55

I like the mini charts, use it often to scan my watchlists.

InvestorJohn

Great job Stockopedia this looks like a useful feature addition!

AppETFBorsa

Congratulations Stockopedia! Great improvement.

Jim Batty

Newbie here. Suggestions on the folios, add transaction options:

1. After initial import of transactions to create my portfolio, I think you can only add transactions manually. Was expecting to import each month via CSV file. Did not notice this option.
2. want to edit a faulty transaction, instead of delete and re-add. Did not notice this option.

3. Like most people I imagine, I would like to put all my transactions into portfolio, for single consolidated view. You don’t seem to allow this, as gaps, such as indexes, far as I can see. Eg. Vanguard global small cap idx.

4. Your import option only allowed me to import half my portfolio. Much of mine are fairly mainstream and are in super60/model portfolios on interactive investor.

Maybe I am missing something. Apologies if this is incorrect thread to mention this.

Graham Hacker

22nd Mar '22

Great addition

Breakout Trader

Scanning the mini-charts is an integral part of my process - this is another good improvement which is very welcome, thank you.

RontheDon

24th Mar '22

Anything to help simplify, improve and reduce the complexity of market and company analysis, is always welcome. Having invested in the stock market for the past twenty years as a relatively small casual trader, I still haven’t managed to understand the trends created by herd and panic behaviour, combined with large and persuasive investment companies using AI, supercomputers and possible insider trading. Stockopedia does help considerably with my investment decisions but far from foolproof when it comes to investing in the stock market.