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the existing pattern makes sense to me: "Strategy: Name [or Chart] - Symbol [or DataSet] Timeframe". Why make symbol name the first?
Well, the existing pattern makes sense (strategy first) if you're trading with multiple strategies and the Windows menu items are sorted alphabetically. Are they? If so, then things are sorted by strategy, which is a good thing. But if you're trading from a "single strategy", then listing the strategy first on an alphabetical sorted menu isn't ideal.
I use to have multiple strategy windows open at the same time until I found a better way:
1) Create a dummy, permanent DataSet for all pending trades you're watching.
2) Sorted by threshold, copy the Quotes window you are using to watch all your candidate trades with into the Clipboard. This assumes you're monitoring all candidates with the Quotes window already. If not, then you should be. You can place Alerts into the Quotes window with the Monitor-in-Quotes-Window button.
3) From the Clipboard of candidate quotes, paste that into Excel.
4) Select the column of ticker symbols in Excel for the first several stocks that have quote thresholds between 85-100%, and paste those into your dummy DataSet via the Data Manager window.
Now you got a DataSet with all the salient stock symbol candidates you want to trade with. You can open a
single strategy window and cycle through that DataSet during the day to view each candidate. Moreover, you can "link" a daily-bar strategy view with a 15-minute-bar strategy view so you can cycle through all your candidates at your leisure with both views simultaneously.
One comment. In practice, I don't use Excel for this. That's too much hassle because I may repeat this process a couple times when the market first opens. Instead, my clipboard extender supports regexp processing, so with a single regexp macro I can convert what's captured in step 2 into step 4 without leaving the clipboard. I'm happy to share the regular expressions I use for this if you're interested.
Now I'm thinking someone is going to suggest adding a WL Quotes-to-DataSet pop-up-menu item that would automate this entire process.