Classic indicators

These indicators are calculated only from the price and volume of the candles on your chart. That's why they work for every symbol, whether crypto, stock, or index, and on every interval. You'll find them under Top bar → Indicators → Indicators.

All pane indicators have the Study colors toggle and a Color in the Style tab, see settings dialog. The tables below therefore list only the remaining settings.

The basic tools

These entries are at the very top of the category.

Volume

Traded volume per candle as bars along the bottom of the main chart. Turquoise bars belong to rising candles, red ones to falling candles. In the legend it is called “Vol”, followed by the value at the crosshair with its unit.

In the Layers panel, volume sits directly under the symbol and can be toggled there with the eye.

Simple Moving Average (SMA) and Exponential Moving Average (EMA)

The SMA is the simple mean of closing prices over the set length; the EMA weights recent prices more heavily and therefore reacts faster. If the price is above the average, the trend over that length points up. Crossovers of two averages (such as 50 and 200) are considered a trend change signal.

#### Averages on other timeframes

With Timeframe, the line is calculated on the candles of another interval instead of the chart's. An SMA 200 on 1D is the 200-day average, whether you're looking at the 15-minute, 4-hour, or weekly chart. On a finer chart, the line runs smoothly: each value sits where its timeframe candle closes, and a straight line connects the two values in between, rather than standing still until the next close. The last stretch leads to the value of the still-open candle and moves with the price. SMA 200 · 1D, SMA 200 · 1W, the Bull Market Support Band, and the daily RSI of the MTF RSI run the same way. Same as chart calculates on the candles you see, as before.

Include current candle adds the timeframe's still-open candle to the average at every chart candle, using that chart candle's close, so the line shows at each point what the average would have read at that moment. Off (the default), it connects the values of the completed candles as described above.

In the Daily & weekly tab, you add the well-known levels with one click, each with its own color:

The Custom tab has four more lines, each with its own timeframe, length, and color, for example a 200 on 4H or a 12 on 1M. With the EMA, all lines are calculated exponentially; with the SMA, as a simple average. All extra lines are off by default, so an SMA you already have on the chart draws exactly as before.

Relative Strength Index (RSI)

Momentum oscillator between 0 and 100, after Wilder. Above the upper threshold the market is considered overbought, below the lower one oversold. These ranges are highlighted in the pane, and the curve changes color there. The 50 line separates upward from downward momentum.

Bollinger Bands

A moving average with two bands set a number of standard deviations away. Narrow bands show quiet phases, which are often followed by a larger move. Prices at the outer band have moved far relative to recent volatility.

MACD

The difference between two EMAs (MACD line), its smoothing (signal line), and the distance between them as a histogram. When the MACD line crosses above the signal line, momentum turns up. The histogram has its own scaling so that it stays readable next to the lines.

VWAP

The volume-weighted average price, calculated on the typical price (high, low, close) and restarted at the beginning of each session. Above the VWAP, the session's buyers are in profit on average; below it, at a loss.

“Automatic” restarts daily for candles up to 15 minutes, weekly up to 4 hours, monthly above that up to less than a week, and yearly from weekly candles on. That way, a session always spans a few dozen candles. With a fixed anchor, you can see the weekly VWAP on the hourly chart, for example. The boundaries are in UTC, and the week starts on Monday.

On-Balance Volume (OBV)

Cumulative volume: candles with a rising close add their volume, falling ones subtract it. If the OBV rises while the price moves sideways, capital is flowing into the asset. What counts is the direction of the curve, not its height. No settings other than style.

Anchored VWAP

A VWAP that starts not at a session but at a candle of your choice, such as a notable high, low, or news event. It shows the average price of everyone who has bought since that point. Optional bands set at standard deviations show how far the price has moved from it.

How to set an anchor:

1. Add Anchored VWAP in the menu. The terminal switches to selection mode and shows “Click a candle to anchor the VWAP”.
2. Click the candle where the VWAP should begin. Clicking in a pane or on an axis cancels selection mode; dragging moves the chart as usual.
3. To set more anchors, use Right-click the chart → Anchored VWAP from here. Each anchor gets its own line.

Pattern recognition

Marks classic candlestick patterns (engulfing, hammer, stars, soldiers) as well as double tops and double bottoms directly on the price. A pattern is a hint of a possible reversal, not a signal in itself. It says the most at a spot you're watching anyway, such as a support.

Smart Money Concepts

Draws the market structure: swing highs and lows with HH, HL, LH, and LL, structure breaks (BOS, Break of Structure) and direction changes (CHoCH, Change of Character), plus order blocks, fair value gaps, and optionally the premium and discount zones of the current range.

Oscillators

All oscillators open their own pane below the chart.

Moving averages

Preconfigured averages so you can put several on the chart at once: EMA 9, EMA 20, EMA 50, EMA 100, EMA 200, SMA 20, SMA 50, SMA 100, SMA 200, and WMA 20, WMA 50 (weighted average, linear toward the latest candle). Each has a single setting, Length (1 to 500). The name in the menu states the default.

Cycle levels

These three lines are always calculated on a daily or weekly basis, no matter which interval your chart shows.

Bands and channels