Chart settings and themes
Colours, grid, crosshair, number format and how trades are drawn all live in one dialog, Colors & Settings. What you set there belongs to the active chartbook, so each chartbook can have its own look.
Open the settings
Hover the chartbook name in the top-left corner of Charts.
Click Colors & Settings.
The avatar menu beside it has the same dialog under Theme Settings. The dialog is titled with your chartbook's name. Changes show on the charts as you make them. Click Done to close it.
Pick a theme
A theme sets the chart and the app's colours in one go.
Click Browse Themes at the top of the list on the left.
Click a theme card, or its Apply button. The theme in use reads Active.
Style | Themes |
|---|---|
Dark | Deep Focus (the default), Obsidian, Graphite, Ember, Vesper |
Vibrant | Emerald |
Edgy | Cyberpunk |
Light | Polaris, Nimbus, Fog, Meadow |
Pastel | Honey, Blush, Lilac, Sky |
The settings
Section | What it controls |
|---|---|
Appearance | Dark or light mode, and custom colours for the theme |
General | Instrument tabs and how opaque the overlay pills on the chart are |
Text & Numbers | Text colour, the number font and weight, and number formatting such as the decimal and thousands separators |
Grid | Vertical and horizontal grid lines |
Crosshair | The crosshair mode and its lines |
Panes & Scales | Pane separators and the borders of the price and time scales |
Position & Trades | How positions and orders are drawn: colours, lines, where labels sit, whether labels show always or on hover, and marker size |
Broker | Bid and ask markers and the broker's session overlay |
Position & Trades and Broker each have a reset to put their defaults back.
Crosshair modes
Mode | What it does |
|---|---|
Normal | Follows the pointer freely |
Magnet | Snaps to the bar's close |
Magnet OHLC | Snaps to the bar's open, high, low or close |
Hidden | No crosshair |
Save your settings as a template
A template keeps a set of settings to reuse on another chartbook.
Set things up the way you want.
Click Templates at the bottom left of the dialog.
Click Save as… and name it.
Pick a template from the same menu to apply it, or delete it from there.
Keep the changes
Settings are part of the chartbook. Chartnaut keeps your changes in this browser as you go, and they reach the chartbook when you hover its name and click Save. Until then, switching chartbook or opening Charts on another device shows the last saved look. Real time and replay keep their changes apart until you save.