Chart Properties window

Data tab

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Show bars with zero volume

Keep bars with zero volume instead of removing them if the data source doesn’t provide zero volume bars they are created. Created bars use the previous bars close price for the new bars open, high, low, and close values.

Show Weekend Data

Keep bars (and price updates) that occur on the weekend. This option does not affect symbols trading 24/7 (e.g cryptos).

Candle Open Price

Choose what price to use for the candle open price.

  • First Tick - Use the first tick received at or after the candle start time

  • Previous Close - Use the previous candles close as the new candles open price

Edit Data Range

Set the range of data to load into the chart. The range can be two dates, an end date and a number of bars, or dynamic. Dynamic is the default, additional bars are loaded on demand when you scroll back in time.

Chart Properties tab

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Show Data Tips

Show a floating window that displays the price, date, and indicator values for the current bar the mouse is hovering.

Show Toolbar

Show the toolbar, some chart properties can only be accessed from the toolbar. You can use the keyboard shortcut to quickly show/hide the toolbar if you need to change those properties.

Show Grid

Show horizontal and vertical lines behind the symbols price display. Only vertical lines are displayed for sub-plots (i.e indicator windows).

Show Session Breaks

Shows vertical lines at the end-of-day time for intraday charts. On chart intervals larger than one day, the vertical lines appear weekly or monthly.

Show Countdown

Shows the remaining time until the next bar is expected. This will countdown to zero and restart when the first tick of the new bar is received.

Show Legend

Shows a small colored box or icon that represents indicator output. The name of the output is also displayed. Some indicators use their own colors, so the legend icon will not match.

Show Watermark

Display the symbol and interval text at the top-centre of the chart

Show studies tabbed

Displays indicators sub-plots in tabs instead of stacked vertically under the main plot

Value Axis (Y) - Font

Set a custom font for the price axis

Date Axis (X) - Font

Set a custom font for the date-time axis

Style tab

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Chart Type

Set the chart type displayed for the main symbol

Show price line

Shows a horizontal line across the entire chart at the level of the last candles close price

Timezone tab

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Displayed Timezone

Select the time-zone used to display date-time values on the charts X axis, and in the data tip.

  • Local - use the system time zone

  • UTC - use UTC/GMT

  • Exchange - Use the time-zone that is specified in the symbol directory. For Forex and US stocks this is usually New York time, for cryptos this is UTC or UTC+8 for some of the Asian exchanges.

  • Other - allows you to set any available time-zone

Scaling tab

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Auto Scale

The price axis is automatically adjusted to fit the price data displayed

Log Scale

Use log scale for price axis

Track right

Automatically scroll right as new bars are created or received

Use margins

Enable or disable the top and bottom margins

Top Margin

Margin as a percentage of window height to leave empty above the main price data

Bottom Margin

Margin as a percentage of window height to leave empty below the main price data

Right Margin

Number of bars after the last bar to leave empty