Drawing tools
Every tool, with a canvas to try it on
Each card below has a real chart with an example already drawn. Press Try it, then click or tap on the chart to place points. Select a drawing to drag its handles; press Delete to remove it. In the full app, every tool also has a keyboard shortcut.
Lines
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Trend line
Alt+TTwo points joined by a straight segment — the basic unit of chart drawing. Use it to connect swing highs or lows and make a slope explicit.
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Ray
Alt+RStarts at the first point, passes through the second, and continues to the edge of the chart. Good for projecting an existing slope into the future area.
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Extended line
Alt+EA line through two points that runs off both edges. Useful when a slope matters before and after the points you picked.
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Horizontal line
Alt+HMarks one price across the whole chart, with its value shown on the price axis. The quickest way to note a level.
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Vertical line
Alt+VMarks one moment in time — a candle you want to refer back to, or the start of a period you are studying.
Shapes
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Parallel channel
Alt+CPlace two points for the first line, then a third to set the width. The dotted middle line shows the average path.
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Rectangle
Alt+BBoxes a span of time and a band of price: ranges, consolidation zones, or just “this part”. Fill opacity is adjustable.
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Ellipse
Alt+OCircles an area without implying exact edges — handy for pointing at a cluster of candles.
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Triangle
Alt+GThree corners, for converging highs and lows or any three-point relationship.
Fibonacci
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Fibonacci retracement
Alt+FDrag from the start of a swing to its end. Lines appear at 0, 0.236, 0.382, 0.5, 0.618, 0.786 and 1 of the move, labelled with their prices.
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Fibonacci extension
Alt+XThree points: swing start, swing end and the pullback. Levels at 0.618, 1, 1.272, 1.618 and 2.618 of the first swing are projected from the pullback.
Measure & position
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Long position
Alt+LA visual risk/reward box for a rising scenario: entry, target and stop, with percentages and the reward-to-risk ratio. Purely a drawing — nothing is traded.
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Short position
Alt+SThe same box for a falling scenario. Drag the handles to adjust entry, target, stop and width.
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Price range
Alt+PMeasures the price difference and percentage change between two points.
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Date range
Alt+DCounts the candles and elapsed time between two points.
Notes
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Text label
Alt+WA short note pinned to a time and price. Double-click it (or use “Edit text”) to change the words.
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Callout
Alt+KA note with a pointer: the first point is what you are describing, the second is where the label sits.
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Arrow
Alt+APoints from one place to another — to show a sequence or draw the eye.
Freehand
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Freehand brush
Alt+UPress and drag to sketch. Strokes are smoothed and stored as time/price points, so they move with the chart.
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Highlighter
Alt+IA wide translucent stroke, like a marker pen on paper.