A short Amibroker tutorial by Adrian Reid (Enlightened Stock Trading) showing how to stop the small price-data tooltip from disappearing too quickly. He demonstrates navigating Tools → Preferences → Miscellaneous and increasing the "Data tip, auto hide timeout (seconds)" (default 5s) — e.g., to 15s — so the tooltip remains visible longer for copying prices and doing quick calculations.
Questions this video answers
5 seconds.
Tools → Preferences → Miscellaneous → Data tip, auto hide timeout (seconds).
15 seconds.
Hi, Adrian Reed here, founder of Enlightened Stock Trading with a super quick amibroker tip to help you in your trading day.
Now, I don't know about you, but there's a couple of really frustrating things about the software. Amibroker. It's super powerful, really useful, great trading tool. But every now and then there's just something just makes you go like.
And there's one of them that just really bugs me and I just found the solution for it. I wanted to share it with you because it's super useful. So have a look at my screen here and see how you hover your mouse over the price chart and a little data window comes up. Now, I don't know about you, I use this a lot, like to write down prices and everything. Like what was the opening price and shit. It just disappeared, right? It's just gone. You have to sort of move the mouse again and get it to come back up and there it is. Okay, so I'm trying to write down the open price or the high price or the low price. If I'm trying to do a calculation for positions and it's gone again. It's like, ah, so annoying. But the great news is there's a really simple way to fix it so that you don't have that frustration. So all you got to do is in amibroker, go up to tools and preferences and go to miscellaneous. It's really hidden in here. And see this data tip, auto hide timeout seconds. By default it's set to five seconds. So let me change this to 15 seconds and let's see what happens. Okay, cool. So now we can hover over this and look the price comes up and I can keep talking to you. I can write down my price, look the highs here and the lows there and do my calculation and it's still there. It's going to stay there for 15 seconds now. So just that simple tweak I find makes life so much easier day to day because I'm very often. See, it's gone now. So that took 15 seconds to go. But I'm really often trying to come up with ideas, looking at what the prices were, comparing the stock price to the indicator values and this sort of thing to try and come up with system ideas to help with my backtesting. And just that one little shift, that one little change in the amibroker settings makes that so much more relaxing. So I hope that helps. My name is Adrian Reid, founder of Enlightened Stock Trading, helping you with Amy Broker tips. That's all for this video. Bye for now.
