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WPF Trade Annotations

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Demonstrates how to place the trading annotations, that are commonly used in trading and financial applications over a chart
by click in realtime as well as in code-behind.

The Trading annotations are created via TradingAnnotationCreationModifier, or with TradingAnnotationCreationModifierMvvm in MVVM.
TradingAnnotationCreationModifier is derived from AnnotationsBase.

You can find more information on this, following this links:

AnnotationCreationModifier
MVVM Annotations API

In order to create the annotation in code-behind or in ViewModelyou will use method SetBasePoint (iComparable x, iComparable y).

Annotation Types Include:

AxisMarkerAnnotation
BrushAnnotation
ElliotWaveAnnotation
XabcdAnnotation
HeadAndShouldersAnnotation
FibonacciRetracementAnnotation
FibonacciExtensionAnnotation
PitchforkAnnotation

Also you can find more info about TradingAnnotationCreation modifier, following this links:

TradingAnnotationCreationModifier

You can change styling of the annotations by changing the annotation properties such as line color and thickness, as well as fill color.

The C#/WPF source code for the WPF Trade Annotations example is included below (Scroll down!).

Did you know you can also view the source code from one of the following sources as well?

  1. Clone the SciChart.WPF.Examples from Github.
  2. Or, view source in the SciChart WPF Examples suite.
  3. Also the SciChart WPF Trial contains the full source for the examples (link below).

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DrawingToolsEditPanelResourceDictionary.xaml
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TradeAnnotations.xaml
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TradeAnnotations.xaml.cs
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TradeAnnotationsViewModel.cs
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