Indicators and drawings
The chart studies you can add, their settings, and the drawing tools for marking your own levels.
- Indicators in the top bar adds studies to every chart: VWAP, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, Initial Balance, Volume and Flow.
- Settings for each open with a double-click on its name in a chart's legend.
- Drawings mark your own levels. They belong to the symbol, so they show at every interval and in every profile.
Indicators
The Indicators menu lists what is on the charts and what you can add. Indicators apply to every chart. Each row has buttons to hide or show it, open its settings, or remove it. The chart starts with Volume only, and Reset to the default goes back to that. Up to 20 indicators.
| Indicator | What you can set |
|---|---|
| VWAP | The source; whether it Starts at the Session or the Regular open; the Weight: Option volume or Equal (index prices have no share volume); bands (off, 1, 2 or 3) and their multiplier; colours and fill. |
| Moving averages | Exponential, simple or Hull: length and source. Adding another picks the next common length (for example 9, 21, 50). |
| Bollinger Bands | Length (20), multiplier (2), source; average and band colours, band fill. |
| Initial Balance | The high and low of the first minutes of the session (60 by default, counted from 09:30 ET), with a middle line and fill. Shows on bars of that length or shorter. |
| Volume | In its own pane: Bought / sold or Total option volume. |
| Flow | In its own pane: option premium Bought / sold, or the Net. |
Each indicator's settings have Inputs and Style (colours from ten swatches or a custom one, line width 1–4), with Defaults to start over.
Drawings
The drawing toolbar runs down the left of the charts on screens at least 1024 pixels wide. Tablets and phones show your drawings but have no toolbar.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Trend line·Horizontal line·Horizontal ray·Vertical line | Lines at any angle, across the chart, from a point to the right, or at a time. |
| Rectangle | Marks a zone. |
| Fib retracement | Levels at 0, 0.236, 0.382, 0.5, 0.618, 0.786 and 1. |
| Measure | Distance and time between two points. Temporary: it is not saved. |
| Text | A note on the chart, up to 200 characters. Double-click it to edit. |
| Magnet | On by default: points snap to candle prices, and horizontal lines snap to strikes. |
| Hide drawings·Show drawings | Hides every drawing without deleting it. |
| Remove all drawings | Removes every drawing on the symbol (the message that follows has an Undo). |
Editing a drawing
Click a drawing to select it. A small bar offers six colours, three widths, solid, dashed or dotted lines, Lock (so it can't be moved by accident) and Delete drawing.
Drawings are saved per symbol, up to 300 each, and show on every interval, in every pane with that symbol and in every profile.
Still stuck? Ask in the TrueGEX Discord, or write to [email protected].