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.
Pick the tool you need
Measurement & Volume
Risk and reward, drawn candles, volume profiles and anchored averages.
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, fans, arcs, circles, spiral, wedge, and the 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.
Utility Tools
Magnet mode, Favorites, the Sync tool and the Lock tool — the controls that change how every other tool behaves.
Drawing on Mobile
Touchpad mode, for precise anchor points on a small touch screen.
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.Drawing Kit Wheel
Press Alt/Option + right-click anywhere on the chart to open your full drawing kit right where you are working, without going to the toolbar.- Your favorites sit in the inner wheel, so the tools you use most are always one move away.
- Categories sit in the outer wheel. Hover one and its tools expand around it.
- Hover a tool to see its name, and click it to start drawing.
- Close the wheel with the × in the middle.
How drawing works
- Step 1 of 4Pick a tool
Choose it in the drawing toolbar, or press its shortcut, such as Alt + T for a line.
- Step 2 of 4Place the points
Magnet mode snaps points to highs and lows. Hold Cmd/Ctrl to snap to every open, high, low, and close.
- Step 3 of 4Style it once & Keep Drawing
Adjust lines, levels, and text, keep drawing until you need, then save it as a template or a favorite.
- Step 4 of 4Keep it in order
Choose which charts show the drawing, lock what shouldn’t move, and group drawings in the Object Tree.
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.
Drawings and the price scale
A drawing is anchored to prices and times, not to pixels. Switch the price scale between Regular, Logarithmic, Percent and Index to 100 in Chart settings and every anchor stays on the price and the bar you put it on. What changes is the shape between the anchors. A logarithmic scale gives equal percentage moves equal room, so the gap on screen between two prices is no longer proportional to the difference between them. A line drawn between two prices is therefore rendered as a curve rather than a straight run of pixels — it still passes through both of its anchors, and that is intended. Pick the scale before you place levels you mean to trade, and keep the chart on it.Shortcuts worth learning
All shortcuts, grouped by tool.