The ability to mold and shape Extreme Charts into the tool that best suits your own trading requirements is one reason for its popularity among traders. The versatility, which allows a trader to format the tool as needed, is one cause for the high esteem in which the tool is held.

The ability to format Extreme Charts becomes clear after a quick tour around the opening page. Icons are spread along the top line and the right border of the page. Tools can be added and subtracted from those shown, depending on what the user desires.

These Extreme Charts can be formatted to show a daily, weekly, quarterly or yearly price graph. The chart can be viewed as a line chart, candlestick chart, bar chart, or Fibonacci chart. Each stock chart will pop up and show whatever time and chart format you designate. The top line will show the stock symbol, the subsector and sector of the stock in question.

The tools may be formatted with as few or as many icons as you wish. The most popular icons, the ones used by most Extreme Chart owners, are for magnification, erasing, trend lines, regression lines, vertical lines, horizontal lines, text boxes, brackets, Fibonacci lines, and Fibonacci extension.

The general tool bar can be formatted to include the update, the trader's toolbox, the condition builder, symbol groups, criteria, functions, libraries, program settings, and the print key. The windows toolbar includes a quote board, alerts, a symbol grid, the sector browser, the chart data window, and the ability to show or hide indicators.

Another great addition is the chart of hot keys. This reminds the user which functions can be completed with the click of a mouse or function key. These hot keys can save steps in the stock examination process and make finding a better trade a simpler process.