Indicators
Open the Indicators window to add one. An indicator is drawn either on the price chart or in a panel of its own, with its own scale on the shared time axis.
Trend16
- Simple Moving AverageSMA
- Unweighted mean close over the last N candles.On the chart
- Exponential Moving AverageEMA
- Moving average weighted toward recent candles.On the chart
- Rolling VWAPRVWAP
- Volume-weighted average price over a trailing window.On the chart
- Session VWAPSVWAP
- Volume-weighted average price, reset each UTC session.On the chart
- Parabolic SARSAR
- Stop-and-reverse dots that flip sides on a trend change.On the chart
- Pivot PointsPP
- Support/resistance levels from the prior day's own range.On the chart
- Zig ZagZigZag
- Connects confirmed swing highs and lows, filtering out noise.On the chart
- Ichimoku Kinko HyoIchimoku
- Five lines: conversion, base, lagging span and a forward-projected cloud.On the chart
- SupertrendST
- A trailing stop an Average True Range from price that only tightens, and flips sides on a close through it.On the chart
- AroonAROON
- How recently the window's highest high and lowest low happened -- time since the last extreme, not distance.Own panel
- Vortex IndicatorVI
- How much of the window's range was spent reaching up against reaching down, as two comparable ratios.Own panel
- Regression ChannelLRC
- A least-squares line through the last N closes, with bands as far out as price has been straying from it.On the chart
- Chandelier ExitCE
- A stop hung an Average True Range below the window's highest high, and another above its lowest low.On the chart
- Weighted Moving AverageWMA
- Weighted by age down to zero, so a bar past the window has no influence at all.On the chart
- Volume-Weighted Moving AverageVWMA
- Weighted by what traded on each bar rather than by how old it is.On the chart
- Hull Moving AverageHMA
- Smooth and barely lagging at once, at the cost of overshooting a sharp turn.On the chart
Momentum12
- Relative Strength IndexRSI
- Momentum oscillator, 0-100, with 30/70 reference lines.Own panel
- MACDMACD
- Fast/slow EMA convergence, with its own signal line.Own panel
- Rate of ChangeROC
- Percent change from N bars ago.Own panel
- Stochastic OscillatorSTOCH
- Where the close sits inside the last N candles' high-to-low span, and that reading smoothed.Own panel
- Stochastic RSISTOCHRSI
- The same reading taken of the RSI instead of of price -- it reaches the ends of its scale where RSI never does.Own panel
- Money Flow IndexMFI
- RSI's shape with each bar weighted by what traded on it.Own panel
- Ultimate OscillatorUO
- Buying pressure over a short, a medium and a long window at once, weighted toward the short.Own panel
- Commodity Channel IndexCCI
- How far the typical price sits from its own mean, in units of its own average deviation.Own panel
- TRIXTRIX
- The rate of change of a triple-smoothed average -- slow on purpose, and it turns only when the trend does.Own panel
- Awesome OscillatorAO
- A fast average of each bar's midpoint against a slow one.Own panel
- Fisher TransformFISH
- Where price sits in its recent range, stretched so the ends of that range become tails rather than a ceiling.Own panel
- Chaikin Money FlowCMF
- Where inside each bar's own range the close landed, weighted by what traded on it.Own panel
Volatility7
- Bollinger BandsBB
- A moving average with bands N standard deviations out.On the chart
- Keltner ChannelKC
- An EMA with bands scaled by Average True Range.On the chart
- Realized VolatilityRV
- How far price actually travelled per bar, from the range rather than the close.Own panel
- Average True RangeATR
- How far a candle travels, the gap from the last close included, averaged over N candles.Own panel
- Donchian ChannelsDC
- The highest high and lowest low of the last N candles -- prices that traded, not a band around them.On the chart
- Choppiness IndexCHOP
- How much of the window's range price spent travelling rather than going anywhere.Own panel
- Moving Average EnvelopeENV
- Bands a fixed percentage either side of an average -- the one band here that does not widen with the market.On the chart
Order flow11
- Cumulative Volume DeltaCVD
- Running total of aggressive buy minus sell volume.Own panel
- Tape SpeedSPD
- How fast the tape is printing: trades per second in each bar.Own panel
- Spot vs Perp CVDS/P
- Spot flow against perp flow, in base units -- the two are never summed, because a single figure would hide the divergence.Own panel
- Effort vs ResultEvR
- The volume it took to move price one tick. High is absorption; low is a move that found no one.Own panel
- Flow ToxicityVPIN
- How one-sided trade arrives, measured over equal volume rather than equal time.Own panel
- Signed EffortSEF
- How much net one-way pressure it took to move a tick. High is a book that absorbed it.Own panel
- Spot vs Perp LeadLEAD
- Which tape moves first. Perp leading is leverage; spot leading is demand.Own panel
- Bar DeltaDELTA
- Each candle's own net aggression, not the running total of it.Own panel
- Delta Z-ScoreDELTAZ
