If you want to watch more than one stock at a time, this capability will be very important to you. For instance, if you are watching 10 stocks and you want to impose 2 moving averages, VWAP, and RSI on each symbol, you will have to, without this ability, apply 40 indicators manually, which will probably take a whole morning, leaving no time to trade. This is so important for us to succeed. Please join us in requesting IB to enable it. Thank you! Please go to IB features poll (under trader workstation help), search for "save template for multiple ticker symbols", and vote! Thanks!
What's wrong with just loading the chart template? Takes one click-hold-release of a mouse when it's in the menubar, less than a second.
Right now you can apply a template to just one chart. If you have a chart window that contains say 10 charts of different symbols and if you want to add 2 moving averages to each of them, you have to add those moving averages to each of the 10 charts one by one manually. If you apply a template to a multiple charts window, it will apply it to only one of the charts and delete all the other charts. Isn't this crazy?