> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://takeprofit.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Trading from the Chart

Manage orders and positions visually, directly on the chart — no need to switch back to Order Entry for every adjustment.

You can:

* Drag price levels to adjust your entry.
* Set **Take Profit** and **Stop Loss** levels.
* Hold **Shift** while dragging to move the entire **TP/SL group** together, keeping the distance between levels intact.
* Edit the **quantity** and the **Risk/Reward ratio** without opening Order Entry.
* Switch a new order between **Limit** and **Market** price.
* See your executed trades plotted on the chart.

These actions stay in sync with Order Entry and your connected exchange.

## Which account the chart trades

The chart trades one account at a time, and it shows which one: the trading account sits next to the instrument in the chart's trading controls, so you know where an order will go before the form opens.

* **The chart shows only the selected account.** Orders and positions of your other accounts on the same instrument are not drawn, so every box on the chart belongs to the account you are looking at.
* **A new chart remembers your last choice.** It opens with the account and the symbol you traded last.
* **Switch the account in that control**, not in the order pill — the pill no longer carries an account select.
* **No exchange connected yet?** On an instrument you could trade, a **Connect Exchange** button takes the place of the account.

When the chart shares a [channel](https://takeprofit.com/docs/guide/trading/order-form.md#linking-the-form-to-a-channel) with Order Entry, the two pick the same account for the instrument.

## Chart context menu

Right-click anywhere on the chart to open the context menu with quick trading actions at the exact price under your cursor:

* **Place an order at the clicked price** — the menu offers the order types that make sense for where you clicked relative to the current price (above or below it): a **Limit** order, a **Stop** order (Conditional Market), or a **Stop Limit** order (Conditional Limit).
* **Copy price** — copies the exact price at the click point to your clipboard.

Choosing an order action opens it as a **preview in Order Entry**, pre-filled with the clicked price. Nothing is sent until you review and confirm it, and the preview stays in sync with any levels you then drag on the chart.

> [!NOTE]
>
> If the instrument can't be traded through any connectable exchange, the form opens with a message and a shortcut to pick a tradable asset instead — see [The asset can't be traded](https://takeprofit.com/docs/guide/trading/order-form.md#the-asset-cant-be-traded).

## Order boxes

Every order and position you have on the instrument with the selected account is drawn on the chart as an **order box** at its price level. Orders still waiting to be filled — **Pending** or **Accepted** — show their price on the scale in a dashed outline, so a resting order is easy to tell from a filled one.

Hovering a box highlights it together with everything attached to it, and draws the links between them in the color of the main order: an entry and its TP/SL, or a conditional order and its trigger. The **TP/SL** buttons appear while you hover the main order or the position itself.

Triggers of conditional orders sit exactly at their limit price and are labelled **Trigger** or **Conditional Limit Trigger**.

After you place a conditional order or a limit TP/SL, the chart shows only its trigger. Hover the trigger to see the order that will execute behind it; boxes shown this way have no **×** button, which appears once you click the trigger to edit the order. When a conditional order triggers and its limit order is placed, the chart shows that order together with the triggers of its limit TP/SL.

### Editing an order

Click a box to start editing it. The other boxes on the chart dim and stop responding to the cursor — the chart keeps one order in focus at a time, so click outside to leave the current one before editing another.

While a box is in focus you can:

* Drag it to another price.
* Drag the whole **TP/SL group** with **Shift** held down.
* Change the **quantity** or the **Risk/Reward ratio** in place — hovering either one shows a **Modify** hint.
* Switch a new order between **Limit** and **Market** price. Existing orders can't be switched — the exchange doesn't allow it.

### Confirming your changes

The chart can apply edits immediately or ask you to confirm them — a toggle in the chart's trading settings decides which. With confirmation on, an edited box shows **Discard** and **Confirm** buttons, and the change reaches the exchange only after you confirm it. **Esc** and **Enter** do the same from the keyboard.

Editing the quantity or the Risk/Reward ratio always asks for confirmation, whichever way the toggle is set — typed values are easy to fumble, so they don't go straight to the exchange.

Placing a brand-new order from the chart ends with a **Place Order** button rather than a second Buy/Sell click, so it's clear that the click submits the order rather than starting another one.

## Executed trades on the chart

Your filled trades are drawn on the chart as **Buy** and **Sell** markers at the price and time each one was executed, converted to the chart's timezone. It is the same data as the **Trade History** tab of the [Account widget](https://takeprofit.com/docs/guide/trading/account-tracking.md) — the chart just shows it where it happened.

Trades are not merged into one marker per candle: three fills at three different prices inside a daily candle stay three markers. Hover one to see its side, execution time, price, quantity, and value.

A setting in the chart's trading settings shows or hides the markers, so you can keep the chart clean when you are analyzing rather than reviewing.

## Next step

> **[Track Your Account](https://takeprofit.com/docs/guide/trading/account-tracking.md)**
>
> Monitor equity, positions, and order history in the Account Widget.


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