- Each candle's delta in units of this market's own recent spread, so a threshold means the same everywhere.Own panel
- Average Trade SizeAVGSZ
- What traded in each candle over how many prints it took.Own panel
- Net AbsorptionNABS
- How much of the recent run was aggression that failed to move price, and which side it failed for.Own panel
Positioning8
- Open InterestOI
- Contracts outstanding. Rising price on falling open interest is closing, not buying.Own panel
- FundingFND
- The rate that will be charged at the next settlement, as the venue's own running estimate.Own panel
- BasisBAS
- The perpetual against the venue's own spot index -- what funding is charging for.Own panel
- Position FlowPF
- Whether the bar's aggression opened positions or closed them. A rally on falling open interest is shorts leaving.Own panel
- Forced ShareFRC
- What fraction of the volume was liquidations. A move that is mostly forced stops when the margin does.Own panel
- Open Interest ChangeOIΔ
- How fast positions are being opened or closed, rather than how many are held.Own panel
- Funding CarryCARRY
- What holding the position across this window has cost or paid, added up.Own panel
- Liquidation SkewLIQSKEW
- Which side is being forced out, as a share of all that was -- not how much.Own panel
Order book8
- Book ImbalanceBIMB
- How lopsided the resting book is, at three distances from the touch at once.Own panel
- Cost to MoveCTM
- How much resting size price would have to eat to travel a tenth, a half and a whole percent.Own panel
- ReplenishmentRPL
- Whether the near book is being restocked faster than it is eaten. A wall that refills is real.Own panel
- SpreadSPR
- The gap at the touch, in basis points. It widens before anything else moves.Own panel
- Book DepthDEPTH
- How much size is resting within one percent of the touch, both sides together.Own panel
- Microprice TiltMICRO
- How far the size-weighted touch sits from the midpoint, in basis points.Own panel
- Book SlopeSLOPE
- How much thicker the book gets further from the touch -- whether the depth is at hand or behind.Own panel
- Liquidity ConcentrationCONC
- Whether the resting size sits on a few levels or is spread across many.Own panel
Generated from the terminal's own code, so it lists what the current build has.
Panels
A panel is a separate region under the chart. These are the readings that can have one:
- RSI
- MACD
- CVD
- ROC
- Tape Speed
- Effort vs Result
- Book Imbalance
- Open Interest
- Funding
- Basis
- Spot vs Perp CVD
- Position Flow
- Realized Volatility
- Flow Toxicity
- Forced Share
- Signed Effort
- Spot vs Perp Lead
- Cost to Move
- Replenishment
- Spread
- ATR
- Stochastic
- Stochastic RSI
- Money Flow
- Ultimate
- Choppiness
- CCI
- TRIX
- Awesome
- Fisher
- Aroon
- Vortex
- Chaikin
- Delta
- Delta Z-Score
- Avg Trade Size
- Net Absorption
- Book Depth
- Microprice
- Book Slope
- Concentration
- OI Change
- Carry
- Liquidation Skew
Generated from the terminal's own code, so it lists what the current build has.
Some panels need data that not every instrument has: spot-versus-perp readings need the spot market to be captured, and positioning readings need open interest and funding. A panel without its data is switched off with the reason.
Drawing tools
Pick a tool from the toolbar or with its key, and click on the chart to place it. Escape puts the tool down.
Trend line tools17
- Trend LineT
- Draw a line between two price/time points.
- Ray
- A line from one point through another, running on to the edge.
- Info Line
- A line that reports the move it spans: price, percent, bars, time, angle.
- Extended Line
- A line through two points, running on both ways.
- Trend Angle
- A line with its angle measured against the horizontal.
- Horizontal LineH
- Place a price-anchored horizontal level.
- Horizontal RayShiftH
- Place a price-anchored horizontal ray extending right.
- Vertical LineShiftV
- Mark one instant, down the whole price range.
- Cross Line
- Mark a price and an instant at once, where they meet.
- Parallel ChannelC
- Draw a base line, then click once more to set the channel's width.
- Anchored Regression Channel
- Fit a line to one range of candles, and keep it there.
- Flat Top/Bottom
- A trend line and a flat rail at the third point's price.
- Disjoint Channel
- Two lines, each through its own two points, shaded between.
- Andrews PitchforkA
- A median through a reaction, with a rail at each of its extremes.
- Schiff Pitchfork
- A pitchfork whose median starts halfway up the first leg.
- Modified Schiff Pitchfork
- A pitchfork whose median starts at the first leg's midpoint.
- Inside Pitchfork
- A pitchfork anchored inside the swing, from the reaction's midpoint.
Gann & Fibonacci15
- Fibonacci RetracementF
- Standard retracement levels between two points.
- Fib ExtensionShiftF
- Project a move's own ratios forward from a third point.
- Fib Channel
- Divide a sloped channel by the same ratios, keeping its width.
- Fib Time Zones
- Count Fibonacci intervals forward from one span of time.
- Fib Fan
- Draw the same ratios as rays, so they widen with the trend.
