Overview

Each chart shows one market. Change the symbol, timeframe, and style from the topbar, or type directly on the chart. Click the chart first so it has keyboard focus, then a letter opens symbol search and a digit starts a timeframe change.

Charts live in a workspace, which also holds your panels, including the watchlist. Open them at luxalgo.com/quant.

This page covers the chart itself. Drawings, Indicators, and Order Flow each have their own page, and every keyboard and mouse shortcut is collected in Shortcuts.

Layouts

The topbar Layout control sets how many charts share the workspace:

The layout picker also lets you preview a custom grid before applying it. Drag the splitters between cells to resize them; double-click a splitter to even the split.

The active cell

In a multi-chart layout, exactly one chart is active: the one you last clicked. Everything that targets "the chart" targets this cell: symbol changes, timeframe changes, drawings, indicators, and scripts from Quant. If an action seems to land on the wrong chart, check which cell is active first.

Sync charts together

In the layout picker, Sync links properties across charts. Each can be toggled independently:

• Symbol: changing the ticker on one chart updates every linked chart. Useful for watching the same market on several timeframes at once.
• Interval: changing the timeframe updates every linked chart. Useful for comparing several markets on the same timeframe.
• Crosshair: the cursor lines up across charts, so you can read the same moment in time on every cell.

Sync drawings on all charts is separate: it lives on the drawing toolbar and copies your drawings across cells.

Change the symbol

Click the symbol in the topbar, or type a letter on the chart, to open Symbol Search.

The search is organized in tabs: All, Stocks, ETFs, Crypto, Futures, Forex, Commodities. By default a symbol resolves to its primary venue; to pin a specific venue, use the PROVIDER:SYMBOL format, for example binance:BTCUSDT for Binance spot rather than an aggregate. Which venues exist per market, which plans can open them, and which of them provide order-flow data, is covered in Data.

Change the timeframe

Use the timeframe dropdown in the topbar. Default presets are 1m, 5m, 15m, 1h, 4h, 1D, and 1W.

Faster: type a digit on the chart to start entering a timeframe, then finish typing it:

Star the timeframes you use often. Starred intervals show as one-click chips.

Where the symbol has trading sessions (US equities, futures-style calendars), the bottom bar can switch between RTH (regular trading hours: only the main session) and ETH (extended trading hours, including pre- and post-market).

Chart types

Open the chart style control in the topbar:

• Candles (default), Bars, Line, Area, Baseline, Heikin Ashi: standard price representations, all built from OHLC data.
• Footprint: replaces each bar with a per-price breakdown of bid vs ask volume. This is order-flow data, so it needs a symbol that provides it.
• TPO: Time Price Opportunity session profiles, showing how much time price spent at each level.

Footprint and TPO are full chart types with their own settings and their own documentation. See Order Flow.

Settings

Open Chart settings from the gear, or right-click the chart and choose Settings…. The dialog has these tabs:

When Footprint or TPO is the active style, the dialog gains additional tabs for that chart type's own options.

Price scale modes

Under Scales and lines (or by right-clicking the price axis):

• Regular: linear price.
• Percent: moves shown as % change from the left edge of the visible range. Good for comparing magnitude across assets with different prices.
• Indexed to 100: like percent, but rebased so the first visible bar equals 100.
• Logarithmic: equal vertical distances are equal percentage moves, not equal dollar moves. The usual choice for long histories and for assets that have grown by multiples.

Invert scale flips the axis upside down.

Live price animation

By default, the forming bar and the last price line glide to each new tick instead of jumping. To turn this off, open Chart settings, go to the Symbol tab, and switch off Animate price changes under Animation. The bar then snaps straight to every update. Useful on fast-moving markets, when many charts share a layout, or when you want the lowest possible latency between a trade printing and the bar reflecting it.

Faster paths

• Right-click the price axis: scale mode, including log and invert.
• Right-click the time axis: time zone.
• Press 0 with the chart focused to fit content to the viewport.

The symbol watermark is off by default.

Inspect what's on the chart

The topbar can open two inspection panels:

• Object tree: every drawing and indicator on the chart as a list: show/hide, lock, reorder, or remove each one. This is the fastest way to clean up a crowded chart.
• Data window: the exact values of every plot under the crosshair, useful when several indicators overlap.

Market events

Event markers along the chart's bottom edge put news, company events, and economic releases beside price action. You can review historical events and look ahead to upcoming events where data is available.

Choose which events appear

1. Open Chart settings using the gear at the bottom-right of the chart.
2. Select Events.
3. Under Visible events, turn the categories you want to see on or off:

Close settings to return to the chart. Pan along the time axis to inspect the dates you want to review, including earlier events and upcoming dates. The available events depend on the selected symbol and event data.

Read an event

Click a marker at the bottom of the chart to open its details. The information depends on the event type and available data:

• News shows a linked headline, its source, and publication time.
• Earnings can show the event date, EPS and revenue alongside estimates, and a result such as EPS beat.
• Dividends can show the ex-dividend date, amount, record date, payment date, declaration date, and payment frequency.
• Splits show the split ratio and effective date.
• Economic releases show the release name, time, country, and Actual, Estimate, and Previous values where available. One marker can open several releases.

Upcoming earnings are labeled Earnings (scheduled) and can show EPS and revenue estimates. Check the event date when distinguishing past from upcoming events: an economic entry can still display Scheduled when numeric figures are absent, even after its listed date.

Read each date label carefully: a dividend's ex-dividend date and payment date describe different parts of the same event.

For a searchable headline feed across the symbols in your watchlist, use Watchlist → Advanced view → News. That feed is separate from the event markers on the chart.

Alerts

How many alerts you can run depends on your plan: Free 1, Premium 100, Ultimate 200, AI Ultra 500. Webhook alerts are available on Premium, Ultimate, and AI Ultra.

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