Charting Desk
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Blackboard: a blank canvas for drawing concepts.
Pick a tool on the left and drag. The zig-zag tool draws a sharp arrow; the doodle tool is loose free-hand sketching.
Compares adjusted returns by calendar period: each year's path for one symbol, or the same month across symbols. Uses split- and dividend-adjusted daily bars.
Choose which market groups the desktop caches. Turn a group off to stop fetching it; purge removes the bars it already stored.
| On | Group | Region | Planned | Cached | 1d | 1h | Data types | Synced | Actions |
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| Group | Adj | Earnings | Events | Fund. |
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Suggestions only: not advice.
Hover almost anything for a quick explanation. The Hints dropdown in the toolbar decides how much shows: Technical keeps it short, Educational teaches the why and the pitfalls, All shows both, and Off hides them. Small ? buttons in dialogs open the full explanation any time.
AAPL, BTCUSDT) or browse Assets.h/d/w are hours/days/weeks; capital M/Y are months/years.| Wheel | Zoom time in / out at the cursor |
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| Wheel over the price axis | Zoom the price scale at the cursor (manual scale) |
| Drag | Pan the chart sideways and the price scale up / down |
| Space / MMB / RMB | Drag to pan in any tool |
| Drag price axis | Stretch / compress the price scale (manual scale) |
| Double-click | Reset pan, zoom and the manual price scale |
| Shift + drag | Marquee / additive select |
| RMB | Cancel the drawing in progress |
| Esc | Cancel drawing / disarm the active tool / cancel the profile anchor / clear selection |
| Tap | Select an object; drag a selected object to move it, drag empty space to pan |
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| Long-press | Open the actions for a drawing or a list row |
| Double-tap | Fit the chart to the screen |
| Pinch | Zoom time and price about the gesture |
| Two-finger drag | Pan the chart (trackpad or touch) |
| V | Select / pan |
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| Space | Hand: drag anywhere to pan (or hold Space) |
| T / H / R | Trend line / horizontal level / ray |
| F | Fibonacci retracement (auto-Fib uses the visible swing) |
| L / E | Vertical / extended line |
| N / B | Parallel channel / rectangle |
| A / Y | Arrow / text |
| Z | Zig-zag arrow: drag to snap a sharp straight-segment arrow along the path |
| D | Doodle: loose free-hand sketching |
| S / Shift+S | Long / Short position: click entry, stop, then target; drag the handles to plan R:R |
| P / O | Andrews pitchfork / ellipse |
| X / G | Fibonacci extension (3 points) / Fibonacci fan |
| U | Measure (two clicks; stays until deleted) |
| Q | Eraser: drag over drawings to delete them |
| Fig | Projection figures (natural price paths into the future) |
| M | Toggle magnet (snap to bar OHLC) |
| Drag anchor | Reshape a drawing (Select tool; handles show only while selected) |
| Ctrl + Z | Undo |
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| Ctrl + Shift + Z | Redo |
| Ctrl + Y | Redo |
| Ctrl + C / V | Copy / paste drawings |
| Ctrl + D | Duplicate |
| Ctrl + A | Select all |
| Del / Backspace | Delete selection |
| Ctrl + Shift + L | Lock / unlock the selection |
| Ctrl + K | Focus the search box |
| ? | This help |
| Replay | Step back through the bars and play forward (default 2×). On entering, click a bar on the chart to choose the start, or use Re-arm to pick again. |
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| Panes | Show one, two or four charts (single, side by side, stacked, or 2 × 2) from the toolbar Layout menu. Click a pane to make it active: every toolbar control then applies to it. Link symbols and Link timeframes keep the panes in step; turn them off to study up to four markets at once. |
| Compare | Overlay a second symbol, normalised to % change from the left edge of the view. |
| Watchlist | Right sidebar list: add the current symbol, click to load, and use the remove button to take it off. |
| Alerts | Price, indicator & drawing alerts. One-shot: re-arm a triggered alert to reuse it. Arm one straight from the Drawings list with the bell. |
| Workspaces | Save / load / rename / delete named views of the chart. |
| Data | The Options → Data menu can flush cached data (delete stored bars and re-sync the visible charts) or clear all drawings for every symbol, including ones not open. Both ask first. |
| Save & restore | File → Save a copy writes your whole desk (settings, watchlist, drawings, alerts, workspaces) to one file, or to the cloud when cloud saving is on (Ctrl+S). File → Restore brings a copy back. |
| Symbol legend | Top-left of the chart: the ticker, provider, asset and timeframe, plus the hovered bar's OHLC, change % and volume (the latest bar when you are not hovering). |
| Export | File → Export: the chart as a PNG image (plus Copy image and Share where the device supports them). |
| Volume profile | Toolbar VP modes off / visible / session / anchored, with a POC and an optional Value Area (off by default, toggle it in Display). |
| Blackboard | Toolbar Board swaps the chart for a blank, gridless canvas to sketch concepts. Drawings on the board are saved separately from any symbol. |
| Cursor | Toolbar Cross toggles the crosshair lines; Dot shows a dot at the pointer. Both can be on/off independently. The Eraser (Q) deletes drawings by dragging over them. |
| Auto tools | Auto-Fib and auto trendline fit the visible swing; the Sess H/L toolbar toggle draws the last session's high/low. |
| Indicators | 50 indicators, grouped by type (moving averages, bands, momentum, trend, volatility, volume). Picking one shows a one-line description before you add it. |
| Custom indicators | Write your own study in a safe expression language: e.g. ema(close, 20) - ema(close, 50) or rsi(close, 14). In the Indicators dialog open Custom, then New custom indicator…: name it, choose Overlay/Pane/Volume, and type the formula. Style each line with plot(x, "Name", "#rrggbb", "histogram"). Errors point to the line and column; scripts can be saved, exported and imported as JSON. |
| Value Zones | Reads the trend (HH+HL or LL+LH), measures its last impulse leg and draws the Value/Discount buy (bull) or Premium/Peak sell (bear) pullback zones, with TP/SL lines at the leg extremes. Mixed structure shows nothing; a tested zone fades and the range drops when the leg breaks. The same plan powers the Value zones trading idea. |
| Presets | The toolbar Presets library applies a whole chart setup in one click (studies plus the automatic layers), grouped by school. For a single drawing, select it and use the toolbar Template dropdown to apply a preset (Support, Resistance, …) or save your own. |
A preset replaces the studies plus the automatic levels, structure and volume profile on the active chart. Your own drawings are never touched, and you can save the current setup as your own preset.
Pick a figure, then click two opposite corners on the chart to place it. Drag any point to reshape or fit it to your levels; drag it into the future to project. Figures follow the active bar type (candles, bars, line, area, Heikin Ashi) unless Line is forced.
Overlays a second symbol, normalised to percent change from the left edge of the view.
Time-warp a past window of any symbol onto this chart. Pick a source, a date range and the number of target bars, then set the anchor bar the window starts from.
Price alerts watch a level. They are checked on the latest bar after each sync and every live tick, and are one-shot: re-arm a triggered alert to use it again. On the web, turn on Email me to also be told by email while the chart is closed.
Saves the selected drawing's colour, width, text and Fibonacci levels so you can apply them to any drawing later.
Merge adds the backup to this desk and keeps what is here. Replace makes the backup the desk and clears the current drawings, alerts, watchlist and settings.
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Beta 4.1.1
Higher-timeframe charting for swing and positional analysis, across stocks, crypto, forex and commodities.
Desktop edition. Account-free, and your charts stay on your device.
No analytics, usage tracking or telemetry.
Data may be delayed or incomplete. For research and education only: not investment advice; provided without warranty.
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