- Trend-Based Fib Time
- Fibonacci ratios of a leg's duration, projected from the third point.
- Fib Circles
- Circles at the Fibonacci ratios of the distance between two points.
- Fib Spiral
- The golden spiral, from a centre through a point.
- Fib Speed Resistance Arcs
- Arcs at the Fibonacci ratios of a move, centred on its end.
- Fib Wedge
- Fibonacci arcs inside the wedge two rays make from one point.
- Pitchfan
- Rays from a pivot through the pitchfork's levels.
- Gann Box
- A box divided in price and in time at Gann's ratios.
- Gann Square Fixed
- A square Gann grid, fixed to a one-to-one scale.
- Gann Square
- A Gann grid with its diagonals, over the box two points make.
- Gann Fan
- Gann's angles from a pivot: 1x1, 1x2, 2x1 and the rest.
Patterns14
- XABCD PatternZ
- Five points, four legs, and each leg's retracement printed on it.
- Cypher Pattern
- The cypher harmonic pattern, with its ratios.
- Head and Shoulders
- Shoulders, head and the neckline under them.
- ABCD Pattern
- The ABCD pattern, with its ratios.
- Triangle Pattern
- Four swings converging, and the two lines through them.
- Three Drives Pattern
- Three drives and the corrections between them.
- Elliott Impulse Wave (12345)
- A five-wave impulse, labelled 1 to 5.
- Elliott Correction Wave (ABC)
- A three-wave correction, labelled A, B, C.
- Elliott Triangle Wave (ABCDE)
- A triangle, labelled A to E.
- Elliott Double Combo Wave (WXY)
- A double combination, labelled W, X, Y.
- Elliott Triple Combo Wave (WXYXZ)
- A triple combination, labelled W, X, Y, X, Z.
- Cyclic Lines
- Vertical lines repeating at the interval two points set.
- Time Cycles
- Arcs repeating along time at the interval two points set.
- Sine Line
- A sine wave whose half period and height two points set.
Forecasting & measurement12
- Long Position
- Plan a long: entry/stop/target with R:R, then right-click Execute.
- Short Position
- Plan a short: entry/stop/target with R:R, then right-click Execute.
- Forecast
- Where price is expected to go and when, with the change it implies.
- Projection
- A move projected from a third point, with its percent.
- Anchored VWAPW
- Volume-weighted average price from a chosen anchor point.
- Fixed Range VWAPShiftW
- Volume-weighted average price over a fixed time range.
- Fixed Range Volume ProfileP
- Volume profile computed over a fixed time/price range.
- Anchored Volume ProfileShiftP
- Count what has traded since one point, and keep counting.
- Price Range
- The price between two points, in money, percent and ticks.
- Date Range
- The time between two points, in bars and in time.
- Date and Price Range
- The price and the time between two points.
- MeasureM
- Drag across the chart to read the move, the time, and how many bars.
Geometric shapes16
- FreehandD
- Draw a freehand stroke. Its width and colour are the drawing line settings.
- Highlighter
- A broad translucent stroke, drawn by hand.
- Arrow Marker
- A filled arrow from one point to another.
- ArrowShiftT
- Point at something, from one place to another.
- Arrow Mark Up
- An up arrow under a bar.
- Arrow Mark Down
- A down arrow over a bar.
- RectangleR
- Mark a price/time box.
- Rotated Rectangle
- A rectangle at any angle: one side, then its width.
- Path
- A run of lines ending in an arrow; double-click to finish.
- Circle
- A circle from its centre out to a point.
- EllipseE
- An ellipse inscribed in the box you drag.
- PolylineL
- Click each turn; double-click to finish.
- TriangleG
- Three corners, for the shapes a box cannot hold.
- Arc
- An arc from one point to another, bowed through a third.
- Curve
- A curve from one point to another, pulled toward a third.
- Double Curve
- An S-curve between two points, shaped by two more.
Annotation11
- TextX
- Place a note on the chart, then type it.
- Anchored Text
- Words in a box, pinned to a point.
- Note
- A marker whose words show beside it.
- Price Note
- A note pointing at a price, with the price in it.
- Pin
- A pin, with its words above it.
- Table
- A table: one row per line, cells split by |.
- CalloutShiftX
- A note beside the bar it is about, with a line to it.
- Comment
- A speech bubble at a point.
- Price Label
- A tag with the price at a point, and your words.
- Signpost
- A post at a bar with a sign on it.
- Flag Mark
- A flag at a bar.
Generated from the terminal's own code, so it lists what the current build has.
Editing a drawing
- Click a drawing to select it; drag it, or drag one of its handles.
- Right-click for Copy Style, Paste Drawing, Drawing Settings and Delete Drawing.
- Delete or Backspace removes the selected drawing.
- Ctrl+Z undoes, and Ctrl+Shift+Z or Ctrl+Y redoes.
Drawings belong to the instrument they were made on: change the chart's instrument and they are put away, and come back with it.