The ResGraph menu appears in the menu bar whenever a Results Graph Window is active, and can also be accessed by pressing the right mouse button within that window.

This menu has two sub-menus, as indicated by the > signs.

X-Axis opens a sub-menu containing a list of all the parameters that were included in the optimization. The selected parameter becomes the X-Axis of the graph.

The second sub-menu also lists the optimization parameters, but its label changes with the graph type. For a Heat Map or 3D Surface it is labeled Y-Axis, and the selected parameter becomes the graph's Y axis. For the bar and curve graph types it is instead labeled Average By, selecting the parameter to average across (it is disabled when there is nothing to average).

Bar Chart, Heat Map, 3D Surface, Histogram, Equity Curves and Drawdown Curves select which type of optimization graph the window displays (also the B, H, 3, M, E and D keys). Heat Map and 3D Surface require two or more optimized parameters. See Optimization Results Graphs for a full description of each graph type.

Linear Regression Line toggles a least-squares trend line on the graph.

Sort Columns (bar chart only) toggles the bar order (X axis) between test number and value. Sorting an optimization graph by value makes it easier to see at a glance what the range of values is and how common or rare the extremes are.

Log Scale toggles logarithmic scaling of the value (Y) axis, most useful for the equity and drawdown curves.

Percentile Band toggles a shaded band that shows the distribution of results across all tests. See Optimization Results Graphs for details.

Log Summary Text writes a text summary of the current graph to the Log window. For the Histogram it is a tab-delimited sensitivity table with one row per results column; for the Overfitting Analysis it is the headline metrics plus the walk-forward correlation at every split point. See Optimization Results Graphs and Overfitting Analysis for details.

Show Values (heat map only) toggles drawing each cell's value inside the cell (also the V key). Values are drawn only when the cells are wide enough to hold them, so a dense grid stays readable.

Show Data opens the graph's underlying data as a list window. For the Heat Map it is the grid as a table, one row per Y-axis parameter value and one column per X-axis value, ready to copy into a spreadsheet. For the Overfitting Analysis it is the current view's data points: the per-split selections, or every combination's in-sample and out-of-sample Sharpe at the split being shown.

Copy Image To Clipboard places a bitmap image of the currently displayed graph into the Windows clipboard.

Save Image As PNG File prompts for a file path to save the currently displayed graph in PNG image format.

Refresh ResGraph recalculates the optimization data and redraws the graph.

Options opens the Optimization Graph Options dialog, which collects all of the menu's choices in one place, grouped by the graph type they apply to (the groups for the currently selected type are shown in bold), and adds three that are not on the menu: the Averaging Method, a Dark Background option, and the histogram's Bins count. See Optimization Results Graphs for details.

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