Overview
Set up a chart: layouts, symbols, timeframes, chart types, and settings.
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:
| Layout | Arrangement |
|---|---|
| Single | One chart (default) |
| 2 side by side | Two columns |
| 2 stacked | Two rows |
| 4 grid | 2×2 |
| 8 grid | 4×2 |
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.
Charts per layout depend on your plan: Free 1, Premium 8, Ultimate 12, AI Ultra 16.
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:
| You type | You get |
|---|---|
15 | 15 minutes (a bare number is minutes) |
4h | 4 hours |
D | 1 day |
3M | 3 months |
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).
Custom timeframes are available on Premium, Ultimate, and AI Ultra.
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 three tabs:
| Tab | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Symbol | Chart type, candle/bar/line colors, time zone, watermark, status line |
| Scales and lines | Price scale mode, invert scale, last price line, countdown to bar close, crosshair |
| Canvas | Background, grid, color theme (Dark / Light) |
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.
Faster paths
- Right-click the price axis: scale mode, including log and invert.
- Right-click the time axis: time zone.
- Press
0with 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.
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.