> ## 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.

# Chart Types

> Switch between Candles, Line, Bars, Renko, the TPO market profile and Volume Footprint - and learn how to read and configure each one.

TakeProfit draws price data in several chart types. Candles, Line and Bars plot price over time; TPO plots how much *time* the market spent at each *price*; Volume Footprint plots how much *volume* traded at each price inside every candle; Renko drops the time axis altogether and draws a brick each time price moves by a set amount.

Every chart type is free. Candles, TPO, Volume Footprint and Renko, and the Liquidity Heatmap and Order Book Profile overlays, are on both plans — see [Plans and Pricing](https://takeprofit.com/docs/guide/pricing.md).

You pick exactly one of these - it is what the price itself is drawn as. The [Liquidity Heatmap](https://takeprofit.com/docs/guide/platform/chart-widget/chart-types/Liquidity-heatmap.md) and the [Order Book Profile](https://takeprofit.com/docs/guide/platform/chart-widget/chart-types/Order-book-profile.md) sit outside that choice: they are overlays, switched on and off on their own and drawn on top of the type you picked. Neither is available on **Renko**.

> [card] [Candles, Line, and Bars](https://takeprofit.com/docs/guide/platform/chart-widget/chart-types/Candles-line-bars.md)
>
> The three price-over-time types, and where their colors are configured.

> [card] [TPO Charts](https://takeprofit.com/docs/guide/platform/chart-widget/chart-types/TPO-charts.md)
>
> The market profile: letters, value area, POC, VAH and VAL, and every Market Profile setting.

> [card] [Volume Footprint](https://takeprofit.com/docs/guide/platform/chart-widget/chart-types/Volume-Footprint.md)
>
> Volume at every price inside a candle: clusters and profiles, imbalance, thresholds and row size.

> [card] [Renko](https://takeprofit.com/docs/guide/platform/chart-widget/chart-types/Renko.md)
>
> Bricks drawn by price movement rather than time: box size by ATR or a fixed amount, and reversal amount. Takes no indicators or overlays.

## Switching the chart type

The quickest way is the **Change Chart Types** button on the chart toolbar, next to the timeframe selector. Click it and pick the type you want - a checkmark shows the one currently applied.

![Opening Change Chart Types and switching between Candles, Line, Bars, TPO, Footprint, and Renko](https://mintcdn.com/takeprofit-a5dc0462/HE0hFKk8uGppOmaE/images/guide/platform/chart-widget/2.12_Switching_Chart_Types.gif?s=350ddd482a58d3ccf47bd13f895bc1e6)

The same choice is also available in **Chart Settings**: click the **three dots** in the top-right corner of the chart, select **Settings**, and use the **Style** section - it holds **Candles**, **Line**, **Bars**, **TPO**, **Footprint** and **Renko**. Settings is where you go when you also want to adjust colors or the parameters of the type you picked: the profile for TPO, clusters, imbalance and row size for Footprint, and box size and reversal for Renko.

Further along the same toolbar, the **Heatmap** button switches the [Liquidity Heatmap](https://takeprofit.com/docs/guide/platform/chart-widget/chart-types/Liquidity-heatmap.md) overlay on and off. It draws on top of the type you picked here, so the two settings work together — except on Renko, which takes no overlays.

Your choice is saved with the workspace layout and restored after a page reload.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Resetting chart settings also resets the chart type back to **Candles**.


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