# Drawings (/platform/charts/drawings)



The left toolbar holds the drawing tools, grouped by purpose: **Lines**, **Fibonacci**, **Patterns**, **Measurements**, **Shapes**, **Text**, and **Icons**. While the [Journal](/platform/workspaces/journal) is open, **Annotations** also carries **Journal Trade** and **Journal Note** — a click logs a [fill](/platform/workspaces/journal/trades#from-the-chart) or a [day note](/platform/workspaces/journal/notes#from-the-chart) instead of leaving a drawing.

Drawings are anchored in **time and price**, not in screen pixels: they stay attached to the same bars and levels when you pan, zoom, or change timeframe. They belong to the [active chart](/platform/charts/introduction#layouts) and are saved with the [workspace](/platform/workspaces), so they're still there when you come back.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Pick a tool">
    Choose a tool from the left toolbar, or hold **Alt** for the [radial wheel](#the-radial-wheel) of your favorites. Common line tools also have direct shortcuts: `Alt+T` trend line, `Alt+H` horizontal line, `Alt+V` vertical line.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Place it on the chart">
    Click the chart to set the tool's anchor points: a horizontal line takes one click, a trend line two. Hold **Shift** while drawing a line to lock its angle to 45° increments. With **Magnet** on, anchors snap to nearby OHLC values instead of landing between prices.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Adjust or remove">
    Switch back to **Cursor** to select a drawing and drag it (or its anchor points) around. Middle-click a drawing to delete it, use the **Eraser** to click or drag away several, or manage everything at once from the **Object tree**.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Toolbar controls [#toolbar-controls]

Beyond the tools themselves, the toolbar carries the controls that change how drawing behaves:

| Control                         | What it does                                                                                                                              |
| ------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Cursor**                      | Select and move drawings                                                                                                                  |
| **Capture area for Quant**      | Drag a region and [ask Quant](/platform/quant/indicators#from-a-region-on-the-chart) about what's in it. Not a drawing — it does not save |
| **Measure**                     | Transient ruler between two points. **Shift+click** an empty spot also starts measure                                                     |
| **Eraser**                      | Click or drag to delete drawings                                                                                                          |
| **Magnet**                      | Snap anchor points to OHLC values: off, weak, or strong                                                                                   |
| **Stay in drawing mode**        | Keep the tool armed after you place a drawing, for drawing several in a row                                                               |
| **Sync drawings on all charts** | Copy drawings across the cells of a multi-chart layout                                                                                    |

**Magnet** is worth turning on whenever your drawings should sit on exact prices (support lines on a candle close, Fibonacci anchors on a swing high/low). The two strengths control how aggressively anchors get pulled to OHLC values.

**Stay in drawing mode** changes the default one-shot behavior. Normally placing a drawing returns you to the cursor; with this on, the tool stays armed, which is useful when marking up many levels in one pass.

## The radial wheel [#the-radial-wheel]

Hold **Alt** with the chart focused and a radial picker of your favorite drawing tools opens around the cursor. Pick a tool without travelling to the toolbar and without memorizing a shortcut per tool. Your hand never leaves the chart.

![](/images/charts/radial-wheel.png)

The wheel shows the tools you have favorited, so it's worth curating: keep it to the handful you actually reach for, and the selection stays a single flick of the mouse.

**Cursor** is always on the wheel, pinned at the bottom (6 o'clock), even after you star other tools. A straight-down flick returns you to select/idle — the same as the toolbar's Cursor button — so you never lose the way back.

<Tip>
  The wheel complements the fixed shortcuts rather than replacing them: `Alt+T` / `Alt+H` / `Alt+V` are still fastest for trend, horizontal, and vertical lines. Use the wheel for everything else you use often: Fibonacci, boxes, annotations. See [Shortcuts](/platform/charts/shortcuts) for the full list.
</Tip>

## Measure without leaving the keyboard [#measure-without-leaving-the-keyboard]

The **Measure** tool draws a transient ruler: click two points and it reports the distance between them, then disappears on the next click. **Shift+click** an empty spot on the chart starts a measurement instantly, without selecting the tool first.

## Manage drawings [#manage-drawings]

Open the **Object tree** from the topbar to see every drawing and indicator on the chart as a single list. From there you can:

* **Show/hide** a drawing without deleting it
* **Lock** it so a stray click can't move it
* **Reorder** what draws on top of what
* **Remove** it

To copy your markup across every cell in a multi-chart layout, enable **Sync drawings on all charts** on the toolbar. Each cell gets the same drawings, kept in sync as you edit.