Chart types
Each chart in your layout has its own chart type: how price is drawn. Pick one from the chart type control in the chart's header, beside the timeframe. The type is saved with your chartbook.
Change a chart's type
Hover the chart and click the chart type control in its header.
Pick a type.
The chart redraws straight away. Types that do not suit the instrument are greyed out with Not supported for this asset class: CFDs cannot show Volume Bubbles, Volume Footprint or Volume Profile. Hyperliquid instruments, such as BTC and ETH, can show every type.
The types
Group | Type | What it draws |
|---|---|---|
Standard | Bars | Open, high, low and close as a bar with ticks |
Standard | Candles | The same four prices as candles |
Standard | Line | A line through each close |
Standard | Area | The close line with the area under it filled |
Profiles | Volume Bubbles | Bubbles where large volume traded: net delta, total volume, or buyers and sellers apart |
Profiles | Volume Footprint | Buy and sell volume at every price inside each bar, with imbalances highlighted |
Profiles | Volume Profile | How much volume traded at each price, with the value area and point of control |
Profiles | Time Price Opportunity | How long price spent at each level, with value area, point of control, single prints and initial balance |
Others | Heikin Ashi | Candles built from averaged prices, which smooth out the noise in a trend |
Renko, Line Break, Kagi, Point & Figure and Range are listed under Coming Soon and cannot be picked yet.
Pair a profile with price
Volume Profile, Time Price Opportunity and Volume Bubbles can be drawn on top of a standard type, for example a Volume Profile over Candles.
In the chart type menu, hover the profile type.
Under Pair with, pick Bars, Candles, Line or Area.
Clicking the profile itself picks it with no pairing. Volume Bubbles always needs a pairing. Volume Footprint draws its own bars and has no pairing.
Chart type settings
Every type has its own settings, such as candle colours or the imbalance ratio a footprint highlights.
In the chart's legend in the top-left corner, find the chart type's row. It shows Candlesticks for Candles.
Click the name, or hover the row and click the gear.
Change what you need across the tabs, then click Save.
If other open charts use the same type, Chartnaut asks whether to apply the change to Just this chart or All charts. The eye on the same row hides the price series and shows it again.
Type | Settings tabs |
|---|---|
Volume Footprint | Calculation, Imbalance, Footprint, Totals |
Volume Profile | Calculation, Profile, Borders, Value Area, POC |
Time Price Opportunity | Calculation, Appearance, Value Area, POC, Single Prints, Initial Balance |
Volume Bubbles | Calculation, Display Options |
Volume Profile and Time Price Opportunity reset daily at 00:00 UTC by default. Under Calculation you can reset them at the London open (08:00 UTC) or the New York open (13:30 UTC) instead. Volume Profile can also cover the visible range or everything loaded, and Time Price Opportunity can use a custom session.
Your own chart types
A chart type can also be written as a script, the same way as an indicator. Once you have one, it appears under Library at the bottom of the chart type menu. Picking it draws your chart type over hidden candles, and picking a built-in type switches back. Scripting covers how to write one.