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How do I post a chart in the Chatbox?

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How do I post a chart, (or link to a chart) in the chatbox? I see everyone seems to use a program other than futures.io (formerly BMT), screencast, jetscreen, imgur etc. etc.. is this the ONLY way, (another program)? If anyone cares to respond, please respond as if you're talking to a Irish Setter, I'm not computer savvy, thanks.

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wldman uses Techsmith program called Jing.

It is free and it is reliable.

It gives a pretty good accurate representation.

What else could you want?

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bracket screencast followed by another bracket your link bracket back slash screencast followed by another bracket

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Most use Jing or SnagIt. Jing is free, SnagIt is better. Both by Techsmith.

Then use the Screencast share option.

Then, wrap the URL that it puts in your clipboard with [screencast] tags, so it would be:

[noparse][screencast]hit ctrl-v to paste the url[/screencast]

That is how to embed images into a post.

If you use NT, it's simpler, just use vvScreenshot:


That is a one click embed into post.

As for the chatbox, you would NOT use the [screencast] bbcode because you don't want the chart embedded into the chatbox, it is too big so don't do it. Just paste the URL by itself.

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I don't know the language to use to ask the proper questions. I'll try again.

I have no problem capturing images, the windows 7 snipping tool will do that, and my charting software will capture any chart with a single key stroke ..... So I'm, OK with that piece of the puzzle. I've posted a few charts and images on my thread, no problem.

But I see guys posting links to charts in the chatbox and I don't understand..... How.

I assume these programs,,, imageshack, jing, jetscreen etc. ,, etc. HOST the image, (somewhere) and provide "me" the user with the link .... (which I guess is the "url") I said think Irish Setter

So my next question is,,, do I need to use one of these programs to HOST the image for the sole purpose of "attaining a url" ,,,,just to post a link,,, to a chart,,, in the chatbox?? OR is there something/somewhere here on the futures.io (formerly BMT) site that will host the image and provide me with a url (if that's correct).

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I don't know the language to use to ask the proper questions. I'll try again.

I have no problem capturing images, the windows 7 snipping tool will do that, and my charting software will capture any chart with a single key stroke ..... So I'm, OK with that piece of the puzzle. I've posted a few charts and images on my thread, no problem.

But I see guys posting links to charts in the chatbox and I don't understand..... How.

I assume these programs,,, imageshack, jing, jetscreen etc. ,, etc. HOST the image, (somewhere) and provide "me" the user with the link .... (which I guess is the "url") I said think Irish Setter

So my next question is,,, do I need to use one of these programs to HOST the image for the sole purpose of "attaining a url" ,,,,just to post a link,,, to a chart,,, in the chatbox?? OR is there something/somewhere here on the futures.io (formerly BMT) site that will host the image and provide me with a url (if that's correct).

You can use bmcharts.com to upload and host the image, then get the URL to paste into the chatbox.

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You can use bmcharts.com to upload and host the image, then get the URL to paste into the chatbox.

Mike

Thanks for the hand holding Mike, I'll check that out.

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My first attempt:





Just what I was looking for, thanks again @Big Mike

So easy a caveman (like me) could do it!

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This same item took me more than a week so consider yourself one smart doggie! DB

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