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Drawing tools
Put your analysis on the chart

Trend lines, Fibonacci levels, chart patterns, and volume tools. Snap them to prices, sync them across charts, and reach most tools with a single shortcut.

Start with line tools Keyboard shortcuts

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Pick the tool you need

Measurement & Volume

Calculate risk & reward, volume profiles, Anchored VWAP and TWAP.

Lines & Channels

Trend lines, rays, horizontal and vertical levels, parallel channels, and pitchforks.

Patterns & Waves

Harmonic patterns and Elliott impulse and correction waves.

Shapes & Curves

Rectangles, circles, triangles, ellipses, curves, and arcs.

Brush & Path

Pen, highlighter, path, and polygon for you to draw by yourself.

Fibonacci & Gann

Retracement, extension, speed fan, time zone, and the three Gann tools.

Text & Annotations

Text, callouts, and price tags to place your thoughts next to prices.

Object Tree (Layers)

Group, reorder, hide, and lock drawings and indicators from one list.

Drawing on Mobile

Touchpad mode, for precise anchor points on a small touch screen.

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Search Drawings

Press Cmd/Ctrl + S, or click the magnifier at the left end of the toolbar, to open Search drawings. Type any part of a tool’s name and it filters the full list — every drawing tool on the chart, under the same headings as the toolbar. Along the top sit the toggles you would otherwise hunt for — Strong magnet, Hide all drawings, Lock all drawings, Keep drawing, Hotkeys and Remove all drawings — and below them Sync new drawings, which sets whether a new drawing lands as Global, Workspace, Channel or Local. Each tool in the list shows its shortcut. Hover one to add a hotkey to a tool that has none, or to star it into your favorites.

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How drawing works

  1. Step 1 of 4
    Pick a tool

    Choose it in the drawing toolbar, or press its shortcut, such as Alt + T for a line.

  2. Step 2 of 4
    Place the points

    Magnet mode snaps points to highs and lows. Hold Cmd/Ctrl to snap to every open, high, low, and close.

  3. Step 3 of 4
    Style it once & Keep Drawing

    Adjust lines, levels, and text, keep drawing until you need, then save it as a template or a favorite.

  4. Step 4 of 4
    Keep it in order

    Choose which charts show the drawing, lock what shouldn’t move, and group drawings in the Object Tree.

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Where a drawing shows up

Every drawing has a sync level that decides which charts display it. Set it in the drawing’s settings or in the Object Tree. Drawings also hold their place across timeframes: a level drawn on 1H sits at the same price on the daily. A chart you forked into a workspace as an unlinked widget counts as a separate chart, so raise the sync level if a Local drawing should appear there too.

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Shortcuts worth learning

All shortcuts, grouped by tool.