# Indicators (/platform/charts/indicators)
Indicators apply to the [active chart](/platform/charts/introduction#layouts). In a multi-chart layout, click the cell you want before adding one.
Click **Indicators** in the chart topbar. Press `/` to jump to the search field.
Search by name, concept, or alias, or browse the sections on the left: **Basic**, **Order flow**, the [LuxAlgo Library](#luxalgo-library), and [My Scripts](#my-scripts).
Click a row to see what the indicator does in the panel on the right, then click **Add to chart**. Depending on the study it renders either as an overlay on the price candles or in its own pane below. If the price pane is maximized, or the indicator's pane is collapsed, adding it brings that pane back into view.
## What's in the picker [#whats-in-the-picker]
The sidebar is grouped by source:
* **Yours**: **Favorites**, the studies you have starred, and **My Scripts**, covered [below](#my-scripts).
* **Built-in**: **Basic** holds standard studies such as RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, and moving averages, grouped by type. **Order flow** holds the native order-flow tools built on footprint data: volume delta, volume profiles, trade count, and more. These have their own documentation (see [Order Flow](/platform/charts/order-flow/introduction)), and most of them need a symbol whose venue provides footprint data (see [Data](/platform/charts/data)).
* **Library**: **Discover**, **All scripts**, and **Concepts** for the [LuxAlgo Library](#luxalgo-library).
* **Families**: the Library by family, such as Trend, Momentum, Volatility, SMC / ICT, Wyckoff, Patterns, and Machine Learning, each with its script count.
Volume can also plot as a native pane, separate from the indicator system.
### Indicator details [#indicator-details]
Click any row to open its details on the right.
**Built-in** studies are described in plain words: what the indicator measures, **How it's read**, and its **Defaults**, including whether it plots on the price chart or opens in its own pane and its main settings (for example, RSI's length, source, and overbought and oversold levels). An order-flow tool that the current market can't draw says so, so you can switch to a supported symbol before adding it.
**Library** scripts show a chart preview, the family and release date, a description, their tags, and **View in the Library**, which opens the script's page on luxalgo.com.
Every detail panel has the same actions:
* **Add to chart** adds it to the active chart and closes the picker.
* **Favorite** stars it.
* **Ask Quant** closes the picker and puts a question about the indicator in the [Quant](/platform/quant/introduction) prompt, ready for you to edit or send.
### Search [#search]
Type in **Search indicators, concepts or aliases** to search everything at once. Results are grouped into **Built-in**, **Library**, and **Concepts**. A Library script also matches when it implements a concept you typed, so searching an idea such as "order block" finds the scripts built on it, each with a thumbnail, its family, and its date. The first result is selected, so `Enter` adds the top match.
### Keyboard [#keyboard]
| Key | Action |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| `↑` / `↓` | Browse the list |
| `Enter` | Add the selected indicator |
| `Shift` + `Enter` | Add it and keep the picker open, to add several in a row |
| `F` | Favorite the selected indicator |
| `/` | Jump to search |
| `Esc` | Close the picker |
## Favorites [#favorites]
Star any indicator you reach for often. The same set shows under **Favorites** in the picker and in a **chevron** next to **Indicators** in the topbar. The chevron adds one back onto the chart without opening the full picker.
You can star from four places:
* The star on each row in the picker
* **Favorite** in the detail panel, or `F` on the selected row
* A star on the **legend** of anything already on the chart, with the row's other controls
* **More actions → Add to favorites** in the [Pine editor](/platform/charts/pine-editor) for the script you are editing
Click a star again to remove it. Starred Library and Quant scripts keep their source, so they can be added again from Favorites after a reload. Favorites follow your account.
## My Scripts [#my-scripts]
Open **Indicators** → **My Scripts** to find scripts you created using [Quant](/platform/quant/introduction) alongside scripts you saved from the [Pine editor](/platform/charts/pine-editor#save-a-script). They are listed newest first; sort them **A–Z** or **Favorites first**, or filter to **Quant scripts** or **User scripts**. Select one and click **Add to chart** to add it to the [active chart](/platform/charts/introduction#the-active-cell). Sign in to see your scripts.
To keep code you write or paste yourself, open the Pine editor, then use **Save** or `Ctrl+S` / `⌘S`. Saving a script is separate from running it on the chart and from starring it as a favorite.
A Quant chat can create and manage multiple scripts, so use this list when you want a specific one. The chat's **Add to chart** action selects the latest script created during that session, rather than the latest edited script. See [Keep it on the workspace](/platform/quant/indicators#keep-it-on-the-workspace).
