As in many Windows software packages, there is often more than one way to do things.

You can use the menu options that are across the top of the window.

Or the various toolbar buttons often duplicate menu options; but provide a speedier way to do things.

And then there are various ways you can use the mouse controls - the right mouse button, or the scroll wheel. Or even a combination of keyboard keys and mouse controls. Of course, if you don't have a scroll wheel in the top of your mouse, then these options won't be possible.

With BullCharts open, and a price chart displayed, you can scroll the chart sideways to view earlier price data, or scroll back to view more recent price data.

You can do this using the horizontal scroll tool at the bottom of the window.

Or, you can mouse-click once in the chart some where to make sure that the "focus" is correct. Then simply turn the mouse scroll wheel with your index finger to scroll the chart from side to side. Scroll the top of the wheel forward to go back in time, and scroll it back to go forward in time. (This sounds a bit goofy, but that is how it works.)

To zoom in/out

To zoom the price chart in or out, there are a couple of toolbar buttons you can use. On the accompanying screen shot of the Chart Tools toolbar, these are the 3rd and 4th buttons from the left hand end.

BUT, another way to zoom is to do this: Hold down the Ctrl key, and use the mouse scroll wheel.

If you often insert an indicator to your price charts, you might like to use the keyboard shortcut to do it.

Firstly, let's point out the couple of different ways to "Insert an Indicator" to a price chart.

By far the easiest way is to use a button on the Indicator toolbar. There are a few already there by default; but you might like to customise the toolbar and add a few of your own. This is easy to do; but is not described here this time.

Another way to Insert an Indicator is to use the menu option: Insert - Indicator, an dfollow the prompts.

Or you can use the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+I. That is, hold down the Control key and press the letter "i". This is easy to remember because the letter you press - I - is the first letter of the word Indicator.

There are times where you might want to insert a chart of an index or security into an existing price chart. That is, you might display a chart of Commonwealth bank - CBA. And you might want to put a chart of the banking index onto this chart, to compare how CBA is performing compared to the other banks.

BTW: How do you find out what the index code is for an index like the S&P/ASX 200 Financials sector? - In BullCharts, look in the Security Manager, then up the top under the heading "All Securities", expand the sub-heading "Security Types", and then the sub-heading "Indices". Browse down the list until you find it.

To Insert Security, you can use the menu option Insert - Security, or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+E.

Then in the next dialogue box you might need to adjust some of the settings to place the security into the price pane, and to display candles instead of bars, etc., etc.