Financial Time Series User Interface
Note
The Financial Time Series User Interface will be removed in a future release and
will no longer accept a fints object.
Use fts2timetable to
convert a fints object to a timetable object.
For more information, see Convert Financial Time Series Objects fints to Timetables.
Use the Financial Time Series User Interface to analyze your time series data and display the results graphically without resorting to the command line. The Financial Time Series User Interface lets you visualize the data and the results at the same time.
Using the Financial Time Series GUI discusses how to use this user interface.
Main Window
Start the Financial Time Series User Interface with the command
ftsgui
The Financial Time Series GUI window opens.
The title bar acts as an active time series object indicator
(indicates the currently active financial time series object). For
example, if you load the file disney.mat and want
to use the time series data in the file dis, the
title bar on the main GUI would read as shown.
The menu bar consists of six menu items: File, Data, Analysis, Graphs, Window, and Help. Under the menu bar is a status box that displays the steps you are doing.
File Menu
The File menu contains the commands
for input and output. You can read and save (Load, Save,
and Save As) MATLAB® MAT-files, ASCII
(text) data files. To load MATLAB MAT-files, the MAT-file must
contain a fints object. You can also import (Import) Excel® XLS
files.
The File menu also contains the printing suite (Page Setup, Print Preview, and Print). Lastly, from this menu you can close the GUI itself (Close FTS GUI) and quit MATLAB (Exit MATLAB).
Data Menu
The Data menu provides a collection of data manipulation functions and data conversion functions.
To use any of the functions here, make sure that the correct financial time series object is displayed in the title bar of the main GUI window.
Analysis Menu
The Analysis menu provides
A set of exponentiation and logarithmic functions.
Statistical tools (Basic Statistics), which calculate and display the minimum, maximum, average (mean), standard deviation, and variance of the current (active) time series object; these basic statistics numbers are displayed in a dialog box.
Data difference (Difference) and periodic average (Periodic Average) calculations. Data difference generates a vector of data that is the difference between the first data point and the second, the second, and the third, and so on. The periodic average function calculates the average per defined length period, for example, averages of every five days.
Technical analysis functions. See Chart Technical Indicators for a list of the technical analysis functions.
As with the Data menu, to use any of the Analysis menu functions, make sure that the correct financial time series object is displayed in the title bar of the main GUI window.
Graphs Menu
The Graphs menu contains functions
that graphically display the current (active) financial time series
object. You can also start up the interactive charting function (chartfts) from this menu.
Window Menu
The Window menu lists open windows under the current MATLAB session.
Help Menu
The Help menu provides a standard set of Help menu links.