## LuxAlgo Library [#luxalgo-library]
The [LuxAlgo Library](https://luxalgo.com/library) is the encyclopedia of trading and technical analysis. Years of in-house implementations of every trading concept in the history of the craft, built to display automatically on your charts: trend, momentum, volatility, structure, SMC/ICT, Wyckoff, Elliott, patterns, machine learning, and more. Hundreds of studies, written by the same team, ready to plot.
It is natively built into the picker. Open **Indicators**, pick a Library section, and add a study the same way you add RSI. No import, no script paste, no extra account.
* **Discover** leads with **New releases** (**See all** lists every new script), then **More to explore**, a rotating set of picks (**Shuffle** draws new ones), and a card for every family.
* **All scripts** lists the whole Library. Sort by **Newest** or **A–Z**, and switch between a grid of preview cards and a list.
* **Concepts** lists the trading ideas the Library implements, such as order blocks, fair value gaps, or RSI divergence, with their other names. Select a concept to read what it is and **Browse** the scripts that implement it.
* A **family** in the sidebar shows only its scripts, with chips that narrow it to one part of the family.
You can also ask [Quant](/platform/quant/indicators#luxalgo-library-indicators), our coding agent, to add Library scripts directly from chat. Free Library indicators can be customized on the spot with Quant. Ask for the change you want (colors, signals, extra conditions, a different overlay) and Quant rewrites the code on the active chart, saved as your own script. Paid Library indicators keep their code protected: Quant can change their inputs or remove them, but not read or edit their code.
If none of these are what you need, Quant can also generate a custom study from a description or a screenshot. Quant scripts plot on the active chart and are marked in the legend so you can tell them apart from picker studies. Scripts Quant creates and edits [belong to the workspace until removed](/platform/quant/indicators#keep-it-on-the-workspace), with no separate commit step. Find Quant-created scripts under **My Scripts** in the picker.
Every plan, including **Free**, has unlimited tools per chart, subject to fair-use performance limits. Free includes the Library's free indicators; **Essential**, **Premium**, **Ultimate**, and **AI Ultra** include the full Library.
### Read a free indicator’s source [#read-a-free-indicators-source]
Free indicators on [luxalgo.com/library](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/) include their Pine Script® source and a **Copy code** button. Open the indicator’s Library page to inspect or copy it. To work with that code in Vela, paste it into the [Pine editor](/platform/charts/pine-editor), review it, and run it on your chart.
## Templates [#templates]
An indicator template is a saved snapshot of everything on a chart: every Basic, Order flow, Library, and Quant script indicator, with the exact settings each one had when you saved. Templates belong to your account, not to a workspace, so a setup built in one workspace can be loaded in any other.
Open them from the **Indicator Templates** button (the bookmark icon) in the chart topbar, right next to **Indicators**. On mobile, the same entry lives in the three-dots drawer of the bottom bar.
### Save a template [#save-a-template]
Add and configure the indicators you want to keep on the [active chart](/platform/charts/introduction#the-active-cell). The template captures the chart as it is when you save.
Click **Indicator Templates**, then **New template**. The list of indicators the template will carry is shown so you can check it before saving.
Type a name, or leave it blank for `New template`. Saving under a name you already use asks whether to replace the existing template.
Under **Chart**, two optional chips link the current **symbol** and **timeframe** to the template. Both are off by default: a template is an indicator set first, and the market is opt-in. When a chip is on, loading the template also switches the chart to that symbol or timeframe.
### Load a template [#load-a-template]
The dropdown lists your five most recently updated templates; click one to load it. **Show all** opens the full list, where each row also has **Rename** and **Delete**.
Loading a template **replaces** the indicators on the chart. It does not stack on top of what is already there. In a multi-chart layout you are asked where to apply it:
* **Apply to selected chart** replaces the indicators on the active chart only.
* **Apply to all charts** replaces the indicators on every chart in the layout.
Settings are restored exactly as saved. If an indicator's defaults change later, a template keeps the values you saved with it.
Every plan, including **Free**, has unlimited indicator templates.
## Configure [#configure]
Each indicator has its own settings: lengths, sources, colors, visibility of individual plots. Open them from the **gear on the chart legend** next to the indicator's name, or through the **Object tree**.
The **Data window** in the right-hand panel rail shows the exact value of every plot under the crosshair, which is useful when several studies overlap and you can't tell which line is which.
## Remove and manage [#remove-and-manage]
* Toggle an indicator off in the **Indicators picker**, or remove it from the **Object tree**.
* The Object tree can also **hide** an indicator without removing it, **lock** it, **duplicate** it (handy for running the same study with two different settings), and **reorder** what draws on top.
* Right-click the chart and choose **Remove indicators** to clear all of them at once.