7) Time

When you first open BigTrends, there is a daily chart of Microsoft (MSFT). Each bar in the chart, therefore, represents one day of trading activity.

The Time menu in BigTrends gives you a great deal of flexibility to choose the period (the length of time measured by one bar) and the range (the number of periods displayed).

The periods available are daily, weekly, monthly, 1-minute, 5-minute, 15-minute, 30-minute and 60-minute.

"Date Range" allows you to get a set of data from the past (e.g. 1/2/1999 - 2/2/1999).

"Get Max Data" displays a longer period of data at a time ("Get Max Data" does not work in conjunction with "Date Range").

The table below describes the period and range options available.

How to use the table: If you select a daily chart you will see one year's worth of data. If you were to click "Get Max Data" you would see three year's worth of data. If you wanted to see data before three years ago, you would need to click "Date Range". Data back to 1990 is available.

	Period		Default Range		"Max Data" Range		Historical Availability
	Daily	1 year	3 years	Back to 1990
	Weekly	5 years	N/A	Back to 1990
	Monthly	15 years	N/A	Back to 1990
	1 - minute	3 hours	10 hours	N/A
	5 - minute	4 days	10 days	1 month
	15 - minute	8 days	20 days	3 months
	30 - minute	14 days	40 days	6 months
	60 - minute	28 days	60 days	1 year

To learn how to scroll through dates, zoom in and zoom out, please click here.