Step by step
- In the Trading chart toolbar, open the Chart type menu. Daily, weekly, and monthly intervals use a segmented control, alongside the current custom interval; More opens a settings sheet with every preset and custom interval.
- Pick a type; the chart redraws immediately. Your choice is saved per chart.
- Some types (Renko, Kagi, Point & figure, Line break, Range bars) ignore time and only add a new box when price moves enough, so the bottom axis isn't evenly spaced in time.
Every control, explained
- Line
- Joins the closing prices. The cleanest view of the trend. How: Good for long histories and comparisons.
- Line with markers
- A line with a dot at each close. How: Useful on short ranges to see each bar.
- Step line
- Price moves in steps, holding flat until the next close. How: Shows exactly when the price changed.
- Area
- A line with the space underneath filled in. How: Easy to read at a glance.
- Baseline
- Colors the area above a reference price one color and below it another. How: Shows at a glance whether price is above or below a level.
- HLC area
- Shades between the high and low with the close as a line. How: Shows the day's range without candle bodies.
- High-low
- A vertical bar from the low to the high. How: Focuses on range, ignoring open and close.
- Columns
- Vertical columns up to the close. How: A bar-chart look.
- Bars (OHLC)
- A vertical line from low to high, with a tick left for the open and right for the close. How: The traditional chart before candles.
- Candles
- Bodies from open to close with wicks to the high and low. The default. How: The most common chart for trading.
- Hollow candles
- Hollow when the close is above the open, filled when below; colored by change from the previous close. How: Shows two things at once: the bar's direction and the day-to-day change.
- Volume candles
- Candles whose width grows with volume. How: Big-volume bars stand out.
- Heikin Ashi
- Smoothed candles that average each bar with the previous one. How: Trends look cleaner; the prices shown aren't the real traded prices.
- Renko
- Bricks of a fixed size; a new brick only when price moves a full brick. How: Filters out small noise; ignores time.
- Line break
- A new line only when the close breaks the high or low of the previous few lines. How: Shows reversals clearly.
- Kagi
- A line that changes thickness when price breaks a prior high or low, and turns when price reverses by a set amount. How: Traditional Japanese trend chart; ignores time.
- Point & figure
- Columns of X (rising) and O (falling) boxes; a new column only on a reversal of several boxes. How: Classic support and resistance; ignores time.
- Range bars
- Each bar covers a fixed price range, however long it takes. How: Calm periods make few bars, busy periods many.
- Volume footprint
- Inside each bar, the volume traded at each price, split into buying and selling. How: Shows where the trading happened inside a candle. On the free plan it's modelled from daily data.
- TPO (market profile)
- Letters stacked at each price showing how long the market spent there in a session. How: Finds the session's 'value area'. Modelled on the free plan.
- Session volume
- Candles plus a volume profile for each session. How: Combines price and where volume was concentrated.
Common mistakes
- Reading Heikin Ashi prices as real prices.
- Expecting dates to line up evenly on Renko, Kagi, Point & figure or Line break.
Limits to know
- Footprint, TPO and session volume need tick data to be exact; on the free plan they're built from modelled minute bars and labelled.
Try it: Open SPY on 1Y, look at it as Candles, then Heikin Ashi, then Renko, and notice how the same trend looks in each.
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