Workspaces

A workspace is at its most fundamental level simply a collection of one or more charts.

When you save a file in Sentient Trader you are saving a workspace, which includes all the charts that you have open at the time. And when you open a file you are opening a workspace, which is in turn a collection of charts.

The simplest workspace contains only one chart. When a workspace contains only a single chart the terms workspace and chart are practically synonymous - one could say open a chart, or open a workspace, because of course the workspace is only a single chart, but it is better to think in terms of opening a workspace because when one starts working with more advanced workspaces the two terms are not synonymous at all. For example, you may have a single workspace which contains a number of charts for different analyses of the same instrument.

Why would one have more than one chart in a workspace? There are various reasons:

In order to display the charts together (one above the other, or side-by-side). This is useful if one is monitoring two different alternative analyses, and a direct visual comparison is helpful, or perhaps if one is trading two different cycles on the same instrument.
For working with intraday charts, multiple charts are vital to improve the analysis on short term charts because they are able to inherit the analysis of longer term charts.

Note that there is a maximum limit of six charts per workspace. The reason for this has to do with the way in which your computer's CPU is used to perform multi-threaded analysis tasks. More than six charts in a single workspace would require too much CPU time, and would make Sentient Trader a very anti-social application.

Analyses and trading decisions on all charts are updated when opening a workspace.

For more information on workspaces, take a look at this video:

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